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[Galaxy S I9000 General] Fremen567:
Guys need little help here. Was on <darky#s 10.2 EE and had a lot of freezes and stuff. so i restored my backup and it said it resored but it wouldn't go pass the samsung logo screen. no lagfix was enabled. Cannot enter recovery for somr reason but can download mode. and here's the issue, when I try to boot phone and it goeas to samsung screen it's beeing recognised and I see it in odin bur when I enter download mode it's not there. tried kies and drivers from samfirmware and lots of crap but I cannot get my comp to recognise phone in download mode and therefore I cannot flash. it. it you have any ideas please help. thanks
[Galaxy S I9000 General] lehboy:
I also did this way back in december 2010 when I bricked my phone. Worked for me.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] xt700:
thank you very much for this:D
[Galaxy S I9000 General] keuda:
Great post. Thanks.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] wutang780:
got my phone into recovery with the button combo but after i use odin im stuck on galaxy gt-i9000 screen and all i see is a circle spining. What i do now?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] keuda:
Good work. Thanks.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] antidote1:
Thanks for the guide. It worked!
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Xampy:
Thanksss!! :)
[Galaxy S I9000 General] kvaju:
I've just got BSOD, it scared the **** in me :D

Just swich to another USB port, and it put me to download mode again.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] killah bee:
this is very usefull topic... thanks
[Galaxy S I9000 General] portausb:
One file at a time

Mine failed to update with Kies2 (from 2.3.3 to 2.3.4.) got a red message update failed after about 1 minute during flashing.

will not even turn on after that, but could go into download mode

tried Odin which got stuck for over 30minutes.

in despiration

flashed pit(512) file only with Odin (repartition ticked)

then PDA only with repartition NOT ticked ( 2.3.3 files)

This resulted in phone booting but no phone connection (as expected)

enter download mode again

flash modem file (again 2.3.3)

after that all seems to work OK including phone connection to my surprise , but went on to flash the csc file (2.3.3 of course) for good measure.

After that all working fine, checked version ..etc all correct.

Even though I do not trust Kies very much now, I connected, and it offered me the same upgrade to 2.3.4, so what the heck I thought (can do that again if need to), so I let it.

Guess what, this time it went OK. Strange!
[Galaxy S I9000 General] milad2002boy:
thanks

thanks you...
[Galaxy S I9000 General] invisible.t:
Thanks, but i messed up with the backup/restore section and now i got bsod. 3-button combo does give me download mode but i think odin doesnt recognize my phone, what should i do now :(

Nevermind, reinstalled the usb driver and everything worked :)
[Galaxy S I9000 General] jcspecs:
Great, glad to hear it.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] sabret00the:
I have a Samsung Galaxy S that I was trying to update to Gingerbread, halfway through the screen went green and stayed that way for hours. I pulled the battery and now it appears to be bricked. I can't do anything. I'm struggling to get it to power up in any which way possible. It's just doing nothing. No lights at all, no screen on, nothing. What do I do?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] 3vil5:
Thx for the guide, really helpful!
[Galaxy S I9000 General] russyanderson:
recovery for phone that doesnt switch on

Hi all, is there anyway to get to download mode from a phone that doesnt even swicth on, ive heard of jig mode mini usb but does that work with a phone that doesnt switch on? cheers for any help in advance ..
[Galaxy S I9000 General] xxdoggyxx:
It shud be working...

I have a questiton too..

If i can;t even enter download mode via: ADB REBOOT DOWNLOAD, Can the USB JIG still work??
[Galaxy S I9000 General] nishu_nisarg:
very nice

very useful article for beginers......

baseband:JVR

kernel:semaphre

build number:juwe's smart adition

lagfix:enabled

quadrant score:2400:D
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Spirit02:
If you do have a hard-bricked phone - water damage, or permanent BSOD, perhaps you would consider donating your phone to this cause:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1236273

so the I9000 can be made unbrickable.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] midas5:
The 301K Jig fixes BSOD.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] midas5:
Yes, we would appreciate that.

We have an unbrickable mod that can be done. Currently, only to the Captivate, but it will work on most Samsung Phones.

All we need to do is trace some tracks, but unfortunately, this means we have to physically destroy the phone in the process. So, any phone, be it water damaged, mostly smashed, run over by car etc. will be very useful to us.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Spirit02:
It'll fix it if your bootloaders are intact...

I killed secondary bootloader on my boss' phone, and 301k jig just gave me BSOD.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] insanedreamz:
Really wondering if I could make a jig myself... if I ever brick my phone that way!!
[Galaxy S I9000 General] mach20:
Thanks man
[Galaxy S I9000 General] mkaonain:
Complete(Write) operation failed error in Odin

<ID:0/005> Added!!

<ID:0/005> Odin v.3 engine (ID:5)..

<ID:0/005> File analysis..

<ID:0/005> SetupConnection..

<ID:0/005> Complete(Write) operation failed.

<OSM> All threads completed. (succeed 0 / failed 1)

This is what I get from Odin ...

I Was on one of the cyanogenmod nightlies and tried to flash a Gingerbread stock via odin .. .-. which bricked the phone.

I could still go into download mode via the 3 button combo, so after some search, I found this post

<Cannot post the link because I am a new user .-. .. as in first post >

which gives link to some firmware that can be used to correct this situation .. when flashing the ECLAIR one from the above link, I removed the phone .. because it was stuck at writing factory.rfs for over 15 minutes ... and after that .. phone gets into a boot loop .. I can enter download mode via volume up and down keys .. but Odin keeps giving the error as given above ...

When booting .. it says

E:can't mount /dev/block/st111

(Invalid arguement)

-- Movi_check Start..!!

checksum confirmation need_checksum[0]

-- Movi_check already executed!!...

-- movi_checking done!...

-- Wiping data ...

and then tries to format FOTA,DATA CACHE and DBDATA but fails .. and then this keeps repeating ...

Is there anything that can be done? Anything other than taking this to Samsung Service that is ...

Thanks in advance for help/comments .. .
[Galaxy S I9000 General] dtc4ever:
Thanks for this guide, very helpful :)
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Priyesh Man:
guyz i tried rooting my phone running Gingerbread 2.3.3 JV5 or something.... i used the file "CF-Root-XX_OXA_JVK-v2.7-CWM3RFS" to root my phone using odin v1.7.... it was successful and i saw clockwork mod 1.2. or 1.3 and superuser installed.... i don't know what happened later but my phone started booting again and again (starts scaning sd storage and boots again) i can access recovery mode but i get clockwork mod v3.0.0.5 recovery screen not the default one.... guyz please help me out how do i recover my phone.... i love my phone i don't care if i lose all the data i just want it to start working again.... please could someone help me out? .... would wiping all data... and putting in factory retore solve the problem? how do i remove this root n save my phone plese guyz help would be seriously appreciated...

and sorry if i posted this on the wrong thread... i am new to xda forum...
[Galaxy S I9000 General] mkaonain:
I was unable to use the 3 button combo after I interrupted an Odin session .. but was able to go into download mode by holding the up and down volume buttons for some time .. :D thanks .. :D
[Galaxy S I9000 General] seotaiji:
Many thanks for this useful guide!

Helped me "unbrick" my phone after a failed Odin flash resulting in a BSOD.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] dtc4ever:
I bricked it once due to a bad flash with Odin (yes, it happens). I went into recovery and reflashed it and it was okay after that.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] silent_roar:
It really saved my phone....:D
[Galaxy S I9000 General] mselmany:
Try this guys(new method)-I found a new

This method is name is 1628.

1.Open Odine,

2.Remove the battery(30 seconds),

3.Connect your USB to computer,

4.Insert the battery,

5.Volume Down + Home(dont press power) press keys together and connect the USB,

6....and Download Mode...

I've tried and succeeded.

NOT QUOTE...
[Galaxy S I9000 General] sgsmaniac:
THUMBS UP!i keep in trace with ur guide from 1st time i flash my SGS I9000 with ur guide really usefull and helpfull..keep the good work mate =) u deserve my "thanks"
[Galaxy S I9000 General] dilerus:
Thanks mate :)
[Galaxy S I9000 General] herc2k:
damn it works it happend to me also
[Galaxy S I9000 General] bilouxp:
Good guide congratulations

---------- Post added at 11:40 PM ---------- Previous post was at 11:37 PM ----------

Yes!!! Saved my phone thanks
[Galaxy S I9000 General] V1taly:
I bricked my Galaxy i9000 by trying to flash it with some firmware, that was supposed to give me russian swype (as I found later it's easily done with official swype website). But my phone was bricked completely: no boot mode, no yellow triangle, no signs of life.

I tried 300kOhm resistor method, which I made myself by combining some resistors and a potentiometer from an old radio and broken power supply. It didn't work. I tried different places in England:

1) I go to a local mobile phone store, he takes the phone, keeps it for 4 days (no response), then I go, he says "we couldn't do anything". I ask why keep for 4 days? - pff

2) Samsung official service centre: I phoned them, said firmware upgrade failed. They said : ok, we can fix everything, we are official service centre. Will be about ~30 pounds. I go to the centre, he starts to question me like in the army "what program did you use, tell the truth ..." , "you accept that your warranty is void, right?" , I say : "yeah, ok, just fix it". Then he goes back to his little room, replaces the battery, pokes some buttons and says: "absolutely no sign of life, ok, we can't do anything , we have to send it off to main site, it will probably cost you ~80 pounds". I said no , f* off.

3) I go to Indian shop on Goodge street in London (~technology street). I try to explain to them (after reading on the internet) that the phone needs a hardware programmer (JTAG box), they say, "We fix all kind of problem, we have a man that has all boxes". Will be about 35 pounds. I say, ok, do it. They call me after 1 day saying: "he couldn't fix it, we don't know anything"

4) I go to Chinese whiz kids near chinatown, I explain to them that I just need JTAG box , that's the only way to do it. They say "we can do it", will be 20 pounds, and will be ready in 20 mins. I say, ok, I will wait. And they start to insert micro-B USB with 300 kOhm resistor. I tell them, that won't work I already tried. They say: "oh we can't do anything then". I was like wtf, I just told you what needed to be done, why say you can do it? And 20 pounds for 300 kOhm resistor fix? that's a rip off.

5) Finally I found a website, where they state how they are going to fix it on fonefunshop.co.uk, where I paid 29 pounds (inc.tax) for repair and return delivery + 6 pounds out post. And they returned it to me after 2 days with download mode working, and I had to reflash the phone myself. But luckily it's working now after all that headache.

P.S. this is not an advertisement. This is to save days of wasted time for people who hard bricked their samsung galaxy. I'm not affiliated with that website at all. And anyway, 36 pounds is also expensive for a repair from that website.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] xxdoggyxx:
Is this some sort of advertisement?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] cicciociccio333:
Really useful information.. thanks
[Galaxy S I9000 General] rajayasir:
very useful

very useful, thanks.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] psycho_driver:
Black screen of death

Never mind got it working :)

My phone is showing Black screen of death, i managed to get into download mode, but odin wont flash. Any solution? or should i just give it to a service store? :(
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Gigi87:
Hello, I am experiencing troubles with a SGS of my friend: yesterday i managed to root it and put darky on it, but suddenly it rebooted and now I am stuck in the situation that it doesn't go after the Galaxy S GT-I9000 screen: it doesn't go neither in download mode or recovery, if i plug it into the pc it gets stuck in the charging icon, and the computer doesn't recognize it so I can't use adb: How can I do?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] hezibanda:
Thanks, worked like a charm !
[Galaxy S I9000 General] hlubepet:
nice info, but found this after Ive figured all things out by myself :-D
[Galaxy S I9000 General] xpqter:
I bricked my phone once and found a sulotion that i think works allways.

It's a loong time since i did it but if you only get that bricked logo thingy you can try to turn off the phone, connect USB and when you either get the charging indication or just the circle before, press both volume buttons at the same time (and maybe power, not sure at the moment).

when I did this odin did not work, so i had to use Heimdall to push the ROM.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] nandakumar.s:
Thanks mate

Thanks mate for this usefull info.... My SGS was in samsung service station for days after I got BSOD but got back without resolution. Followed your instruction and now my SGS is back up and running gr8.... now I can flash my SGS confidently....:)
[Galaxy S I9000 General] timhortons:
thanx

thanx very usefull information keep up the good work
[Galaxy S I9000 General] arun1uk:
Hi, I have BSOD, and can get into Download mode, luckily....but could someone help me to identify what to do next please!

I was updating the firmware via Kies and it crashed, and I got the BSOD.

I would like to try and recover the data, rather than reflashing, in the first instance, so any advice around this would be appreciated.

Thanks
[Galaxy S I9000 General] BlitterTwisted:
I know how to use Odin to reflash the phone and recover from a messed up OS, but the problem I had was my phone went screwy, wouldn't boot and then Odin flash failed every time even though I've had no problems in the past.

It had to be sent away although I'm told all they did was "calibrate" and "reflash".

So what went wrong?

The only thing I can think of is the internal memory developed a bad block (got an error about this in CWM) and somehow the service centre were able to mark it bad and then reflash.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] joseca_peru:
Excellente work, thanks
[Galaxy S I9000 General] tapsumbongs:
really helpful thanks :)
[Galaxy S I9000 General] iVag:
very helpful...hope i get a way out for my semi-bricked SGS
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Jcyber777:
thanks!

i did also find a Video showing how to unbricks the Galaxy S

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krVj0XmkPeo&list=FLaTj1RGJS2mSJHQ2ivfsf2w&index=5&feature=plpp_video
[Galaxy S I9000 General] alwo1303:
very nice guide
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Shoqovi:
Bricked phone

nice guide mate..
[Galaxy S I9000 General] IbrahimNassef:
Thanks mate, amazing guide.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] bingobingobingo:
Really good job, thank you.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] saqibniaz:
i bricked my phone while flashing a file in PDA in ODIN.

it went to BSOD.

Option A worked for me and it got into download mode.

and then i flashed a new firmware via odin.

Thanks for this helpful topic.:D
[Galaxy S I9000 General] vanir29:
sir can u help me? im on android 2.2 and ive followed this tutorial, after i flashed to gingerbread (step 4), my phone prompts for a password after the samsung galaxy s logo,and i dont remember anything cause i dont really input password protection or something, btw i still can access the download mode but not recovery mode, what should i do to get this fixed? many thanks.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] SparksFreeman:
THANK YOU!

I had what I thought was a completely bricked phone(couldnt access bootloader or download mode no matter how much I tried) but after trying this the phone lit up for the first time in over 3 weeks!!!!

Thanks a million!!!

In fact I just registered after months of lurking to post this!
[Galaxy S I9000 General] qavro:
3. BSOD (Black Screen Of Death) logo

another method that works every single time when BSOD (Black Screen Of Death) logo is on the screen:

1. remove the cable from the PC

2. pull out the battery

3. hold VOL DOWN + HOME + POWER

4. insert the battery while you still holding the 3 buttons (tricky, i know)

5. the phone will start in download mode and is recognized by odin
[Galaxy S I9000 General] m.shahrukh.akram0:
Please help me....

Yesterday i was updating my galaxy s i9000 any call korean version with ODIN ,while updating odin says that "invalid boot" and i off my phone.

now its not turning on....

only shows "Anycall" logo...

also not giong to downloading mode...
[Galaxy S I9000 General] xsenman:
First, your phone is M110S and not i9000 when its Anycall Korean version. Follow this guide to solve it. Try connecting to Odin 3, after battery pull and power button press for a minute, phone will be in download mode, so just connect to Odin3 and use repair Kit to fix the problem

Check this out! You , YES! you are an " Android ". Not your phone but U.​
[Galaxy S I9000 General] m.shahrukh.akram0:
plz help...
[Galaxy S I9000 General] xsenman:
use USB JIG to get into download mode , look in MY Android Solutions for guides to enter download mode and recovery mode or

How to Make Homemade JIG or watch video where to buy How it works

Where to Borrow a USB Jig

Check this out! You , YES! you are an " Android ". Not your phone but U.​
[Galaxy S I9000 General] m.shahrukh.akram0:
.....

Dude its even not turning on.....
[Galaxy S I9000 General] xsenman:
yes, JIG will turn on to download mode ( watch the video) , BUT FIRST Charge your Battery as you may have drained it completely by now.

Check this out! You , YES! you are an " Android ". Not your phone but U.​
[Galaxy S I9000 General] m.shahrukh.akram0:
......

This trick not working too...
[Galaxy S I9000 General] xsenman:
than final option is RiffBox, go to a mobile technician to resolve using Rifbox.

Check this out! You , YES! you are an " Android ". Not your phone but U.​
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cqbaby:
I have an application which can set my DHD auto reboot in the every night. I do not want to be awaken by the DHD reboot vibrate. So does anyone know of a way to disable the vibrate that takes place during reboot?
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JSLEnterprises:
You cant. That part is located in the bootloader (not to be confused with boot.img), and if you could edit that, you would most likely brick your device.

There's no reason you need to reboot the device. Its not a blackberry. lol
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cqbaby:
I think i can get more free memory through reboot.
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SAPPH1RE:
I think DHD have more than enough memory though.. Even the memory management on android itself can kill some of the background process to free the memory..

I think, only my nokia's need the reboots every now and then.. :p
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] high_voltage:
You don't need to free more memory, if some application need more memory than available, android will free up some automatically.

TL : DR Android ram management is good enough.
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] alge30:
delete that app that causing auto reboot!
[T-Mobile LG G2x] milesxd:
As this being my first thread, I know there is already another thread about the extended battery but this is just a quick video to show people who are considering on buying it and/or curious about how it looks like, in a quick unboxing of the 1980mAh battery. I just received the battery, and I'll post any differences in battery life to update you guys. You might ask or wonder why I said my battery life lasts only 4 hours, that's because of constant gaming, texting, and internet.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LrtDTXZTNk&feature=channel_video_title
[T-Mobile LG G2x] jacob808:
4 hours is what I got from stock battery with constant heavy use as you just mentioned, gaming, surfing, watching movies. If that's all the andida battery can give then forget it.

If you're a heavy power user, and I would assume you are by killing that battery in 4 hours, you would be in heaven with the Mugen 4500mah extended battery.

I own it and no amount of constant use and abuse will kill this battery in a day. You'll enjoy watching full movies, playing the latest tegra games to your hearts content, and browsing the web as if you were at home on you desktop plugged into an outlet.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] milesxd:
4 hours is what the original battery gave me. To be honest, I wouldn't hold that thing up to my ear, it's really huge and doesn't look that good in my opinion cause of the back though, It's also expensive for it to ugly up my phone. So I would rather use this battery for the looks, instead of the Mugen for the longer power.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] TechFu:
Where did you get it? (which ebay seller) And how log did it take for Delivery?

Thanks
[T-Mobile LG G2x] milesxd:
By cellstoreclerk, located in Sweden. The sale date was 6/09/11 , and I received it on the 20th.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] PhantomRampage:
Are you going to make a follow up video reviewing the battery? Such as talking about whether or not you actually see a difference maybe?
[T-Mobile LG G2x] milesxd:
20% battery left, with 8h 30m since last connected. With Bluetooth on for one hour, phone call for 1h 30m, with 4G on the whole time, and about 2 hours of gaming.

Phone would be dead by now to be honest with the original battery. There's definitely a difference(1980mAh compared to 1500mAh) that lasts me a hour or two longer, but definitely not as long lasting the Mugen 4500mAh.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] periagoge:
Hello all, I have search the forums in vain for this.

The touch screen of my Coby 7015 was completely destroyed but instead of throwing a otherwise working device I would like to set it up as a netflix (and more) device hooked up to my tv with a wireless keyboard. I got a keyboard/mouse that I confirmed work on the coby 7015 (I bought a new Coby) but I cannot get pass the lock screen. Is there anyway key combo or any way at all to bypass the lock screen in Android? I know that once I pass the lockscreen I will be fine but without this the device is useless.

it seems I am half way to a solution. Hopefully someone can help me do the extra mile. I found a code that would disable the lock screen permanently. According to

Android Snippets, entering this would do the job:

KeyguardManager keyguardManager = (KeyguardManager)getSystemService(Activity.KEYGUAR D_SERVICE);

KeyguardLock lock = keyguardManager.newKeyguardLock(KEYGUARD_SERVICE);

lock.disableKeyguard();

in androidmanifest:

<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.DISABLE_KEYGUARD" ></uses-permission>The problem is, can I do that, meaning change KeygardManager through adb, this is my only access to the device as of now.

Thank you,

Andre
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] pkopalek:
+1 on this

My gf set a lock code while drunk and can't remember the code.

Maybe there is something in /data that has the lock screen data?

She has an incredible.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] pkopalek:
http://www.droidforums.net/forum/droid-hacks/86420-howto-pseudo-bypass-screen-locked-droid.html
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] ashscool:
Have you figured out how to do this? Thanks