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Hey folks, I've read through all the JI6 OTA threads here and on the TMo forums and while I've seen a few people guess as to the cause of soft bricks, dosen't seem like anyone has nailed down the actual cause. I'm going to assume I'm not the only person out there with no access to a windows box to run ODIN so knowing what if anything can be done to prep my phone before accepting the OTA (that is sitting in my notification bar as we speak) would be immensely helpful.
So far the two best guesses I've seen are the existence of other update.zip files on SD and removal of bloatware, specifically Media Hub and possibly edited startup/shutdown screens.
Since I've got all these going on, I guess I'm staring down the barrel of a brick. But obviously one of these is easily rectified while the others, not so much.
Aside from those claiming bricks on vigin phones. Can we hear from those who have made mods to their rooted devices and either did or did not experience an OTA brick? I think this info will be helpful to many in sorting out what exactly is going on here.
I have black bar mod, I have naked swype, removed most t-mob app except media hub no change to start up or shut downtried to update. 50 % through it said update failed. Then rebooted fine. But I had an extra update.zip on my sd so maybe that's why. But no firmware now? Maybe I'm sol.
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Mine wouldn't complete the update Rooted, most of the bloat removed, had an update on the sd. Was able to get into clockwork after the failed update and am performing a nandroid restore now.
this is great, thank you. beginning to look more like an issue with extra update.zip files than media hub. any successful OTA's with media hub removed prior to accepting the update?
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I never uninstalled Media Hub. I have seen a correlation of about 5 people who had ROM manager installed and used that to install Recovery. Whether it be the installation of Recovery or a possible permissions issue with how it generates the update.zip that may have caused my issue.
just a question, why do people remove media hub? Does the application make the phone slow?
iynfynity said:
just a question, why do people remove media hub? Does the application make the phone slow?
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Because up until now, it was a non-functional app. I didn't remove it, I use LauncherPro so I just removed it from my drawer. I'm still not touching this update. I got my Vibrant used so I would be out of luck if it jacked my phone up and I hate using ODIN. Too much hassle when my phone runs great on Bionix 1.4 as it is.
Wife's phone was toasted by OTA. Stuck at Vibrant screen. Rooted, unlocked, she did have an update.zip, if that turns out to be the culprit. Also had some apps removed, replacement startup animations, and removed shutdown junk.
She was set for always-on WiFi, too.
My rooted Vibrant soft bricked yesterday and I had to flash stock with Odin. I had the (what seems to be infamous) update.zip, removed Kindle, Mobi TV, Avatar Icon, Gogo. I had RyanZAOneClickLagFixV1+ installed but removed it. I also had the EXT2 Tools installed. @ the time of the update I was @ work and had a full charge on the phone. I flashed back to stock last night after work, and I haven't recieved the update notificaiton again...maybe TMo crossed me off some type of "update list"?
There are also different possible symptoms.
In my case the update appeared to have completed its cycle, except the tail end of the download of the new update wnt really fast then the system rebooted. System came back up into the Black Vibrant screen. I could start 'adb logcat' and the system had SurfaceFlinger repeatedly crashing.
Attempts in Recovery Mode after this to reinstall files didn't resolve the issue, reboots would still lead to a crashing SurfaceFlinger.
2 separate users in a thread, 1 had removed Boot Animations + Sounds, I only had removed Sounds.
Quite a few people had Stock Roms + Root, but some with Root didn't have any issues. Only correlation was with Titanium + Rom Manager, which a lot of people would have installed since it's listed in the Tips and Tricks thread. Titanium shouldn't do anything to the system unless you generate a backup Update.zip or install LZO support busybox.
One guess is that ROM Manager and Titanium can create a update.zip file that doesn't have the proper permissions. An OTA update that attempts to overwrite this file may get confused. Simply removing the file in advance may alleviate this issue. Another issue is ROM Manager installs ROM Recovery, which may change how the OTA perceives the phone.
Bionix 1.4...
I was running Bionix 1.4 KK OC/UV yesterday morning... Was a little dumbfounded when I received the update message from Tmo. Figured it wouldn't show w/ modded handset. Delayed install until I could read everything on here about it. Tried installing over Bionix last night just to see, and had no joy. I had removed all crapware, mediahub included. Hit 50%, said flash failed, rebooted and was back to my homescreen in no time. No ill effects to phone except being denied upgrade.
So I Odined back to Stock JFD FW (and wiped device for S&G), rooted, and updated from JI6 tar posted. Flashed perfectly, no ill effects as I've noticed. Reception is improved (for me anyway), and GPS functions similar to Bionix... No real incentive for update, but was curious.
I see Bionix 1.7 updated so it was all for nothing.
Now to play with other stuff...
Cheers
My girl friends phone bricked the other night from the OTA, it's rooted(update.zip) and has the bloatware uninstalled, nothing else like lagfix/roms on it etc.
T-Moible is sending her a replacement phone, which im pretty surprised about. Now since we have to send the old phone back so they can check for damage or anything that would void the warrenty.
We get to keep the external SD card(Avatar), now im sure there is a pretty good chance they will find that its been rooted. So we would have to pay $400 they said if its voided.
Now I can't get this phone to boot into download mode or even mount it, so what should I do? I know about ODIN but have never used it, can it mount the phone?
I got the soft brick and had to flash back to stock via Odin and then I flashed the JI6 tar file from the forum. All is working fine now.
I had root but no update.zip file on the sdcard root, had removed startup an shutdown sounds, had used both ROM Manager and Titanium (with LZO compression turned on), and had removed bloatware including the non-functioning Media Hub.
Next time I'll flash back to stock before doing an OTA update.
I am rooted have Titanium backup, ROM Manager, and clockwork mod. I also had an update.zip but I think it was from OCLF not from another source. My update went fine and I'm running without any problems on the new update.
PepeLasNoches said:
My girl friends phone bricked the other night from the OTA, it's rooted(update.zip) and has the bloatware uninstalled, nothing else like lagfix/roms on it etc.
T-Moible is sending her a replacement phone, which im pretty surprised about. Now since we have to send the old phone back so they can check for damage or anything that would void the warrenty.
We get to keep the external SD card(Avatar), now im sure there is a pretty good chance they will find that its been rooted. So we would have to pay $400 they said if its voided.
Now I can't get this phone to boot into download mode or even mount it, so what should I do? I know about ODIN but have never used it, can it mount the phone?
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Woo, got it unbricked! finally got into download mode and ODIN saved the day.
this video was helpful for me: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnY7P14JSWQ
^ODIN walkthrough
paxton said:
I'm going to assume I'm not the only person out there with no access to a windows box to run ODIN
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there is a cross platform tool being developed called 'Heimdall'. It is currently a command line tool and is in beta. however people are successfully flashing their phones using it. It is obviously not a 'one click' solution, so you will have to go find the proper files and type out the command.
It can be found here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=755265#
If you are the type of person with access to both a windows machine and a linux machine, I suggest you check this out. Testers are needed. Of course you can test if you don't have windows, but it's nice to have Odin as a back up. ;-) just incase....
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I had a failed update twice using Odin. It wasn't until I went back to stock T959JFD for the second time and deleted update.zip and all clockwork back ups that it finally worked. Runs perfect with no issues.
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Was rooted with OCLF, Captive camera, gps fix, rom manager, titanium backup and add removal. Removed the OCLF and unrooted, ran the update, looked like it got to 100% (not sure cause I looked away and then back at it right before reboot) but said update failed. Got stuck at the vibrant screen blah blah. I'm pretty sure I had an update.zip on the sd, but not 100% on that. After pushing the update with ODIN I have noticed my phone lagging quite a bit.... Thoughts?
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I had installed Axura 2.0.6 and Voodoo Lag Fix.
I noticed my GPS was no longer working so disabled the Voodoo lag Fix.
It was causing me problems, without knowing i decided to ODIN my Vibrant while Voodoo was still installed. After a long period of a Black screen of death and various problems. I got it finally but my wifi wasnt working buttons were inverted wouldnt recognize my sim card and i couldnt mount the phone. I attempted to do a data wipe but was unable to saying it was denied. I have no idea what to do and ive been up for hours. I am on Windows Xp and im just going crazy. Im attempting to use adb but my knowledge with adb is minimal as well. Please can anybody please please help me.
This is why I hate voodoo. Not that this happens, but because nobody reads up on how to fix it. Download eugenes froyo that doesnt brick from the bible sticky. Click repartition in odin and flash it. Then flash to regular jfd with repartition unchecked.
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reodin stock rom, sounds like you odined an i9000 rom...
try something like this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=833024
not entirely the right way to go about asking for help, starting a new thread, but i know what its like to be tired and freaked out... doing the above should take care of immediate problem
EDIt: yeah do the eugenes froyo that doesnt brick thing first for good measure
odin eugenes froyo that doesnt brick with repartion clicked then without turning on the phone odin jfd stock
diaa08 said:
reodin stock rom, sounds like you odined an i9000 rom...
try something like this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=833024
not entirely the right way to go about asking for help, starting a new thread, but i know what its like to be tired and freaked out... doing the above should take care of immediate problem
EDIt: yeah do the eugenes froyo that doesnt brick thing first for good measure
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im sorry for opening a new thread but im so stressed out=(
i cant even find the stupid download link for his rom since he dropped all support.
wildklymr said:
This is why I hate voodoo. Not that this happens, but because nobody reads up on how to fix it. Download eugenes froyo that doesnt brick from the bible sticky. Click repartition in odin and flash it. Then flash to regular jfd with repartition unchecked.
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do i use the pit file i already have?
or does the eugene_2e_jk2_froyo already provide that?
Also found that my internal storage is only 2 gigs
i really screwed my phone up=(
After
Repartitioned the phone with Eugene 23 jk2 froyo and it stated data wipe failed
currently in process of flashing regular jfd.
will post updates and sorry for noobness i swear never again will i do this.
also thank to everyone that is helping me out
stephenj37826 said:
odin eugenes froyo that doesnt brick with repartion clicked then without turning on the phone odin jfd stock
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1. Do exactly what he said. Use 512.pit
2. For god's sake please don't install a lagfix unless you are 100% sure it's compatible with the ROM. READ the description of ROMs.
3. Please post in the right forum next time.
Well
It didnt work.
The applications i had are still there
i still dont have access to my phone
wipe data failed.
no internet at all even after putting back apn settings
sk8erdude525 said:
It didnt work.
The applications i had are still there
i still dont have access to my phone
wipe data failed.
no internet at all even after putting back apn settings
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Did you check repartion when you load the pit file?
After you've repartitioned it, did you UNCHECK the box and then load JFD?
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MilkPudding said:
Did you check repartion when you load the pit file?
After you've repartitioned it, did you UNCHECK the box and then load JFD?
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Yes sir i did, and both times it stated Wipe Data Failed in red letters.
and now everytime one boots up it states a fc from rom manager
sk8erdude525 said:
Yes sir i did, and both times it stated Wipe Data Failed in red letters.
and now everytime one boots up it states a fc from rom manager
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=8698655&postcount=150
Try this if all else fails. And please be very careful with any lagfix next time. It's dangerous to mess around if you don't know what it does to your phone.
sk8erdude525 said:
Yes sir i did, and both times it stated Wipe Data Failed in red letters.
and now everytime one boots up it states a fc from rom manager
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Did you flash the JK2 rom or Eugene's froyo that does not brick? JK2 won't work.
http://forum.androidspin.com/showthread.php?p=15555
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And I forgot: don't check re-partition when flashing Eugene's froyo. Check it when flashing JFD. You will get an error message after flashing froyo that does not brick. That's normal.
Yay
I finally got it to work.
Thank you guys and have a good day.
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odin eugenes froyo that doesnt brick with repartion clicked then without turning on the phone odin jfd stock
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duh i was half asleep lol. sorry for telling you backwards man.
I don't get it. how come he had all this trouble if he disabled voodoo in the first place?
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Because
i had flashed another rom without disabling voodoo first, then my computer wouldnt recognize the phone and i partioned the internal sd with the actual computer and it was just a mess but thank god to everyone that helped me.
OK so here is were I sound stupid (I think).
I had eclair and the lag fix and wanted to upgrade to froyo.
I undid the lag fix and upgraded. WOW how bad was Froyo!!!
So I installed the OCLF, big difference, but still getting loads of issues with FC and the like.
So decided to do a factory reset. BUT I believe I forgot to remove the OCLF. Boo Hiss.
So reset fine. Phone running great. Start to load it up with apps and heay presto starts to lag again.
Fine install the lag fix.
Cannot as playlogos1 is there and it means that a lag fix is still running.
So google is my friend and found you could just remove it.
Routed around allot and what I found was
mount -o rw,\system \system
chmod 755 \system\bin\playlogo*
then change the files name. To something not playlogos1 (i.e. playlogos1bk)
Heay presto it worked. installed the ext2 stuff then the OCLF. Then reboot
reboot
reboot
reboot
get the picture......
Lucky I have one of the phones that the 3 button combo did not work on, which I found the wonderful fix for just before this happened. So I could get the console and select factory reset again.
So I looked some more and found the following
Playlogo
Playlogos1
Playlogosnow
Google pointed me to the fact that the file oover 5kb = the animation file the other two are OCLF files (ish). So I changed the following
Playlogo = Playlogobk
Playlogos1 = Playlogos1bk
Playlogosnow = Playlogo
Tried again same problem. Now I think, think is all that the animation file is there some where and I am moving the playlogos files around which is the problem. I think that one of these files is holding the info from the OCLF I forgot to uninstall and that when I hit reboot after actioning the OCLF again it is getting rerouted and the phone is having a fit hence why it keeps crashing when I apply it.
My question is this. HHHHHHHEEEEEEELLLLLLLLLPPPPPPPP. I have lost my animation screen and don't know where it has gone and I would love to apply the lag fix again. BUT how???
Skip that one click lag fix and install a rom that has either the voodoo or ulf lagfix built in.
Sounds great but all of the rims I've seen say make sure you have removed any other lag fixes. If I flash a new rom with remnants of the OCLF won't this ruin my phone competently?
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Flash back to a stock rom using odin with repartition, this should sort out any problems, then install a new rom. I always go for jp7 with 512 pit and repartition, no matter what errors or problems I have had in the past this always brings my phone back to life. It can sometimes get stuck on the first boot, when it does this I just reflash jp7 without pit or repartition and it works. I must have flashed my sgs in excess of 50 times since I've had it and this method never lets me down. I try to always make sure that I disable lagfix before hand, but sometimes I have got over excited and forgotten and never had any problems
If I had to recommend I would suggest that after flashing it back to stock you go straight for one of the jpu roms and give it a go without the lagfix, mine has about 80 apps installed, has been running 3 days without a shut down and is still running nice
I know a simple search is what's needed, but could you post a link to a recommended one? There are just a few results for flashing a new rom.
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look for jp7 here (hint October)
there you have most stock ROMs it seems
There are some good guides on here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=814091
You don't have to flash darkys rom afterwards, once the phone is back to stock flash what you like
scottietohottie said:
OK so here is were I sound stupid (I think).
I had eclair and the lag fix and wanted to upgrade to froyo.
I undid the lag fix and upgraded. WOW how bad was Froyo!!!
So I installed the OCLF, big difference, but still getting loads of issues with FC and the like.
So decided to do a factory reset. BUT I believe I forgot to remove the OCLF. Boo Hiss.
So reset fine. Phone running great. Start to load it up with apps and heay presto starts to lag again.
Fine install the lag fix.
Cannot as playlogos1 is there and it means that a lag fix is still running.
So google is my friend and found you could just remove it.
Routed around allot and what I found was
mount -o rw,\system \system
chmod 755 \system\bin\playlogo*
then change the files name. To something not playlogos1 (i.e. playlogos1bk)
Heay presto it worked. installed the ext2 stuff then the OCLF. Then reboot
reboot
reboot
reboot
get the picture......
Lucky I have one of the phones that the 3 button combo did not work on, which I found the wonderful fix for just before this happened. So I could get the console and select factory reset again.
So I looked some more and found the following
Playlogo
Playlogos1
Playlogosnow
Google pointed me to the fact that the file oover 5kb = the animation file the other two are OCLF files (ish). So I changed the following
Playlogo = Playlogobk
Playlogos1 = Playlogos1bk
Playlogosnow = Playlogo
Tried again same problem. Now I think, think is all that the animation file is there some where and I am moving the playlogos files around which is the problem. I think that one of these files is holding the info from the OCLF I forgot to uninstall and that when I hit reboot after actioning the OCLF again it is getting rerouted and the phone is having a fit hence why it keeps crashing when I apply it.
My question is this. HHHHHHHEEEEEEELLLLLLLLLPPPPPPPP. I have lost my animation screen and don't know where it has gone and I would love to apply the lag fix again. BUT how???
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Mate, just send Ryan an email - he's always very helpful. With snags like that, I wouldn't go aimlessly trying other peoples fixes .
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woolf clubs said:
Mate, just send Ryan an email - he's always very helpful. With snags like that, I wouldn't go aimlessly trying other peoples fixes .
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I have similar issues. Have been exchanging nemerous mails with Ryan but he has been silent for last two days after I sent all screen shots. Please let me know if you hear from you.
Thanks in advance
Alok
Opps .. please let me know if you hear from Ryan
woolf clubs said:
Mate, just send Ryan an email - he's always very helpful. With snags like that, I wouldn't go aimlessly trying other peoples fixes .
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and how would I find his email address? Also if I did do a stock re-flash, am I right in saying it would put the phone back to fresh install. I mean does it wipe all data and install new or will there still be traces.
AsgardCurse said:
look for jp7 here (hint October)
there you have most stock ROMs it seems
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so I have gone to flash my phone and looked at all the how tos, read so much feel like a book on the subject. So I hit up the link above and there is no phone file????? Any ideas where to get it. searched and searched. My phone says
PDA : I9000XXJPO
Phone : I9000XXJPP
CSC : I9000OXAJPO
Build Info : 2010.10
So on the link above I found the PDA and the CSC, no Phone. Where do I get it?
Not sure if this is too late to be useful but I had a similar problem. Did a factory reset without removing the OCLF and I couldn't get rid of the remnants of it. All I had to do was use the restore boot animation option provided in the OCLF app and everything was fine. Think the boot animation thingo was all that was left behind after the factory reset.
scottietohottie said:
so I have gone to flash my phone and looked at all the how tos, read so much feel like a book on the subject. So I hit up the link above and there is no phone file????? Any ideas where to get it. searched and searched. My phone says
PDA : I9000XXJPO
Phone : I9000XXJPP
CSC : I9000OXAJPO
Build Info : 2010.10
So on the link above I found the PDA and the CSC, no Phone. Where do I get it?
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Try Darky's v6.0 Gingerbread Edition ★ JPX ★ // - Remastered by Darky from:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=814091
It is awesome. My phone is like a brand new phone that is blazing fast & no FCs
eecan said:
Not sure if this is too late to be useful but I had a similar problem. Did a factory reset without removing the OCLF and I couldn't get rid of the remnants of it. All I had to do was use the restore boot animation option provided in the OCLF app and everything was fine. Think the boot animation thingo was all that was left behind after the factory reset.
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It is not clear if you were able to run lagfix after restoring Boot Animation. I tried & got errors. Eventually went ahead & flashed my ROM with Darky's v6.0 Gingerbread Edition ★ JPX ★ // - Remastered by Darky from:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=814091
It is awesome. My phone is like a brand new phone that is blazing fast & no FCs
So, as you can gather I love to tinker but don't like to muck it up. I read loads. Tried the restore boot animation and everything.
My problem is/was I know some code. Not a lot but enough to be dangerous. So I installed terminal emulator and tinkered. And then buggered. As the first post suggests.
After looking and looking decided to give the kies reg hack a go. That way I could then feign ignorance under warranty. Worked a charm. My phone is 300 better on a benchmark and no fc's yet.
For my two cents. Read read read read, then, do you know what read again. If you don't know, ask, if you think you know, ask. Pride will not replace a £500 phone. Or the time it takes to fix it. I thought it was straight forward look what happened there!
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borked up the fascinate whilst trying to update to the devs 2.2.
i know exactly what i did wrong. i was running voodoo5, and i clicked to disable lag fix, but i forgot to restart to let it *actually* disable before trying to load the new stuff. STUPID!
when that happened, it hung on samsung screen, then after battery pull all the phone will do is boot loop.. samsung screen, then goes to robot and screen says says "wiping cache, data, ect.." and then back to samsung screen to reboot and reboot.
i have literally 30 tabs open with articles from here and other forums, nothing seems to be working. here is what i have tried.
1. tried booting back to red cwm and playing with the lagfix (enable and disable again) to see if it would work, no go. i ended up losing red cwm - had to ODIN red back.. i cant get green to flash.
2. tried flashing DL09 both the full package and each individual part via ODIN
3. tried flashing the stocki500system.md5 (from the board) and kernel via ODIN, and nothing.. same boot loop. everything i have flashed via ODIN still gives me a boot loop..
4. tried to connect via ADB but it wont let me access the phone.. NOTE: i just downloaded ADB as a last resort and know nothing about it..
the only thing i can seem to do is get to red cwm. i have several backups in the restore section, but none of them seem to work - either i get a "no file found" even though i can see the file(s), or i get an error after it does load that says ".android_secure.img not found. skipping restore of /sdcard/.android_secure"
any ideas?
Okay follow these steps. Make sure you follow them step by step. Even though you have the lagfix installed this removed it for me.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=782204
Place the PIT file where it belongs. Then ODIN the system, kernel, and recovery in that order. Don't restart the process every time. Just ODIN them one after another.
thank you very much for taking a moment to answer. i did follow that thread, however
i managed to get the stocki500 recovery but the other files (recovery, PIT) are all 404 not found errors.
ive tried that stock md5 and it still boot loops. i actually have that tab open from when i tried that route..
any other ideas and thanks again
Thats why its not working. Try this restore by adrynalyne. The file is there and everything is in one. Just ODIN in the PDA section. This should work.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=867648
I got myself into a bit of pickle too. Kept getting errors on the new_cwm file. After numerous attempts. I figured out the file hadn't downloaded correctly and the archive was damaged. Folks who havent installed Froyo yet, do yourself a favor and check the files before you save it to your sd card.
BSayre18 said:
Thats why its not working. Try this restore by adrynalyne. The file is there and everything is in one. Just ODIN in the PDA section. This should work.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=867648
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downloading now.. thanks for the point to this file.. i hadnt found that one yet
no problem. it should work out good.
mailaliasgar said:
I got myself into a bit of pickle too. Kept getting errors on the new_cwm file. After numerous attempts. I figured out the file hadn't downloaded correctly and the archive was damaged. Folks who havent installed Froyo yet, do yourself a favor and check the files before you save it to your sd card.
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i soft bricked doing that with a corrupt file before.. however that time i was able to restore using my backup.
this time, every time i try a method, it kicks me back to boot loop. if the file that im downloading now doesnt work, i will have to try and figure out ADB as a last resort..
thanks much for the help!
BSayre18 said:
no problem. it should work out good.
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problem
thank you for all your help
mrjake1970 said:
problem
thank you for all your help
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So this worked for you? You just re-rooted as normal?
def
Thank you all for your help. i applied all the info i got here, and one of them worked it finally took the ODIN flash to stock and i recovered into FROYO from there.
seriously thank you all.. its great that the community is so supportive
I did the exact same thing a couple of days ago, and recovered a similar way, odin back to D101, flashed DL09 & superclean, then restored a backup, then disabled voodoo and finally flashed DL30. I've got a couple of questions.
1: Is voodoo completely off my phone or is it just disabled (is there a difference)? When I apply update.zip from the blue recovery I get green cwm.
2: Each time I backup, restore, flash a different rom I apply update.zip, then from green recovery I flash "new_cwm.zip". Is this necessary?
Joe T said:
I did the exact same thing a couple of days ago, and recovered a similar way, odin back to D101, flashed DL09 & superclean, then restored a backup, then disabled voodoo and finally flashed DL30. I've got a couple of questions.
1: Is voodoo completely off my phone or is it just disabled (is there a difference)? When I apply update.zip from the blue recovery I get green cwm.
2: Each time I backup, restore, flash a different rom I apply update.zip, then from green recovery I flash "new_cwm.zip". Is this necessary?
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i followed all the hints i got, and i think that the one i got about formatting helped me get out of the boot loop from hell.. it finally took my flash from ODIN, it wouldn't until i did the format(s)..
mind you i am NOT an expert, however from what i read and talked about offline, voodoo is still resident on your phone but disabled (check to see if you have the voodoo file still on your card).. if DL30 is running fine, you are ok..
from what i have read, yes.. the new cwm is required in order to get it to mesh properly with 2.2 leak.. i havent had any issues and i loaded that as well.. from one of the posts i read, if you are a serial flasher, then you need to make sure that not only you download the new cwm zip, but also should have deleted the entire clockworkmod folder from your card for best results..
I love this threadd.... I did the same damn thingg...
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You guys are not alone. I'm just glad the peeps that know what's going on have the patience to put up with us.
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adrynalyne's di01 odin package covers a multitude of sins.
upsidedownaaron said:
adrynalyne's di01 odin package covers a multitude of sins.
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It will literally bring any phone back from the dead as long as its a software issue. I recommend keeping the di01 package, samsung drivers and Odin 1.3 on your computer at all times...
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godihatework said:
It will literally bring any phone back from the dead as long as its a software issue. I recommend keeping the di01 package, samsung drivers and Odin 1.3 on your computer at all times...
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ABSOLUTELY!! I have those on my computer at all times, adrynalynes d101 brought me back a few times.
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unrooted, fully bloated (for now) Fascinate
My brother and I both have a Vibrant. He broke his so I loaned him mine for a week. While he had mine (which I've upgraded to 2.2), he installed Android 2.1 Voodoo 4 on it. Little to say, after rebooting, the phone wasn't booting past the boot screen.
I've now followed some instructions from the forum, and have reflashed my phone with Eugene's non-bricking ROM through Odin. The phone boots up just fine now. However, I am trying to install ROM Manager on the phone, so I can reflash my recovery ROM (non Voodoo) - and the Android market tells me it can't install the app due to not having enough free space - though I have over 1GB.
I am guessing this is because the internal disk is still setup in the Voodoo file system, and just enough space was repartitioned for the OS to go back on.
Can anyone help me restore my phone?
EDIT: I've also tried flashing a different recovery ROM through ODIN (with repartition), which also wouldn't let me get past the bootup screen.
I'm taking a wild guess here, I seriously don't know, but did you click repartition in Odin? I think that's would work, but like I said, I'm not completely sure.
I didn't repartition for the Eugene rom fix (as per the instruction I read), but did when I tried to load another version ontop of that.
I was in the Voodoo chatroom, and was able to get some help. It sounds like I need to download a stock ROM and then reset my file partition to get rid of the EXT4 partition, and reset it all to the default.
I have Eugene's "non bricking" rom, but I don't think that's what I need. Can anyone point me in the right direction of what I need and how to do this?
Just search for the stock Odin images and flash back. They should be in a sticky. I would repartition as well.
I am trying to find a stock version I can ODIN flash. Do you know where I can get one?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=848737
I've gone through ODIN, done a reflash to the stock firmware, and repartitioned the phone as well.
Now, when I boot the phone up, I get the T-Mobile screen and the Galaxy S screen, and then the phone goes black (with no lights on) and doesn't go any further. My phone has been sitting on the desk like this for 20 minutes now.
I am wondering if this is like when moving to Voodoo, it takes a while to change the format to EXT4, is the phone having to go back to the default?
I 1am into the same problem with the old voodoo. What you'll need to do is flash back to stock via odin. Ur apps memory will be real low. Flash an old 2.1 voodoo. Let it do its thing once booted put a disable voodoo file into the folder and reboot. It will be ok after that. Hope that makes sense.
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this thread might help
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=848737
fatboy547 said:
I 1am into the same problem with the old voodoo. What you'll need to do is flash back to stock via odin. Ur apps memory will be real low. Flash an old 2.1 voodoo. Let it do its thing once booted put a disable voodoo file into the folder and reboot. It will be ok after that. Hope that makes sense.
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Thanks fatboy, but I can't even flash back to stock. The phone won't boot up.