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[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] D_ralh:
hi iv had a serious journey with my sgs i9000 here's how it goes:

i had it on 2.2 and then upgraded it officially to 2.3.3

not much else happened until i realised i wanted voodoo sound (apparently it was hyped to be awesome....its not that great) and neither is the ext4 file system 2.3.3 seems to be just as fast...dont know if it was a major problem on 2.2 but it aint really on 2.3.3

so i flashed voodoo on 2.3.3 from some website ... downloaded the app for the sound as the kernel didnt support that...

then i was using it and played around with the settings in clock work manager and i mounted and unmounted sd/card i dont think it made much difference but i thought i'd mention it ... the reason i did this is because when i tried to load a rom it wouldnt find all my sd card files beyond like the first 5 folders so i thought i'd give it a kick start....

then what happened is the phone just went off and i couldnt get it back on.... little did i know this was soft brick... i didnt know why....

i got the computer screen with the phone and exclamation mark.... i got into download mode a few times....

NOW .... i cant get it to turn on AT ALL using any combo buttons....

i think the nail in the coffin was flashing it with the "one-click odin" which was for the captivate but it said i could use it on the i9000 too.... which blatently screwed up the device....

anyway iv ordered a jig device... if this gets me into download mode ....what am i supposed to do...?

also is there anything i can do to get it into download mode now ? (bearing in mind iv done all the combo's ... some people say leave the battery out for a couple of minutes or half an hour....)

i think the bootloader is screwed up because it doesnt switch on....

even after i did a clean install of 2.3.3 with the pda phone and csc roms... it still just randomly switched off after 2/3 minutes of boot time....

what do i do now ?

samsung repair centre said they couldnt do anything and i'd have to send it back to samsung.... is it that bad?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Talon26:
Tried all the combos.... So you tried plugging in combo, then battery and also holding combo and then battery without cable in...

Have you read the pinned thread in general i think it is regarding, bricks?

Moving on

how did you do a clean install of 2.3.3 if you couldn't get DL mode??

Haven't read into the one click Odin so can't comment on that, but i think that was meant to be for softbricks...

anyway regarding the jig, just plug it in, and then wait a second or so, of not a minute (usually instant) and it should go into download mode. If it doesn't work again try some combos with the jig in...

If it is a hard brick i think you need to J-tag it, or yes take it to samsung in which case they may charge you for a repair, unless you say kies did it, and you didn't tell them everything you didi when you spoke to em.

Think thats everything lemme know if i missed out a question of yours or you want something better explained etc..
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] D_ralh:
yeah i guess i was vague on the combo thing...

i've tried:

a) holding power, menu and volume down while sliding battery in (no usb cable in )

b) same as above with usb cable in

c)just menu and volume down buttons while i put battery in

d) both volume buttons and cable in

e)both volume buttons and battery in

.... the reason for d and e is because when i flashed it with the one click odin installer thing.. it restarted and showed a a t&t screen so i think its flashed the software with a samsung capacitive rom....so in theory i need to use those buttons ? not sure .... yet more questions....

i just hope this jig thing works ... btw do i have to pay sammy is my phone is under warranty?

how do i reflash the bootloader so it works properly? is that even the problem? do i need to do that? which pit file do i use ? some people say 512.... some say thats outdated and the new pit file is the thing to use .. ?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] D_ralh:
ok now iv got it to turn on quite regularly .... but it keeps cycling (bootlooping) the at&t logo screen .... cant get into download mode or recovery mode.... just keeps boot looping.... oh and when i plug in the usb cable it just turns off.... its like i cant start it up with a usb in the phone...

update: been reading around and if anyone has this problem.... it looks like you might be hard bricked and apparently this cant be resolved via jig device..... dammit ...i'll still try and update the post... peace
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Talon26:
So you haven't tried the jig yet?? because you haven't got it yet right

I don't think the device is bricked at all. Bricked usually means you have no response from it, so no matter what combo, actions you take you get no reaction.. However you are getting a boot although there is something going wrong as it does so...

So yes you need a new bootloader, i think every rom that you flash through odin has one, but i guess it may not, its best to search this, but i have read a few posts that say you need to click on update bootloader (i would check into this, as if this is wrong it will definitely brick your device)

My suggestion is go back to the onclick odin thing as that should do it, im sure someone has done something similar.

Yh so to sum up, i would have high hopes for a restoration (but what so i know ;)) and yes flashing a new bootloader with rom i reckon would do the trick. I think a stock rom will do it. Click on the stock rom link below and type in a few search terms in that thread to see if you pick up anything otherwise do a slightly wider one of the forum.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] D_ralh:
jig arrived today! .... i plugged it in ..... NOTHING ..... (read on theres more to the story!!!)

so i put it in nothing happened...... i thought maybe the jig device was not working so i tried it in the i9100 (s2) .... WORKED ...!

im really stubborn so i needed to make mine work too..... i read in a review of the jig device that someone bought one and it hadnt worked .... i hadnt ruled that out

anyway all day i just kept trying to jump start it by putting in the wall charger in and out ... i usually get some reponse from that....nothing apart from a second of something like a loading circle......

anyway then i left it on charge for an hour ....maybe the battery was dead and then tried again ....

(btw i was getting no response at all at this stage, not even the at&t thing ...)

so it was pure black screening me.....

then i got home from work and thought let me exchange the battery and see what happens....

i changed the battery and put the jig device in ...... VOILA !!! download mode....

all is well so far i've flashed with 2.3.3 pda,phone and csc files and checked repartition... i haven't messed with the bootloader option

seems to be working ok....also gave it a restart too ... last time it got to this point but it didnt turn back on after a restart ....

in conclusion .... charge battery fully externally (putting the power in the phone in this state was not charging it)

then with a full battery put jig in .... if that doesnt work you phone might be seriously bricked.... bravo to whoever dreamt up the jig device
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Talon26:
Glad to hear the great news!
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dexterb:
Nice

Thanks for this useful info
[XPERIA X10 General] OmegaRED^:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=18607349#post18607349
[XPERIA X10 General] negrobembon:
Poor guy, customer service sucks worldwide regardless of the brand(imo)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] BDawgTrap:
On the galaxy nexus, or any ICS phone so for now just the nexus. Does the area of the screen that the buttons are in work for anything else? for example when you go to watch a movie or play a game, does the screen extend down to the button area? It would seem quite pointless to move away from capacative buttons such as those on the thunderbolt if that screen space cannot be used for anything else...
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Griffrez:
Yes. Watch the press conference. In some cases the buttons are hidden. In other cases, the phone renders more buttons, or less, accordingly. (For example, when you're in a call, it renders 5 buttons one for a task.)
[Sony Tablet S] XotusBlack:
ok i start now a uptime contest because i want to know how long the tab runs smooth...and maybe what problems will shown after been a larger time up...

to measure search market with "uptime"

at the moment mY uptime is 15hrs...here we go..

- no issues
[Sony Tablet S] D00QLE:
I had to restart everytime the kids done playing with.

Every of my andriid device needs restart often its the os fault.
[Sony Tablet S] XotusBlack:
this is my first android device

my Nokia N8 runs with leaked symbian^belle... how long u wish ;)
[Sony Tablet S] XotusBlack:
2 days and 15 hrs later...

- sometimes widgets missing

- browsing fast as known

- system response is good

at the moment nothing new
[Sony Tablet S] soultics:
My current uptime is 12 days and 14 hours. Never have problem with anything missing, and the speed is just fine. It'd actually be longer but I was showing someone the boot up and restarted it.
[HTC Sensation] Quakeworld:
I'm on the same rom and all that I did was grab the cyanogenmod theme pack from here http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1200017 (scroll down a bit and you'll see it with the other zips) placed it on my sdcard, went into recovery and flashed.. booted the phone and the theme chooser was added.. then all I did was add some themes through astro file mgr, and whalla.. I had themes :D

if this helped, pls slap the thanks button... thanks :)
[HTC Sensation] malybru:
Hi,

Nice sig

:D
[HTC Sensation] ThierryHenry:
Legend

Legend! XDA forum is awesome I've hit the thanks button :)
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] grGrizz:
Hello,

I have an Android Incredible 2, which is currently rooted using Alpharevx. Ice cream sandwich came out this morning, and I would like to update to it. Is there any way to do this without unrooting? If not, how do I unroot my phone?

Thanks for the help.
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] tincbtrar:
Hi there.

Ice Cream Sandwich is not available for our phones yet, however im sure the development team will cook up something nice.

In the meantime, since you are rooted you can take advantage of any other ROM on the forum.

Considering you rooted without any knowledge of how to unroot i would suggest reading the thread in which that rooting method was posted to determine an unroot in case you need to do so.

Go to this thread

http://rootzwiki.com/showthread.php...tock-from-AlpharevX-INCREDIBLE-2-(vivow)-ONLY
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] grGrizz:
Thank you for the redirect. I have one more question. Where do i type in the code that it refers to?
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] tincbtrar:
What code?

Did you root your phone or did someone do it for you?

You need to have adb set up on your computer. And I have no idea why you want to unroot after I advised you that Ice Cream Sandwich is not available yet. You are going to be putting yourself at risk of bricking your phone for no reason and possibly have your bootloader locked again.

Please be careful with your device if you do not know what you are doing...do some research on the following:

Adb/Fastboot for Android

Rooting/Unrooting your phone
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] grGrizz:
You're right. I did root my phone myself, but I am a high school student, and so am not very familiar with this whole process. Thank you for the information, I will go and learn more about it.

The reason I thought ice cream sandwich was available was because my phone prompted me to update, which I tried to do, and I got stuck in a bootloop. So then I recovered, and my phone wouldn't find and service. After rebooting a couple of times, I went back and flashed a previous ROM, which didn't solve the problem. So I went into HBOOT and restored my phone to factory settings. The reason I want to unroot it because clearly I have no idea what I'm doing, and so when ice cream sandwich is available, I want to be able to update to it without going through this whole process again.
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] tincbtrar:
If you are using the stock ROM rooted you can update to RMK gingersense 2.3.4 which you will find over at the virtuous site. That should stop your update issues without a problem.

Feel free to keep me updated and ill be glad to help.
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] faehsemc:
being a high school student shouldnt matter too much man.. but you definitely should read a little ahead on things because if you are in high school... most likely your mom and dad bought you this phone and if you brick it, warrenty is void and its not just doing the insurance replacement.. thats a whole new phone and a lot of money..
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] grGrizz:
I am aware of the risks, thank you. I bought the phone myself, so it is on me if I brick it. Thanks for the concern.
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] knipp21:
Just so you know. We have a 14 yr old Dev here. Age isnt an excuse.

Laziness to read...which I have..is the main culprit.

If I've helped. don't neglect my thanks button :-)
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] grGrizz:
Thank you. I was not trying to use my age as an excuse, more of my current position. I am taking four AP classes, and applying to college at the moment, and so have not had the time to do any in-depth reading upon the subject of cell-phone development. I apologize if this offends you in some way, but I assure you, if I had the time, I would be more informed.
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] knipp21:
Oh I understand lol..I was in training for 16 weeks..I missed allot of android related things

If I've helped. don't neglect my thanks button :-)
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] grGrizz:
Yes, everything progresses very quickly.
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] grGrizz:
By the way, random question, what is the best language to learn first? Sorry if this is of topic.
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] grGrizz:
Great, it works perfectly, thank you for the help!:D
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] faehsemc:
Hey man, if you haven't try out for the NROTC scholarship... Full ride 180,000
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] faehsemc:
* $180,000 full ride to college. Lots of choices... You can stop no questions asked within your freshman year too..
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] zklebrun:
if you are running cm7, there is an ice cream sandwich theme released
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] grGrizz:
Cyanogen mod? Is that's the only way to get ice cream sandwich for the incredible 2atm?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SolGarlic:
For someone with no security concerns, it is pretty safe to disable the lockscreen without any risk of but dialing.

From what I searched in the forums, this can be done in two ways:

1 - Phone -> *#*#7594#*#* -> Check shutdown, which works perfectly, easily reversible, no coding, but has the undesirable side effect of also disabling the extended power menu.

2 - Some tools like NoLock that you can easily find in the market, however you get another icon in the notification bar, and sometimes the lockscreen still shows up.

I was wondering if there is a way to disable the lockscreen without these weird sideeffects, either with a modified framework (like $omator's way to change the icons), or with a script.

Thank you in advance

I am using Simplicity's ROM, based on STOCK, so I don't have that option from CM7 :(
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Talon26:
This may very well sound silly, and maybe its because im using CM7.1 but there is a setting in location and security... no lockscreen

Is it there for you? or does that not work?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ccrows:
NoLock's widget doesn't have any notification space used or wasted, and it works 99% if the time for me... *shrugs*
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] feelingnerdi:
I have cm7 latest stable release.

I seem to have more bars (3G or wifi) on sense roms and better reception versus this rom.

The problem is i have yet to find a sense rom that is not glitching.

If the answer is yes, and roms do make a difference in signal strength etc, what are my options?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sitlet:
Not at all, only the radios effect signal.

Keyword there is "seem". Some roms use a different "scale" to show how good your signal is. One bar on one rom can be the same signal as 5 bars on another.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] feelingnerdi:
Are there radios I can flash that increase my signal?
[Captivate Android Development] poo22:
To the first person to develop ice cream sandwich on the captivate:

I'll give 20$ for a proof of concept.

I'll give 40$ if it has hardware acceleration, gps, 3g and wifi.

Who else will pitch in? I'll try to update this thread to keep track of the total bounty. I think getting this up and running on the cappy is important as it's a major update for android with some very nice features.
[Captivate Android Development] Captain_Nero:
CyanogenMod has got our back, as soon as source is released. Just donate to them.

I am not amused with your phones performance
[Captivate Android Development] poo22:
Well they will have more incentive to work on it then.

What was that for?
[Captivate Android Development] flashman2002:
Chances are the "I am not amused by your phones performance" is just his signature.
[Captivate Android Development] orlandoxpolice:
is 'ice cream sandwitch' Halloween themed?
[Captivate Android Development] reinbeau:
Doesn't belong in development and really has no point. Thread closed.
[HTC EVO 3D] sprintuser1977:
I couldn't get it to work for nothing. Got it paired and connected but couldn't get it to work with snesoid or gensoid. The buttons would work on the phone but not with the emulators. Any ideas?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] trunip190:
Hi all,

I would like to start off by saying that I have spent many hours trawling the internet for the solution to this conundrum, and it's starting to sound a lot like the song "there's a hole in my bucket".

I own a HTC desire - my second one (the first is in a lake :( ) both of which have been rooted, s-off and with multiple roms tried on each. I have a nandroid backup of my current configuration stored on my computer, along with the contents of my sd card.

The problem(s):

I tried partitioning my sd card to have a2sd for insertcoin 1.0.5. I ran the alignment.zip in CWmod (alpharev version) and then installed insertcoin. It booted up fine, but the sd card wouldn't mount. I restarted, and removed it, checked it on my pc and the sd card works fine. The alignment log said it had changed the fdisk info, so I formatted the entire sdcard and tried it back in the phone - nothing. won't mount, comes up with the common "can't find ******blk0*" problem. Tried two more sd cards, neither of them work.

Then I made a big mistake, which in hindsight was very stupid. I did a factory reset to try and fix the problem.

So...now I have a desire that will not mount sd cards (even though hboot recognises hboot files on the sdcard) a desire that has no rom to start into, and I cannot get adb/fastboot to work. please give me at least the starting steps to go.

Any comments of "you're screwed" are not helpful.

I'm heading to bed now - i'm tired and sad and frustrated. Please help me - I don't like asking for help, and prefer finding solutions and posting my results.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stankyou:
Sounds like a usb brick..

Sent from HTC Desire via XDA App
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Terepin:
... Which is easily fixable. There is even recovery with brick fix.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] trunip190:
I tried searching into that, but are you able to point me towards any links, or the name of the recovery tool so that I can find it?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Terepin:
RMD Recovery. There is also tutorial for manual brick fix in dev section. Look for Desire index sticky thread.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] trunip190:
Thank you everyone for helping me with this, I followed this guide:

[can't post because i'm a new user, but search for "USB brick/rickrolled/b0rked -> FIXED!" on android.monaco.com]

and it appears to have fixed my problems. I have just installed a froyo rom, and am waiting on it booting up. Thank you so much.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] trunip190:
Seems that my enthusiasm was short lived. It worked to let me install froyo, but when I tried to install a system update I was unable to because I had the error back. I'm gonna have to redo it and hope it works again. At least I have a phone now though. :)
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] freefall2:
Hope you manage to get it sorted
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] backfromthestorm:
Just put rmd recovery on your sd as a pb19img.zip and flash it in bootloader! Choose usbfix... Fixed!

If you want the zip just say.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zumnao:
I want the link please
[G Tablet General] murphy504:
Check out my facebook page where stock and custom Rom G tab users can make their experience just as good, if not better, than the ipad. http://www.facebook.com/pages/Viewsonic-G-Tablet-for-Rookies/278995538780755

Tons of tips, tricks and cool features to make ur Gtab awesome.
[G Tablet General] Asmoden:
Cool.
[G Tablet General] bmag666:
"Awesomer than iPad"?!?

Seriously?

I can't find your tips for trimming half the GTab's thickness or one-third of its weight. And where is your tip for making the GTab screen viewable from wide angles?
[G Tablet General] Thegreatheed:
He's got tips there for not being an obnoxious iSnob.
[G Tablet General] iamnottypingthis:
I trimmed 1/3 of weight or more by cutting and sanding various inner components including the inner support structure.
[G Tablet General] M_T_M:
Won't be the only one crying if this continues mate...one more report about you and we'll meet again...capishe?

Regards,

M_T_M
[G Tablet General] gruuk:
Have you posted a how-to of the steps somewhere? I did find the "Weight savings via dremel & misc removal" thread, but that's all. A half-pound weight reduction seems unlikely, but if true I'm impressed.
[G Tablet General] MicroNuts:
Just figure out a way to port miui
[G Tablet General] schettj:
I'm all for custom roms, and I do like mine far better with honeycomb on it, but unless you can swap out the display your experience is going to be nowhere near as good. Plus there's no functional camera (if you can call the cheap webcam a camera)

So, yeah... tone down the expectations a tad. With the Kindle fire driving the pricepoint down to $200, I'm pretty much thinking the gtab is a steal at $50, something to consider at $100, and a really bad idea above that price point. New.
[G Tablet General] bmag666:
I think your assessment is a bit harsh. I paid ~$250 for my GTab six months ago. After experimenting with a few ROMs I settled on Clemsyn+Calkulin's version of Froyo. With working Skype, Netflix, and HBO Go I think even at $250 the GTab is well worth the price. Bear in mind that at $200 the Kindle Fire lacks a webcam and microphone and is really only optimized as a delivery device for Amazon's media. I already have a Kindle 3 and can get all the media I need on my GTab.

The original post was touting the GTab as "awesomer than the iPad", which, of course, it isn't, regardless of how you modify it. And at less than half the price, I don't expect it to be.
[G Tablet General] Thegreatheed:
Why are you still hating on the guy in the OP? To be fair, he said to make your Gtab EXPERIENCE awesomer than the iPad. Which it is, considering it's half the price. So, when you consider price which is part of the experience of owning it, the OP can be corrent.

He put together some info and shared it with others. /applaud.

You nitpick his word selection and berate his claim. /thumbsdown.
[G Tablet General] cranky_dan:
iLaff. XD

Dan