cant install recovery

[nasa1303]

i had zero issues the first go round. now i cant get sh*t to work. drivers wont load now so i have a unknown device in my usb section when i have debug checked and nothing even shows up if debug is unchecked. it just has a baloon telling me usb device not recognized.

[celsius0010]

Samsung makes this thing a pain.. I have spent hours trying to figure this crap out.. You HAVE TO DELETE EVERYTHING SAMSUNG off your computer and start fresh.. And I'm pretty sure the updater doesnt work on older XP machines..

[blazinazn]

Originally Posted by nasa1303

i had zero issues the first go round. now i cant get sh*t to work. drivers wont load now so i have a unknown device in my usb section when i have debug checked and nothing even shows up if debug is unchecked. it just has a baloon telling me usb device not recognized.

Friend of mine just got a moment. They loaded 2.1 at the store when he got it. I followed the steps listed under installing recovery here:

http://forum.sdx-developers.com/andr...-custom-patch/

I installed the CL14 upgrader listed at the top and then patched it to the older version. Instructions are in the link below:

http://forum.sdx-developers.com/android-2-1-development/samsung-updater-patch-revert-to-the-old-one!/

After that, you should be good to go. And I'd recommend using this link:

http://www.joeyconway.com/sdx/custom/index.php

You can boot into recovery and then apply the .zip file you created to get root access and remove any unnecessary bloatware and even add cool themes. They are constantly upgrading the tool and you will eventually be able to update kernel files. Hope that helps.

Originally Posted by celsius0010

Samsung makes this thing a pain.. I have spent hours trying to figure this crap out.. You HAVE TO DELETE EVERYTHING SAMSUNG off your computer and start fresh.. And I'm pretty sure the updater doesnt work on older XP machines..

Strange. I didn't need to start fresh when installing recovery on my friends moment. It is a pain in the butt but the best way is just to install fresh and reinstall the drivers.

[nasa1303]

no matter what drivers i download and install i can't get my phone to read. i just get unknown device in my device manager

[SPIK3]

Originally Posted by nasa1303

no matter what drivers i download and install i can't get my phone to read. i just get unknown device in my device manager

What operating system? This is a video tutorial on getting them installed on Windows 7 but should work for Vista and XP (for me XP installed all the drivers once the sprint tool was installed).

http://forum.androidcentral.com/sams...-flawless.html

[nasa1303]

yes, i found that one on youtube and it still gave me errors i can't figure out what is going on. it finally loaded some sort of drivers on it's own for me when i ran the swupdate tool the last time. was able to get recovery on it and now i am rooted but i still can't get it to open up with the usb cable. i am going to be fooling with it again tonight so we will see. i am using windows 7 64 bit

[SAShady]

Originally Posted by nasa1303

yes, i found that one on youtube and it still gave me errors i can't figure out what is going on. it finally loaded some sort of drivers on it's own for me when i ran the swupdate tool the last time. was able to get recovery on it and now i am rooted but i still can't get it to open up with the usb cable. i am going to be fooling with it again tonight so we will see

if all else fails i guess you can use the Samsung PCStudio for the drivers, but uninstall afterwards cause it sucks, and messes up the SWUpdater

[nasa1303]

Well last night I screwed something up on my computer trying to set up a dual boot with xp and win7. So I wiped the hard drive and installed an old beta version of windows7. Found a windows7 32 bit version that I started downloading. I'm gonna put it on my computer and see if I have any better luck than I had with my 64 bit version.

[nasa1303]

got 32 bit windows7 installed and drivers were automatically loaded very quickly. seems to be no problems now that i went away from 64 bit.