Hey guys. I'm very new here, so I hope I'm posting in the right place. Kies today suggested I download the new update and I tried, but when it was around halfway done it stopped and said it could not finish upgrading. Then Kies instructed me to do a "firmware emergency recovery", which i tried several times. Each time it would get to around 94% then say "Firmware emergency stopped due to SGH-T989 error". My phone is stuck on a screen that states as follows:
"ODIN MODE
Product name: SGH-T989
Custom Binary Download: NO
Current Binary: SAMSUNG OFFICIAL
(THEN A YELLOW TRIANGLE WITH AN EXCLAMATION POINT)
(Under that it reads)
Firmware upgrade encountered an issue. Please select recovery mode in Kies and try again"
Same thing just happened to me. I was trying to update my wife's phone today to 2.3.6 from the stock firmware on her US T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S2 and now the phone is stuck in ODIN Mode. I followed the instructions from Kies and now I cannot get past the "firmware upgrade encountered an issue. Please select recovery mode in Kies & try again." Not sure where to go from here and whether or not I can restore her phone without losing all of her pics, movies, contacts, etc. Any help is greatly appreciated.