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Odin detects phone. Phone is in download mode. I am currently working on cm 10.1 and have a working version of cmw installed, if that helps.
I even wiped my phone just in case. And now, when i hit start, it just directly says failed. Odin does detect my phone. I thought the file i downloaded was corrupted so I downloaded again. The same persisted. I live in India if that makes a difference, you know since this is a France version and all. But i was told it wouldn't make a difference.
Edit : I once again re-installed the drivers and updated my kies. My phone is indeed in download mode. Still the same error persists. Could you please tell me what all boxes are to be checked while flashing via odin? I leave it at default. I plug in my phone, wait for odin to detect, select PDA, locate the file and hit start and this happens
<ID:0/003> Added!!
<ID:0/003> Odin v.3 engine (ID:3)..
<ID:0/003> File analysis..
<OSM> All threads completed. (succeed 0 / failed 1)