I rooted my phone not too long ago and finally decided to add a custom ROM to my Vibrant. I went with the eugene373 Vibrant Hybrid after using the ROM manager to extract it the phone froze on the boot up screen I can hear the boot up sound but stays on the screen the rest of the time. I followed all the info on the rooting process but I don't know if there's a way I can just got back or fix the ROM. Thanks in advance!
MeximCivic said:
I rooted my phone not too long ago and finally decided to add a custom ROM to my Vibrant. I went with the eugene373 Vibrant Hybrid after using the ROM manager to extract it the phone froze on the boot up screen I can hear the boot up sound but stays on the screen the rest of the time. I followed all the info on the rooting process but I don't know if there's a way I can just got back or fix the ROM. Thanks in advance!
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You have to use odin to go back to stock.
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MeximCivic said:
I rooted my phone not too long ago and finally decided to add a custom ROM to my Vibrant. I went with the eugene373 Vibrant Hybrid after using the ROM manager to extract it the phone froze on the boot up screen I can hear the boot up sound but stays on the screen the rest of the time. I followed all the info on the rooting process but I don't know if there's a way I can just got back or fix the ROM. Thanks in advance!
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Please note "Q" means question not "DEV".
Instead of telling people "wrong thread" why not just help them. Go to the "Bible" in development thread download odin and stock jfd, once you downloaded those 2 run odin press PIT and click on the 512.pit file and for pda its the JFD you downloaded if you dont understand what im saying go look at threads of how to use odin back to stock its more detailed. Your phone itself has to be in download mode, easiest way since the 3 button dont work for some (like me) fully turn off your phone if it doesnt pull the battery out. Once its fully off press and hold the 2 volume keys and plug in the usb and your in the download screen and press Start for odin and your back at stock. (And now that I helped) next time post this into a Q&A or General thread so you dont get flamed. Good luck
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This morning I wanted to install a new rom and for some stupid reason, I forgot my phone was a Vibrant and not a I9000.
The rom installed just fine using Clockwork but once booted into recovery mode, I am unable to use the power button as the select button. Also, the volume up and volume down buttons are reversed. I am guessing that the I9000 has a home button that my phone does not.
Question is this: Is there anyway to get OUT of recovery mode? I tried to connect using adb but my computer could not find the device.
Am I royally fcked?
Don't listen to the guys on top...everyone makes mistakes..try going into download mode and flashing "Eugene's froyo that does not brick". After that flash jacs nandroid backup. I would post links but I'm on my phone....you can find the links in the vibrant bible (its one of the stickys in this forum)
Instructions to get into download mode:
Turn phone off
Take out battery
Put battery in
Hold volume up and down and then insert USB cable.
This should take you to download mode.
Then flash the roms listed above in that order through odin (also found in the Bible). Hope this helps...
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Do as he said above, but also make sure you have odin opened up before plugging in usb to the phone, and make sure you have all the drivers for the phone installed. I fought with odin for about two hours my first time before I finally realized I had to have odin opened first.
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Thank you guys so much. Not only does it work but now Froyo is installed!
Like jtc442 stated, Odin must be started before anything will work.
As an aside: The up and down volume buttons are reversed and the splash screen is stuck with I9000. Not a big deal, something to remind me which roms not to use.
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PS, Even if we were to give you directions to possible rectify this problem, you most likely couldnt follow it to save your life
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zednaught said:
Thank you guys so much. Not only does it work but now Froyo is installed!
Like jtc442 stated, Odin must be started before anything will work.
As an aside: The up and down volume buttons are reversed and the splash screen is stuck with I9000. Not a big deal, something to remind me which roms not to use.
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Well done dude! Mistakes happen, glad you sorted yours out. Those are pretty normal things in froyo as far as i know so its not a ROM issue. If you want a really good ROM I would recommend Bionix ROM, its currently the top dog of Vibrant ROMs
zednaught said:
Thank you guys so much. Not only does it work but now Froyo is installed!
Like jtc442 stated, Odin must be started before anything will work.
As an aside: The up and down volume buttons are reversed and the splash screen is stuck with I9000. Not a big deal, something to remind me which roms not to use.
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glad you got it back working. you should be able to get the buttons working right by flashing another rom, like bionix, or some of the other great roms in the forum.
You also could have used adb to reboot it.
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Chalup said:
You also could have used adb to reboot it.
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I did give adb a try. The command prompt just sat there with a blinking cursor.
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glad you got it back working. you should be able to get the buttons working right by flashing another rom, like bionix, or some of the other great roms in the forum.
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Yeah i will give that a try. Im guessing roms only replace certain components?
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I did give adb a try. The command prompt just sat there with a blinking cursor.
Yeah i will give that a try. Im guessing roms only replace certain components?
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can you not use odin and install everything to get it back to factory settings? using the correct pit and tar files? then start fresh? download the all in one zip, and start fresh.
There is a known issue with non-Vibrant froyo ROM's with the reversed buttons, and 3.5 mm jack. As far as the recovery is concerned, I think either home or back button should serve as a select button (on the original Galaxy it is the large home button).
Hey folks. Just had a similar case (all fixed now though ). In my case, I went from stock JI6 to the Vibrant Hybrid R3 ROM, and was stuck at the Vibrant screen for about half an hour. Decided to ODIN back to JI6, which made it stuck at recovery. Fixed that by using ODIN to go back to 2.1 July stock and then back to JI6. What is it that caused the two soft-bricks in the first case? (For the record, I followed instructions to the letter) Just wondering.
EDIT: I suspect I misinterpreted the term "stock." I assumed stock meant a T-Mobile ROM, not specifically the ROM that shipped with the phone. Was that the issue in the above incident?
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can you not use odin and install everything to get it back to factory settings? using the correct pit and tar files? then start fresh? download the all in one zip, and start fresh.
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In many cases no, but maybe in this exact one... If not you will get stuck after the "galaxy s" screen with a black screen and uplights on the four capacitive buttons...
Thread cleaned. Please either help the OP, or don't post. Simple as that folks. Don't flame
please help me ! i did the same thing. i accidentally flashed the i9000 rom instead of the vibrant one. im stuck in recover mode ! the up &down buttons are reversed and none of my keys work as the "OK" key so i cant press enter. i tried to go into download mode but every time i try it just goes to recovery again and nothing is working. please help !
I followed the guide on Pathik Shah to put Froyo on Galaxy S phones. I assumed since I the Vibrant was a Galaxy S phone it would work. Now I'm stuck in the recovery screen. I can't select anything or get to downloader mode because there's no OK button to do the combination with.
What do I do? How can I possibly get any Vibrant FW back on my phone?
You can use adb to reboot when in recovery. I'm not sure what version of froyo you installed so I can't guarantee how to safely reflash original firmware--a few months ago a bunch of people messed up their phones by installing a European firmware then trying to reinstall our firmware.
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shalpp said:
I followed the guide on Pathik Shah to put Froyo on Galaxy S phones. I assumed since I the Vibrant was a Galaxy S phone it would work. Now I'm stuck in the recovery screen. I can't select anything or get to downloader mode because there's no OK button to do the combination with.
What do I do? How can I possibly get any Vibrant FW back on my phone?
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In development section go to the bible and download the froyo rom that does not brick and continue from there.
Can someone point me to post for fixing a rom flash gone bad. My friend flashed Nero 3 and now all he can do is boot to screen with options to Delete pack, reboot, delete user data ect. thx!
kevinniven said:
Can someone point me to post for fixing a rom flash gone bad. My friend flashed Nero 3 and now all he can do is boot to screen with options to Delete pack, reboot, delete user data ect. thx!
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Should be in Q & A section, but here you go:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=810130
Remember to post things like this in the Q&A Section.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=771111
This is the vibrant bible.
Down the latest version of odin, the samsung drivers, and a tarball of the stock JFD firmware.
To get into download mode:
Turn phone off.
Plus USB cable into computer but not phone.
Hold Vol Up and Vol Down.
While holding the volume buttons, plug the usb cable in the phone.
Follow the directions from the Odin thread from here.
Sounds like you're in the recovery menu. Do you have the update.zip of cwm? If so, then click reinstall packages from the recovery menu and you should boot to cwm. flash the same rom and see if that helps. You should be good, as long as the rom isn't corrupt. It worked for me.
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Hi,
I have a vibrant and when I was trying to change the ROM back to what I had previously, the phone got stuck, I can reboot to the recovery mode but that is not helping, I tried everything. Can someone assist me with this?
Thanks
Could you be a little more specific.
Try getting into download mode. Then you can use odin to go back to jfd then ji6, or one of the froyo roms. Look in the bible sticky up top for odin flashable roms.
To get into download mode.
Pull the battery, put it back in. hold the up and down volume buttons. Do not touch the power button. Then plug the usb into the phone.
Next time this should be in q and a section.
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jelouane said:
Hi,
I have a vibrant and when I was trying to change the ROM back to what I had previously, the phone got stuck, I can reboot to the recovery mode but that is not helping, I tried everything. Can someone assist me with this?
Thanks
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Please tell us what rom are you downgrading from.
Did you have voodoo or any other lagfix enabled?
Recovery you get access to is 2e or 3e?
Are you able to get into download mode to odin back to shipping stock if necessary?
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Ok, I got my phone to start on download mode and have been able to use odin. Thank u all for the help
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Please help! i tried searching for this, but can't seem to find a solution...
I currently have FROYO.UVJK2 with Kernel version of 2.6.32.9
in trying to load the Nero v5, i went to ROM manager and got the latest ClockworkMod Recovery to 2.5.1.2.
After this update, i push the reboot into Recovery. however, instead of going in to the ClockworkMod Recovery menu after reboot, it keeps just hanging on the Vibrant screen.
I tried to do the ClockworkMod manually with no success either, it just hangs on vibrant screen. -,-;
help!
Any suggestions? Thanks!
Also: i tried older clockworkmod recovery files with no success either. When every i try to manually get into the Recovery, the "vibrant" either just hangs or just keeps restarting. I have to do a battery pull to be able to get past the hanging vibrant stage.
sorry guys, i posted in the wrong forum. Could the mod move this to general?
again. my bad.
Odin back to stock and try again.
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Odin back to stock and try again.
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would Odin be the only solution?
After Odin, do i use a custom ROM to restart or is it just plug, load and i am good to go..? seems like the instructions i found so far just guide you to upload the Odin into your phone but doesn't say what to do next. I guess what i am wondering is, after Odin, does the phone revert back to stock ROM?
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would Odin be the only solution?
After Odin, do i use a custom ROM to restart or is it just plug, load and i am good to go..? seems like the instructions i found so far just guide you to upload the Odin into your phone but doesn't say what to do next. I guess what i am wondering is, after Odin, does the phone revert back to stock ROM?
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i have same problem,,but the computer does not SEE the phone so i cant even odin....the computer SEE'S my other vib. phone just not this one,,wtf...i put the other phone back to stock and then did the ota 2.2 from kies,,but this phone is driving my crazy.