[Q] Can I get my samsung vibrant working again? - Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

I tired installing Jetpack ROM on my phone, but my idiot self forgot to wipe factory data and clear the cache, Now when it turns on it goes to the vibrant screen but then a voice says "convert data partition..not enough space on partition". And then a rainbow of colors flash and it goes back to the vibrant screen doing the same thing over and over. When i plug it into the computer via usb, and open up odin the id shows up for about 2 seconds and then disappears. Please can someone help?

You got bootloop probably from ext4 problem.
Try to get in recovery with keys Then flash rom again if its still there and SD didnt wipe
Otherwise you need to be in download mode for Odin and flash stock
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HI ho, Hi ho, off to odin we go....whistle, whistle, whistle,

If he's got rainbows then he won't be able to see recovery, have to odin
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Recovery mode isn't working, I was able to connect to odin, but not in download mode, my screen in completely blacked. I put in the pit file and tar file and hit start and this what happened in odin.
<ID:0/004> Added!!
<ID:0/004> Odin v.3 engine (ID:4)..
<ID:0/004> File analysis..
<ID:0/004> SetupConnection..
So right now its stuck on the last step "setupconnection". Do I just leave it alone, its been like this for the past 20 minutes.

Odin not gonna do anything w/o download mode.
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So what am I suppose to do? Can I do anything else?

If you get boot loop when you turn it on you should be able to get to download mode fine. Are you sure you are doing key combo right? Did you flash GB boot loader?
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trailblazerz11 said:
If you get boot loop when you turn it on you should be able to get to download mode fine. Are you sure you are doing key combo right? Did you flash GB boot loader?
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I pressed the volume up and down button along with the power button. Isn't that the proper way to try to get it download mode? Also I have to idea what you mean by "flashing the GB boot loader".

You were suppose to flash GB boot loaders for GB rooms to get rid of rainbows in recovery..
Go to Q&A stickie noob guide and link to "go back to JFD stock" guide.
Should really research and know what you are doing before flashing roms.
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Thanks trailblazer11, I've gotten back to factory setting, and thank you everyone else in this thread for helping out.

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Flashing jl4 with Odin... stuck

When I try to flash the jl4 .tar file found in the development section it sticks at cache.rfs. I am currently on stock ji6, unrooted.
As a matter of fact, every time I try to Odin back to jfd, the first try always stocks on cache.rfs but when I unplug and reboot into download mode the second try works. The second try for jl4 stays stuck at the file system part and never even gets to cache.rfs. what am I doing wrong?
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I've found if I leave the phone in dl too long before starting odin, say a minute or two of sitting idle, the flash never goes and always hangs at the same spot. I usually open odin and load my files, then boot to dl mode and start the flash within seconds of booting into dl mode, and it goes through every time. Of course in the rare occasion it doesn't, close and relaunch odin and repeat the process. You may want to try downloading a fresh copy of your chosen image if all else fails.
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Take the sd and sim out somtimes odin will confuse itself, its tempramental like a *****
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Black Screen

Hello. I tried to use Repartition in Rom Manager and my phone stuck in Vibrant Screen. So I used Odin and check Repartition there nothing was happening for 10 minutes, I decided to unplug and just reload stock rom. I did that without any problems. Phone started to boot up but after Galaxy log it stuck in black screen. I am hopping that I didn't bricked my phone. Can anybody help me solve this problem?
What files are you using in Odin? If trying to flash 2.2 then try Eugenes jk2 for Odin if 2.1 jfd both in the bible/directory. Make sure you're using the 512 pit file also when repartitioning.
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I tried Eugene Froyo that Doesn't Brick and official JFD and it getting stuck in cache for a while then screen goes black
Are you also using the 512 pit file? Go here http://androidspin.com/2010/08/09/how-to-restore-or-recover-your-samsung-vibrant/ and follow instructions. As long as you are getting something from the phone then you should be ok I think you are just missing a step. And so you know I found this through the Vibrant directory and it has all the files you need including the Samsung drivers for your PC if you don't have them installed. Good Luck

Need help please! Odined but cant fully boot

I tried to Odin to stock T-Mo but I cant get passed the Galaxy S boot screen. It just goes black and if I touch the buttons they light up but phone stays black. I tried a number of times also clicked on repartition in Odin. Odin tells me everything passed but when the phones boots ROM Manager screen comes up goes through a check list with one line in red that reads "Data wipe Failed"
Can someone please help me out. Ran Odin many times but I cant get the phone to go back to full stock. I click repartition but it seems Odin does not wipe the internal SD. I am so vexed. Someone help
I have never partitioned. Or whatever. That can cause a soft brick.
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I have before in it went well. The phone (my wifes) was bricked to begin with. It would not go past the white vibrant screen. So I Odined back to stock. It goes through the T Mo stick together screen then gets to the Galaxy S animation. But after the galaxy s logo he screen turns black and only if I touch the buttons to the buttons light up. I tried to reflash via Odin a number of times but I cant get the phone to fully boot.
What ROM you had before going back to stock?
Any lagfix? If yes disable it..
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You should do it again. No repartition. Wipe data. Dont touch it. Odin will boot up the phone when its fully done.
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Ive done this several times. Works everytime
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Try eugenes froyo that doesn't brick then reset odin and then go to stock firmware I mean it couldn't really hurt anything
willsnews said:
Try eugenes froyo that doesn't brick then reset odin and then go to stock firmware I mean it couldn't really hurt anything
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Okay it also accured to me to try Eugenes. So I did and it worked. But I can not install any programs. It tells me there is not enough space. Then when I look at settings/storage on the bottom it reads 0 space for apps.
Strange no? Any ideas
Thanks to everyone so far. I really appreciate it!
As I understand it as soon as you odin eugenes froyo you have to reset odin get the phone into dl mode again then use odin to put in the stock firmware
samyvibrantuser said:
What ROM you had before going back to stock?
Any lagfix? If yes disable it..
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he female voice came on, everything went well but when the phone went to reboot it got hung up on the white vibrant screen. So I tried to Odin to JDF stock. Then it would get passed the galaxy S animation and go black screen.
Eugenes froyo works but my app storage is at 0.
arrggg!
willsnews said:
As I understand it as soon as you odin eugenes froyo you have to reset odin get the phone into dl mode again then use odin to put in the stock firmware
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Damn. I tried but it doesnt want to flash back to stock. When I flash stock the I get the same results. Phone goes black after the galaxy s animation
Anyone? Any ideas? I have been at this for four hours
samyvibrantuser said:
What ROM you had before going back to stock?
Any lagfix? If yes disable it..
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I was unable to disable voodoo because it would not boot the first time. (and just to be clear. I was on stock eclair and used JOC kernel/uv/voodoo
stock eclair and used JOC kernel/uv/voodoo
Thats good stuff I rocked it for a while
willsnews said:
stock eclair and used JOC kernel/uv/voodoo
Thats good stuff I rocked it for a while
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Yeah. Tried it on this phone which is my wifes and it bricked for some reason.
You gotta find a way to disable voodoo. Theres a way to disable it by putting something directly into the Voodoo folder but I cant find it =/
Charlie Brown said:
Yeah. Tried it on this phone which is my wifes and it bricked for some reason.
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Jacs kernel always gave me bricks for some reason. Do what they said again. Flash to eugenes froyo that doesnt brick with repartition checked. Then RIGHT AWAY make sure you have the jfd rom for odin and flash that using odin with repartition unchecked. Dont try to flash a clockwork recovery rom from eugenes froyo that doesnt brick because you arent done fixing it at that point.
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once this is fixed if you want voodoo, upgrade to a 2.2 rom and use supercurios own modified kernels. Never had a problem with them.
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Settai said:
You gotta find a way to disable voodoo. Theres a way to disable it by putting something directly into the Voodoo folder but I cant find it =/
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I cant get to the voodoo folder. I tried every firmware there is and only Eugenes froyo will fully boot. But I cant install any apps so I can get to me system folders so i can see whats going on.
Im so stressed and tired it aint funny.
When I flash a T Mo rom and the phone reboots and goes through a series of line checks (yellow text) I get red text that reads "data wipe failed". Then the phone boots, t mo jingle, then galaxy s screen, then black.
Anyone??? Devs? PLease?
Do you have root explorer?

CM7 Help!

So this was my first time with CM7 and I followed all the steps but I'm having problems. When I get to installing the .tar file in as pda through odin, I made sure of unchecking auto reboot but after I hit start as it gets to the zImage it justs stops. The bar doesn't fill green in odin, nothing happens, I didn't unplug or touch a thing and my phone goes from the download mode image to a black screen. Now I've waited around 30mins now to find nothing has changed, this is the second time this event has happened since after using odin to go back to stock because I was forced to unplug my phone, bricking it in the process. Can anyone tell me what's wrong? I have clockwordmod, I installed the backup through it, I'm using odin3 v1.00, but I just don't see anything wrong done in the steps. Thank you.
try 1.3 odin
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iynfynity said:
try 1.3 odin
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Yep. Thats my choice.
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[Q] Bricked my phone... boot loop... help!

My phone doesn't start..
"Samsung Galaxy Note II" logo is looping.
Volume Up + Home + Power doesn't lead me Recovery mode.
Volume Down + Home + Power does get me to download mode though.
I used Odin3 to install stock JB (along with .pit file) but it's still looping...
Help me... PLEASE..?
wjdzm said:
My phone doesn't start..
"Samsung Galaxy Note II" logo is looping.
Volume Up + Home + Power doesn't lead me Recovery mode.
Volume Down + Home + Power does get me to download mode though.
I used Odin3 to install stock JB (along with .pit file) but it's still looping...
Help me... PLEASE..?
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I think your best bet is going to be a USB Jig.
http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_odkw=USB+JIG&_osacat=0&_from=R40&_trksid=p2045573.m570.l1313&_nkw=USB+JIG+Note+2&_sacat=0
wjdzm said:
My phone doesn't start..
"Samsung Galaxy Note II" logo is looping.
Volume Up + Home + Power doesn't lead me Recovery mode.
Volume Down + Home + Power does get me to download mode though.
I used Odin3 to install stock JB (along with .pit file) but it's still looping...
Help me... PLEASE..?
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What did you flash to start this?
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Lightyear25 said:
I think your best bet is going to be a USB Jig.
http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_odk...45573.m570.l1313&_nkw=USB+JIG+Note+2&_sacat=0
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That just fixed download mode which he can already get into
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Did you possibly flash the International Note 2 kernel or worse, a different phone's kernel by mistake?
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kintwofan said:
What did you flash to start this?
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I tried installing "Whompasaurus" ROM from VanillaRootBox.
If I remember correctly, I wiped/factory reset and system vanillaRB then installed Mod version of Whompasaurus ROM.
After than I installed Full version of Whompasaurus ROM w/o wiping any chache, data, system, etc.
And now here I am, "Samsung Galaxy Note II" logo turning on and off not allowing me to enter recovery mode.
FYI, a glimpse of TWRP Recovery image showed for a short period before bootloop when I did Up + Home + Power.
Now I flashed stock ROM using Odin but nothing's happening...
DroidOnRoids said:
Did you possibly flash the International Note 2 kernel or worse, a different phone's kernel by mistake?
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Well I tried to install perseus kernel which was one of the options of Whompasaurus ROM
Which files did you try with odin? They were successful but still looped?
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wjdzm said:
I tried installing "Whompasaurus" ROM from VanillaRootBox.
If I remember correctly, I wiped/factory reset and system vanillaRB then installed Mod version of Whompasaurus ROM.
After than I installed Full version of Whompasaurus ROM w/o wiping any chache, data, system, etc.
And now here I am, "Samsung Galaxy Note II" logo turning on and off not allowing me to enter recovery mode.
FYI, a glimpse of TWRP Recovery image showed for a short period before bootloop when I did Up + Home + Power.
Now I flashed stock ROM using Odin but nothing's happening...
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You are not supposed to flash mod before the full install. Ugh no wonder you jacked up your phone :banghead:
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bond32 said:
Which files did you try with odin? They were successful but still looped?
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I used Odin after loop started.
Odin did "Pass" and installed the stock ROM.
hopesrequiem said:
You are not supposed to flash mod before the full install. Ugh no wonder you jacked up your phone :banghead:
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Yikes. Does that mean there's no fix to this?
wjdzm said:
Yikes. Does that mean there's no fix to this?
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two things. First I think you had to flash the sd card fix before downgrading. At last that's what the op says for root box. Second what Odin file are you using? For you I would use the full stock jg image. Also pull sd card and sim before Odin and leave out to see if it works
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wjdzm said:
I used Odin after loop started.
Odin did "Pass" and installed the stock ROM.
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I mean the exact name of what you tried to use.
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bond32 said:
I mean the exact name of what you tried to use.
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This right here. It makes a huge difference.
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Since he can get to download mode, I feel like he's just using the incorrect file. First I would try route66, and if no go still use imnuts'
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bond32 said:
Since he can get to download mode, I feel like he's just using the incorrect file. First I would try route66, and if no go still use imnuts'
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I tried both route66 and imnuts'...
I also tried installing stock ROM which I got from samsung-updates.com.
Does it matter "how" I flash these files with Odin?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=38130862&postcount=16
I think this is exactly what happened.
So using the full stock restore completes without error? Try the alternate restore too.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=35265728
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bond32 said:
So using the full stock restore completes without error? Try the alternate restore too.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=35265728
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I tried the alternate version... not working... oh god im scared.
It's weird because I can't seem to flash the same ROM file with Odin after I flash it once. I get the following log when trying to flash the same stock ROM:
<OSM> Enter CS for MD5..
<OSM> Check MD5.. Do not unplug the cable..
<OSM> Please wait..
<OSM> I605_VRALJB_Restore.tar.md5 is valid.
<OSM> Checking MD5 finished Sucessfully..
<OSM> Leave CS..
<ID:0/003> Odin v.3 engine (ID:3)..
<ID:0/003> File analysis..
<ID:0/003> SetupConnection..
<ID:0/003> Initialzation..
<ID:0/003> Set PIT file..
<ID:0/003> DO NOT TURN OFF TARGET!!
<ID:0/003> Can't open the specified file. (Line: 1876)
<OSM> All threads completed. (succeed 0 / failed 1)
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i actually did the same thing and has the same issue i has to flash completely stock through odin about 30 times with the pit and use the wipe nand option and it eventually came back took me about 6 hours to get it back but it does work keep trying over and over itll come back
CI605_I605VRLJB_I605VRALJB_CL414933_HWID04_HW-Rev0406_low_ship_user.tar
sch-i605-16gb.pit
those are the two files i used and after i had to do that after update version of casual

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