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.
s15274n said:
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.
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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.
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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
Alex9090 said:
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
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
Here's the story - purchased a soft-bricked Vibrant for $50. It booted up to the phone - ! - computer screen. Took it home, used One-Click Unboot. Took a few tries, drivers, and USB ports, but eventually it worked. After that, it was just turning on and hanging at the Vibrant screen. Going along with other threads, I tried flashing to stock from ODIN. I followed this guide: http://androidspin.com/2010/08/09/how-to-restore-or-recover-your-samsung-vibrant/
ODIN was finicky but eventually recognized my phone on COM Port 4. With the appropriate PIT and PDA loaded, I clicked Start and all the files uploaded. The phone restarts and.. stuck at Vibrant again. ODIN even lights up with a green PASS but I've let the phone sit and sit and it never gets anywhere.
Is this thing a total dud? Granted I'm trying to boot without a SIM card in it but I didn't think that would make a difference. Please, someone help. I'm stumped and annoyed.
Tried following this guide as well. Same problem. I'm definitely frustrated.
http://forum.cyanogenmod.com/topic/6998-howto-recover-from-a-soft-brick-on-your-vibrant/
I'm having this same problem, any info would be nice. I've actually tried several different guides online and none have worked for me, I can never get past the bootloader screen.
Also, I have been unable to find the file to install CWR, so I have no backup. I know my phone isn't bricked because I can install different modems and such but nothing is working to get it back up and working.
Make sure you've got the right files. Grab the ones out of the noob guide just to be sure
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Yep, same problem. I can't seem to get into recovery either. Or connect to ADB to reboot into recovery. I'm tearing my damn hair out over this.
I tried ODIN flashing the Froyo No-Brick ROM for the hell of it cuz I read it fixed this issue as a last ditch for some people. No dice. Boots to the Vibrant screen for a second, then Vibrant switches to Galaxy S and it just sits there.
If no one has any ideas soon, I'm just going to say screw it. Pretty bummed - I've been on a G1 forever and was excited to use an Android phone that doesn't totally suck.
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I tried ODIN flashing the Froyo No-Brick ROM for the hell of it cuz I read it fixed this issue as a last ditch for some people. No dice. Boots to the Vibrant screen for a second, then Vibrant switches to Galaxy S and it just sits there.
If no one has any ideas soon, I'm just going to say screw it. Pretty bummed - I've been on a G1 forever and was excited to use an Android phone that doesn't totally suck.
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Go into the Developers section and look at the 2nd or 3rd post "Bay_wolf's AIO Vibrant Toolbox 2.5" . Download that into your computer and run 'Flash to Stock'.
That should help you get to where you need to go. Try the one click method first.
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Thanks for the advice guys, but still no go. Installed the drivers from the toolkit but all I can still do is use ODIN to try and flash stock. Results are exactly the same. Reboot into recovery still isn't working - I have a feeling USB debugging was not enabled on this phone before any of this happened so I'm screwed in that respect.
Keep trying, it's not bricked, one combination of files has to work for you.
Well there's only so many files I can apparently try. I've tried JFD, JI6, Eugene No-Brick.. Is there anything else I should trying flashing with ODIN?
Take out your sim card and microSD card. Download the appropriate stock JFD files, make sure you check repartition; you should be fine. USB debugging box not being checked before has nothing to do with your problem now. I believe either your partition or your bootloasder is screwy. Follow my steps above and you should be ok.
In fact, look at this and follow it to the T.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=848737
That's what I've tried probably 30 times by now. Repartition checked and unchecked. And yeah I know USB debugging doesn't have to do with ODIN, it's why I'm assuming I can't get ADB to recognize the phone so I could at least try "adb reboot recovery".
Outside of flashing JFD, JI6, or Eugene's No-Brick, is there anything else I could try?
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That's what I've tried probably 30 times by now. Repartition checked and unchecked. And yeah I know USB debugging doesn't have to do with ODIN, it's why I'm assuming I can't get ADB to recognize the phone so I could at least try "adb reboot recovery".
Outside of flashing JFD, JI6, or Eugene's No-Brick, is there anything else I could try?
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Try eBay
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I'm in the same boat, same scenario with constant boot loop. This is my girlfriends phone too
IA-32e said:
I'm in the same boat, same scenario with constant boot loop. This is my girlfriends phone too
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Look for a new girlfriend on ebay
djquick said:
Look for a new girlfriend on ebay
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Haha no Craigslist I ended up having her file a claim and send it back. I must have borked the bootloader somehow cause now it wont turn on at all. Thank God for insurance. She's SUPER pissed though.
Compared to my Galaxy SII this phone is very finicky and ODIN is even more unreliable than normal. Never hard bricked a device before.
Picked up a G2 practically new for $100. Loving it so far - rooting process was a snap.
F this Vibrant. Back to Craigslist it goes. Still open to ideas before it's gone so I can attempt to get my money back, lol.
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Picked up a G2 practically new for $100. Loving it so far - rooting process was a snap.
F this Vibrant. Back to Craigslist it goes. Still open to ideas before it's gone so I can attempt to get my money back, lol.
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The only thing I see that will fix the Vibrant when it's in this state is JTAG brick repair for $50. This is after spending 12 hours searching and attempting to ODIN different stock firmwares till I finally hard bricked it.
http://mobiletechvideos.mybigcommerce.com/samsung-galaxy-s-4g-vibrant-4g-jtag-brick-repair/
Yeah I was considering this. I e-mailed the guy asking if it was an appropriate fix. I figure, if the service takes care of a hard brick, it can certainly take care of a soft brick. Maybe I'll do that to keep it around as a back-up phone. Thanks for the replies, everyone.
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.
Hi guys,
I have a big problem over here and I hope someone can help me out.
I wanted to create an ext3 partition on my external SDcard with fdisk (from busybox) in "Terminal Emulator".
But instead of partitioning the EXTERNAL SD (mmcblk1) I deleted the partition on my INTERNAL SD (mmcblk0).:crying:
After a reboot the phone hang at the Samsung logo.
I then tried to reflash a Stock JellyBean Firmware with Odin but it allways hangs at "Nand Write Start".
On the phone the blue bar gets to 100% instantly and hangs also.
Does anyone have any suggestions on what I could do?
I thougt about repartitioning with a pit file, which seems to work if I uncheck everything exept "repartition" and use only the pit but it does not seem to do anything. Problem still persists.
I'd appreciate any help... can't go to sleep like this and have to go to work tomorow morning. :silly:
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Hi guys,
I have a big problem over here and I hope someone can help me out.
I wanted to create an ext3 partition on my external SDcard with fdisk (from busybox) in "Terminal Emulator".
But instead of partitioning the EXTERNAL SD (mmcblk1) I deleted the partition on my INTERNAL SD (mmcblk0).:crying:
After a reboot the phone hang at the Samsung logo.
I then tried to reflash a Stock JellyBean Firmware with Odin but it allways hangs at "Nand Write Start".
On the phone the blue bar gets to 100% instantly and hangs also.
Does anyone have any suggestions on what I could do?
I thougt about repartitioning with a pit file, which seems to work if I uncheck everything exept "repartition" and use only the pit but it does not seem to do anything. Problem still persists.
I'd appreciate any help... can't go to sleep like this and have to go to work tomorow morning. :silly:
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Use odin to reinstall the firmware, you will also need a pit file to repartition it, dont panic , just search the forums for odin repartition
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Use odin to reinstall the firmware, you will also need a pit file to repartition it, dont panic , just search the forums for odin repartition
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For those interested in a solution:
After ~2hrs of goo...startpageing I finally found a solution.
As oposed to many opinions the pit file to use is the one with ..._20120329.pit even if you have no 64GB Galaxy S3. Mine is 32GB..
Together with a Stock-JB-Firmware (I used XXEMG4) that is made of 3 parts (PDA,PHONE,MODEM) and Odin 1.85 (don't know if that really matters) it suddenly started flashing. However, the phone hung at the Samsung bootlogo.
After another search I found out, that you have to keep the device connected to your PC until Odin gives out "PASS". There is still being data written to the GS3 even after the reboot.
Man I still can't believe I managed to get it back to work. These phones are awesome.
@ swukjay: Thanks for the info and your kind words.
Going to sleep now...still got 2,5hrs.
mickmattes said:
For those interested in a solution:
After ~2hrs of goo...startpageing I finally found a solution.
As oposed to many opinions the pit file to use is the one with ..._20120329.pit even if you have no 64GB Galaxy S3. Mine is 32GB..
Together with a Stock-JB-Firmware (I used XXEMG4) that is made of 3 parts (PDA,PHONE,MODEM) and Odin 1.85 (don't know if that really matters) it suddenly started flashing. However, the phone hung at the Samsung bootlogo.
After another search I found out, that you have to keep the device connected to your PC until Odin gives out "PASS". There is still being data written to the GS3 even after the reboot.
Man I still can't believe I managed to get it back to work. These phones are awesome.
@ swukjay: Thanks for the info and your kind words.
Going to sleep now...still got 2,5hrs.
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Your welcome, glad you got it sorted