I recently flashed the new ICS Passion v11 and this first flash was giving me problems...so I went back into recovery and wiped data, cache partition, and Dalvik cache. I accidentally messed up and rebooted before reinstalling the .zip file and now my Vibrant is stuck at the first boot screen and will not go into cwm recovery. So is there any hope left for my phone? Please help!
Don't worry. Just flash back to stock using Download mode.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=734475
Complete guide to flashing ROMs and ODIN back to Stock -
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1307637
Its simple cant go wrong if you follow all the steps.
FaultException said:
Don't worry. Just flash back to stock using Download mode.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=734475
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I tried getting into download mode but it still just keeps cycling the same Vibrant boot screen. Maybe I'm doing it wrong but if I'm not mistaken it is Vol Down + Power right?
Few things.
First. Under your avatar is a Verizon picture. Are you using the Vibrant or the Facinate? They are different and Facinate ROMs don't work on Vibrant phones and vice versa.
Second. See below.
Make sure you have ODIN OPEN with admin privileges!
1.) Take off your back cover, remove your sim & mirco sd card.
2.) Remove your battery.
Make sure you have the USB plugged into your PC but NOT your phone!
3.) Hold the volume buttons.
4.) Put the battery in.
5.) Put the USB in.
You don't necessarily need the download mode image to be present. As long as you are getting the COM ID to light up yellow in ODIN, just flash back to stock like normal.
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Woodrube said:
Few things.
First. Under your avatar is a Verizon picture. Are you using the Vibrant or the Facinate? They are different and Facinate ROMs don't work on Vibrant phones and vice versa.
Second. See below.
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Yes, I am using the Vibrant. I was with T Mobile but I switched to Verizon. I was planning on giving this phone with ICS Passion flashed on it to a friend of mine who is still with T Mobile. Thanks for the post about how to get into download mode. I will try it as soon as I get some time to mess with it today.
I have answers!
Hey. I was having this exact problem and I solved it!
Basically, when it goes into a bootloop, all you have to do it take out the battery, pop it back in, and reflash it again. I had this problem for almost all my flashing even odin'ing back to froyo I had to do twice because it froze.
Here was my process:
I went through the process of going into going to Froyo with Odin (twice sometimes if it froze) then flashing CM7(Twice because of a boot loop) and then flashing ICS PAssion V12 (Twice because of boot loop)
Now it works perfect! Also, no need to wipe data/factory reset/cache partition/dalvik cache after coming out of the bootloop. simply take out the battery, go back into recovery and flash it again. should work!
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ewh1292 said:
I tried getting into download mode but it still just keeps cycling the same Vibrant boot screen. Maybe I'm doing it wrong but if I'm not mistaken it is Vol Down + Power right?
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It's Vol Down + Vol Up + Power. then you can let go as soon as you see the word "Vibrant" in white. should take you into recovery
Thank you to everyone that helped me out, especially to you Woodrube. Your post really helped me get things going. I finally got my phone into download mode and flashed back to the stock Eclair firmware with Odin. I then went back into recovery, flashed CM7, and proceeded to flash ICS Passion v11. It took me a couple of tries with all of this because I figured out that the ICS update file somehow got corrupted (Possibly when I flashed the stock rom?), so I just re-downloaded the file and flashed and it worked fine.
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My samsung E1105T freezes on samsung startup, i know this kind of question has been answered but since i am using samsung SGH-E250i i am not able to see the solution on a YOUTUBE video, if i could only just get instructions i would be greatful, i hope you will be able to help
NEED HELP!!!
my Samsung galaxy vibrant SGH-T959 is stuck on the beginning boot screen. i cant get into recovery. i take the battery out and unplug it. i hold volume buttons and plug it in and go to download mode. but my PC will not recognize the phone. it popped up and said "this device was not set up properly." i uninstalled drivers that i installed and tried Samsung Kies. but it just kept saying "connecting." Odin will not work either. i see how people say just take the battery out while its plugged in. but that does not work either. i really need this phone this is my daily driver. it will not boot at all it just stays on vibrant logo. please help!!!!
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Listen i'm somewhat new so forgive me if i posted in the wrong place.
Just hear me out please.
Ok heres a little s/a. I have a samsung vibrant, last night i flashed my vibrant which was on a rooted vibrant9 rom. To bionix 1.9.1 w/ jacs oc kernal and the voodoo lagfix. Before flashing to the bionix i switched the boot logo and .wav file to one i perfered, i also did the same for the shutdown logo. Now, per the instructions for installing bionix 1.9.1 i took a nandroid backup of my phone on vibrant9 before performing the flash. After i did i flashed using clockwork. Everything went fine, the phone flashed, rebooted and was working great. However i rebooted the phone and relized that the shutdown screen wasnt working as it should because i forgot to include the shutdown.cfg thats required. What i did was took the bionix.zip off my sd card went into it and added the .cfg file i needed. I added it back to the sd card and figured i'd just reflash and all would be fine. Not so lucky however, i tried to reflash using clockwork (which took me to the regular recovery menu you would get to holding down the volume buttons and power) and it failed giving me an error which said "error on line 80". Relizing that the instruction said that if you had the voodoo lagfix you should disable it, i decided to do a factory wipe of all data (thinking that would definitly disable voodoo) after the factory wipe i attempted to flash bionix 1.9.1 again with no luck. After the last attempt i decided to just restore using the nandroid backup of vibrant9 i had taken earlier, the phone went through the restore process with waht appeared to be no problems. After it finished i rebooted from the recovery menu then bammmm. The phone is stuck in a boot loop. Its not a normal boot loop though the initial samsung logo will pop up for a sec then the phone screen will show what looks like tv static for a sec, it just keeps repeating this. To get it to stop i have to pull the battery. Ive tried booting into recovery by holding the volume buttons and the power button, but all that happens is the phone starts into the above mentioned bootloop. As a note whenever i plug the phone up via usb to my computer a grey battery screen pops up but it dosent charge it just sits there, and if i unplug the usb it goes right back into the bootloop. Also my computer will not recognize the phone so using odin seems like a lost cause. I read in a forum for this phone just a bit earlier that its nearly impossible to brick this phone. Have i done the impossible?
Well it sounds like you have hardware locked phone. Also you cannot do a nand restore w/ voodoo enable. That's your problem. There are threads on xda about recovering hardware lock phones. You need to search. If you can get into download mode, you need to flash eugene373's "Froyo that does not brick". Also, once you get phone working, isuggest you keep a disable-lagfix zip on your internal sd.
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Great Success
Ok, ok after what seems like a million tries i finally got my vibrant working. After finally getting my vibrant into download mode (by removing the battery, putting the battery back into the phone, holding down both volume buttons and plugging in the phone via usb) i used odin to try and flash back to the factory rom. The flash worked except for an error i noticed when the phone was kicked into factory recovery mode to format itself. There i noticed that at the point when all user data was supposed to be wiped it would have a failure to wipe data. After the flash completed with this error i was able to get past the boot loop. At this point my phone would finish the boot sequence but after the samsung s disappeared the screen would just stay black. However, when ever i pushed any of the soft keys on the front they would light up. So what i did was followed the instructions in the above post and used odin to flash eugenes froyo rom that wont brick. Again the flash would complete but when the phone was kciked into factory recovery mode i got an error and it wouldnt complete it would just hang. So what i did next was use odin to again flash the factory rom and to my surprise it worked. So my vibrant is now restored to its full glory. I owe everything to the patrons of this community. Thanks all.
I'm really stuck here guys, and I seriously could use some help. I was messing around (yes, I know what I'm doing) I installed Bionix's Rom and I liked VooDoo but not the Rom. So I thought, I could just flash the kernel with stock JI6. I was wrong because I couldn't find anything on the post stating it didn't work or I would need a certain file (which I did, and have now) So the phone was going through the Voodoo robot girl steps and then just stood on the Vibrant logo. I took the battery out and went into download mode. Tried to restore back to JI6 on odin but it failed then the phone wasn't recognized. Rebooted again and now I have some weird error, it's a phone with a exclamation mark in the middle and a pc next to it. Any ideas? I've seriously searched and haven't found anything. Getting a little panicky :-|
Edit -- Forget it guys! Thankfully I was able to get back to download mode and it's working again :-D
Edit 2 -- I spoke to soon. I'm having another issue now. I use Odin to get it back to stock JI6 it passes and the phone boots up, show the T-Mobile logo then just goes black like if it died but it isn't dead. I don't know what to do :-( I used Odin 3 times already and it's the same thing.
Great !
All the best then..
i am having the same problem were u able to fix this ????? i will appreciate it
krise11385 said:
i am having the same problem were u able to fix this ????? i will appreciate it
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Try to boot into stock recovery select wipe all user data. This should take your phone back to factory mode. Else there are plenty of links, that will tell you how to go back to stock using ODIN. Go back to stock using ODIN, then upgrade to JI6 using ODIN. Hope this helps.
http://forum.cyanogenmod.com/topic/...r-vibrant-and-return-to-stock-phone-pc-error/
im having same problem. i odin the stock recovery but one part says wipe data failed. and now i can't even go to download mode. any help?? is there another way to go to download mode?
krise11385 said:
i am having the same problem were u able to fix this ????? i will appreciate it
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I was able to fix it. Only took me 3 hours LOL. I kept going back to stock with Odin. Then I used Odin 1.0 to flash Froyo that doesn't brick because 1.30 kept failing then it gave me some error e:\ something so I flashed stock JI6 with Odin 1.30 and got the same error. Wiped user data and cache, rebooted and it worked. Never want to go through that again!
Edit -- Forgot to mention I flashed JFD then went JI6. I believe... LOL it was late and I didnt sleep all day but couldnt sleep until I fixed it. I used JFD, JI2, JI6, Froyo that doesnt brick through out the whole 3 hour process.
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IuNlockeM said:
im having same problem. i odin the stock recovery but one part says wipe data failed. and now i can't even go to download mode. any help?? is there another way to go to download mode?
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What I used that always worked for me was pull out the battery. Leave the phone alone for 15 seconds then plug the USB in, hold both volume buttons and put the battery in. Should go into download mode immediately.
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Heeeeelp
I am stuck on the "phone with a exclamation mark in the middle and a pc next to it" screen, I cant get my computer to recognize the phone anymore, and I cant get the phone to go to download mode anymore, PLEASE HELP ...
I was in the process of putting the stock version again on the phone after my phone started to freeze up on the Vibrant screen after the voodoo update
If your phone isnt hardware locked. Just hold down the volume keys and power button at the same time (with USB in) wait until the phone pc exclamation mark screen is gone and let go of the power button. Worked for me all the time.
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Thanks alot man, it worked, however, I am now stuck on that black screen like the same person earlier in the post. Not sure why? I downloaded the stock version on it, and I wiped all user data, any suggestions
islamgamal said:
Thanks alot man, it worked, however, I am now stuck on that black screen like the same person earlier in the post. Not sure why? I downloaded the stock version on it, and I wiped all user data, any suggestions
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I had the same issue. I'm not sure why it happens either. What I did was install Froyo that doesn't brick and flash that using Odin then I got an error on that. So I went back into download mode and flashed stock JFD and click repartition. It have me an error again and I wiped user data and cache then clicked reboot and it worked for me. Both those files can be found in the Development section. If you can't get it to work just keep trying man, flashing back and fourth until it works because like I said I did exactly that and it took me 3 hours to fix on my own. It's a real *****.
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Thanks for the tips broski, I have been tryin everything u can think of, but now I am stuck on the recovery screen and I am gettin the following error message:
e:cant mount /dev/block/stl10
(invalid Argument)
e:copy_dbdata_media:cant mount Dbdata:
Copy Default media content failed
Not sure what to do now? especially I cant get the phone to go to download mode anymore, because it takes my directly to the system recovery screen
islamgamal said:
Thanks for the tips broski, I have been tryin everything u can think of, but now I am stuck on the recovery screen and I am gettin the following error message:
e:cant mount /dev/block/stl10
(invalid Argument)
e:copy_dbdata_media:cant mount Dbdata:
Copy Default media content failed
Not sure what to do now? especially I cant get the phone to go to download mode anymore, because it takes my directly to the system recovery screen
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What ROM do you get that error on? If it's the Froyo that doesn't brick just install JFD over it by pulling out the battery, waiting 15 secs then put the USB on, hold volume buttons and put battery on. Should get you into download mode. If its the stock JFD or JI just go down to clear user data, then clear cache and then click reboot. You should see those options in the recovery.
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I flashed Trigger onto my Vibrant, all seemed well. ROM Manager was FCing, so I reinstalled from market, installed recovery from within ROM Manager, rebooted, went into the regular android recovery. Rebooted again, now it doesn't want to boot. Just loops at the Samsung Galaxy logo (after the vibrant, the little "movie" that plays after the Vibrant logo)
Stubborn bastard won't go into download mode, COM9 shows up in Odin, but it keeps looping the intro thing. If I try to flash, Odin just says SetupConnection and stays there.
Will a JIG do anything at this point?
I will admit, I got too eager and may have flashed a gingerbread ROM on top of a froyo bootloader. >.> I admit, that was stupid, but now all I want is to get the damn thing back into download mode...
It's not bricked. Probably just in a boot loop. Just need to play around and get into download mode.
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I will admit, I got too eager and may have flashed a gingerbread ROM on top of a froyo bootloader. >.> I admit, that was stupid, but now all I want is to get the damn thing back into download mode...
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that doesnt make a difference, i've been on simply honey like 2 month on froyo bootloaders and works fine apart from rainbow on boot and not being able to see recovery
speedy11131 said:
I flashed Trigger onto my Vibrant, all seemed well. ROM Manager was FCing, so I reinstalled from market, installed recovery from within ROM Manager, rebooted, went into the regular android recovery. Rebooted again, now it doesn't want to boot. Just loops at the Samsung Galaxy logo (after the vibrant, the little "movie" that plays after the Vibrant logo)
Stubborn bastard won't go into download mode, COM9 shows up in Odin, but it keeps looping the intro thing. If I try to flash, Odin just says SetupConnection and stays there.
Will a JIG do anything at this point?
I will admit, I got too eager and may have flashed a gingerbread ROM on top of a froyo bootloader. >.> I admit, that was stupid, but now all I want is to get the damn thing back into download mode...
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That happened to me before, I used and tried a different cable and got into download mode with functioning odin. Also, try removing battery, then put the battery back in. then with pressing volume up and down with power switch plug in usb. Hope this helps. Vibrant is hard to brick.
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It is not dead yet, follow the steps as follow thread to go back in beginning and flash rom you want again.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=734475
Depending on which version of ODIN you are using the sequence works best like this:
1) Get the phone into a download acceptable mode with use of a usb cable (JIG is most appropriate)
2) Have ODIN running BEFORE connecting the phone
3) Now connect your phone and attempt the flash. Version prior to 1.7 were extremely picky with following this sequence. As of 1.7 POST ODIN seems to not bug so much the sequence of when the phone was plugged in.
Report back with your results...
speedy11131 said:
I flashed Trigger onto my Vibrant, all seemed well. ROM Manager was FCing, so I reinstalled from market, installed recovery from within ROM Manager, rebooted, went into the regular android recovery. Rebooted again, now it doesn't want to boot. Just loops at the Samsung Galaxy logo (after the vibrant, the little "movie" that plays after the Vibrant logo)
Stubborn bastard won't go into download mode, COM9 shows up in Odin, but it keeps looping the intro thing. If I try to flash, Odin just says SetupConnection and stays there.
Will a JIG do anything at this point?
I will admit, I got too eager and may have flashed a gingerbread ROM on top of a froyo bootloader. >.> I admit, that was stupid, but now all I want is to get the damn thing back into download mode...
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1) take your battery out
2) plug your phone a laptop/desktop
3) hold volume up and volume down + put the battery in
...should be in download mode...I am assuming u have a froyo bootloader...
If that don't work then on step three instead of holding both volume buttons only hold volume up..that works for GB bootloader...
I was running the newest SKANK rom, and woke up this morning with it on the galaxy s screen. I pulled the battery, and tried to reboot, but the power button didnt work. it wouldnt boot into recovery either. I tried using odin, but it keeps hanging at either cache, or modem, and wont go any farther... I could really use some advice.
take it apart
kdaniels1986 said:
I was running the newest SKANK rom, and woke up this morning with it on the galaxy s screen. I pulled the battery, and tried to reboot, but the power button didnt work. it wouldnt boot into recovery either. I tried using odin, but it keeps hanging at either cache, or modem, and wont go any farther... I could really use some advice.
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hey bro whats up sorry to here that have u tried taken out your battery sim and micro for 5 minutes then putting back your battery only before this you should restart your computer then using a different usb port connect the usb then hold vol up and down same time hopefully download mode right away then you have to check repartition if your using some older version of odin it does not do it for you make sure you have correct files and you should be good odin will only hang usually due to wrong or mismatch pit and tar .... goto development section look for any of FISHMANs work he has plenty of odin images you can easily odin back to a rooted device and not have to go through all those steps in rerooting before any of my steps just make sure you have repartition checked on yes :good: hopefully that gets you some where :good:
kdaniels1986 said:
I was running the newest SKANK rom, and woke up this morning with it on the galaxy s screen. I pulled the battery, and tried to reboot, but the power button didnt work. it wouldnt boot into recovery either. I tried using odin, but it keeps hanging at either cache, or modem, and wont go any farther... I could really use some advice.
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Well try to get into download mode with the combo, then reinstall your Samsung drivers, try adding nexus drivers too. Idk much about this but skang, soft brick, and Odin problems caught me cause I run the same ROM.
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my phone originally started out with the stock 2.1update 1 firmware, t959ujfd...
when i turn on (off then on) the phone it would boot to a "Samsung Galaxy S GT-I9000" logo, then switch to a "Vibrant Samsung" logo.
when i received my phone this was how it booted..
Later, i rooted the phone, and flashed clockwork mod recovery.. I made a CWM recovery back up here..
After creating the backup, i put CM10 on to the internal sdcard and installed it via CWM. During the
installation, it rebooted into the newer version of CWM recovery. After choosing "reboot device", my vibrant
would first load the "Samsung Galaxy S GT-I9000" logo, then the Cyanogen mod logo. but then the screen would
flash, and the cyanogen mod logo would appear again. Shortly it dumps me right back at the new version of CWM recovery..
At this point, i thought i flashed CM 10 incorrectly, so from the CMW recovery, i restored that first back up. after restoring that
back up, my phone no longer boots.. Right now if i leave the batter in and plug in a USB, the circular spinny charging icon appears,
then freezes (it doesnt spin).. i can turn on the phone, but it stays stuck at the "Galaxy S GT-I9000" logo.. I cant boot into recovery.
so i read a bunch of other threads about perhaps when ibought the phone, it had a GB bootloader. and i have tried ways to get my vibrant
into download mode.. which unfortunately i havent.. So i can't use Odin and flash back to stock.. Hopefully you guys can help me get back to stock so i can at least use my phone and/or start over installing CM10..
Note: i did not install/flash anything else other than CM10. i did not use custom kernels, or install Google Apps etc..
Edit: Ok, now i can reliably get into download mode. for some reason, the physical button combinations were wrong for my vibrant.. instead of the
usual 3 button combo, my download mode was volume up + power.. this was also the reason why i had a hard time getting into recovery since it was
volume down + power.. It seems as if, my boot loader was changed when i bought the phone..
That's the combo I use I don't have boot loaders. Son if that worked did you get it fixed with Odin or heimdall
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All you had to do is flash cm10 again. Most of the times you have to flash jb roms more than once because of the different cwm versions . Make sure you read the entire thread before taking action, I'm sure it said that somewhere but anyway Gb bootloaders are much more convenient so that's a plus. Just flash back to stock with Odin or if you still want cm10 then boot into recovery and flash again.
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