[Q] CWM based Recovery Loop - Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

My Vibrant keeps restarting over and over. The Vibrant screen appears and then a flying android in the background appears with this text
CWM-based Recovery v5.5.0.2
Waiting for SD Card to mount (20s)
SD Card Mounted
Verifying SD Card Marker
SD Card marker not found
Checking Internal SD Card
--Installing:
Finding Update Package...
E:unknown volume for path []
E:Can't mount
Installation aborted.
then it reboots. over and over constantly... I would love just to go back to stock software even.... Just have no idea what to do!
I used the AIO Vibrant Toolbox and used the rom file for Version 10.
I looked at the SD card in a card reader and i see no ROM File at all... so i copied
ICS_NBv10.zip to the root of the SD Card and renamed it ROM.ZIP... and that didnt do anything. also tried VIBRANT_ICS_Passion_boot.zip but to no avail. I admit that im a stupid noob.....
Please help this dumb noob.

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Pull the battery and use the three button combo to go to recovery, should be fine.

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Ok I pulled the battery and held down volume down, power and the home key, does pretty much same thing, ive tried it many times and once and awhile id get a spinning wheel icon? which would come up, then go to a black screen then come up, basically in a loop, if i let go of the keys, it ends up going to the error message i posted and ends up in that loop again

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I suggest you ODIN back to stock and start over.
Download ODIN (below). It does not work on Macs. You will need Heimdall and can be found HERE << LINK.
HERE IS ODIN << DOWNLOAD THIS
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MD5: E012B512C1579C3AF7A38A27FD905B86
TWO FILES ARE NEEDED TO LOAD IN ODIN FOR GOING BACK TO STOCK JFD (2.1 Eclair)
The PIT FILE << DOWNLOAD THIS
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MD5: 1D927B36D2FA807A22E64FC86B445130
The TAR FILE << DOWNLOAD THIS
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MD5: 632730F6B637F53E5B10E5CBC8B966A7
Move all files to Desktop.
- Mount your phone and move the rom to the internal (sdcard/ ) & the update.zip file (if needed)
- Power down the phone, or pull the battery.
3 - DOWNLOAD MODE
*NOTE - IMPORTANT*
On my PC, ODIN will NOT work when my camcorder is plugged in.
If you notice ODIN not working, you may pull the battery if it has not started/hung (again, at YOUR risk, not my fault/responsibility). Remove any USB devices just in case if you are worried about it, I have to.
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1- Open ODIN on your PC. (DO NOT PRESS/SELECT ANYTHING IN ODIN!)
2- Plug in the USB Cable to PC
(preferably the one that came with your phone *My N1 cable doesn't work??*)
3- Power down Phone if you had not already.
4- Remove the battery.
5- Plug USB into Phone.
6- Hold down BOTH volume buttons and while holding both, insert the battery.
7- Two to three seconds later your phone will be in Download Mode.
Be mindful to not remove connection while ODIN is running.
** ALT METHOD
You can also just power down the phone, open ODIN, load the pit and tar, connect USB to pc, hold both volume buttons and connect USB to phone. This is how I do it. Some are not able to do this so the above instructions were used just in case. **
4 - ODIN
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
Go back to ODIN on your PC. Should be a yellow box under ID COM, Something like COM 5. If not, likely a problem with your drivers, see this THREAD FOR DRIVERS that I created. Should help. If you were on Cyanogen or MIUI you may need the Nexus S Drivers, Google them.
Click the PIT button, Select the PIT file from desktop
Click the PDA button, select the TAR file
** Re-partition is checked now in ODIN - THIS IS APPROPRIATE!! **
Click Start. Unless ODIN hangs, you should see a progress bar start soon after. The process takes a few minutes and you told ODIN to reboot once done.... so... when your phone boots up, you are on stock JFD.
IF ODIN HANGS ON YOU:
- Are you using my files (all 3 of them?)
- Did you check the MD5 using Hashtab (LINK)?
- Are you using the cable that came with your phone?
- Have you tried other USB ports on you PC?

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no good, as i try to put it into recovery mode, it keeps rebooting, I even hear the USB connecting and disconnecting as it goes threw its boot loop, odin doesn't even detect it since it reboots so fast.

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l33thax3d said:
no good, as i try to put it into recovery mode, it keeps rebooting, I even hear the USB connecting and disconnecting as it goes threw its boot loop, odin doesn't even detect it since it reboots so fast.
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No, you need to put it in download mode, not recovery mode.
1. Pull the battery.
2. Connect USB Cable.
3. Hold Volume Up & Down.
4. Put battery back in.
5. Download mode.

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hold volume up and down as i put the battery in? or hold them then put the battery in?

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Put the battery in, hold both volume buttons, then insert USB cable.
Sent from my SGH-T959 using XDA App

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I did what you guys told me to, and it just keeps doing the loop. I had ODIN opened without changing any settings, plugged in the usb to the phone, then I went and held volume up and volume down and inserted the battery and kept helding them, I get a pinwheel that comes up for 1 sec, doesnt spin, then another one for another second which also spin, then screen goes black and then I get the CWM based screen that makes the phone reboot, which it does, and then the Vibrant screen appears, goes black, then the Vibrant screen appears, goes black again then the CWM Based screen comes up, then we are back to the Vibrant screen, its a endless loop. I held the Vol + and - the whole time.

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Do you have Gingerbread bootloaders?

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I dont think so... so no

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Any Ideas?

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l33thax3d said:
I did what you guys told me to, and it just keeps doing the loop. I had ODIN opened without changing any settings, plugged in the usb to the phone, then I went and held volume up and volume down and inserted the battery and kept helding them, I get a pinwheel that comes up for 1 sec, doesnt spin, then another one for another second which also spin, then screen goes black and then I get the CWM based screen that makes the phone reboot, which it does, and then the Vibrant screen appears, goes black, then the Vibrant screen appears, goes black again then the CWM Based screen comes up, then we are back to the Vibrant screen, its a endless loop. I held the Vol + and - the whole time.
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That doesn't sound like download mode...
http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?desktop_uri=/watch?v=rqxearzXrVY&v=rqxearzXrVY&gl=US
Try that link for entering download mode.
Sent from my Passion'd Vibrant XDA App

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Mod's please delete this thread, I ended up purchasing a new motherboard for the phone.