So trying to flash a new rom, it failed and i was stuck in a recovery loop, i proceeded to odin back to stock, however after the tmobile boot up i get stuck at a black screen with the softouch keys lit. Any assistance is greatly appreciated
currently in the same boat with you, find a solution let me know
re-download all files and try again....make sure you use the pit file that ends with 512...it works better
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I got myself a bricked Vibrant from someone and trying to fix it.
I'm guessing the dude tried to flash captivate stuff on it, because the boot image is AT&T.
Anyway, I was able to odin back to stock 2.1, which seemed to make the power button work again because it would start up and show the AT&T logo but that's it.
Then I tried odin'ing a vibrant bootloader, which got me to replace the AT&T logo with a green andy logo, but same thing, stuck.
So I tried reflashing 2.1 with odin again. Now the boot logo is back to the stock i9000 > Vibrant, but then it stops here. I can't seem to be able to enter the 2e(or 3e?) stock recovery.
Any idea on what else I can try flashing to it?
Update: I tried flashing the froyo bootloader, which did get me to the stock recovery, but again - i can't seem to get this phone past this stage, doesn't boot into the OS.
wonshikee said:
I got myself a bricked Vibrant from someone and trying to fix it.
I'm guessing the dude tried to flash captivate stuff on it, because the boot image is AT&T.
Anyway, I was able to odin back to stock 2.1, which seemed to make the power button work again because it would start up and show the AT&T logo but that's it.
Then I tried odin'ing a vibrant bootloader, which got me to replace the AT&T logo with a green andy logo, but same thing, stuck.
So I tried reflashing 2.1 with odin again. Now the boot logo is back to the stock i9000 > Vibrant, but then it stops here. I can't seem to be able to enter the 2e(or 3e?) stock recovery.
Any idea on what else I can try flashing to it?
Update: I tried flashing the froyo bootloader, which did get me to the stock recovery, but again - i can't seem to get this phone past this stage, doesn't boot into the OS.
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So what is your desired ROM after flash?
I suggest that you should flash it to LidDroid with Vibrant bootloader. From that, you can upload the phone to 2.3, 3.0 or ICS 4.0 ROM.
On mobile now so I cannot giive you the download links for needed files. If you need them, just post a reply in the thread.
Thanks, I tried LidDroid
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1058802
And flashed Froyo and GB bootloaders, nothing is working. It just shows boot screen then still shuts down.
Update: Well I'm not sure what the issue is, I was able to get it to boot to the lock screen once, but then it shut down right after. Now I can only get it back to boot image before shutting down.
The thing I noticed is that the phone gets hot really fast, so maybe it's drawing too much power somewhere and its shutting down as a protection. Also the stock batteries don't seem to work for it, just this particular battery that it came with, which the contacts on the battery are flush with the edge of the battery instead of indented like the stock ones.
What you should do is take out your sim card and external sd card if you have one, use odin to flash back to stock rom (either 2.1 or 2.2), wait for it to load up as it might take a few minutes after you see the Vibrant logo (just be patient). If you get this far and you see the operating system, flash clockwork recovery on it.
If you can get this far, let us know then we'll talk about custom roms. The main purpose now is to get it running stock, we can worry about the custom stuff later.
Here's a couple of links to help:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=848737 -- try this one first!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=954509
I got my phone out of brick and reflashed JFD through Odin, but it won't boot the phone the Vibrant screen continues on a contious boot loop, I remembered I falshed a Gingerbread bootloader, anyone have a link to the modified JFD so this would work
I hope this helps
Look im new at this but i have soft bricked my phone many times, i think im almost an expert at getting my phone back on line any time i install something wrong. If your having trouble why dont you take the phone back to stock and start over if you need the files i have them they work with Odin real nice.
My daughters phone, had older version of alliance rom, updated to build 26, ran fine for a few hours, now hangs at the first boot screen. when I enter tw recovery, it asked for a password. on the log(only thing i can see, cant get to main screen) i get many errors, unable to find partition size for... boot,recovery,modem,data. also unable to mount efs,cache,system,cache, cache.
ive tried odin back to stock, with and without pit files, never seen or heard anything about this before. any ideas where to start? thanks
odin will complete with success, but wont reboot, stuck at black note 2 screeen
I've tried about everything I could find on reverting back to stock, have one more stock image to try, downloading now, thank God I have fast service, only about 15 gigs so far today.
I hope someone has some advice for me. I've been racking my brain for three days trying to figure out this problem.
Bought a g900t from ebay that only bootlooped to samsung screen. DL mode and recovery both booted fine.
Tried just wiping everything in recovery - nothing but bootloop.
Tried getting custom recovery on via heimdall - no dice. PIT failed to download. (This issue is not related to Kies - different machines to avoid interference.)
Tried KIES 'Firmware Upgrade and Initialization'. KIES said it was successful. Bootloop.
Odin-ed both ANCH and CNK2 firmware. Both were successful according to Odin. After each flash, the phone restarted in recovery and went directly to the android image with the blue sphere and a loading bar underneath. Started to load something, then rebooted directly back to recovery with android, and over and over and over.... (20-30 times before I pulled battery).
The phone now will not boot to recovery (only to above mentioned recovery loop). DL mode still comes up.
Tried Kies again, and it pretends like it is going to install but once I press start nothing happens.
I can't find a ROM with clearly labeled extractable partitions, and I can't find the proper partition name list, so I am not going to start trying to force-flash the partitions through heimdall (don't want to get the aboot and boot mixed up, e.g.) if I can even get heimdall to work.
You need to use Odin to go back to stock. I have no clue what firmware the phone is currently on but it's most likely lollipop. Here is a link for the 5.0 download http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=3034334
I use Odin 3.07 and have not had issues for years. Download the stock rom from the link mentioned and extract it somewhere easy to find. Once you extract it you will end up with a .tar file. Open Odin
Put phone in download mode and plug it in.
Make sure the COM tab lights up.
Click on pda and find the .tar file you extracted. Once found click open or double click it.
Odin will freeze while it loads the .tar file so be patient and don't freak out.
Wait til you see the file location load in the pda tab.
Once file loads up click start and profit.
Good luck!
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Hi,
Thanks for the reply. As I mentioned above in the fifth paragraph, I tried two different firmwares through Odin.
I took the phone to BestBuy the other day and one of the Samsung Experience Center staff spent well over an hour reflashing the stock firmware using their setup and the phone still won't get past either a standard bootloop (first screen) or a recovery bootloop. He suggested sending it in under warranty (Knox still reads 0x0) and so it went out in the mail yesterday. Hopefully I get a functioning phone back.
On the bright side, the S.E.C. inside BestBuy seems to be a viable option for those who have a brick and don't have access to Odin/Heimdall.
Guess I'll start at the beginning so nothing gets left out. I was rooted on OC1, downloaded FlashFire to update to OF1 . Flashed it, the phone rebooted and got stuck on the black Samsung Custom screen. I've tried to flash tar files of OC1 and everytime I put it or any kind of tar file in the AP slot of Odin, Odin becomes unresponsive and closes. I tried to load up the SD Card with OC1 and OF1 Roms and tried to flash those to see if that would do anything. The phone always says (in recovery at the bottom of the screen)- Manual mode, applling multi-csc...applied the csc-code-vzw. Then says below that, remove failed file '/system/csc_contents'(read-only file system. At the top it says Android system recovery so I'm assuming that's custom, I know its not Safestrap so I guess its FlashFires recovery? Anyway, when I try to flash a ROM it says,E:footer is wrong E:signature varification fail. I'm at a loss as to how to get the phone back, if its possible. I was always told that if the phone powers up, its recoverable, just not sure how. Any advice would be awesome, I've been messing with this thing since early yesterday and I really need my phone back!
....It seems as though I have stock recovery. Is there a way to flash a recovery through Odin?
have you tried using ODIN with I545_Downgrade_tC1.tar from [How-To] Update to I545_OF1 - 5.0.1 and KeepRoot by muniz_ri? ODIN tends to get stuck for a bit while loading the tar, as it is reading a 2gb file. You should probably leave ODIN alone for a few minutes after loading, and if it still has problems, maybe re-download ODIN or use a different comp.
Thanks for the response. I did try that file, actually that was the first one I tried but it didn't work. Actually while I was typing this I downloaded another Odin, put the OC1 neutered tar file and did what you said, left it sitting in AP. After 5 mintues or so it worked!!! I've been messing with this phone going on 3 days now and as I'm typing the phone has rebooted and now is in the setup wizard!! Thanks for the reply!