Help [FIXED!] How to get Froyo if your OTA is failing!

[copper702]

Did your re-flash of DI01 complete successfully? By the way it sounds Doesn't seem like it did.

I think i did, from odin it said it passed, then my phone turned off, thats when i placed the battery in and turned on the phone.

 

[copper702]

I think i did, from odin it said it passed, then my phone turned off, thats when i placed the battery in and turned on the phone.

When i keep attempting to flash to DLI01 it gets stuck on updating modem then it shuts off and gives me the same error message as the Froyo OTA message.

 

[Grahxen]

I think i did, from odin it said it passed, then my phone turned off, thats when i placed the battery in and turned on the phone.

Ok so the flash worked it seems.. What did you do after the phone rebooted then? I am a little confused.. Did you download the EA28 update from settings/about phone/system updates yet?

 

[Grahxen]

When i keep attempting to flash to DLI01 it gets stuck on updating modem then it shuts off and gives me the same error message as the Froyo OTA message.

Ok then the flash didnt complete.

Reboot phone, reboot pc and start process over following instructions.

Try a different USB port, run odin as administrator.

 

[Grahxen]

I think i did, from odin it said it passed, then my phone turned off, thats when i placed the battery in and turned on the phone.

It cant pass if it gets stuck updating a flash file. (confused)

 

[Grahxen]

Problem solved. It was the cable that was preventing the connection between phone and computer. Once I used the original cable the update in Odin went right through. Froyo is loading up now. Thanks for your help last night!!

Great glad to hear your up and running!

 

[copper702]

It cant pass if it gets stuck updating a flash file. (confused)

its gets stuck when updating through the phone not through Odin, when the unpacking screen comes on and all the update messages appear it gets stuck on updating modem, after a while my phone shuts off and turn it back on again to the update screen the error message appears.

 

[EarlyMon]

Probably this will help practically no one, but just to be safe - always a good idea to have a decent charge when updating.

 

[jroch75]

Thank you so much for this info! It worked flawlessly in updating my Fascinate to 2.2! It is very much appreciated!

 

[rwrous]

When I run Odin3 I get: Odin3 V1.3.exe is not a valid win32 application

 

[gonzo143]

Thank you for your help.

I am using the original cord..it worked earlier and connected. I tried other ports. I reloaded the USB and rebooted. The phone will not go into "download mode", I had no problems entering that earlier. It just is not being recognized by the computer and all i get is that "symbol" on my phone when i plug it in.

Got Odin to recognize it ! Now it is stuck at "movinand.bin" 15 min...almost all the way to the end of the progress bar. I was stuck here before i messed my phone up even more.

where do i go from here?

thanks in advance...still sweating that i bricked the phone

 

[rickerbilly]

Works flawlessly! Thank you!! I spent other night factory resetting and re downloading the update over and over... I was rooted but wanted the factory Froyo. Now I have it and couldn't be happier about it. Thanks man!

 

[Grahxen]

When I run Odin3 I get: Odin3 V1.3.exe is not a valid win32 application

Migh want to try redownloading it... Sounds like a bad download

 

[gonzo143]

I followed the directions and think that everything went well
but this screen has been up for 20 minutes or longer and does not seem to be doing anything?

Mine is stuck at the next line after factoryfs.rfs .....movinand.bin but my green progress bar it almost at 100%...like 99.

Id be happy just to get it back to 2.1 and working at this point. HELP

 

[Grahxen]

Mine is stuck at the next line after factoryfs.rfs .....movinand.bin but my green progress bar it almost at 100%...like 99.

Id be happy just to get it back to 2.1 and working at this point. HELP

Gonzo its common that it gets stuck. You have to keep trying, most of the time its just a communication problem over USB from your phone to PC.

If your following all the steps you just need to try again, its taken people sometimes more then 5 times for whatever reason.

BTW its just a soft brick, a little patience and you will get it.

 

[Grahxen]

Works flawlessly! Thank you!! I spent other night factory resetting and re downloading the update over and over... I was rooted but wanted the factory Froyo. Now I have it and couldn't be happier about it. Thanks man!

Great glad you got the update working

 

[Grahxen]

Thank you so much for this info! It worked flawlessly in updating my Fascinate to 2.2! It is very much appreciated!

Great glad it worked.....

 

[Grahxen]

BTW how many of you guys that were successful with the 2.2 upgrade had a rooted phone?

I would be curious to know whether it was rooted or if it was stock and the update just failed.

 

[gonzo143]

Gonzo its common that it gets stuck. You have to keep trying, most of the time its just a communication problem over USB from your phone to PC.

If your following all the steps you just need to try again, its taken people sometimes more then 5 times for whatever reason.

BTW its just a soft brick, a little patience and you will get it.

Thanks for trying to rest my nerves. I just thought i totally messed it up by going into "factory reset and clear cache" when doing a hard reboot after messing up before while downloading...and the fact the phone doesnt work anymore !

Do i just X out of Odin to close it while it is stuck downloading to the phone? and start the whole thing again? I did that before..isnt that the reason my phone doesnt work now ?

thank you ...don't mean to take up all your time.

 

[Grahxen]

Thanks for trying to rest my nerves. I just thought i totally messed it up by going into "factory reset and clear cache" when doing a hard reboot after messing up before while downloading...and the fact the phone doesnt work anymore !

Do i just X out of Odin to close it while it is stuck downloading to the phone? and start the whole thing again? I did that before..isnt that the reason my phone doesnt work now ?

thank you ...don't mean to take up all your time.

Yes you need to reboot phone, and start process over. See what happens when phone reboots though.

And you are right, this is the reason why your phone doesnt work.... Your essentially replacing all of the original firmware files back to stock DI09 and if this process fails, you soft brick the phone.

Having the original firmware (which you do) and finally getting odin/phone to cooperate then your problems will be over.


What have you done so far to try to get the flash to be successful?

 

[tzoop]

Before you follow the instructions on that page to run the update.zip from sd card, make sure to update your phone after flashing it to the latest revision prior to froyo 2.2, or the froyo update will not run. As the 2.2 is an update, not a full release.

For me, and apparently others - The ODIN flash worked perfectly fine; phone re-starts clean, etc. (this is 100% for sure - it's easy to tell when your phone has been wiped clean). It is the "next step" OTA update that simply does NOT WORK, resulting in the stuck 'updating modem...' message for some number of minutes, eventually restarting the phone having failed. The update is called "SCH-I500_CommercialPackage_DI01ToEA28".

I suspect that many of us are in the same boat; our phones seem to simply not be upgradeable OTA; Guessing/hoping that a complete ODIN package that has the full 2.2 will become available at some point, or perhaps an ODIN package that includes EA28 as a starting point.

 

[copper702]

For me, and apparently others - The ODIN flash worked perfectly fine; phone re-starts clean, etc. (this is 100% for sure - it's easy to tell when your phone has been wiped clean). It is the "next step" OTA update that simply does NOT WORK, resulting in the stuck 'updating modem...' message for some number of minutes, eventually restarting the phone having failed. The update is called "SCH-I500_CommercialPackage_DI01ToEA28".

I suspect that many of us are in the same boat; our phones seem to simply not be upgradeable OTA; Guessing/hoping that a complete ODIN package that has the full 2.2 will become available at some point, or perhaps an ODIN package that includes EA28 as a starting point.

This is exactly what happened to my phone, anyone out there can help, i rather not root if i don't have to.

 

[gonzo143]

Yes you need to reboot phone, and start process over. See what happens when phone reboots though.

And you are right, this is the reason why your phone doesnt work.... Your essentially replacing all of the original firmware files back to stock DI09 and if this process fails, you soft brick the phone.

Having the original firmware (which you do) and finally getting odin/phone to cooperate then your problems will be over.


What have you done so far to try to get the flash to be successful?

well i waited longer and and oden said it failed in the progress area.

i've tried different cables, different usb slots, restarting computer.. what else can i try? Just keep downloading and pray?

I'm going to try a different computer.

 

[Grahxen]

For me, and apparently others - The ODIN flash worked perfectly fine; phone re-starts clean, etc. (this is 100% for sure - it's easy to tell when your phone has been wiped clean). It is the "next step" OTA update that simply does NOT WORK, resulting in the stuck 'updating modem...' message for some number of minutes, eventually restarting the phone having failed. The update is called "SCH-I500_CommercialPackage_DI01ToEA28".

I suspect that many of us are in the same boat; our phones seem to simply not be upgradeable OTA; Guessing/hoping that a complete ODIN package that has the full 2.2 will become available at some point, or perhaps an ODIN package that includes EA28 as a starting point.

This update was released a long time ago, and you probably would of had failure messages previusly trying to update to EA28.

Someone had success by pulling battery, factory resetting phone after the DI01 update and redownloading the EA28 update.

 

[Grahxen]

well i waited longer and and oden said it failed in the progress area.

i've tried different cables, different usb slots, restarting computer.. what else can i try? Just keep downloading and pray?

I'm going to try a different computer.

Turn off any running applications on your PC, disable any antivirus software as well. Something is interfering with your communication.

Switching to another PC has also had success.