Okay so, I'll try to sum this up....
I was running my rooted Vibrant on a 2.2 rom. I tried updating to ICS, I installed Glitch Kernel, and attempted to install Slim ICS. I could never get past recovery. I FINALLY got odin to recognize my phone, and flashed back to stock, and it loads into the default ROM AIO has included just fine, but after I power the phone off, it just gives me the spinning circle when I turn the phone back on. It's done this twice (i've reflashed twice). Someone please help, I just want my phone to work -_-.
try this solution might help you
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1313659
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Recently I got a Samsung Vibrant, I decided to root it and put a custom ROM Image on it. Bionix. I Didn't like Bionix and tried to restore from a Nandroidb backup.
Thats where everything went crazy.
After restoring back to my stock ROM all my apps kept crashing and asking to force close. So I ran nandroid again and tried to restore from a different back up, and it said Restore failed. This is where sweat began to drip off my face as the Vibrant Only boots up to the Samsung Vibrant splash screen and goes black.
So I used ODIN 1.3 With stock vibrant roms to restore it, and it's saying it's PASSED, It mounts and everything, but it still keeps going black after the Samsung boot screen.
I've tried this 6 times with the same results all with different stock Vibrant roms with the same results. I can still boot into clockwork mod recovery. How do I fix this problem?
I DONT KNOW WHAT TO DO OH GOD SOME ONE PLEASE HELP Thank you in advance
Try taking your battery and sim card out. Put them back in start up odin, make sure you have the correct 32 or 64 bit drivers installed. Go into download mode plug into odin.
I used a couple of different stock rom sources and found this one to run the smoothest.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=739091
ps. nandroid sucks always odin, I have no problems with odin v1.0
Hey guys,
I need some help getting back to stock ROM. I had Bionix before, and I tried to upgrade Bionix I think without disabling lagfix. I tried to flash back to stock, after reformatting internal and external cards and Odin reports everything went fine, but I can see one error "Data wipe failed".
The phone boots to the standard Tmo jingle and the softkeys are always lit, but the display seems to be off.
ADB can't find the device.
Is it bricked for good or is there still some hope? Any insight, tip, link, advice would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
your not bricked, I am having the EXACT SAME ISSUE! you can just re-flash Bionix and even though it tells you it fails it will reboot into Bionix! However I can't get the stock rom to work WTH!! I have even tried my nandroid backups! I am lost but I can get back to Bionix so not all is lost.
*edit sorry* I had disabled my lagfix, I was just trying to flash back to stock. he tells you how to fix it in the thread.
I have a Vibrant and have used many other roms but have flashed any thing like 6 months so I wanted to try something new and saw that CM7 was working now. I flashed back to stock, than flashed to whatever the link is right after install talking about froyo bootloaders at this link http://forum.cyanogenmod.com/topic/17020-all-models-cyanogenmod-7-for-samsung-galaxy-s-phones-build-20110303/ than tryed to install it "the hard way" but now it just keeps rebooting try to reflash ClockworkMOD recover or something. any ideas?
I did the same thing. You need to be on a froyo rom to install CM7.
I odin'd back to stock, installed Bionix -v 1.2.1 then disabled voodoo. I then cold booted into CWM and installed CM7. Worked good that way.
how did you do that. it just keeps going in a circle booting.
You will need to go into download mode.
Phone off (battery pull), hold vol up and down together, while holding - plug in USB.
Odin should then recognize it.
Re Odin back to stock, root, upgrade to a froyo rom then upgrde to CM7.
okay I just got back to stock again, at least it looks like it! But I am still getting an odd thing. when the phone is booting the first screen that comes up is not vibrant its gt-I900 any ideas?
yay ur getting the 1900 bootloader because u have both on ur phones!
how do I fix this? I just flashed back to Bio 1.2.1 and its still there
well now I did it... think I just really bricked it this time. I did what the post by a400meter said to do at this link http://forum.xda-developers.com/archive/index.php/t-756832.html and now it wont even turn on!
I got myself a bricked Vibrant from someone and trying to fix it.
I'm guessing the dude tried to flash captivate stuff on it, because the boot image is AT&T.
Anyway, I was able to odin back to stock 2.1, which seemed to make the power button work again because it would start up and show the AT&T logo but that's it.
Then I tried odin'ing a vibrant bootloader, which got me to replace the AT&T logo with a green andy logo, but same thing, stuck.
So I tried reflashing 2.1 with odin again. Now the boot logo is back to the stock i9000 > Vibrant, but then it stops here. I can't seem to be able to enter the 2e(or 3e?) stock recovery.
Any idea on what else I can try flashing to it?
Update: I tried flashing the froyo bootloader, which did get me to the stock recovery, but again - i can't seem to get this phone past this stage, doesn't boot into the OS.
wonshikee said:
I got myself a bricked Vibrant from someone and trying to fix it.
I'm guessing the dude tried to flash captivate stuff on it, because the boot image is AT&T.
Anyway, I was able to odin back to stock 2.1, which seemed to make the power button work again because it would start up and show the AT&T logo but that's it.
Then I tried odin'ing a vibrant bootloader, which got me to replace the AT&T logo with a green andy logo, but same thing, stuck.
So I tried reflashing 2.1 with odin again. Now the boot logo is back to the stock i9000 > Vibrant, but then it stops here. I can't seem to be able to enter the 2e(or 3e?) stock recovery.
Any idea on what else I can try flashing to it?
Update: I tried flashing the froyo bootloader, which did get me to the stock recovery, but again - i can't seem to get this phone past this stage, doesn't boot into the OS.
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So what is your desired ROM after flash?
I suggest that you should flash it to LidDroid with Vibrant bootloader. From that, you can upload the phone to 2.3, 3.0 or ICS 4.0 ROM.
On mobile now so I cannot giive you the download links for needed files. If you need them, just post a reply in the thread.
Thanks, I tried LidDroid
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1058802
And flashed Froyo and GB bootloaders, nothing is working. It just shows boot screen then still shuts down.
Update: Well I'm not sure what the issue is, I was able to get it to boot to the lock screen once, but then it shut down right after. Now I can only get it back to boot image before shutting down.
The thing I noticed is that the phone gets hot really fast, so maybe it's drawing too much power somewhere and its shutting down as a protection. Also the stock batteries don't seem to work for it, just this particular battery that it came with, which the contacts on the battery are flush with the edge of the battery instead of indented like the stock ones.
What you should do is take out your sim card and external sd card if you have one, use odin to flash back to stock rom (either 2.1 or 2.2), wait for it to load up as it might take a few minutes after you see the Vibrant logo (just be patient). If you get this far and you see the operating system, flash clockwork recovery on it.
If you can get this far, let us know then we'll talk about custom roms. The main purpose now is to get it running stock, we can worry about the custom stuff later.
Here's a couple of links to help:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=848737 -- try this one first!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=954509
Okay so, I'll try to sum this up.
I was running my rooted Vibrant on a 2.2 rom. I tried updating to ICS, I installed Glitch Kernel, and attempted to install Slim ICS. I could never get past recovery. I FINALLY got odin to recognize my phone, and flashed back to stock, and it loads into the default ROM AIO has included just fine, but after I power the phone off, it just gives me the spinning circle when I turn the phone back on. It's done this twice (i've reflashed twice). Someone please help, I just want my phone to work -_-