Help Galaxy i7500 Bricked - ADB not working - here's a challenge

[hollowroom]

OK, I've searched through the threads on here for a few days and I've found lots of help for people with ADB problems, lots of threads for people with recovery problems, but none that have THIS problem...

Galaxy has corrupted / formatted Internal SD card. (yes, this was me)

Can boot into Fastboot and install recovery.img

Can boot into recovery mode, however only have mini recovery.

ADB will not work. (Error: Device not found)

Cannot put USB in debug mode (no OS).

Cannot re-install ADB USB drivers (Win 7 tells me the correct drivers are loaded, and if I try to force it it tells me the drivers are incorrect)

So. Can anyone see a way out of this?

Apologies if someone else has already asked these questions, but I couldn't find a thread with this issue.

Cheers,

Matt

 

[Lelouch]

Apparently it's not so dark as it seems. You just need to push rectools.tar on your phone and it will work and then you will get a full working recovery.
Of course this is only if you can really install recovery.img.

There is also a try with the ODIN (version 3.9x). Did you try to see if ODIN recognizes your device???

 

[hollowroom]

Trying this now.

funnily enough I hadn't thought of that.

 

[hollowroom]

OK Odin can't see the phone. Or at least I don't think it can (nothing happens when I start ODIN)

The phone is in Mass Storage mode (according to the Device Manager in Win 7) and I can't do anything with it.

Ah. Here's a protip folks: always READ THE DAMN INSTRUCTIONS.

Phone wasn't in Download Mode , it was in Recovery mode...

End Result: one phone with H8 firmware, and booting well.

@ Lelouch: Thanks very much for the simple fix.