[q] help!!!! Im really worried - Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

I tried to flash my rom to 2.3.3 but since i had it in the wrong folder it wouldnt let me so i restored to my old rom, but now its stuck at the boot screen(it says overstock) and its been like that for a while and im really worried!!! the rom its restoring to is sweethoney the latest version and i did it from clockwork recovery
does anyone know how to get pass the boot screen? im worried to turn my phone off

Sounds to me like you'll need to resort to odin.
You can always try to get into recovery mode first, and flash sweet honey again, then try restoring your backup.

is it just my phone, or when you flash the rom the rom has to be in the INTERNAL sd? i had my new rom on the external and i could find a way to access it =(

before odin, try going back to CWM Recovery and restore you orignal phone system, thats if you backed it up before you done any rom

We'll to you first question flash back to original with Obin and to you second you can only flash a new rom from your internal memory. Read the OP before you flash it tell you were to put it. Good Luck
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finaldestinyx said:
is it just my phone, or when you flash the rom the rom has to be in the INTERNAL sd? i had my new rom on the external and i could find a way to access it =(
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Its not just you, thats the way its supposed to be.
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Vibrant stuck at Vibrant screen, please read (not caused by any OTAs)

I tried upgrading my girlfriend's Vibrant to one of the new 2.2 ROMs and she didn't like it, so I disabled voodoo, booted into recovery and attempted to restore the backup I made in nandroid. After 30 minutes of hanging on 'restoring data', I gave up and tried to reboot. Phone is now stuck in the vibrant logo and will not boot into recovery. Tried pulling the battery and it just reboots back to the Vibrant logo.
I know there is a way to fix this with something called Odin? (not sure if that's the name). My only problem is I don't want to delete any of her non-restorable stuff. Is there any way to fix this without deleting anything that can't be restored? Also, any idea why the nandroid backup didn't work? I'm afraid that even if I can get back into recovery, the restore will just freeze again.
I did notice when it was wiping to install the ROM originally, it also froze on deleting data, but a reboot fixed that. So maybe a reboot will fix that too but I'm not sure. Any help?
do you reboot when you have disabled voodoo and hear linda say 'convertion successful' ? sometime it will not work proper if you disable and flash something without reboot
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Yeah I used the flashable disable zip thru rom manager.
velocity92c said:
Yeah I used the flashable disable zip thru rom manager.
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*edit* it is because kernel i think
BTW post wrong section..
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I made this same mistake the first time I flashed. What it is, its that nandroid does not backup the kernel, so you have to flash one with the same version of android. At this point you will have to use odin to do it then once you have you can do a nandroid restore.
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o i'v just got what your problem is! you should flash a 2.1kernel before nand restore. because it will not restore your kernel
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oiiboy said:
I made this same mistake the first time I flashed. What it is, its that nandroid does not backup the kernel, so you have to flash one with the same version of android. At this point you will have to use odin to do it then once you have you can do a nandroid restore.
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I think maybe he can get into recovery and flash a new 2.1 kernel. Will this work?
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Post in the right forum and you will get the answer to how to fix it.
Moved to Q&A as not development
look at the bright side... at least ur Vibrant isnt stuck on the Captivate screen....
I'm sorry about posting in the wrong forum, honest mistake but it won't happen again. Can someone exolain to me what I need to do, in order, to fix this? I need to use odin, then flash a 2.1 kernel, then run nandroid restore? Which 2.1 kernel should I use?

[Q] I think I really bricked my phone

I'm very noob with all this rom and rooting stuff. With that said I was trying to put in bionix 1.3 last night upgrading from 1.2. I'm messing around in the directory and I see format /data, /system etc. I'm thinking hmmm fresh start??? WRONG!!! now my vibrant won't get past the Vibrant screen. Am I screwed?
You should be fine if u did a nandroid. Just restore and you'll be ok.
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unfortunately I'm not that smart
download mode.
Odin.
everyone's happy.
o.m.g nooooooooo DONT ODIN ! just reflash the rom , u deleted the files from system where your system was your phone has no system to boot in too if u reflash a rom through clockwork should work as well as it will reinstall the system , (not that im against odin back to stock but for some people odin might create moree problems that its worth it, like phone-!-pc)
If you don't have a nandroid maybe you could get someone to upload a nandroid of their phone for you. Then you an use that to restore your phone.
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Use the Vibrant Toolbox here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=954509 flash back to stock using the instructions in the toolbox and re root. You're good to go.

Flashed rom, phone broke

I tried to install this ROM (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1033653) on my friends Optimus T and something went wrong. I followed the instructions to the letter and after the format of the /system i couldn't actually flash the ROM because everything got deleted so i tried to restore the NANDROID that i had made and i couldn't because there was nothing there and now it just hangs at the boot up screen! PLEASE help me get this fixed
Well... may seem a bit obvious have you tried flashing a different rom from recovery yet? If you get really desperate I can supply you with the kdz file for titanium optimus 509.
Or u cud start a fresh wipe your sd card and store on of your fav roms on it and then flash it with recovery..Start afresh..If u can boot into recovery then no worries
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Well... may seem a bit obvious have you tried flashing a different rom from recovery yet? If you get really desperate I can supply you with the kdz file for titanium optimus 509.
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I can't get anything onto the phone because it just gets stuck at boot. I don't know what to do. I have an SGS4G so all I have to do for my phone in this situation is use ODIN but that's not an option for this phone....thanks for the help in advance
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sarfaraz1989 said:
Or u cud start a fresh wipe your sd card and store on of your fav roms on it and then flash it with recovery..Start afresh..If u can boot into recovery then no worries
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im afraid to flash a ROM at this point
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=946354 Try this rom. it installed just fine on my Optimus T titanium. I used clockwork recovery to do so. assuming you can get to recovery which from turned off hold volume down+home then power. If you can;t get to recovery you will probably have to use this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=865479 however you would have to do it from emergency mode instead
Only two options:
1. If you can access the Recovery menu, then clear everything and flash a ROM again.
2. If you cannot, just flashed an official fimware back with kdz (use the links provided in the posts above). Then start all over again.
Simple
Juls317 said:
I can't get anything onto the phone because it just gets stuck at boot. I don't know what to do. I have an SGS4G so all I have to do for my phone in this situation is use ODIN but that's not an option for this phone....thanks for the help in advance
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=14739892&postcount=1278
I think the issue your having is that adding the ext partion formats the sd card. Thus, the zip you are trying to flash is no longer there and you nandroid was deleted also. Boot back into recovery and select the usb mount option, transfer the zip you want to flash and then flash it. Simples
Ciaox simply missed the line out where is should say copy *************.zip to sd card before the bit about flashing it. I think this time following the instructions to closely caused this lol Man up
thanks mates, got it working with a a CM7 port (actually I had to go through 3 because two didn't have the Market for some reason
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Glad you got this resolved. But for future ease of flashing download a flashable zip containing the market. such as the one listed in the instructions here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1072252
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http://goo-inside.me/gapps/gapps-gb-20110307-signed.zip

[Q] Soft brick Vibrant- Help-help-Help

I can get into recovery and download mode, flash stock Rom with Odin and Heimdall to completion but phone never boots up completely. Nothing but boot loops.Goes between Vibrant screen and Galaxy S screen.I'm at my wits ends. I hope some one can suggest something.
What did you come from? CM7 / CM9 ICS?
Did you repartition with Odin?
More info please.
Originally phone had ICS 4.0.4 CM9 ICS and I tried to go back to stock.Big mistake.
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Originally phone had ICS 4.0.4 CM9 ICS and I tried to go back to stock.Big mistake.
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I have flashed with Odin to stock 2.1 coming from an ICS rom a few times and never had a problem, so i don't think that's the issue. Maybe try flashing a stock kernel in recovery mode or you can use Odin for that too I believe. I'm still learning this stuff myself but it sounds like it's a kernel or bootloader issue to me. Just to be sure, are you absolutely certain you flashed a Tmobile vibrant package and not something meant for another company/phone? Sorry had to ask
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Also coming from ICS to stock you MUST repartition the phone.
Managed to install a T959UVKA7 rom but now I can't mount sd card. It's greyed out and states to insert an SD card for mounting. I can erase sd card but it states sd card has been removed. And when I go Additional storage/mmt/emmc and mount sd card I get damaged sd card.I have 0.00B internal storage and mnt/emmc space is 1.86gb which is my external sd card. Almost looks like internal and external storage are reversed. What's up
I always recommend Odining to stock from CM7 as CM9's DM is, at least for me... non-existent. As for your SD card issue, you may want to Odin to stock again.
I agree. You should try to get to JFD and hit repartition. If you need it, the AIO Toolbox is in my signature to download. It has all JFD pit/tar files, Odin and will get you cleanly back to 2.1. Read toolbox's OP in the dev section for directions.
Did everything you suggested but I just end up in a boot loop. I have tried going back to stock many many times but never get out of the boot loop.That's why I installed CM7 from the external Sd card as it was the only way to get anything on the phone.
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Did everything you suggested but I just end up in a boot loop. I have tried going back to stock many many times but never get out of the boot loop.That's why I installed CM7 from the external Sd card as it was the only way to get anything on the phone.
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Have you tried flashing a kernel through recovery or Odin?
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Butchieee said:
Did everything you suggested but I just end up in a boot loop. I have tried going back to stock many many times but never get out of the boot loop.That's why I installed CM7 from the external Sd card as it was the only way to get anything on the phone.
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Wait you got a boot loop after using ODIN to restore?
Yep Please read original post above. No matter what I do I just get the boot loop thing. How do you just install a kernel through Odin? Haven't done that yet.Not sure how to do it or what kernel to use.
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Yep Please read original post above. No matter what I do I just get the boot loop thing. How do you just install a kernel through Odin? Haven't done that yet.Not sure how to do it or what kernel to use.
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Easiest way to do it in my opinion is through recovery mode. Download a kernel that is compatible with your ROM, go delete cache partition and dalvik cache from the advanced menu then install from sd card just like you would a ROM. The kernel MUST be compatible with whatever ROM you are running. Check out the kernel bible thread for a list of kernels and what ROMS they work with. I personally never used Odin to flash a kernel but I believe the kernel bible tells you how
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[Q] How to Remove Cyanogenmod 11 and go back to stock. [Galaxy Player 5.0 US]

I flashed this with Cyanogenmod 11 soon after I got it 2 months ago. Well times are tough and I have to sell it on eBay. I want to remove Cyanogenmod 11 and revert back to stock. I know the thread where the stock ROM and PIT files are (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2192488) so thats half the battle there. Is it the same process as this (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1531850) or is there something else I need to do. Do I have to install GA APPS like you do with custom ROMs or is that not needed
This is all pretty new to me. I know how to flash custom ROMs and such but flashing the stock ROM seems tricky to me. Sorry if this has all been covered so many times that it makes you tired of seeing this, I just have to be sure I do this right and dont brick it (cant sell a paper weight on eBay for too much money lol).
Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks for all the hardwork that goes into making these ROMs as well
EDIT: Can I flash the stock ROM with the US Kernal, US PIT file and 2.3.5 gapps like I did with Cyanogenmod 11 or is that impossible?
Again sorry for the newbie question!
You need to wipe all data and use Odin to flash your gingerbread firmware.
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You need to wipe all data and use Odin to flash your gingerbread firmware.
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Okay that makes sense then. Do I boot into recovery, wipe data and then flash everything using Odin or is there a more preferred way to wipe data. Just making sure I have all this sorted before I do something bad.
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Okay that makes sense then. Do I boot into recovery, wipe data and then flash everything using Odin or is there a more preferred way to wipe data. Just making sure I have all this sorted before I do something bad.
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I think after flashing a factory firmware by Odin, the device will AUTOMATICALLY boot into stock recovery, where you can wipe data in the correct format. At least that's what it said in the guide I read, and also happens on my Player 4.0 for both Froyo and Gingerbread.
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Now I have a boot loop.... I followed this guide with no success. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1850600
Any other ideas?
I am getting lots of errors in recovery mode. Lots of can't mount errors and everything else. I have no idea what to do now. So much for selling this to make some money.
Dude I had the same problem all you need to do is flash RJ cwm 14 kernel then go back in download mode go to Odin and I hate to say this but flash your gingerbread firmware. Tell me if this works or not because this happened to me 3 times Boot loop and brick status and semi brick.
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Dude I had the same problem all you need to do is flash RJ cwm 14 kernel then go back in download mode go to Odin and I hate to say this but flash your gingerbread firmware. Tell me if this works or not because this happened to me 3 times Boot loop and brick status and semi brick.
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No did not work. Still stuck in the boot loop. When I am in Recovery mode, I get unable to mount errors. It wont see my external SD card either.
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No did not work. Still stuck in the boot loop. When I am in Recovery mode, I get unable to mount errors. It wont see my external SD card either.
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Well since you're getting mount errors, are you sure you flashed the correct PIT file? Mount errors are likely caused by a wrong pit file.
EDIT: I see you have pointed to a thread with correct PIT files. So I think you should flash the PIT file first, boot into download again and then flash the Stock ROM and Kernel. If it boot loops at the boot animation, boot into the stock recovery and wipe data.

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