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[Galaxy S I9000 General] peterg123:
Thanks, it is not possible to get into download mode, or I would have done all that. As explained, the phone will not go past the giant "S" logo ( 3rd screen after power on). This problem has happened to many people, worldwide.

As explained the three button default firmware does not work.

The Samsung repair agent claims to have used the 301k resistor method to restart the phone and even that failed. I am not sure if this is true but he said so.. not sure because everybody reports success with this.

ODIN, as I said ( 1.8) recognises the COM connection just as does KIES. The problem is, I am not in download mode so can't reflash if I tried.

I have used the phone for 10 weeks since firmware upgrade from 2.1 to 2.2 during which I had no problems except the occasional process stopped errors.

Hope this help, thanks for trying for me
[Galaxy S I9000 General] peterg123:
Yes you are correct, I can't get download mode. The phone has never been reflashed or messed with. It came with 2.1 and using KIES in March I reflashed to 2.2 and it worked perfectly for 10 weeks until it semi-bricked.

There is the Black Screen of eath...then there is the pulsasing S screen of limbo! That's what I have.

The only harwdare clue I have is the SGS blew the fuse in my car charger shortly before "expiring"...yet if connected to USB or other charger, it charges the battery and displays the logo.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] splish2010:
..But download mode doesn't display the S logo or even the first Galaxy S 1900 logo...it goes straight in.

Try looking up in the Development section - I'm sure there is a jig method in there and it might be worth trying yourself, you've not got mush to lose now.

If you can get into download mode eventually, search for and flash Ezbase, that will get you onto a rooted firmware and it works EVERY single time for me. Good luck.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] peterg123:
@R34L2Pac

Hi, thanks. As posted, the stock UK model SGS 1900 with 2.1 Eclair worked perfect from Nov to March 2011, was firmware upodated by KIES in March 2011 to 2.2.1 Froyo and worked like a dream until it went "semi-bricked" with the "Logo of Limbo" screen ( the pulsating giant S) for no reason.

A week before this, I changed SIMs when I changed countries and for some reason lost all added apps. I had to re-install them and even then, sometimes twice as I got many "android process stopped" errors --- even on some of the Sansung installed ones like Layar. That is the only problem I ever had.

The phone has only had apps from Market and never been modded whatsoever. Many thanks
[Galaxy S I9000 General] R34L2Pac:
Hi,

You said that you can see a pulsating S logo, sound to me like your phone is bootlooping. But you didnt mention if you can get at least to recovery(VolUp+Home+Power)? If you can get into recovery, you could try just factory reset your phone from recovery and reboot your system.

Also in the development forum you can find some kernels which can be flashed via recovery (like speedmod K13 for Froyo), so you can try to flash this kernel and after reboot into CWM recovery you could try to connect phone to ADB and type the command "adb reboot download".

I read on the forum that the home-made jig method worked for everyone, so looks like the samsung technician was doing something wrong. It is worth trying to made one a see what it does. Also found this thread, where user cuperus claims that even with charger can be simulated the jig by heating-up your device. So you can also try it, just plug your phone to a charger, let it charge for 1hour and than try use 3-button combo to go to download mode.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] peterg123:
Sorry I should have mentioned that it will not get into 3 button recovery mode, that has zero effect or rather, just sends it to the "Logo of Limbo" ( pulsating "S") just as does the power button.

Will maybe try a long charge time and see if that helps! Many thanks
[Galaxy S I9000 General] BridX:
Try en carefully learn hw to use odin coz I gt tha same exact model. I hav flashed mine many tyms en am on 2.3.4 XXJVP. if u do gt into download mode odin will sort u. Regards frm K.poly.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] frostygenius:
how long have you tried holding down the 'volume down+menu+power' keys? a simple quick press of the three buttons does not work. you have to keep holding them all down for a bit (sometimes upto to 15-20 seconds) for it to go into download mode.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Gontrop:
Sorry for the fast answer but I'm at work atm... I think he needs to do the 3 combo button fix on his phone first. I know it's on the forum somewhere... Can anyone check it for him? I lost the 3 combo the first time I updated with Keys from 2.1 to 2.2 and I had to fix it using a program that I can't remember to go on download mode and apply that fix.

Then he can use Odin to flash a stock rom as he needs, plus having 3 combo fixed!

Good luck mate!
[Galaxy S I9000 General] R34L2Pac:
Possible fix for your problem

Hi peterg,

I was looking through the general forum and found this post, where user beamzuk1 describes method how he fixed his semibricked phone. Symptoms are the same (not booting, glowing soft-keys, vibrating, no recovery and no download mode). So he used 'adb reboot recovery', I would say that proper command is 'adb reboot download', but you can try both. Also go through guide HOWTO use ADB, which I posted here the link in earlier post.

Hope this will help.

PS: Try follow beamzuk1 step-by-step, because if you start phone earlier than you connect it to pc, adb might not recognize the phone. Also be sure that you have correctly installed drivers and android-sdk before you try this.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] LiverpoolFCfan:
These phones come with a 2 year warranty. Why don't you contact Samsung directly yourself - telling them that the local repair centre wouldn't fix/replace it for you. If you did nothing besides what you described, then I would have thought you were entitled to have it fixed or replaced by Samsung.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] R34L2Pac:
+1

Also think that Samsung should repair it or replace it.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] MrHassell:
The fact your repair center has done nothing to fix your phone, in several occasions, now entitles you to brand new replacement or your money refunded in full, contract terminated and expenses paid for your losses incurred as a result of their negligence.

Why not hit them up for the SGS 2.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] aaron.bufc:
I had the same issue with my first Galaxy S...wifi stopped working at first, I turned it off then on again but nothing changed. So I rebooted to see if it would correct itself. Bootloops and no 3 button combo (download or recovery)

Sent it off to Samsung through the Carphone Warehouse in the UK. I'd contact a Samsung Service Centre directly if I were you.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rx7tocivic:
need a read of the inc from nv items 0 to 275

need this to work on another phone someone please help a brother out
[HTC Sensation] Blankzz:
How do we get into the hboot on the sensation to check for s-off? I tried what I normally did on my Evo 4g which was hold down volume down key and power.

I tried doing a search on google, and on the sensation forums no information found..

Thanks in advance for the help
[HTC Sensation] bearsblack:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1127775
[HTC Sensation] NICEGYPT:
via SDK

adb fastboot reboot bootloader

I tried it and my S-ON :)
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 General] gogol:
It ships internationally:

http://cgi.ebay.com/New-Samsung-Gal...=US_Tablets&hash=item4cf800f0d4#ht_2480wt_905

16GB = $578 USD, not bad to import to EU.

Any comment on this eBay.com seller?

Thanks.
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 General] meeekael:
Also curious about this as they seem to be the easiest way to get one of these shipped to NZ.
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 General] snoopstah:
$80 premium on the tablet and (for the UK at least) a choice of either slow and possibly-uninsured USPS mail, or extremely expensive UPS mail ($180!)

I would suggest it would be better to buy from a proper US retailer, either via a mail forwarding company, or from a company that ships internationally (e.g. Frys.com)
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 General] Framedtrash:
meeekael

Have a look at mobicity.com.au

They should have stock next week and comes with a 1 yr warranty
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 General] gogol:
Thanks for the Frys.com.

I ordered one, they can ship to Europe.

Shipping cost = $91 (I don't know which shipping carrier and how long it will arrive :P )

Total order = $591 including shipping (16GB model)

But, I don't know how much the import tax here in The Netherlands!
[HTC Sensation] brian85:
I don't have any voicemails but it won't go away, even after reboots.
[HTC Sensation] xnifex:
There's a clear voicemail notification setting in the phone settings (i think that's where it's at)
[HTC Sensation] TJBunch1228:
Settings > Call > Clear voicemail notification
[HTC Sensation] BiGMERF:
lol, i remember smashing my brain trying to get rid of it too..
[HTC Sensation] brian85:
Thanks guys. Could you guys help me in my other thread too? I'm dead center in 4G area, yet it's only showing 2G on my phone.
[HTC Sensation] alnova1:
I had this problem too but I called myself from a different phone and left a message and deleted it and it went away but glad to know I can clear it in the call settings.
[HTC Sensation] alnova1:
Try going to settings, wireless & Networks, mobile networks, network mode and change to WCDMA only and see what happens. Mine kept going in and out on GSM/WCDMA Auto and now I keep 4G when I'm in my 4G area.
[HTC Sensation] brian85:
Already tried that and all my bars dropped and it showed a little x
[HTC Sensation] jparity:
Are you over your data cap?

Tmo limits your data bandwidth after you go over your data cap.
[HTC Sensation] brian85:
I just got the phone today and I'm a brand new customer with the 2GB plan.
[HTC Inspire 4G] willwalk93:
I have searched and search and all I have found in DHD and Inspire forums is that the HTC site says it does and some say "It does." These answers do not greatly expound upon the degree of noise cancellation or when it is used. Can anyone give specifics as in does it use it for music calls what? and are there any settings that an app could enable as I have found nothing in the stock settings menu on any ROM I have used.

Thanks guys!
[HTC Inspire 4G] henrybravo:
This is how it's supposed to work: there are 2 microphones on the Inspire - one near your mouth (bottom of phone) and one away from your mouth (top back of phone near the LED flash). When you're talking on a phone call, naturally the mic at the bottom of the phone is the one recording your voice because it is much closer to your mouth than the other mic (we are talking about a normal phone call here, not a speakerphone call). The other microphone (at the top of the phone) listens for noise that is not associated with the person talking. An example of this would be road noise in a moving car. The phone has an algorithm that generates a realtime fingerprint of the noise, and then it produces a sound wave that is 180 degrees out of phase with that sound. This "anti-sound' is combined into the audio stream that reaches the person on the other end of the phone call. The net effect is this out-of-phase sound will cancel out or reduce the original sound, so that the person at the other end of the phone call hears a reduced level of background noise. This process works best with a constant noise source - such as road noise or the constant engine noise your hear on an airliner. Dogs barking or kids screaming in the background often do not get filtered effectively, because the phone doesn't have time to generate the out-of-phase sound for stuff that changes frequency and pitch rapidly.

Now in real world usage, I haven't seen a lot of discussion in the Inspire section of people testing this feature to see if it really works. This line in the build.prop file is supposed to enable/disable the noise cancellation feature:

media.a1026.enableA1026=1 (1=enabled, 0=disabled)

and this line may be involved as well:

htc.audio.hac.enable=1

There is some evidence that setting one of both of these lines to "1" can cause battery drain in some ROMs which is why CM7 leaves them at 0. I don't run any Sense ROMs so I don't know what they've got these settings at.
[HTC Inspire 4G] willwalk93:
Thanks for the reply! I understood the concepts of noise cancellation and the like but was unaware of where the settings were! and also... Does this cancellation happen during music playback or just calls?
[HTC Inspire 4G] henrybravo:
No it doesn't affect music playback. It only works on the input (microphone) side.
[HTC Inspire 4G] willwalk93:
So there is no way to enable it for noise cancellation while listening to music or anything of the like? I know battery drain would greatly increase, but that's what external batteries are for!
[HTC Inspire 4G] henrybravo:
What kind of noise are you hearing in your music?
[HTC Inspire 4G] willwalk93:
None associated with the music. I was referring to blocking the outside noises some as it does in calls. Like road noise from a car, etc. I didn't know if that was possible or not with this phone.
[HTC Inspire 4G] henrybravo:
Oh I see. No this is not possible with the phone. I haven't seen this feature on any phone. You'll have to get noise cancelling headphones.
[HTC Inspire 4G] willwalk93:
Thank you very much my good sir!
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] manchintz:
Hello everyone i have just bought a droid eris to pass my time until septemeber/october. it should be stock android 1.5/1.6. I wanted to know how to go about installing this rom? i read this is one of the most stable and reliable which is what i want. I know the basics of how to flash as per the sticky and youtube videos, but was wondering if there's any guide specific to CELB froyo from stock? Thank you in advance!
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] prsguitaruser:
You should be able to just use the One Click Root app by Jcase from the Market to root the phone (follow all of the rebooting instructions) and just flash the rom like normal. It's been a little while since I tried CELB, but I don't remember doing anything else.
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] matts290:
Flash the ROM and flash the google apps as well, make sure to use the verison of GAPPS listed in his thread and not one of the newer gingerbread ones.
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] manchintz:
how do you go about installing gapps? put on root of sd card then..? also, do i have to first flash the root-me.zip or can i replace that with the CELB froyo rom?
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Letitride:
The Q&A and stickys on top here has very detailed steps, please take time to read & follow it closely - also, if you go to the Wiki on the top & follow it, there's an entire section dedicated to the Eris, everything you'll need and tools/links on what & where to find/download.

Yes, select the correct Gapps - it should have a *mdpi* strings in the filename as you do NOT want to use the *gb* file as your gapps - and yes, it go on the root of the sd card. I find it very helpful & useful to start with a clean & freshly FAT32 formatted SD card, 8 MB microSD will do just fine (and, if in a pinch, go with a 4 MB card).

To do things right, flash the root-me.zip first and make sure the phone rebooted properly, and is running - you should not have to reactivate the device or update the PRL (by doing a *22891)

After you confirmed that the phone's been rooted, proceed with the CELB rom loaded on the SD card - but only after you do a NAND backup, just in case - then, flash gapps - and reboot the phone, be patient as it could take 5 to 10 minutes to boot up the new ROM for the 1st. time - and when you see the Welcome Screen with the Android, you are ready to setup & customize the phone. Do it slow & take your time - AND, make sure your battery is fully charged. Have fun & good luck !
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] doogald:
Actually, as long as you have Amon_RA recovery running, there is no reason to flash rootme.zip first. That's intended only for the stock Eris build, to give you the apps and settings that you need to allow apps that require root-level access to run. CELB has all of that built-in.

The CELB thread has a location that shows where to download a zip file that includes the Google apps. So, the flash procedure, in a nutshell, would be:

- copy the CELB and gapps zip files to your SD card

- restart in Recovery

- Backup/Restore menu

- Nandroid backup (just in case...)

- back to the main menu, then to the Wipe menu

- Wipe data/factory reset

- Wipe Dalvik cache

- Back to the main menu, then to the Flash a zip from SD card menu

- choose the CELB zip file from the list

- Back to the Flash a zip from SD card menu

- choose the gapps zip file

- restart the phone
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] manchintz:
everything worked out, except now, it's not recognizing my 8gb sd card? what is going on??

It recognizes my 1gb micro sd, but not the 8gb microsdhc i originaly used to root it in the first place..help?
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] manchintz:
all is good! thank you all
[Epic 4G General] MДЯCЦSДИT:
On ef02, heimdal cwm and make a backup and post the backup.
[Epic 4G General] deano0714:
If no one gets to it later ill do it ;)

Edit: probly around 7 or 8 my time :) its 4:30 right now so in a few hours
[Epic 4G General] johnyardavid:
workin on it right now. I'll pm you with a link
[Epic 4G General] deano0714:
Marcus... are you making a deoxised(?) Lol. version of the stock rom... I want to theme it ;)
[Epic 4G General] johnyardavid:
sent 10char
[Windows Phone 7 General] RoboDad:
Just got this via twitter:

http://www.winrumors.com/microsoft-...itterwp&utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=twitter

Watch this site for more info:

http://labs.chevronwp7.com/
[Windows Phone 7 General] domineus:
but the closed hole of chevron after two weeks wasn't "microsoft" per se, only till nodo did microsoft completely close the hole. Even the chevron group publicly said that...

otherwise I would be eager to try it if I didn't have a student account but 3 xaps is horrid
[Windows Phone 7 General] andoridkiller:
Why are you complaing? Its good thing microsidt are with them.
[Windows Phone 7 General] domineus:
no one is complaining...
[Windows Phone 7 General] RoboDad:
If your previous post wasn't a complaint, then I'm afraid I don't understand what you were trying to say.

An officially approved, permanent unlocking solution is coming very soon. The ChevronWP7 team has already confirmed that it won't be done through the App Hub (so it won't expire in a year), and the one-time small fee will go to the Chevron team, not Microsoft, and is only being charged to cover their hard work over the past several months. They did the work, not Microsoft.

The only thing this solution won't do is allow someone to publish to the Marketplace. That will still require a paid (or student) developer license.
[Windows Phone 7 General] dtboos:
I think its great that MS is supporting this and look forward to kicking a few nickels over to the Chevron team for their work.
[Windows Phone 7 General] tiny17:
I am impressed by MS and how cool they have become.
[Windows Phone 7 General] phozz4:
Power in numbers

Hey Guys,

my guess is, ms turned chevron to go white hat because they try to gain momentum in the app market and therefore have to present an appealing platform for devs by keeping piracy in check and making sure those pale, hardworking guys get their bucks rolling. As far as I understand, chevrons new and official unlocker will be a paid app to drag even those devs into the boat, which are unable or unwilled to pay for a ms dev account while on the other side keeping in check, that this solution wont be a backdoor to sideload pirated apps from the market. This approach would take some amount of security integration and maybe some new kind of app-drm or how ever you may call it. Till now this is mere speculation and just my two cents to the topic ;)
[Windows Phone 7 General] vangrieg:
Paid unlock feels totally wrong. Especially if it's just an unlock, without a service like Cydia. I personally don't mind paying for software and services, and it's not the $99 price tag that's stopping me from going the official route, but the paperwork hassle.

But requiring payment for jailbreaking is totally unacceptable, IMO.
[Windows Phone 7 General] domineus:
1. correction of the article which noted microsoft closed the hole 2 weeks later. They didn't until nodo [edit whoopsie misread that one]

2. I said openly I was intrigued by the idea, and even if I have a student account I'm still intrigued
[Windows Phone 7 General] minep:
With this I will can use File Manager with full access (more than documents, windows folders) for LG Optimus 7?
[Windows Phone 7 General] domineus:
I doubt it
[Windows Phone 7 General] cosmosis786:
what does evry1 here think they will charge? coz $1 to $98 is a huge range.

i would be more than happy to pay a one off fee of no more than £10.....

but then again if its a one off fee and the unlock is perpetual through all updates

i may pay a bit more..

ps. happy fathers day to all the dads
[Windows Phone 7 General] fixxxer2008:
yeah but don't you have to pay to jailbreak now? IMO it's not worth it. i was hoping this would allow custom UI's and such but it just seems micro$oft found yet another way to milk the cash cow.
[Windows Phone 7 General] andw93:
Great news!
[Windows Phone 7 General] dkp1977:
You should have read the thread completely. It's not Microsoft that charges the users for the tool, but the Chevron team.

I for one consider it a great possibility to pay a one time fee and then be able to write applications for my device and use them on it.
[Windows Phone 7 General] RoboDad:
I know. That's exactly what I've been trying to tell people, but everyone around here seems so eager to jump on the extremely misguided "I've been betrayed! They're thieves!" train. I could go on about that particular topic, but what's the point. Let the bitter people enjoy their bitterness.

I'll gladly pay the one-time small fee (I think the Chevron team more than deserves it), and then I'll have a permanently unlocked phone. Even after Mango is released. Even if I have to hard reset some time in the future.
[Windows Phone 7 General] supercain:
Thank You.

Thank you MS and the Chevron team for coming up with this solution. Good for you Microsoft.:)
[Windows Phone 7 General] gentry33:
sounds good but...

http://www.withinwindows.com/2011/06/20/short-windows-phone-mango-blocks-interop-services-apps/

I read this the other night and I would like to know what effect this will have on apps sideloaded with Chevronlabs.
[Windows Phone 7 General] RoboDad:
It will most likely affect them in the exact same way it affects official app hub developer unlocked phones.

From everything they have told us so far, phones unlocked with the new Chevron service will behave exactly the same as app hub unlocked phones. The only difference will be that you won't be able to submit apps to the marketplace.

So, whatever works on an app hub unlocked phone will work on a Chevron unlocked phone, and anything that doesn't work on one, won't work on the other.
[Nook Color General] ColorNook:
I used the latest manual nooter to root my nook...everything went painless enough; I had used a 4 GB SD card to do this. When I was done rooting my nook, I reformatted my 4 GB SD card and installed it into the nook color to have the full 4 GB worth of storage space...how quickly I was able to use that up! ...I should add that I rooted my nook to the internal nook drive...not to a bootable SD card.

Now, I am wanting to expand my nook color SD card to a 32 GB card. Since I used the 4 GB card to image and nooter my nook do I have to stay with the 4 GB card? ...or can I just format the new 32 GB card, copy and past all the info from the 4 GB to the new 32 GB card and off I go?

Sorry for the newbie question but I didn't want to do this and then find out that the rooted nook color will not run smooth or find that I am getting force closures.

Thanks!

~Erik