Hi Guys,
I know I´ll get it pretty bad after reading what happened to me, but I´ll endure what I deserve if someone could help me
I installed voodoo lagfix over Team Whiskey´s Onyx R4.2 and at first it seemed to work pretty fine. Some minor things I wasn´t too happy with so I decided to get rid of it.
Now comes the bad part: I should have read how to do this much more careful. What I misunderstood was that I should just delete the folder "Voodoo" in my SD which I did. I then tried to do a factory reset and know I am in the following situation: whenever I try to reboot my phone I get the Samsung Galaxy S i9000 screen right after the Samsung Vibrant screen, the robots girl´s voice tells me "Factory reset mode detected" and that´s it. I´m stuck. Even if I take out the battery I get the very same thing (Samsung Vibrant, Samsung Galaxy S i9000 screens, girl´s voice and that´s it!).
Honest question: is there anyone in this forum who could help me get my phone back to work or did I screw up? (I mean more than I did, anyway)
I know I should have been much more careful, it´s just that with all the flashing before nothing ever went wrong, guess I just got careless.
Any help here would greatly be appreciated.
Arckhaist
Another voodoo doll gets a pin I'm not sure how to help as I've never used voodoo but odin might help can you get into download mode
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Hi, thank you sooo much.
Thanks to another comment of you in another thread I managed to get the phone into download mode (took the battery out and used only the volume buttons while replacing the battery, thanks so much for that, too!).
I was thinking of a way to get rid of voodoo and the phone back to factory firmware&kernel and start over with flashing A LOT MORE CAREFULL...hopefully I´ll get to the point. anyhow
Hmh I downloaded a folder that contained everything I should need to get my phone back to stock.
Seems like ODIN is not able to work on my phone, though, because after I inserted the right PIT and PDA and started the process ODIN seems to have stopped working...I really have no clue what to do now.
Yeah of you know how to use odin and have the files and drivers you'll be set then make sure you get rid of voodoo I hear that its not worth the trouble cause theres no app in they're face so sometimes people forget they even have it and then try to flash a new room and the voodoo turns there phones too poo poo a lot of roms come with ryanza lag fix that's what I use everytime I've had no problems with it ever
V5 custom vibrant
Yeah, it is definitely not worth the trouble.
ODIN doesn´t seem to work at all, I´ll give it another try now. If it doesn´t work at all, do you know of any way to get the phone back to "out-of-the-box" state?
Do you have odin set up correctly if so try to remove sim and external sd card it can confuse the system sometimes tel me the set up for odin that you have it might be something wrong with that end
V5 custom vibrant
You might want to flash eugenes froyo that didn't brick then go back to stock for some reason or another
That seems to help people that forgot to disable voodoo
V5 custom vibrant
You wouldn´t happen to have a link for that, do you?
I got idea from another thread and tried looking for Eugenes Wonder File, the only thing I could find was Eugene saying support dropped for XDA...is there any way I could a hand on that file? google doesn´t seem to help. Sorry to bother you with that, man, I was foolish and desperately need that phone (even in out of the box state) cause I´m waiting for a very important phone call (I know, should have done that crap AFTER getting the call!)
Its no trouble but I think I saw the site name in the forum somewhere yesterday for eugenes web site I'm not sure where if I find it I'll let you know you'll be able to get the file from there I'll look for it you should do the same go into the development section and go through some of those eugene threads you might be able to find a link to his site in there probably closer to the ends of the threads cause he just moved like this week or the end of last week
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I just found it, don´t bother yourself with it anymore. Thank you very, very much for your help and patience.
I´ll try to get my phone back to work.
If i´m able to, is there any lagfix you would recommend? I love Onyx r4.2 ROM but would like to use a lagfix.
Ryanza all the way I think its already on the onyx rom if not you can find it on this site as its not on the market anymore I'm not sure why but yeah your welcome and good luck
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Hi Arckhaist, I've the same problem on my Galaxy S. Have you solved???
EDIT: I solved with Odin. I flashed a new stock JPU.
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Hello folks,
Generally loving my Vibrant, of course hungry for Froyo. I have two Vibrants, the first I've been using and have modded it with root and other enhancements. I gave the other phone to a friend as a gift, but when I wanted to root theirs using the same method I've used on multiple occasions, it would NOT boot into the recovery mode. I use the UP + DOWN push, plus the power button. No dice, just get the cheesy "come together" Tmobile screen, I tried up, down, waited for the Samsung to flash twice, no dice. It was not that complicated on my phone and I can continue to do so. I have looked up threads and there is suspicion that T Mobile disabled this on later vesrions? This version was shipped to me slightly after my own, within a week or so.
It would be disheartening if I couldn't root and make his phone more efficient to deal with the battery hog issues as well as other enhancments. Maybe I'm doing it wrong but I've treid multiple combinations and never get into the utility/recovery screen.
Any thoughts on this? I tried rooting before that with the Ryan one click lag fix, and it seemed to indicate it was done,b ut then Iwhen I opened ROM manager, it said it was not rooted yet. Then when I tried the one click app fix again, it mentioned it couldn't because soemthing about the SD card mounting,etc. I could put the stock PIT file on it via ODIN could I not? But I dont' want to go to all that hassle if it's something else. Is there a another app solution that can root for you? I can mount and drag the update zip there, but can't get tot he screen to reinstall packages.
Hopefully TMobile isn't stripping this down so we can't customize and it's something else but I'm trying all combinations short of doing the hokey pokey.
Thanks in advance!
Kelly
Samsung Vibrant
Apparently either Samsung or Tmobile are having the option disabled via the normal ways to get into recovery. There are numerous other threads regarding this throughout the forums detailing other peoples experiences regarding this.
Take a look here for one:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=771247
Join the club. I'm on my third vibrant with this same issue. I am returning it this week for a refund. My first....and last samsung phone.
thank you guys, I was afraid of that. one of the phones greatest assets was it's hackability. Froyo had better do something with battery consumption, speed, etc, or this phone will be a great screen and not much more. boo to hardware lockdowns! let the hackers hack and if you want to void the warranty, do it. I'll see about this ADB mode, I'm wondering if someone can create an app that would successfully root so ROM manager will work. I wonder why the one click fix lag app, which supposedly roots, did not. It seems like an overall lock down on this access?
At any rate, I'll try the other options but it's looking like more and more, my buddy will be a slave to Samsung release timeframe, and thats assuming froyo and updates will fix significant bugs and improve battery life.
thanks again guys! I'll keep trying.
And what about the download mode, can you get in it?
not sure, you mean the little digging android feller? I will try that, I gave the phone to my friend but sent him the page in this thread earlier regarding multiple attempts to get into either / or mode. would that actaully help install the packages aka root the phone? I only used that last time to reinstall via Odin, the T Mobile factory build because it was soft bricked due to a bad lag fix that froze the phone on the Samsung logo.
download mode , can that get it rooted? Or just wanting to know if all hardware access has been blocked?"
not sure, you mean the little digging android feller? I will try that, I gave the phone to my friend but sent him the page in this thread earlier regarding multiple attempts to get into either / or mode. would that actaully help install the packages aka root the phone? I only used that last time to reinstall via Odin, the T Mobile factory build because it was soft bricked due to a bad lag fix that froze the phone on the Samsung logo.
download mode , can that get it rooted? Or just wanting to know if all hardware access has been blocked?
Yeah, that the digging guy. It won't help you to get rooted, but i can't get in download mode, so if you can advise me how can i do that, i appreciate
So I know how annoying the "help me, I'm bricked" threads are but I really couldn't find the answer to my problem anywhere. I tried to flash the Euro firmware on a Chinese Ace. I've done this several times before on other phones and have never hit these types of bumps. It started with me trying to flash from froyo, I didn't see anywhere in the tutorial saying not to but because I couldn't find any firmwares that weren't just a onepackage I ended up just trying that. Well now I'm aware that was stupid because the flash never went through after a long time of waiting and now the phone hangs at a screen with a computer and a phone on it with a yellow ! sign. Pretty sure that's bad. I tried the tutorial on here about unbricking but its not working. I eventually found the right files to flash that weren't onepackage but now its too late because even those wont take. What can I do here? Anything? I really don't know what to do, its not my phone and I was just doing it as a favour for a friend because the phone was pretty useless with the Chinese firmware, but not this useless...
Does phone start in downloading mod?
And you write lots thing but not understand properly that you flashed one package or need one package firmware.
Onepackage firmware for galaxy ace you will find at samfirmware.com or sammobile.com
I can start in Download mode but its still not letting me flash anything with odin.
I never was able to get any firmware on it and now its not starting up.
remove ur battery, press the three button combination for download mode, and while u push those three button just insert the battery again. now it should magically go into download mode and u can flash other rom. u should ask someone to help u tho, its damn hard to do this alone
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Fixed it! So here's what I did for anyone who gets into a similar problem. First off, I never had a problem getting into downloading mode, so this wasn't a full blown brick I guess. I couldn't get Odin to finish the transfer, always hung at the beginning. So after going a little crazy I just kept doing it over and over, couldn't hurt, and then I started moving to one of the different USB ports. I have 7 and just kept trying them. Finally on the very last one it worked. Full transfer and this Chinese brick thinks I'm in the UK sippin on tea and crumpets! It sounds crazy but just moving around to different USB's did it!
Well, I can add up some more info about this case. I bought my Ace from China and i have never stumbled upon any problem flashing other firmwares.
Here's the story - purchased a soft-bricked Vibrant for $50. It booted up to the phone - ! - computer screen. Took it home, used One-Click Unboot. Took a few tries, drivers, and USB ports, but eventually it worked. After that, it was just turning on and hanging at the Vibrant screen. Going along with other threads, I tried flashing to stock from ODIN. I followed this guide: http://androidspin.com/2010/08/09/how-to-restore-or-recover-your-samsung-vibrant/
ODIN was finicky but eventually recognized my phone on COM Port 4. With the appropriate PIT and PDA loaded, I clicked Start and all the files uploaded. The phone restarts and.. stuck at Vibrant again. ODIN even lights up with a green PASS but I've let the phone sit and sit and it never gets anywhere.
Is this thing a total dud? Granted I'm trying to boot without a SIM card in it but I didn't think that would make a difference. Please, someone help. I'm stumped and annoyed.
Tried following this guide as well. Same problem. I'm definitely frustrated.
http://forum.cyanogenmod.com/topic/6998-howto-recover-from-a-soft-brick-on-your-vibrant/
I'm having this same problem, any info would be nice. I've actually tried several different guides online and none have worked for me, I can never get past the bootloader screen.
Also, I have been unable to find the file to install CWR, so I have no backup. I know my phone isn't bricked because I can install different modems and such but nothing is working to get it back up and working.
Make sure you've got the right files. Grab the ones out of the noob guide just to be sure
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Yep, same problem. I can't seem to get into recovery either. Or connect to ADB to reboot into recovery. I'm tearing my damn hair out over this.
I tried ODIN flashing the Froyo No-Brick ROM for the hell of it cuz I read it fixed this issue as a last ditch for some people. No dice. Boots to the Vibrant screen for a second, then Vibrant switches to Galaxy S and it just sits there.
If no one has any ideas soon, I'm just going to say screw it. Pretty bummed - I've been on a G1 forever and was excited to use an Android phone that doesn't totally suck.
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I tried ODIN flashing the Froyo No-Brick ROM for the hell of it cuz I read it fixed this issue as a last ditch for some people. No dice. Boots to the Vibrant screen for a second, then Vibrant switches to Galaxy S and it just sits there.
If no one has any ideas soon, I'm just going to say screw it. Pretty bummed - I've been on a G1 forever and was excited to use an Android phone that doesn't totally suck.
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Go into the Developers section and look at the 2nd or 3rd post "Bay_wolf's AIO Vibrant Toolbox 2.5" . Download that into your computer and run 'Flash to Stock'.
That should help you get to where you need to go. Try the one click method first.
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Thanks for the advice guys, but still no go. Installed the drivers from the toolkit but all I can still do is use ODIN to try and flash stock. Results are exactly the same. Reboot into recovery still isn't working - I have a feeling USB debugging was not enabled on this phone before any of this happened so I'm screwed in that respect.
Keep trying, it's not bricked, one combination of files has to work for you.
Well there's only so many files I can apparently try. I've tried JFD, JI6, Eugene No-Brick.. Is there anything else I should trying flashing with ODIN?
Take out your sim card and microSD card. Download the appropriate stock JFD files, make sure you check repartition; you should be fine. USB debugging box not being checked before has nothing to do with your problem now. I believe either your partition or your bootloasder is screwy. Follow my steps above and you should be ok.
In fact, look at this and follow it to the T.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=848737
That's what I've tried probably 30 times by now. Repartition checked and unchecked. And yeah I know USB debugging doesn't have to do with ODIN, it's why I'm assuming I can't get ADB to recognize the phone so I could at least try "adb reboot recovery".
Outside of flashing JFD, JI6, or Eugene's No-Brick, is there anything else I could try?
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That's what I've tried probably 30 times by now. Repartition checked and unchecked. And yeah I know USB debugging doesn't have to do with ODIN, it's why I'm assuming I can't get ADB to recognize the phone so I could at least try "adb reboot recovery".
Outside of flashing JFD, JI6, or Eugene's No-Brick, is there anything else I could try?
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I'm in the same boat, same scenario with constant boot loop. This is my girlfriends phone too
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I'm in the same boat, same scenario with constant boot loop. This is my girlfriends phone too
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Look for a new girlfriend on ebay
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Look for a new girlfriend on ebay
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Haha no Craigslist I ended up having her file a claim and send it back. I must have borked the bootloader somehow cause now it wont turn on at all. Thank God for insurance. She's SUPER pissed though.
Compared to my Galaxy SII this phone is very finicky and ODIN is even more unreliable than normal. Never hard bricked a device before.
Picked up a G2 practically new for $100. Loving it so far - rooting process was a snap.
F this Vibrant. Back to Craigslist it goes. Still open to ideas before it's gone so I can attempt to get my money back, lol.
Wrrryyy said:
Picked up a G2 practically new for $100. Loving it so far - rooting process was a snap.
F this Vibrant. Back to Craigslist it goes. Still open to ideas before it's gone so I can attempt to get my money back, lol.
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The only thing I see that will fix the Vibrant when it's in this state is JTAG brick repair for $50. This is after spending 12 hours searching and attempting to ODIN different stock firmwares till I finally hard bricked it.
http://mobiletechvideos.mybigcommerce.com/samsung-galaxy-s-4g-vibrant-4g-jtag-brick-repair/
Yeah I was considering this. I e-mailed the guy asking if it was an appropriate fix. I figure, if the service takes care of a hard brick, it can certainly take care of a soft brick. Maybe I'll do that to keep it around as a back-up phone. Thanks for the replies, everyone.
Okay, So I am as NOOB as NOOB can be,
I got a used SGS2 (Bell/Virgin), I am on Telus so I figured, how hard can it be to unlock it instead of paying some dude to do it for me? (First mistake, and have been humbled every step of the way since!...)
Anyway I will try to keep this relatively short (it will be difficult)... ...I read a few things online and saw that I needed ODIN and a Rooting software, I originally used SuperOneClick, and to download the right insecure kernel to match my original one etc... ...problem is I obviously didn't read nearly enough when I started because I was almost done and then there was a hiccup when SuperOneClick said that I needed to enable SU in Kies. So I decided to go into Kies to try and do so but the instructions before I started Rooting said to put the phone in USB debugging mode. Apparently Kies doesn't see the phone if it is in that mode. Well by this time I can't get past the logo screen and this is where my downward spiral begins.
I then tried to unroot the phone to go back to stock but didn't really know what I was doing and then I read something about the cache needing to be wiped and then after that I read that maybe my OS was wiped. So at this point I did lots of reading (what I should have done in the first place) and most of anything useful I found was on XDA so that is why I am here. It seemed like yes, in fact my OS was wiped because of one of my not so S-M-R-T actions. So I fumbled through and found the right OS for my S2 and I had ODIN going strong and I had the OS loading, the green bar getting bigger in ODIN and the blue bar working it's way across the screen of my S2...I thought "finally!!, I rock!!"... ...then for some reason everything stopped! I had seen in a post that I had to uninstall Kies before doing anything, which I did...but I didn't see until after the fact that my anti-virus likely interfered (I didn't disable it for the process before I started).
At that point of course I was left with a phone that says "Firmware upgrade encountered an issue. Please select recovery mode in Kies & try again."
So then I was afraid to try anything else because many say to steer clear of Kies and also I had read that I may need a USB jig to be able to get it back into download mode because all I was getting was the "firmware upgrade issue" screen. I did make a USB jig with a resistance of 300K Ohms and I *can* get the phone into download mode. (Though another concern is that when I plug the USB jig in and it brings the phone into download mode, the counter is not reset and I read that that was supposed to be reset by the jig.)
So last night I got brave and decided to try and run ODIN and to have another attempt at installation of OS. Now I can get ODIN to detect the phone, but I put the I9100MUGLD3_I9100MBMCLD3_I9100MXXLD3_HOME.tar.md5 file into the PDA section of ODIN and it starts and gets to the part where it says loading firmware or something and then bootload.bin and it stayed like that for like, an hour and then I gave up, fearing that I am just going to screw it up even more.
So now I decided that I am not even close to knowing what to do next but every time I found anything to move forward it was on this site so I figured I may as well join the site since I have been here so often. Now I am hoping for some kind of miracle...so, in advance, please please please and thank you thank you thank you all for your input. (Sorry for the length of this I just wanted to get all the info I could into this)
Its quite a long story and didnt bother reading it.
If you can still access your phone via odin at downloadmode. Flash a stock firmware for your device and it should fix if it is just a soft brick.
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UnwiredDroid said:
Its quite a long story and didnt bother reading it.
If you can still access your phone via odin at downloadmode. Flash a stock firmware for your device and it should fix if it is just a soft brick.
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Sorry for the length of the story, I thought there may be alot of useful info mixed in with the useless info... ...when you say use stock firmware do you mean the kernel or the actual OS? I tried loading ICS onto it (which I thought was stock but I may be wrong). Is it supposed to be gingerbread or something else? Also where would I find a good file for it.
Thank you again for any input, very much appreciated!
Hey ,
I also have a Virgin Samsung S2 i9100 and the first time I tried rooting it, it got stuck on the screen with the yellow triangle and wouldnt move at all. I believe it was bricked?
anyways, I m not sure I totally understand your situation, but I solved my problem using this thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=21493413
look it under the i9100M section. hope this helps
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Hey ,
I also have a Virgin Samsung S2 i9100 and the first time I tried rooting it, it got stuck on the screen with the yellow triangle and wouldnt move at all. I believe it was bricked?
anyways, I m not sure I totally understand your situation, but I solved my problem using this thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=21493413
look it under the i9100M section. hope this helps
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Thank you all so much for your help, I could not get it to work after several tries, I even tried three or 4 different USB cables and ports on my PC and still no. I read on another thread that one person tried another PC and it worked so I tried my friend's laptop and it worked!...my SGS2 boots up and all that now! Very very happy thank you all.
hey guys thanks for any help. here is my problem.
i got an s3 i9300T to fix for sister in law. she apparently went in to telstra and got told that if it was her fault she would have ot pay for the repairs and she needed a phone while its away so she just payed of the contract. not sure what she exactly wants except for her data back.
upon taking a quick look it had a familiar screen. the computer triangle phone screen. im like sweet easy fix with an odin flash.
i installed a 4.0.4 version of telstra software(will look what one later) and it magically booted im like sweet. then encounter the sim lock. had to wait a day for the information so i left it over night on charge. (she wanted her contacts as well apparently but at the time i didn't know what she wanted really and i didnt just think to take out the sim.) ended up asking what she exeactly was wanting and phone was looking fine. tryed to update through kies and apparetly wasnt not able to be done on that android version. i left it another day and noticed that it was stuck on that boot logo/splash screen. i noticed i can still get in to recovery and download so i tryed to reflash same software. unsuccessful half way i tryed to use a 4.1.2 version that would not get pasts a tz** (replace starts with letters i cant remember atm) i suggested to just keep in on wanrrenty as odin hasnt counted anything yet. but they seam more for data recovery. should i try something iive tryed again or not tryed. or just try flashing recovery and trying to get the data off that way?
as i cant access stock recovery atm and its back to the computer triangle?
i know i dragged on sorry hope i explained correctly.
sorry fail to understand the post and your problem.
If its SDS you cannot recover data but you can fix with a new motherboard .
as far as i can tell i cant get the device too boot or accept new firmware, and it looks to be the sds problem but im not sure.. i think ill try and install a custom recovery and see if i cant mount it and get the data back.