[Q] Firmare upgrade encountered an issue - Am i done for?

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Yes, i'm a total noob, sorry everyone. I tried to root my T Mobile Galaxy S2 using the Kies/Odin method, and now i'm getting nothing but a screen that says "Firmware upgrade encountered an issue. Please select recovery mode in Kies & try again". I would happily follow those directions, but now Kies won't recognize my device?!?!? I also can not get back into download mode. I have no idea what to do. Is there anyone out there that can help?

Can you still turn your phone on and use it?

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He can not use the phone

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Hey I was wondering if u can help my friend out it seems like u were trying to be nice but here's his story he was trying to root his phone I don't know what method but it dud require Odin and some file called Hercules witch I think is cwm but I don't know were he went wrong but now when he tries to boot up it takes him to a black screen that says in red writing Odin mode..product name sgh t898, custom binary: no , current binary Samsung official and below all that there is a phone and yellow warning symbol with it saying firmware upgrade encounter an issue. Please select recovery in kies and try again

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This is what he gets is anyone willing to help

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All you need to do is flash it using Odin. Grab the stock rom from the general forum of the galaxy s2 and flash it using Odin.

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Did/does Odin recognize the phone? If it does then go ahead and flash the stock Odin firmware package and that should take care of the problem. Same thing happenend to me and all you need to do is set everything up just like normal, go into DL mode and give Odin a few seconds to find a com port and hit start...just pretend the warning is not there.

I have the same thing ...

I was doing a stock upgrade through Kies, and my computer decided to be dumb and install a windows update and restart the computer... I now see the same thing, i had the stock rom, but it was rooted, and when I try to go back in Odin, it never recognizes the phone... Kies won't recognize the phone, neither will Odin... Am I just returning this phone or what?

EDIT: Nevermind, I only bought it 2 days ago, so I just exchanged the phone

Yes, you can flash from that screen -- I managed to brick my Vibrant that way a number of times, and as long as you get that screen (or the Android digging screen) it's recoverable. KIES should be able to recover it as should Odin -- if it DOESN'T work turn OFF the computer (all the way off) and restart it then try again.

Samsung's USB drivers have a habit of getting confused and causing flash failures both in KIES and Odin.

Be aware that if you're trying to use KIES and the "latest" firmware is a non-wipe firmware (as the updates from T-Mobile are) it will happily load onto the phone something that will bootloop into the stock recovery and refuse to start! If you get hosed like this you probably need to Odin back to the ORIGINAL firmware so you get a "full" flash, then use KIES (or ODIN) again to perform the update.

Originally Posted by UntamedDeviance

I have the same thing ...

I was doing a stock upgrade through Kies, and my computer decided to be dumb and install a windows update and restart the computer... I now see the same thing, i had the stock rom, but it was rooted, and when I try to go back in Odin, it never recognizes the phone... Kies won't recognize the phone, neither will Odin... Am I just returning this phone or what?

EDIT: Nevermind, I only bought it 2 days ago, so I just exchanged the phone

Were you able to exchange your device? And if you did, what did the T-Mobile reps ask you? and what did you tell them? I ran into the very same problem. I tried everything but I'm still stuck on that screen. I don't want T-Mobile to think I purposely did something to make the phone that way.