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Help, its dead

My vibrant died today qq
I was trying to install an additional language, and pushed a libwebcore.so file to /system. Was doing that using a Terminal emulator
Probably did it wrong or whatever.... now, the phone boots to the Samsung vibrant screen and freezes like that.
I tried to enter download mode and flash the stock rom thats on this forum, but odin keeps saying "File analysis..."
Also *dont know if this helps* in the download mode screen, it says
"Appling Multi-CSC
Installing Multi-CSC"
Any help? Is my warranty voided? what do i do

thats not the download screen, that is the recovery screen. the download screen has a big triangle with an android and a shovel. you have to have your odin program up and running, first, then take your phone and remove the sim card and external sd card. once this is done, with the phone powered off, connect the usb cable to the phone from the computer. once connected, hold the volume down button down while pressing the power button. continue to hold the volume down button down until it loads into download mode. it will actually say download mode

basataom said:
My vibrant died today qq
I was trying to install an additional language, and pushed a libwebcore.so file to /system. Was doing that using a Terminal emulator
Probably did it wrong or whatever.... now, the phone boots to the Samsung vibrant screen and freezes like that.
I tried to enter download mode and flash the stock rom thats on this forum, but odin keeps saying "File analysis..."
Also *dont know if this helps* in the download mode screen, it says
"Appling Multi-CSC
Installing Multi-CSC"
Any help? Is my warranty voided? what do i do
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If you boot into recovery you should be able to open an adb shell and remove libwebcore.so. It's more than likely not bricked, but libwebcore.so is causing a bootloop, which results in a black screen and lit up touch buttons.

arghhh thanks for trying to help me out
I cant seem to enter download mode, it just stays on the vibrant black screen
and I can't do adb shell, because it shows the device is offline.
I'm losing my mind

Recovery mode, not download mode. Power + Volume Down + Volume Up. Hold all three till it says Vibrant, then let go.

In recovery mode, Odin just says "file analysis...."

You're not using odin, and besides, odin is for Download mode only. Recovery should give you options to Reboot, Reinstall Packages and a few others using the vol/pwr buttons on the phone, you should be able to access adb while the phone is in recovery mode.

hmmm Thanks for trying to help me, i really appreciate it.
I'm in recovery mode, and still says "error: device offline"

Well, crap. I forgot stock recovery isn't adb aware. You'll need to somehow push fakeFlash to the internal memory.
Not sure how to help you from here, but basically you're just going to need to get that new lib off the phone. May have to warranty it out.

This is really killing my brain cells
I just wish i could access download mode, but the bootlock is not letting me, i think
(check your pm bahnburner)

basataom said:
This is really killing my brain cells
I just wish i could access download mode, but the bootlock is not letting me, i think
(check your pm bahnburner)
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Checked and replied. Sorry you can't get to boot.

Would it be possible to get a clockwork recovery update.zip from someone and somehow get that on my sd (I know I probably cant mount it with the phone off) and then "reinstall packages"
Just wondering

I'm having the same problem
once i get into adb shell, what commands do I use to remove libwebcore.so?
UPDATE: I managed to reflash the stock firmware, however I'm still having the same problem. Any ideas?

Code:
adb shell
su
mount -o rw,remount -t yaffs2 /dev/block/stl9 /system
rm -r /system/libwebcore.so

Try this.
1. Take out battery, put it back in. (to turn the phone fully off)
2. Don't turn it the phone on!
3. Plug the phone into your PC, do not hit the power button!
4. See if the phone shows anything on the screen (turns the screen on when plugged in)
IF the phone screen does 'turn on' after being plugged in without you hitting the power button, so far so good.
5. Now while it's on like this, hold the volume up and volume down buttons.
6. Hold the power button as well as the volume buttons until the screen goes black.
7. As soon as the screen goes black, let go of the power button! But DON'T let go of the volume buttons!
This *should* get you into Download mode. After that you should be able to use Odin to revert to stock, tar and instructions here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=734475
This fixed my 'odd' brick.

andershizzle said:
Try this.
1. Take out battery, put it back in. (to turn the phone fully off)
2. Don't turn it the phone on!
3. Plug the phone into your PC, do not hit the power button!
4. See if the phone shows anything on the screen (turns the screen on when plugged in)
IF the phone screen does 'turn on' after being plugged in without you hitting the power button, so far so good.
5. Now while it's on like this, hold the volume up and volume down buttons.
6. Hold the power button as well as the volume buttons until the screen goes black.
7. As soon as the screen goes black, let go of the power button! But DON'T let go of the volume buttons!
This *should* get you into Download mode. After that you should be able to use Odin to revert to stock, tar and instructions here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=734475
This fixed my 'odd' brick.
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SO I'm having some difficulties, trying to revert back to stock using Odin, got into download mode, got the appropriate files from another thread, odin seems to be hanging on "file analysis", any suggestions?

Grrrr, Why Me! Help

Well I've had my Vibrant for about a month now but have not been in a rush to root because there aren't really any ROMS available yet. I've donated so I'm excited to see what comes about. Any way I decided to go ahead and root today because frankly the bloatware was getting on my nerves. So I rooted the phone basically just flashing the upsate.zip and then flashing recovery via rom manager. Now I'm a bit frustrated because immediately after rooting:
1. My Vibrant is laggy as all hell!
2. Google apps crashes repeatedly
3. My damn market no longer works! Can't download apps via market anymore
4. My Sync is now broken, it says synced but definitely does not sync anything any time anymore.
What gives? Others have obviously had no problems and I'm certain I didn't do anything wrong, I've been rooting and flashing since the days of G1 and have had a Mytouch and most recently a Nexus One. I'm not fantastically versed but I'm no n00b all the same.
Also what's up with the radio? My phone rings and the ringer is low then a few seconds later gets loud also the delay between the time I dial a number and the number rings is pretty big, I've taken two phones and called one to check.
Any way I'm frustrated and unroot is not working, I attempted to unroot but yet remain rooted with all the same headaches.
Some help would be appreciated.

Go ahead and use odin to get back to stock. Yes you will lose your data.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=734475
You should be back to stock at this point. Then use this file to get root.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=723479
There really isnt much else to do. You dont even need the recovery, yet, but use clockwork through market to get it. Choosing Vibrant as the recovery option. Download the busybox app from market to get the newest one.

unfortunately my phone does not boot into download mode. I've tried holding volume down and power, no dice it just boots up normally. ive also tried holding volume up and power to the same result....And I don't know of any other way to use Odin without download mode. After rooting my phone nothing works properly.

justanothergirl said:
unfortunately my phone does not boot into download mode. I've tried holding volume down and power, no dice it just boots up normally. ive also tried holding volume up and power to the same result....And I don't know of any other way to use Odin without download mode. After rooting my phone nothing works properly.
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You have to hold volume up and down while holding power. Once the screen goes black release power and continue holding volume up and volume down.
Your other option is with adb to do "adb reboot download" and it will reboot into download mode.
Once you get the hang of holding the volume up and down it's a piece of cake.

try installing one of eugene's ROMs through Clockwork, and see if that fix's anything.
Make sure you have the samsung drivers installed on your computer.
Odin can be tricky, here's my sure fire way that i get into Odin every single time.
DO NOT HAVE YOUR USB PLUGGED IN YET
1) Start odin load your .pit file and rom into PDA
2) Go into stock recovery
3) Now plug in the USB cable, Odin should recognize a phone is connected
4) In recovery select Reboot System
5) Immediately press the Volume Up/Down Button all the way in, (2 clicks)
6) should load the yellow triangle and say download mode plus Odin should recognize it immediately

Okie doke, thanks guys, I went ahead and used Odin to return to get back to stock so I'm going to just root again, I have no idea why things got so screwed up when I rooted and flashed before. Getting into download mode was annoying but this is what worked for me:
1. Turn off phone
2. Plug USB in
3. Wait for green charging screen
3. Hold Volume Up, Volume down, and Power.
5. Let go of power as soon as the screen goes black.
Open Odin and load files then hit start....and back to stock I went.
Thanks again!

how to get to download mode

Hi, does anyone have any special trick for getting to the download mode?
So far i have tried, holding down the "power" button and "vol down" button, but the phone kept restarting

mr2boy said:
Hi, does anyone have any special trick for getting to the download mode?
So far i have tried, holding down the "power" button and "vol down" button, but the phone kept restarting
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Hold the volume up AND down button down along with the power button till the vibrant screen flashes once. the let go of the power button but keep holding the volume up AND down button untill it goes to the download screen

I just spent the afternoon recovering my phone after the OTA update.
I was able to get into download mode using the following:
With the phone powered off hold BOTH volume keys while simultaneously plugging the USB cable(that is already attached to your pc) into the phone.
Worked every time for me. Hope this helps.

Hi I have tried that and other buttons combination for the past 30 mins and found nothing. I have read into that any vibrant from the batch in august have been disabled for the download mode, is this true?

Pull the battery out first.
plug in usb
hold up, down and power buttons
reinsert battery with free hand.

cride11 said:
I just spent the afternoon recovering my phone after the OTA update.
I was able to get into download mode using the following:
With the phone powered off hold BOTH volume keys while simultaneously plugging the USB cable(that is already attached to your pc) into the phone.
Worked every time for me. Hope this helps.
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That's how it works for me.
If I hold the power button while doing the above I only go into recovery mode.

i'm starting to get worry because i tried everything and nothing is happening. it is as if my phone has disable the recovery mode.

The volume up/down button thing never worked for me either. For me, the only thing that works is adb (the android debug bridge). Download/install the samsung drivers, and the android SDK (see messages on this board for links & instructions).
On the phone go to Settings -> Applications -> Development and check the USB Debugging box. Connect your phone to your computer via the USB cable, open a command prompt & type 'adb devices' w/out the quotes. You should get one listed device if you've done the above correctly. Then type 'adb reboot download' to put your phone into download mode.
HTH,
-Roy

F**king vibrant

Ok I've looked everywhere, maybe not well enough but I have and I can't find the answer to my question. I installed the new official 2.2 on the 10th when it came out in canada here. My phone has worked "ok" for the past 2 days. (lots of new force closes and some major lag in some spots that didn't happen in 2.1) but that's besides the point. Today i was trying to set up a new wallpaper and all of a sudden the screen started flashing on and off. I couldn't do anything to stop it except pull the battery. Now when I turn on the phone it just flashes the opening screen that says "Galaxy S blah blah". and the only way I can stop that is pull the batt. I've tried hard resetting and all that but it always gets stuck at the openning screen. Now I'm still noobish to android stuff. Was too scared to flash anything before the official so if you have any advice that involves other programs/pc i'd appreciate a point in the direction of a walkthrough.
I'd hate to have to send it in and wait the 2 months it takes samsung canada to get it back to me.
Thanks.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=732458

tried that, can't get into download mode. as soon as i plug it in it starts looping the boot screen.

canadianrider said:
tried that, can't get into download mode. as soon as i plug it in it starts looping the boot screen.
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Look up the "jig" solution. That will be guaranteed to set your device on Download Mode.

It was the same problem with my Vibrant. Solved with JTAG controller. But you'll waste your warranty in that way. Try jig solution first

Adb?
Sent from my SGH-T959 using XDA App

ok i have android sdk/adb from when i pulled screen shots with 2.1 ... how could i use that to try and boot my phone

canadianrider said:
ok i have android sdk/adb from when i pulled screen shots with 2.1 ... how could i use that to try and boot my phone
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option 1
METHOD 2: STUCK AT VIBRANT SCREEN:
(and are not able to use vol+ vol- methods to access downloader/recovery)
You will need the samsung ADB drivers installed for your phone as well as ADB...
ACCESS DOWNLOAD MODE
1) remove back cover and take our sim card and sd-card.
2) take out the battery
3) hold ALL 3 buttons down at the same time. (Vol +, Vol -, Power)
4) while holding down those 3 buttons put the battery back in
5) continue holding all 3 buttons until the vibrant disappears and reappears... once it reappears, release all 3 buttons
6) Setup ODIN and get it all setup and ready... (if you are flashing your phone via odin)
6) now connect your phone to your pc via USB cable
7) open a cmd prompt and navigate to the folder with ADB and type ADB REBOOT DOWNLOAD
8) Your phone will reboot into the download screen... go back to ODIN - A com port should now appear for your phone...
9) Click start and wait for your phone to do its thing
Option 2
***First you must have ROOT***
Download Terminal Emulator from the Market
open terminal emulator
**you may need to change to default android keyboard for proper inputting
1.) type "su" and press enter
a dialog box will appear asking for root access and say yes (obviously)
2.) type "reboot recovery" and press enter
at that moment, ur phone should reboot into Download Mode to load Alternate firmwares for like Eugene's Vibrant4 ROM etc......
this it what it should look like...
#su
#reboot download
Option 3
or you can download and install quick boot from the market which you then can make a shortcut to reboot into recovery with just one click

Sometimes it takes more than one try to get into download mode. I just take the battery out for a little while. Put it back in and hold only the volume up and down buttons while it is off and plug in the USB cable.
One thing though, when holding down the up and down volume buttons, it is very easy to mistakenly press the power button because it is exactly opposite of it.

Phone messed up?

Try this I did and it worked to get mine booting after a bad update.
I messed around with it using several methods of getting it to boot into download mode until I finally got it to do it. I think I left it plugged into the USB, powered it down until I saw the charging screen, then I proceeded to play with the different ways to hold the buttons to get it to download mode. If you are persistent enough and read a little on booting methods to get bricked phone into download mode you will succed if not then your not for the world of trial and error... the main thing is do the first steps I said before until it works
1. Get into Download Mode (WITH THE PHONE PLUGGED IN) by following the steps below
*Turn off the phone until you get to the charging battery screen (keep in mind, your phone is currently PLUGGED IN)
*Press volume up and down, and power all at once.
*As soon as the screen turns black, release your power button.
2. Unplug phone from USB
or try
2. Remove everything from your phone (SD card, sim, battery).
3. Plug your phone into your computer WITHOUT the battery, as you have already taken it out in the last step.
4. Press and HOLD vol. up and vol. down.
5. As you are HOLDING these buttons, reattach your battery.
6. You should be in Download Mode.
7. Unplug phone from USB
any how try try try until it works
Once in download mode
Get your files together for your phone, and use Odin 1.85.
Plug into Odin and make sure it shows yellow and its added!
1. Now if your files have like 3 files and the exact .pit file for your phone
I found mine here
http://www.droidevelopers.com/showthread.php?11722-Download-OPS-amp-PIT-files
2. Click the PIT button and browse to your exact .pit file for your phone *It should now have added a check in the re-partition box under the options area of the Odin window. If not CHECK IT!
***If you don't have your .pit don't worry about this unless you suspect, or have a bad partition
3. If you have just 1 file just click the PDA button and load the file. If you have 3 then you will load the PDA file in PDA, the Modem file into PHONE, and the CSC file into CSC, there are way too many phones to link all the files so get you stuff together!
4. Now hit start.
5. When done and the phone shows the first sign of starting up IE Logo or whatever... immediately unplug the battery from the phone to shut it down.
6. Now put it back in and start it in Upload mode by pressing Vol Up, Home at the same time then the Power button.
7. As soon as the phone shows the first sign of starting up IE Logo or whatever let go of all buttons and using the Vol Up down Choose the Clear Cache option and go through and make sure you factory reset it if you can just for good measure.
8. Reboot
9. Now when the phone shows the first sign of starting up IE Logo or whatever take out battery again to power off
10. Now put it back in and start it in Download mode by pressing Vol Down, Home at the same time then the Power button.
11. Once in download mode Hook up to Odin again and flash it with a root kernel for your phone. Do not ask me just find it. I did it took time but I got all the files together over several days of reading and collecting the correct ones.
12. When done and the phone shows the first sign of starting up IE Logo or whatever... immediately unplug the battery from the phone to shut it down.
13. Now put it back in and start it in Upload mode by pressing Vol Up, Home at the same time then the Power button.
14. In most roots you will now have a advanced or mounting options and more options to use.
15. I cleared the Cache again, Cleared the Davilik Cache, Went into a option and actually mounted the cache formatted the Cache.
16. Use the option now to restart the phone...
And mine started up installed the apps and I am up and running, nice and smooth and no issues so far
I hope this helps out someone whos just about to go off the deep end, as I was there and patience and trial and error came up with this step by step way to recover mine. Thank me by hitting the little thumbs up THANKS button below this post.
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scottsdesk

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1924233
Not sure why you created 2 threads.
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