I have my vibrant for a year now and installed Eugene's Ginger Clone with no problems for I think 6months now... but then suddenly my phone hanged so I rebooted it then got stucked at Vibrant Samsung screen.. I decided to Odin back to STOCK all is good I can hear the T-Mobile chime at boot but my screen is still stuck at the Vibrant Samsung Mode, before i Odined I managed to run clockworkmod did a restore back from stock same thing happened stuck at Vibrant screen. By the way I dropped my phone about 8 months ago and had cracks on screen but it is still functions like new.
Please help me even if I normal reboot my phone I can still hear the Tmobile chime but still stuck at Vibrant Samsung text and still lights up the buttons when I tap into it..
Your Help would be much appreciated.
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I have Odined back stock like 20 times still the same STUCK on BOOT SCREEN and ODINED also using EUGENES FROYO DOesNT BRICK like 10 times but vibrates 3 times every few seconds... PLS HELP ME....
is the screen all black, but the haptic keys are lighting up?
No the screen isnt black, its like im stuck on Vibrant Samsung boot but i can hear the Tmobile chime. when i left it for about 5hours the battery is completely drained.
what seems to be the problem?
This happened to me a while back. Senior developers called this a "soft brick". To fix, you need to flash (via ODIN) with Eugene's Froyo ROM (no brick) and then flash a stock vibrant rom. Sorry that I can't post a link to that froyo rom, but just google it. Hope this helps.
I followed your advice man and odined Eugenes Froyo doesnt brick but when the phone restarted it I got stucked this time the Galaxy S Logo and the phone vibrates every few seconds i dont know why is this happening any help from you guys is much appreciated.
Im trying to wipe/data factory reset but I cant, i just can navigate using up/down volume buttons but can not press OK or Enter
For the no brick...
You need to read up on it, but you flash it in Odin, check to not reboot, then you flash stock jfd in Odin over it.
It's been a long time for me, so be sure and watch a video on YouTube, or read a guide first.
Short and sweet, your phone will be fine, you aren't bricked for good.
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what I did is odin'd to Froyo doesnt brick then odin'd again to stock 2.1 what else am I missing? i read a lot of tutorials including yours, on how to get back to stock but same thing happens.. still stuck!
What do you mean by not check reboot sir? Is it on Froyo dsnt brick? If thats the case what I did is.
Odin'd Froyo doesnt brick uncheck all except PIT and PDA onced finished at download mode screen I pressed keys to get to recovery mode, Odin detected my phone then flash to stock jfd over it. still to no avail. stuck at boot screen.
I did this because I cannot boot up Eugenes (no brick) for some reason it stuck on boot screen and then vibrates randomly, never boots up completely
http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=747
thanks
WEIRD!
I think my phone is really messed up.. I installed any ROM i could imagine both CWM mode and ODIN but still cant get pass thru bootscreen,
on stock JFD I can hear Tmobile sound but on any 2.2 based ROMS it only vibrates a few seconds then reboots the phone and vibrates again...
I had no problems going Download mode or recovery mode works fine.
Only problem is I cant get pass thru bootscreen on any ROMS i had flashed.
Help!
I should have a heimdall one-click prepared tonight which will be a totally sane flash and tell you if anything went wrong.
thanks Adam, hoping to see that thing wakes up our phone
You may want to try this flash eugene's froyo that doesn't brick, then flash the stock, then flash any gingerbread rom together with the gingerbread bootloader..it works for me..hope it works 4u..i've flash the simply honey rom..u may try this =)
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still no luck.. i think this is hardware problem already because not even a single rom booted on me past the Vibrant screen.
Try my thread, if it doesnt work then its a hardware error.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1230059
OP -
If you are up to it, ship it to me and I will see if I can fix it. I don't steal phones.
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My phone is stuck on the vibrant scree and nothing happens........ i am trying to use odin to flash back to stick and it is always stuck on file analysis.....please help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Try this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=8445823&postcount=11
Well mine just sits on file analysis for 10 mins and nothing else happens...can someone please help me i have no phone.
Remove the USB from the phone, remove battery.
Place the battery back in your phone and get back into DOWNLOAD MODE
Close Odin
Run Odin as Administrator
Select the 512 PIT FIle
Select the T959UVJFD.tar file for PDA
Plug in your phone (Make sure you see a COM Port come up)
Start Flashing
rolf90 said:
Well mine just sits on file analysis for 10 mins and nothing else happens...can someone please help me i have no phone.
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as you i had the same problem and finally got it to work by watching this video on you tube:
1.go to you tube
2.search for flash vibrant
3.first video should be "Flashing Firmware with Odin on Samsung Vibrant" by ZDoomentral, its a 3:00 min video
(sorry can't post direct link but i a restricted since i am a new user)
pay close attention as to how he gets his phone into DOWNLOAD MODE, thats where i was going wrong, and just follow the directions of the video.
my phone is up and running with stock kernel and re-rooted it
man i just want to say i just had this same issue happen to be... im a truck driver and having my phone is serious... mainly to play games or what not...but i just got some from Minnesota and tried the odin method and saw that video on you which help give me a visual and its back up ... im very happy... sad to say it was a careless mistake somewhere but i did a back like i always do and it didnt work for some reason...i had a g1 before this vibrant and ive flashed a lots of roms... but anyway i wanna thank everyone one this forum ... i got my phone back
Does this restart the WHOLE THING? because I have information I didn't backup :/
Yes. It deletes EVERYTHING. Just like it's brand out of the box.
I recommend using Titanium Backup and back all your apps. ALWAYS ALWAYS, do a Nandroid backup before flashing ANYTHING.
scootatheschool1990 said:
Does this restart the WHOLE THING? because I have information I didn't backup :/
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If you have adb up and running & have the ability to get into recovery while you're bricked you can do aN adb pull before flashing
Adb remount
Adb pull /sdcard
After un-bricking you can adb push the folders back
When I did it..it flash back to stock but I have titanium back up so mt phone is back to how I had it ...and I still have every thing else back on, like my movies music etc..
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I was trying to help my friend with his Vibrant and now it's stuck at the splash screen in a loop. I can't seem to get it to download mode or recovery or anything. I've pulled the battery, held down both vol keys while pushing power. Any time I connect the usb, it just starts up the boot loop without giving me a chance to do anything else. I can never get to the green charging battery. Any ideas?
I guess I could provide more info... We had rooted the phone multiple times, but Superuser would FC every time. So, we decided to flash eugene's froyo build (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=740558). That's when I got the boot loop. Odin said it was finished, and it did not go into recovery. It just started boot looping. Maybe I didn't wait long enough before hitting the power? I'm not sure. Anyway. I'm stuck.
EDIT: Unstuck now. I guess I just need to not panic and read more. I held both VOL keys in while connecting to USB and it went into downloading mode. SO, I flash a stock 2.1 ROM and it's back to the way it was. Calling works fine. No data though. Apparently, that was one of the issues before. I'll try rooting again, but it seems like there's another issue. Also... No settings survive reboots. Like turning on USB debugging... Strange.
hi, let me cut to the chase and tell you my story,
i had a vibrant running bionix 1.3.1, and i flashed cm7 on it, after it kept on a bootloop i decided to flash back to stock but i couldn't get into download mode,
i build myself a jig and with it got to download mode
and flashed jfd, the flashing was successful (it said pass) after about half an hour.
and from when it finished the phone wont respond to anything, neither the screen nor the keys will power on.
i thought is was hard bricked so i used my j-tag (yes, i do have one) to resurrect it successfully, but the phone remains in the same condition.
nothing will get it to respond (not even the jig).
the jig still works with another vibrant i have.
i have no idea what to do now, how do i fix this?
Sounds like short/mb issue... if jtag wont ressurect, the issue is bigger than that, ie youre ****ed
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I need a little bit of help here
so i tried reverting back to stock but every time i would Odin back to JFD well everything would be just fine until the phone would reboot and then the Samsung splash would come out and then well the screen goes off and it wont turn on again.
Im sorry if this has been answer before.
Ive been searching since yesterday.
here is what i did and what happened.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=PMBn701D67I
EDIT: I Managed to Fix the Issue :3
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i am hoping that i did not brick my phone as i just spent $600 to go get the bloody thing. i flashed darkcore kernel onto it and it was fine. the phone was fine until i went to go change the battery icon (the phone is a samsung i9000 galaxy s) it boots into recovery but when i go to do a normal boot it littraly freezes at the boot screen and thats it i left it on the table for HALF AN HOUR and when i came back it was still on the boot screen . the boot screen says galaxy s gt-i9000 (white writing) powered by darkcore and darkysrom (green writing) please help me i hope i have no bricked my phone as i am a noob to android as i have only had my phone a few days. do i need to replace the modem on the phone ? or the kernel? please if someone knows to get in contact with me. i have odin and superoneclick installed on my pc. i have wiped everything off my phone wipe data/factory reset but that doesnt do anything diffrent. it simply stays on the boot screen. i have not flashed a custom rom onto my galaxy it only has a custom kernel.
FaZeHaViiK,
I can't help you but I recommend you change your topic to fit your problem. Maybe then people would check your post out.
how do i do that ??
FaZeHaViiK said:
how do i do that ??
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OK it is simple really. What did you do when it started causing issues? You tried to change the icon, so undo your changes. You didn't say how you tried to change it at all so not sure what steps you have to take. Also please do the proper research before you do something that can't be fixed
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Android phones are REALLY REALLY hard to brick. what you need to do, is get yourself a factory default rom, and start over where you messed up. Messing with these phones is all trial and error. I have bricked my samsung fascinate over 30 times im sure, hell almost 10 times last night as im porting miui v4 to my phone. Dont freak out learn what ODIN is, and get it fixed.
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Android phones are REALLY REALLY hard to brick. what you need to do, is get yourself a factory default rom, and start over where you messed up. Messing with these phones is all trial and error. I have bricked my samsung fascinate over 30 times im sure, hell almost 10 times last night as im porting miui v4 to my phone. Dont freak out learn what ODIN is, and get it fixed.
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Not all android phones are hard to brick. Take a look at the SGS II and the Euro Note that were perm bricked from a wiping data. No JTAG recovery would fix it. Also there are many ways to brick a device and as you recovered it. You didnt brick it. Bricking it makes it non recoverable except by Jtag. Too many people use this word wrong.
On a side note... Why would you spend 600 dollars on that phone?
Samsung problems
i really have no idea why i spent so much on it lol and i used the android app "DarkyODA" i think it was i flashed CwM DarkCore v3.0.2.8x kernel onto it via DarkyODA and it was fine after that but until i went to change the battery icon on the DarkyODA app then i went to reboot my phone and now its stuck at the boot screen i left it on overnight on the boot screen to see if it would reboot got up in the morning and it still was on the boot screen, i can get into the recovery menu but thats about it, i have been trying to find a stock kernel and rom for my phone but i simply cannot find one (build number xwjvp), i think its the battery icon thats making the phone freeze at the boot screen ive done a full system wipe but that didnt fix it, and i cannot remove the icon as i installed it on the darky app (which i cannot access as i cannot get past the boot screen), do i need to flash a stock rom and kernel or just a stock rom ? do you reckon that would fix my phone ? as i do not want to go and spend another $450 to get samsung to fix it (lol) i have odin 1.85 and i went to go flash voodoo kernel xwjvp v1.3 through odin but it got stuck half way through............
Hi everyone,
First of all, thanks for all the help/development done here, it is really awesome. I am new to rooting/rom so, I've spent a lot of time reading forum threads and looking at people's issues and it's been really helpful.
Yesterday, I spent all day trying to update my Bell Mobility Samsung Galaxy S Vibrant GT-I9000M from Froyo 2.2 to 4.2+
I sucessfully rooted the device, installed SpeedMod kernel(with Odin 3.04) and got CWM Recovery working when I restart the cellphone.
Afterward, I tried to update with different ROM(CyanFox, CM11, Mackay OmniROM...) but always got Status 7 error at CWM. So I figured I'd try to upate to a recent Kernel and installed GearKernel_JBPlus_Vibrant_1.0.3v.tar trought Odin. The phone got in an installation loop. Here is a poor webcam photo of the error(sry couldn't get better) : http://i.imgur.com/L3b0RmF.png. It says something like Estimating(?) volume for path [grep], Can't mount grep, Installation Aborted. Restart, splash screen, installation aborted, loop.
I had this loop at other occasions trying to update Kernel. The solution had been to put the cellphone in Download mode and reinstall Speedmod Kernel with Odin. This is what I did again.
It allowed me to get in Recovery mode but I couldn't go passed it. Attempt at restoring backup didn't worked. So I decided I'd go back to everything stock and followed this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1047087 and used Odin with the PIT and TAR files.
This got me in my worst position so far. If the cellphone is plugged, it loops between dark screen and the little "loading thingy" before the battery, but nothing more, no battery charge. If I try to open it without the plug, it display the GALAXY S GT-I9000 splash screen(which is weird cause I'm using I9000m) for a couple second then goes dark.. Then splash screen.. then dark... pretty quickly.
I can go in Download mode but I haven't succeeded to get in Recovery mode. I have adb on my computer but I haven't been able to call anything from it at the point I am.
I have found different threads showing different solution for various problems but I feel like I tried enough and I'd like to avoid bricking my cellphone so I decided I'd make my own post detailing the steps I took.
What should be my next step to get out of this loop? It seems like I only have Odin/Download mode to help me.
Thanks again.
If you have the gt-i9000m that is not the vibrant. The vibrant is the sgh-t959. Thats probably your problem
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