i spent several hours trying to unlock my sim today and fubar'ed my vibrant.
i first lost my baseband. it said 'baseband unknown', so i odin'ed back to JFD from AOSPish...after several trys i got my modem back. now it's stuck in airplane mode.
will someone enlighten me...i've searched everywhere
Damn...55 views and not a single responce. WTF? Anyway, it's fixed. Screw it.
Care to say how you fixed it? I don't know if I am having the same problem but I have a problem where my phone goes into flight mode by itself about 10 times a day... Pretty frustrating.
My friend Steve B. rescued it for me once again. I'm certain he used odin and repeatedly flashed, wiped and reflashed untill all worked. Persistance seems to be cure for most Vibrant bricks.
I use True Stock 2.1 for all my brick rescues.
Hi all,
I am having same (or similar) problem, here is how it happened:
- Previous ROM: CM7.1 nightly (based on v2.3.7)
- Flashed to MIUI from neoBuddy89 (but without odin) (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1326764)
- The phone was successfully upgraded, everything was working fine, even the GPS start working which wasn't when I used CM ... for the first day
- The next day, I lost signal connection (week signal) and I couldn't connect to the network anymore. I rebooted, and the phone worked for 1 hours and then lost signal again but this time it wasn't due to week signal
- I rebooted again, when it started I found that baseband/IMEI shows Unknown (I have an efs buckup)
- I read somewhere at xda to turn on/off flight mode which sometime fixes the problem.
- I did turned on flight mode, but when I tried to turn it off it freeze and doesn't exit air plane mode
- tried to reboot, and for no reason, the top panel shows an aircraft but options indicates flight mode as OFF
- I ODIN back to stock but this did not fixed the problem; when it starts baseband/imei both shows unknown and if I turn flight mode ON I cannot exit anymore.
any recommendation on how to fix the problem or the only solution is to buy new phone ?
On Saturday, during navigation the phone turned off by itself and since that time after turning on he turn off by itself again and again after some time ... approximately 3 minutes whenever I touch the display. This happens only if there is any sim phone operator. The first time a problem occurs I had in the phone recorded from February ROM MiniCM7-2.1.8., Kernel-E10_nAa 10_2.6.29.6-naa-10 and worked without problems. Today I installed the ROM MiniCM7-2.2.1., Kernel-E10_nAa 10_2.6.29.6-naa-11 and it did not help. It doesnt help when I recorded via SEUS original ROM. Do you know where can be a problem?
samekp said:
On Saturday, during navigation the phone turned off by itself and since that time after turning on he turn off by itself again and again after some time ... approximately 3 minutes whenever I touch the display. This happens only if there is any sim phone operator. The first time a problem occurs I had in the phone recorded from February ROM MiniCM7-2.1.8., Kernel-E10_nAa 10_2.6.29.6-naa-10 and worked without problems. Today I installed the ROM MiniCM7-2.2.1., Kernel-E10_nAa 10_2.6.29.6-naa-11 and it did not help. It doesnt help when I recorded via SEUS original ROM. Do you know where can be a problem?
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Perhaps something to do with the SIM card? Try with someone else's SIM and see if it also occurs then?
Otherwhise backup your data and wipe/delete all caches and data in CWM (including the Advanced -> Wipe Dalvik Cache), and see if that helps.
Hi guys,
I have a huge problem. I had a stock GB firmware customized by Optus (carrier in Australia) on my S2 I then decided to change to the new ICS 4.0.4. I downloaded the stock unbranded firmware from SamMobile (Australia 2012 September 4.0.4 I9100XWLPW, I9100XSALP6, XSA) I updated using Odin. Before I did the update I reset the phone, did the update, it all went smoothly. After the update I reset the phone again and then proceeded to reinstall all my apps and restore my contacts, sms, etc.
The phone works and all functions on it work, however now very randomly the phone would totally freeze. The phone would be in standby, the screen would come on and it would be frozen. The screen stay on all the time and it does not respond at all. It will stay frozen until I restart the phone by pressing Home+power buttons to restart it.
After restart it all works fine for a few hours, sometimes a day and would just lock up again. The phone is not rooted and as I said i just changed the firmware from the Optus branded GB 2.3.6 to unbranded stock ICS 4.0.4 by using Odin.
Is there a way to find out what is causing the phone to lock up like that? Any suggestions would be helpful.
and then proceeded to reinstall all my apps and restore my contacts, sms, etc.
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I hope you haven't restored any data app?
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I hope you haven't restored any data app?
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I made sure that I didn't restore any data apps. The only apps that got restored are the ones that get automatically restored by Play store.
I have disabled the live wallpaper that I had and it seems to have stopped the freezing for the moment. I will report on what I find out.
In the mean time if anyone else has a similar issue or has a definite solution please let me know.
Thanks
i know this is a resurrection, but don't see it has been resolved.
also found same/similar problem on another topic, but no resolution either.
couldn't find any resolution anywhere on the net, but possibly i'm just missing it (searching for wrong parameters?)
anyway, a friend of mine bought second-hand (third or even fourth hand to be precise) i9100 with 2.3.6 (stock KI3) on it. the guy who sold it to him said something like: "it works best on 2.3, on 4.x it's buggy".
it was working fine, but friend wanted newer OS, so we tried update. it didn't work, and i found out CSC was broken/missing. somehow i managed to repair it, and update was finally working, but was unable to find any for our location.
so next step was to find stock rom that would work on the device, and then i tried four different 4.1.2 stock roms from this topic.
after flashing it through odin, every one was acting fine, until couple of minutes after it started freezing or rebooting randomly.
then i tried flashing CWM, and flashing from sd card, but it was all the same.
wiping data, cache and dalvik cache, prior to flashing. wiping data after flashing...
nothing seemed to work.
GB works rock solid, ICS works better than JB, but stills it freezes or restarts randomly.
tried CM10, but all the same, except it works a bit faster then official JB. but who cares about speed if it freezes/restarts constantly?
back to who knows which build... freeze... samsung galaxy s2 - i9100... with yellow triangle... booting stopped.
so i decided to dig deeper, trying to find hungarian stock build (country we were told the phone came from) not being sure that KI3 is what the phone came actually with. i found 4.0.3, put it on SD card, wiped data, cache, flashed CWM, wiped data, cache, dalvik cache, flashed 4.0.3 from sd, wiped data, booted, entered location for updates - hungary. update found, hooray... downloading... installing... rebooting... working?
nope... it's worse than ever. trying to log onto google account. typing in email add.... freeze... switching phone on - freeze... thinking about... freeze.
i couldn't sit still. yellow triangle, all those reboots/freezes... at least i wanted that triangle gone, and without a JIG, there was only solution for me was to try triangle away. it wasn't available for download in my country from play store, so luckily xda was there.
somehow i managed to download it from the device, install it, click remove the triangle... it did it's magic, rebooted... and miracle happened!
no more freezes.
so i started torturing poor phone, benchmarking, playing games, listening to music.... it seemed stable for about an hour.
so i said to myself:
- it's possible that previous owners tried to upgrade it to newer firmware, and somehow screwed up the bootloader, which was fixed by this app? maybe that was all there was from the beginning? why not try putting 4.1.2?
and i did... took 4.1.2 spanish build from already mentioned page above, flashed it... and voila. working JB... torturing the phone... playing with it... hour passes, another hour...
friend wakes up... takes his phone in awe, starts playing with it.. we talk a bit... and then that look it just froze again!
from that moment on, the phone again starts restarting or freezing randomly...
and, yes, i still have no clue what could be the cause. it doesn't matter if wifi is on or off, if you're talking on the phone or not, bluetooth and gps are always off. only thing that he noticed is that it usually happens while he's using the phone (meaning: operating the digitizer or buttons). if he starts music playback and not touching buttons or screen, it will probably play for hours.
one more thing, but i doubt it would be the case. the battery in the phone is not original one that was shipped with it, but a quality replacement.
it doesn't feel as if the phone is overheating... so i don't know what else i could do with it.
for now, it's back to 2.3.6.
we both lost a week, torturing ourselves with this problem.
i don't know is there anything i could add more?
all suggestions are welcome.
cheers
Maybe try kernel cleaning script and try philz or siyah kernels.
You shouldn't have to flash a custom kernel so your phone won't freeze, but yes, you could run a nuke script in order to wipe clean all custom ROM's leftovers.
Try flashin' jb via mobile odin, see if it keeps freezing up on you. If so, nuke it up.
Sent from the little guy
i'll try them out.
probably for the weekend, if not sooner. will report back here with info.
any other suggestions are also welcome.
thanks a lot.
cheers
ok, so here are some updates.
i finally got my hands back on my friends phone, and tried nuking remains of older flashes.
following that, i flashed stock spanish rom from above mentioned page, updated after installation to spanish update... and after a few minutes, sudden reboot...
so, went back to nuking, and flashed stock hungarian 4.0.3 i found elsewhere (mentioned in my earlier post. don't remember origin... if i find the link on another computer where i downloaded it on, i'll post the link). tried updating, says no updates found.
started torturing the device. it seemed solid, but battery reported it level was low, so hooked it up onto charger and all seemed well. but phone seemed a bit too hot.
after few minutes (this was all about half an hour to hour after flashing to 4.0.3), again freeze.
after rebooting the phone, battery was at 9%, as if processes were draining battery faster than charger recharged it.
so, i figured i gotta try original battery. so i switched his battery with genuine from my phone.
phone seems stable and less hot, for now.
still checking if it is going to freeze or reboot again.
it's about one hour since battery change. still on charger and using wifi and playing around with apps.
i'll check in with news later.
cheers
I have the same issue.but my battery is original.
What I noticed that the phone stuck when I receive an update notification.
Can I stop softwsre to ask for updates? ???
Sent from my GT-I9100G using xda app-developers app
^go to settings, about device, software update and detick auto update. that should stop it from trying to self-update.
ok, so here is an update to my friend's phone status.
currently on hungarian 4.0.3. about 3-4 freezes/reboots a day. sporadic connection breakups during calls. also, when we talk i can hear myself back. this brings me to conclusion it has to do with modem firmware. i found this topic, so i'll try putting that and see what will happen.
if that doesn't solve anything, my question is this: is there any way of knowing which firmware/rom was originally put on the device, since i don't know the real background of the device? i.e. some way of entering IMEI and finding out what should be on it?
cheers
EDIT: tried KH3 modem, no changes... i could still hear myself while talking to my friend on that device. also, it froze couple minutes later. going back to 2.3.5-2.3.6 for now.
so after couple of months, i finally got my hands back onto this phone...
gave my friend my phone, so i could play a bit with this faulty one.
i have played with it for a couple of days now, and here are things i've tried.
i received it from a friend with 2.3.5 on it which had triggered custom binary counter. he's been using it for couple months without any problems.
so i rooted it and installed triangle away again... reset counter, cleared and flashed hungarian stock (telenor) 4.1.2... random freezes again.
tried several stock roms, mostly hungarian ones (4.0.3, 4.1.2). even reformatted with .pit file... random freezes.
reformatted again with .pit and put XXLSJ, installed stability test and let it run...
cpu stability test 15.5 hours no problems, no freezes. then i realized it didn't have a sim card, so i rebooted phone and installed sim card. let it test cpu+gpu for 9 hours... no errors, no problems, no freezes.
so i thought, maybe it's all fine? but it wasn't! as soon as i took phone into my hands and started going through menus it froze!
so i tried SGII_repair, rooted and did "repair"... but nothing changed... still random freezes.
if i just let it do the stability test, it'll probably work forever.
things i've noticed:
- serial number is wrong format (14 hex digits instead of 11 alphanumeric)
- during stability test, cpu frequency dropped from 1200 to 800 mhz (maybe because it was getting warmer? 42-43C during cpu only+charging battery, and about 39-40 during cpu+gpu test)
i tried to find out which firmware is latest according to serial number via kies, but it gave me error.
i know it's from hungarian market, but don't know which exact part of it (branded or not).
don't know what previous owners did to it, and don't have backups of original efs or anything original.
i just want to make it work, don't care much about custom firmwares. i'd be happy even with unrooted stock... just for it to work!
i have no ideas what else to do.
anyone?
finally, as i couldn't resolve the problem, i returned phone to 2.3.5 and sold it as is.
thanks to all people who tried to help.
cheers
Hi All,
I've got an stock Unbranded 4.1.2 GT-I9300[T] on Three UK and over the last few days it has been repeatedly freezing. Out of frustration I've done a factory reset and left it with just the stock apps running. From there I've narrowed it down to WiFi, when it's enabled the phone will operate correctly for a few minutes and then it will freeze. When the freeze occurs some animations like the Update icon in the status bar or a Live Wallpaper will continue for a few seconds but the phone remains unresponsive. From there the only way to get it to respond is to do a hard reset by holding down the power button.
I've got a few extra details from the About menu but I'm not sure how much help it'll be:
Baseband Version
I9300XXELLA
Kernal Version
3.0.31-742798
Any assistance you could provide would be appreciated. I've had the phone for 6 months and gone through two OTA updates without significant issue but this bug is causing me more than a few problems.
Exact same issue here.
I flashed the latest I9300XXELLA to the phone using ODIN and then did a factory reset.
It now freezes every few minutes, usually after I've pulled down the notification menu.
Its also restarted itself several times.
Can anyone suggest any fixes?
Some more info, I've now had two more system freezes while using Speed Test and Downloading an app, both on mobile data. Seems to be something to do with the Wireless firmware?
I am facing the exact same problem in India on XXELLC which was up for download on 28th Jan 2013.
I have wiped the phone and the cache several times but the same issue of freezing.
Anyone have a solution pls help.....
Same problem.... with stock firmware
manish1c said:
I am facing the exact same problem in India on XXELLC which was up for download on 28th Jan 2013.
I have wiped the phone and the cache several times but the same issue of freezing.
Anyone have a solution pls help.....
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Same problem me too india gs3 . so flashed older version from odin .