[Q] Captivate powers on to AT&T screen, powers off

Jun 22, 2011
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Hi everybody,

I've been at this for a couple days now, trying every solution I can come across, but nothing seems to work. My mom's Captivate decided the other day that encryption had failed (I don't think anyone ever told it to encrypt itself...). It said all I had to do was click the Reset button, but that didn't work. So back to ODIN I went.

Unfortunately, though I could swear I've used ODIN on this phone before (it was running CM10, and I'm pretty sure I messed up a couple times trying to get it on there), I can't get it to work again. I've tried the One-Click ODIN (which is what I would have used before), as well as downloading two different tar.md5s from sammobile.com and flashing them with a different ODIN.

After using the One-Click method, the phone powers on to the AT&T screen, and then it powers off, switching between different charging icons if it's plugged in. The other ODIN flashes got me to Installing packages.. after boot, but then it gave me rfs errors. So I figured I needed to flash a new PIT, but that didn't seem to help. Doesn't One-Click do that anyway?

I've tried two different USB cables and two computers (both Windows 7 SP1, one doesn't even have any antivirus program on it yet), but no luck. I had a different computer the last time I would have used ODIN on this phone. I believe this phone is a 1007 build, assuming I am looking at the right number under the battery.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance!
 
Jun 22, 2011
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Yeah, that's the problem

Darn. Seems like that is the problem. Simply putting in an external SD card allowed me to boot, but now I have to get CWM on it through ODIN... Thanks.
 
Jun 22, 2011
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CWM via ODIN?

Does anyone know how to install CWM through ODIN? I'm back with the stock recovery, and when I try to install a ZIP it fails the signature verification (for any ZIP I try). Seems that ODIN would be the way to go.
 

4-2ndtwin

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Stock recovery won't let ya flash zip files that r not signed by samsung.

Ya have to have the zImage in a .tar file in order to flash it through Odin.
Here is the KK4 Corn Kernel thread. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=18233847
I recommend the version 7.0A for what u r wanting. There is a .tar version of it there. PDA slot is the one to use in Odin for flashin a kernel.

Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I747 using xda premium
 
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Jun 22, 2011
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Running CornKernel, repartition error

OK, I'm up and running with CornKernel. I rooted it using the ZIP (and now the phone is unbelievably slow, but it's rooted nonetheless). (I also tried the advanced CWM option to root it, but that messes the phone up.) But when I try to repartition the SD card, it says "An error occured while partitioning your SD Card. Please see /tmp/recovery.log for more details." but /tmp is empty.
 
Jun 22, 2011
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Getting rid of the phone

Meh, forget about it. I'm going to sell this phone as-is or part out anything I can. I need to move on, as spending more time on this phone when it's permanently damaged is not worth it to me. (If anyone wants it by chance, just let me know...) Thanks for pointing me to what the problem was though.