I tried to downgrade for the sake of battery, and I believe I've softbricked.
I did disable lagfix prior to wiping and flashing. Even checked in terminal.
I managed to boot once. Downloaded Titanium and restored my apps/data, then removed the "remove-lagfix"s and rebooted. Got the linda voice, then "execute", boot logo, and... nothing. Black screen, touch buttons lit up. Sounds like the softbrick I've read of.
So yeah. What do I do to restore my phone to working condition? I have no nandroids, but I've no issue with unrooting/restoring to initial system conditions/etc.
I'm on Snow Leopard, Macbook Pro 2010. I'll dual boot a Windows if I need to.
Thanks a ton for help everyone!
Stevenr3792 said:
I tried to downgrade for the sake of battery, and I believe I've softbricked.
I did disable lagfix prior to wiping and flashing. Even checked in terminal.
I managed to boot once. Downloaded Titanium and restored my apps/data, then removed the "remove-lagfix"s and rebooted. Got the linda voice, then "execute", boot logo, and... nothing. Black screen, touch buttons lit up. Sounds like the softbrick I've read of.
So yeah. What do I do to restore my phone to working condition? I have no nandroids, but I've no issue with unrooting/restoring to initial system conditions/etc.
I'm on Snow Leopard, Macbook Pro 2010. I'll dual boot a Windows if I need to.
Thanks a ton for help everyone!
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Wipe > Reflash
Probably would be best to put the disable_voodoo file back in before flashing again.
Arg... But I can't seem to mount the phone on a Win XP netbook OR my MBP. :/ Will keep trying.
Make sure you installed the samsung drivers for your pc. You can find the link in the Vibrant Bible
Well, scratch all this. I managed to boot normally by just wiping everything (again) then rebooting without flashing anything. Dunno why it didn't happen earlier... either way, I'm okay now.
Very strange. Bad flash/wipes I suppose.
Stevenr3792 said:
I tried to downgrade for the sake of battery, and I believe I've softbricked.
I did disable lagfix prior to wiping and flashing. Even checked in terminal.
I managed to boot once. Downloaded Titanium and restored my apps/data, then removed the "remove-lagfix"s and rebooted. Got the linda voice, then "execute", boot logo, and... nothing. Black screen, touch buttons lit up. Sounds like the softbrick I've read of.
So yeah. What do I do to restore my phone to working condition? I have no nandroids, but I've no issue with unrooting/restoring to initial system conditions/etc.
I'm on Snow Leopard, Macbook Pro 2010. I'll dual boot a Windows if I need to.
Thanks a ton for help everyone!
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same thing with me... I flashed bonix 1.6 and tryed to flash back to stock rom via the recovery in rom manager. well it failed. when it booted back up it looked like stock but a bunch of force closes would come up. tryed to reflash via oden but it would just boot to galaxy s screen then go blank with the buttons at bottom lighting up then nothing.
now after a couple tryes with different roms it says cant mount dev/block/stl10 on the stock recovery...
so im guessing i am screwed because i dont have clockwork recovery.
sw20matt said:
same thing with me... I flashed bonix 1.6 and tryed to flash back to stock rom via the recovery in rom manager. well it failed. when it booted back up it looked like stock but a bunch of force closes would come up. tryed to reflash via oden but it would just boot to galaxy s screen then go blank with the buttons at bottom lighting up then nothing.
now after a couple tryes with different roms it says cant mount dev/block/stl10 on the stock recovery...
so im guessing i am screwed because i dont have clockwork recovery.
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Would one of these different roms be eugene373s froyo that doesnt brick? Cause thats been fixing similar problems to yours.
Use odin to flash to that with repartition checked in odin. Then flash back to stock with repartition unchecked.
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hello can you guys please help me. im trying to restore my phone with odin....everything installs perfectly but when it reboots into recovery and tries to wipe data it says cant wipe data. so basically the data dosent wipe and the phone boots up to the S logo screen but after that the phone dosent boot up all the way i just get a black screen after the S logo screen. PLEASE HELP!
Ive searched the forums and havent found anyone with a similar issue.
i think i might of checked repartition box before i did it the 1st time....could that have messed up my phone?
x21chicago said:
hello can you guys please help me. im trying to restore my phone with odin....everything installs perfectly but when it reboots into recovery and tries to wipe data it says cant wipe data. so basically the data dosent wipe and the phone boots up to the S logo screen but after that the phone dosent boot up all the way i just get a black screen after the S logo screen. PLEASE HELP!
Ive searched the forums and havent found anyone with a similar issue.
i think i might of checked repartition box before i did it the 1st time....could that have messed up my phone?
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What I would suggest is to flash the J12 update through odin and see if that works. If that works, after boot up, go back and flash original rom back with odin and see if that helps. You should never click on repartition through odin because the instruction does not advise to do that when flashing a rom through odin. Hopefully you did not mess up your phone.
You probably need to follow 'eugenes froyo that doesn't brick' method. Do that first then odin to stock. Ind this should be posted in general or q&a
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1) This should be in "Q & A" or at the very least "General".
2) What ROM were you using that you are flashing back from?
3) Did you have any "lag fixes" installed?
x21chicago said:
hello can you guys please help me. im trying to restore my phone with odin....everything installs perfectly but when it reboots into recovery and tries to wipe data it says cant wipe data. so basically the data dosent wipe and the phone boots up to the S logo screen but after that the phone dosent boot up all the way i just get a black screen after the S logo screen. PLEASE HELP!
Ive searched the forums and havent found anyone with a similar issue.
i think i might of checked repartition box before i did it the 1st time....could that have messed up my phone?
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Make sure your flashing the stock JDF because the JI6 doesn't contain all of the files, and if that doesn't work flash the "froyo that does not brick rom" by eugene that is in the bible then flash the stock JFD rom
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How will repartition mess up your phone?
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x21chicago said:
hello can you guys please help me. im trying to restore my phone with odin....everything installs perfectly but when it reboots into recovery and tries to wipe data it says cant wipe data. so basically the data dosent wipe and the phone boots up to the S logo screen but after that the phone dosent boot up all the way i just get a black screen after the S logo screen. PLEASE HELP!
Ive searched the forums and havent found anyone with a similar issue.
i think i might of checked repartition box before i did it the 1st time....could that have messed up my phone?
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I'm having the exact same problem... I've tried multiple flashes but have yet to find a solution... Anyone have any idea how to get the data to wipe?
drpkenny said:
I'm having the exact same problem... I've tried multiple flashes but have yet to find a solution... Anyone have any idea how to get the data to wipe?
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When it say wipe data it doesn't wipe the built in memory it just wipes the partition where the OS is installed. Make sure you don't have voodoo lag fixed installed or it will hang up every time, I have used this method about 6 times to unbrick and have never had an issue. I followed the instructions to the letter and it has worked perfectly every time, but I would need more info on what rom you are coming from and what lag fix or what you have installed if all fails try the above mentioned fix with froyo that does brick.
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x21chicago said:
hello can you guys please help me. im trying to restore my phone with odin....everything installs perfectly but when it reboots into recovery and tries to wipe data it says cant wipe data. so basically the data dosent wipe and the phone boots up to the S logo screen but after that the phone dosent boot up all the way i just get a black screen after the S logo screen. PLEASE HELP!
Ive searched the forums and havent found anyone with a similar issue.
i think i might of checked repartition box before i did it the 1st time....could that have messed up my phone?
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launch your phone into recovery mode and delete everything-cache and all user data. i reinstalled the packages and then rebooted the system. its working without any problems now.
Fixed it!
OK, i ran into this exact issue yesterday and fixed it. This is what I did.
First flash Eugene's Froyo that doesn't brick with Odin.
Went through steps one and two. Don't worry about the sdk thing.
Now you should be in recovery mode. Pull the battery. Get back into download mode. Now flash, [ROM] OFFICIAL T-Mo Vibrant JFD ODIN/Nandroid Backup Images 7/29/10 (Tested/Working). This got me out of trouble. I hope it works for you.
installing the froyo that dosent brick resolved my issue!
thank you for all your responses and help
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Anybody know where I can find this eugenes froyo that doesnt brick? Seems gino decided to remove the dl link for it n I checd his site but didnt c it, so im hoping theres like a mirror or maybe sum1 has it saved or something. Well anyway im able to flash the jk2froyo but it wont wipe data n then it wont let me dL any apps bcuz it says sorry not enough space.
It took some googling but I found it here
http://eb-productions.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=samsungsgs&action=display&thread=8
Having problems with Odin, bah... trying to get my phone to work but always getting the "Data Write Failed" in red error.
EDIT: Haha nevermind got it to finally work after flashing Eugene's Froyo then stock JFD, guess I was using a different/wrong version of Eugene's Froyo haha damn I'm so relieved!!
I'm having a similar issue. Can someone give step by step instructions on how to fix this, please. I'm able to boot up, but then it give an error that says i have no space for apps. I check the application space and it just says 0.00 MB. Please help
My vibrant running a rooted froyo started to act up today after it wouldnt play my mp3 files, saying how its the incorrect format or something. So after it said that for every song i restarted the phone. I get past the phone boot screen and i even get to see the bar up top that i could usually slide down but the rest is black, i hold the power button as if im going to shut it off and the power menu comes up and anything i do freezes the device. The bottom soft touch keys are turning on but seem to have no effect on anything the phone does. Im also getting these weird vibrations out of it every so often.
I got into recovery, tried deleting the caches, still nothing so i formatted the system partition since it gave me an error every time i tried to restore it. now its stuck at the vibrant screen.
Help please
ngbmameman said:
My vibrant running a rooted froyo started to act up today after it wouldnt play my mp3 files, saying how its the incorrect format or something. So after it said that for every song i restarted the phone. I get past the phone boot screen and i even get to see the bar up top that i could usually slide down but the rest is black, i hold the power button as if im going to shut it off and the power menu comes up and anything i do freezes the device. The bottom soft touch keys are turning on but seem to have no effect on anything the phone does. Im also getting these weird vibrations out of it every so often.
I got into recovery, tried deleting the caches, still nothing so i formatted the system partition since it gave me an error every time i tried to restore it. now its stuck at the vibrant screen.
Help please
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Flash Another Rom...Readd Instructions So You Make Sure You Doing It Correct...Or Just Try This Out
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=848737
Ive tried that, and now im able to get into recovery, i restored my latest back up and a previous back out from months ago, either way its stuck on the boot screen, the one where the S is glowing purple/blue or whatever and it doesnt go past that.
What now?
ngbmameman said:
Ive tried that, and now im able to get into recovery, i restored my latest back up and a previous back out from months ago, either way its stuck on the boot screen, the one where the S is glowing purple/blue or whatever and it doesnt go past that.
What now?
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well if you restored the rom and it dont pass the first screen you should install a kernel such as dead horse, dragon, overstock...and it should work because ive had that before
Easiest way is to Odin to stock...you are trying to run the wrong kernal on whatever rom you are using...they are incompatible
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now i lost my clockwork recovery screen, when i press install update.zip it says that there is no such file. Il try stock now.
Back to stock now, working fine. I think i lost all my data though, i cant seem to find clockwork on the internal SD. Any way its still there?
ngbmameman said:
Back to stock now, working fine. I think i lost all my data though, i cant seem to find clockwork on the internal SD. Any way its still there?
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ok brother so now reroot the phone and flash anything again... just read instructions and make sure its for vibrants
If bet you installed a non voodoo kernel over a voodoo one and it wiped your internal SD card....you news to toto the vibrant Bible and get the update.zip, move it to your internal SD...then reboot into recovery, then reinstall packages might have to hit reinstall packages twice...then you can flash whatever rom u want
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Its working now, just need to update to froyo now. I guess next time i should get titanium back up as well as clockwork recovery. Off to start over again.
Thanks guys
If You Want To Flash A Different Rom There Is No Need To UpGrade To 2.2... But You Can Do It Anywas...
would i just put the rom into internal sd and hit install update?
ngbmameman said:
would i just put the rom into internal sd and hit install update?
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if you want to install the stock 2.2 you just put it in the internal sd card and flash it...but also you can use a program from samsung called kies mini....
Im trying to flash stock froyo(KA6) with root deodexed from here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=771111
ngbmameman said:
Im trying to flash stock froyo(KA6) with root deodexed from here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=771111
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ook in that case just place it into the internal SD Card And flash it using Cwm Recovery
bosina said:
ook in that case just place it into the internal SD Card And flash it using Cwm Recovery
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Make sure you choose install zip from SD card...then pick your zip file
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Its installed, everything is good so far except for loss of data
ngbmameman said:
Its installed, everything is good so far except for loss of data
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ook Friend... Anythin ? Just Hmu Ill Help With all I can
ngbmameman said:
Its installed, everything is good so far except for loss of data
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Remember Don't forget to use titanium backup
Ive already downloaded it and backed up
Ok so, I've flashed back to stock JFD dozens of times, rerooted, etc etc etc. Done this many times. Just did again tonight, and now every time i try to go into recovery mode and hit reinstall packages to get into the actual mode where I can install a zip or whipe dalvik (etc), instead it continuously reinstalls update.zip and reboots over and over and over and over again. Deleted update.zip from my SD card, says it can't detect update.zip so nothing can be done. Put it back on, it insists on continously reinstalling the same damn thing. Getting a bit frustrated, can anyone shine a little light?
Re-root.
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Already did, same result. Thinking about just re-flashing stock, been tinkering with this a lot longer than I meant to.
reflash clockwork, get a new update package the old one may be corrupt. and update package twice and then blue recovery should turn from blue to green.
Ok figured it out. Tried reflashing clockwork mod via rom manager, it'd just hang. Reinstalled rom manager, same result, still unable to go to green recovery. Unroot via one click, reroot via one click. Reinstalled Rom manager, flashed clockwork mod again, was able to finally go to green recovery.
Took a little bit to find the right formula there, wanted to see if I could do it while avoiding reflashing stock.
i always like to odin it may take longer but it gets rid of all the old ghost roms i have on my phone.
movieaddict said:
i always like to odin it may take longer but it gets rid of all the old ghost roms i have on my phone.
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Agreed. I always clean my phone out between roms with Odin.
Flashed CM9 to experiment with it and see how it ran, prior to doing so made a backup of current setup (unnamed 2.2.1 w/ siyah kernel). After flashing to CM9 and playing around a bit i was going to revert back to my original setup. Tried flashing back and now I am unable to even get to CWM Recovery, or Download Mode. It will boot to the SGS2 screen and then just go black no matter what I do. It is still recognized in Odin so I was thinking I'm going to have to revert back to stock and just flash it back afterwards. Any ideas before I proceed?
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Flashed CM9 to experiment with it and see how it ran, prior to doing so made a backup of current setup (unnamed 2.2.1 w/ siyah kernel). After flashing to CM9 and playing around a bit i was going to revert back to my original setup. Tried flashing back and now I am unable to even get to CWM Recovery, or Download Mode. It will boot to the SGS2 screen and then just go black no matter what I do. It is still recognized in Odin so I was thinking I'm going to have to revert back to stock and just flash it back afterwards. Any ideas before I proceed?
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Flash back to stock. Strange - you say you can't get into download mode, but Odin recognizes it?
Ok, finally got into DL mode and flashed a stock kernel from Entropy's post. Now i'm faced with it booting to the ATT splash screen and it just loops that screen infinitely. I'm still unable to access recovery mode to wipe data/cache or anything like that. This is becoming frustrating and I'm not quite able to wrap my head around why after flashing stock that I'm unable to boot into the phone beyond the splash screen. Am I using the wrong stock fw or something? Here's the link to the one i used.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1286432
From my experience it's the wrong SPL/radio combo.
No matter what I do, I'm stuck up to that point.....I've tried a few different stock flash packages through Odin to no avail, same result every time. I know i'm probably doing something wrong or I'm missing something here, its not bricked I do know that so its not like i'm dead in the water here. Any ideas would be better than where I'm at currently.
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From my experience it's the wrong SPL/radio combo.
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There is no SPL on the GSII, and a bad radio will only screw up calls/cell data.
To the OP - exactly how did you flash CM9? CWM or some kanged-up Odin build?
Through CWM, everything worked fine but when I was using CM9 my back button and serach button weren't working, probably erroneous to this situation. this is just messing me all up that I'm able to boot up til the splash and then it just loops it over and over, its making me think that the FW is having issues loading or something.
Problem solved finally. Something must have changed after this last flash attempt because now I was able to get into CWM of all things and recover my old backups. Nice little adventure that was. Thanks guys for the help!
Entropy512 said:
There is no SPL on the GSII, and a bad radio will only screw up calls/cell data.
To the OP - exactly how did you flash CM9? CWM or some kanged-up Odin build?
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Understood. Coming from G1 I know it's different.
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Hey All-
I cracked my N4 screen for the 3rd time and am using a buddy's Atrix 4g with firmware 4.15(ish) as a loaner... Here's my deal- I used the auto rooter/CWM-installer (I think it installed CWM 4.0.0.2. Everything went fine- it was rooted and fully functional. I should have updated the recovery, but anyway....
I made a backup in CWM recovery and I decided to flash epinter's CM10.1 zip file. I don't know if there is something I missed, but I wiped everything and installed... But it 'installed' wayyyy too fast- it looks like the CWM version I have installed the zip as an update or something, and of course, when I rebooted the phone, nothing happened for about 5 seconds- it just stayed on the unlock/dual core logo screen. But then the screen sort of zoomed in and distorted/it looks like there is a reflection of the dual-core/unlocked logo.. Kind of hard to explain. But it's frozen in place. Nothing happens.
So I reinstalled my backup- it takes a while to install as it should, but when I reboot, the same thing happens- it looks like it's going to boot, and then the screen just distorts and stays that way.... What on earth would make my backup not work??
All that said, I can still access CWM recovery.
Any thoughts on where I should go from here?
Zac
Update your recovery to cwm 5.0.2.x
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What would be the best way to do that?
Download img, flash via fastboot. Done.