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Three methods to fix your bricked Samsung Galaxy ...

Hello , guys ..
These are three methods to fix your bricked Samsung Galaxy :
1st Method by (three buttons) :
for galaxy I9000 :
here
for galaxy Vibrant and Capitive :
here
2nd Method for all versions by (Resistors) :
here
3rd Method for all versions by (RIFF Box) :
here

if your phone turns on, it's not bricked.

what bricks it anyways?

jonjonk said:
what bricks it anyways?
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Installing alot of roms

Not a brick if you can fix it ;D
People picked on me for that when I wrote my guide, LOL.

Its called a soft brick(software crash)
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I am sure I need method #3. My phone is totally dead.
Where can I take my phone go get this repair method done?

I bricked my phone. Fully bricked, no 3button or anything. screen blank no matter what i did etc etc
took it to optus (it was rooted so out of warranty apparently, but they weren't to know that) and said it just wouldn't turn on. They didn't even ask how it happened (had planned to say tried to update it with kies and it just wouldn't turn on) anyways they were just like 'hmmm yeah... not turning on, that's manufacturers problem. We'll send it to them and they'll have a look. Sign this and this and this.'
less than a week later i got a call from them and had my phone back working like nothing happened. All apps and data still there.
easy

A phone is bricked by you and it is totally your fault.in most cases the manufacturers wont take responsibility.your only hope then is sites like these.
Sent by a guy who knows what he's doing

mrappbrain said:
A phone is bricked by you and it is totally your fault.in most cases the manufacturers wont take responsibility.your only hope then is sites like these.
Sent by a guy who knows what he's doing
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If you're a guy who knows what he's doing then why bring back a topic that's been dead over a year with no useful info to add?

kxlling said:
If you're a guy who knows what he's doing then why bring back a topic that's been dead over a year with no useful info to add?
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I actually did lol at that.
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I dont know if this is brick!
IT JUST HAPPENED TO BE BROKEN!!! SO I NEED HELP!!
HERE LINK TO VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBfMWMQ58Qc
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if any of you still have the phone,please upload the debrick.img
so i know it's a really old phone and no one actually carries it around anymore but still, i one in my closet and i hard bricked it. So I don't even know if it will work but it seemed like worth a shot.
here is a link on how to create a debrick.img
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2625628

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hi guys which method do I use? when I was updating the system the battery fell off. now it just stops at tmobile screen. can't get into recovery mode but can go to download mode. also need to retrieve some important pictures. please help thanks so much I have note 3 sm-n900t

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Unbrick Samsung Vibrant If it stuck on Samsung Screen Method

Hi
I found a tool that helped me to unbrick my phone without buying the usb jig since you dont need it as long as you see it boots
its a very easy way, if your phone doesnt go to recovery or download mood using the 3 button method
download this file http://www.multiupload.com/AGK2BBUDGQ
once you download abtool
extract it and put it to your C drive , so it look like c:/abdtool
connect your vibrant via usb to your computer even if it stuck at samsung screen
choose which you want, the recovery or download mood, and click on either recovery.bat or download.bat
and it will take you to it
hope that helped
Regards,
Sami

*LOL* what to say...

You do understand that you only need the jig if you phone wont turn on at all and display NO screen, virbant or otherwise, right?

LOL QUE?

You guys are funny
well i am not pro like you, i had a problem and i managed to fix it without the JIG
so i wanted to share to help people, not to show off
have a good one

samiriad said:
well i am not pro like you, i had a problem and i managed to fix it without the JIG
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You also managed to fix it without a wrench.
You fixed it without a spoon.
You fixed it without a power drill, a cucumber or an orgasm.
All of which are equally relevant.

Genius. Where can I donate?

samiriad said:
You guys are funny
well i am not pro like you, i had a problem and i managed to fix it without the JIG
so i wanted to share to help people, not to show off
have a good one
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Thanks for sharing bro! Nothing wrong with trying to help others.
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?!?!
well i changed the topic name, and i hope that other than people would care to post bs, they would have cared much to help

samiriad said:
?!?!
well i changed the topic name, and i hope that other than people would care to post bs, they would have cared much to help
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Don't need it, but I appreciate the fact that you're trying to help. Its a strange thing going on here lately....you try to help, and everyone else just acts like a prick.
beren28 said:
You do understand that you only need the jig if you phone wont turn on at all and display NO screen, virbant or otherwise, right?
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Wrong. If your phone is hardware locked, and you are stuck at the Vibrant screen, you NEED the JIG. Don't berate someone for trying to help, when you yourself don't know what you are talking about.

thegreatcity said:
Don't need it, but I appreciate the fact that you're trying to help. Its a strange thing going on here lately....you try to help, and everyone else just acts like a prick.
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Thanks Appreciated it!

samiriad said:
Hi
I found a tool that helped me to unbrick my phone without buying the usb jig or doing
its very very easy way
download this file http://www.multiupload.com/AGK2BBUDGQ
once you download abtool
extract it and put it to your C drive , so it look like c:/abdtool
connect your vibrant via usb to your computer even if it stuck at samsung screen
choose which you want, the recovery or download mood, and click on either recovery.bat or download.bat
and it will take you to it
hope that helped
Regards,
Sami
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I definitely appreciate this. Thanks and I'm sorry for these clowns who are giving you a hard time for trying to help others. Isn't XDA mainly geared towards helping each other? Everyday I read some of these post and it makes me sick. Aren't we adults? Stop turning this site into myspace!
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OuncE718 said:
I definitely appreciate this. Thanks and I'm sorry for these clowns who are giving you a hard time for trying to help others. Isn't XDA mainly geared towards helping each other? Everyday I read some of these post and it makes me sick. Aren't we adults? Stop turning this site into myspace!
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Thanks I hope that helped you
because before i found this method, there was no other way for anything to let the phone respond unless you buy the jig or you made one yourself
i ordered one but i couldnt wait it to arrive since i was running with no phone until i came across this method, and though to share it
It's alright I didnt care about clowns as long as it will help someone out there like it did help me

scrizz said:
LOL QUE?
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I mean I always get into download mode by plugging in the usb while holding both up and down on the volume rocker, but this method will be much more convenient. I'll definitely try it out later though.
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OuncE718 said:
I mean I always get into download mode by plugging in the usb while holding both up and down on the volume rocker, but this method will be much more convenient. I'll definitely try it out later though.
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My phone i guess is a newer version, wont let me go to download mode while holding both up and down then connect it the usb from computer to the phone
so this was the only method that worked, other than using a Jig

you can also use this guide for a true brick (No Jig needed. I know it works it is how I brought mine back to life.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=848737
you could also use the Android SDK which has the adb tools which will allow you to reboot into recovery
you can also use this guide (even though you don't need all of it)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=817186
hmmm might write my own guide

beren28 said:
You also managed to fix it without a wrench.
You fixed it without a spoon.
You fixed it without a power drill, a cucumber or an orgasm.
All of which are equally relevant.
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Yeah but it would have been easier if he used the cucumber.

my phone works with buttons, but the jig is still faster.

scrizz said:
my phone works with buttons, but the jig is still faster.
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I am sure the JIG would be faster, mine haven't arrived yet
and i tried every method out there nothing had any respond on the phone, until i came across this one
so maybe this will help someone out there with no jig

damn odin!

i am a dumbass i just got a replacement for my epic through asurion. BRAND NEW phone not a refurb. and guess what i did? forgot to uncheck repartition on odin and BAM insta-perma-fossil bricked! not even a sign of life. so yeah go ahead and call me an idiot!

Accidentally did that myself once the night ef02 was leaked. There was someone in noobnl's thread that suggested pulling the sd card and battery and leaving it like that for a bit. I tried that and it worked for me. maybe it will help you too. Good luck and here's to hoping you can revive it.
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yeah im gonna try for that. i hope it works.

And if no asurion gives a year warranty for defection jut cal them and tell them the phone u received doesn't work
schnowdapowda said:
yeah im gonna try for that. i hope it works.
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that was what i had in mind. i just didnt want to get called out by one of those dueschbags who think people that flash their phones are why insurance is so expensive. (seriously anyone who thinks that needs to gtfo of XDA)

schnowdapowda said:
that was what i had in mind. i just didnt want to get called out by one of those dueschbags who think people that flash their phones are why insurance is so expensive. (seriously anyone who thinks that needs to gtfo of XDA)
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yeah well i dont recommend bricking your phone to get a free replacement or anything but you already paid your deductible why not use it lol

schnowdapowda said:
i am a dumbass i just got a replacement for my epic through asurion. BRAND NEW phone not a refurb. and guess what i did? forgot to uncheck repartition on odin and BAM insta-perma-fossil bricked! not even a sign of life. so yeah go ahead and call me an idiot!
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Try battery pull above and try to have battery out and plug phone in to PC and try that...that's what I did thentry with battery in if that disentangle work just try these few ways alot I had to
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Wow, I have re-partitioned many times, maybe I should start to worry...
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ecooce said:
Wow, I have re-partitioned many times, maybe I should start to worry...
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I did just this morning... Uh oh
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I re-partitioned the other night I got my replacement from my bricked epic and freaked the **** out but everything went fine but I re-flashed to be safe lol

AJC9000 said:
I re-partitioned the other night I got my replacement from my bricked epic and freaked the **** out but everything went fine but I re-flashed to be safe lol
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Lol this is exactly what I did.
I was excited to try out gb leak then... *click* "oh shiii***!..."
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ac16313 said:
Lol this is exactly what I did.
I was excited to try out gb leak then... *click* "oh shiii***!..."
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I knew not to do it and I unchecked it then added the rom, and it checked its self again but I didn't notice and then I look at my screen again and in big red letters it said do not check re-partition so I started freaking it was about 3 am so I started cursing myself haha

I repartition and update phone bootloader a lot, I screwed up in the middle of the process many times and most of the time these so called "brick" are not bricks, it takes a few try to get into download mode

Yeah same here way too early to be using odin safely lol
And I don't see how a repartition would brick anyway?
But I'm glad it didn't either way, if anything I kinda felt like it was better afterwards.
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i mightve had the other one checked as well. **** maybe all three of them it changes everytime i start the friggin program i swear! any way im gonna keep trying and if worst comes to worst than ill give asurion a call tomorrow.

noobnl said:
I repartition and update phone bootloader a lot, I screwed up in the middle of the process many times and most of the time these so called "brick" are not bricks, it takes a few try to get into download mode
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glad to see im not the only insomniac on these forums, thanks for the tips guys. one question: when you do that does it at least give you the samsung logo? or just nothing like mine?

schnowdapowda said:
glad to see im not the only insomniac on these forums, thanks for the tips guys. one question: when you do that does it at least give you the samsung logo? or just nothing like mine?
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It gives you nothing....I was wondering why it didn't show up....well now I do lol

schnowdapowda said:
glad to see im not the only insomniac on these forums, thanks for the tips guys. one question: when you do that does it at least give you the samsung logo? or just nothing like mine?
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nothing, it was blank till i got it to download mode, it took me a few tries. 1 and power keys
try pushing the 1 at least 10 second before pushing the power key

noobnl said:
nothing, it was blank till i got it to download mode, it took me a few tries. 1 and power keys
try pushing the 1 at least 10 second before pushing the power key
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good then i have hope! X2

Ummm i have done repartition before and it works fine. It just takes longer to finish. **** i have even pulled out my usb cable mid flash once all i had to do was odin it again.

[Very, very sad] Losing touch screen !!!!

Very sad news: I found that Transformer is built very bad hardware. The first is designed rickety, open light error and today, my screen was completely out of touch.
I am using normal and always in my pocket camalgams sock opens today but can not be unlocked by sliding finger. I tried rebooting many times. Even reset the rom but still is not. And I think that is certainly due to bad hardware.
The sad thing is that my machine was purchased overseas and now can not guarantee. I thought maybe I never use Asus again.
Who is like me?

what is your build number? what ROM are you using? did you try reflashing it? wiping it might not do anything but reflashing could. did you use the nvflash method?

HungSanity said:
Very sad news: I found that Transformer is built very bad hardware. The first is designed rickety, open light error and today, my screen was completely out of touch.
I am using normal and always in my pocket camalgams sock opens today but can not be unlocked by sliding finger. I tried rebooting many times. Even reset the rom but still is not. And I think that is certainly due to bad hardware.
The sad thing is that my machine was purchased overseas and now can not guarantee. I thought maybe I never use Asus again.
Who is like me?
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Just because your tablet was faulty,doesnt mean all transformers are this way,you had some misfortune,but that doesnt mean to bring everyone else down with you.We will help you out as much as possible,but leave the negativity at home.

HungSanity said:
Very sad news: I found that Transformer is built very bad hardware. The first is designed rickety, open light error and today, my screen was completely out of touch.
I am using normal and always in my pocket camalgams sock opens today but can not be unlocked by sliding finger. I tried rebooting many times. Even reset the rom but still is not. And I think that is certainly due to bad hardware.
The sad thing is that my machine was purchased overseas and now can not guarantee. I thought maybe I never use Asus again.
Who is like me?
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Like said above, what ROM you're running? You can try flashing Prime 1.4 with nvflash and see if it helps.

Diablo67 said:
Just because your tablet was faulty,doesnt mean all transformers are this way,you had some misfortune,but that doesnt mean to bring everyone else down with you.We will help you out as much as possible,but leave the negativity at home.
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before I buy one, I have read many complaints about the hardware failure of the Transformer, but finally decided to buy. And I was the victim.
Maybe I was a bit negative, I'm very sorry about that, but the machine of my friends are facing a similar situation (not including loss of touch-screen error).
I'm using the rom Prime v1.4, by nvflash root machine, operating system Android 3.1. I tried to flash and install rom but do not be.
Who is have a better way?

HungSanity said:
before I buy one, I have read many complaints about the hardware failure of the Transformer, but finally decided to buy. And I was the victim.
Maybe I was a bit negative, I'm very sorry about that, but the machine of my friends are facing a similar situation (not including loss of touch-screen error).
I'm using the rom Prime v1.4, by nvflash root machine, operating system Android 3.1. I tried to flash and install rom but do not be.
Who is have a better way?
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Some people have been able to fix this issue by letting the battery drain completely. This might take a long time though since the device will go into sleep mode once every 15seconds or so and causing it to drain little battery. I suggest you booting into CWM and letting it sit there till it shuts down by itself and then charge it to full to see if it helps. Many have reported success doing this.

frosty5689 said:
Some people have been able to fix this issue by letting the battery drain completely. This might take a long time though since the device will go into sleep mode once every 15seconds or so and causing it to drain little battery. I suggest you booting into CWM and letting it sit there till it shuts down by itself and then charge it to full to see if it helps. Many have reported success doing this.
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Thanks so much, i will try it
I used nvflash to flash, should not be able to recovery, for trying to open up this screen. The fully charged battery,

If it comes down to it,just flash back to the stock rom and uninstall clockwork,send it back with the warranty card and the issue your having and Asus will fix your problem or send you a new tab,a friend of mine had to do that,he has a new tab now.

HungSanity said:
I am using normal and always in my pocket camalgams sock opens today but can not be unlocked by sliding finger.
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What you say?

darkonex said:
What you say?
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Somebody set up us the bomb.

Underwater Mike said:
Somebody set up us the bomb.
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All your base are belong to us.

what country are you from and which country did you buy it from?

Malandro2011 said:
what country are you from and which country did you buy it from?
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So sorry, my english is bad. I live in Vietnam and bought this machine in Hong Kong.
My screen is now in the installation. It takes very little battery power, I don't know how long it takes to out of battery
Help me plz !!!!!!!!!!!

I had this problem too with my first TF ... i owned it about 1 hour.
As I went back to the shop they said to me that I wasn't the first with this problem. They just gave me a new one.
So flashing back to the stock rom and sending it to ASUS would be a good solution from my point of view.

No Asus in Vietnam?

darkonex said:
What you say?
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Do you think that mocking somebody who can't speak good English is funny?
The person has a problem and is asking for help. If you can't help, then shut the **** up.

e.mote said:
<gibberish>
Do you think that mocking somebody who can't speak good English is funny?
The person has a problem and is asking for help. If you can't help, then shut the **** up.
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What's especially funny is that we have a guy in Vietnam posting clearly enough in English that we know what's going on and have offered suggestions to fix his problem, which he is now following.
I wonder how many of us would be able to do the same in any foreign language forum, much less one in Vietnam.

Excuse the colorful language. I'm a Vietnamese expat who had to learn English, and these sort of grade-school behavior tend to get me hot under the collar. I wish I can help the OP, but I don't have a TF.

viking099 said:
What's especially funny is that we have a guy in Vietnam posting clearly enough in English that we know what's going on and have offered suggestions to fix his problem, which he is now following.
I wonder how many of us would be able to do the same in any foreign language forum, much less one in Vietnam.
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Unfortunately not many , which is very sad. If we are not careful we''ll be eaten up, spit out, & forgotten about if as a nation we don't change course.

My Screen is Touching Itself

Hi all,
About 2 weeks ago I noticed the bottom left of my screen would activate by itself repeatedly. This mostly seemed to happen when I was trying to type something. It carried on for a while so tonight I flashed a romkitchen rom (2.3.3) (I was on 2.2.1 before), thinking it might be a bug in the system somewhere. Well the problem is still there and I;ve discovered it's always that same corner of the screen that does it no matter what orientation I have it in. I can't even sign into the market at the moment because it makes it impossible to type and the screen ends up freezing until I press the home screen.
Is there anything this could be other than a hardware issue? I did a full factory reset etc during the flashing process.
If I need to send it back would I need to flash it back to stock? I bout my phone from O2 in the UK, where can I get the correct firmware? samfirmware has loads but how do I know which one I need?
Thanks in advance!

Sounds like a hardware issue. Did it ever get rained on or something? Do you use a screen protector?
You might want to edit the topic title, although it is quite funny. Read it and think a bit.

ROFLMAO
That is by far the funniest thread title I've seen on here yet
It does sound like a hardware issue though.

Hehe....nice title
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FuryriderX said:
Sounds like a hardware issue. Did it ever get rained on or something? Do you use a screen protector?
You might want to edit the topic title, although it is quite funny. Read it and think a bit.
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simply THE BEST title so far!!!! cant stop laughing here!!!!.....sorry

Yeah I agree with the person who suggested it was a hardware issue. Always worth getting someone to check it out for you

Tell it to stop or it will go blind.

let him touching if it gives him pleasure.

Hahahahahahahahaaaa!!!!
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Tell it to stop or it will go blind.
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is it happening only while phone is being charged or all the time?

FuryriderX said:
Sounds like a hardware issue. Did it ever get rained on or something? Do you use a screen protector?
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No water damage or anything. I do use a screen protector but it looks flawless in the affected corner

rizzy123 said:
is it happening only while phone is being charged or all the time?
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It happens at random. Sometimes it works fine. Not related to being plugged in though

I know someone that had the same issue, though it was with the Vibrant (not i9000m). He sent it to samsung, but it still has the same problem, though not as frequent. I haven't seen him in a while so I'm not sure if he ever got it resolved...

sixshot84 said:
No water damage or anything. I do use a screen protector but it looks flawless in the affected corner
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Just to eliminate all possible outside influences, take the protector off and clean the screen really well - and see if it still does it. If it does, then bring it in and try your best to be convincing

FuryriderX said:
Just to eliminate all possible outside influences, take the protector off and clean the screen really well - and see if it still does it. If it does, then bring it in and try your best to be convincing
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I'll see how it goes with the protector off. I think my screen is failing though as now on occassion the screen will completely freeze and I have to put it to sleep and wait a few minutes for it to start working again.
Can anyone point me in the direction of carrier specific stock firmwares? I can only find stock android ones.
Thanks,

UnsecWifi said:
Tell it to stop or it will go blind.
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this is so true

I've had the same problem. Unlocked SGS on Orange UK. The problem was on/off for a while but eventually got so bad I couldn't use the phone, removing screen protector made no difference.
I stuck an old Froyo build on and took it into carphonewarehouse, they sent it off and it was fixed in their repair centre. No problems since and that was 4 months ago.
Not sure how you would go about getting the operators rom on there but I'm sure you can mess around with Kies to get it to download the one you want.

sixshot84 said:
Can anyone point me in the direction of carrier specific stock firmwares? I can only find stock android ones.
Thanks,
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Try samfirmware.com, down at the botton of the GT I9000 firmwares are the provider's ones.

beardedwonder said:
I've had the same problem. Unlocked SGS on Orange UK. The problem was on/off for a while but eventually got so bad I couldn't use the phone, removing screen protector made no difference.
I stuck an old Froyo build on and took it into carphonewarehouse, they sent it off and it was fixed in their repair centre. No problems since and that was 4 months ago.
Not sure how you would go about getting the operators rom on there but I'm sure you can mess around with Kies to get it to download the one you want.
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Think that's what I'll have to do then. Hadn't thought of using Kies, thanks for that. I'll whack a stock 2.1 rom on there and see if it will update to 2.2 through kies.

DMD9 said:
Try samfirmware.com, down at the botton of the GT I9000 firmwares are the provider's ones.
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Thanks, it's a bit unclear which one is what. I'll look into it a bit more.
P.S. how does the multi-quote work on here. When I select the threads I want to quote and press post reply nothing happens