Rooted Vibrant running Helly Bean 2.2. Camera wasnt opening so i rebooted my phone. Get stuck on cyanogen loading screen and does nothing. I pull battery, reinsert, volume down+power and i get nothing. The samsung vibrant screen flashes, and either turns off or goes into infinite cyanogen loading screen depending on how long i hold the power button. I cant get into download mode either. How can i force it into recovery?
I had unbrickable mod applied to this device already, so eventually i forced the phone into download and reverted to stock and started all over again. I wonder what broke what
If you can get the boot cyon, keep working it, there are several methods. Pullbattery # button then plug usb, change ports, I know but sometimes it works, if you have a boot screen, you can get download, if you do this enough you should invest in a USB jig, my old skorkin jig works on my S3 to force download, good luck, you'll get it. Itsd a soft brick,Be Odin ready...
Try vol up+down + odin and start again.
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Try vol up+down + odin and start again.
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He fixed it......He had unbrickable mod applied so he's back up and running......
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I was trying to flash my phone back to stock using odin. it failed. Unplugged and got the phone_caution sign_computer picture. Apparently its bricked? ****. Going into download mode doesnt work. I plug into pc while holding the volume buttons, but that doesnt work. Please help!
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I was trying to flash my phone back to stock using odin. it failed. Unplugged and got the phone_caution sign_computer picture. Apparently its bricked? ****. Going into download mode doesnt work. I plug into pc while holding the volume buttons, but that doesnt work. Please help!
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See if you can use ODIN anyways, if you have the new boot loader it should work.
Otherwise try taking everything out (sim, sd) and try again
What I do when this happens to me is, hold all.3 buttons Volume up/down and power until the pc to computer symbol pops up for the 2nd time then plug in the USB into the phone and it works for me every time. You will not see the download symbol just the phone to PC one but the com port should show up and your good to go.
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I was trying to flash my phone back to stock using odin. it failed. Unplugged and got the phone_caution sign_computer picture. Apparently its bricked? ****. Going into download mode doesnt work. I plug into pc while holding the volume buttons, but that doesnt work. Please help!
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Yo dawg. I love you a lot. I thought i was a goner. fo shoo
so i just got and rooted my vibrant yesterday and well i accidently installed cwm3 and it didnt let me glash any roms and i tried to restore my stock rom by restoring but it said error restoring boot img and now its stuck in the splash screen please how do i fix????????
get odin and the pit and tar files (if you havent already)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1047087
power off the phone
open odin
hold volume up and down
plug usb in
or
open odin
pull the phone battery
plug usb in
hold vol up and down
push battery back in (while holding vol buttons)
both of these ways should put you in download mode, if they dont straight away just keep trying and try different ports on your computer
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beat you to it this time lol
thank you so much for the quick reply!! i un bricked my vibrant in 5 minutes wow thank you once again
so i was reflashing to cm7 #71 last night and i always do a clean install by formating boot system and cache. after i formated the 3 idk why but i let the phone shut off.
now i am stuck at just the vibrant logo. i have tried getting into cwm and download mode with no success. i plugged it in to the computer to see if i can at least access to adb no help there either.
does any body have a solution to this on this?
Um, first question; why do you format /boot? No where in any directions do they tell you to format that as that's where you're kernel is located.
And, if you can't access dl mode with the hardware buttons, why didn't you headed the large red letters telling you not to use CM7 if you can't access dl mode without the hardware buttons?
Have.you tried vol+ vol- and then USB? If you're running gb bootloaders (which you shouldn't be), then I don't know the button combo.
But the only way to recover is by geting into dl mode and Odin back to jfd.
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I always format/ boot. Its a cleaner install and have no problems going from multiple kernel changes. I could get into download using button combo before I flashed. Now I cant
avengethis1 said:
I always format/ boot. Its a cleaner install and have no problems going from multiple kernel changes. I could get into download using button combo before I flashed. Now I cant
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try this always works. take battery out phone, plug in usb to pc and phone hold vol + and -, and insert battery at same time, should put u in download mode.
Assuming u have a froyo bootloader
1) Power down ur phone
2) hold volume up + volume down then plug ur phone to a PC or laptop....don't let go of two volume buttons...
3) should b in download mode...
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ive tried every combo i can think of. still just sits at vibrant. was able to make a jig that put it into DLM but then was getting reconized at all by my computer even with all the correct drivers..... i think i actually might be outta luck
You could get a JIG which will automaticly put it into download mode. It can be found here http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0053H73JQ/ref=redir_mdp_mobile/188-7446597-2980456
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yea i was able to make one for 2 dollars and it works beautifully just now i cant get the computer to reconize the phone. i have the right drivers loaded but its seeing it as some crazy junk
edit: well got all the drivers working. made a new better jig and was able to get odin to reconize it.
didnt flash though. seemed jammed up. so i took it off of odin which left the phone in the phone to computer screen( PROGRESS) plugged it back into the computer. odin saw it and presto! back up and running on JFD
Ditto
I have done the same thing! Sent you a pm... Let me know what driver config you had to use to get it working.
Thanks!
I had rooted my Tab and put CWM recovery on it. But then the TouchWiz update wasn't installing, so I unroot by flashing the OTA, then used Odin to go back to stock recovery. Now I can't even get into downloading mode. I hold the power and Vol down, it pops up for a split second, then goes away and reboots. Anybody got any suggestions?
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I had rooted my Tab and put CWM recovery on it. But then the TouchWiz update wasn't installing, so I unroot by flashing the OTA, then used Odin to go back to stock recovery. Now I can't even get into downloading mode. I hold the power and Vol down, it pops up for a split second, then goes away and reboots. Anybody got any suggestions?
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As soon as you it pops up, let go the power button and volume down key. Then use the volume up key for download mode.
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As soon as you it pops up, let go the power button and volume down key. Then use the volume up key for download mode.
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I tried that, but it doesn't even give me a chance to release it. It basically blinks up and is gone.
Anyone?! Now i cant even go back n root it!
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mine is doing the same thing.. i dont understand it. this is my second tab and the first one i didn't have a problem like this..
Hi there, well, I wanted to install ICS, & I used this guide, & when i installed CM7 first, it restarted like it should during installation, but i get a bootloop. So, now, I can't access "Download mode" nor, the CWM recovery screen. Even when i hold VolUP & Down+Power, & it would go straight to the animation. I was going to install this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1502830 Any clue what to do?
Odin back to stock and do it all over
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Odin back to stock and do it all over
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I can't even access the Download mode. When i try to, it goes straight to booting up.
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Hi there, well, I wanted to install ICS, & I used this guide, & when i installed CM7 first, it restarted like it should during installation, but i get a bootloop. So, now, I can't access "Download mode" nor, the CWM recovery screen. Even when i hold VolUP & Down+Power, & it would go straight to the animation. I was going to install this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1502830 Any clue what to do?
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What bootloaders do you have installed? The key combo to get into recovery changes if you are on GB bl's.
From the guide:
Scroll down to "Install from SD Card" and scroll down to your ICS folder. Find your CM7 file and hit it. Once it finishes, reboot. It will probably bootloop. This is normal. Pull your battery and boot into (red or green) recovery again, "Install from SD" and reflash CM7.
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Get back into recovery per the key combo for your bootloader and reflash CM7 over itself again. One this also to remember is that when you see the Vibrant pop up, take your finger OFF the power button when doing the key combo. Sometimes this is forgotten while in panic mode.
Well, uh, just saying, my nephew the other day was slobbing on my usb port, & now, the only time i can turn it on is when i plug in the usb. but, now, when i do that, usually when u plug it in, when its off, the battery bar would come up. Right? Well, for my phone, it seems like, the battery would come up, but it would be a loading bar stuck @ it, & I can't access anything. Is that normal for the bootloop ?
Get a JIG
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What's a JIG?
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A device that forced phone into download. Check out mobiletechvideos on youtube
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Search for a poster named SkorPn. He has a jig in his sig as he makes them I believe.