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greetings...i've read far too many threads on not being able to boot into "recovery" and "download" and haven't found anything to fix me...
i can successfully get into "recovery" but when i try to reinstall the packages it starts to run a recovery with Clockworkmod etc...it stops and reboots into recovery...this will go on and on...
now when i try to boot into "download" i can't, i've tried many methods none work.
any help?
rooted/clockwork recovery/nandroid back up prior to trying the vibrant7
same problem here...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=7904808#post7904808
The K-Zoo Kid said:
same problem here...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=7904808#post7904808
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sweet...well, not sweet...PM me if you find a fix: i'll do the same, i have a replacement on the way via t-mobile.
for the record, i've successfully gotten in to download mode and used Odin to get back to factory...twice, once for fun and once for resurrection...i don't know what went wrong, except while nandroiding maybe i backed up a bogus recovery rom before i flashed. i can't get past Vibrant, and i don't even see the battery recharge display either when i usb, i'm letting the battery run down to try and get to the green battery icon to try a "download" mode??? i've read of a move while you see the charging screen but i haven't been able to get there... oh well, live and learn. i am also searching for a way to boot from the removable sd card that has a system or recovery rom on it..nothing yet.
also, i've read people discussing newer models being blocked from download...well like i said i've done this with this phone before but i got a new SIM last week and this is the first attempt with the new SIM???? maybe a coincidence...
take battery out, plug in usb to pc, hold vol up n down, replace battery, boom download mode.
dsuycott said:
sweet...well, not sweet...PM me if you find a fix: i'll do the same, i have a replacement on the way via t-mobile.
for the record, i've successfully gotten in to download mode and used Odin to get back to factory...twice, once for fun and once for resurrection...i don't know what went wrong, except while nandroiding maybe i backed up a bogus recovery rom before i flashed. i can't get past Vibrant, and i don't even see the battery recharge display either when i usb, i'm letting the battery run down to try and get to the green battery icon to try a "download" mode??? i've read of a move while you see the charging screen but i haven't been able to get there... oh well, live and learn. i am also searching for a way to boot from the removable sd card that has a system or recovery rom on it..nothing yet.
also, i've read people discussing newer models being blocked from download...well like i said i've done this with this phone before but i got a new SIM last week and this is the first attempt with the new SIM???? maybe a coincidence...
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Alright i will doo... and you restored from odin after the problem started...?
I flashed the stock kernel and everything is good... Its in the OP of Eugenes rom.
98classic said:
take battery out, plug in usb to pc, hold vol up n down, replace battery, boom download mode.
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thanks for the reply...i've done that a bazillion times...won't go, i even went to the tmobile store in my hood and no go on their end...
The K-Zoo Kid said:
Alright i will doo... and you restored from odin after the problem started...?
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not after, i had restored from odin about two weeks ago...
Did you read my post about The stock kernal in eugenes original post?
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The K-Zoo Kid said:
Did you read my post about The stock kernal in eugenes original post?
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yes(but i'm over saturated right now, i might have missed something) ...i'm dead in the water, i can't get to the point of anything seeing my device...my computer won't see it except as unknown usb device, no partitions show up, adb doesn't recognize it in any way...maybe i'm a [email protected], but i don't see anyway to flash it without at least getting in to download mode, or somehow pushing a .zip at the sd for a recovery??? technically figuring out that stuff is beyond my remaining brain cells...this seems like a dicey way for the phone to rely on when restoring to factory.... it would be nice to have the device look at All available partitions, internal/removable, for a recovery system or have an altogether different sd in the phone for a -R dedicated recovery volume....don't know, i'm a noob at this android stuff sooo....
Hi all, i just recently got a vibrant, and i rooted using superoneclick, and now after installing rom manager and flashing clockwork recovery, every time i boot into recovery it gives me default android recovery, and not clockwork mod. what is wrong?
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Make sure you have the update.zip installed by Rom Manager in the root of your sd card and hit re-install packages. That should get you into clockwork recovery.
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It is in the root of my internal sd card, and i do not have a reinstall packages option
try the modded 3e recovery in the DEV section if your on 2.2
Well i went to that except i have one problem and i cannot post there due to being under 10 posts, but they all talk about a "keys" file, but i cant see it in any of the files in the op
Can you give like a full step by step guide? because none of the ones in that thread are specific enough
nevermind i think i got it with this:http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=925400
Yup, got it, now im gonna go flash bionix -v , thanks for the help!
bionix hard-bricked my phone and now i cant get into download mode even with no boot guide
What is it doing? With ODIN open and phone plugged in to your pc do you see it adding a COM port? Im gonna take a stab and say you didn't let Linda convert your filesystem completely and reboot itself maybe...
No com port no nothing, the phone itself will not power on into anything using any method
any idea what you did right before it wouldn't come on? Did you have a lagfix other then voodoo?? Like OCLF??
Try this method....
Pull everything out of your phone..battery, sim, sdcard
Open ODIN on your PC
Plug the USB into your PC
Hold down ONLY the Volume Keys (both of them)
Plug the USB into your phone...still holding the keys
With your other hand put the battery in..
Should be a minor delay and then you should see the Download mode screen (Digging Android robot)
Try it a few times
that is what i have been doing for past 15 minutes, its too late now, im returning it.
Man..I know its frustrating...I ve been there quite a few times myself..This last time I had a complete No Power brick...no nothing..dead...nada... Called em up, had a replacement sent, but before it got here, I got the phone back on and I actually returned the replacement back to them and kept my old one...it just keeps coming back to life...
So if you ordered a replacement..theres no harm in playing with your current one to try to get it back working is there??
I didnt order a replacement, i took it back to the store, and wow, this is ridiculous, the new one has the problem with the back and menu buttons where they choose when they want to work and not, i liked my desire z so much better except that i was forced into getting rid of it because people could never hear me on calls.
Ahhh I c... sorry I couldn't help you
Sent from Bionix V powered Vibrant
bad choice .....becasue u never know if your replacement phone was refurbished prolly it was . u shoulnd of stay with new vib and let us help u fix it . anyway ,good luck and LOOOOOLMZ if opeople couldnt hear u whenu called thanu should of never gotr a vibrant loo ull see why P
hey fellas
i just went to go from 2.3 back to darky ROM and my phone is having a fit, its constantly rebooting at the first boot screen, i still got download mode though
no matter what i try nothing works.
have tryed darky RE, JM5, JL2, JH1, DV3 the JVK, download EZBase now to see what happens
this is my 2nd phone i have ****ed up doing this i think
aussiesausage said:
have tryed darky RE, JM5, JL2, JH1, DV3 the JVK, download EZBase now to see what happens
this is my 2nd phone i have ****ed up doing this i think
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Are any of those stock rom's you are trying, or are they all Darky's roms?
Flash a stock rom, hopefully that will get you up and running. After that, format your sd card.
couple of them are stock, none worked.
downloading a march 2011 stock firmware from samfirmware now, aswell as EZBase rom
If darkys is a 2.2.1 based rom then you need to flash to that base first.
Try a stock 2.2.1 firmware in odin with all 3 files and tick repartition. I use jpu and always works.
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MY fix for broken phones is .
Use Odin flash Eclair with pit 512 and repartition checked .
Phone works flash base Froyo .
Phone works you can now customize as required .
Choose a rom this time that does not kill phone .
jje
thanks fellas, will try that.
i've flashed about 5 ROMS and tryed repartion and none have worked, will try a eclair, gotta go download one
ok, JPU did not work. 3 files, re-partion and 512 pit
oh dear
When you say jpu didn't work, did the process actually start in Odin and complete?
If not, just reboot download mode again, close and restart odin and try again.
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yeah it said PASS, just got the stupid white reboot thing.
JE3 ( 2.1 ) halfed worked, it went into recovery, dont some **** then booted. then i got something like "kernel panic pload" with all this red writing ????????
i think that might be cause i got a 2.2 kernel flashed?
broken phone broken?
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thanks for the help guys. but phone is dead
it will not even turn on now, plug into charger nothing happens. held in power button for ages and it wont turn on, no download mode, nothing.
my 2nd SGS dies, this is 1 month old. time to call mobicity and warranty it
damn im sick of this thing
aussiesausage said:
thanks for the help guys. but phone is dead
it will not even turn on now, plug into charger nothing happens. held in power button for ages and it wont turn on, no download mode, nothing.
my 2nd SGS dies, this is 1 month old. time to call mobicity and warranty it
damn im sick of this thing
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yes, happened that to me too. If it;s not starting anymore, than you must rewrite it's bootloader with JTAG...JIG won;t help. The point is, when you tried to go back on 2.2.1 you should first flash the bootloader with heimdal. With bootloader updated you shouldn't have any problem flashing back JM8 or something
sorry for you
Crysis21 said:
yes, happened that to me too. If it;s not starting anymore, than you must rewrite it's bootloader with JTAG...JIG won;t help. The point is, when you tried to go back on 2.2.1 you should first flash the bootloader with heimdal. With bootloader updated you shouldn't have any problem flashing back JM8 or something
sorry for you
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may i ask what JTAG is?
There might be answer to your misery, check Yovi's thread, he found hard reset method for totally bricked phone.
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Edit. Just read you can not power up. Go with Jobiza's post.
Flash just a kernel in PDA ie voodoo or speedmod k13. Nothing else and auto reboot checked. After that flash away.
This happened to me and I tried different combos for hours till this method and it worked.
Good luck mate.
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Don't know did you tried it, but if you are able to go to Download Mode, download JVK with bootloaders from XDA, start Odin check Re-Partition and Phone Bootloader Update select filef from new FW connect phone and it should do the magic I hope.
If not http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1018620
Maybe last resort?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1018620&page=2
^^^
Yeah aussiesausage!
Let us know if this works! You can do it!
I have a problem now, I Tried to install MIUI ROM 1.5.20 from the oficial page using AIO Vibrant Toolbox 2.5, following step by step, but when it finished the phone started to restart constantly, I tried to restore with the backup I've made, but now It freezes at start with the logo SAMSUNG and VIBRANT.
I can´t enter to the recovery menu, what can I do? please help me =(
You can't restore your old 2.2 backup when you're on a cm7 kernel. You'll have to Odin to stock, flash your previous rom then flash your backup.
But how can I do that, with odin? how I use that? The only screen I see in the phone is VIBRANT Samsung, pressing the three buttons isn't working... =(
You need to get to download mode, not recovery one. To get to that just take off your battery then put it back in while holding the volume buttons and plugging the USB cable from your pc to your vibrant.
More on that and how to use Odin here
keroz said:
But how can I do that, with odin? how I use that? The only screen I see in the phone is VIBRANT Samsung, pressing the three buttons isn't working... =(
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remove battery
connect USB cable to computer and your phone still without the battery
press both volume keys and keep them pressed
insert battery
phone is in download mode
use odin to go back to stock
that isn't working too, It looks like it freezes just after starting, the only difference is when it is turned off, and I plug the usb cable, it shows the little circle but freezed too..
=(
I´m in the downloading mode noW!!! i will try to fix it...
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I'm downloading the drivers, can you recommend me a rom to install? or both a custom rom and a stock one plz?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=991267
The link above is for the Vibrant Bible. Get stock rom before flashing a custom rom.
I always go back to stock 2.1 then install custom rom.
I'll try that, any suggestion stable for a rom with froyo and above plz?
keroz said:
I'll try that, any suggestion stable for a rom with froyo and above plz?
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Bionix is always a good choice, and so is trigger. But just to be clear, you *MUST* Odin back to jfd and only jfd to get everything working properly. Then go about installing the specific rom you choose.
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keroz said:
I'll try that, any suggestion stable for a rom with froyo and above plz?
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im currently using BiWinningV2 (2.2.1)
Very stable rom and will stay with it until we get an official 2.3 rom.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1016652
Solved!!!
Thanks people! you totally made my day! I thought I bricked my phone in the first day I bought it!!
Now I will try BiWinningV2 =)
Hello,
I sure could use some help here! I just upgraded to BajaROM 16 in my stock rom slot. All was fine until I did a boneheaded thing. I wanted to go into recovery to attempt to install another ROM in slot 1 so by mistake I clicked on "recovery" in the drop screen that also has the restart and shut down buttons. Now I appear to be in a endless loop trying to find recovery. I have no idea what to do now. I tried doing the three button approach but nothing happened. I have pulled the battery and waited a few minutes but as soon as I re-start the phone, I get that damn "Recovery Reboot" message again on the top left side of the screen.
Any ideas?
Thanks!
I'm in the same boat, phone has been constantly rebooting for the last 12 hours and I can't figure out how to make it work again...
same boat here.
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I have encountered this as well. I fixed it by Odin flashing the modem back to the phone. Once flashed, it rebooted and I had Safestrap and my rom back. Just be sure you flash the right modem file as the wrong one will brick your phone. I have done that in the past as well.
Bizack said:
same boat here.
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What was the resolution? I'm in the same boat and can't get ODIN to recognize the phone.
tdamore said:
What was the resolution? I'm in the same boat and can't get ODIN to recognize the phone.
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Whoa, Odin wont recognize the phone in download mode?
vol dn + home & Power?
You need to not use USB3, switch USB ports, change cables, if your computer wont recognize switch computers.
Open up Kies3 and re-install drivers.
Many options, try them all, don't give up. It your shot won't even turn on, then take that **** back!!!
What IO did to achieve salvation...
I flashed NC4, Rooted using towl root, then busy box and Safe Strapped flashed the NC2 kernel and bamm(no relation) back on Baja16....
(there is a process, please don't follow the steps above, go here...)
I was in the same boat...
tdamore said:
What was the resolution? I'm in the same boat and can't get ODIN to recognize the phone.
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I was also rebooting into recovery mode over and over again after my first boot up of the recent Baja and rebooting into Recovery after updating to the new version of SS.
The only thing I could do was pull the battery and it would do again. I read the above about updating the modem, but unsure what that was, I tried rebooting into download mode again. From here, instead of hitting UP VOLUME to continue, I hit DOWN VOLUME and low and behold, I got the baja flash and it booted up my phone again.
PHEW!
Just thought I'd share what worked for me...
what am i doing wrong i did the root methods and setup the safestrap(3.75) and have been trying all evening to install bigginsRom+v6. i go thru all the steps and when i hit continue for it to reboot it just dies and does nothing. i have to pull the battery and get it back to safestrap and reinstall the stock rom. i am supposed to set it up on slot 1 instead of stock right?
downloaded another rom and tried it in another slot and the same thing. the only one i can get to load is the stock backup. anything else it just goes black and does nothing. have to pull the battery to even get it to power back on
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what am i doing wrong i did the root methods and setup the safestrap(3.75) and have been trying all evening to install bigginsRom+v6. i go thru all the steps and when i hit continue for it to reboot it just dies and does nothing. i have to pull the battery and get it back to safestrap and reinstall the stock rom. i am supposed to set it up on slot 1 instead of stock right?
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BigHoss3 said:
downloaded another rom and tried it in another slot and the same thing. the only one i can get to load is the stock backup. anything else it just goes black and does nothing. have to pull the battery to even get it to power back on
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Guys, Please Go here.
Follow these directions to the letter.
First ting is figure out where you are at and use the correct method to get your s**T back up and running...
Bizack said:
Guys, Please Go here.
Follow these directions to the letter.
First ting is figure out where you are at and use the correct method to get your s**T back up and running...
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It took some work but I got it booted back to the stock rom
I also had problems getting Odin to see my phone. In my case I just needed to unistall the USB drivers bundled with my phone and install the latest drivers FROM Samsung's website.