I've checked the other threads for solutions and I've tried many different things today but my phone still doesn't work, so I guess I should make a thread and ask you guys directly.
Ok, so my phone stopped working last night. It was running stock everything. Only upgraded to Froyo through Kies Mini a long time ago. Anyway, when I powered up the phone, it gets to the Galaxy S logo and then the screen dies. It's technically still on, since the four keys light up when I tap the screen. I took the battery out for a bit and put it back in, same thing. Logn story short, I tried to odin it back to stock JFD this morning and it didn't change anything. The screen goes to black right after the logos. Then I tried Eugene's Vibrant_Full_Froydin_AND_2E_Recovery_+SD_Fixed. It sorta worked. By that I mean, the phone loads up the OS and I got the home screen, but now it doesn't recognize the internal SD card. In fact, the notification gives me "Blank Internal SD card." In the Settings area, the phone storage read as either unavailable or 0.0 space. I tried to odin back to stock but then it gets stuck on Galaxy S logo again. I've tried this back and forth multiple times and it's still the same. Either it gets stuck on the logo or it doesn't recognize the internal sd card. I've tried it with repartition on and repartition off, but no difference.
So, are there any trick to fixing this? Thanks in advance!
Could you post the links to the files you are flashing? Honestly ODIN should have fixed it.
kawika said:
Could you post the links to the files you are flashing? Honestly ODIN should have fixed it.
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Hi. I got the stock JVD from the Noob Guide (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=849028). I followed the steps there to flash to stock through ODIN and I got the black screen/lighted buttons. Then I downloaded and flashed it with the one that came with the toolbox (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=954509). same thing, black screen with lighted buttons. I also tried Eugene's ROMs (Eugene_SD+2E_JK2_Froyo - http://www.multiupload.com/12QAKU043I and the Froyo ~That does not Brick! - http://www.4shared.com/file/dJiyRz3v/EUGENE373_SamsungS_Froyo_PDA.html). Both links are from Eugene's forum page.
The only "success" I have so far is using Eugene_SD+2E_JK2_Froyo, but whenever it's loaded, I always get the "Blank internal sd card" notification and the phone storage is shown as unavailable. :\
Bump. I'm still trying to get this phone to work. :\
Give the following a try..
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1230059
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Give the following a try..
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1230059
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Didn't quite work for me unfortunately.
1. When it's in recovery mode, I can't get adb to connect. I can only do it when it's loaded up.
2. When I tried to do print in parted, I get this error
Error: /dev/block/mmcblk0: unrecognised disk label
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Do you have external card in the phone? First try taking it out and then reboot without it and see what happens. If that doesn't do anything..try the cleaning and repartitioning method posted by Br1ck'd ..
I have posted about it in several threads, including my own, so I figured I would finally put it in a central location. This is my FTDNB method for starting with a fresh, clean phone, without any ghosts of roms past popping up to cause you issues.
Download this first, and flash through Odin with your standard 512 pit file
http://eb-productions.proboards.com/...splay&thread=8
Then when it reboots to the recovery screen, pull your battery, reinsert it and boot up to dl mode, and flash the following, with your same pit file, and selecting repartition in Odin this second flash only:
http://eb-productions.proboards.com/...splay&thread=3
The first link there is Eugene's Froyo That Does Not Brick, but it doesnt work that well as a driver. As an eraser its great though! The second link is the Froyo JK2 leak, with fixed recovery and already rooted. If the first one didnt, the second flash will definitely put you back on Froyo bootloaders.
Thats my whole secret to keeping a clean phone and wiping out any ghosts. You can proceed from there in your desired direction (back to ZD or GZ preferrably) in a safe manner. Its always worked for me to clear up any oddness, and literally takes 15 minutes tops once you have the files downloaded.
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I've tried that before. Eugene's Vibrant_Full_Froydin_AND_2E_Recovery_+SD_Fixed (Froyo JK2 leak) is the one that lets me load the system all the way through (better than running stock JVF which only gets me to the logo and then gets stuck). The internal sd card problem remains however. I get the "Blank internal sd card" notification. The phone can't function properly.
EDIT: I finally got the external sd card to work. Is there any program for me to fix my internal sd through my external sd card?
I'm having similar problems. Flashed back to stock Froyo using Heimdall (Mac only here), everything seemed fine, but when it all came back to life, I have no service and my Internal SD card is blank and cannot be reformatted.
It won't mount in the recovery tools, and so unable to format.
Any thoughts on how to restore functionality??
Bump. I'm still trying to get my phone working again. Thanks in advance!
If it just "happend" one day, then you're looking at a hardware failure. Flashing firmware can only make it worse.
xoxo1001 said:
I've checked the other threads for solutions and I've tried many different things today but my phone still doesn't work, so I guess I should make a thread and ask you guys directly.
Ok, so my phone stopped working last night. It was running stock everything. Only upgraded to Froyo through Kies Mini a long time ago. Anyway, when I powered up the phone, it gets to the Galaxy S logo and then the screen dies. It's technically still on, since the four keys light up when I tap the screen. I took the battery out for a bit and put it back in, same thing. Logn story short, I tried to odin it back to stock JFD this morning and it didn't change anything. The screen goes to black right after the logos. Then I tried Eugene's Vibrant_Full_Froydin_AND_2E_Recovery_+SD_Fixed. It sorta worked. By that I mean, the phone loads up the OS and I got the home screen, but now it doesn't recognize the internal SD card. In fact, the notification gives me "Blank Internal SD card." In the Settings area, the phone storage read as either unavailable or 0.0 space. I tried to odin back to stock but then it gets stuck on Galaxy S logo again. I've tried this back and forth multiple times and it's still the same. Either it gets stuck on the logo or it doesn't recognize the internal sd card. I've tried it with repartition on and repartition off, but no difference.
So, are there any trick to fixing this? Thanks in advance!
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'I had a similar problem but later learned tht the SD card was actually damaged some how during flashing'
so try using a new SD card and Odin back to stock
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Hey guys,
Little help needed... I soft-bricked my Vibrant... so I used Odin v1.85 to flash the stock rom (s1_odin_20100512.pit + T959UVJFD.tar)... both were flashed successfully and the phone booted up normally... annoying T-mobile jingle, Galaxy S splash screen, and then lockscreen.
BUT, i see in the notification bar "Preparing internal SD card"... then "Preparing external SD card"... and then BLACK... phone just turns off... sometimes it would just re-boot, other times just stay off. I have tried flashing these files multiple times through Odin using different USB ports and tried restarting the computer a few times as well... no luck... I tried searching but couldn't find anyone else with this same problem...
HAS anyone had this problem? I feel like I'm missing something, but I can't imagine what... maybe more experienced users could see more clearly what I'm missing here... I appreciate all your help... thanks!
Steven
I responded. You may want to let others know you were trying to ODIN the wrong phones pit/tar earlier...
have you tried eugenes froyo that does not brick yet?
Are you changing anything in ODIN? All the checkboxes should be untouched. Once you load them, all 3 on the left will be checked, including re-partition.
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I responded. You may want to let others know you were trying to ODIN the wrong phones pit/tar earlier...
have you tried eugenes froyo that does not brick yet?
Are you changing anything in ODIN? All the checkboxes should be untouched. Once you load them, all 3 on the left will be checked, including re-partition.
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Yeah I tried the Samsung Galaxy S 4G at first, and that didn't fix anything (of course)... but then I over wrote all that with the stock Vibrant files... so shouldn't that restore everything to stock?
Haven't tried Eugenes froyo... I'll try to give that a shot...
And yeah, all three checkboxes were left untouched, including re-partition... and it does everything successfully... but the phone still shuts down after mounting the SD Cards...
Any luck with this?
I did basically the same thing (flashed with wrong pit+pda, used the 4G on the vibrant) and now I'm having the same problem (reproducible crash right after the SD mount), though every so often I also see random graphical corruption and it crashes before getting to the SD mount.
I've been playing with all of the standard roms with odin and heimdall in an attempt to get something working, but that's pretty much what I end up with.
Hello, i currently own a HTC EVO 3D GSM, fully rooted and S-OFF'd.
I'm running stock rom, without any major modifications.
Earlier today i was doing a nandroid backup, just before wanting to try out LeeDroid ROM. The nandroid went through just fine, then i rebooted the phone on to do a titanium backup & sync to my dropbox.
Now i used my app "Hot Reboot" to simply do a reboot into bootloader.
The app didn't work (dont know why), so i closed it down and did a manual shut down and then battery pull.
When i put the battery in, and tried to boot the phone into bootloader, it didn't start.
I tried to do a normal boot, didn't start.
I tried to plug it into my charger. The light didn't turn on.
I removed the back cover, removed battery, SIM card, SD card and tried to get rid of any possible dust (i was kind of panicing here).
Put it all back in, same result.
I tried switching SD card to my old stock 8gb sdc4 sandisk. This time it finallly booted and everything worked like before.
I turned the phone off, and replaced the 8gb SD card with my 32gb SD card. Now this also worked fine.
I have no idea how or why this happened, but if anyone could shed some light on why/how it happened? Maybe i could avoid it happening again, because i was kinda freaking out when i thought i had a possible brick.
- Moon
Continuum Brick?
I have been reading since 2pm today. I'm lost in threads and advice about a bricked phone. I have a Continuum that shows a fuzzy screen. I can't see to get a download mode. The options are off or pixelated/fuzz screen. Is soldering still required? I was attempting to use CWM. I am not sure bad cable or what but it went down hill. My Win7 PC shows 0bytes free on the Continuum. I apolgize if this is the wrong area for my questions. I successfully rooted an Epic and a Kyocera Echo without too much trouble. I appreciate any thoughts, comments, and suggestions. Thanks in advance!!
This is my sister's phone so I may not be alive in the morning j/k
Today I have downloaded Ubuntu, Android SDK, One Click Unbrick, Resurrection, Java, and a host of other Android related files. I was SO sure all my clicking would bring me back to stock.
Since I've lurked the forums for a few days and found no solution I'm doing an update to a post my brother posted about my phone a few weeks ago:
I was running Bionix 1.31 on my Vibrant, everything was wonderful! Smooth speed, GPS working great and everything, so I decided to flash DoW14 kernel v1.1.1 HD so I could have voodoo color, sound and BLN. First few weeks phone was working great! Then started to act strangely… sometimes it rebooted or turned off by itself and no matter what earphones I plugged to listen to some music, randomly stopped playing just as if I unplugged the headphones. Then two weeks ago I was using my phone and I put it in my pocket… when I pulled it out to use it again, it was off. Turned it on and it was stuck on the booting screen, after like 10 minutes I realized it was soft-bricked. I can get to download mode, though, so I used AIO Toolbox and flashed back to stock with Odin, flash was successful but when I turned my phone on shortly after the Vibrant screen it rebooted and did the same over and over again. Tried to flash back to stock a few times now and I get the same.
I ended up hard-bricking the phone, so I took it to a guy with a Riffbox and even after restoring the bootloader and all, still the same problem.
Thought it might be Voodoo Lagfix, flashed Eugene’s FTDB and flashed JFD, when it is loading up after the “Vibrant” screen it just turns off, I slide my external SD card in and I get this: youtube /watch?v=7Vhp1B3g_2w. Flashed Eugene’s again and rebooted with adb, after the galaxy S animation the screen goes black with the softkeys on (they turn off as I touch them). I can get to the phone with adb, on the system partition everything looks fine but on /data there is only 1 folder called “dontpanic” and it is empty… I tried to reach my internal SD card but it says “permissions denied” and the su command doesn't work.
The internal SD card might be dead or something, but I have no idea on how to confirm that.
Your help is very much appreciated!
FIXED!! Or something like that.
Using Odin, I flashed this version of Eugene's Froyo: mediafire /?dc2ngbbgsjgpc00 it booted into recovery so it gave me the chance to wipe data and cache, rebooted into system and voilá!
There's still a problem: The phone does not detect my internal or external SD cards... it says that it has 0.00B of space. I think there is a solution for that somewhere around XDA, will try to find it. If you know it, I would very much appreciate your help.
And I can't flash back to stock, if I do, I go back to where I was. :/
Taking a stab in the dark here, but perhaps it needs to be repartitioned? I believe there's a selectable option for that in ODIN.
Yeah, when I flashed this ROM I checked the repartition box and I still have the problem... :/
I also get the RIL reset error, like this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=835513
I bought this phone on ebay (yes it was a good price) It had these issues when I got it. I have been reading and trying almost every fix for this phone and none seem to work. The problem that I have is that no matter which stock md5/tar I try they all get stuck on the movinand part in odin. I can flash CWM and load up MIUI and it installs without any problems except the phone says it has 0.0 out of 0.0 internal storage available. I have read that kernals usually are to blame for that. I am beginning to think the internal memory is borked on it. From what I have read this phone may have had the i9000 firmware flashed to it at one point. But most people are able to Odin back to factory even if that happens. Does anyone know if there is a way to adb the movinand? I have also read that the mbr can be screwed up causing these issues. But everywhere that was hosting those files seem to have been taken down or the websites have been shut down. Any help on this matter would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Did the md5/tar files you tried include the atlas 2.2 pit file?
Did you ever get this fixed? We have exactly the same problem except mine's on the SHW-M110S
I'm not sure what the atlas pit file does, but i have never used it and i have not had problems. I have had mine hang up several times before and the screen even turned weird colors. What i did - and it sounds weird - but start odin and connect your phone, and load your .md5.tar file, then uncheck and recheck the auto reboot and reset time boxes like two or three times. Then make sure they are both checked and hit start. It sounds weird but fixed mine when it hung up.
One other time i removed the SD card and that made it not hang. Try either one and see if you have any luck
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I'm not sure what the atlas pit file does, but i have never used it and i have not had problems. I have had mine hang up several times before and the screen even turned weird colors. What i did - and it sounds weird - but start odin and connect your phone, and load your .md5.tar file, then uncheck and recheck the auto reboot and reset time boxes like two or three times. Then make sure they are both checked and hit start. It sounds weird but fixed mine when it hung up.
One other time i removed the SD card and that made it not hang. Try either one and see if you have any luck
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Atlas repartitions your phone back to stock. If you are using ed05 you do not need it. Anything else and you do or it will just bootloop depending on what rom you are coming from.
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thanks. It did the trick for movinand. Now its hung on modem. Off I go yet again.
Ok, so I wanted Ice Cream Sandwich on my Samsung Galaxy S Vibrant SGH-T959.
I found a Youtube video and eventually installed the passion ICS rom on my phone successfully. Then, I inserted my external sd card and took it back out with out unmounting it. This made my phone want to wipe all my (internal) sdcard data. So stupidly, I did. Luckily I have a recent backup. But then I did a reboot, and it said that the encryption failed and I needed to reset my phone. I complied. Then it would only go into the mod recovery screen, since I had no rom to reinstall (my sdcard wouldn't mount for some odd reason, even after I tried repeatedly). So I decided to start over. I used odin to revert it to what it came like. I unplugged it because it got stuck at cache.rfs and soft-bricked it. Luckily I know how to fix this so I got it back into odin, and I got it to work until it would have a blue reset box in the top left corner, and it said I removed my device. My phone then tried to reboot. It showed the vibrant screen, then crashed and showed the little swirl thing that it does before it shows the green charging battery, it would show that, then show that with the battery in the background, then crash and start again, never getting to the green battery. I tried unplugging it and booting it that way... it went to the vibrant screen and crashed yet again. Also can't get it to display the pink animation. I tried the odin thing again just to get the same result. I tried to boot into recovery mode and it won't even do that. It wont show the terminal thing to save its life. Any ideas? I can get it to the download screen. Any hope? (sorry for the in-depth story, but I thought it might help someone pinpoint what was wrong) I am sporting windows xp. Losing data isn't a problem for either my internal sdcard or external sdcard seeing as I have complete backups on my computer.
Thanks!
Help Please!
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I just tried again and it showed the terminal thing for the first time since I used odin. It will now show the green battery screen, it went into terminal and looked like it was doing stuff and it said that the data wipe failed. Boot Pattern still the same, goes to the vibrant screen and then crashes.
UPDATED YET AGAIN!
It will now go into recovery.
AND AGAIN
Now after I wiped it etc. in recovery mode and rebooted and now it just shows the vibrant screen and crashes over and over on its own.
here's a work around fix
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1580902&highlight=encryption
Not-Working Links, noncompaitibility with windows xp it doesn't restore to 2.1
So I tried that a bit ago and the pit file link to download doesn't work. So I used the default one for the vibrant. Didn't successfully run 2.1. Still same problem. Oh, and also, the whole command prompt open in that folder doesn't work on xp, only windows 7 or vista, I found a fix, but still it doesn't recognize adb as a command that is acceptable or whatever.
Thanks, but any other help?
I try Odin and when my phone shows data formatting..... it says data wipe failed afterwards. I think this is the problem.
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So I tried that a bit ago and the pit file link to download doesn't work. So I used the default one for the vibrant. Didn't successfully run 2.1. Still same problem. Oh, and also, the whole command prompt open in that folder doesn't work on xp, only windows 7 or vista, I found a fix, but still it doesn't recognize adb as a command that is acceptable or whatever.
Thanks, but any other help?
I try Odin and when my phone shows data formatting..... it says data wipe failed afterwards. I think this is the problem.
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Looking back... I didn't know what adb was and now that I have the android SDK installed I'm sure I would be able to fix. Too bad I sold it for an insanely low price. Ugh.
Galaxy S3 T999 rooted and flashed more than daily.