i dont know what to do now, i have 2 samsung vib's and i redid one back to stock with odin, then updated it with the kies to the 2.2 i did a factory reset on my other phone and it rebooted into the vibrant screen,,,i try everything to get it to the download screen but it wont go,,,and my computer does not recognise it ....mind you it see's the other phone but not this one.....i dont know what to do now,,,and yes ive tryed every way to get it to the download or recovery screen no go on anything
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i dont know what to do now, i have 2 samsung vib's and i redid one back to stock with odin, then updated it with the kies to the 2.2 i did a factory reset on my other phone and it rebooted into the vibrant screen,,,i try everything to get it to the download screen but it wont go,,,and my computer does not recognise it ....mind you it see's the other phone but not this one.....i dont know what to do now,,,and yes ive tryed every way to get it to the download or recovery screen no go on anything
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Have you tried the hardware jig? That is a guarantee getting it into download mode.
How are you trying to enter download screen? Did you disable voodoo first?
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If it boots on its own without pushing power, take battery out and plug in usb, hold only volume up and down replace battery and should jump right to download. Bricked my phone every way possible, by now I can get out of almost anything.
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phone is stuck on the black screen with white vibrant in middle and samsung at bottom, no matter what i do or how i do it thats were the screen sits....pull batt. plug in remove usb....it does not matter,,,and what is jig.
richtertrevor78 said:
If it boots on its own without pushing power, take battery out and plug in usb, hold only volume up and down replace battery and should jump right to download. Bricked my phone every way possible, by now I can get out of almost anything.
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nope stillgoes right to right to------------------ooooooo hold on rebooting now ,,woot
Hold volume up and volume down plus the power button, after the SECOND time you see the vibrant logo ONLY release the power button before the vibrant logo appears for the third time. Works every time for me
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Are you sure you installed the samsung drivers right?
Rolling with TW's latest beefy beast.
I'm pretty sure if those options didn't work your Vibrant is a hardware locked one. You may want to try the hardware jig as mentioned above. I've fixed my hardware locked vibrant countless times with that little tool
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSaeaAcJHqw
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Are you sure you installed the samsung drivers right?
Rolling with TW's latest beefy beast.
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ya it computer see's the other vibrant phone and i was able to revert back to stock with odin,,,this phone it not recognised so i cant flash with odin..
phone wont even let me do a rom flash from rom manager,,it starts to then just gets stuck at the vibrant screen again....wtf,,,well the phone boots up normal but i cant get into the recovery or rom flash,,,,every time i try the phone gets stuck on the samsung load screen,,it takes 3-5 times just to get it to boot right ,,,after that,,im clueless
crose948 said:
ya it computer see's the other vibrant phone and i was able to revert back to stock with odin,,,this phone it not recognised so i cant flash with odin..
phone wont even let me do a rom flash from rom manager,,it starts to then just gets stuck at the vibrant screen again....wtf,,,well the phone boots up normal but i cant get into the recovery or rom flash,,,,every time i try the phone gets stuck on the samsung load screen,,it takes 3-5 times just to get it to boot right ,,,after that,,im clueless
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well after tons of hours and trying every way i came to the concusion that the usb port might be damaged or corroded on the phone, like ive stated before my other vibrant connects perfect to the computer,,and on this phone i can wiggle the cord by the phone and you can hear it connect / disconnect from computer, but it still it not recognized by the comp. and so i dont think the jig would work becuase u would need a good usb connection to begin with,im thinking my gf got some water / snow or somthing in the port corroding the connection, i took a magnafying glass and seams like there is some green corrosion in the port.
nevermind ...........
Also bricked my phone - Will the jig help?
After trying to install Froyo through Kies and failing, after trying to put stock ROM with Odin and again failing, i got the phone to the state that the only thing I get when powering up the phone is the picture of "phone --! -- computer". It is not trying to boot at all.
Will the jig help to get it into download mode? Are their any other ways to bring it to life or it is total brick?
Tnx
marksht said:
After trying to install Froyo through Kies and failing, after trying to put stock ROM with Odin and again failing, i got the phone to the state that the only thing I get when powering up the phone is the picture of "phone --! -- computer". It is not trying to boot at all.
Will the jig help to get it into download mode? Are their any other ways to bring it to life or it is total brick?
Tnx
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I had this same issue trying to install bionix v.. I made a jig and the jig just booted it to the phone ! computer screen... I called tmobile and they sent me a new phone!
marksht said:
After trying to install Froyo through Kies and failing, after trying to put stock ROM with Odin and again failing, i got the phone to the state that the only thing I get when powering up the phone is the picture of "phone --! -- computer". It is not trying to boot at all.
Will the jig help to get it into download mode? Are their any other ways to bring it to life or it is total brick?
Tnx
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Pull everything out of your phone (battery, sim, sdcard)
Open ODIN on your PC and plug the USB into it (PC)
Put the battery back in and hold down both volume e
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Plug the USB into the phone
Should be in Download Mode and you can let go of the volume keys.
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Ok, so now need to build the jig.
Tnx
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Try one more thing... Pull the battery and put it back in so your phone is off...plug in the charger so you get the charging screen...now when you see the charging icon hold in both volume buttons and the power button. You will see the icon flash off and back on then flash off and back on ...now when it flashes off for the third time...let go of the power button only..keep holding the volume keys
see if it will go into download mode that way
i had tried all of these methods and the jig...none of them worked...ervery time the screen turned on, it was the phone ! computer screen....no charging screen, nada..no matter what i did
ok try this too, pull batt,,,plug in charger,,,put batt. in then as soon as it lights up pull batt again,,then put back in fast,,then pull again as soon as it lights up ,do this 4 times and see what happens,,,my phone will get stuck on the samsung screen,and no matter what i do it gets / stays stuck like that untill i do the batt pull reinstall 4 times .then on the 4 th time i leave batt. in and phone boots up normal
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So i rooted the phone and installed froyo rom with clockworkmod recovery or whatever.. the phone was working fine but then i downloaded OCLF and clicked unroot the phone like an idiot. Still worked fine thoughh... i wanted to reroot the phone but then realized i couldnt get into recovery.. so i did a factory reset and now im stuck on a boot screen that says galaxy s gti 9000 and on the bottom it says samsung..
Just ODIN back to stock... and continue to do whatever you want from there...
ODIN: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=790026
How to get back to stock: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=799105
thank youu soooo much i literally love youu!!!
yeah, no problem!
Mine is BRICKED!!! OTA Friday got to 85% and went black. none combo of the Three Button Salute is not working at all. Odin can not see it.
As long as you can get into download mode, your phone is not totally bricked. Vibrants are very very hard to brick. Trust me, I have messed mine up more times than I can count,but managed to fix it. First off, can u tell me what windows version ur using, do u have the Samsung drivers installed, what button combination have u tried to get into download mode. I know you probably tried a ton, bit this will help me narrow down what will and will not work for you.
Jonathan Rubcic
Electrical Engineer
jarubcic said:
As long as you can get into download mode, your phone is not totally bricked. Vibrants are very very hard to brick. Trust me, I have messed mine up more times than I can count,but managed to fix it. First off, can u tell me what windows version ur using, do u have the Samsung drivers installed, what button combination have u tried to get into download mode. I know you probably tried a ton, bit this will help me narrow down what will and will not work for you.
Jonathan Rubcic
Electrical Engineer
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No download mode at all, no charging screen, nothing at all. Black screen! Power with plug in, Power and Vol up, Power and Vol Down, Power and up/Down. No luck. Running vista. I have used odin before with no problems.
jsjdjn said:
No download mode at all, no charging screen, nothing at all. Black screen! Power with plug in, Power and Vol up, Power and Vol Down, Power and up/Down. No luck. Running vista. I have used odin before with no problems.
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Have Odin open and everything setup on the PC.
Then just take out the battery and make sure your phone isn't connected to the PC yet. Then wait maybe 5 seconds and plug your phone into the USB without the battery in the phone. Then press both volume buttons only and install the battery while holding both volume buttons.
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Have Odin open and everything setup on the PC.
Then just take out the battery and make sure your phone isn't connected to the PC yet. Then wait maybe 5 seconds and plug your phone into the USB without the battery in the phone. Then press both volume buttons only and install the battery while holding both volume buttons.
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Nope nothing.
im having same problem. i was able to go to download mode and did odin using stock recovery. but still didn't work HELP SOMEBODY!!!!!!
IuNlockeM said:
im having same problem. i was able to go to download mode and did odin using stock recovery. but still didn't work HELP SOMEBODY!!!!!!
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Download this and give it a try.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=740558
i commited the mistake of partitioning the sd card using rom manager.....so then i tried this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=745547
flashed the EU version , then i strggled going into dowload mode again....i finally got into download mode using adb ...and when i was flashing it , it suddendly stopped and then the phone to pc symbol appeared
i dont know what else to do...i've been up all night and the phone is not even mine :'( please help
also my phone seems to be locked ....
Can you get phone into download mode? Install odin and all windows drivers. Take out batt plug up usb hold vol up and down and put in battery. If that doesn't work there is a cable you can but that might force it into download mode
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stephenj37826 said:
Can you get phone into download mode? Install odin and all windows drivers. Take out batt plug up usb hold vol up and down and put in battery. If that doesn't work there is a cable you can but that might force it into download mode
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i"ve tried that but no luck =/
Can you get adb to work?
I had the same thing happen earlier, I was flashing back a stock ROM in Odin, which I have done before, and this time it was doing the cache files and the phone went black and removed from Odin, now this PC-Computer icon is up. Holding down the power-button just blanks for a second then puts back to the phone-pc screen, my phone was hardware locked so the power+volumes does nothing, and the computer won't recognize the phone in adb.
Mothafizzy said:
I had the same thing happen earlier, I was flashing back a stock ROM in Odin, which I have done before, and this time it was doing the cache files and the phone went black and removed from Odin, now this PC-Computer icon is up. Holding down the power-button just blanks for a second then puts back to the phone-pc screen, my phone was hardware locked so the power+volumes does nothing, and the computer won't recognize the phone in adb.
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exactly....we are having the same problem....we cant do anything but watch that damn sign
did you fix it?
sadly mine was that way and I had to get it replaced
nomadrider123 said:
sadly mine was that way and I had to get it replaced
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so i guess if you soft brick a hardware lock vibrant ur out of luck?
so you called tmobile to get a replacement?
El Cipitio said:
so i guess if you soft brick a hardware lock vibrant ur out of luck?
so you called tmobile to get a replacement?
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If you have tried everything twice and nothing worked .Don't mess around with customer services. You need to talk to tech services they got me a replacement
Download Mode trick.. it worked for me.
Ok guys! here you go.... If you feel like you semi-bricked your phone and cannot boot into download mode.. there is a trick that might work for some or it might not doesn't hurt to try, but damn sure worked for me... Make sure phone is connected to computer with ODIN Opened,..
1. Unplug your phone from usb
2. Take out battery (and mini sd and sim)
3. Plug usb back into phone.
4. Hold down up and down volume keys while putting battery back into the phone. IT SHOULD BOOT INTO DOWNLOAD MODE. if not sorry. Sometimes when people flash back and forth the up and down volume keys get reversed... so try volume down and power.. or volume up and power. GOOD LUCK!!!
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Ok guys! here you go.... If you feel like you semi-bricked your phone and cannot boot into download mode.. there is a trick that might work for some or it might not doesn't hurt to try, but damn sure worked for me... Make sure phone is connected to computer with ODIN Opened,..
1. Unplug your phone from usb
2. Take out battery (and mini sd and sim)
3. Plug usb back into phone.
4. Hold down up and down volume keys while putting battery back into the phone. IT SHOULD BOOT INTO DOWNLOAD MODE. if not sorry. Sometimes when people flash back and forth the up and down volume keys get reversed... so try volume down and power.. or volume up and power. GOOD LUCK!!!
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No luck, currently going through a relentless trial-error process of different usb-battery-sim/sd-volume-power buttons. Just found out insurance which I thought was covered on my phone via Asurion through T-Mobile is only covering one of the phones on my line, yet I bought them both with warranties at the same time... Pretty bummed, Only is looking like paying the deductable fee for a new phone as if lost/stolen.. Hope something pulls through.
Just a small deviation
1. Take out the battery
2. Plug the USB into the phone
3. Plug USB into the PC
4. Hold down the Volume up/down + Power button with one hand
5. Put the battery back in with the other hand
6. Wait for the phone2pc icon to flash 2 times and on the second time when the screen goes black release only the POWER BUTTON
7. When you see the digging Android you can let go of the Volume buttons
That is the only way I could get it to work
I had a rooted vibrant running pretty nicely with all my apps optimized. ive always tried to install lagfix (voodoo, OCLF, UFL,), but none of them would ever work, they would just brick my phone and i would be stuck at the vibrant screen recovery loop.
no problem, i would go to download mode and flash odin...
few months later thought id give it another shot with the updates and such with voodoo...
again same thing... **** didn't work..
back to eugenes that does not brick and i was going to do the whole process again of getting back to the stock ji6.
in the middle of eugnes, there was a com error, dont know why, nothing was moved. the flashed had stopped in the middle.
took out the battery. and nothing. phone does nothing. plug it in, black screen. 3 button combo. black screen. not even the vibrant logo. and no charging screen.
black screen no matter what.
do i need to do the 'jumpstart' jtag method?
Google search it! It says dl odin and stuff just unbricked mine
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I had a rooted vibrant running pretty nicely with all my apps optimized. ive always tried to install lagfix (voodoo, OCLF, UFL,), but none of them would ever work, they would just brick my phone and i would be stuck at the vibrant screen recovery loop.
no problem, i would go to download mode and flash odin...
few months later thought id give it another shot with the updates and such with voodoo...
again same thing... **** didn't work..
back to eugenes that does not brick and i was going to do the whole process again of getting back to the stock ji6.
in the middle of eugnes, there was a com error, dont know why, nothing was moved. the flashed had stopped in the middle.
took out the battery. and nothing. phone does nothing. plug it in, black screen. 3 button combo. black screen. not even the vibrant logo. and no charging screen.
black screen no matter what.
do i need to do the 'jumpstart' jtag method?
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you should post in Q & A next time. Anywhoo, can you get your phone into download mode?
I can tell you that I've been there, I can say with all certainty that this phone has recovered from the brink of of death so many times I don't even scare anymore. I just flash. You got to be patient I dug around Google and the forma and found the right combo that put me in download mode.
It was power and vol. down. No sim no sd.
I've learned that every phone responds to a different combo. Your phone isn't dead, just Samsung hibernating.
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You seem to know what you are doing when it comes to flashing. All I can suggest is to try the various methods to get into download mode again. Some people have methods that work best for them. For instance, the 3 button combo never works for me. But pulling the battery, putting back in, holding down only the up and down volume keys (NOT POWER) and while holding insert the usb that the other end should already have been plugged into the computer.
but i'd say its safe to assume if you cant get to download mode by any of the methods on this forum, there is no going back.
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Do a search for the jig also as a last resort, try checking in the bible I can't remember where that thread is, but it has helped quite a few people..
try two buttons combo up and power or down and power with the usb plug in
This is the absolute surefire way to get your phone into DL mode:
1.) Take out battery, SIM, and Memory card
2.) Connect phone to the computer
3.) Put battery back into phone while holding down up and down vol buttons
If your phone can still get into DL mode this way will do it guaranteed. The jig might also help but as far as I know it really only helps if your phone is hardware locked. If the above steps dont work for you then I'm afraid that the bootloader is gone and you are screwed =/
I saw a jig offered as a for sale item on the Team Whiskey forum. I believe it was around 9 or 10 dollars (maybe less) If you decide to go that route. Good luck!!!!!!!!!
thanks for all the replies everyone.... from what it looks like and to the extent of my knowledge, it looks like the bootloader is gone. my guess is it was flashing the bootloader? while the computer randomely decided to drop the com port?
anyhow, i refuse to let it die and am going to keep trying!
well that was weird. it worked. sim, battery, everything out, i held all 3 buttons, plugged USB and battery and let go of power all at EXACT same time and wallah! download mode. flashed eugenes, flashed UFD, then JI6. rooted, installed busybox, downloaded rom manager. found the backup i made before trying to install lagfix.... vibrant is stuck at 'vibrant' screen now... so flashed again eugenes, UFD, then JI6 again....
working normal again but i want my data from the backup....
advanced restore should i do? NOT restore the boot? only restore the data/system or or other options in clockwork recovery advanded restore? any help would be appreciated. first time trying to actually restore data from a clockwork backup.
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I have had the phone to pc screen before but plugging in the USB and holding the volume buttons arent working this time. Is there any other trick or special way to get around this?
What shows on your screen? R u completely bricked? Do u get a logo?. If u get the computer logo. Plug it in. Let the logo show up. Hold the 3 buttons. As soon as the screen turns black let go of power... let me know how it goes
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Was trying to flash new rom from boot recovery and keep getting stuck in a boot loop that takes me from samsung vibrant screen to boot recovery, no matter what i do i cant get out of boot recovery. Im new to the game so there might be a way to fix it and get the rom on it or get the stock flashed again but all i really need is anyway to get the phone working again ASAP
pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeease help, im phoneless and my vibrant is stuck in recovery mode.... someone with experience please help me!!!
you need to odin. sounds like you didnt disable a lag fix or something but its no problem if you just odin back to stock, preferrably jfd and just do-over.
theres some tricks in the link to my sig and the odin thread is on the first page of this board. so it wont be hard to find. if any i am up for another hour. pm me!
We will need more info. What exactly did you do?
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Yeah go ahead and use the following Link:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=771111
Download Odin and Official T-Mo Vibrant JFD firmware. Once done open up Odin on your PC. I would do a battery pull first then when your done plug the phone into your PC and iniciate the 3 button combo to get into download mode. Then just put your 512 pit file and your JFD rom into pda. Then flash away.
What recovery are you in 2e,3e,voodoo ? If you had a backup you can restore. First you have to locate the backup or the original rom zip. Look through sdcard and find them. If you had rom manager, look in cwm backups, you might find nandroid backups there. You'll have to install original zip or backup. Original if on sacard should'nt be hard to find. Be patient and don't do anything drastic !
Nero+DoW *vibrant*
http://androidspin.com/2010/08/09/how-to-restore-or-recover-your-samsung-vibrant/
thank me later
bobbbb said:
http://androidspin.com/2010/08/09/how-to-restore-or-recover-your-samsung-vibrant/
thank me later
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soo im gonna try and do that, but when im trying to use the power and volume keys to get to the digging android i cant do it...... am i doing something wrong....
i just want my phone back....
k, when it is plugged in the only thing it shows or that i can get is the battery, but an empty battery not anything with green in it, and its like frozen on that screen...?
only time i can get it to do anything else is unplugged it will go into recovery mode and i can do anything there but nothing changes anything soooo im super confused now.... am i going to need a new phone.....that could be a problem seeing as i am broke as a joke.......
thanks in advance for the help
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i rooted the phone, downloded titanium back up and rom manager, tried to flash the sonofskywalker rom that is on rom manager, after multiple tries where the phone would just reboot to the way it was "stock" then i tried to flash it by going through the sd card i beleive and now it stuck in recovery mode and will only boot thru to the samsung vibrant screen then goes back to recovery, or when it is plugged in it just shows the battery sign but the battery sign doesnt say charging it is just frozen on that screen.
merchomini said:
soo im gonna try and do that, but when im trying to use the power and volume keys to get to the digging android i cant do it...... am i doing something wrong....
i just want my phone back....
k, when it is plugged in the only thing it shows or that i can get is the battery, but an empty battery not anything with green in it, and its like frozen on that screen...?
only time i can get it to do anything else is unplugged it will go into recovery mode and i can do anything there but nothing changes anything soooo im super confused now.... am i going to need a new phone.....that could be a problem seeing as i am broke as a joke.......
thanks in advance for the help
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1st you need to calm down. You may not understand the steps if you panic.
The instruction in the link is good. If not, watch this video also...it's the same thing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnY7P14JSWQ
If did it correctly and cannot get into download mode, that's a different story. I had the same problem as you and ODIN it back with JFD fixes it. I got mine fixed from the thread below and watching youtube.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=734475
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kobesabi said:
1st you need to calm down. You may not understand the steps if you panic.
The instruction in the link is good. If not, watch this video also...it's the same thing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnY7P14JSWQ
If did it correctly and cannot get into download mode, that's a different story. I had the same problem as you and ODIN it back with JFD fixes it. I got mine fixed from the thread below and watching youtube.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=734475
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ok, calming down now, haha.
I have odinn downladed and the the other files it says i need, the only problem is i can not get it into download mode.........
Iv done it the same way he is doing it in the video and it will either take me to the recovery page or just recycle the battery screen back to me.....
try this:
Take everything out of the phone
Plug the USB into your pc
Hold ONLY the volume keys down (keep them held)
Plug the USB into your phone
Put the battery back in should be download mode
Let go of the volume keys
jmcghee1973 said:
try this:
Take everything out of the phone
Plug the USB into your pc
Hold ONLY the volume keys down (keep them held)
Plug the USB into your phone
Put the battery back in should be download mode
Let go of the volume keys
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so when i do that it just brings up the big charging battery and it has the little sun dial in the middle that usually indicates loading, but it just stays stuck on that screen. Thats why im so confused it wont go past that screen.
EDIT- and i am leaving the sd card and the sim card out when im doing that correct? although i have tried it both waysss.
And it does the same thing if you hold all three buttons down and let the charging indicator flash 2 times and when it goes out on the third time let go of the power button only?
If it doesn't work with that method you may actually have a hardware locked phone that you need a jig for..
jmcghee1973 said:
And it does the same thing if you hold all three buttons down and let the charging indicator flash 2 times and when it goes out on the third time let go of the power button only?
If it doesn't work with that method you may actually have a hardware locked phone that you need a jig for..
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yea it does the same thing, when its plugged in so far nothing will come up but the frozen battery screen......... im not exactly sure what a jig is or how to use it haha but when its plugged in thats what happens, and if it isnt pluggged in it takes me to recovery screen.......
thats really odd because it shouldnt go to the charging screen in the amount of time it takes to bring up download mode.
Your absolutely sure your holding both the volume keys down and putting the battery in with your other hand with it plugged into the phone and pc... because it should skip the charging animation all together.
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thats really odd because it shouldnt go to the charging screen in the amount of time it takes to bring up download mode.
Your absolutely sure your holding both the volume keys down and putting the battery in with your other hand with it plugged into the phone and pc... because it should skip the charging animation all together.
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yep just tried it again, it boots automatically into that battery view..... i tried holding power with it to right after that and the screen will go black and then the little sundial appears and then it goes right back into the frozen battery screen.....
http://board.teamwhiskey.com/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=209
You may have to sign up but I think this is gonna be you option unless you can get someone more adept to help out because it shouldn't go to the battery screen.
Let me run thru this on more time lol
everything out of the phone.....
phone plugged into the Computer and plugged into the Phone...(no way possible to be on the charging screen without a battery....just sayin)
holding down both of the volume keys at the same time with your thumb...(not letting go of them for anything)
using your other hand to put the battery back in...(still holding on to those volume keys for dear life...)
and walla...it should be in download mode...
if not I think you may need the link above...
jmcghee1973 said:
http://board.teamwhiskey.com/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=209
You may have to sign up but I think this is gonna be you option unless you can get someone more adept to help out because it shouldn't go to the battery screen.
Let me run thru this on more time lol
everything out of the phone.....
phone plugged into the Computer and plugged into the Phone...(no way possible to be on the charging screen without a battery....just sayin)
holding down both of the volume keys at the same time with your thumb...(not letting go of them for anything)
using your other hand to put the battery back in...(still holding on to those volume keys for dear life...)
and walla...it should be in download mode...
if not I think you may need the link above...
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im gonna try the link above, i just tried it one last time and no go,
the second i put the battery back in it flashes up the battery sign..
at what point do i need to start talking to tmobile....... maybe i can gt them to say this one is defective and send me a new one???
yea I would say ...
I rooted my phone the other day using super one click 2.3 and left it just rooted due to cwm in my rom manager app not showing my phone model for whatever odd reason. Tonight I did the most stupidest thing and decided to pick nexus 4G in rom manager and downloaded CM10 ICS rom from rom manager itself and as soon it finished downloading I pressed install with dalvik cache wipe checked and now my phone is just stuck on boot screen that say "GALAXY S 4G exclusively from T-Mobile"
I tried to hard reset by pressing home/vol up,down/power button but the screen just goes black for about 3 seconds then the same "GALAXY S 4G exclusively from T-Mobile" screen come on and it just stay there. I also tried to plug in the phone to my laptop but the phone is not recognized anymore and nothing happens.
This is the only phone I have and I am lost. I really need my phone back. What do I need to do?
please HELP:crying:
CyberGmonster said:
I rooted my phone the other day using super one click 2.3 and left it just rooted due to cwm in my rom manager app not showing my phone model for whatever odd reason. Tonight I did the most stupidest thing and decided to pick nexus 4G in rom manager and downloaded CM10 ICS rom from rom manager itself and as soon it finished downloading I pressed install with dalvik cache wipe checked and now my phone is just stuck on boot screen that say "GALAXY S 4G exclusively from T-Mobile"
I tried to hard reset by pressing home/vol up,down/power button but the screen just goes black for about 3 seconds then the same "GALAXY S 4G exclusively from T-Mobile" screen come on and it just stay there. I also tried to plug in the phone to my laptop but the phone is not recognized anymore and nothing happens.
This is the only phone I have and I am lost. I really need my phone back. What do I need to do?
please HELP:crying:
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Okay, okay relax and stay calm first and foremost. I assure you, we've all been there (at least I have been lol). Needless to say, it sounds like you can fix this...which is good! I suggest you first head over to this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=954509 and download the toolbox. Once its downloaded, install the necessary drivers if you have not already. After that, you need to get your phone into download mode. There are a few ways to do this, and people prefer going about it in different ways...I'd suggest taking out your battery, and then popping it back in and holding the power on and volume up button at the same time and hopefully it will boot into download mode (it'll be yellow). If that doesn't work after a few minutes, remove the battery again, pop it in and try holding the power, the volume up and the little "arrow up" soft key at the bottom of the screen and hopefully this time it will go into DL mode. Once you're in DL mode, connect your phone to the computer and use the toolbox to flash to stock. This will bring your phone back to factory conditions and you'll be set to go. Be sure not to remove your phone while its flashing back to stock until you are given the green light. Good luck!
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Okay, okay relax and stay calm first and foremost. I assure you, we've all been there (at least I have been lol). Needless to say, it sounds like you can fix this...which is good! I suggest you first head over to this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=954509 and download the toolbox. Once its downloaded, install the necessary drivers if you have not already. After that, you need to get your phone into download mode. There are a few ways to do this, and people prefer going about it in different ways...I'd suggest taking out your battery, and then popping it back in and holding the power on and volume up button at the same time, once your screen turns on, remove your finger from the power button and continue holding the volume up button, and hopefully it will boot into download mode (it'll be yellow). If that doesn't work after a few minutes, remove the battery again, pop it in and try holding the power, the volume up and the little "arrow up" soft key at the bottom of the screen, when the screen comes on, let go of the power button and hopefully this time it will go into DL mode. Once you're in DL mode, connect your phone to the computer and use the toolbox to flash to stock. This will bring your phone back to factory conditions and you'll be set to go. Be sure not to remove your phone while its flashing back to stock until you are given the green light. Good luck!
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Thanks for trying to help, but is not working. I tried both options multiple times but it would not go into DL mode. I can't believe I did this to my only phone
CyberGmonster said:
Thanks for trying to help, but is not working. I tried both options multiple times but it would not go into DL mode. I can't believe I did this to my only phone
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Relax, relax...I assure you. Everything will be fine. Your phone isn't dead. Getting into DL mode can be a pain, and honestly it took me a few tries my first time also. You just need to find the correct combo. Try with phone off, holding volume up and down at the same time and then plug in the usb until the phone boots up into DL (hopefully). If this doesn't work, report back. If it does, go through the steps in my last post.
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Relax, relax...I assure you. Everything will be fine. Your phone isn't dead. Getting into DL mode can be a pain, and honestly it took me a few tries my first time also. You just need to find the correct combo. Try with phone off, holding volume up and down at the same time and then plug in the usb until the phone boots up into DL (hopefully). If this doesn't work, report back. If it does, go through the steps in my last post.
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Another thing to try, pull battery, SIM card and SD Card. Then plug in USB to computer, plug in to phone, pop the battery in holding down volume keys (up and down) -- its a little tricky but you get the hang of it. It was only consistent way my phone would go into DL mode.
Same Problem
CyberGmonster said:
I rooted my phone the other day using super one click 2.3 and left it just rooted due to cwm in my rom manager app not showing my phone model for whatever odd reason. Tonight I did the most stupidest thing and decided to pick nexus 4G in rom manager and downloaded CM10 ICS rom from rom manager itself and as soon it finished downloading I pressed install with dalvik cache wipe checked and now my phone is just stuck on boot screen that say "GALAXY S 4G exclusively from T-Mobile"
I tried to hard reset by pressing home/vol up,down/power button but the screen just goes black for about 3 seconds then the same "GALAXY S 4G exclusively from T-Mobile" screen come on and it just stay there. I also tried to plug in the phone to my laptop but the phone is not recognized anymore and nothing happens.
This is the only phone I have and I am lost. I really need my phone back. What do I need to do?
please HELP:crying:
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I have almost the same problem.
Did you ever get the phone to go into DL mode?
TIA
Wrong forum. Go to galaxy s 4G forum.
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gknitz said:
I have almost the same problem.
Did you ever get the phone to go into DL mode?
TIA
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What exactly is your problem? Please list your device model and what ROM or stock android version you were using when issue began. Any other info you have would be helpful.
Paranoid, sitting in a deep sweat...
samsgun357 said:
What exactly is your problem? Please list your device model and what ROM or stock android version you were using when issue began. Any other info you have would be helpful.
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i rooted with superoneclick .... it couldnt verify shell but it rooted.... then i put a kernel on called sms-t959v-kj6-v0.1.0unsigned-update. then i tried to flash a rom called SamsungSlim-T959-4.2.1.Beta.1-OFFICIAL and thats where everything failed.... its stuck at the rom boot.... the screen says semaphore..... PLEASE PLEASE HELP.... I FELL LIKE IM DYING LOL MY EMAIL IS carlosts2009 at gmail.com.. or text 856 2 4 4 101 8
Your problem is the kernel is for the t959v galaxy s 4g and the ROM is for t959 vibrant. You can fix it in Odin with the stock firmware but we need to figure out which device you have. Do you have a stock front facing camera?
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samsgun357 said:
What exactly is your problem? Please list your device model and what ROM or stock android version you were using when issue began. Any other info you have would be helpful.
Paranoid, sitting in a deep sweat...
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im using a samsung galaxy s 4g running on gingerbread (the latest version for this phone) I got the instructions for how to root my phone from youtube and everything was good until today when it just got stuck on the boot screen. how can I fix this. I need a professionals assistance for this.
This is the Samsung vibrant t959 (3g). It looks like you have the Samsung galaxy s 4g t959v. These are totally different phones, you need the galaxy s 4g forums, these files for the vibrant will not work on your phone. Find the correct forum on xda website and flash back to stock for the t959v
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