So, I was having a god time with a few buddies, and I got a drink spilt on my vibrant. Everything had made it out ok, except for the usb port. I think a connection has been physically crossed. If I try to turn it on, it starts to load the battery status screen. Once booted, it goes into a constant loop of usb connected/disconnected.
IF I plug usb in, everything is fine.
Until I figure out what I am going to do with this phone, I need to disable usb on the os level.
I am thinking I could write a script to toggle usb. If I have to reboot to load drivers, then that's ok. I am aware that if its disabled, I won't be able to charge. Just need some thing to stop this cycle... Taxes the cpu/battery and sometimes causes a soft boot.
Any ideas guys? I've looked through JAC's init.rc to look for clues, but nothing stood out to me.
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Thanks, it seemed to be an os issue, so I started there. my bad.
Did you ever get this resolved? I have read other reports of the same issue, which I now have after installing Eugene's froyo JPM ROM. Not saying it's Eugenes ROM, it's just that it started happening after I installed his ROM two days ago.
I did not spill anything on my Vibrant, it just started happening. I did reinstall a 2.1 kernal (JVibrant OC/UV V1.1 CWM Recovery) and then installed Bionix 1.9.
It is giving me the same issue after doing all of this and I cannot get clockwork recovery to recognize my NAND backups. It just says cannot access folder or something like that.
I'm not sure if I should completely restore to stock via ODIN or if there was another route if indeed you did fix this issue.
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Thx, I will give it a try when I get home
Sweeeet! Your guide worked for my Vibrant. Everything is back to normal, thx
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I have never bricked it before, and I cannot go into download mode... I tried the the Vol up and vol down, didn't work, so I have been using ADB and just ****ed something up....
Now I need to know a way how I can revert back to stock, please and thank you, I will forever owe you one.
EDIT: Okay there is some confusion, to simplify it I will take it step by step:
I replaced an APK file from my system/apps and ever since it has been force closing process.android.acore, so I tried reflashing to stock, it froze while doing so now I have a picture of a caution sign, a phone and a computer coming up on my Vibrant, it will not start up.
It is hardware locked because I have never been able to access download mode via hardware keys(I have always been using ADB).
Is there any way I can reinstall stock? Or is my vibrant now destroyed?
what exactly were you doing when your phone stopped working? "just ****ed something up" makes it hard to pinpoint problems...
I don't know I replaced my phone.apk with another one then ever since then it keeps saying process.android.acore has stopped working. It wouldn't stop showing up so I tried to reflash with Odin to stock but it froze and now it is bricked.
bumping a little bit, I have never bricked it before so I have 0 experience.
What do you mean by froze? On what screen? How far can you get into booting?
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What do you mean by froze? On what screen? How far can you get into booting?
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Alright let me start over with more detail:
I tried to replace the dialer so I replaced the phone.apk and then process.android.acore kept force closing so then I tried reflashing with stock, during that I don't know what happened but I think my phone froze, so then it shut off and turned back on, I only found a screen with a computer on it... I am assuming it is bricked.... I also know it is hardware locked because I tried going into debug mode with vol up and vol down, how can I unbrick it?
Try moving the stock rom into the phones internal memory via adb. And flash it after a wipe.
I am Also having this same problem
I Flashed my Vibrant through Rom Manager to Froyo 2.2 from eugene373 and sombionix.
After flashing to both ROMS for Froyo I wanted to revert back to 2.1.
I tried to put sombionix 1.3 eclair ROM back on to my phone using clockwork mod.
The flash was not successful it stopped in the middle but the phone came on with a Force close error of an android process.
I tried to reboot through adb reboot recovery with usb debugging enabled.
The phone shut down like it would reboot into recovery mode and now it gets stuck on boot at the samsung vibrant screen.
I tried to use ODIN to flash back to the stock Rom but the phone is recognized in ODIN but will not flash.
ODIN sees the phone but will not get past flash analysis. (Sat for 8 Hours)
I believe this is the definition of bricked. Please Help!!!!!
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Try moving the stock rom into the phones internal memory via adb. And flash it after a wipe.
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It isn't even being read by my computer... nothing...
sympala said:
I Flashed my Vibrant through Rom Manager to Froyo 2.2 from eugene373 and sombionix.
After flashing to both ROMS for Froyo I wanted to revert back to 2.1.
I tried to put sombionix 1.3 eclair ROM back on to my phone using clockwork mod.
The flash was not successful it stopped in the middle but the phone came on with a Force close error of an android process.
I tried to reboot through adb reboot recovery with usb debugging enabled.
The phone shut down like it would reboot into recovery mode and now it gets stuck on boot at the samsung vibrant screen.
I tried to use ODIN to flash back to the stock Rom but the phone is recognized in ODIN but will not flash.
ODIN sees the phone but will not get past flash analysis. (Sat for 8 Hours)
I believe this is the definition of bricked. Please Help!!!!!
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Excuse me sir, make your own thread, don't jack mine...
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It isn't even being read by my computer... nothing...
Excuse me sir, make your own thread, don't jack mine...
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lol Sorry Smokexz didn't mean to jack your thread just trying to consolidate phone bricked threads. I will create my own NO PROBLEM.
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lol Sorry Smokexz didn't mean to jack your thread just trying to consolidate phone bricked threads. I will create my own NO PROBLEM.
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Thanks, regardless both our situations are bad .
Please? I really need help with this.
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Please? I really need help with this.
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If there is an answer, which I am not sure that there is, it would be here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=782739. You may have already seen it, but if not it gives many different processes to try. Good luck!
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If there is an answer, which I am not sure that there is, it would be here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=782739. You may have already seen it, but if not it gives many different processes to try. Good luck!
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Yep, I'm screwed thanks for the help though.
Can you get the phone in download mode?
Did you try this:
Pull battery
hold the volume up and down
reinsert the battery whiles still holding down the volume up n down
plug in usb cord
it should put you back in to DL mode
Open ODIN and unplug phone from PC and plug back in hopefully it will notice it then.
I am not sure if you can get in DL mode and it just wont let you do anything, but if you have already tried this my apologies.
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Can you get the phone in download mode?
Did you try this:
Pull battery
hold the volume up and down
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Did you even read the OP? He is HARDWARE LOCKED ie BUTTONS DON'T WORK geeze people learn how to read!
And on topic, if you can't ADB and you are Hardware Locked, you are SOL. Try to get an exchange from T-Mobile since it appears that they regard being Hardware Locked as a defect.
Alright thanks
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Did you even read the OP? He is HARDWARE LOCKED ie BUTTONS DON'T WORK geeze people learn how to read!
And on topic, if you can't ADB and you are Hardware Locked, you are SOL. Try to get an exchange from T-Mobile since it appears that they regard being Hardware Locked as a defect.
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Your a dumb ass, His thing actually does work.. I was "hardware locked" like 5 times That DOES work, you sir are a DUMB ASS < Had to say it again
(Make sure that your USB is plugged into your computer & not your phone)
Remove the back cover & remove the battery along with your sim & micro SD
Hold the VOL Up & VOL Down
(Keep holding those buttons) Now insert the battery
Plug the usb into your phone.
It will put you back in to DL mode
Open ODIN and unplug phone from PC and plug back in hopefully it will notice it then.
^^Do that
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Did you even read the OP? He is HARDWARE LOCKED ie BUTTONS DON'T WORK geeze people learn how to read!
And on topic, if you can't ADB and you are Hardware Locked, you are SOL. Try to get an exchange from T-Mobile since it appears that they regard being Hardware Locked as a defect.
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Wow you come in and try to offer up help and you get some one that feels the need to police the "suggestions"........ Have a coke and a smile my friend...and relax!
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Wow you come in and try to offer up help and you get some one that feels the need to police the "suggestions"........ Have a coke and a smile my friend...and relax!
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Not to mention that what that guy said actually works...
Some people just make me laugh
(Make sure that your USB is plugged into your computer & not your phone)
Remove the back cover & remove the battery along with your sim & micro SD
Hold the VOL Up & VOL Down
(Keep holding those buttons) Now insert the battery
Plug the usb into your phone.
It will put you back in to DL mode
Open ODIN and unplug phone from PC and plug back in hopefully it will notice it then.
^^Do that
Flashed rom now have no 3g or 2g data. Any body have any advice
I have one advice: to begin, specify what Rom did you flash and how...
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Flashed rom now have no 3g or 2g data. Any body have any advice
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First off, this is the wrong forum to post in. You should delete and move to the Q&A sub-forum for a better response.
That being said, how about a little more information? What ROM did you try and flash? What ROM were you coming from? Did you make a backup before you flashed?
Every little bit of info helps.
edit: damn it, beat me to it, but i typed it so it's staying!
Ok sorry for lack of info. I flashed from bionix 1.3 to stock. I tried flashin again to no prevail. Still no data connection and can't lget into download mode for odin. Any advice
Reflash
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May be useful if experiencing no data connection
Quick question,
After flashing rom, during reboot. Did your phone seem to be stuck in a boot loop? If so, did you pull the battery and do a hard reset or interrupted the reboot after flash at all?
Also, have you checked all your access point setting and ensured they are all correct?
Worse case senrio, flash back to a stock rom, then try and reflash rom again. If there was anytype of interruption during initial flashing, reflashing the same rom usually will not correct the problem.
This may not be the case for all, but it is a problem I ran into.
To get into download mode, try pulling battery. Hold down both up and down volume buttons, while still holding down volume buttons plug in USB that is connected to ur USB. Then after USB is plugged in, put ur battery back in. Remember, the entire time ur still holding down the two volume buttons.
Also, if using windows 7 with Odin, ensure you reboot windows 7 into the 'turn off digital signatures...' or whatever the name of the boot option. This can be done usually by pressing F8 in the BIOS. It is listed in the same boot menu as the safe mode option. If not Odin will usually freeze on cache.rfs(?), or whatever the name of the file.
Hope this is somewhat useful. Shoot me a message if you have any questions.
Jonathan rubcic
Electrical Engineer
Khafra
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I've tried the apn and it's all correct. As for the Odin thing the computer sees the phone when on bit not when off with the two button combo so when I plug in the cable it goes straight to charge screen instead
under settings, and about phone, what does your Modem Baseband say?
I had an issue last night (ultimately killed my vibrant) where my Modem Baseband said "Unknown"
I was working on this:
http://forum.cyanogenmod.com/topic/7504-odin-flash-loses-your-unlockfreeze-code/
I was on JI5, phone started rebooting when trying to pull a signal. Flashed JP3, said I had a JFD Modem. ODIN w/ repart to JFD, Modem Unknown with reboots. Went to flash JI2 Modem, and forgot I had repart checked.
So, it repartitioned the phone, cleared the efs, and only flashed a modem.
Needless to say..doesn't turn on now.
Replacement will be here mid-next week.
So i was able to enter download mode from abd and used odin to flash JFD back on to the phone. Phone is working great now
ok so i know how to do things on my vibrant but dont really know exactly how the phone does things (basically im a directions follower) so im going to try to be as precise as possible
my phone has been rooted for a while and ive been experimenting with a bunch of roms. i decided to flash TWs nero v3 w/voodoo and i was pretty sure id stick with that for a while but some of my games started having issues so i decided to flash the newest axura. now something told me that i needed to disable voodoo first and there is usually a voodoo submenu in CW recovery but there wasnt so i figured it was disabled already
so i flashed it and everything was going well untill my screen went blank
now my phone acts like there is no battery in it
ive tried any button combinations with charger in (wall or computer) or out.
no matter what my screen stays blank...plz help
im not exactly in a situation to just buy a new phone.
Unplug the phone from the charger. take your battery out for at least 15 seconds. plug the phone to your computer via usb. while holding both vol+/-, not power, put the battery back in. you should be in download mode.
use odin to flash a stock rom.
this all should work if you have the samsung drivers installed on your comp.
Go to this link it should help http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=848737&highlight=bricked+phone
btw i followed what both above said and neither worked for me =/
thanx for ur suggestions though
Ive seen alot of these post lately and all were on nerov3 .
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Well I guess that your best bet would be modifying the usb charger with resistors. as stated in the link that jewbrad suggested. A similar thing happened to my phone when I tried to go back to stock from nero, but instead of a blank screen, I got a small icon of a pc and phone with a triangle in between. The method that I posted did the trick. Maybe you should try it again and check odin to see if it recognizes your device, even if the phone might look like its off.
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Have you tried having odin open on you pc and loaded with eugene's froyo that doesnt brick then with your phone turned off(pull the battery then put it back in) now hold the volume keys up and down at the same time then plug your usb cord that is plugged into your pc into your phone this should get you into downlod mode. If this workes flash it and let odin do its thing after its done running it will reboot and go to a recovery screen then it will try to boot up ounce you see the i9000 screen you can pull the battery again and get it back into download mode the same way you did before and then flash the stock vibrant rom tar file and pit. I dont know if this will work but it cant hurt I know how it is not having your phone working so hope this helps
Same thing happend to me.
Please let me know if you get it fixed.
I was on Nero V3 trying to reflash because GPS didn't work well.
i got in to boot loop so i tried to get back to stock and re-do it,
and this happened.
I took it tmobile and claimed the ota broke it..they sent me a new one
NVM!! link posted by jewbrad had No-Boot phone instruction, and it worked!!!
Oh lucky...I tried that n it failed
Right, so my i5503T (Australian) was having some wi-fi troubles. I looked it up, and it was suggested to me that I upgrade to Cyanogenmod 7 (for Galaxy 5). Anyway, I installed Clockworkmod, it was fine, then I hard reset the phone (through Clockworkmod) and from then on, when booting it got to the flashing samsung, and stayed there for over 3 hours. After that I turned it off. I did the stupid thing, and went ahead installing Cyanogenmod. Now, as soon as I turn it on, it says 'ANDROID' in small white text in the top-right corner of the screen, and won't go away, EVER. ANY help would be very much so, I got the phone as a gift for chistmas..... *facepalm*
Thanks.
EDIT: It was (natively?) running Froyo before I broke it, and I would like to get it back there, or better (Cyanogenmod).
I have a working Eclair rom (2.1), but I don't want to use it...
Are you able to get it into download mode at all?
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Yea, I can get into download mode fine, but booting up, not so much.
Update: I used Check Fus Downloader to get firmware, had to use New Zealand as there was no actual Aussie model availible (???). Anyway, I flashed it with odin 4.28 (please tell me it is the right version!) and it is doing the same thing, with the flashing Samsung logo and all. Also, it vibrates once, then three times a few seconds later, then repeats every.... ummm, 30 secs?
Hey, I'm not an expert on this subject but I have messed around with my Galaxy 5 a lot, I broke it 4 times, but I'm guessing your problems could be fixed by;
Shove your device into Download Mode.
Use Odin to flash Clockwork Recovery.
It should now reboot into CW recovery.
Clear dalvik cache, cache and do a reset.
That might sort out any problems as my phone did this after my first flash but clearing the above sorted it out, if that doesn't work then do the same again but then; try flashing another rom onto your device, and see how it goes.
Somebody with more knowledge should correct my post if need be.
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Update: I used Check Fus Downloader to get firmware, had to use New Zealand as there was no actual Aussie model availible (???). Anyway, I flashed it with odin 4.28 (please tell me it is the right version!) and it is doing the same thing, with the flashing Samsung logo and all. Also, it vibrates once, then three times a few seconds later, then repeats every.... ummm, 30 secs?
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try removing your battery and let it out for few minutes, 2 min is enough, than insert the battery and reboot..
hope that solve your loop..
P.S.: did you do a wipe?
Could it have anything to do with the fact I have a i5503T, and that the ops is i5508?
OK, well it's fixed now, sorry for the trouble. It turned out I was missing one of the cyanogenmod files. Soooo, yeah I fell like a massive idiot, but everything turned out fine and well. Cyanogenmod is heaps better than Froyo, so I'm glad about that. Thanks all.
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OK, well it's fixed now, sorry for the trouble. It turned out I was missing one of the cyanogenmod files. Soooo, yeah I fell like a massive idiot, but everything turned out fine and well. Cyanogenmod is heaps better than Froyo, so I'm glad about that. Thanks all.
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OK, well it's fixed now, sorry for the trouble. It turned out I was missing one of the cyanogenmod files. Soooo, yeah I fell like a massive idiot, but everything turned out fine and well. Cyanogenmod is heaps better than Froyo, so I'm glad about that. Thanks all.
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im havin the same problem, can you send me the links to ALL the files you used and i'll hav yet ANOTHER go at it.
cheers m8
I just got a vibrant from another xda forums user, and the guy restored to stock 2.1 rom but when I plugin a charger or usb it reboots and stays black, I have already used odin 2 times to flash back to stock, still the problem persists, is there a fix?
I can enter download mode btw
thank you
http://www.droidforums.net/forum/te...screen-turns-off-when-plugged-into-power.html
I found this in Google. Don't know if this will help you or not, but about 3/4 of the way down on page 1 may help you.
didnt help, the phone reboots and stays off until i take out the usb cable/charger, except in download mode, weird
http://rootzwiki.com/topic/27596-q-phone-shuts-down-when-connected-to-usb/
This sounds like your issue. Install CWM and flash a custom ROM.. if for whatever reason you want Froyo, then I recommend Bionix V with the Bali kernel.
Or you could shoot high and try Helly Bean
Anyways, flashing past Eclair seems to be the solution to your particular problem. I would assume most people don't notice it because they don't stay on Eclair for more than a few seconds.
Hope this helps.
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didnt help, the phone reboots and stays off until i take out the usb cable/charger, except in download mode, weird
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try to flash bootloader (Only Stock/Froyo)
here is the link
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1117990