[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Giddy Ninja:
I remember when I was looking for all this info I had to jump from board to board to board and

experience tons of trial and error when I was successful with my own device then wounded up

bricking my phone or someone elses based on other factors, or OCLF/CWM not working in recovery,

all that fun stuff.

So I decided to design this guide as a way for a person to make one stop at this guide, and

find everything you need with some tips I had to learn the hardway.

First while YES you can root/flash your phone from 2.2 Froyo official Samsung it is more complicated

and you risk a LOT more. I HIGHLY recommend doing a flash BACK to 2.1 update 1 to make your phone

bone stock to the way it was when you first bought it (Or if you bought it with 2.2 the way it was at launch.

Its a MUCH easier process and almost impossible for something to go wrong in the process. These

steps will help if you have also bricked your phone (Kinda bricked anyways)or its stuck in a bootloop.

Also while rooting is great to apply some Lag Fixes and such there really is no point unless

your going to flash a new ROM (or OS if you're new to this) because you probably don't use your

phone to utilize any of this stuff anyways.

Before you start please be sure to have the drivers working for your phone on your PC.

If you are running Windows 7/Vista and User Account Control (UAC) is enabled, be sure

to right click the Odin icon and select Run as Administrator.

DISCLAIMER:This is my contribution to the wonderful android community here that has given me

a wealth of information on this subject, and had it not been for these boards and others like

it I would not be able to enjoy my phone and the contributions made here by so many hardworking

people. With that said. I AM NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR YOU DAMAGING YOUR PHONE.

1.Back up everything in either Titanium backup or to PC (PC backup can only save Pictures etc.

not your message logs/call logs/account settings/etc.) A Nandroid backup should work equally as

well.

2.Shut Down phone into Download Mode so Odin can recognize phone.

-If phone is in boot loop or bricked:

-Plug USB cable into PC

-Take out battery

-Put battery back in

-Hold Vol Up + Vol Down buttons at same time

-While holding inster USB cable into phone

-Odin should now recognize device in download mode

3.Load Files into proper fields. (.TAR into TAR,.PIT into PIT)

4.Do not check any other boxes then defaults. You only want the PIT file and .TAR files for this.

5.Click Start.

6.Phone should begin flash process

NOTE: EVERYTHING ON YOUR PHONE AT THIS POINT WILL BE ERASED! KERNEL, BASEBAND, ROOT, ETC.

YOUR PHONE WILL BECOME COMPLETELY STOCK AS THOUGH IT WAS JUST PULLED FROM THE SHELF

IN THE UNITED STATES.

7.If process completes the phone will reboot on its own. If it gets stuck in any one process

without moving, just close the program, and repeat steps. Might take a few tries.

Once stock OS of 2.1 Update 1 is applied you can install the update.zip on the SD.

NOTE:YOU DO NOT EXTRACT THE .zip! JUST SIMPLY PLACE IT ONTO THE INTERNAL SD IN NO FOLDER.

If you're running 2.2 froyo and you were just flashed back to 2.1, then you should already have

an update.zip. Thats fine, delete the old one and replace the new one.

1.Now that the update.zip is on your phone the rest is really is. You can root your phone using

this file from your phone. Go into recovery by holding the Vol Up+Vol Down+Power button at the

same time while the phone is off. Let go once the Vibrant logo appears.

2.Select reinstall packages. Phone should reboot and you are now rooted!

If from here you want to flash a ROM over your current OS its simple.

1.When the phone reboots and you see you have SuperUse permissions you are rooted.

2.Go to the market and download ROM manager.

3.Select Install ClockWork Recovery Mod for your specific phone within the ROM manager app.

Find your ROM, Drop it into your SD the same way as the update.zip

4.Shut down your phone and boot back into Recovery Console.

5.Select Reinstall Packages again. This should Install ClockWork (CWM) OVER your recovery console.

If it doesnt take the first time just do it again, it will take you to a different color

console.

6.Once in CWM select the item using the Vol Up or Down buttons and power to select on Install

Zip from SD card.

7.Then pick Choose/Select .zip to Install.

8.Find your ROM, Select it. Select Yes to install.

9.WHAMMY your device is now installing the ROM and you have a flashed and rooted super android phone

on steroids.

Hope this helped.

---Giddy Ninja

FILES

http://files.androidspin.com/downloads.php?dir=androidspin/samsung/vibrant/&file=T959UVJFD.tar<---SGH-T959 JFD Image

http://files.androidspin.com/downloads.php?dir=androidspin/samsung/vibrant/&file=s1_odin_20100512.rar<---512 PIT File

http://files.androidspin.com/downloads.php?dir=androidspin/samsung/vibrant/&file=Odin3.rar<---Odin Application

**References used to build this tutorial when I F**ked up my own device**

http://androidspin.com/2010/08/09/how-to-restore-or-recover-your-samsung-vibrant/

http://xdaforums.com/archive/index.php/t-810442.html

http://board.teamwhiskey.com/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=636

http://androidspin.com/2010/08/04/all-about-root-for-the-samsung-vibrant/

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=849028

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=991267

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=732458