Ok so i flashed my phone at least three times with odin, JI6, JI2, and stock, now I want to flash the JI6 again, but only this time when I use Odin, it will freeze during the flashing process (not literally freeze, it just wont continue with the process) and so the phone is stuck in between th phone...Pc icon, any suggestions??
update: I believe I got something up, it looked like it was going to flash correctly, all of the sudden stopped again in "Get PIT for mapping"...
update #2: Phones dead, wont turn on, i guess pretty soon i would be selling a "dead Vibrant" *sigh*
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ANY HELP WILL DO.
I work for T-Mobile and have plent of time to learn how to do things the right way. I became familiar with ADB, Flashing roms with CWM, and bricks and freezes do not scare me.
One day i was reverting to stock. Oden completed with a bright green pass! My phone rebooted, finalized the recovery, rebooted again, the screen went place and never came back on. I attempted to hold the power, change the battery-NOTHING-The phone remains powerless never to reboot again. I had not not done anything crazy before-JUST TESTING OUT ROMS. I currently have a working vibrant that i flash and recover everyday. I now purposly do not disable lagfixes and try random combintions of kernals and roms. Although i have had some crazy outcomes, nothing like that has happened again.
Does any one know for SURE what this means or does any one have any direction on how i can remedy a vibrant that no longer turns on or shows any signs of life. IF SO, AND YOU CAN BE RESPONSABLE FOR THE FIX, YOU MAY HAVE IT AT AN -UN-GODLY-CHEAP PRICE
Im not sure wheather it was the KA6 or the KB5 update, but I finally got mini kies working. updated my phone, it restarted, and now its just vibrating and showing the white Vibrant and Samsung words on a black screen, like when it first starts up. What should I do?
I am able to get into download mode but pressing the volume buttons, but now since I guess its not really fully on, mini kies wont recognize it.
Now im doing what I found here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=848737
So I ended up having to factory reset my phone. Gayest. ****. Ever. never buying another phone from Samsung. I just wanted the update!!
Kies Mini ended up having an error midway through installation. Luckily, even though I was getting the softbrick icons (the exclamation point in a yellow triangle between the phone and the computer) odin recognized my phone and I could flash back to JFD.
I'm disappointed that Samsung can't even successfully update their own line of phones with their proprietary software. Do they even test things with the end user software?
I completely agree! I really didnt like spending my saturday night putting all my stuff/apps back on my phone
I have my vibrant for a year now and installed Eugene's Ginger Clone with no problems for I think 6months now... but then suddenly my phone hanged so I rebooted it then got stucked at Vibrant Samsung screen.. I decided to Odin back to STOCK all is good I can hear the T-Mobile chime at boot but my screen is still stuck at the Vibrant Samsung Mode, before i Odined I managed to run clockworkmod did a restore back from stock same thing happened stuck at Vibrant screen. By the way I dropped my phone about 8 months ago and had cracks on screen but it is still functions like new.
Please help me even if I normal reboot my phone I can still hear the Tmobile chime but still stuck at Vibrant Samsung text and still lights up the buttons when I tap into it..
Your Help would be much appreciated.
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I have Odined back stock like 20 times still the same STUCK on BOOT SCREEN and ODINED also using EUGENES FROYO DOesNT BRICK like 10 times but vibrates 3 times every few seconds... PLS HELP ME....
is the screen all black, but the haptic keys are lighting up?
No the screen isnt black, its like im stuck on Vibrant Samsung boot but i can hear the Tmobile chime. when i left it for about 5hours the battery is completely drained.
what seems to be the problem?
This happened to me a while back. Senior developers called this a "soft brick". To fix, you need to flash (via ODIN) with Eugene's Froyo ROM (no brick) and then flash a stock vibrant rom. Sorry that I can't post a link to that froyo rom, but just google it. Hope this helps.
I followed your advice man and odined Eugenes Froyo doesnt brick but when the phone restarted it I got stucked this time the Galaxy S Logo and the phone vibrates every few seconds i dont know why is this happening any help from you guys is much appreciated.
Im trying to wipe/data factory reset but I cant, i just can navigate using up/down volume buttons but can not press OK or Enter
For the no brick...
You need to read up on it, but you flash it in Odin, check to not reboot, then you flash stock jfd in Odin over it.
It's been a long time for me, so be sure and watch a video on YouTube, or read a guide first.
Short and sweet, your phone will be fine, you aren't bricked for good.
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what I did is odin'd to Froyo doesnt brick then odin'd again to stock 2.1 what else am I missing? i read a lot of tutorials including yours, on how to get back to stock but same thing happens.. still stuck!
What do you mean by not check reboot sir? Is it on Froyo dsnt brick? If thats the case what I did is.
Odin'd Froyo doesnt brick uncheck all except PIT and PDA onced finished at download mode screen I pressed keys to get to recovery mode, Odin detected my phone then flash to stock jfd over it. still to no avail. stuck at boot screen.
I did this because I cannot boot up Eugenes (no brick) for some reason it stuck on boot screen and then vibrates randomly, never boots up completely
http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=747
thanks
WEIRD!
I think my phone is really messed up.. I installed any ROM i could imagine both CWM mode and ODIN but still cant get pass thru bootscreen,
on stock JFD I can hear Tmobile sound but on any 2.2 based ROMS it only vibrates a few seconds then reboots the phone and vibrates again...
I had no problems going Download mode or recovery mode works fine.
Only problem is I cant get pass thru bootscreen on any ROMS i had flashed.
Help!
I should have a heimdall one-click prepared tonight which will be a totally sane flash and tell you if anything went wrong.
thanks Adam, hoping to see that thing wakes up our phone
You may want to try this flash eugene's froyo that doesn't brick, then flash the stock, then flash any gingerbread rom together with the gingerbread bootloader..it works for me..hope it works 4u..i've flash the simply honey rom..u may try this =)
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still no luck.. i think this is hardware problem already because not even a single rom booted on me past the Vibrant screen.
Try my thread, if it doesnt work then its a hardware error.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1230059
OP -
If you are up to it, ship it to me and I will see if I can fix it. I don't steal phones.
I've been having trouble with my phone freezing a lot recently - tried a bunch of different ROMS, kernels, and modems but to no avail.
It sounded a little like the sudden death problem, only things happened like if i was listening to music when it froze, the music would keep playing, i just couldn't interact with it at all.
Anyway, in a last-ditch effort to get it going reliably, i decided to try out a Non-Samsung based ROM this morning (Resurrection remix).
I wiped everything and flashed RR and on rebooting, it just sat at the RR splash screen for a bout 45 minutes (until i killed it).
After killing it, i restarted the phone and it now just sits as the SGS 3 boot screen (with the white text). never gets anywhere though, and it just continually reboots if i try to get into Recovery mode.
So all i can do is get into download mode.
I've tried re-flashing CWM via ODIB, but it just gives me an error saying that 'There is no PIT partition'.
I've also tried re-flashing the original stock firmware and latest stock firmware through ODIN, and i get the same result each time.
What can I try next?
Also: if it's dead, is there some way i can rest my flash counter and yellow-triangle so i can send it in for service?
Try flashing the correct pit file. Looks like your nand is dead, aka sudden death.
You can't reset the counter, but they should fix it anyway
thanks - i suspected as much
I already tried the PIT and no luck, so i'll send it off to get fixed.
I successfully rooted my phone about a year and a half ago, all went well. Sunday night I had my phone plugged into my computer, and somehow I must have clicked "update" in the Verizon Assistant thing. So it starts updating, and about 2 seconds later I realized what I did. So the phone finishes updating and then goes into the setup wizard. I got a couple questions in and got a message to the effect of "The wizard stopped working", I'd hit "ok" and less than a second later the message would pop back up. So I figured I'd reflash the existing ROM in Odin. "Fail".
Now my phone turns on and goes straight into what I believe is Odin mode. It says "ODIN MODE" with the same text it has in what I know is Odin mode. The only difference is that it doesn't have the green android in the center, it says "Software Update Failed - Your device didn't update successfully, Use the Verizon Software Repair Assistant on a computer to repair your device and complete the update". (Is this the same mode as entering Odin mode with the power/home/vol dn buttons?) So I tried that. Five times. Each time it stops at 83% and says the phone was unplugged. It wasn't, I tried combinations of different cables/USB ports.
From what I've found so far, you need to know my bootloader to help me. The ROM I flashed all those months ago (and tried to reflash recently) was "I545VRUFNC5_I545VZWFNC5", My original build was "KOT49H.I545VRUFNG6", The Verizon Repair Assistant sees "Version OF1"... So I guess I have NC5 or some screwed up combination of NC5 and OF1?
I *may* have had a little bit of data on the phone that I'd like to save, almost everything was on the external card, which I have now removed to prevent accidents. However, I believe I've already lost any data that was in the phone? I'd be perfectly happy to get it working at all, but I would like to update to OF1, since it appears it can be rooted. If that's wrong, I'd like to have the newest version that can be rooted. But like I said, working at all would be great.
Thanks so much for any help
-Jason