Ok, a few days ago I tried to use kies mini to upgrade to JI6, that experience did not go so well. I stated in another thread my woes, and someone stated how it was my fault so on and so forth, it is what it is, so what, pay my bills
When I got stuck at the galaxy s load screen I was distraught so my first thought was nandroid back to previous settings, big mistake. Once I did that I was then stuck at the vibrant load screen but heard the t-mobile stick together jingle.
Then I got an idea, I flashed Kinglicks kernel, then the vibrant root, then JI2 gps and restarted...Viola my vibrant works again and in the condition it was in before I failed to flash JI6, only one problem though, my baseband is JI6, and kies mine now thinks my devices software version is unregistered.
My phone works without a hitch, but I'm now concerned that I may never be able to upgrade it again. One thing is very much certain my gps is locking on when I'm outside in seconds so I'm not entirely sure what the hell happend...I know this might open me up to some flamming, but like I said, so what, come pay my bills.
TheMightiest1981 said:
Ok, a few days ago I tried to use kies mini to upgrade to JI6, that experience did not go so well. I stated in another thread my woes, and someone stated how it was my fault so on and so forth, it is what it is, so what, pay my bills
When I got stuck at the galaxy s load screen I was distraught so my first thought was nandroid back to previous settings, big mistake. Once I did that I was then stuck at the vibrant load screen but heard the t-mobile stick together jingle.
Then I got an idea, I flashed Kinglicks kernel, then the vibrant root, then JI2 gps and restarted...Viola my vibrant works again and in the condition it was in before I failed to flash JI6, only one problem though, my baseband is JI6, and kies mine now thinks my devices software version is unregistered.
My phone works without a hitch, but I'm now concerned that I may never be able to upgrade it again. One thing is very much certain my gps is locking on when I'm outside in seconds so I'm not entirely sure what the hell happend...I know this might open me up to some flamming, but like I said, so what, come pay my bills.
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Use ODIN to go back to stock, then update to JI6 using ODIN. Your phone should be back to registered version. I have done all these and I checked my phone with Mini Kies and it recognizes my phone and tells me that I am on the latest firmware. If you do not want to go through the steps do not worry, the devs in this forurms are always a step ahead of the game. I bet when Tmobile, releases 2.2, we will have to do a odin update anywayz.. Since tmobile, will not have enough time to test out every possible scenario we saw during the last release.
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First off this is my first post, and I gotta thank everyone cause I've been able to do some cool stuff with my phone and without the support of the community and the vast knowledge some of the guys (and gals) have on xda, I would be just another average consumer. And I'm still learning.
So a few days ago I tried to update my rooted Vibrant (with the lag fix) through Tmobile, like a noob, without unrooting my phone and everything was going great until the phone rebooted and got stuck on the "Samsung" startup screen.
I was able to fix that after reading through the odin3 fix and got the phone up and running again. Decided I didn't need froyo that bad and just reinstalled all my old stuff with Titanium backup.
Then after reading through the forums a little more I got the itch to try 2.2 again, so I was a little smarter this time, undid the lagfix, unrooted the phone and started the update. But once again, frozen at the "Samsung" screen...
Odin to the rescue again. But this time as odin was doing its thing, the power went out in my house, ughhh! Got everything back up and running and when I tried to turn the phone on it goes to a screen I haven't seen before, with a "phone" icon, two dots, a "triangle caution" icon, two dots, and a "computer" icon, and it wont get out of it. It won't connect to my computer so it won't connect to odin.
I'm usually decent at finding the solutions on the forums and I could have sworn I read somewhere about this type of problem, but I guess I'm wording my searches wrong so nothing is coming up.
So how do I get my phone out of this mode? Or is it bricked?
Also does anyone now why the phone would freeze like that after the update? I probably should have just flashed one of the froyo roms, but I figured it would be easier to return if the OS was from Tmobile.
steambrick said:
First off this is my first post, and I gotta thank everyone cause I've been able to do some cool stuff with my phone and without the support of the community and the vast knowledge some of the guys (and gals) have on xda, I would be just another average consumer. And I'm still learning.
So a few days ago I tried to update my rooted Vibrant (with the lag fix) through Tmobile, like a noob, without unrooting my phone and everything was going great until the phone rebooted and got stuck on the "Samsung" startup screen.
I was able to fix that after reading through the odin3 fix and got the phone up and running again. Decided I didn't need froyo that bad and just reinstalled all my old stuff with Titanium backup.
Then after reading through the forums a little more I got the itch to try 2.2 again, so I was a little smarter this time, undid the lagfix, unrooted the phone and started the update. But once again, frozen at the "Samsung" screen...
Odin to the rescue again. But this time as odin was doing its thing, the power went out in my house, ughhh! Got everything back up and running and when I tried to turn the phone on it goes to a screen I haven't seen before, with a "phone" icon, two dots, a "triangle caution" icon, two dots, and a "computer" icon, and it wont get out of it. It won't connect to my computer so it won't connect to odin.
I'm usually decent at finding the solutions on the forums and I could have sworn I read somewhere about this type of problem, but I guess I'm wording my searches wrong so nothing is coming up.
So how do I get my phone out of this mode? Or is it bricked?
Also does anyone now why the phone would freeze like that after the update? I probably should have just flashed one of the froyo roms, but I figured it would be easier to return if the OS was from Tmobile.
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That's nice of ya GreatOne
+1 vote for personalized help...
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I just don't get it. I literally follow every instruction to a T and still get hosed every time. The Droid is so much easier to hack than these phones. It's unnerving.
Here's a 'quick' recap of what I've done so far.
My girlfriend has a vibrant, I installed one of sombionix's ROMs on it and she loved it. I think the latest one I installed was 1.7 I convinced her to try out a froyo ROM and she didn't like it, so I went into recovery and attempted to restore a nandroid backup I had made of the 2.1 ROM. Little did I know that apparently you have to install a 2.1 kernel on the Vibrant first if moving from a 2.2 ROM to a 2.1 ROM (Nandroid on the droid restores the kernel too, so I wasn't aware of this). So recovery got stuck at 'restoring data'.
I spent a week trying to get the damn phone into download mode, FINALLY got it there and restored back to stock JI6 (I think that's what it's called anyway). At this point I was on a stock 2.1 kernel and thought that restoring the original nandroid backup would work this time. Yet AGAIN the restore got stuck at 'restoring data'. Can someone please tell me what the hell I'm doing wrong? After waiting 45 minutes at 'restoring data' I rebooted the phone again. The odd thing is, the bionix lady started talking and saying she was initializing bionix. I know this normally takes 10 minutes or so, so I am waiting, but I have a hard time believing the phone will work without being fully restored. Is it possible I didn't wait long enough? (45 minutes on 'restoring data')
Any other suggestions for what I've done wrong? Will Vibrant hacking always be this frustrating? If so, I'm probably going to get her back to stock and leave her that way. The only problem is I *NEED* to get this nandroid backup to work to get some important text messages and other things she had saved. Please help.
So I just odin'd back to stock, and this time before attempting to restore the nandroid backup I went into CWM myself to delete data and cache before restoring. The phone hangs at 'formatting data'. It's as if anytime CWM tries to do anything with the data partition the phone freezes. Any suggestions?
Alright, I FINALLY got the restore process to finish. I then rebooted the phone and now I'm stuck at the Vibrant logo. What on earth am I doing wrong? I just don't understand this. It's like every single time I conquer one obstacle, there's another one waiting for me. What do I need to do now? The bionix lady says 'initiating bionix, hardware acceleration sequence enabled', etc. as if it's going to load up but it does nothing. What now?
ARGH. So after getting the restore process to work and getting stuck on the vibrant screen, I again odin'd back to stock JI6. Instead of Odin flashing me back to stock JI6, somehow my phone came on and is exactly the same as when I made the original nandroid backup I've been trying so hard to restore to, except that there is no root, it's the wrong kernel, and things aren't working right (apps do nothing when clicked, text messages won't open, etc). WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON?!?! UGH.
I absolutely loathe this phone. Its performance is amazing, but this thing is a hacker's nightmare. I feel bad for those of you that own this piece of ****. I just spent the past hour redownloading a bionix 2.1 ROM, manually restoring all of her apps from titanium backup (free version, so had to do it one by one). I FINALLY got the phone to a point that was very similar to the nandroid backup I've been trying so hard to get back to and the damn thing rebooted, and now launcherpro is force closing repeatedly and not allowing me to do anything else at all. This phone is absolute crap as far as hacking goes. And I know, I know, I'm sure plenty of you will respond with wise ass remarks like 'if you knew what you were doing it wouldn't be', or 'I've never had a problem', but just the fact that this phone is only a few months old and its support forum is 5x more active than the most active Droid support forums shows how much harder this thing is to hack than my Droid. I am so frustrated with this thing I'm about to throw it out the damn window. You literally cannot do anything without encountering a new problem.
I guess I'll start the whole process over again. What a waste of good hardware.
It just never ends with this thing. Now after odin'ing back to stock the phone goes to a black screen and just sits there unresponsive. I ****ing hate my life. I really do. Will someone please help me? Please tell me what I did wrong in each of the 6 to 7 different problems I've had in this thread now?
Well it's all over now. After the most recent debacle I found a thread stating that if stuck on a black screen, flash the 'froyo that doesn't brick' through odin, then downgrade to stock JI6. I did that, and the phone boots now, but it wiped the SD card so it's all over now. All my nandroid backups, all files, everything is gone. Somehow the only thing it didn't wipe is an angry birds APK I bluetoothed to her phone the night it came out, since it wasn't showing up in her market yet. This phone may dominate my Droid in performance, but I have never had so many issues with a device in my entire life, not even when I first began hacking my Droid. I am going to leave her on stock and move on with my life. So many hours wasted on this piece of ****, my head is spinning. I do appreciate all the help on this forum but it's all been in vain. Thanks anyway everyone.
You keep posting to yourself. The reason, you are the issue. Some people forget to go to a2.1 kernel, but this thread is crazy. I've been flashing this phone since it came out with no issues at all. Don't bash the phone because YOU are having a problem.
I think he'd have been well advised to steer his girl to an HTC, not samsnot. Sorry you had such a ***** of a time man.
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Oh boy, may I suggest RTFM before you screw with your girlfriend's phone any longer?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=732458
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=771111
velocity92c said:
I absolutely loathe this phone. Its performance is amazing, but this thing is a hacker's nightmare. I feel bad for those of you that own this piece of ****. I just spent the past hour redownloading a bionix 2.1 ROM, manually restoring all of her apps from titanium backup (free version, so had to do it one by one). I FINALLY got the phone to a point that was very similar to the nandroid backup I've been trying so hard to get back to and the damn thing rebooted, and now launcherpro is force closing repeatedly and not allowing me to do anything else at all. This phone is absolute crap as far as hacking goes. And I know, I know, I'm sure plenty of you will respond with wise ass remarks like 'if you knew what you were doing it wouldn't be', or 'I've never had a problem', but just the fact that this phone is only a few months old and its support forum is 5x more active than the most active Droid support forums shows how much harder this thing is to hack than my Droid. I am so frustrated with this thing I'm about to throw it out the damn window. You literally cannot do anything without encountering a new problem.
I guess I'll start the whole process over again. What a waste of good hardware.
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You say its a hackers nightmare, it is one of the few phones that is almost impossible to brick, do not consider yourself a hacker for using odin, you could not even figure out how to do that right and messed up, that is what happend you are the reason it wouldn't work the phone is great you just suck.
This is the deal:
I bought my wife and I Vibrants back in February and from the minute I got it I started looking into updating from eclair.
I was following the info on xda after researching about rooting phones, so I rooted my phone using the Superonclick method. Just before getting ready to flash custom roms, I read that froyo was available through kies. So I did that. It worked well enough for me, so I updated my wife's phone as well and hers works beautifully. I also changed the home launcher to LauncherPro. love it.
Mine however has been going on the fritz. I'm in the middle of using an app or I'm doing nothing at but turning on my phone and the screen will be all black with nothing but the notification bar showing.
The media scanner is constantly running.
No gsm is detected.
I keeps vibrating after touching the screen.
No amount of turning it on and off gets it past that state.
It just randomly decided to start working on its own.
Any Ideas?
Should I unRoot my phone. I don't want to,
I'm still researching changing the bootanimation, (waiting for a Portal 2 theme, also researching how to do it myself).
SOS guys.
sorry if tldr.
I would suggest restoring your phone back to stock Via Odin, and starting fresh. The problem you most likely had is that you updated to Froyo through Kie's while your phone was rooted.
Or, at the very least do a factory reset on your phone.
But if you need to go the Odin route, just search the forum, can't miss it.
oh wow, I didn't know that was an issue updating while rooted. I must have missed something while reading (so many threads -_-).
Guess I have some more light reading to do...
thanks.
Did a little research, should I unroot my phone first before factory reset? or is there a method that will take care of removing the root?
I need to ask this here since because I have never had this happen to me before in all my time of using Android!
THE EXPLANATION:
I have tried on two separate occasions, to install the I777UCKJ2 firmware on my phone. Everything seems to work well unless I am talking to someone. I can hear the other person very clearly, but they say that my voice goes in and out, almost like I am moving the phone far away from my mouth or something.
The first time I installed the firmware, I thought my phone could have been faulty (it was pretty much out-of-the-box at the time) or that I was putting my finger over the mic. I noticed thought that the latter was not true and that after restoring my firmware back to the stock 2.3.4 (I777UCKH7), the issue went away.
Last week, I tried UCKJ2 again. This time, I called my home phone BEFORE I did the flashing and noticed that the cell's mic sounded nice and clear. I then flashed the UCKJ2 firmware and repeated the test. Sure enough, my cell phone made it sound like someone was putting their hand over my mouth or something (randomly though). I reverted again back to stock and did the test AGAIN... everything was fine again.
I also tried UCKJ4 with the same results!
(NOTE: UCKJ2 was a one-click installer, but UCKJ4 had to be used with Odin. J4 had the kernel placed in Odin's PDA slot and the Modem in the PHONE slot. Everything worked fine on both versions besides this one issue.)
THE QUESTION:
Anyone else having these problems? I just think it is weird and kind of freaky since I am not able to notice the problem unless someone on the other line tells me... or if I call my home phone and talk to myself LOL.
Now, if i am correct, these firmwares are LEAKED, so maybe that is the reason why? Maybe they arent completely compatible with my specific phone?
Anyways, I am content with UCKH7 since it WORKS, but I was just thinking at the time, "Oh wow! An even NEWER firmware is available! Let's update!"
THE ADDITIONAL QUESTION:
Oh, and just to prevent me from having to open another topic:
Any idea when AT&T plans to OFFICIALLY release the next update (whatever it is) for our phones via OTA? This, I am just curious about because if they release the same UCKJ2 or UCKJ4 that I am trying to use, then I am honestly afraid to update!!!!
(sorry for the length of my post btw)
My wife was having problems with her S2 (running stock Gingerbread), so I upgraded it using Kies. The update failed during the download process, so I needed to run the recovery option, but the outcome was the phone was still upgraded to ICS. It's mostly fine, but the phone is now freezing once or twice a day, requiring a cold start to revive it. It also didn't solve the original problem (screen going blank and phone becoming totally unresponsive immediately after dialling a call).
The phone is still under warranty, so I really want to leave it in a state which doesn't compromise the warranty (i.e. no rooting or custom ROMs). Can anyone suggest anything else to try before returning it under warranty (which would really be a pain)?
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My wife was having problems with her S2 (running stock Gingerbread), so I upgraded it using Kies. The update failed during the download process, so I needed to run the recovery option, but the outcome was the phone was still upgraded to ICS. It's mostly fine, but the phone is now freezing once or twice a day, requiring a cold start to revive it. It also didn't solve the original problem (screen going blank and phone becoming totally unresponsive immediately after dialling a call).
The phone is still under warranty, so I really want to leave it in a state which doesn't compromise the warranty (i.e. no rooting or custom ROMs). Can anyone suggest anything else to try before returning it under warranty (which would really be a pain)?
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It is always recommended to preform a factory data reset, after upgrading your phone.
Do factory reset!
Swyped from Samsung Galaxy SII
KIES lol
Had my SGS2 nearly a year now and only be able to get on kies twice, who ever wrote KIES was totally drunk or mashed at the time so stay well away from the software, millions of millions of threads on the interent about people not being able to use kies, the software never recognises my phone so I gave up months ago and their are other ones out there like MYPHONEEXPLORER which works 110% on my SGS2 so use that or others out there.