[Q] .pit and .tar files??? where to get them? - Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

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'm trying to flash bonix 1.3.1 using odin....i'm doing that for the first time...but where to get this .pit and .tar files?

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=799105

IceAg08 said:
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so...We can use Odin just to go back to stock firmaware? we cannot flash custom roms with?

Only times i have ever used ODIN was to go back to stock. All other installs/flashes of custom ROMS, KERNELS, themes, and MODS have been done thru recovery(RED). Why do you want to use ODIN to flash ur custom ROMS may I ask? You should prob stick to the install instructions set by each dev for their particular release. Good luck!

i'm trying to flash a new rom but i cannot get into clockwork recovery...looks like many people had this problem last days...

mikka06 said:
i'm trying to flash a new rom but i cannot get into clockwork recovery...looks like many people had this problem last days...
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Use 3 button combo
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mikka06 said:
i'm trying to flash a new rom but i cannot get into clockwork recovery...looks like many people had this problem last days...
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Is the phone still booting up and werkin?
- what ROM are you on now?
no recovery in power menu? (I love this feature!) soo simple
- do you have "USB debugging" enabled?
ROM manager has recovery (does that werk?)
- Three button method (how i do it)lol
1) Hold down all three (really hold them down just to make sure you got them all pressed, dont worry ur not gonna break it unless ur superman{ur not})
2) Phone boots on
3) While "Vibrant" is on phone(**must be 1st "Vibrant" if you hold it thru and screen goes black then boots again and you see "Vibrant" a 2nd time you missed it and must start over. Let phone bootup and try again**) let go "Power" button DO NOT LIFT UP ON VOLUME ROCKER AT ALL.
4) Continue to hold volume rocker untill recovery pops up.
I have found that the three button method werks best with "USB debugging" enabled. Not sure if that really matters tho as I am a believer{or a "be-bieber"} my sis loves that kid) that most times its user error that keeps people from recovery you just cant give up, keep trying. Just like ODIN if it doesnt werk the first hundred times it'll prob werk on the 101st try. Good luck!

The toolbox is a very useful tool
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=954509

i tried the toolbox and not working...looks like i'm rooted but can't get into recovery mod...i'm running stock KB1...i'm already tired but i will give i try later...thanx for the help anyway

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[Q] Can't get OUT of recover mode.

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.
jtc442 said:
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?
zednaught said:
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?
jtc442 said:
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 !

[Q] Question and need help.

Hey Gang! I did some searching and couldn't find my answer so I need some help please. I have the Vibrant (tmo). I did the one click root and then installed Ginger clone final R2. All worked well but then I noticed I could not get back into Clockwork recovery to try another ROM. So... I found the thread explaining how to get back to factory firmware. I did that. Now when I try to Odin, Im no longer able to get the phone to the download screen. I was able to re root with the One Click Root and that worked but I still can not access Clockwork recover or the Download mode or anything to get a ROM on. I guess Im just not doing something or Im a noob idiot. That being said... call my an idiot and walk me through to fix this mess.
Thank you in advance
To get back to download mode try to
1.take off battery
2.run odin as administrator
3.plug in usb cable
4.hold the volume keys and while you are holding them plug back the battery
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From any screen hold pwr button and vol up and vol down....keep holding untill you see the vibrant boot screen then release all at the same time. That will rake you to recovery if the reinstall pkgs option is there just click it. You may have to do this twice in order to get into clockwork recovery. Do this with the phone unplugged. hope this helps
See above post for dl mode
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First questions in question section. Second when on the blue screen go to reinstall packages that will take you to the green recovery screen. You may have to click reinstall a second time. Third the easiest way to download is to make sure your phone is off. Plug usb into phone only. Press and hold both volume buttons while still holding them plug other end of usb into computer.
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The way I get to recovery is with the phone off I
1.hold down volume up and down also the power button
2.when you see the vibrant screen keep holding all thee
3.you will c the vibrant screen one more time when you do stop holding power but keep holding the volume keys
4.then hit reinstall packages...you might have to hit it more than once
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sTyLeSz said:
To get back to download mode try to
1.take off battery
2.run odin as administrator
3.plug in usb cable
4.hold the volume keys and while you are holding them plug back the battery
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Hey Stylesz... Thats what I was trying and it does not work. It just stays black.
nickmcminn60 said:
From any screen hold pwr button and vol up and vol down....keep holding untill you see the vibrant boot screen then release all at the same time. That will rake you to recovery if the reinstall pkgs option is there just click it. You may have to do this twice in order to get into clockwork recovery. Do this with the phone unplugged. hope this helps
See above post for dl mode
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Nick... I tried that and all it did was reboot. It did not go to any recovery.
I did notice that when I reverted back to factory, It actually was not the firmware I had before all this. I had JI6 and when I did the revert it was JE8. Im lost. LOL
Adb reboot download . or if u can still boot up download emulator from market and type reboot download .. if still doesnt work u might need to sauter a jig to get u in download mode
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Adb reboot download . or if u can still boot up download emulator from market and type reboot download .. if still doesnt work u might need to sauter a jig to get u in download mode
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OK.... I downloaded terminal. Then reboot download. That worked, so I loaded up Odin, loaded the files and it failed. Then I just rebooted the phone and now I have a black screen with an icon in the middle of a cellphone and computer with an orange explaination mark in between them. Am I hosed?
zeroplace said:
Hey Gang! I did some searching and couldn't find my answer so I need some help please. I have the Vibrant (tmo). I did the one click root and then installed Ginger clone final R2. All worked well but then I noticed I could not get back into Clockwork recovery to try another ROM. So... I found the thread explaining how to get back to factory firmware. I did that. Now when I try to Odin, Im no longer able to get the phone to the download screen. I was able to re root with the One Click Root and that worked but I still can not access Clockwork recover or the Download mode or anything to get a ROM on. I guess Im just not doing something or Im a noob idiot. That being said... call my an idiot and walk me through to fix this mess.
Thank you in advance
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Easiest way, after you have odin'd back to stock and rooted your phone.
Download the app Rom Manager for the market.
The first thing you need to do once Rom Manger is installed is copy the rom you want to flash to your internal SD card.
Then Start Rom Manger.
The first time you use Rom Manager is select the top menu item "Flash ColockworkMod Recover" and select your phone in this case I am assuming "Samsung Vibrant"
After the flash completes select "Install Rom from SD card".
It is fairly self explanatory from there.
Good luck.
Ok first, as stated before questions go in QA section no development.
to access CWM Recovery you may have to keep the update.zip file in internal SD card root
Odin is different
power off the phone, pressing volume up+down at the same time (don't touch power or you will keep going into recovery) until you get on download mode. (different than recovery).
Plug USB, ready to odin
When ODIN back to original, be SURE to check Re Partition and load the pit and phone files.
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Easiest way, after you have odin'd back to stock and rooted your phone.
Download the app Rom Manager for the market.
The first thing you need to do once Rom Manger is installed is copy the rom you want to flash to your internal SD card.
Then Start Rom Manger.
The first time you use Rom Manager is select the top menu item "Flash ColockworkMod Recover" and select your phone in this case I am assuming "Samsung Vibrant"
After the flash completes select "Install Rom from SD card".
It is fairly self explanatory from there.
Good luck.
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Thank you Dave! I was using Rom Manager with failed attempt, however Im game for another try. As soon as I get back to stock, I will give it another go. Cross your digits!
I do not know why this is so difficult now. I got back to an unwanted factory rom. I rooted the phone, put the new rom on the internal mem card. Downloaded Rom Manager. Installed Clockwork. Selected Install ROM from sdcard. Selected the rom and it rebooted to the original recovery (blue and yellow). No signs of Clockwork recovery (green). Now I have a rooted phone with an umwanted fatory rom and can install any other rom on it.
This sounds like a problem I was having for awhile. After installing clockwork mod it would only reboot to the standard recovery screen. I had to install update.zip again from this screen several times and eventually it stopped asking me for this step and started to boot clockwork mod properly.
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This sounds like a problem I was having for awhile. After installing clockwork mod it would only reboot to the standard recovery screen. I had to install update.zip again from this screen several times and eventually it stopped asking me for this step and started to boot clockwork mod properly.
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Just keep your CWM update.zip file in the root of the internal SD Card
Now if you installed Froyo leaked rom stock, and the Recovery now on top says 3einstead of 2e, then you need to fix that, look for the thread to convert 3e to 2e otherwise CWM won't work anymore. you need to be rooted and have root explorer or know how to use either adb or terminal
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=833423
Well.... I have no idea what I did but it is now working. I tried everyones suggestions so Im unsure what did what. I want to thank everyone for their help and quick response's. I was actually expecting to get bashed about searching and being a noob etc. After seeing some of the other posts, Im surprised I didn't. Thanks again for making it easy to reply and explain what I was doing and what was going on. I have a new outlook about XDA.
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[Q] Installed DoW 14 Kernel, stuck at boot animation screen

My phone was working fine after installing the DOW14 kernel yesterday. This morning it was even working fine. Even my alarm went off this morning on the phone and I set it an hour ahead (for more sleep) and it didn't go off. I looked at my phone and the screen would not come on. The "buttons" at the bottom lit up, but nothing I had to hold the power button down to get it to reboot.
It got past the "Vibrant" text and shows the green robot for TeamWhiskey, but just sits there. Tried taking the battery out and still it will boot to the same place. Can anyone help?
I did not overclock, I never ran SetCPU.
If you can get it to download mode, try flashing another kernel through odin since you cant see anything. Just the kernel not a rom. Supercurio has some voodoo kernels for odin in the dev section. Just look for your base and odin the corresponding kernel. Goes in PDA. Dunno if there are any "stock" odin kernels or not.
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If you can get it to download mode, try flashing another kernel through odin since you cant see anything. Just the kernel not a rom. Supercurio has some voodoo kernels for odin in the dev section. Just look for your base and odin the corresponding kernel. Goes in PDA. Dunno if there are any "stock" odin kernels or not.
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Hold vol up + down + power right? I can't seem to get into recovery/download mode. I am downloading Bay_wolf's AIO Vibrant Toolbox 2.5 right now.
raulcota said:
Hold vol up + down + power right? I can't seem to get into recovery/download mode. I am downloading Bay_wolf's AIO Vibrant Toolbox 2.5 right now.
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Watch this video to get to download mode http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0aoabVtPJ8&feature=youtube_gdata_player
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I had a similar issue and crazy enough, it worked. Then I just odined back to stock then rooted and flashing all over again
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I can get it to reboot using adb reboot recovery, but it never actually boots into recovery still sticks at the teamwhiskey robot chick screen, lame
raulcota said:
I can get it to reboot using adb reboot recovery, but it never actually boots into recovery still sticks at the teamwhiskey robot chick screen, lame
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not recovery...download mode w/the digging robot on the screen.. I'm not familiar with adb does it adb reboot download or anything of that nature?
Try this, it worked for me. Pop your battery, put it back in, hold vol up down and power. Wait for vibrant to pop up the second time and release. Should put you in recovery. Factory data reset, reflash you rom, wipe dalvik and fix permissions, then reboot. I had the same issue with the Bionix 1.2.1 update and the glasstopia theme w/ dragon 4. They didnt play well together. Hope this helps.
you may want to build a jig or buy one online in the future just in case you cannot get into the download mode.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dl...25272&ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT#ht_595wt_1139
OK, I can get into download mode and I have been trying this method with no success:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=8698655&postcount=150
Odin flashes the phone and it just comes back and reboots again. Man this sucks
I am wondering if there is a full flash file somewhere I found one Fascinate, but I am afraid to flash my Vibrant with it.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=867648 that is the fascinate one
Several people are having this problem including me... I worked on it all day yesterday. No matter what you odin, even eugenes no brick fix then JFD, nothing will work. I hate to tell you but your phone is toast.
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I agree man.
I've looked at every single thread with this same exact issue.
No avail. The file system, the ones that are reserved and locked for the bootloader and ROM are corrupted, is my guess.
I can load all the roms on there, but something isn't loading correctly, or is beyond corrupted, not allowing me to boot the phone at all.
My phone is toast too.
Damn, im not happy.
Nobody has a fix for this though. Nobody.
Anyway, sorry to hear about your phone. Mine is also bricked completely.
Keep in mind, this is from somebody who has bricked every possible way (apparently not this way), and ODIN at least once a week. I've also used Eugene's i9000 OC kernels, old DOW OC kernels, and TTBAL's OC kernel with NO PROBLEMS AT ALL!!! 1.4gHz stable.
Now this.
WTF Mate.
drewdude007 said:
Several people are having this problem including me... I worked on it all day yesterday. No matter what you odin, even eugenes no brick fix then JFD, nothing will work. I hate to tell you but your phone is toast.
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I see that in the DoW 14 thread now. I am not giving up yet, but that is discouraging.
Unbrick me!!!
ive bricked my phone before and ive used odin to get my phone running again but this time its diffrent it wont go into download mode it just keeps blinking at the VIBRANT samsung screen and when i connect it to my computer the battery loop turns on and if i let go of the buttons that take me to download mode it just goes back to flashing vibrant IM SCARED someone plz help!
posted by team whiskey
"Optional Kernels:
Optional kernels will be uploaded and posted when I get home.
They will include a Modded DOW and Modded Dragon to allow for mounting Internal SD. Do Not flash the current DOW/Dragon kernels or you will loose mounting functionality."
my girls phone is shot and i took the dow off mine real quick
no more oc for me thanks sold my bricked phone on ebay for 150$
maybe that will help for people to recover the loss a bit?
good luck i tried for days.
Still Broken...
Anyone ever get this fixed? I still have a broken phone
power off phone
pull out battery
GRAB THIS STUFF : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1047087
turn on odin
attach phone to pc with usb cable
now while holding down both volume buttons put battery back in.
now you should be in download mode and go back to stock with odin from here!
make sure u put the proper .pit and .pda file in there proper places on odin and ur set to go.
Enjoy and also make sure u have the proper samsung drivers
what rom are you running? did you check to see if it was even compatible with the kernel your flashing? I mean.... are you on gingerbread roms or froyo?

[Q] Can't get into download mode...Bricked the shiz out of my phone.

Soo....I kinda f*cked up my phone. I had Bi-Winning for a while and got bored of it, so I decided to flash another rom. I had it for about 2 hours and decided, I wanna flash another one! I went back in my history and this is terrible, but I cannot remember for the life of me which rom I used. It was either Simply Honey, Crazy 8, or MIUI. I honestly can't remember. Anyway, after that I used ROM Manager to flash Biffmod from my SD Card and after it did that, it went into a bootloop. So I tried to get back into Download mode, but it just kept going to the Vibrant screen. THEN, I tried to use Odin without being in Download mode and I didn't realize the TAR file wasn't completely downloaded, ran Odin and it made it even worse. Now every time I try to use the various methods of getting into Download mode, I come across the screen in the attached photo. It's a weird version of CWM Recovery, it says. v2.5.1.0 SOK ULFK. I cannot get passed this screen and into Download mode no matter what I do. HELP!
It also can't mount my SD card.
Saved me every time & I down load it to my HD.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nMCBbdAcHU
Saved me every time & I down load it to my HD.
Keep us posted.
serendipityguy said:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nMCBbdAcHU
Saved me every time & I down load it to my HD.
Keep us posted.
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If it doesn't work the first time don't panic, sometimes it takes me a couple of times to get it to work. If you still can't get into download mode I see a JIG in your future...
http://goo.gl/CFnVU
Same thing happened. The battery icon screen flashes and then it goes to this weird CWM. What the eff did I do to my phone?
Why not flash a froyo rom like bionix or project v from the recovery menu.
Another thing - When I try to use CWM to reboot into Download mode, the screen Galaxy S GT I9000 pops up and goes back to CWM. I have the Vibrant, and I'm pretty sure those are two somewhat different phones...Why is mine confused?
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Why not flash a froyo rom like bionix or project v from the recovery menu.
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Well I assume I'd need to actually have the rom to be able to flash it. And when I try to install zip from SD it's unable to mount the SD card.
Someone please help me, I am getting extremely desperate here.
Generally the Galaxy S GT I9000 screen comes up if you have the Gingerbread bootloader flashed. GB Bootloaders don't use the 3 button combo for Download Mode, all you have to do is press and hold Volume Up + Power.
If that doesn't work try flashing a GB ROM. Sadly there's really no way to tell what file system the phone is using in CMW at least not in the version I have, if you can find out that would help a lot though. Since we don't know what file system it's using I'd recommend using a non-CM7/MIUI rom first. Download one of the non-CM7/MIUI GB roms. Plug the phone into your computer and in CMW go to Mounts and Storage and Mount USB Storage. You should then be able to copy the ROM onto your phone and flash it.
I had problem getting to download mode after flashing ported gt I9000 rom .hold down or up, power and home " button" (one puts in recovery the other in download can't remember which)
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THANK YOU!!!!!!!!
boundless316 said:
Generally the Galaxy S GT I9000 screen comes up if you have the Gingerbread bootloader flashed. GB Bootloaders don't use the 3 button combo for Download Mode, all you have to do is press and hold Volume Up + Power.
If that doesn't work try flashing a GB ROM. Sadly there's really no way to tell what file system the phone is using in CMW at least not in the version I have, if you can find out that would help a lot though. Since we don't know what file system it's using I'd recommend using a non-CM7/MIUI rom first. Download one of the non-CM7/MIUI GB roms. Plug the phone into your computer and in CMW go to Mounts and Storage and Mount USB Storage. You should then be able to copy the ROM onto your phone and flash it.
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THANK YOUUUU!!! Oh my goodness. I JUST bought a jig with my gf's card and then I came back to this thread and saw this. Tried it, it worked. Now hopefully I can do the rest without a problem. Thank you again for getting me into download mode.
Word. Glad I could help. The important thing to remember is the Vibrant is a pretty robust phone. It's damn near impossible to brick it so bad you can't recover, so there's rarely any reason to panic. And hey, now you have a JIG on the way just in case you get into some real trouble down the line.
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Word. Glad I could help. The important thing to remember is the Vibrant is a pretty robust phone. It's damn near impossible to brick it so bad you can't recover, so there's rarely any reason to panic. And hey, now you have a JIG on the way just in case you get into some real trouble down the line.
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Actually I have one little problem, I am unable to get to CWM Recovery it says there is no update.zip/ "No such file or directory". I need to get going so I'll just leave it as stock 2.1 right now.
Also it's still starting up with the GT I9000 thingy and I just want it back to normal! Haha anyway. Thanks again.
Download the AIO Toolbox, use it to Odin back to stock (the appropriate PIT and PDA files are included with the install), root the phone (again using the AIO Toolbox) and then install ROM Manager and use it to flash CWM.
boundless316 said:
Download the AIO Toolbox, use it to Odin back to stock (the appropriate PIT and PDA files are included with the install), root the phone (again using the AIO Toolbox) and then install ROM Manager and use it to flash CWM.
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You seriously deserve some sort of medal. Thank you so much for taking the time to help me out.

SGH-i717 Can't factory reset from Recovery Mode

Hi there my SGH-i717 has no HOME keys at the moment..It was suggested to use :
h0tcakez-JB-Kernel-v2.3.5-ALT.zip and
SGH-i717-UCLF6-FJMod-B12 1.zip...
The problem is that when i get into Recovery mode i cannot do anything (see my screen shot i what i see) so i cant use my sdcard to flash these files to try and get my HOME keys back..
I have tried a lot of different items including going back to Stock 2.3.6..
Any suggestions at this stage would be a life saver..cheers..
Android 2.3.6
Kernel 2.6.35.11
Build No Gingerbread UCLA1
kakadu44 said:
Hi there my SGH-i717 has no HOME keys at the moment..It was suggested to use :
h0tcakez-JB-Kernel-v2.3.5-ALT.zip and
SGH-i717-UCLF6-FJMod-B12 1.zip...
The problem is that when i get into Recovery mode i cannot do anything (see my screen shot i what i see) so i cant use my sdcard to flash these files to try and get my HOME keys back..
I have tried a lot of different items including going back to Stock 2.3.6..
Any suggestions at this stage would be a life saver..cheers..
Android 2.3.6
Kernel 2.6.35.11
Build No Gingerbread UCLA1
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Try downloading Odin and flashing TWRP 2.5. With TWRP you don't need home keys to operate. That way you should be able to factory reset.
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ProFresh4 said:
Try downloading Odin and flashing TWRP 2.5. With TWRP you don't need home keys to operate. That way you should be able to factory reset.
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Thanx for your reply but i have done that already....Did you happen to open my attachment by any chance?..When i get into recovery it does NOT allow me to use the Factorry Reset / Wipe otpions the buttoms dont do anything..In fact it just remains in a frozen like state...Any other suggestions please..
Would it matter which version of ODIN?????
Cheers
Find whatever version of Odin is the latest and greatest. I'm sure it does have something to do with it. Make sure all your samsung drivers are up to date on your computer as well. Also, try hooking it up to kies and doing an emergency frimware something or other option. Here's a little guide. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2088809. Something will work. Keep searching....
kakadu44 said:
Thanx for your reply but i have done that already....Did you happen to open my attachment by any chance?..When i get into recovery it does NOT allow me to use the Factorry Reset / Wipe otpions the buttoms dont do anything..In fact it just remains in a frozen like state...Any other suggestions please..
Would it matter which version of ODIN?????
Cheers
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I have never seen that screen before. Profresh is probably right in one sense, using Odin. which I believe 3.185 is the one, but don't think it really matters. if TWRP is not working?, doesn't make sense, don't use home key there anyway.
may I suggest the Odin and just start over returning to stock. stock ICS though. don't waste time with GB beings your device was upgraded there long ago. then you can upgrade official JB. may be an extra step but that doesn't matter, your wanting to know if HOME button is going to.
you don't use home button in either process (Odin or TWRP). maybe your phone???
captemo said:
I have never seen that screen before. Profresh is probably right in one sense, using Odin. which I believe 3.185 is the one, but don't think it really matters. if TWRP is not working?, doesn't make sense, don't use home key there anyway.
may I suggest the Odin and just start over returning to stock. stock ICS though. don't waste time with GB beings your device was upgraded there long ago. then you can upgrade official JB. may be an extra step but that doesn't matter, your wanting to know if HOME button is going to.
you don't use home button in either process (Odin or TWRP). maybe your phone???
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Agreed
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How about Kies? You can use the emergency firmware option to restore.
captemo said:
I have never seen that screen before. Profresh is probably right in one sense, using Odin. which I believe 3.185 is the one, but don't think it really matters. if TWRP is not working?, doesn't make sense, don't use home key there anyway.
may I suggest the Odin and just start over returning to stock. stock ICS though. don't waste time with GB beings your device was upgraded there long ago. then you can upgrade official JB. may be an extra step but that doesn't matter, your wanting to know if HOME button is going to.
you don't use home button in either process (Odin or TWRP). maybe your phone???
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Hi there thanx for your reply..I agree with you that i maybe need to go back to stock..I am trying to do that..I installed the TWRP latest and greatest tried for about 15 mins to get my phone to go into Recovery mode but as i said it just freezes on that screen that i included as an attachment..What i dont understand is that i flashed TWRP with ODIN but i couldn't see TWRP anywhere on my phone...Correct me if am wrong pls but i think that attachment shows that i booted into ClockWorkMod and not TWRP..Is that correct..If not i am really confused..
One last thing before i try your suggestions..I am so confused as to which STOCK ROM to use,,I have one which is:
Stock 2.3.4 AT&T
-pda-odin-att-stock.tar
-pda-odin-att-stock-kernel.tar
Arw these what you are referring to? If not a simle link would be extremely appreciated..
Thanx once again in advance..Cheers..kakadu44
kakadu44 said:
Hi there thanx for your reply..I agree with you that i maybe need to go back to stock..I am trying to do that..I installed the TWRP latest and greatest tried for about 15 mins to get my phone to go into Recovery mode but as i said it just freezes on that screen that i included as an attachment..What i dont understand is that i flashed TWRP with ODIN but i couldn't see TWRP anywhere on my phone...Correct me if am wrong pls but i think that attachment shows that i booted into ClockWorkMod and not TWRP..Is that correct..If not i am really confused..
One last thing before i try your suggestions..I am so confused as to which STOCK ROM to use,,I have one which is:
Stock 2.3.4 AT&T
-pda-odin-att-stock.tar
-pda-odin-att-stock-kernel.tar
Arw these what you are referring to? If not a simle link would be extremely appreciated..
Thanx once again in advance..Cheers..kakadu44
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you can check your "Super Everything Thread" under general forum. you can find a step by step and there are youtube videos also.
I do believe just the stock is going to get you the Kernal you need. do what you want, but I think your wasting your time with GB. can you get download mode? if so just flash the stock ICS tar file. if your home button doesn't work, why would you waste your time with any recovery or even rooting.
see if that thing will boot. then worry bout any upgrades.
baby steps man. lets find out if that home button works or not. if it doesn't work, then you are not rooted and go talk to carrier for possible replacement?
NO?
The screen you showed us is not a custom recovery.
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