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[Epic 4G Android Development] II5StarII Swag:
Earlier in post it says 5-10 minutes so im guessing yea to long
[Epic 4G Android Development] baconjuice:
I used this twice so far, lol. I know I'm a noob. only took a few minutes like 5 tops. I did remove the sd card both times before I started
[Epic 4G Android Development] rasstar:
I am having the same exact problem? How exactly did you solve it?
[Epic 4G Android Development] baconjuice:
I just followed the directions word for word. what boxes do u have checked on the left hand side? Also, I used the one that completely put you back to stock
[Epic 4G Android Development] rasstar:
I am using the one that puts it back to stock and i have reset and debug checked. When it is almost complete it fails and the phone boots to a black screen. I have been messing with this for hours and it would not flash complete and always fails.
[Epic 4G Android Development] baconjuice:
The only ones I had checked was the auto reboot and the Debug En. I unchecked the F.reset Time one
[Epic 4G Android Development] rasstar:
That is unchecked. It fails when it gets to datafs.rfs
[Epic 4G Android Development] bomix:
Great Post,.. I removed some system files DRM ones.. oppS! and I got a black screen after startup. Thank you Thank you for posting this guide! back up and running
[Epic 4G Android Development] jhormaze:
Hey, im having a problem with this guide, my phone seems to get stuck on FACTORY FS .. ive went through all of the trouble shooting methods and ive also taken out the SD card and it still gets stuck...
[Epic 4G Android Development] excalis:
Check the file size, I noticed I was having issues with the D27.tar and it was only 75mb I don't know if it downloaded wrong for me or the move to USB key corrupted it, I am going to re-download the file. I tried using the D107.tar but it stops right as it is about to finish.
[Epic 4G Android Development] littlepr:
Took me ages to flash stock DI07...

...but persistence paid off. Guys, I was having issues all along. Come to find out it was the damn front USB ports on this damn DELL pc. Once I connected to a back port, odin recognized com 5 and I was able to flash with no issues in less than 3 minutes.
[Epic 4G Android Development] excalis:
Well, I will keep trying, I have tried different USB ports, launching as admin, downloading the different roms (D27, D107), trying different ODIN versions (two actually what others are there?), re-partioning, pit only, rom only, all items check and unchecked, etc.

On the last try, I let it fail as it has been doing, then tried to power on the phone, it shows the Sprint and Samsung boot animations, then looks like it is about to boot, then just has a black screen with the LED and capacitive lights on. Also, I am not able to bring up the recovery menu via the camera/volume down/power buttons.

To me, this is not bricked, at least I do not think so, I am wondering if the FAIL message is due to something missing or permission on the partition. What makes it bad though is that I have flashed my phone and the wife's using the same items with no issue at all.

Here is what started it all:

Tried the flash using WIndows 7 64-bit, used the D107 embedded restore tar, and the ODIN from this thread.

All look great until it decided to freeze, everything went well up until then. The phone was recognized, ODIN showed it on the COM port, but then stuck.

This would be helpful if there was a different way to try and restore a phone, if you can get to download mode. The joys of flashing :)

Don't get me wrong, this is all part of it, I would just like a solution for me and others who want to try this kind of thing but run into problems, reading through so many forums and threads can end up being misleading, and this one already seems to talk about restore and recovery.

Thanks!
[Epic 4G Android Development] Zurginator:
I got stuck somewhere else.....

This is the second time. After the first, I battery pulled, and on boot got an image:

[pic of phone]----

/!\

----[pic of comp]

I'm trying to revert to stock so I can return the thing under 30 day policy. Any help?
[Epic 4G Android Development] Whosdaman:
DI18 is up, it is in md5 format, so I don't know if you have to bring it down to .tar format or not....I left it as is
[Epic 4G Android Development] excalis:
Well I threw in the towel, got my phone replaced and probably will not be trying this again :)

I just spent to much time and was easier to just bow out. Good luck all!
[Epic 4G Android Development] sairegsx:
downloading di18! thanks!!
[Epic 4G Android Development] Whosdaman:
No problem...I'm going to start releasing every update I get for all the Sprint devices on XDA
[Epic 4G Android Development] cowman809:
My phone is rooted and I keep getting prompted to download the update, will I lose root if I install it? If I do, can I reroot with the one click method in this forum? Tethering is my only form of internet at the moment.
[Epic 4G Android Development] rose1:
Just flashed the DI18 update. All seems well.

FYI, all I did was open Odin 1.3, unchecked the F.Reset Time box, loaded the DI18 file in the PDA box. (I left it just how it was in MD5 format), held down 1 on the physical kb, powered the phone on, got to the yellow download screen, connected the phone to my laptop, and hit start and sat back. It's that simple. I attached the odin 1.3 here foranyone that wants it.
[Epic 4G Android Development] Whosdaman:
Thank you rose for confirming it works in odin, my macbook pro is in the shop being worked on :-\...im at work atm
[Epic 4G Android Development] rose1:
No problem WDM. Thanks for all your contributins to the community :)
[Epic 4G Android Development] CrozB:
Thanks for this!!!

This gives me the option to try one more time to fall in love with the epic... otherwise I am going back to the EVO!
[Epic 4G Android Development] Masterface7:
So every time i try to plug in the phone in downloading mode I get the 3 note usb fail and I have tried every usb port I have, does anybody have any suggestions

and on the rare occation it does plug in and looks for driver it never finds it. does anybody have the proper driver for the downloading mode. Is it in the pack of the rest of the galaxy s 64 bit drivers
[Epic 4G Android Development] saywhat4118:
hey guys, I am on the go and i have no computer near by so i cant use odin. Can i just download this and flash thru clockwork recovery?
[Epic 4G Android Development] mattallica76:
No, you need odin or an official Samsung flash tool for this to work.
[Epic 4G Android Development] mattallica76:
Is Odin already running when you try to plug it in? Also, try plugging it in while its on first, then turn it off, unplug it, pull the battery, put the battery back in, boot into download mode, and plug it back in.

Some people have had better luck plugging it in first, and then trying to boot into download mode before it starts charging.
[Epic 4G Android Development] mattallica76:
I believe the driver is in the Odin archive. You need to extract all the files in the archive to a folder, not just the odin.exe
[Epic 4G Android Development] Masterface7:
Alright I finally got the phone to show up in odin and the process stopped at param.ifs
[Epic 4G Android Development] mattallica76:
What did the trick?
[Epic 4G Android Development] Masterface7:
well I got lucky and the usb worked but no driver. So i just tried over and over to install the driver and then finally it worked. and now on the second try the flash worked and i am back to stock. Thanks for the help.
[Epic 4G Android Development] MysteryEmotionz:
unless u wanna flash back to stock theres no need for this. if your trying to just gain the benefits of di18 there are di18 roms, kernals, and the modem is avainalbe
[Epic 4G Android Development] Jed Dignazio:
Rapidshare link down:

The following file is not available:

http://rapidshare.com/files/415661977/SPH-D700-DG27-8Gb-REL.tar261826 KB
[Epic 4G Android Development] Firon:
Grab the latest stock tar from the sticky at the top of this forum.
[Epic 4G Android Development] Jed Dignazio:
Are you talking about this thread:

[Oct. 5, 2010] ***OFFICIAL*** SPH-D700-DI18-8Gb-REL.tar.md5

Because that just links to this thread.
[Epic 4G Android Development] cerebralzulu:
Odin

Is there another link to download odin. I keep getting a corrupt file notification when I try to extract it to a folder. Appreciate all of the work you guys are doing. This forum is awesome. Correction this forum is EPIC!!!
[Epic 4G Android Development] Despiadado1:
@Rose1

I'm so glad you took the time to post the steps you took. What I didn't realize and maybe many others won't either is that you don't use the pit file when flashing the full version. You only use that for upgrades... or at least that is what is working for me now.

Thank you so much! :D
[Epic 4G Android Development] flyers2114:
Here ya guys go.....

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=KQUR18M7
[Epic 4G Android Development] violinbf:
Having these files is a very, very valuable. Thank you so much for this.
[Epic 4G Android Development] siptang:
I'm getting an error

" MD5 hash value is invalid."

any one familiar with this?
[Epic 4G Android Development] Whosdaman:
When?..........
[Epic 4G Android Development] siptang:
When i press start ofcourse.

I followed rose's steps to the t and used the odin included with her post...

Edit: Here's the exact log.

<ID:0/009> Added!!

<ID:0/009> Odin v.3 engine (ID:9)..

<ID:0/009> File analysis..

<ID:0/009> Enter CS for MD5..

<ID:0/009> Check MD5.. Do not unplug the cable..

<ID:0/009> Please wait..

<ID:0/009> Checking MD5 finished Sucessfully..

<ID:0/009> MD5 hash value is invalid.

<OSM> All threads completed. (succeed 0 / failed 1)
[Epic 4G Android Development] cerebralzulu:
Thanks flyers, that did the trick. Needed a different handler for rar files. You guys are the best :-).
[Epic 4G Android Development] Isira:
Then your download is probably corrupted. Download the file again.

I can confirm that the md5 rom file flashes fine using Odin3 v1.3
[Epic 4G Android Development] Whosdaman:
Yeah I'm thinking your file might be corrupt...I'm posting a new mirror to multiupload, so you have 6 choices instead of 2
[Epic 4G Android Development] Whosdaman:
Updated mirror, 6-in-1 :)
[Epic 4G Android Development] jaddwooka:
WARNING!!!! - This Procedure Bricked My Phone

Unfortunately, this procedure bricked my phone and is NOT bringing it back.

Scenario is this... I saw my phone was running DG17 and wanted to updated to the latest version. Most web info I saw said you have to progress from DG17 to DG27 to DI07 to DI18. I couldn't get the phone to do anything OTA.

Well, I found a link pointing to this procedure saying it would put "stock DG27" on the phone. So, I downloaded ODIN (version 1.3), I downloaded the "kernal" version of the file and I downloaded the PIT file.

I tried Odin from your link and it didn't work. I found version 1.3 and it seemed to work fine. During the update process, everything worked EXCEPT it said it couldn't copy files because the phone was "write protected". I got a big red FAIL in odin and stopped.

Ok, fine, let's just forget this then. I unplug my phone, disconnect the battery and re-boot. Low and behold... no boot-up. I get a different picture showing a PC & phone with a broken cable. Several tries, still no go.

I'm presuming at this point that this procedure would ONLY work on a rooted phone????? I didn't see any caviat stating that in the proceedure. Perhaps that should be in BOLD at the TOP???? I suppose it's one of those things that should be so obvious it's not even said. Unfortunately, it really wasn't obvious to me.

Any suggestions on what to do now are greatly appreciated. I'm presuming that a trip to the sprint store in the morning may be my best option since I'm less than 30 days in.
[Epic 4G Android Development] Firon:
You don't need a rooted phone for this to work. It totally blows away everything on your phone when you flash.

Try it again and make sure you follow the instructions correctly.
[Epic 4G Android Development] Mekishiko:
Just in case people were wondering:

-Last Month bought Stock EPIC4g DG27

-Rooted when I got home

-Received Update notification for DI07

-Updated OTA to DI07 ROOT WAS RETAINED AFTER INSTALLED SUCCESSFULLY

-Yesterday received Update notification for DI18

-Uodated OTA to DI18 ROOT WAS RETAINED AFTER INSTALLED SUCCESSFULLY

phone is running great, wifi tether works etc
[Epic 4G Android Development] excalis:
Jaddwooka, I would just take your phone back if you can. I tried many many times to get it back and was not successful.

You could get lucky and get it to flash but it is also possible to hose it worse. I flashed my phone to at least show the Sprint/Samsung boot animation and then took it in to get it replaced. They saw that it would try to come up then just stay at a blank screen.

I was already past the 30 days but Sprint still replaced it for me and I will for sure be patient for the updates to come through from now on...maybe :)

I had flashed both my phone and the wife's with no issues, I guess this one time it decided to just completely fail on me. Good luck and post what you decided to do or if you got it working.
[Epic 4G Android Development] raiderep:
Thank you sir! Saved my behind several times last night while tweaking stuff and getting in f/c loops.
[Epic 4G Android Development] tomfubarr:
dont use that dg27 file, use the di118 file and it wont hang up at all. it goes thur with no problems. Get it here http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=794138
[Epic 4G Android Development] shawnp582:
You are the bomb sir the information was dead on and clear! Yes im in all caps because im yelling and happy thanks again!
[Epic 4G Android Development] mj71:
I'm having driver issues when the phone is in download mode.

I was able to install the samsung drivers and have the USB recognized when the phone is in its normal mode. Odin sees it fine. When I start the phone in download mode, I continuously get "unknown device" and Odin no longer sees the device.

My Epic is successfully rooted and has had several ROMs on it. After playing, I'm just going to stick with stock.

TIA.

UPDATE: What crappy software. I sacrificed a few chickens, threw the blood around my room, did the hokey-pokey, and when I turned myself around, it connected. Geez. This board rocks, though! Thanks!
[Epic 4G Android Development] AndroidSPCS:
Wow HAPPY DAY!!!

My stock Epic at DI07 would error out with error code 7 doing the DI18 update.

I followed the guide here and flashed to DI18 successfully!!!

Woohoo!!! Thanks!!!!
[Epic 4G Android Development] skeeterslint:
Hi all,

Has anyone used this to flash back to stock then installed one of my FluffKernels on it?I have been running fine with my kernels even after patching the OTA of this update but when i flash back to stock using this tar kernels that were stable before bootloop now has anyone had this happen?
[Epic 4G Android Development] Whosdaman:
You have to reroot. And genius's new kernel works with the new di18 file
[Epic 4G Android Development] ERHSAII:
Thanks!

This is very informative and everything works exactly as you stated. Thanks for taking the time to do this.
[Epic 4G Android Development] mattallica76:
Why re-root to install a kernel that has root? If you have clockwork installed, you should be able to just flash a kernel.
[Epic 4G Android Development] Whosdaman:
I don't know lol. I always root before I flash a new kernel
[Epic 4G Android Development] mattallica76:
I think the devs have been trying to steer us away from doing that. It can cause conflicts. I think the only time you would want to root outside of a rooted kernel would be when you are sticking with the stock kernel but still need root access.
[Epic 4G Android Development] WisdomWolf:
Does anybody have just the stock DI18 kernel in an Odin compatible format?
[Epic 4G Android Development] isntitez2nvme:
this seems to have bricked my phone. i have followed directions exactly but the phone just turns off and odin stops at <ID:0/007> param.lfs and i dont see any progress bar at all. please help! my phone was at least booting up before.
[Epic 4G Android Development] antidelldude:
I have followed these directions to a T and have been continuously getting this:

ID:0/004> Added!!

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

<ID:0/004> File analysis..

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

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

<ID:0/004> home/n/Desktop/zImage

<ID:0/004>

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

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

pulled the battery from the phone, reinserted battery and loaded download mode again, pulled the sd card, restart the pc, redownloaded everything, opened up odin as admin, plug the phone in, same damn thing. Then it bricks the phone and I have to force a restart through odin to bring it back.

I just want to flash the kernel. I have a few dozen apps installed and everything setup on the phone the way I like, I'm just stuck at the damn dg17 revision and don't want to do a full flash to fix it. I only have rooted the phone. It still should have the stock kernel.

Can anyone recommend a fix?

All my pc's run windows 7 x64 and i'm using the galaxy usb drivers.
[Epic 4G Android Development] drew2jr:
thanks for the updates.
[Epic 4G Android Development] Firon:
Just do a full flash to DI18. Don't bother trying to update.
[Epic 4G Android Development] antidelldude:
I have been trying to avoid a full flash because I was under the impression it would wipe the phone. Took the dive, and I'm sitting at DI18 with all my settings intact. Now my Baseband is still stuck at DG17 and the universal update to DI18 keeps failing in clockworkmod saying (no error message).
[Epic 4G Android Development] antidelldude:
I have been trying every version I have been able to get my hands on of that modem update and I am getting errors with clockworkmod. The status 7 no error crap. I tried a redbend_ua method posted earlier in the thread and when typed exactly as stated with the di18 modem.bin file, it goes through and my baseband still states it is DG17.

# ./redbend_ua restore /sdcard/modem.bin /dev/block/bml12
./redbend_ua restore /sdcard/modem.bin /dev/block/bml12
RedBend Update Agent 6,1,14,1

FOTA : Make Block Device Nodes
lcd_init(498): start!
lcd_init(507): fb0 open success
lcd_init(514): width = 480, height = 800
page_msize: 4096, phy_unit_size: 262144
src: /sdcard/modem.bin
dst: /dev/block/bml12 partition size: 0xc80000
part_size: 0xc80000
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[Epic 4G Android Development] antidelldude:
I do not know what was done differently. But afterthe 20th+restart and try, odin decided to update the modem to di07 without crashing out. From that point the di07 to di18 zip worked fine with clockwork mod.

One difference is when I did the full flash I lost root and used both the one.click.root.exploitv2.2.7 to get busy box back then the joeykrim root method. I have no idea if that would have made a difference.
[Epic 4G Android Development] blazecap:
After trying all the USB ports, 2 different USB cables, and all of the stock .tar files, I am still failing at datafs.rfs. This is the error I keep getting. Any ideas?

<ID:0/008> datafs.rfs

<ID:0/008>

<ID:0/008> Complete(Write) operation failed.

<OSM> All threads completed. (succeed 0 / failed 1)
[Epic 4G Android Development] Shiggity:
Help~!!~!~!~!

Hey all,

I've been trying all the steps and suggestions in this thread and I can't unbrick my Epic 4G no matter what I try.

• When I try to use the Stock ROM .tar.md5 with Odin3 1.0.0 it crashes the app when it reaches boot.bin

• When i try to use the Stock ROM .tar it dies/fails when reaching recovery.bin

The same thing happens with both versions of Odin3. I've made sure that ONLY Auto-Rebot and Debug (if applicable) are on. It still fails at one of those two points.

I've seen people of which I can't remember their names report that if you remove recovery.bin from the .tar the flash completes, but with the recovery function not included.

How can this be fixed?

BTW, I bricked because I flashed the wrong FroYo build that I found (the international one).

Thanks,

Shiggity

EDIT: Apparently when I flashed the i9000 ROM it had me re-partition, and then it was able to flash SOMETHING onto the newly created partition. I've since flashed to and from this wrong ROM, and then it would get stuck at the Samsung logo. I was then only able to get into DL mode. I got into DL mode, and I tried to flash the proper DI18 ROM several times. Then I realized that if it's failing with the error "Complete(Write) operation failed." then the partition it's trying to write to is filling up too fast. I then got Odin to see my phone again in DL mode, I re-partitioned it and it succeeded just fine but now it's deader than both of my grandmothers. I can't get into DL mode, I can't get into Recovery mode... nothing. I'm prepared to take it to Best Buy for a replacement/repair, but if there's any way to resurrect my precious Epic 4G I'd appreciate any suggestions you all may have.

Thanks.
[Epic 4G Android Development] <3me:
you sir have been owned
[Epic 4G Android Development] bigmcq77:
try using this PIT instead of the other one(513 instead of 512):

hXXp://cl.ly/b97a085f59373dd258cb (replace XX with tt, because I cannot post links yet, :mad: )
[Epic 4G Android Development] Eazail70x7:
The DI18 file I downloaded has this extension: ".tar.md5"

Is this correct? Would I run odin using ".tar.md5" or do I have to rename it to ".tar"?
[Epic 4G Android Development] Whosdaman:
No, run it as .tar.md5
[Epic 4G Android Development] mrkrabs:
I was able to get into dload mode by holding up/down and then plugging in usb...?
[Epic 4G Android Development] Eazail70x7:
Crap, I just failed at flashing back to stock DI18 using Odin AND flashing a Rom. How do you go back to stock DI18? Please? Tutuorial?

I followed the instructions from the thread that was linked to in here and it failed. Don't know what went wrong. I bricked my phone now...
[Epic 4G Android Development] Eazail70x7:
I tried flashing back to stock DI18 using the method in this thread and it failed. I did the reboots and battery pull as well and it still didn't work after that. Can someone explain to me in more detail how to successfully use odin to flash back to DI18??
[Epic 4G Android Development] Whosdaman:
Listen closely...or read whatever

1. Open odin.

2. Pull battery from phone and disconnect from pc

3. put in battery and push and hold 1 and power to put phone in downloader mode.

4. connect to pc

5. in odin, under pda, browse for the .md5 file and select it.

6. hit start or whatever it says to start it
[Epic 4G Android Development] nom303:
if it reaches leave cs... does that mean it completed? jus got the epic 2 days ago and tryin to figure this out :)
[Epic 4G Android Development] rishisuri:
how to re-root it
[Epic 4G Android Development] crashburn833:
Problem fixed

i simply removed the recovery.bin from update tar and worked like a charm