[How to] Factory Restore (or Fix a Bricked Phone)

**jpfoxey** · 04-18-2012, 03:54 PM

Originally Posted by jpfoxey

NOOOO! I needed to go back to stock in order to get my phone looked at since it was not charging. I forgot the pit/ I was MTD running CM9 Beta 2, and now nothing, I will be beside myself if I fried it doing this, is that what rrrrrrrrr, so not happy

PLEASE Help!

FALSE ALARM, I am not the sharpest tool, had a bad MD5, at least I had a place to freak out while I waited.

**jmuru** · 04-18-2012, 03:56 PM

Originally Posted by jpfoxey

NOOOO! I needed to go back to stock in order to get my phone looked at since it was not charging. I forgot the pit/ I was MTD running CM9 Beta 2, and now nothing, I will be beside myself if I fried it doing this, is that what rrrrrrrrr, so not happy

PLEASE Help!

Can you get into download mode? Try running Odin again but with the PIT file and repartition checked and see if it works. Basically follow the first method in the OP of this thread.

**Paul627g** · 05-06-2012, 11:01 AM

FYI, I used the same method I described in the OP for restoring to stock EL30 and it worked like a charm. My wife's Epic was on Froyo EC05 (Bonsai ROM) for ages and it worked perfectly to upgrade her straight to EL30 stock.

Computer used: Windows 7/ 64-bit.
Samsung Drivers from OP (32 bit version) installed first time, device recognized no problems.
Samsung stock cable (aftermarket purchased brand new)

**rogodeter** · 07-05-2012, 09:10 PM

I installed Truly Epic Rebirth 1.5, after converting my fs to ext4. Now I want to factory restore and then do an OTA update to whatever is current on Sprint's network. Do I want to flash back to Eclair? Which restore procedure should I be using for this?

Thanks in advance.

**rogodeter** · 07-05-2012, 10:24 PM

Originally Posted by rogodeter

I installed Truly Epic Rebirth 1.5, after converting my fs to ext4. Now I want to factory restore and then do an OTA update to whatever is current on Sprint's network. Do I want to flash back to Eclair? Which restore procedure should I be using for this?

Thanks in advance.

Answered my own question by reading backwards from the last page in this thread. I installed EL30 (thanks Paul) and then was able to do an OTA upgrade to current Android version.

All is good.. Now I can store this phone and activate my Galaxy S3 that just came today. I wanted to factory restore this one first so I'd have a pristine backup in the event that my wife or I decide to smash or SGS3 on a parking lot in the near future.

Thanks again!

**FreemanDre** · 07-12-2012, 06:19 PM

Does anybody know how to factory restore the stock kernal on Epic 4G Touch?

**Zeinzu** · 07-12-2012, 06:33 PM

Originally Posted by FreemanDre

Does anybody know how to factory restore the stock kernal on Epic 4G Touch?

Wrong forum, wrong device.

Sent from my SPH-D700 CM9 4.0.4

**Jsmith448826** · 08-14-2012, 01:08 AM

How can I tell if my phone is mtd or bml?

Sent from my SPH-D700 using Android Central Forums

**Zeinzu** · 08-17-2012, 12:28 AM

Originally Posted by Jsmith448826

How can I tell if my phone is mtd or bml?

Sent from my SPH-D700 using Android Central Forums

How much internal storage do you have total?

Also, you can check what your system, etc, are mounted as.

RFS would be BML. YAFFS2 would be MTD. (on this device anyway)

Sent from my AOSP Android 4.1.1 Galaxy Nexus

**javabiker** · 08-17-2012, 03:24 PM

Well, on my Galaxy I did as you said and the phone displayed 'Downloading' and under that 'Do not turn-off target' which I took to mean the phone. Anyhow, after 4 hours that display did not change. So I pulled out the USB cable, turned off and restarted, only to find nothing had changed. AFASIK, the USB port is ok. Could it be the cable itself?
Any thoughts?

**Clinton Meier** · 12-31-2012, 07:50 PM

windows 7 users troubles with odin try running it as administrator just select and right click on odin select run as administrator thanks for the files been looking everywhere for this type of answer hopefully i can get my 3g/wifi working again

**dkmrules** · 01-06-2013, 08:17 PM

I want to restore my dad's old epic 4g back to stock so I can replace my evo 3d that I dropped in water, but the power button is broken and sprint won't fix it because I'm running CM. Since the power button is broken I can't get it into download mode, and I managed by a stroke of luck to get it into download mode with some USB cable/battery trickery but odin failed to load Gingerbread and I tried taking the battery out but that turned the phone off and I haven't been able to replicate it. I'm pretty frustrated right now wtf do I do?