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POSSIBLE FIX FOR PHONES THAT ARE STUCK AT BOOTLOGO AFTER LQ5/LPM + Wipe

THIS GUIDE IS INTENDED ONLY FOR THE 16GB GALAXY S2 I9100 (but a similar procedure can be applied to some other samsung devices)
BIG THANKS TO USER HG42, ALL CREDITS GO TO HIM AS HE IS THE ONE THAT MADE THIS POSSIBLE. THE ORIGINAL GALAXY NOTE THREAD IS HERE
THERE IS NO GUARANTEE THIS WILL WORK, IT DID FOR ME AND A FEW OTHERS BUT YOUR PROBLEM COULD BE SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT. I AM NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANYTHING THAT HAPPENS TO YOUR PHONE
AFTER FLASHING THE PIT FILE, YOU SHOULD IMMEDIATLY FLASH A SAMSUNG ROM OR A KERNEL VIA ODIN, ESPECIALLY IF YOU STILL HAVE THE LQ5 KERNEL INSTALLED, IN ANY CASE, DON'T TRY TO WIPE DATA AFTER THE PIT FILE FLASH, FLASH A ROM OR A KERNEL BEFORE DOING ANY WIPE
As you must know by now, some users experienced hard bricks after flashing the leaked LQ5 firmware and doing a factory reset or a data wipe, some others, like me, can still access Odin or recovery but no matter what we try we can't get the phone to actually fully boot.
SYMPTOMS:
-You can go into download mode and maybe in recovery
-When you try to wipe data in recovery the phone gets stuck and reboots eventually
-Flashing a firmware through odin doesn't do any good even when the flash was a success
-During the Flash through odin it may get stuck at data.img or fastoryfs depending on the firmware you're trying to flash
If your symptoms aren't the same as those, i would advise not trying this procedure
THE REASON FOR THE "BRICK"
It seems that during the factory reset or data wipe you made after flashing LQ5, the data partition got badly corrupted somehow, and because of that, neither CWM nor Odin can write or format this faulty data partition. This is why you can't boot into any rom.
What you need to do if you're in the same situtation i was into (make sure of it) is to flash a modified pit file which is gonna create a new data partition on your internal sdcard, leaving the faulty one aside, and thus getting a brand new data partition which is gonna make your phone work again, but at the cost of having a smaller internal SD. Other than that, your phone should work exactly as it did.
WARNING / BACKUP
By doing so, you're also repartitionning the internal sdcard, which will result in the loss of everything you have on it, to backup the content of your internal sdcard, you must follow the steps described in THIS THREAD which is the thread started by the man that found the solution to this problem. The thread is a galaxy note thread, but the backup procedure is the same.
Once you have backed up what you wanted to backup, and made sure you read everything carefully, you can proceed to the flashing of the modified pit file.
AFTER FLASHING THE PIT FILE, YOU SHOULD IMMEDIATLY FLASH A SAMSUNG ROM OR A KERNEL VIA ODIN, ESPECIALLY IF YOU STILL HAVE THE LQ5 KERNEL INSTALLED, IN ANY CASE, DON'T TRY TO WIPE DATA AFTER THE PIT FILE FLASH, FLASH A ROM OR A KERNEL BEFORE DOING ANY WIPE
The zip containing the modified PIT files can be found in THIS THREAD at the end of the first post.
STEP BY STEP
-Put your phone into Download Mode
-Flash the modified pit using odin, NOTHING ELSE
-After pit flash, the phone will try to reboot, and will get stuck. Remove the battery
-Go into Download Mode.
-Flash a clean, unmodified, samsung firmware (like KI4) WITHOUT PUTTING ANY PIT FILE
-Reboot in stock recovery, do a factory reset
-Reboot phone
-Format internal sdcard
-You should be good to go
ALTERNATIVE WAY (NOT RECOMMENDED)
-Put your phone into Download Mode
-Flash the modified pit using odin, NOTHING ELSE
-After pit flash, the phone will try to reboot, and will get stuck. Remove the battery
-Go into Download Mode.
-Flash a custom kernel with Odin.
-Then Boot into recovery and install a rom from a zip which must be on your external SD
I hope this works for you as well as it did for me. Good luck, and congratulations to hg42 for finding a way to get our devices working again

edit: OP entirely changed his post since my response, rendering it incorrect.

Worked for me too
Tried everything was beginning to give up tried this and my phone works again thanks alot

Glad it worked for you mate.
Next time we'll think twice before flashing a leaked firmware.
Sent from my GT-I9100 using xda premium

Doesnt work for me , i can now go to recovery mode but i can't format/wipe data. i tried with flashing Siyah 3.3.2 tar but formatting data is not possible again .
Thanks anyway for your work .

The same thing for me
limpbizkit said:
Doesnt work for me , ican now go to recovery mode but still can't format/wipe data. i tried with flashing Siyah 3.3.2 but formatting data is not possible.
Thanks anyway for your work .
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Hi, the same thing happend with me. Now I can enter in recovery but I cant wipe data.
I´m thinking of try this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1457458
To do that should I flash first the original Pit file???????
Thanks

limpbizkit said:
Doesnt work for me , i can now go to recovery mode but i can't format/wipe data. i tried with flashing Siyah 3.3.2 tar but formatting data is not possible again .
Thanks anyway for your work .
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Heeyyy!!!! Bro, i found an alternative for us. It worked for me so with you will work to!!!
Im from argentina and my english is not good. So, sorry for that.
Ok, do this:
1/ Download resurrection remix v2.5.3
2/ Flash siyha v3.3.2
3/ Enter to the recovery
4/ Go to "dual-boot options
5/ Select "install zip to second rom from external sd. Automatically siyah will create a second data partition.
6/ select the rom from the external sd and install it. Then restart and enter in recovery again
7/ go to "dual boot options / wipe second rom dalvik-cache.
8/ go to dual boot options / fix second rom permissions
9/ go to dual boot options / wipe second rom data cache
10/ reboot and you will see during boot the next reading: press home o volume button to enter to second rom.... so, press the home buttom and the phone will revive!!!!!!
I must say that every time the phone starts you have to choose to enter the second rom. This solution sucks, but at least your phone will work.
good luck

dejarque88 said:
Hi, the same thing happend with me. Now I can enter in recovery but I cant wipe data.
I´m thinking of try this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1457458
To do that should I flash first the original Pit file???????
Thanks
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any help for this problem

dejarque88 said:
Hi, the same thing happend with me. Now I can enter in recovery but I cant wipe data.
I´m thinking of try this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1457458
To do that should I flash first the original Pit file???????
Thanks
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Have you tried flashing a samsung rom? Are you still on LQ5 kernel?
If this still fails after trying to flash a samsung rom using odin, i think you should indeed flash the original PIT, which will make things back the way they were before, even if it didn't work then

when i use Odin to install original rom , it stuck on data.img
and when I use recovery to wipe factory or cache , it stuck on formatting data
(( I used pit stock and i9100_u1_02_20110310_emmc_EXT4-patched-standard ))

a0007 said:
when i use Odin to install original rom , it stuck on data.img
and when I use recovery to wipe factory or cache , it stuck on formatting data
(( I used pit stock and i9100_u1_02_20110310_emmc_EXT4-patched-standard ))
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After flashing just the Pit file, did you try to wipe data or did you try to flash a Samsung ROM with odin directly?

d.fx said:
After flashing just the Pit file, did you try to wipe data or did you try to flash a Samsung ROM with odin directly?
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I tried both ways but i did not work

a0007 said:
I tried both ways but i did not work
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Were you using the LQ5 kernel when you tried to wipe data after the PIT flash ? I hope you weren't.

d.fx said:
Were you using the LQ5 kernel when you tried to wipe data after the PIT flash ? I hope you weren't.
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yep :crying:

a0007 said:
yep :crying:
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arf man, you should have stick to the step by steps and just that. There is still little hope though, send a PM to hg42 explaining that you flashed his modified galaxy s2 pit file but that you did the same mistake again (that i did too, but only once) , which was to wipe data using LQ5 kernel. Basically i think you now have two ****ty data partitions, back to square one.
He might be able to build a new Pit specially for you to flash in which yet another data partition will be created, next to the one you just screwed.
I modified my post to make it even clearer that you shouldn't wipe data while using LQ5 kernel.
Good luck man

is this guide only for people who can access to download mode?
my phone not response to any thing
what the solution for me?

Unfortunately some people were lucky enough to only soft brick their phones when other hard bricked them.
No solution for the hard bricked ones for now.
Sent from my GT-I9100 using xda premium

d.fx said:
Unfortunately some people were lucky enough to only soft brick their phones when other hard bricked them.
No solution for the hard bricked ones for now.
Sent from my GT-I9100 using xda premium
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even using riff box jtag
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moshxsoft said:
even using riff box jtag
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Looks like not even the JTAG is effective. At least for now
Sent from my GT-I9100 using xda premium

d.fx said:
THIS GUIDE IS INTENDED ONLY FOR THE 16GB GALAXY S2 I9100 (but a similar procedure can be applied to some other samsung devices)
BIG THANKS TO USER HG42, ALL CREDITS GO TO HIM AND HIS BRILLIANT MIND
THERE IS NO GUARANTEE THIS WILL WORK, IT DID FOR ME AND A FEW OTHERS BUT YOUR PROBLEM COULD BE SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT. I AM NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANYTHING THAT HAPPENS TO YOUR PHONE
AFTER FLASHING THE PIT FILE, YOU SHOULD IMMEDIATLY FLASH A SAMSUNG ROM OR A KERNEL VIA ODIN, ESPECIALLY IF YOU STILL HAVE THE LQ5 KERNEL INSTALLED, IN ANY CASE, DON'T TRY TO WIPE DATA AFTER THE PIT FILE FLASH, FLASH A ROM OR A KERNEL BEFORE DOING ANY WIPE
As you must know by now, some users experienced hard bricks after flashing the leaked LQ5 firmware and doing a factory reset or a data wipe, some others, like me, can still access Odin or recovery but no matter what we try we can't get the phone to actually fully boot.
SYMPTOMS:
-You can go into download mode and maybe in recovery
-When you try to wipe data in recovery the phone gets stuck and reboots eventually
-Flashing a firmware through odin doesn't do any good even when the flash was a success
-During the Flash through odin it may get stuck at data.img or fastoryfs depending on the firmware you're trying to flash
If your symptoms aren't the same as those, i would advise not trying this procedure
THE REASON FOR THE "BRICK"
It seems that during the factory reset or data wipe you made after flashing LQ5, the data partition got badly corrupted somehow, and because of that, neither CWM nor Odin can write or format this faulty data partition. This is why you can't boot into any rom.
What you need to do if you're in the same situtation i was into (make sure of it) is to flash a modified pit file which is gonna create a new data partition on your internal sdcard, leaving the faulty one aside, and thus getting a brand new data partition which is gonna make your phone work again, but at the cost of having a smaller internal SD. Other than that, your phone should work exactly as it did.
WARNING
By doing so, you're also repartitionning the internal sdcard, which will result in the loss of everything you have on it, to backup the content of your internal sdcard, you must follow the steps described in THIS THREAD which is the thread started by the man that found the solution to this problem. The thread is a galaxy note thread, but the backup procedure is the same.
Once you have backed up what you wanted to backup, and made sure you read everything carefully, you can proceed to the flashing of the modified pit file.
AFTER FLASHING THE PIT FILE, YOU SHOULD IMMEDIATLY FLASH A SAMSUNG ROM OR A KERNEL VIA ODIN, ESPECIALLY IF YOU STILL HAVE THE LQ5 KERNEL INSTALLED, IN ANY CASE, DON'T TRY TO WIPE DATA AFTER THE PIT FILE FLASH, FLASH A ROM OR A KERNEL BEFORE DOING ANY WIPE
Here is the zip file containing the modified pit file : http://forum.xda-developers.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=1185385&d=1341775209
The file you need to flash is in the main folder and is called i9100_u1_02_20110310_emmc_EXT4-patched-standard.pit
STEP BY STEP
-Put your phone into Download Mode
-Flash the modified pit using odin, NOTHING ELSE
-After pit flash, the phone will try to reboot, and will get stuck. Remove the battery
-Go into Download Mode.
-Flash a clean, unmodified, samsung firmware (like KI4) WITHOUT PUTTING ANY PIT FILE
-Reboot in stock recovery, do a factory reset
-Reboot phone
-Format internal sdcard
-You should be good to go
ALTERNATIVE WAY (NOT RECOMMENDED)
-Put your phone into Download Mode
-Flash the modified pit using odin, NOTHING ELSE
-After pit flash, the phone will try to reboot, and will get stuck. Remove the battery
-Go into Download Mode.
-Flash a custom kernel with Odin.
-Then Boot into recovery and install a rom from a zip which must be on your external SD
I hope this works for you as well as it did for me. Good luck, and congratulations to hg42 for finding a way to get our devices working again
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You are my S2 saver! Thank you! Thank you!
Since Thursday, when i lost my S2 because of LQ5, i have been trying to find any possible solution through ODIN, but the same result: S2 stacked on logo screen.
Today i decided to send my S2 to Samsung, but the last minute i saw your thread.
I had nothing to loose so i decide to give it another try and I GOT MY PHONE BACK!
After formatting internal card i got back 9,54 Gb. I remember that i had 11Gb free before LQ5 but right now its not major problem.
Once more
Thank you!!!!!

Need Major Help

I have been trying for a week now to restore a nook color back to stock with no avail. When I started there was no boot image or stock recovery and it would only boot from a CWR sd card but not mount or read the sd card to install any zip files Now i have it booting with the stock boot image but only to the "n" screen and no further. I have tried the factory recovery and reset but get nothing. I have a PC with a working ADB install but am unable to "push" the system.img to the sd card or anywhere for that matter and then dd it to the correct block on the internal memory. I am also unable to boot CM7 from the sd card because it freezes during the install. So basically what I'm asking for, is help fixing this darn thing cause I'm tired of it kicking my ass. thank you in advance for the info.

Sounds like your emmc partitions are messed up. Go to my partition repair thread linked in my signature. But if you cannot flash any zips, my repairs will not work. Try using my CWM bootable card from my tips thread also linked in my signature. Put the repair zips on the boot card before you boot.
Sent from my Nook Color running ParanoidAndroid and Tapatalk

leapinlar said:
Sounds like your emmc partitions are messed up. Go to my partition repair thread linked in my signature. But if you cannot flash any zips, my repairs will not work. Try using my CWM bootable card from my tips thread also linked in my signature. Put the repair zips on the boot card before you boot.
Sent from my Nook Color running ParanoidAndroid and Tapatalk
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I will try both when i get home from work and let you know how it works. Thanks.

steve_o2291 said:
I will try both when i get home from work and let you know how it works. Thanks.
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ok so after reading your links i have tried both of those methods already and neither of them works. I am beginning to wonder if i don't just have a group of six bad sd cards. They will boot CWR and begin the install of CM7 but thats as far as they get. I have tried everything I can find on forums and nothing works so far. If i could just get the system.img pushed with adb then i think that would get it but it just won't work.
I have also read about the system not loading if the serial number is not on it but I have done some file searching and found that it is in place so i don't think thats the prob. If you could think of anything different that would be awesome but I think I'm about to the point of having to bring it to B&N for service or just replace it.
Is there a place i could put the system image for the factory reset to take care of the install on its own.

steve_o2291 said:
Is there a place i could put the system image for the factory reset to take care of the install on its own.
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Go to my tips thread and I have a new section about 8 failed boots. But you need the stock recovery on /boot for it to work. I know you cannot flash my stock recovery zip, but you could open the zip and extract the uRecImg and uRecRam and push them with adb to /boot (mount /dev/block/mmcblk0p1 as /boot first). Then follow my guide on how to do the 8 failed boots. That should wipe your device (including media) and install the original stock on your system.

leapinlar said:
Go to my tips thread and I have a new section about 8 failed boots. But you need the stock recovery on /boot for it to work. I know you cannot flash my stock recovery zip, but you could open the zip and extract the uRecImg and uRecRam and push them with adb to /boot (mount /dev/block/mmcblk0p1 as /boot first). Then follow my guide on how to do the 8 failed boots. That should wipe your device (including media) and install the original stock on your system.
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Ive already got the stock recovery on /boot but 8 failed boots still does nothing because i have system.img for it to recover. I have all the partitions formatted the way they are supposed to be with fdisk but i still can't push the system.img to sdcard because it can't find it and if i try to put it on the nook i either get a protocol error or not enough room on the device error.

steve_o2291 said:
Ive already got the stock recovery on /boot but 8 failed boots still does nothing because i have system.img for it to recover.
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I don't understand what you mean, you 'have system.img for it to recover'. The 8 failed boot uses factory.zip in partition 3 and if it enters the process (via stock recovery), it clears data and flashes that.

leapinlar said:
I don't understand what you mean, you 'have system.img for it to recover'. The 8 failed boot uses factory.zip in partition 3 and if it enters the process (via stock recovery), it clears data and flashes that.
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I didn't realize i had to have facotry.zip on p3. I am going to try to dd it there and see what it does from there
Ok just tried like that and still get the install failed screen.

steve_o2291 said:
I didn't realize i had to have facotry.zip on p3. I am going to try to dd it there and see what it does from there
Ok just tried like that and still get the install failed screen.
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Where did you get your factory.zip? Did you just rename a stock zip? It looks the same but I'm not sure everything is. When it says install failed, did the recovery start and fail or did it say that right off? Are you sure the recovery you used is the real stock recovery? You cannot just remove kernel-recovery and ramdisk-recovery from the stock zip and push those as uRecImg and uRecRam. Those get patched as the rom installs. Take the ones from my zip and push them. They are the patched versions.
You say you dd it but I hope you mean push to the mounted partition.

leapinlar said:
Where did you get your factory.zip? Did you just rename a stock zip? It looks the same but I'm not sure everything is. When it says install failed, did the recovery start and fail or did it say that right off? Are you sure the recovery you used is the real stock recovery? You cannot just remove kernel-recovery and ramdisk-recovery from the stock zip and push those as uRecImg and uRecRam. Those get patched as the rom installs. Take the ones from my zip and push them. They are the patched versions.
You say you dd it but I hope you mean push to the mounted partition.
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I am unable to mount /dev/block/mmcblk0p1 in shell with a /boot directory. gives me a "Device or resource busy". so i just pushed the recovery files to /boot with
"adb push XXXX /boot"
and yes the recovery starts to load then fails
If i do
adb mount /boot
I get the help menu for a wrong entry
and i used the files from your download for the factory recovery

steve_o2291 said:
I am unable to mount /dev/block/mmcblk0p1 in shell with a /boot directory. gives me a "Device or resource busy". so i just pushed the recovery files to /boot with
"adb push XXXX /boot"
and yes the recovery starts to load then fails
If i do
adb mount /boot
I get the help menu for a wrong entry
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Boot must already be mounted by CWM.
Just do an 'adb mount' command and it will tell you the things already mounted.
As for dd'ing the system.img to p5, can't you just dd it with adb from your PC?
And the factory.zip? You pushed that to p3?

leapinlar said:
Boot must already be mounted by CWM.
Just do an 'adb mount' command and it will tell you the things already mounted.
As for dd'ing the system.img to p5, can't you just dd it with adb from your PC?
And the factory.zip? You pushed that to p3?
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yes i pushed factory.zip to p3
as for dd'ing system.img to p5 with adb i have to do dd with a shell command and i errors out when i try to push it data so i can't dd it to p5
this would be a lot easier if the damn sd card would work. I have no clue why it isn't because it worked fine until it crashed

Try formatting the SD with an SD formatting program (in a USB card reader, not your PC's internal slot). Sometimes SDs formatted with PCs are not readable in the nook. Search the net for one.

leapinlar said:
Try formatting the SD with an SD formatting program (in a USB card reader, not your PC's internal slot). Sometimes SDs formatted with PCs are not readable in the nook. Search the net for one.
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Already did that several times with multiple cards on different machines. One with windows the other a mac

One final suggestion. Use my CWM SD (version 5.5.0.4) since it has the option of flashing things from internal memory.
Do an 'adb mount' to verify that p8 is mounted. If it isn't, mount it. Then push the zips that you want to flash there. Then the new CWM can flash from there.

Tried that just now and 5.5.0.4 tells me no zip found. I guess this is something that'll have to be done by a professional. After a week of trying and trying again I don't think Im going to be able to do it because I've tried everything i can find on the net and nothing works except for get the factory boot image back in place and getting the factory recovery to start but won't install anything. The factory reset also starts and erases all data but won't still only boots to the "n" screen. thanks for the help

[GUIDE-FIX] GT-I9000 BOOT LOOP (common errors, /emmc, no mount of internal SD etc)

I know there are various this and that posts but only one was similar to my below solution. No RIFF box required!
My phone was stuck in boot loop for last 2-3 months. Only way I have managed to get the BEST and MOST COMPLETE CWM flashed was with SEMAPHORE cwm!
Idea was simple at the end!
WE NEED TO get phone on stock firmware BUT somehow to make the internal SD operational again!
Steps!
ONLY PREREQ: BE ABLE TO ENTER "DOWNLOAD" MODE! and have the drivers installed on your pc for your phone to be recognized.
* You can have an empty external SD card in the slot. No harm but better to remove the SIM card if any.
- Use ODIN (i ve used Odin3 v1.83) to flash SEMAPHORE (Semaphore_ICS_1.3.0s.tar ). No PIT file, No partitioning! Simply put the tar to PDA field and flash!
- Reboot into SEMAPHORE CWM and go to section with /data partition! YES! Select size 2GB and SWAP the max 256MB when asked! Exit and restart!
- Enter DOWNLOAD mode again and now flash (you need to find the stock EU region free firmware I9000XXJVU_I9000OXAJVU_OXA.zip which is actually split in 3 tar and not just one!)
- ODIN 1.83 will automatically enable Re-Partition & Auto Reboot & F. Reset Time when you flash 3 files! Leave ALL enabled! Everything else just leave as is and apply below!
You need PIT file 512 for the PIT field!
Then:
i . PDA: CODE_I9000XXJVU_CL851880_REV03_user_low_ship.tar.md5
i i . PHONE: MODEM_I9000XXJVU_REV_00_CL1092175.tar.md5
i i i . CSC: GT-I9000-CSC-MULTI-OXAJVU.tar.md5
FLASH above and your phone should come start up normally to STOCK XXJVY firmware!
Once you up and running and looking forward to flash you most wanted custom ROM please always follow below procedure that I KNOW is mentioned over and over again!
1. ENABLE USB Debugging! (for CM 10.1 users its hidden in MODEL # in about section of settings (press 7 times)
2. ALLOW apps from unknown sources for installing ROM Manager etc
3. Root the phone by flushing with ODIN the CF-Root-XX_OXA_JVU_2.3.6-v4.3-CWM3RFS.tar in PDA field! - Simple but effective you will be rooted and CWM!
4. Copy your new ROM zip to the external SD.
5. Enter CWM. IMPORTANT: a. Wipe/Factory reset! b. Wipe Cache c. Enter Advanced and WIPE Dalvik Cache! (ALWAYS DO THE 3 steps prior flashing new firm)
6. Now you can select your ROM zip from file on ext sd card and flush it. * If you have custom rom like CM 10.1 and you want the Gapps now its the time to do it just after ROM flash finished! - You need to select correct GAPP based on the custom rom you will apply. ICS with ICS GAPPS, JB with JB GAPPS
THE BEST/STABLE/FAST/NET OK/CAM OK etc firmware with great boot i highly recommend is ICS_4.0.3_MR1-RC4.2_I9000.zip . Try it on your GT-i9000 after above procedure and I think you will be the happiest man! Extremely FAST and GREAT Battery handling!
PS I tried latest CM 10.1 but not as fast as above! Not needed in my opinion on the GT-i9000!
Thats all folks!

First, this should be useful for noobs but maybe in the Q&A section?
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Shouldnt this be 'clear' to all i9000 owners ?
Sent from my GT-I9000 using xda app-developers app

Att MODS: Can you move it to Q&A, please?

Is this compatible with i9003?

Havent tried i9003 as i dont have the exact model in hand but you can follow the steps and basically replace the files with the correct ones for your i9003. Again I repeat you will need for each model its own files and process... If you would like me to repair yours you can pm me and see if this would be possible.

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ONLY PREREQ: BE ABLE TO ENTER "DOWNLOAD" MODE! and have the drivers installed on your pc for your phone to be recognized.
* You can have an empty external SD card in the slot. No harm but better to remove the SIM card if any.
- Use ODIN (i ve used Odin3 v1.83) to flash SEMAPHORE (Semaphore_ICS_1.3.0s.tar ). No PIT file, No partitioning! Simply put the tar to PDA field and flash!
- Reboot into SEMAPHORE CWM and go to section with /data partition! YES! Select size 2GB and SWAP the max 256MB when asked! Exit and restart!
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Please where is the /data portion?
I found only partition sdcard...
Is this the same or anywhere else? I tried, but it is still looping.
I used JW4 after partitioning sdcard.
Thank you ...
Peter

Sometimes it helps to wipe cache and dalvik cache.
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thank you
thank you from the bottom of my heart.. you saved my phone..

Tried this a lot of times...
One of them I was so happy because the "failed to mount /scard (File exists)" error dissapears and no other red errors on boot. But unfortunately the phone still on bootloop.
So I tried many other times, following step by step, using same Odin and kernel, etc...
But it's not working for my old I9000 :crying:

BEST 4 i9000 I have found! Thanks should be marked!

Thank you very much,
now my SGS saved,
Even this is my first time i use odin,
Awesome

the men
thank you from the bottom of my heart.. you saved my phone..
You sir you are the men

after I did this steps finallay I get cant mount data in update mode please I need help

Hi
SEMAPHORE CWM and I9000XXJVU_I9000OXAJVU_OXA.zip

i get all the way to having CM
but as soon as i install CM
the CWM is gone, so the reload after CM is the normal recovery, and then it boots into CM but it isn't rooted..
how do i fix this? thank you!2

I don't get this bit either:
- Reboot into SEMAPHORE CWM and go to section with /data partition! YES! Select size 2GB and SWAP the max 256MB when asked! Exit and restart!
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I don't see any data partition section, not sure what you mean.

done but camera not work
done but when using camera
say insert sd card before using the camera
how fix this problem

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I have my phone brought back to life, thanks to you, Odin would not pick up pit file, sim card is not being read, I assume the missing pit file is the cause, advice on how to find it would be much appreciated.:good:

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Returning to stock recovery

Hi Everyone,
I'm looking to return to the stock MDJ recovery using the stock TAR packages here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2269304 (can't believe GooManager will overwrite an existing recovery partition without taking a backup).
I've read that I can extract the recovery.img from the TAR package and individually flash that via ODIN. Is this true? If so, I would flash the file as "PDA", right? Will there be any data loss as a result of this process (internal SD and apps)?
Thanks.

Does anyone have any ideas?

Returning to stock recovery

Hi Everyone,
I'm looking to return to the stock MDJ recovery using the stock TAR packages here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2269304 (can't believe GooManager will overwrite an existing recovery partition without taking a backup).
I've read that I can extract the recovery.img from the TAR package and individually flash that via ODIN. Is this true? If so, I would flash the file as "PDA", right? Will there be any data loss as a result of this process (internal SD and apps)?
Thanks.

theSpam said:
Hi Everyone,
I'm looking to return to the stock MDJ recovery using the stock TAR packages here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2269304 (can't believe GooManager will overwrite an existing recovery partition without taking a backup).
I've read that I can extract the recovery.img from the TAR package and individually flash that via ODIN. Is this true? If so, I would flash the file as "PDA", right? Will there be any data loss as a result of this process (internal SD and apps)?
Thanks.
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No ,you can flash a .img file with Mobile Odin Pro (if you have I9505/Qualcomm cpu), not with PC Odin. The .img file can however be repacked as a .tar file so you can flash it with PC Odin. Flashing a recovery does not wipe any user data.