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, he's getting the exact same problem.
Your help is very much appreciated!
Sounds like either the battery is dying or the phone.
Update for the OP: After having the bootloader restored and flashing stock with Odin, I get the (data wipe failed) error and after the Vibrant Screen shows up, the phone turns off.
Already tried flashing Eugene's FTDB and it boots me into recovery, I use adb reboot and after the Galaxy S screen the screen turns off and the soft-buttons stay lit but doesn't boot. Flashed back to stock and I get the same data wipe error.
There is a video on youtube of a guy with the same problem, I wanted to share it here but xda wouldn't let me since I don't post much around here.
Your help is much appreciated.
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ANY HELP WILL DO.
I work for T-Mobile and have plent of time to learn how to do things the right way. I became familiar with ADB, Flashing roms with CWM, and bricks and freezes do not scare me.
One day i was reverting to stock. Oden completed with a bright green pass! My phone rebooted, finalized the recovery, rebooted again, the screen went place and never came back on. I attempted to hold the power, change the battery-NOTHING-The phone remains powerless never to reboot again. I had not not done anything crazy before-JUST TESTING OUT ROMS. I currently have a working vibrant that i flash and recover everyday. I now purposly do not disable lagfixes and try random combintions of kernals and roms. Although i have had some crazy outcomes, nothing like that has happened again.
Does any one know for SURE what this means or does any one have any direction on how i can remedy a vibrant that no longer turns on or shows any signs of life. IF SO, AND YOU CAN BE RESPONSABLE FOR THE FIX, YOU MAY HAVE IT AT AN -UN-GODLY-CHEAP PRICE
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.
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 used this guide to install CWM to my phone, the phone was already rooted successfully. I used the following guide:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2486512
Before the first rom flash the system description said the phone was a P705g and the phone itself has it marked as a P708g. I saw this as no consequence and carried on.
*** UPDATE***
So the sticker behind the battery marks the phone as P705g, the plastic case just said P708g. Guess they just didnt want to waste plastic at the company
As soon as I unlocked my bootloader the phone started turning off after 2-3 mins of use. I was able to flash CM10 nightly successfully and it worked, aside the turning off. I thought it might be a problem with CWM so I switched over to TWRP. I installed it through CWM, but to no avail. Still having the same problem. And I yes I wiped cache/dalvik.
After the phone dies it restarts and keeps loading the cyanogenmod load screen, until it eventually restarts again. This happens infinitely.
I have phone now that needs to have the battery popped everytime I want it to load. That would have been ok but it keeps turning off...
Guys I need help! Currently a student and money is scarce so buying a new phone is out of the question for some time.
Thanks for the help :laugh:
hello everyone, my stock s6 edge on rogers is stuck in a boot loop all of a sudden, fully stock and unmodded, running 5.0.2. i was just walking and listening to music through bluetooth headphones and all of a sudden it stopped, and i looked at my phone and it was rebooting. so i just waited and its still stuck in a boot loop after an hour. it gets to the lock screen sometimes, and then after like a second or 2 just reboots again. i have not tinkered or have done anything to my phone either, and had no issues with random reboots ever, so i have no idea what could have happened
some extra info, when it reboots it doesnt always go to the galaxy s6 edge screen, it sometimes just shows the samsung logo with the animation. i have also tried to wipe cache and that didnt work either. after a few reboots however the stock theme was applied at some point. also i tried booting into safe mode and that also didnt work.
i really dont want to wipe my phone, but i will if it is absolutely necessary. so if anyone has any other suggestions that i can try out it will be very much appreciated!
thanks!
NuckFuggets said:
hello everyone, my stock s6 edge on rogers is stuck in a boot loop all of a sudden, fully stock and unmodded, running 5.0.2. i was just walking and listening to music through bluetooth headphones and all of a sudden it stopped, and i looked at my phone and it was rebooting. so i just waited and its still stuck in a boot loop after an hour. it gets to the lock screen sometimes, and then after like a second or 2 just reboots again. i have not tinkered or have done anything to my phone either, and had no issues with random reboots ever, so i have no idea what could have happened
some extra info, when it reboots it doesnt always go to the galaxy s6 edge screen, it sometimes just shows the samsung logo with the animation. i have also tried to wipe cache and that didnt work either. after a few reboots however the stock theme was applied at some point. also i tried booting into safe mode and that also didnt work.
i really dont want to wipe my phone, but i will if it is absolutely necessary. so if anyone has any other suggestions that i can try out it will be very much appreciated!
thanks!
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I have had said problem before under the same circumstances (although it was with a different phone)
Try using Odin to install the stock Firmware.
A thread explaining how is right here.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s6-edge/general/sm-g925f-s6-firmware-thread-t3078841
If you don't want the firmware listed in that thread, download from Sammobile.
While some users say it does not wipe the phone, it wipes every time I use it
If this does not work, you should get a warranty replacement.
Snowby123 said:
I have had said problem before under the same circumstances (although it was with a different phone)
Try using Odin to install the stock Firmware.
A thread explaining how is right here.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s6-edge/general/sm-g925f-s6-firmware-thread-t3078841
If you don't want the firmware listed in that thread, download from Sammobile.
While some users say it does not wipe the phone, it wipes every time I use it
If this does not work, you should get a warranty replacement.
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Thank you for the reply!
weird thing is it fixed itself .. few hours after it started it just booted back up and didnt reboot again, and has been running fine for the past couple hours. but if this happens again i will know what to try next time