[Q] Phone bricked? - Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

I sold my friend my Samsung Vibrant and I've never had any problems flashing it, he tried flashing the cyanogenmod rom (tried being the operative word...) and I'm not sure what he did to but when I try to turn it on its has the I9000 boot screen and it goes to the vibrant splash screen and turns off, if it's plugged it gets to the vibrant screen and then has the cycle icon for the battery then it shows the battery and it infinitely loops like this when its plugged in (when I had it, it would be completely dead and I could plug it in and turn it on at the same time and it would boot fine and didn't die). I tried flashing JI6 via ODIN, which seemed to flash correctly (gets to zImage and says removed and then pass), but nothings changed (still I9000 boot screen and still crashes on splash screen with battery loop). Any idea what I can do to fix this?

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I think your friend flashed the I900 Version of the Rom. Try odin-ing to stock.
EDIT: You already odin-ed JI6. Try odining to stock JFD with both pit and tar files. That should restore everything (bootloader, kernel, baseband, etc...)

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its shows i9000 on boot with the GB bootloaders
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=849028 have a read through there
if you do have the GB bootloaders its vol up and power for download mode

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odin to stock will fix it

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Downloaded and tried all three of these things and still nothing different. When I turn it on the boot and splash screen come up but then the device just turns off. Tried JI6 and JFD, and the boot screen keeps showing up as the I9000 (GB), when it should be the stock TMOUS bootscreen, so it seems like the bootloader isn't being flashed correctly, although it says pass and has no errors. I'm thinking that the phone is bricked, is there anything I'm not thinking of that would help?

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ddaydude said:
Downloaded and tried all three of these things and still nothing different. When I turn it on the boot and splash screen come up but then the device just turns off. Tried JI6 and JFD, and the boot screen keeps showing up as the I9000 (GB), when it should be the stock TMOUS bootscreen, so it seems like the bootloader isn't being flashed correctly, although it says pass and has no errors. I'm thinking that the phone is bricked, is there anything I'm not thinking of that would help?
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go there:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1230059
skip the parted part you dont need it and phone would be back to good function asap.

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ddaydude said:
Downloaded and tried all three of these things and still nothing different. When I turn it on the boot and splash screen come up but then the device just turns off. Tried JI6 and JFD, and the boot screen keeps showing up as the I9000 (GB), when it should be the stock TMOUS bootscreen, so it seems like the bootloader isn't being flashed correctly, although it says pass and has no errors. I'm thinking that the phone is bricked, is there anything I'm not thinking of that would help?
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the jfd.tar doesnt have the bootloaders i dont think so you'll still be on GB bootloaders on 2.1, they're backwards compatible anyway so it doesnt matter

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demetris_I said:
go there:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1230059
skip the parted part you dont need it and phone would be back to good function asap.
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I've tried to get into recovery mode for this but I can only get into download mode (tried VOLUP+HOME+POWER (and without home) boots to download mode, tried VOLDOWN+HOME+POWER (and without home) and it does nothing, I've tried to use adb on the download screen but it doesn't find the device). Is there another method that I'm missing?

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I remember telling you you dont need parted part -> dont need to enter cwm just download mode.
1.download mode
2.http://www.4shared.com/file/dJiyRz3v...Froyo_PDA.html
unzip it and get odin ready.
Go to download mode, place pda only in phone area pit not needed, flash
Let it boot into recovery, remove battery and re-enter download mode.
Flash JFD with pit file and re-partitions checked.
Done and done.

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demetris_I said:
I remember telling you you dont need parted part -> dont need to enter cwm just download mode.
1.download mode
2.http://www.4shared.com/file/dJiyRz3v...Froyo_PDA.html
unzip it and get odin ready.
Go to download mode, place pda only in phone area pit not needed, flash
Let it boot into recovery, remove battery and re-enter download mode.
Flash JFD with pit file and re-partitions checked.
Done and done.
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Sorry about that, my bad. But I tried just tried that, and when I flashed the Froyo file it booted to recovery (like it sounds like it should have, still with GB bootloader and reversed controls on recovery and not able select since vibrant doesn't have an ok button) and then flashed JFD with the pit and repartition selected and it goes back to turning off after the vibrant screen. I tried redownloading both froyo and JFD thinking one might be corrupt and I still get the same result as before. I've checked the instructions 10+ times and I've used odin for the life of this phone more times than I have counted, and I can't figure out why it doesn't seem to be taking it, it doesn't fail in odin so it doesn't make sense.

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After doing what i recommended your phone would be in fully functioning order.
Your problem lies on the bootloader so i would recommend to flash froyo bootloader from here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1117990
but before md5 check the downloaded file and follow exactly the guide there.
If this dont fix it then i think your phone is a pita.

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I kinda agree that its probably just the Bootloaders that is the culprit for the I9000 splash. As mentioned flashing the original FROYO should fix it. At least it did for me. I had to do both these links in the GB bootloader thread for it to take though. 1st one 1st - then either of the 2nd links 2nd.
adyscorpius said:
jfd odin file - for use after installing gingerbread bootloaders
http://www.multiupload.com/hryjkflkfq "thanks to laylovj"
md5: 977e2136996e7138945447a8245d6776
if you have gingerbread bootloaders installed and you end up odining to stock (jfd), you will notice it changes the bootsplash to i9000. You can either reflash a gb bootloader again, or simply use the odin package above to do so.
vibrant stock (froyo) bootloader download link
- dropbox download link
- mediafire download link
md5 sum - 754ecbd8e76d4f81bec49240031f3262
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Now as far as ODIN. The yellow triangle and android dude digging should be there throughout the entire ODIN flash. If I understand you correctly and the phone goes black during the ODIN flashthats no good. If its doing it after the ODIN flash, then maybe you still have the "reboot after flash" button ticked. Either way the phone needs to stay in download mode during the entire ODIN flash.
*EDIT*
- If all else fails JTAG! but that should be the last option. There is a fix!
- BUY A USBJIG you can get them from either TeamWhiskey or EDT on their sites. If everyone had one we would never see another
"NO DOWNLOAD MODE!!! HELP" thread again. And at the same time you'd be supporting developers which is a good thing.
Good luck!

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You should try the "froyo that does not brick" in the early days of froyo eugene released a froyo package that came with bootloaders. Google ftdnb, it may also be in either bricked or eb's threads
Beware of angry gingerbread man