Okay i just got my new S2 today from AT&T and i know it just released today but i wanted to try and see if i could put a new rom and CWM on and it worked, for awhile.. then when i was in CWM i pressed wipe data/factory reset by accident and now im stuck on the screen with the top hat and an arrow going in a loop. I was on the screen for about 10 mins then i pulled the batt out to see if it would do anything but no when it boots back up it goes right back to the top hat.
So yeah.. Is it gone or what? or is there anyway to fix this?
I looked up some options and they say to use ODIN but what files (PDA, CSC, and PHONE) should i use?
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Okay so i guess the top hat thing is the background image...
But im still stuck in the CWM i can scroll with my VOL + and - but when i press my power button to "select" the menu just disappears, as in it just goes blank and only the top hat shows.
sorry if the way im explaining it is confusing but im just so frustrated. If you would like me to post up a vid or pics of what i mean just ask please.
I have never used CWM recovery using the power button as select.. The ones I've used so far, it is actually a back button.....
Not sure which rom u r on either but since the international ones have a home button and urs don't.... maybe CWM recovery hasn't catered for your case yet, have you tried the softkey home button to select?
btw, how did you wipe data by accident? it actually requires to press the wrong button combination of at least 4 presses to do that?
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btw, how did you wipe data by accident? it actually requires to press the wrong button combination of at least 4 presses to do that?
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Well me pressing the wipe data button isn't the situation now. When i first pressed it i thought it was running on its own when i saw the top hat and the arrow loop. But then i just figured it was the CWM Background. So my main problem is just that i cant select anything with my power button.
Also i tried pressing the home to select but it just kind of "refreshes" the page.
But as of right now.. i know its something stupid to do because it not my carrier but i grab some files from http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1113928 and i used the first link on the page and i flashed it with ODIN so not im out of the CWM but now my phone is just looping at the animation of the GALAXY S II.
Select = HOME BUTTON
Power = go back
Volume up / down = navigate menu up / down
Just find a flashable .zip ROM of your choice (suitable for your phone model) and copy to sdcard.
Use CWM Recovery to rectory reset, wipe cache, and dalvik .navigate to install zip from sdcard, reboot when done.
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ok so now i got my phone working on lite'ning but now i cant call and its most likely becuhz i chose those random files. Is there a way to fix this now?
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Well me pressing the wipe data button isn't the situation now. When i first pressed it i thought it was running on its own when i saw the top hat and the arrow loop. But then i just figured it was the CWM Background. So my main problem is just that i cant select anything with my power button.
Also i tried pressing the home to select but it just kind of "refreshes" the page.
But as of right now.. i know its something stupid to do because it not my carrier but i grab some files from http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1113928 and i used the first link on the page and i flashed it with ODIN so not im out of the CWM but now my phone is just looping at the animation of the GALAXY S II.
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Sounds like you are just stuck in a boot loop. Check out the "Got a Bootloop?" thread. As long as you can get into recovery, you should be okay.
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ok so now i got my phone working on lite'ning but now i cant call and its most likely becuhz i chose those random files. Is there a way to fix this now?
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Please explain further "can't call",.......no signal?
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Please explain further "can't call",.......no signal?
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okay. from looking at the top i have full bars but when i try to call someone
for example i tried to call my dad and when i press call a prompt pops up saying "call not sent."
and FYI i am AT&T
and i just checked *#*#1234#*#*
and i have PDA:I9100XXKH3 PHONE:I9100XXKH3 and also for CSC:I9100OXAKH3
And it worked before you flashed?
Edit: Are you calling number from Contacts or manually entering on keypad?
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And it worked before you flashed?
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yes it worked before flash.
okay i looked around the forum and now i see there is AT&T sub forum for the s2 http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=1301
and i downloaded this pit file http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=18060878 so now i can receive calls but i still cant send and i cant hear the audio when someone speaks
EDIT: i think im just going to look around that sub forum because i think it would be easier to actually get help from people with the same type of s2 (and i didnt know there was a forum made for ATT sorry for the mix up)
THANKS FOR EVERYONE'S HELP! AND THANKS FOR ACTUALLY REPLY TO THIS!
As your phone its not bricked, and you have ongoing issues, better post this question there (your model specific) and lock this post.
Designgears (Cognition ROM) tweeted that he just received his and currently in process of cooking the ROM. I'm sure other Devs won't be far behind either.
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i tried flashing it and ionstalling a rom for the first time but it froze halfway through for like 3 hours so i just unplugged it and now this screen comes up...
no whenever i turn it on it gives me a screen with :
a phone .... an explanation mark in a triangle ! . .. . a computer
anything i can do?
also ive tried every button trick on trying to restore it and none of it works all of it just come with that screen. except for the download one where i press volume down home button and power
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i tried flashing it and ionstalling a rom for the first time but it froze halfway through for like 3 hours so i just unplugged it and now this screen comes up...
no whenever i turn it on it gives me a screen with :
a phone .... an explanation mark in a triangle ! . .. . a computer
anything i can do?
also ive tried every button trick on trying to restore it and none of it works all of it just come with that screen. except for the download one where i press volume down home button and power
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you are really not giving a lot of details here...all you are saying you tried installing a rom and then it froze halfway..
Are you rooted firstly?
If you are have you flashed CF-root kernel?
How did you try to install the rom?
More info and then more people can help you out buddy..see if you can get into recovery and restart your phone.
well... if you've tried "every" (its not like there are a lot) button combination... then just go buy a jig from ebay and force it into download mode...
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you are really not giving a lot of details here...all you are saying you tried installing a rom and then it froze halfway..
Are you rooted firstly?
If you are have you flashed CF-root kernel?
How did you try to install the rom?
More info and then more people can help you out buddy..see if you can get into recovery and restart your phone.
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Nothing from what you said would help..
He obviously flashed it with Odin, and he said he's getting a yellow triangle with a computer behind it..
From what I understood, he could get into download mode.
So just boot into download mode and flash stock ROM. That should do it.
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anyone else seeing an increase in the "i bricked my phone" threads?
dont think its coincidence they are increasing after the american variants have been released. People need to check what model they have before flashing things.
OP: not saying thats what has happened to you as you dont say if you have the i9100 or not, hopefully you do.
bruflot said:
Nothing from what you said would help..
He obviously flashed it with Odin, and he said he's getting a yellow triangle with a computer behind it..
From what I understood, he could get into download mode.
So just boot into download mode and flash stock ROM. That should do it.
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well from what he said by his post did not make sense at all..hence why i asked for more details to explain so i could give him a better explanation and guide to fix his problem...but you seem to get what he said so by all means do your thing....but if he comes back with more detail then i will point him to the right direction on what he needs to do...at the end of the day the more opinions he has the better for him
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well from what he said by his post did not make sense at all..hence why i asked for more details to explain so i could give him a better explanation and guide to fix his problem...but you seem to get what he said so by all means do your thing....but if he comes back with more detail then i will point him to the right direction on what he needs to do...at the end of the day the more opinions he has the better for him
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Yes of course
Btw, never ment to insult you in any ways
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bruflot said:
Yes of course
Btw, never ment to insult you in any ways
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its ok and same goes by my post as well buddy..we all been in his position one way or the other
1st - Your phone is not bricked if it show an image. Whatever image it is. The only real software way to brick your phone is to flash bad bootloader or stop a bootloader while they are being flashed. However, Bootloader are flashed first. So if your phone stoped half way, you should not have trouble too much.
Remove the battery from your phone for like a minute, then reboot your phone in download mode (vol- + home + power and when the phone light up, release power.) Then flash another rom from odin.
Also, what rom did you used ? If you flashed a rom for another phone, then you might have flashed bootloader for that phone on yours, which is bad. In this case you will surely need a JIG.
sorry im new to this whole rooting/flashing thing. i downloaded the lightning rom: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1095274
i have never rooted or doneanthing to my s2 before. all i did was follow the instructions on the page and thought it would be all good? it froze about a quarter of the way there in odin so i just took my phone out.
I usually find from this state I can get back to bootloader or download states
push and hold vol+ and home then power for bootloader
push and hold vol- and home then power for download
sometimes the phone can seem to freeze a little or even die (this happened to me loads on the galaxy s and once already on the s2) and removing battery sim etc or attaching the charger can jog it
however as other have said a JIG is your friend if for no other reason that even if you recover without it, custom roms up the rom count which some twitchy carriers might invalidate your warranty for, the jig will reset this
you can get them from ebay for less than £3 delivered, or there are instructions on this site for making them yourself if you are so inclined.
simply search 'galaxy s2 jig' on ebay mine was delivered today from portugal as I am way too lazy to make one and only wanted a counter reset anyway
Hi,
###Feel free to skip this part:[For starters, i want to give a very brief introduction of myself, as a new member of this board. I'm a soon to be language teacher in Germany. I often choose Usernames with "Hank" in it, as i used to be a Turbonegro Fan in my Teens and still like'em. I got to know this forum from former Problems with my old phone, my Motorola MS. I know signed up due to problems my girlfriend has with her phone, i wasn't able to find solutions without asking som questions]#####
last night, my batterie died, so i charged it and then thought of turning on my Ace, nothing bad in mind...
But then it just stuck when the "Samsung Galaxy Ace S5830" Screen appeared.
So i started researching some Android/Samsung Forums and the first thing i tried is to "reset" it by pushing "Home + Power" Buttons simultaneously. Didn't work. Same Screen as mentioned above appears and stays.
The next thing i found was "Vol. Down + Home + Power" - now i got a screen that says "Downloading..." in little yellow letters. I was happy first but unfortunately nothing happend after that.
It's a new phone, so there's still waranty and i might have to send it to Samsung. Maybe someone here knows a method i might try where i wont lose the waranty.
But either way i'm curios how this might have happened!? I didn't try any flashing or modding, because it's my girlfriends phone and she's more than satisfied with it's functions!?
try to go to recovery and wipe everything
or flash cwm recovery and flash roms
or go to download mode the downloading signs
and use odin to flash stock firmware
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thanks for your quick answer....
there's no way i can enter recovery mode. It's Power + Home for several seconds, isn't it?
Flashing sth leads to loss of warranty, right? I think that's too risky due to my knowledge...
Do you have an idea hwo this could have happened?
Obviously he on stock rom with stock kernel, maybe even no root
So I'm gonna suggest a simplest way.
Boot into recovery (hold home+power button simultaneously) and when it do go into recovery, just do reset to factory. I can't remember correctly what the exact menu because only got experience with stock recovery for a hour or so
Btw navigate up/down via volume up/down button and make selection with home button. Good luck
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an0nym0us_ said:
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...from mine? Don't think so...;-)
Yeah, i tried that, but I just can't enter recovery mode. It just starts to the "Samsung Galaxy Ace...) screen and freezes there, even if i start with the button-combination.
....desparate :-(
hank1two said:
...from mine? Don't think so...;-)
Yeah, i tried that, but I just can't enter recovery mode. It just starts to the "Samsung Galaxy Ace...) screen and freezes there, even if i start with the button-combination.
....desparate :-(
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But Download Mode works for you . (Home + Power + Vol Down)
You're going to have to flash a firmware via ODIN .
Follow my newbie guide on how to flash something via ODIN .
Be sure to download a full package ROM
Herpderp Defy.
So do u still remember what android version and from what region the stock rom is? As u stated that u still can access download mode, just download the same firmware from sammobiles.com and flash it via Odin.
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...but i've seen two different pic's that show DL-Mode. One looks like what i see on my phone: Black screen, yellow letters saying "Downloading....".
The other one is a black screen with white letters saying "MDL something something" this screen, i don't get on my phone!?
Is the first screen fine or is do i have to get to the second one!? (Because i don't)
Will the warranty get lost, when i do that?
the first screen black background with green yellowish downloading
is download mode
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...but i've seen two different pic's that show DL-Mode. One looks like what i see on my phone: Black screen, yellow letters saying "Downloading....".
The other one is a black screen with white letters saying "MDL something something" this screen, i don't get on my phone!?
Is the first screen fine or is do i have to get to the second one!? (Because i don't)
Will the warranty get lost, when i do that?
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First one is correct
Herpderp Defy.
From what country and operator is your phone?
So we can suggest a rom for you to flash!
If you do this yor warranty will not be voided! (hopefully :b)
I wouldn't worry about the warranty too much.
It all sounds scary but when you've done it a couple of times you'll notice It's not so big of a thing.
Just always take your time and read up on things before you start doing stuff.
Agh!
I recently rooted my SGH-I777, flashed it using Clockword Mod Recovery, and then rebooted into recovery using CWM. But instead of rebooting into the recovery menu, everything went black. Now my phone won't reboot into recovery mode at all (not even with the Volume Up + Volume Down + Power combo). Instead, it gives me the Galaxy S2 GT-I9100 startup screen with the yellow triangle and then the screen goes all black, with quick flashes of dark gray.
When I removed the battery (to get it out of the black screen loop), returned the battery to the device, and plugged it in (without powering up the phone), the "charging" screen with the charging battery indicator flashed on the screen for a moment, and then back to all black flashes.
I removed the battery, SD card, and SIM card for about 20 minutes because I've read that can sometimes help. No dice.
I'm running ICS 4.0.3 with a Siyah 3.4.2 kernel.
This is probably either really bad or no big deal and I'm lame for not figuring it out, but... HELP! (Please? :fingers-crossed: ) I know this has been asked, but the other threads I've found have been able to get to recovery mode, whereas I can't seem to get to that point.
If you need any other info, let me know!
olllive said:
Agh!
I recently rooted my SGH-I777, flashed it using Clockword Mod Recovery, and then rebooted into recovery using CWM. But instead of rebooting into the recovery menu, everything went black. Now my phone won't reboot into recovery mode at all (not even with the Volume Up + Volume Down + Power combo). Instead, it gives me the Galaxy S2 GT-I9100 startup screen with the yellow triangle and then the screen goes all black, with quick flashes of dark gray.
When I removed the battery (to get it out of the black screen loop), returned the battery to the device, and plugged it in (without powering up the phone), the "charging" screen with the charging battery indicator flashed on the screen for a moment, and then back to all black flashes.
I removed the battery, SD card, and SIM card for about 20 minutes because I've read that can sometimes help. No dice.
I'm running ICS 4.0.3 with a Siyah 3.4.2 kernel.
This is probably either really bad or no big deal and I'm lame for not figuring it out, but... HELP! (Please? :fingers-crossed: ) I know this has been asked, but the other threads I've found have been able to get to recovery mode, whereas I can't seem to get to that point.
If you need any other info, let me know!
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download mode and flash another kernel, or the same one.
sounds like broken recovery.
MotoMudder77 said:
download mode and flash another kernel, or the same one.
sounds like broken recovery.
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The phone is not even entertaining the idea of giving me a menu of any sort at this point. Just all black screens. Super frustrating.
olllive said:
The phone is not even entertaining the idea of giving me a menu of any sort at this point. Just all black screens. Super frustrating.
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No d/l mode, no CWM. = brick.
no offense but im pretty sure your just not holding the buttons right.
CWM= hold both vol, then hold power, let the first screen blink once, come back, then let off power is my trick.
download, you can just hold vol buttons and insert USB belive.
Somebody used rom manager!
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MotoMudder77 said:
No d/l mode, no CWM. = brick.
no offense but im pretty sure your just not holding the buttons right.
CWM= hold both vol, then hold power, let the first screen blink once, come back, then let off power is my trick.
download, you can just hold vol buttons and insert USB belive.
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A-ha! Ok, so definitely no on the CWM combo, but I do get a menu using DL mode. Thank you. Seeing at least a menu made me feel much better.
I re-flashed the initial kernel, but no change. Still stuck in perpetual black screen boot loop.
I'm not opposed to doing a full-fledged wipe using Odin, if that's an option, but I've never looked into it before, and I'm currently feeling pretty gun shy when it comes to getting creative with any new tricks.
Pirateghost said:
Somebody used rom manager!
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Ugh. Yes. That somebody would be this idiot right here.
But you've seemed to have dealt with fools like me in the past, so your knowledge would be greatly appreciated! Pleeeeaasssse! haha
olllive said:
Ugh. Yes. That somebody would be this idiot right here.
But you've seemed to have dealt with fools like me in the past, so your knowledge would be greatly appreciated! Pleeeeaasssse! haha
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If you want stock, flash a stock ROM, or stock with root, with Odin.
If you want custom, after you flashed that custom kernel, you CAN get into CWM and flash a custom ROM.
and NEVER use ROM manager, hell it was a joke when it came out, sorry koush
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and if you do go custom, dont forget to wipe data/factory reset in CWM before flashing.
olllive said:
Ugh. Yes. That somebody would be this idiot right here.
But you've seemed to have dealt with fools like me in the past, so your knowledge would be greatly appreciated! Pleeeeaasssse! haha
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Pirateghost said:
Somebody used rom manager!
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Nice prediction sir! ALSO: WHY! Why would you ever use rom manager.People say it all the dang time that it doesn't work for our device
122ninjas said:
Nice prediction sir! ALSO: WHY! Why would you ever use rom manager.People say it all the dang time that it doesn't work for our device
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Because it doesn't work for the Samsung galaxy s devices. It never has.
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MotoMudder77 said:
If you want stock, flash a stock ROM, or stock with root, with Odin.
If you want custom, after you flashed that custom kernel, you CAN get into CWM and flash a custom ROM.
and NEVER use ROM manager, hell it was a joke when it came out, sorry koush
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and if you do go custom, dont forget to wipe data/factory reset in CWM before flashing.
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You rock. Thank you a ton for being so patient!!
To any other fool who gets into the same mess, I went into DL mode (volume up + volume dwn + usb attached) and opted to let this do the rest of the work because it was the only option that didn't give me a heart attack: androidarea51.com/samsung-galaxy-s-ii/samsung-galaxy-sii-(sgh-i777)-att-only/
From there, I had the option of rebooting, initializing a factory reset... all of the menu options I wasn't seeing when I couldn't figure out how to get into CWM mode. Good luck!!
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Because it doesn't work for the Samsung galaxy s devices. It never has.
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I know, I know (and this is a dumb excuse, much like using rom manager in the first place), but the tutorial I was reading made it seem like it was a good option. I hadn't used it in forever and logic coupled with faith in a perpetually broken system paves the road to hell, but I figured, "There's no way it still sucks as badly as I remember!"
Don't think that. Ever. My mistake.
Charge the baterry externally thats what I did when my old infuse was bricked
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okay so I read through this thread and I still don't know how to fix my issue. I rooted my phone using Odin v 1.85 and used siyah 3.4.2. I did it successfully and everything was good. I then gave the phone to my cousin and he said he performed a factory reset to get rid of everything on the phone ( contacts ,etc). Now when I turn on the phone it shows the samsung galaxy display with the triangle and then the screen goes black and just blinks. It still goes back into download mode I just dont know what to do to fix the problem. I know I'm a noob but please HELP!!!
mmoncay11 said:
okay so I read through this thread and I still don't know how to fix my issue. I rooted my phone using Odin v 1.85 and used siyah 3.4.2. I did it successfully and everything was good. I then gave the phone to my cousin and he said he performed a factory reset to get rid of everything on the phone ( contacts ,etc). Now when I turn on the phone it shows the samsung galaxy display with the triangle and then the screen goes black and just blinks. It still goes back into download mode I just dont know what to do to fix the problem. I know I'm a noob but please HELP!!!
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Have you tried flashing back to stock using odin? BTW it is not good etiquette to necro a thread that has been dormant for almost 9 months.
I just for the first time rooted a phone. I made the mistake of going to galaxys2root.com.......Big mistake I see now after the fact. Anyway, after rooting was completed I noticed that my ATT 1777 now says its a GT19100 with a yellow triangle...it wont turn on, and now I feel totally screwed. Can anyone please help me? I can get the phone to download mode...but now my computer is not recognizing my phone thru usb. What can I do? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Factory reset In recovery make sure usb is not plugged in.
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Search is your friend. This situation has happened MANY, MANY times and there are tons of threads on how to fix it. There is also a 'Return to Stock' thread with a solution.
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122ninjas said:
Factory reset In recovery make sure usb is not plugged in.
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Its not letting me do anything except put it in ODIN mode. Im so not happy right now. Any other suggestions besides throwing it away?
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Miami_Son said:
Search is your friend. This situation has happened MANY, MANY times and there are tons of threads on how to fix it. There is also a 'Return to Stock' thread with a solution.
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The phone is a 1777..but when i followed the directions it now says its a i9100....yellow triangle and will not turn on...only go into ODIN mode without my memory card. Any other help would be greatly appreciated.....i've only been working on this for about 11 hours now. I tried to get Max from root.com to help me but i guess he's busy.
This link should help you, IF you follow it to the letter. Try it and THEN come back and ask questions. I hope this helps, if so hit the thanks button. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1294574
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kaos1975 said:
The phone is a 1777..but when i followed the directions it now says its a i9100....yellow triangle and will not turn on...only go into ODIN mode without my memory card. Any other help would be greatly appreciated.....i've only been working on this for about 11 hours now. I tried to get Max from root.com to help me but i guess he's busy.
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Use odin to flash stock then you can factory reset In 3e recovery. Do not ask him for help stay here his firmware has tons of bugs
HTCTerrorist said:
This link should help you, IF you follow it to the letter. Try it and THEN come back and ask questions. I hope this helps, if so hit the thanks button. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1294574
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Man Who cares about thanks!
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Man Who cares about thanks!
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N00bies sure do .. :silly: (when we talk about the matter of asking for em..)
But on any forum, a suggestion / advice does take precedence depending upon the no of thanks/reps the author has.
kaos1975 said:
I just for the first time rooted a phone. I made the mistake of going to galaxys2root.com.......Big mistake I see now after the fact. Anyway, after rooting was completed I noticed that my ATT 1777 now says its a GT19100 with a yellow triangle...it wont turn on, and now I feel totally screwed. Can anyone please help me? I can get the phone to download mode...but now my computer is not recognizing my phone thru usb. What can I do? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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kaos1975 said:
Its not letting me do anything except put it in ODIN mode. Im so not happy right now. Any other suggestions besides throwing it away?
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kaos1975 said:
The phone is a 1777..but when i followed the directions it now says its a i9100....yellow triangle and will not turn on...only go into ODIN mode without my memory card. Any other help would be greatly appreciated.....i've only been working on this for about 11 hours now. I tried to get Max from root.com to help me but i guess he's busy.
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First, don't give up and don't throw your $500 phone away.
Seeing the I9100 logo and splash screen with yellow triangle is expected behavior, caused by flashing a modified kernel, which is what you did to root.
As already suggested, the first thing to try is to enter recovery and perform a wipe data/factory reset. You enter recovery by holding all three buttons, volume + & - and power down continuously. If this doesn't work, there's more wrong than just flashing the zedomax I777 modified kernel.
Don't hold your breath expecting zedomax to help. He has dozens of websites like gs2r, and is spread quite thin trying to make money from them. He doesn't appear to be at all focused on helping other people, just himself.
creepyncrawly said:
First, don't give up and don't throw your $500 phone away.
Seeing the I9100 logo and splash screen with yellow triangle is expected behavior, caused by flashing a modified kernel, which is what you did to root.
As already suggested, the first thing to try is to enter recovery and perform a wipe data/factory reset. You enter recovery by holding all three buttons, volume + & - and power down continuously. If this doesn't work, there's more wrong than just flashing the zedomax I777 modified kernel.
Don't hold your breath expecting zedomax to help. He has dozens of websites like gs2r, and is spread quite thin trying to make money from them. He doesn't appear to be at all focused on helping other people, just himself.
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I have almost the same problem. I have ATT Samsung Galaxy SII with ICS4.03. Tried to root it. Everything was going as is written in "Samsung Galaxy S2 SGH-I777 (AT&T): Root and ClockworkMod Recovery" by Ken East on Apr 20, 2012: I saw a PASS message in Odin3 so the process was successful? What I see on display now is Samsung Galaxy SII GT-I9100 and yellow triangle with exclamation sign. I was seeing it for more than hour: I am a patient man.
What I tried after were
1. Turned phone off and then turned it on to reboot. Nothing new: Samsung Galaxy SII GT-I9100 and yellow triangle with exclamation sign. BTW I could not even switch the phone off by pushing the Power button.
2. Took off battery and inserted it back to reboot. Nothing new: Samsung Galaxy SII GT-I9100 and yellow triangle with exclamation sign.
3. Pushed those three buttons- volume up, down and power to find out some options. Seems to me it was Recovery mode. CWM- based recovery v.5.0.2.3 was written on display. I chose reboot system and was watching a beautiful grey hat with orange arrow under it for half an hour. I tried other options in the menu with the same hat as a result first but then I saw new screen with new options.
So what must I do now to make my phone to work again? I understood that zedomax do not usually help.
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I have almost the same problem. I have ATT Samsung Galaxy SII with ICS4.03. Tried to root it. Everything was going as is written in "Samsung Galaxy S2 SGH-I777 (AT&T): Root and ClockworkMod Recovery" by Ken East on Apr 20, 2012: I saw a PASS message in Odin3 so the process was successful? What I see on display now is Samsung Galaxy SII GT-I9100 and yellow triangle with exclamation sign. I was seeing it for more than hour: I am a patient man.
What I tried after were
1. Turned phone off and then turned it on to reboot. Nothing new: Samsung Galaxy SII GT-I9100 and yellow triangle with exclamation sign. BTW I could not even switch the phone off by pushing the Power button.
2. Took off battery and inserted it back to reboot. Nothing new: Samsung Galaxy SII GT-I9100 and yellow triangle with exclamation sign.
3. Pushed those three buttons- volume up, down and power to find out some options. Seems to me it was Recovery mode. CWM- based recovery v.5.0.2.3 was written on display. I chose reboot system and was watching a beautiful grey hat with orange arrow under it for half an hour. I tried other options in the menu with the same hat as a result first but then I saw new screen with new options.
So what must I do now to make my phone to work again? I understood that zedomax do not usually help.
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Quite simply your issue is that you were using kernel built for gingerbread and not ICS, therefore it wouldn't boot.
Selecting an item in that version is done with the home button as indicated in the stickies.
Flash a new kernel that is compatible with ICS and all these issues go away and you can boot it up.
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Pirateghost said:
Quite simply your issue is that you were using kernel built for gingerbread and not ICS, therefore it wouldn't boot.
Selecting an item in that version is done with the home button as indicated in the stickies.
Flash a new kernel that is compatible with ICS and all these issues go away and you can boot it up.
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Strange for me but after I've read the article-instruction of rooting two more times just now I did not see any indication that the kernel is for gingerbread and not ICS. How could I wait such an evil? And I've read already a lot of messages to forums but you are the first to suggest such dishonor. BTW in the instruction was written the following:
3.Put your phone in Download Mode by holding down the Volume Down key, Volume Up key, and the Power buttons at the same time. Once you see “Warning” displayed on the screen, press the Volume Up key.
That was the way I used.
Do you see any possibility to return the phone to life? It is not quite simply, as you wrote, to my pity. It is because the phone does not boot up and computer does not see it. How can I flash another kernel in such conditions?
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Strange for me but after I've read the article-instruction of rooting two more times just now I did not see any indication that the kernel is for gingerbread and not ICS. How could I wait such an evil? And I've read already a lot of messages to forums but you are the first to suggest such dishonor. BTW in the instruction was written the following:
3.Put your phone in Download Mode by holding down the Volume Down key, Volume Up key, and the Power buttons at the same time. Once you see “Warning” displayed on the screen, press the Volume Up key.
That was the way I used.
Do you see any possibility to return the phone to life? It is not quite simply, as you wrote, to my pity. It is because the phone does not boot up and computer does not see it. How can I flash another kernel in such conditions?
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That's the button combination for recovery mode, just saying.
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galaxys2
hello everyone, i hope someone can help. i have the t mobile locked s2 (with gingerbread) with simple mobile as my carrier. to get rid of the tmobile apps i'm told the phone has to be rooted. i know nothing about rooting so in searching i found oneclickroot.com. it sounds as if that is easy for me since i'm not a techie. can someone tell me if this site is recommended and if i use it what would be the other steps needed to get rid of the tmobile apps and upgrade from 'gingerbread'....i really hope someone can help so thanks for the support in advance.
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hello everyone, i hope someone can help. i have the t mobile locked s2 (with gingerbread) with simple mobile as my carrier. to get rid of the tmobile apps i'm told the phone has to be rooted. i know nothing about rooting so in searching i found oneclickroot.com. it sounds as if that is easy for me since i'm not a techie. can someone tell me if this site is recommended and if i use it what would be the other steps needed to get rid of the tmobile apps and upgrade from 'gingerbread'....i really hope someone can help so thanks for the support in advance.
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You should try your own device's forums. The T-Mobile gs2 is literally nothing like the i777
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You should try your own device's forums. The T-Mobile gs2 is literally nothing like the i777
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But but they love our forum so much! Why search for your own(that literally says it's for at&t) when you can just post here?!
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You should try your own device's forums. The T-Mobile gs2 is literally nothing like the i777
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thanks for your answer. please point me in the right direction. i typed in galaxy s2 root problem and this site came up.
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thanks for your answer. please point me in the right direction. i typed in galaxy s2 root problem and this site came up.
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would you like me to hold your hand and move your mouse for you? go to the MAIN FORUM page and SEARCH FOR YOUR DEVICE....
personally I would start looking for 'T-MOBILE' somewhere in the name of the damn device.....
like maybe T-MOBILE SAMSUNG GALAXY S II ????
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Pirateghost said:
would you like me to hold your hand and move your mouse for you? go to the MAIN FORUM page and SEARCH FOR YOUR DEVICE....
personally I would start looking for 'T-MOBILE' somewhere in the name of the damn device.....
like maybe T-MOBILE SAMSUNG GALAXY S II ????
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wow mr pirateghost...rather harsh but thanks for the lead.
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wow mr pirateghost...rather harsh but thanks for the lead.
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Everything he said was well deserved.
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Hi guys, I wanted to root my Galaxy S2(ICS) today but also keep the stock ROM.
I first followed a tutorial which had a Kernel download link to "jeboo_kernel_i9100_v1-2a". After reboot the yellow triangle appeared and that was all. It didn't boot up it just simply went black screen. I have like 30 tabs open looking on how to fix this, but couldn't find a fix. (maybe I'm illiterate and that's why). So I decided to try another kernel this time Siyah-s2-v4.0.1. Still the same yellow triangle and then black screen.
What I was able to do:
Vol up + home + power and Vol down + home + power. Both of these work, and the phone is recognized in Odin.
Now for some reason it gets stuck at the yellow triangle screen, and only the vol down + home + power combo works so I can still get it in Download mode. After trying some more the Custom Binary Download went up to 4 counts.
Any help is apreciated.
Thank you,
Zeros000.
Edit: Okay I tried again, now with the newest stable Siyah kernel "Siyah-s2-v5.0.1". This time it either loops in boot or stops at the Siyah logo.
your best shoot is at flashing a stock Rom then root using another method and then use triangle away by chainfire
On ICS, ExynosAbuse.
Can you get to recovery, do a couple of wipes, first dalvik.
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On ICS, ExynosAbuse.
Can you get to recovery, do a couple of wipes, first dalvik.
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Can't get into recovery just Download mode. Will try what @Blackwolf10 suggested.
I was reffering to the OP actually.
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Can't get into recovery just Download mode. Will try what @Blackwolf10 suggested.
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If u see 'Siyah' logo then u can access its recovery for sure
use the volup + home + pwr button combo to get there and once there do a factory wipe and restart the phone
Sun90 said:
If u see 'Siyah' logo then u can access its recovery for sure
use the volup + home + pwr button combo to get there and once there do a factory wipe and restart the phone
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Yeah... I said I can't get in it because I already tried, not because I don't know how. I can hold this combination for minutes it still wont go into it.
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Okay, I tried CF-Root-SGS2_XX_XEO_LPQ-PROPER-v5.4-CWM5. It failed. I tried I9100XXMS1_I9100OXAMS1_XEO, still failed. And I still can't get into recovery, just download mode. But now the yellow triangle is away.
Are you getting a pass in Odin?
If so either you're flashing the wrong ROMs for your device or you need to try other ports.
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Are you getting a pass in Odin?
If so either you're flashing the wrong ROMs for your device or you need to try other ports.
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Yup, I'm getting pass. Can you help me out finding the good ROMs?
By other ports you mean USB port? Well I'll try that untill further replies.
Phone details:
GT-i9100
CSC XEO
PDA and Phone I9100XXLPB
CSC I9100OXXLP5
Under the battery it says:
GT-I9100
-I9100GSMH
Thanks.
Where are you getting the ROMs?
Try this: http://www.sammobile.com/2012/11/15/i9100xxlsj-–-galaxy-s-ii-android-4-1-2-jelly-bean-test-firmware/
(don't flash the pit please, just csc, pda and phone).
If Odin passes, then you're looking good.
Remember to kill kies applications and antivirus.
And yes, I was talking about USB ports.
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Where are you getting the ROMs?
Try this: link
(don't flash the pit please, just csc, pda and phone).
If Odin passes, then you're looking good.
Remember to kill kies applications and antivirus.
And yes, I was talking about USB ports.
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Meanwhile I tried different port with Siyah latest version. Same result with yellowT but this time it's not looping it's just sitting at the Siyah logo. The phone only gets stuck at the YT when I try recovery mode, and then loops.
(meanwhile downloading that rom)
OMG, after the 2nd loop it started up. I hope that it was the different port because then you are a HERO :good:. I should have tried different port too, but seems the keyboard port is still better than the ones in which I plug in usb's most of the time.
Thank you again, I'll post again after it finishes and see if it's working. Btw the XEO rom I've got was downloaded from sammobile.
It asks for Sim network unlock PIN. I have Orange Romania sim in it.
Galaxysim unlock.
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Galaxysim Unlock.
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Galaxysim unlock.
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Phone is stuck at lock screen, I know that it's on because I just tried the radio, then left for a minute. When I came back the radio is still on but unable to turn on screen. Also I know that reboot wont help as it happened the first time too when the sim lock came up, while I wrote the previous post, the screen normally went off. And when I tried to turn it on it didn't. After the reboot I didn't let it go off and it worked until I left. Will reboot one more time.
I looked around and this might be the problem... ooops:
This kernel is only for Samsung JB ROM (No ICS support anymore). Although the kernel boots CM10.1 I will not support it until I fix dualbooting.
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This is on Siyah's blog, could this be the problem? Restarting... Got stuck again at the logo... Restarting... Now it works again. I wonder if the screen lock is affected by this.
EDIT: I have Jelly Bean, seems like the last ROM I used was JB, so it's not the unsuporting problem. Also someone else suggested me Galaxy S2 SIM Unlock it worked and it was a free app, but thanks. You are really helpfull.
Edit 2: Okay nevermind, for some reason it works now... It's not reasurring but it works.
Thanks all of you for the great help. I don't think that I could have done it without @gastonw and the owner of jayceooi.com webpage (from where I tried the tutorial) who replied to my questions under minutes.
If anything happens again I'll know where to find people who want to help.
You can find galaxysim unlock for free here, at xda.
It's always good to go stock to check things out.
You only go custom if EVERYTHING seems fine.
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gastonw said:
You can find galaxysim unlock for free here, at xda.
It's always good to go stock to check things out.
You only go custom if EVERYTHING seems fine.
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I found YT-away free here at xda. I will get rid of that and the count number then leave it be.
I love the stock so far, but I only glimpsed for a moment at a custom one and had to close that thread... I don't want to deal with this for a while . Though some of them look awesome.
Edit: hum a big warning saying this could potentially brick my phone... ugh right now not sure if I'll even use YT-away.
Reflash stock or get mobile odin.
Mobile odin pro will get you rooted and clear that sign, only 5 bucks.
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Reflash stock or get mobile odin.
Mobile odin pro will get you rooted and clear that sign, only 5 bucks.
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It froze at lock-screen again so I restarted and used the YT-away app. Now there's no yellow triangle .
Nice
That warning is just a disclaimer.
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Nice
That warning is just a disclaimer.
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Yeah, found that out on my way of researching my problems.
Unfortunately it sitll gets stuck at lock screen, hmm .
Able to get to recovery?
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