I bought a Samsung Vibrant from someone today on craigslist and it turns out when i got home with it, when i connect it to the computer it isn't recongnizing it. I called tmobile to see if they could help, and they could. I don't want to try to fix it or anything with an update, i just want to completely get the phone back to normal like as if i were buying it brand new from the store. Can someone please help.
Idk what information you need to give me a tutorial on how to do it...
So here is some stuff...
Kernel Version: 2.6.32.9 OverStock-1.2GHz-v2.4.1 #8
Build Number: Toxic7.XWJS8
Firmware Version: 2.2.1
Model Number: GT-I9000
If someone could help that would be so amazing!
Download vibrant aio toolbox in the stickie section of development and print back to stock very easy.
Also the cables go bad I've gone through 2 may need to pick up another before to get your computer to recognize it. If toolbox can't kick it ink download mode.
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....i suck at life. i cannot find were to download the aio whatever you called it lol. could you post a link or something lol
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=954509
There ya go..
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alright so i went to that link and i click on the Download Here link thing he had, and finished installing whatever that was. im not sure what to do now, and i am so affriad to mess up my phone this is asking alot, but can you try to talk me through this cause im a retard lol...
First of all.. Does your computer recognize your phone coz according to op your computer isn't recognizing the phone..
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when i plug my phone into the computer, the computer recognizes the phone. but only when i go under devices and printer using the start menu, and it has a thing that says TroubleShoot. And when i troubleshoot it, it says there isnt a driver.
Hmm.. Try going to stock...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tR31U0KK2n8
Watch this video by birgertime it helps alot. watch it atleast twice before you actually do it so you can understand what to do exactly.
All the files needed are available in the info box
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Download this: http://org.downloadcenter.samsung.c...11232449765/Kies_Mini_For_Vibrant_10095_9.exe. This is samsung kies mini which will install all the right drivers so that your phone will be recognized.
thats if u can get mini kies to accept ur phone as kies is not easiest thing to do for some. but if u get kies to accept ur phone then u can odin back to stock 2.1 and then u can go from there.
- So does the phone charge when connected to PC but just doesn't mount correctly?
- Try checking your "USB debugging" settings under /settings/applications/development. It could be as simple as that.
If not there are a ton of guides out there for restoring to stock just google it:
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Samsung+vibrant+restore+to+stock
(I like the first link, that guy starts it out pretty funny)
Honestly the AIO toolbox should be the easiest way for you to go tho. I have not personally used it but it seems the most surefire way for others. The guides here at XDA will be most helpful but there are an endless amount of them on the interweb. Good luck!
*EDIT* If you really want stock flash this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1036193
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Hello devs/deviants/xda members.
I hate for this to be my first post, but avast.
The other night (in a drunken stupor that i... regrettably...dont remember) i managed to brick (probably) my Vibrant.
From going through my history i figured out that i successfully rooted my phone and loaded Macnut R14 ROM. However, it then appears that i loaded the Axure CE rom (for Captivate i think).
It is now stuck in a loop. The Att load screen appears, followed by a Galaxy S, Gt-i900 screen. My phone then says in a creepy Radiohead voice: "restore operation"
I cannot access recovery (through adb or 3-button recovery) and i have been unable to get into download mode.
My finace has forbidden me to buy the replacement phone ($288 dollars if Tmo finds anything wrong with it), so i turn to you, masters of all thing dev, for help.
I expect a certain bit of jabbing and or anger from those more established members. If it makes my case any better, i have been trolling XDA for quite a while and y'all helped me root my G1 (which i love ;-) )
Any help would be great.
Final question--is it true you can't brick a Vibrant? Just looking for some more info.
Thanks in advance,
~ J017373
Thanks guys, found a YouTube video to show me how to get into download. THERE IS HOPE YET!
okay, so i have it it Download mode. (Huge shout out to TheVoiceofAndroid), but i cant get Odin to read the phone. Is it possible that i need to download the Captivate drivers?
Was your phone recognized in odin before this mishap? Just make sure you have the proper drivers installed. If you do indeed need the drivers, just search the forums.
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i didnt flash with odin. Pretty sure i used adm. ****ing drunk self.
Downloading samsung drivers now. Do u know, does it cover all their Galaxy S Phones.
Search the development forums for the link to the drivers. Then just download the drivers for your respective OS.
After you have the proper drivers, just re-open odin and it should recognize your device. You should have a COM##.
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Best thing you can do is just go to the vibrant bible or click on the stickies tab. Your drivers are there along with odin and odin tutorials. I wanged my phone once or twice and xda hasn't failed me yet.
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ok com recognoized. The only problem im having is if i want to goto eugenes 2.2, do i have to goto stock first?
dear LORD ITS FIXED. THANK YOU XDA!
Haha, awesome post.
Remember how you just fixed your phone... if you continue to tweak it, it will more than likely happen again ;-)
Good to have you back.
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So sorry to bother you people with my little problems but as long as my phone is in dl mode the pc says device not recognized any other screen and its fine. Recovery, galaxy screen so how do I flash back to jfd from were I'm at or are there other options. I really am at my ropes end. 3 days I've fought with this thing. Thank you for any help you can give
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I'm going to grab at air here, but do you have Odin up before you stick it in download mode? it should be..... try unpluging usb and plugging it back in while in download mode with odin running... (DO NOT I REPEAT DO NOT unplug while actually flashing with Odin... it will soft brick your phone) just saying.. if it hangs while flashing it can still be recovered.. of course.. but the first time i softbricked my phone i was like OH SH1T!!!! my wife gonna kill me.... lol
Out of curiosity, is your usb port 2.0? Mine would never get recognized on older computers that didn't have usb2.0.
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I had the same problem a while back... what you have to do is make sure you have all of the correct driver's for ur vibrant installed on your computer in order for your computer to recognize it. go to samsung's website at this link ( http://www.samsung.com/us/support/downloads/ ) and enter your phone info in. When the next screen comes up, click on the "Software" tab at the top of the screen. You then need to click on the second one down (Device(Install) (Software) (ver.10095.9) ) and download/install that to your computer. Make sure you open it after you install it to make sure you have all of the driver's installed (it should do this automatically). after you reboot your computer, open odin, and connect you phone to your pc in download mode, it should now see it. let us know if this works for you...
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I'm going to grab at air here, but do you have Odin up before you stick it in download mode? it should be..... try unpluging usb and plugging it back in while in download mode with odin running... (DO NOT I REPEAT DO NOT unplug while actually flashing with Odin... it will soft brick your phone) just saying.. if it hangs while flashing it can still be recovered.. of course.. but the first time i softbricked my phone i was like OH SH1T!!!! my wife gonna kill me.... lol
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First off the wifey don't know yet I told her I was testin this mytouch I found. Lol second. I've tried every whichaway. But I am thankful for the input.
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reinstaling drivers while hphone is connected to computer with debug on helped me
also you may want to make sure you have Odin v1.3. v1.0 was complete doo-doo.
I did use the doodoo version. But as u guys can see by the signature below all the advise worked...many thanks to all of you who helped...thank you soo much. I still need to update to 2.2
P.s. wife never found out I broke my phone...WIN!
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I was flashing my vibrant and accidentally pulled the USB during the flash. I could not get into download mode so I bought the USB dongle that puts it in dl mode and it worked. Flashed the wrong stock rom which was for the international version. It worked great other than no internet so I went in recovery to root it. Got stuck in recovery due to not being able to select anything since I had no home button. Downloaded the j16 rom and flashed with Odin. Went to reinstall packages, phone turned off when I hit reboot and never came back on. No download mode even with USB jumper and not even the charging icon, nothing. Help please. I have since bought the Samaung Focus which I like but would love my vibrant back too. Thanks.
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why didnt you just odin vibrant 2.1 after you did i9000 by accident ??
only way back from hard brick is to take it somewhere that has jtag
Don't know
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Who is good on here to jtag?
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just make a post sayin u need someone to jtag ur phone he will probably answer it. His name is something like connextion?? sorry dont know the whole name
It is connexion2005. PM him.
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Okay guys, never let me down before, lets see if you can keep a perfect score
This is not my first time rooting, i've rooted at least 3 phones thus far, and I am trying to root my Samsung Fascinate. I've tried z4root, Superoneclick and adb. None of them took. I believe it may be something with my drivers, but before I get into specifics, let me give you my information:
~~~~PHONE~~~~
Hardware version: I500.04
Model SCH-I500
Firmware: 2.2.2
Kernel version: 2.6.32.9
Build Number: SCH-I500.ED05
~~~~COMPUTER~~~~
Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition Version 2002 Service Pack 3.
Ok so now that's out there, what am I doing wrong? when I tried z4root 1.3.0, it got the point where it said "acquiring root shell, then the phone vibrated 3 times and the app closed. Super one click, the prompt got stuck on "waiting for phone" ADB, the device won't even show up in the list of devices. I can't seem to find the right drivers anywhere.
It may be important to note that I am using my data cable from my optimus v, and when I plug it in, the micro-usb dongle doesn't go all the way into the port on the fascinate. However, the fascinate gives me the notification that usb mode can be activate and that debugging is on, etc.
I made sure that mock locations, and usb debugging were both on.
Any help?
Follow these steps in link:
http://www.galaxyforums.net/forum/fascinate-rs-guides/1967-how-root-froyo-gingerbread-your-fascinate.html
Ive always used ADB and pushed over the files and such.
However are you going to flash another rom? If so just Odin recovery, flash the rom and be done with it.
I have to have root for that right? My drivers aren't working, is there a way to flash it with out a computer
OhioYJ said:
Ive always used ADB and pushed over the files and such.
However are you going to flash another rom? If so just Odin recovery, flash the rom and be done with it.
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You need a REAL cable... If computer doesn't see the phone via the drivers, nothing is going to work.
OhioYJ said:
However are you going to flash another rom? If so just Odin recovery, flash the rom and be done with it.
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agreed! If you want a different rom, alot of the steps in that link I posted a not needed. Just odin the proper recovery for the rom you intend on flashing. boot into recovery and wipe data,cache,dalvik, then install rom.zip from sd card. reboot and the phone should be rooted.
droidstyle said:
Follow these steps in link:
http://www.galaxyforums.net/forum/fascinate-rs-guides/1967-how-root-froyo-gingerbread-your-fascinate.html
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Downloaded everything in the link, installed drivers, I'm on my friends laptop now, still xp. I got to the step where I have to find CWM3 Voodoo in Odin, and the instructions say that one of the boxes should have turned yellow, but it didn't. I went on ahead and clicked the pda button, but it just said success 0/failure 0. What do I do? Do I have to have vista?
That means odin is not recognizing the phone. Im not sure if odin works with xp or vista... I only use 7 these days. Actually if my memory serves right, odin dont work with xp, don't quote me tho. You could try heimdall but I have no experience with it.
Still can't squire root.I've factory rest 3 times now and still nothing. Can no one help?
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If u can't get odin or heimdall to work, you won't be able to root. Do you not have windows 7
droidstyle said:
If u can't get odin or heimdall to work, you won't be able to root. Do you not have windows 7
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as stated in the op, I explicitly said I am using windows xp, media center 2002, service pack 3 to be specific. So your telling me I'm S.O.L.?
first, get a real cable
then, go to official samsung website and install the correct fascinate drivers
download and open odin v3 1.30 (I have xp and it works)
plug in phone in download mode, wait for odin box to turn yellow
pick file in pda
and press start
then just go into cwm via 3 fingers and flash rom
dragon1357 said:
first, get a real cable
then, go to official samsung website and install the correct fascinate drivers
download and open odin v3 1.30 (I have xp and it works)
plug in phone in download mode, wait for odin box to turn yellow
pick file in pda
and press start
then just go into cwm via 3 fingers and flash rom
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I have my cable from my samsung intercept, would that work? By the way thanks for being so informative. Could you pm the drivers you used, if you have them?
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I'm not saying that you shouldn't be doing this but I think you need to slow down and read some more before trying. While this phone is pretty dang hard to brick without physical damage, lacking basic knowledge can put you down got a while if something goes wrong.
A good place to start is the qa stickies. Again I'm not saying don't, just maybe give it another day or two. Really sucks rushing in soft bricking and having to learn after with no phone in the mean time.
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MattRussNC said:
I'm not saying that you shouldn't be doing this but I think you need to slow down and read some more before trying. While this phone is pretty dang hard to brick without physical damage, lacking basic knowledge can put you down got a while if something goes wrong.
A good place to start is the qa stickies. Again I'm not saying don't, just maybe give it another day or two. Really sucks rushing in soft bricking and having to learn after with no phone in the mean time.
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Not trying too be an ass or anything but 1.) This is my 5th or 6th time rooting. I have more than basic knowledge. 2.) This is a spare phone I picked up dirt cheap for development. 3.) I checked every place possible trying to find out why my drivers weren't working including q&a.
That aside, I'm trying it on my friends laptop with vista. Wish me luck.
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hi there, i've searched and searched and cannot for the life of me find any stock roms or anything for the telus fascinate it probably doesn't help that I don't know what the build number is... I flashed a verizon vibrant rom quite a while ago and don't remember my methods of doing so, I've read that it's going to be a huge PITA to get it back to stock, especially because I can't seem to get it into ^&%^*% recovery mode or even get it to connect to my pc.. so any help in that regard will also be MUCH appreciated
THANK YOU in advance.. I hope!
Alright so i managed to find an all in one zip file in a tutorial post obvs i didn't look hard enough lol!
So that just leaves me with the more important predicament. I can't get my phone into recovery mode to flash with odin and my pc won't connect to the pc at all.. I read somewhere that my phone is soft-bricked???? Because of using a vibrant Rom? Any input is greatly appreciated once again
P.s can a mod change the title? Or can i? Because its slightly irrelevant to the post now
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Can you link the All in One ODIN you are talking about?
I sure can here it is
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=923712
coincidentally this is also the exact procedure i followed when I rooted and flashed.
so a little more information for you.
sorry about the reply taking forever i couldn't find the post on my phone and haven't had much time to sit on the computer
AntoineDon said:
So that just leaves me with the more important predicament. I can't get my phone into recovery mode to flash with odin and my pc won't connect to the pc at all.. I read somewhere that my phone is soft-bricked???? Because of using a vibrant Rom? Any input is greatly appreciated once again
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Says your phone model is GT i9000 so you probably flashed a gti9000 rom (Bell Vibrant / international Galaxy S).
Anyway... you need to be in "download mode" to flash via odin. I think you meant phone to pc, but were you able to connect your phone to the pc before? Do you have the correct drivers installed?
You know you're in soft-bricked if when you turn on the phone, you get a picture of a phone to pc with a ! in between. This can be fixed by a USB jig, or for some, just doing the download mode button combination while your battery is out and your usb is plugged into the computer.
What rom did you install exactly?
Yes i realise that i suppose that's what i meant but odin doesn't pick up my phone and my pc won't either. I used to be able to connect yes but now it won't I have the drivers downloaded i havent had the chance to try a different cord but this is the same cord i used to flash, so im pretty sure that's not the problem.
I guess its not soft bricked then i haven't seen anything like what you have described,
The Rom im using is called EXTRAordinary Rom or something like that ill try and find a link for you
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Bump? This is a serious issue for me as my Bluetooth is not working and things are constantly force-closing...
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If you have gotten your phone into download mode and your pc isn't recognizing it, you should; 1 - try a different pc, 2 - try a different cable or 3 - try both. Are you still able to get it into download mode?
Ughh I've tried every computer in my house, 3 laptops and one desktop...
My personal laptop is the only one it worked on previously, it now doesn't work, and I only have the original cable i did the flashing with originally, but i'll yoink a cable from work tomorrow do test that out, although I am seriously doubting it would work... my widgets have recently stopped working as well, they say "problem loading widget" I'm pretty scared by this point and feel as though my phone is sloooowly hardening into a useless brick. i'll update tomorrow, when I get a new cable.
um also, I've posted this question in a different thread but have yet to be answered, why can't I find the telus usb drivers anywhere? they don't have it on samsung's website,,, i haven't installed any drivers since the original flashing and have no clue as to where to find them... as far as I could remember it was ridiculously easy to find them last time....
Thanks in advance,
Antoine
try installing samsung kies-worked for me once