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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.
So this phone is really frustrating me...
I tried this method:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=849028
I think I make all the step correctly.
1. Installed drivers on my pc.
2. Downloaded 3 files: ODIN, PIT and PDA.
3. Put the Vibrant on Download mode.
4. ODIN detected it, I selected the 2 files... I tried with RePartition check and uncheck...
5. Then hit start, everything runs fine and ODIN indicate PASS.
But... Still boot looping...
When I boot to recovery I have the original recovery (2e).
Can someone help me please? Im really frustrated.
All of this begin because I made a mistake and used a Samsung Galaxy S 4G rom to flash it using ODIN...
I know it has solution because its boot looping.
Best regards,
Omar
I'll link you to some files that may do a better job. I can't tell for sure if you're actually using the right files to flash your phone back to stock or not. Chances are, you're not. Check your messages, and I'll link you to the files in my Dropbox to download.
can you show links here or link me as well. I am having the same problem and i have tried flashing a whole bunch of vibrant roms/kernels but cant stop the phone from boot looping. Thank you.
I would also like to get these files, having the same problem and tried the same methods to fix it and nothing...
Once you got to the point to boot up, did wipe Dalvik, cache and reset first and then try to boot? This is ususally the reason for bootloops.
For some reason I can't get into recovery (holding the 3 buttons) now... I can get to download mode, though.
This phone was bricked and could restore the bootloader with a Riff Box. Now, after the Vibrant screen, the phone turns off.
I've flashed my Galaxy S2 with Odin several times and it has worked fine until yesterday, when I tried to flash again, and everything just froze.
I followed the normal instructions for flashing and the phone just stopped at the "downloading" screen where it says, "Do not turn of target!!".
So it has been, for several hours now. The Odin window on my computer seems to be waiting... but for what? Will it ever time out?
Is it normal that a flash session can take several hours?
Is it safe to interrupt it?
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I've flashed my Galaxy S2 with Odin several times and it has worked fine until yesterday, when I tried to flash again, and everything just froze.
I followed the normal instructions for flashing and the phone just stopped at the "downloading" screen where it says, "Do not turn of target!!".
So it has been, for several hours now. The Odin window on my computer seems to be waiting... but for what? Will it ever time out?
Is it normal that a flash session can take several hours?
Is it safe to interrupt it?
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Odin will flash, takes less than 5 minutes.
Is there any data running that you can see? I mean at the bottom left. I would suggest you turn off the phone, battery pull, wait for 5 minutes, and reflash back.
If it semi bricked, use JIG to revive it.
Either way, you can't be letting the phone there for the next few days etc right?
Did you click Start in Odin??
Although i don't have an s2(will be getting one soon) did you try to reset your pc? When i was flasing my sgsl i was stuck in this situation where odin seems to freeze everytime. I restarted my pc and poof, flashed without a problem
Edit: was flashing successful? If so maybe you should follow the instruction from the post below.
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This might sound stupid but did you have 'auto-reboot' checked? It happened to me once even though I have flashed hundreds of times. Odin was still open after flashing a kernel and never reset.
Start was clicked - yes.
Re boot was checked - yes.
I reset my computer and restarted my phone and - now it's still frozen, but with an icon on the center showing three icons in a line. First is a phone, second is a exlamation mark and third is a computer. Yiipiiiee. It doesn't boot. I can't get into recovery mode. Download mode does work however, but still the same behaviour. It freezes if I try to flash it.
Now what? Where is that reset-button which resets the phone and clears its brain down to original mode? A simple "brain wash" would be nice.
Is there anyway out of this "freeze of death" ?
Flash CWM kernel, download CM7 rom, copy it on SDCard (mount USB storage in CWM, connect to PC via USB, copy ROM), flash ROM from CWM
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Start was clicked - yes.
Re boot was checked - yes.
I reset my computer and restarted my phone and - now it's still frozen, but with an icon on the center showing three icons in a line. First is a phone, second is a exlamation mark and third is a computer. Yiipiiiee. It doesn't boot. I can't get into recovery mode. Download mode does work however, but still the same behaviour. It freezes if I try to flash it.
Now what? Where is that reset-button which resets the phone and clears its brain down to original mode? A simple "brain wash" would be nice.
Is there anyway out of this "freeze of death" ?
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Try to go into recovery mode and factory reset and clear cache and try flashing again (make sure you are on download mode)
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Hold power button to off it (hold a lil longer for this).
Then Go into recovery mode (power, home button and volume up at same time). Try do wipe all data, cache and even dalvik. Reboot and see if that works.
Alternatively, at the same place, go into restore backup.
The man said: "I can't go into recovery mode"
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Recovery mode doesn't work - nope. But thanks anyway. It's nice to see that people at least try to help. Big hugs to you all.
If I try to flash CWM, I come into the same freeze again. Mindbending stuff ala Samsung, huh. They clearly don't make idiot-safe products. I'm stuck. My next phone might be a StarTAC...
Has happened to me before. KIES was opened. I closed all KIES files and the flashing fun started again~
Good point, make sure Kies isn't running when using Odin!
Also, now that you've flashed CWM, can't you boot on it?
Kies is not running and whatever I flash - it freezes. The green progress bar in Odin reaches maybe 1 cm, but no blue progress bar is visible on the phone as usually happens when flashing. It just says, "Downloading... Don't turn off target!!"
Am I slowly heading towards the brutal-axe-method?
Sounds like the NAND is damaged to me, but I'm no expert...
"NAND" means? Why does it sound like it's damaged? How can it get repaired?
NAND is the flash chip (internal sdcard). Seems that its damaged because you're unable to fully flash it.
I don't think you can have that repaired (if the NAND is truly damaged, like I said I'm no expert), you'd have to get the phone replaced.
With all respect, let's hope you aren't an expert, but better. But has anyone else interrupted a flash process and went though a "freeze"?
I'm looking for a way to reset the phone to use only what was burnt into ROM from first delivery. I just can't accept that it is so easy to mess up a phone, and I doubt Samsung would be so crazy not to build it with a rescue kinda last savior. Am I totally naive? Is my baby dead? :'(
lol I hope for you that I'm wrong also!
fugy56 said:
With all respect, let's hope you aren't an expert, but better. But has anyone else interrupted a flash process and went though a "freeze"?
I'm looking for a way to reset the phone to use only what was burnt into ROM from first delivery. I just can't accept that it is so easy to mess up a phone, and I doubt Samsung would be so crazy not to build it with a rescue kinda last savior. Am I totally naive? Is my baby dead? :'(
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Something similar had happened with me too. The phone was stuck b/w flashing with odin. And the startscreen was showing those 3 icons. It was soft bricked.
But I then finally fixed it by flashing CF and then a ROM
Hello again fellas, I'm hoping someone helps me out of a bind I'm currently in. I just flashed JFD, but the phone is stuck in a boot loop. Here are the symptoms:
After Odin3 shows PASS:
1) Phone turns off, but instead of rebooting, shows transparent battery icon with spinning splash, blank screen, transparent battery icon with spinning splash.
2) If I disconnect from the PC, then turn on, the phone shows a WHITE screen, then the VIBRANT screen with Samsung at the bottom, then white screen, and back to the Vibrant screen.
I have obtained the same results wether "Re-Partition" was clicked or not. I am in the process of d/l AIO Vibrant Toolbox from Bay-Wolf. In the meantime, if anybody has any ideas, I'm all ears (eyes in this case). Thanks.
Did you put the proper pit and tar files in their place? Just try to flash again, you might have just had a bad flash.
Hey, thanks for the reply. After reading your reply, I checked the .pit and .tar files but it checks out.
I have also tried using AIO toolbox and used the files provided by the program but I get the same results. The odd thing is that Odin shows pass. Could it be bootloaders? I know those are sometimes an issue with Captivates, but I don't know about Vibrants.
I have a similar problem, haven't been able to solve it but try this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=8698655&postcount=150
Hope it helps.
Just to be sure...can you try with the files available on this post, following the provided steps:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=13132341#post13132341
Look fellas this has been said hundreds of times around here.
When you flash JFD, untick reboot, when using Odin, because then it gives you a chance to do the data wipe and then the cache wipe, this has been the main culprit in almost all boot looping. and do the same with other roms as well, people just immediately reboot after a successful load, and forget to wipe this data factory reset and cache, clearing this out allows no other ghost data from previous install and the present loaders to interfere with the first time boot up, I used to make this mistake, but since doing this it stopped the boot looping.
I want to thank you guys for replying and trying to help. I will look into the links provided above, and see what I can do. I apologize if I have asked a question that has already been covered here. I'm a frequent visitor to the Captivate forums, and I'm aware what's expected of every member before they ask aquestion. However, I am doing this as a favor to friend, and I'm not familiar with the nuances of flashing a Vibrant back to stock. I also didn't have the time to peruse the forums untill I came across a solution. Thanks for all the help, and I'll update you soon on my progress.
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Look fellas this has been said hundreds of times around here.
When you flash JFD, untick reboot, when using Odin, because then it gives you a chance to do the data wipe and then the cache wipe, this has been the main culprit in almost all boot looping. and do the same with other roms as well, people just immediately reboot after a successful load, and forget to wipe this data factory reset and cache, clearing this out allows no other ghost data from previous install and the present loaders to interfere with the first time boot up, I used to make this mistake, but since doing this it stopped the boot looping.
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Can you clarify what you mean be "it gives you a chance to do the data wipe..."?
I tried Odin and unticked reboot and then after Odin says successful, nothing happens. There is no window that pops up on the computer or the phone that gives the option to do a data wipe.
I know there's a data wipe and cache wipe option in CWM, but I can't get into CWM or any sort of recovery mode right now...
you're clarification would be greatly appreciated so that I can get out of this bootloop nightmare
So....
kafepuya said:
Hello again fellas, I'm hoping someone helps me out of a bind I'm currently in. I just flashed JFD, but the phone is stuck in a boot loop. Here are the symptoms:
After Odin3 shows PASS:
1) Phone turns off, but instead of rebooting, shows transparent battery icon with spinning splash, blank screen, transparent battery icon with spinning splash.
2) If I disconnect from the PC, then turn on, the phone shows a WHITE screen, then the VIBRANT screen with Samsung at the bottom, then white screen, and back to the Vibrant screen.
I have obtained the same results wether "Re-Partition" was clicked or not. I am in the process of d/l AIO Vibrant Toolbox from Bay-Wolf. In the meantime, if anybody has any ideas, I'm all ears (eyes in this case). Thanks.
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Did this get resolved? I am in the same boat working on a friend's phone. Have never had an issue with Odin that I couldn't figure out. But now I'm four days in and about to pull my hair out so the magic fix would be greatly reassuring right now! Help.
You need to enter recovery mode and do data wipe. If it still don't work, try another Odin image.
I rooted my device with superoneclick, got the 3e recovery, then got the CWM recovery for galaxyS i9000 through ROM manager(working fine), and then rebooted into recovery and flashed carbonROM for 4.2.2 (the .zip file), along with Gapps for 4.2.2. Now it's stuck at the samsung screen, I can't boot into recovery, taking out the battery doesn't help, and the power button is NOT jammed. I can't restore the backup that I made because I can't go into recovery and my computer is not detecting the device (with all the proper drivers installed). I don't know what to do. Does anybody know how to resolve this issue?
I don't care about the user data (including contacts, messages, etc) that much, if it needs to be wiped. I only want my phone back, with or without the ROM.
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I rooted my device with superoneclick, got the 3e recovery, then got the CWM recovery for galaxyS i9000 through ROM manager(working fine), and then rebooted into recovery and flashed carbonROM for 4.2.2 (the .zip file), along with Gapps for 4.2.2. Now it's stuck at the samsung screen, I can't boot into recovery, taking out the battery doesn't help, and the power button is NOT jammed. I can't restore the backup that I made because I can't go into recovery and my computer is not detecting the device (with all the proper drivers installed). I don't know what to do. Does anybody know how to resolve this issue?
I don't care about the user data (including contacts, messages, etc) that much, if it needs to be wiped. I only want my phone back, with or without the ROM.
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Are you still able to get into Download mode? If so then you can use Odin to re-flash the stock factory ROM that came with your phone. I would recommend taking a look at this guide here as well as this video guide here.
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Are you still able to get into Download mode? If so then you can use Odin to re-flash the stock factory ROM that came with your phone. I would recommend taking a look at this guide here as well as this video guide here.
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the .zip file in the first link is "unavailable in [my] geographical area. I can't use the youtube guide because i can't get into download mode. After not having touched it in several hours, I think the battery ran out, and if I plug it back in, it shows a loading icon that's stuck.
EDIT: I got it to get into download mode, but Odin won't detect it with the COM## thing. I can add the infuse.pit and the PDA md5 thing, but when I start it, it doesn't do anything.
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the .zip file in the first link is "unavailable in [my] geographical area. I can't use the youtube guide because i can't get into download mode. After not having touched it in several hours, I think the battery ran out, and if I plug it back in, it shows a loading icon that's stuck.
EDIT: I got it to get into download mode, but Odin won't detect it with the COM## thing. I can add the infuse.pit and the PDA md5 thing, but when I start it, it doesn't do anything.
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Make sure you have the USB drivers for your phone installed, you can download the drivers for your phone from here. Also before you flash anything to your phone it is essential that is has enough battery charge (70%+ to be on the safe side).
Thanks for all the help! I finally got it to detect my device in Odin. Turns out my drivers weren't working properly, so I re-installed them. It's in the process of reverting to stock now. You are a lifesaver!
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the .zip file in the first link is "unavailable in [my] geographical area. I can't use the youtube guide because i can't get into download mode. After not having touched it in several hours, I think the battery ran out, and if I plug it back in, it shows a loading icon that's stuck.
EDIT: I got it to get into download mode, but Odin won't detect it with the COM## thing. I can add the infuse.pit and the PDA md5 thing, but when I start it, it doesn't do anything.
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can you please tell me how you got it to go into odin. I am stuck at the very same spot.