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[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] JesusWazBlack:
he could possibly be outta battery, try just leaving it on your charger for a while
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] VermontKindBud:
Screwed

After a battery pull and holding both volume keys down, I feel no vibration while inserting the usb, but doing so does cause the screen to light up with the samsung splash logo for 1-2 seconds, after which I'm cast into eternal blackness. Also, if I plug in the usb cable with no battery present it vibrates every second or so, and if I hold down power for 30 seconds it vibrates once on reboot, followed by 1-2 seconds of splash screen and then blackness. So far, the jig does nothing when inserting it after a 60 second battery pull, or inserting the jig and powering the phone on using the power button. Everything was fine and dandy until GooManager updated my recovery from TWRP 2.6.1.0 to 2.6.3.0. As soon as I rebooted, what I've described above has happened and continues to happen no matter how many ways I try to reboot. Always the same result, 1-2 seconds of samsung logo and darkeness forever. Anyone in the southeastern USA wanna try and fix it? Do I need JTAG?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] fathertomany:
No jtag. Try to charge it for a while 4+ hours. Then try download mode. Try just volume down OR up button when plugging it into the computer. Try different things and button combos. Oh yeah, you need the drivers installed. If they are, make sure you plug the phone into the same port that you did when installing the drivers.

Sent from my SLIM Hercules
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] DBDMagic:
Everybody having that problem that 2.6.3 has been fing up their device I messed around with mine for two weeks before I finally figured it out it was a difficult process and mostly just guessed but hey I did it I thought I was gonna have to get a new phone didn't use no jig or nothing just a computer and Odin
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] bmg002:
3 thoughts that may work (reiterating some previous posts and an idea of my own):

1) leave the phone plugged into the wall for an hour and after that hour try getting into download mode

2) take the battery out, wait 10 seconds, put the battery back in, then press and hold both volume buttons and press power until you feel it vibrate then release power (it may vibrate a second time after letting go of power but keep holding volume buttons)

3) take the battery out, wait 10 seconds, put the battery back in, then press and hold volume down and press power until you feel it vibrate then release power

Suggestion 3 is just in case you somehow got a T989D and not a T989. The Telus hercules is volume down not both volume to get into download mode. Both volume buttons puts you in recovery.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] VermontKindBud:
Something I've noticed

In previous posts, I mentioned that no matter what i do to try to reboot into any mode at all, I always get 1-2 seconds of Samsung logo (no animation) followed by the Black Screen of Death For All Eternity®. What I've noticed now is that before that brief samsung logo flash, it always tries to display the TWRP blue loading screen for a brief flash of a second first. Maybe this will give someone some insight on which direction I need to go to correct this issue? None of the above quoted methods worked, nor any other way, including the jig I ordered online. Is there some way to use adb or some type of partition manager ?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] bmg002:
if you can get a response from "adb devices" indicating that the device is found, you should be able to issue adb reboot recovery or adb reboot bootloader...
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] bonetweeter122:
Pull battery... Plug in USB... Hold vol up and down together.. Insert batt
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] DBDMagic:
Everyone having this problem from flashing the bad goo manager recovery I have kinda figured it out on the SG2 and the SG3 its a tricky one
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] holeindalip:
Is it possible you have a sticky power button, just a thought??
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] bravouno:
One way to test it is; take out the battery for a couple seconds, if it vibrates or tries to turn on then you know
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] fathertomany:
And? More info please.

Sent from my SLIM Hercules
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Decimus Meridius:
dont use Goo manager... goo manager is the devil.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] fathertomany:
Lmao. I have used goo manager a few times successfully. That was months ago though. I stick with the flash files because I trust the uploader more.

Sent from my SLIM Hercules
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] :
My issue with twrp is they don't seem to comment on problems. Not here anyway....or worry about the fact their current version seems very flawed. Its tempting me to return to cwm. LOL

2.6.3.0 should be pulled until its fixed....but they don't seem to be paying attention to the feedback.

Also....even 2.6.1.0, which works fine for 4.3, has issues with 4.1.2 stock. I had a lot of problems flashing stock 4.1.2 with it.....then I reverted to a copy of 2.4.4.0 I had on my laptop and 4.1.2 installed flawlessly.

So it seems they aren't making the new versions backwards compatible either.

Come on twrp ....you have potentially the best recovery out there.....but you gotta get on the issues and fix them....or at least offer work arounds.

;) thanks for listening.

Sent from my cellular telephone
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] JesusWazBlack:
for 4.1.2 always use the infamous superwipe
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] :
I always do.....but using 2.6.1.0 it booted with no set up screen, directly into touchwiz. No play store. And when I tried to go to settings to add account, right after I hit settings I got a touchwiz ui has force closed or something. I did this 3 times....same results.

Odin'd 2.4.4.0 onto phone and boom....flawless install.

Just my experience anyway. ;)

Battery problems? No matter the rom or android version.... >>>> http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2461864

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And still.....twrp is ignoring the issues the t989 is having anyway. Maybe other devices are fine with it....so our older phones issues don't rate intervention in their eyes....but either way....its poor support. In my humble opinion.

I will keep finding the twrp versions that suit what I'm flashing, even tho its silly, cause i really dislike cwm. LOL

So far....2.6.1.0 for 4.3

2.6.0.0 for 4.2.2

2.4.4.0 (and probably 2.5.x) for 4.1.2.

That's based on my successes anyway.

Battery problems? No matter the rom or android version.... >>>> http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2461864
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] VermontKindBud:
still stuck

I've never used adb so I don't know if it responds, but assume it wouldn't since I can't get into any other mode because every attempt at trying to reboot seems to be trying to load a corrupt TWRP 2.6.3.0 before the splash screen.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] bmg002:
If you can get it to any screen that doesn't automatically reboot the phone then you should be able to get adb working... well assuming you have and enabled on the phone... I'd try to get it to a point that doesn't automatically reboot them run adb logcat and post the results
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] VermontKindBud:
I'm downloading the sdk, therein is the adb interface according to a quick google search. Before all hell broke loose I'm pretty sure I had usb debugging checked, as TiB requires it. Once I install the sdk, how do i know if ADB is working and what steps do I take to possible get to download mode ? Edit: adb is NOT recognizing my device. Also, no stick power button issue. No matter what I just seem to trying to load a corrupt TWRP 2.6.3.0 at every attempt to reboot to any mode whatsover.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] bmg002:
I'm getting stumped then :( as a thought, if you go to your computer and run:

adb wait-for-device

then with your phone powered off, plug in the USB cable, does the command prompt give you control back or does it just keep sitting there waiting for the device?

If it DOES give you control, I think there may still be hope. Try running "adb logcat > logcat.txt" then plug your phone in and post the logcat.txt file it creates here. Hopefully somebody can help with that. Another thing to try is unplug your phone from your PC then run this command:

adb wait-for-device & adb reboot download

and then plug your phone into the USB port. NOTE that is 1 command, not 2 separate commands. it will run the first one and as soon as the first one completes, it will run the second. This should get you into download mode which you can then use ODIN to flash a new recovery.

Some things I have been reading indicate that if you flash a bad radio it can hard-brick your phone. Did you change radio at any point? If so, are you 100% sure you used a T989/T989D radio?

If you can get an adb logcat report on here, it will make it much easier to figure out if the recovery partition is pooched or if it is having some other issue such as a HAL error (HAL error will most likely be a mostly-hard-brick... it was with my last device... I think you can recover if you have the USB dongle, but I am not 100% certain on that).
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Sargeue:
Been having one issue with TWRP 2.6.3.0, when I open wipe and check everything except micro card I get failed. When I unchecked the preload all is fine. I am also having problems trying to restore backups that were backed up with 2.5 version. Is this not backward compatible? Thanks for any input or help!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] bmg002:
Use rm instead of format...it is in the settings
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] VermontKindBud:
I'll try the above mentioned things, so far adb just keeps waiting for the device. I did not change the radio, it's 4.12 UVMC6 stock I believe.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] casonswag:
Ive never had one single prob with this latest recovery the prob your having is from the rom not the recovery well your sec prob and try flashing the recovery again
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Mista513:
Same, never any issues with TWRP.

Like Cason said try a re flash, but u had weird issues on Guru's version of CM9 also. Never had any going from Chopsticks version of CM9 and CMX, or upgrading them. I usually download all my roms from Goo with np.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] icehust:
The latest version works amazing!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] casonswag:
Does this happen to anybody when i restore a backup then boot it up and try to download a app from the playstore but it wont let me?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] BladeMaverick:
Do you DS super wipe, restore, DS cache wipe?

I've got 4 roms circulating around and haven't had issues at all. CM9, AOSP-Vanilla, TechNiqCality, and Jedi Mind Trick.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] casonswag:
I dont use scripts there not needed for for this recovery all i did was restore my backup and it wont let me download a app from the playstore it says some purchase error or something on a free app?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Kerns_JW:
stuck download app on the cache partition? That used to cause me issues back on the g1. I would delete the download.apk and be good. Sorry with so little to go on its all assumptions
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] jovy23:
Try going into settings-applications then go to "ALL" and then delete the data from play store and google services framework and then reboot. Any play store errors should be gone after that.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] matthewdavis:
I've had this same problem and followed the same steps with no success (reboot, clear data multiple times) . The only way I could fix the issue was to remove and readd the Google account.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] casonswag:
What u mean by remove and read the google account?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Mr. bird:
I think he meant remove and redo* your Google account.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] razormy:
A little help to install this. No link in goo .
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] casonswag:
Theres links all in these comments a few pages back
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] jets76:
Can someone tell me if my current CWM backups can be restored using TWRP?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] djtheraven:
No completely different...after install make other backup...twrp won't even see those cwm backups
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] jets76:
Cool. Better it doesn't 'see' them; save me the trouble of flashing something that won't flash properly =)
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] casonswag:
Yull still need to delete the backup to save space if your hoping on this recovery now
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] djtheraven:
Well not too soon just in case he don't like this, which i couldn't see why, but some people do switch back and forth
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] casonswag:
Yea thats true
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] ehBrY:
So the version 2.2.1.5 newer versions on goo don't work with T989?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] dennis96411:
For some reason TWRP 2.6.1.0 isn't backing up my stuff correctly. I had two backups both failing to restore data for me. Luckily I have Titanium Backup so not much was lost, but this is still a rather bothersome problem. I'm going to upgrade to 2.6.3.0 and see if it helps.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] mknewman:
Don't use 2.6.3.0, it's broken for Hercules. Stick with 2.6.1.0 or CM's recovery that's on the OP of the CM10.2 post.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] bmg002:
sorry, been away for the past bit. Back now though.

Sounds to me like you may be stuck. If you can find a USB dongle to put it into download mode (bridges certain pins... can't remember which offhand), you can try that to get into download mode... otherwise you may have a dead phone.

Sorry I couldn't be more help :(
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] stormannorman:
I have been using twrp 2.6.3.0 since it came out. I flash roms/kernels almost daily and have often gone to my backups with no problems.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] bmg002:
Me too... the only issue I've found is if I have the phone charging while I reboot from twrp it shuts down instead of rebooting... other than that my backups have sheets been solid if I have compression off and errors seem to work fine too...
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] monkeybuttons:
Agreed, but some of us had problems with "Low Storage" notifications when using 2.6.3.0. After going back to 2.6.1.0 I have more apps installed and have more free app storage space available.

However, it isn't known if that was an issue with CM or with TWRP. I am currently using a newer version of Carbon (based on CM) now than I was when I flashed with 2.6.3.0, which was also around the time people were complaining of that very issue in the CM thread.

Perhaps this is something someone could "run to ground" for the rest of us (i.e. find out if the problem is caused by TWRP or CM).
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] PlasmaPump:
No problems here either. I've flashed/backup/restore CM/AOSP base roms, kernals, just apps, ran AROMA, ADB stuff without any problems since it came out. I've only had the Low Storage issue once going from 4.2.2 base to 4.3 roms with an older TB version. Once I wiped TB data/settings everything worked fine. I use compression with format option on in TWRP settings.

If anything... 2.6.3.0 may be just a bit slower... or it may be my new 2013 N7 speed giving that impression. :p
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] JoeGrimm:
Does anybody know if there will be an update to fix the data wipe issues of 2.6.3.0, I know some people haven't had problems but basically all of the devs have said not to use 2.6.3.0 and to just stay with 2.6.1.0, but that one has problems wiping the preload. I've been using the infamous super wipe and that seems to work with wiping the preload, even on 2.6.1.0, but it would be nice to not have to use the super wipe.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] wizkidj:
Whenever I flash a 4.3 ROM, I'll try to reboot and the ROM won't reboot. No boot animation. Nothing. I have to go back to a 4.2.2 ROM. Any fix for this?

BTW I'm on TWRP 2.6.3.0
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] JesusWazBlack:
Go back to twrp 2.6.1.0(best one IMO), 2.6.3 is giving tons of people trouble including myself on multiple devices as well....
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] fathertomany:
If you would take just a moment to read, you would know that you need 2.6.1.0 and maybe the infamous wipes to go to a 4.3 rom. I suggest that you read a few pages back to this point.

Sent from my Skinny Hercules
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] mknewman:
I really hate bumping my own message. Is there any support/development going on for TWRP? This issue with encryption is causing me headaches. I'd love to work with a dev to fix it.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] meekrawb:
Have you tried the IRC channel? Dees-troy is usually in there. The link is in the OP under support.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] iamdofus:
I have totally stock rooted rom, and these these apps saying its not available for t989d?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] UltimaniumX:
You have to be more specific:

- What apps are not available?

- What is the specific error?

- What recovery and version did you use?

- What is your specific ROM that you flashed?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] ArtfulDodger:
Just what I needed to get started, let the fun begin with the S2!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] meekrawb:
Some people have had problems with 2.6.3.0. I am sticking with 2.6.1.0 for now.

http://d-h.st/JpB

Happy flashing bud!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] ArtfulDodger:
Thanks, already have tried 3 ROMs! Looks like CM10.1 is where I need to be for now, everything else was either too old, too new or if 4.3 didn't work with Viper. A 4.2 ROM always seems to be the best option for me.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] monkeybuttons:
I have seen a few people say they are running 2.6.3.1. Where did you get it? Did you compile it yourself? Does it fix the storage issues 2.6.3.0 has?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Almite:
TWRP 2.6.3.1 is listed as 2.6.3.0 on the official site, if you check date of OP date here (title of thread) and date of file on their site, you can see they ninja updated it - without actually changing the name of the file, if you flash 2.6.3.0 downloaded from their site it will be 2.6.3.1.

As far as any issues with it, I didn't have any other than the failing to wipe preload unless you change it in options to use rm -rf instead of format which is the same issues with any version that is 2.6.1.0+
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] monkeybuttons:
Oh!!!

Great info, thanks!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] fathertomany:
2.6.3.1 flash-able zip

https://www.dropbox.com/s/6gu3vyzq6o0lrx1/TWRP 2.6.3.1.zip

beamed from a SlimKat
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Oki:
I have just tried to DL and install it from Goo manager and... after the update tried the first reboot into recovery I have now a nice bricked T989. I just got the battery splash screen when plugged into the PC, but it is impossible to enter into recovery or download modes. Do you have any suggestion?

It is the first time I got this, I have followed this procedure many times when updating the recovery. But it has been long time since my last update and maybe someone has experieced something similar.

Thansk
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] tronmech:
I've never had a issue where I couldn't get into download mode. Have you tried to get there after a battery pull?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Oki:
I had to let it sit for a while, then I tried again and finally I could get into DL mode. Odin3 helped me to revert to 2.4.4.0 and worked fine.

I tried again installing 2.6.3.0 from goo.im. It rebooted correctly but bricked after trying to enter into recovery. My guess is that goo.im version is broken.

I will try to download it and install using another method. So far goo.im app was fine and reliable updating the TWRP.

If anyone needs the details on how to revert back using Odin3, you can go to this page and proceed until step 13.

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Flashing this ZIP worked fine. Definitively It seems that goo.im TWRP image is not working fine.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] dennis96411:
For some reason 2.6.3.0 works perfectly fine for me, but other versions, including the new one, create seemingly corrupted backups that cannot be restored. I'm in the exact opposite position compared to everyone else where 2.6.3.0 is broken for them but other versions work fine.

Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-T989
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] :
My experience too. I reluctantly have to use cwm ....tho it works perfectly.

Sent from my Moto X cellular telephone...
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] atmu5fear:
Website glitch

So I want to flash this with ODIN. I follow your links to the tar file on the twrp website, which lists them all. As soon as i go to click on the tar file, the img hover over **** pops up with a barcode, and bounces between the two img file links, making it impossible to click on the tar link, as its constantly moving up and down the page as the bouncing back and forth between the img files is happening. Can someone hot link the tar for 2.6.3.0 please?! I can't use goo, because my phone is stuck in boot loop with Dirty Unicorns 4.3
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] meekrawb:
http://techerrata.com/file/twrp2/hercules/openrecovery-twrp-2.6.3.0-hercules.tar

That jumpy list sucks.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] atmu5fear:
Yes, yes it does... And Thanks!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] :
I like it. Its like a game! ;)

Sent from my Moto X cellular telephone...
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] meekrawb:
TWRP 2.7.0.0 flashable zip

TWRP 2.7.0.0 flashable zip
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] cricketAC:
Is it compatible with flashing roms. Twrp 2.6.3 was buggy hence I am still on 2.6.1
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] meekrawb:
I've only tried backing up and restoring so far. I got an error that said E:Unable to locate '/and-sec' partition for backup calculations, but other than that error message it worked just fine.

Has anyone tried flashing stuff with it yet?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Almite:
For those that prefer to Odin to 2.7 here is a link to the tar without having to play the bounce game on TWRP's site.

http://techerrata.com/file/twrp2/hercules/openrecovery-twrp-2.7.0.0-hercules.tar
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] atmu5fear:
Man the bounce game dance-a-thon drives me mental... they really need to redesign that list so it's a static list. Dynamic looks cool, but if it doesn't work right, drop it... html/css isn't all that difficult to modify