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[Q] Hard brick ?

Im at a loss i tried to do the voodoo lag fix and it did not work right so i tried to clockwork recovery and restore my nandroid back up and it gets stuck at lost&found or at halgps_config. So i have tried to odin back to stock and ive used the original files and the ji6 files aqnd all i can get to is the stick together and then galaxy s screen after that it will go blank and only the backlight on the bottom keys lights up. Odin always shows pass and works correctly am i missing something or is it really fubar thankd for any help..

Ok so you can get it to download mode correct? If so get the rom from eugene froyo that doesnt brick and the true stock rom run the froyo rom thru odin first then your gonna get an error message that ok pull the battery and put it back in download mode get ready to flash the true stock rom but on odin you have to click repartion on the top left then click start all good aftet that let me know how it works k
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dont forget to take out your sim and memory card

aaron1992 said:
dont forget to take out your sim and memory card
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That's not really necessary. I've had to do this twice in the last 24 hours and I left my SIM and MicroSD in and everything worked fine.

I did this same thing, but I can't get into download mode. Any suggestions would be GREATLY appreciated!

are you doing it the way like take your batt out, put your batt in, hold both volume buttons and plugging in usb cable? that takes you right to DL mode, but odin doesnt always recognize it so you might have to unplug and plug it back in.

I don't know where my head is at. I just wasn't using the correct steps to get into download mode. Its working fine now. Thanks for your help!

thanks for the info i will try eugenes 2.2 now and let you know

did the eugene froyo and then to stock and i dont know how but it worked like a charm only thing different is i got an error when i had repartition checked for stock rom but i unchecked it and bingo just like new thanks for the help these forums rock!!!!

[Q] Rooted Vibrant turning on and off

I just had my phone rooted on tuesday by a friend. It started turning itself off for the first few hours and went back to normal for a day. Last night it started turning itself on and off every minute. I know nothing about phones, can anyone help me?

How did your friend root?
Did they delete system apps?
Did they apply lag fixes?
Perhaps just flash a custom rom. Their better than stock and should fix your issue. I hope they didn't do a lag fix. Disable it if they did.

He did something like holding the power button/volume up/down to get into download mode? That's all i know. He said he didn't remove any of the system apps, or change anything. He added a wifi-tethering for me, that's why he rooted it. I know nothing about phones and computers. I'm out of town for another week so i can't have him fix it, but i need to do something so i can use my phone. Any suggestions?

oh ya, he used ODIN if i remember right

I don't know why he would be using Odin if all he was doing was rooting the phone. Can you get to the web to DL anything? I would try flashing something with clockwork till you can re-flash to stock with Odin. You need to find out what exactly your friend did when he worked on your phone.

Can you adb? I would like to see the log.
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my phone wont stay on long enough to do anything. When i push the power/up/down buttons at the same time i get a picture of a droid and it says power reset or unknown upload mode

whats adb? I'm a preschooler when it comes to anything computer/phone related

I was getting panic mode/upload when I was messing with eugenes kernals.

intruda119 said:
I was getting panic mode/upload when I was messing with eugenes kernals.
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As was I, and that's the only time I've seen that screen.
OP, you're friend definitely did more than simply root your phone. Especially if you say he used Odin? There's no reason to use Odin to gain root.
I would recommend you Odin back to stock and start fresh.

is there any way i can do it without Odin? I'm out of town for a week and need my phone

Rom manager / clockworkmod. Just go to the app store (it's free) and download it. Flash the recovery and flash back to stock 2.1 eclair. It should fix it then when you get home just use the one click root method to root your phone. Check the vibrant bible in android dev. to do it, it's really easy to do yourself since it is literally, one click ^_^ Also for the rom of 2.1 I also recommend going to the vibrant bible for that as well. All you have to do is dl rom manager, put the 2.1 rom on the root of your sd (not external sd) then go into rom manager and install custom rom (pick the stock 2.1). It will wipe your data but your phone should be fixed and you can always dl back your apps and import contacts through your gmail account. Hope this helps.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=740077
that's eugene's stock 2.1 for vibrant flashable through clockworkmod ^_^

reboot loop

Hello,
I have a big problem. My phone boot, I see the logo "S Galaxy GT-i9000" Then he said something like the installation of voodoo and reboot. it reboot loop. I tried to access the recovery mode and downloading, it does not work.
What can I do?

Pull the battery out. Wait. Put the battery back and flash again.
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smunknown said:
Hello,
I have a big problem. My phone boot, I see the logo "S Galaxy GT-i9000" Then he said something like the installation of voodoo and reboot. it reboot loop. I tried to access the recovery mode and downloading, it does not work.
What can I do?
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It sounds like you flashed a modded ROM that went wrong. What did you try and flash? The best way to get back to a working phone would be to flash a non-modded firmware, then you can try and work out what you need to do to get the modded ROM of your choice working again.

Phone worked fine with the modded rom "Darky's Extreme Edition 8.x". I turned it off and tried on again. I have not tried to install something.

smunknown said:
Phone worked fine with the modded rom "Darky's Extreme Edition 8.x". I turned it off and tried on again. I have not tried to install something.
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I would still recommed flashing back to a non-modded ROM to get your phone back to life as a starting point and making sure that it is stable. When you have a stable working phone then you can look at re-flashing a modded ROM again. When you originally flashed the Darky's ROM, did you follow all the instructions from the developer fully?

I would like also flash a official rom, but I can not access the downloading mode.

smunknown said:
I would like also flash a official rom, but I can not access the downloading mode.
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Sorry, I hadn't noted that you can't get into download mode at all. There are various threads on the forums about getting into download mode on an SGS if the three button combination isn't working, I suggest you search for these and see if any of them work for you. If not then you will have to get hold of a USB jig to force your phone into download. There's a good thread about USB jigs on here and you'll be able to buy one on ebay, I bought one off ebay a while ago and it works great. Good luck!

i think i just broke my 2nd SGS

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?

here is what im getting
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sorry for the spam typing, now im getting this. and it goes to the animated SGS logo, hangs for about 1 minute then phone turns off
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sorry for spam typing, now im getting this, it goes to the animated boot logo then hangs and turns off
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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!

[Q] Recovery Rebooting Issue

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.

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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

BigHoss3 said:
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.