yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gabriox:
obviously the thread strayed away because there is no way i can get the new goolge market or instagram because i am on 2.1 eclair, to get it i have to update to 2.2 froyo. now here is the main problem. my phone is a t-mobile vibrant and but i am using AT&T on it thanks to sgs unlock tool. if i update to 2.2 and sgs unlock doesnt work. iam screwed. it means i cant call with the phone anymore. so what i want is 2.2 stock froyo rooted so that i can have the new market to download instagram and sgs unlock tool to work, so that i can continue using my AT&T sim. finish. so i guess i will use that pre- rooted stock 2.2 you mentioned.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Woody:
Found it ---> [ROM][2.2 Froyo][Stock] T959UVKB5 [Deodexed w/Lockscreens+Power Menu] Good luck and make sure you read the OP. Since it has Voodoo Lagfix, the intial boot up will take slightly longer.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gabriox:
how do i flash the first download ? the odin and heimdall downloads are corrupted. i have only used odin before.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] iTz KeeFy:
The thread will tell you.....Usually all you have to do is boot into recovery and choose "wipe data/factory reset" then click yes now go back and "wipe cache partition" and click yes now go back and click "advanced" then "wipe dalvik cache" choose yes. Now go back and choose "install zip from sd card" choose where you downloaded the ROM to (usually "Download" folder if you downloaded it from your phone) pick the file and say yes and it will flash away. Note: you don't really have to do the wipe cache and dalvik cache steps but i do anyway just to get a fresh install, you can even format the system partition if you want a really fresh install. Some people recommend wiping cache and dalvik cache AFTER you flash the ROM, if the thread says to do that then do it.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] N00B_IN_N33D:
Hmmm... That's odd, apparently they are both working now. Anywho here's a direct link to the Odin image download: http://apolo.hotshare.net/download/.../UVKB5_Deodexed_Stock_Voodoo_odin.tar.md5.zip. Although the "flashable" method of installation is also rather easy. Actually, there is a guide on flashing roms stickied in the Q&A section. Here's a link: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=849028. Since you're already rooted and on 2.1 the process of upgrading to 2.2 (Froyo) is shorter. In terms of the guide, you can skip straight to "OKAY, I HAVE ROOT - NOW WHAT? BACKUP!!!". Oh, BTW, seeing that you haven't posted in almost a year...

WELCOME BACK!​
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gabriox:
hmmmm i cant reboot in clockmod recovery and worst of all i cant download rom manager. its not on my market, only the premium one. **** my life. i am stuck :(

edit: ok i got into clockmod recovery phew :p
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Woody:
I posted this at the same time you edited yours. You say it doesn't work. Where is the problem?

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You are already on stock 2.1, pull the update.zip and follow my previous directions. No need for Odin and ROM Mgr doesn't support 2.1 anymore.

Step by step:

1 Download ROM (flashable version and not Hem or Odin) to your phone.

2 Pull Update.zip from my signature and put it on your internal_sd.

3 The Update.zip IS Clockwork Recovery

4 Boot into Recovery and hit Reinstall Packages (maybe twice) and your recovery will go from stock (blue) to Clockwork (green0)

5 scroll down to Install from SD and find the ROM that you downloaded in step 1. Hit it and flash it.

6 It will reboot

7 Profit

It is really easy to do, just try it, you'll like it. Don't complicate it more than you need to. Be safe but try not to over think it.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gabriox:
yessss!! i made it. THANKS ALOT WOODRUPE. i restored all my missing apps using titanium. the market has updated to google play and i installed instagram, most importantly the phone is still unlocked. :o i want to thank you for your quick reply and for tolerating my noobish question. i really appreciate it. :good:
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] umaraminud:
SGH-T959

Hi, I am new here and I saw a post that is similar to mine. I am using a Samsung vibrant SGH-T959. I formatted the phone and I lost everything in it. Losing all is not the problem but the thing is that all of my Google features deleted as well. Like Google play store, Google play services and more so I was able to send and download them back to the phone and install them but after installing it refuses to open saying Google play is not responding. So I saw a question that is like mine telling the person to move the Google play apk to system/app in the device memory. I tried to move to but its not moving at all. I used esfile manager but it can't move the apk to system/app when I try to paste it, it fails and tells me to retry. Pls help me, why is it not pasting in the system/app.
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GlenniBoy:
Hey guys,

I want to build a JellyBeanUIROM for our Galaxy ACE, for that i need a AOSP ICS ROM, i heard that Maclaw build's one, but i cannot find it :crying:

Is Maclaw's ICS ROM an AOSP ROM ????

It's important cuz i need the standart kernel and so on !

Do you know where i can find one :confused:

Thanks,

GlenniBoy

P.S.:Sorry for bad english, i'm from germany and only 12 years old :D
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] FrankyDoodle:
No AOSP rom yet, galaxyics is building one.
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GlenniBoy:
Thank you!!!

cuz for Google Now and so on, there must be AOSP, but thank you!!!
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TechNoJerky:
Just hit the thanks button.And don't forget to take permisions.
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Prawesome:
Google Now doesn't even work properly on non-JellyBean devices.Why would you want it?
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
Here's the link to the thread. There no download link yet as its still WIP

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1745022

Sent from my GALAXY Ace.
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] banane7:
Google Now is not ready

JB is not ready too..neither AOSP ROM
[Galaxy S III Q&A, (US Carriers)] dasistsparta:
Whats the return policy for phones bought on their website?restocking fee?within how many days do they accept returns?how long you gotta wait to get the refund?
[Samsung Infuse 4G] 74Eldo:
I was having trouble getting rainbow recovery while flashing an ics rom. I odin'd the GB bootloaders which fixed recovery - i could get a smooth blue recovery. I've since odin'd back to stock via qster's heimdall return-to-stock package, then re-loaded a previous nandroid backup, which is AEON. Running smooth. I want to flash PA that requires GB bootloaders. Can I be sure I still have them?

Infuse w AEON
[Samsung Infuse 4G] Dani897:
once you have them they dont go away
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] resynx:
Thanks for sharing this find, I'm sure others will find this to be useful :)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] rekrapg:
No problem, true believer in sharing my stupid mistakes so other may not follow, or if they do, know how to fix :)

Oh, in my write up - one change now edited - run the bat with the phone connected to USB **WITHOUT** battery in, once it's finished insert and boot up :)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Djabolic:
Next time I'll be more safe while flashing roms to my phone.

Great find.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] molesarecoming:
wow, this is possible? i thought cwm will prevent you from flashing wrong zips and even if not, why would it kill the bootloader? i was under the impression gnex is close to unbrickable but this topic you linked opened a whole can of worms for me, whats with all these hundreds of people who hard(!)bricked their nexus ... did i miss something? :confused:
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] rekrapg:
This was a custom zip I had created myself to do some things on my tab, it ran from install script an install.sh that then went and installed a recovery img. Pretty sure i've never seen this before from any install zip, it was the behaviour I put in mine that allowed it to go through, and I hadn't put into the script to stop if not correct device - lesson learned ;)

BUT - that said, you can do things like this to your phone running scripts, very easy to actually if it's running from su... So never run scripts unless you trust he person whose created it (or have written it yourself and certain of it), know it's definitely for your device, and, most importantly - never miss this step - have had 3 cups of coffee first :good:
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Theshawty:
Nice find OP, but honestly, how people manage to hard brick a Galaxy Nexus is beyond me.

Though, I am glad you learned from this and actually USED Google to search beforehand. ^^
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] rekrapg:
LOL - easy thing to do if you're screwing with stuff before you're awake, especially scripts. Anything running under superuser can do this effectively, especially scripts working in /dev/block/... All it takes is one FAIL and you're bricked - the question then becomes is it permanent or not! And I always google before I ask questions, otherwise i'd lose my right to abuse others who don't!!! :angel:
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] efrant:
If it's not permanent, it's not, and never was, a brick. ;)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] rekrapg:
True - but in how many cases would the above be considered a brick? :)

If I wasn't such a stubborn son of a *****, I would have just called it a brick after the standard revive tricks failed :p
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] sarni84:
Well it happens my dude.....at least he took the time out to give a guide and explained how he fixed it just in case someone else does something similar

---------- Post added at 08:56 AM ---------- Previous post was at 08:54 AM ----------

True....but most people would not know what to do in this situation and call it a day....at least he searched Google and fixed his problem. Wish more people were like him ya know

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Exactly I said most people would have called it a day.....ZOMGZ MA FONEZ NO LITE UPZ IT HARDSOFT BRICKED!! .....lol all joking aside man your like me I wouldn't have stopped until I was absolutely sure I needed them JTAG boys ;)

Persistence pays off...remember that
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] rekrapg:
Yup. In most cases, there's a way around a problem, you just have to dig until you find it :)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ntorresla:
Congratulations

Saludos desde Ecuador
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] jvw:
Though I don't want to have chance to perform your provided method, it's really good to know, in case....

Congratulation and thanks!
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Chad_Petree:
In step 6 you say choose omap, but which one? omap flash drive? omap p4460? also i cant install any of those it says it is not signed and it wont install, i tried booting in safe mode and no luck, i tried using the 'bcdedit /set nointegritychecks ON" , rebooted, no luck either :(

My galaxy nexus is not exactly bricked but i cant get into bootloader, recovery or fastboot , do you think this method could be useful to me?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] rekrapg:
Choose the one closest to what displays on the device manager. I started with the OMAP Flash Drive one and it worked for me, but you can always choose the 'update driver' option and install another if required. Turn off User Account Control in Control Panel/Users and make sure you're on an admin account, as it may by default block the ability to install unsigned drivers, to be honest not sure on that one as it's always been first port of call for me on Win 7 (and Vista).

I also found this that might help: http://www.techspot.com/community/t...signed-drivers-in-windows-vista-7-x64.127187/
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] mrschmitz:
Wish I would have found this a week ago! The exact same thing happened to me, except I had been running a working JB ROM for a day or so.

Went jogging, was listening to music, came home, music stopped, screen wouldn't turn on with power button or USB cable with a charger or a computer, but there was a notification LED flashing. No amount of pressing and holding the power button would bring it back to life, so I pulled the battery. After that it was in the exact state your GNEX was in. Not even the vibrate when trying to power it up. After a few hours of charging and trying all sorts of things to breathe life into it (including a battery swap) I ended up returning it to the brick and mortar VZW store and they replaced it because I was under 2 weeks with the phone.

Thanks for posting!
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] lemonspeakers:
I ran the OMAPFLASH_tuna on my GNex and now, I seem to be stuck at "Sending Data"(SEE last line in the image attached)

The values of 131072 has been like that for over 20 minutes and have not changed. What data is it sending and to who or where?

to those who've used this too, What should happen after this?

thanks...
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] rekrapg:
I would be lying if I said I knew exactly what this wonderful tool is doing mate :) With mine, it ran through in like 30 seconds to completion. I ran it 3 times to be sure! I have 2 suggestions,

1. Sign up to those forums and ask the expert :)

2. If your device is already 'bricked', it may be worth just disconnecting, closing the CMD window, reconnect and re-run it.

I'm no expert on this application though, I simply found it, it worked for me, so I shared. So option 1 may be your best shot. It's quite likely the bloke who created the tool will be able to let you know the proper path to go down.

EDIT: I am at work atm, so I can't 're-run' it on my device to show you the screen - but I recall it comes up with a 'press any key to continue' prompt after completion (pressing any key just re-runs it).
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] lemonspeakers:
Funny because another person on GSMHosting is experiencing the same problem and says that his just stops downloading... Just like mines and at the same stop too... hummm...
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] LubricatedSword:
Great find! Will need to keep this guide in case anything happens.

Congrats and thanks!

Sent from Anthony's Nexus using xda app-developers app
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] jzero88:
Wish this was up when mine "died". Could have saved me time and trouble :)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Chad_Petree:
I managed to install the drivers but not on my computer with windows 8 x64 , i got the drivers to install on a computer with windows 8 32 bits, when the driver installation was done , i got a message saying the device may not work, and indeed on device manager shows up with a yellow exclamation symbol but at least its recognized it says"omap flash driver" or "locosto usb drive or " Omap 4460" it shows the name of any driver i choose to install but with a yellow sign , by the way is the nexus's screen supposed to turn on when i plug it to the usb? because it doesnt it just stays off and when i run the omap.bat it keeps saying waiting for the device :crying:
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Chad_Petree:
Guess I'm gonna have to send it to repair :(
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] rekrapg:
Sorry was away a few days...

If it didn't recognise on the first driver you installed, try another. When you add legacy hardware and browse to the driver folder, you should have multiple choices. If first doesn't work, then go into device manager again, update driver on the one you have installed currently, again manually browse to driver location, and select next one down in the list. One of them should allow it to be recognised by the toolkit.

And, yes, screen on phone remains blank. You MUST have battery out of the phone for the phone to be recognised by the toolkit too.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Chad_Petree:
This is the error screen after i install the drivers and this is how the drivers appear on device manager
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] dianlb50:
OMAP drivers

I can't find the OMAP drivers on the internet, can anybody help me please ? thx
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] youngr:
if you read the thread the op linked to, you'll see the zip has the driver included.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Dragn4rce:
Well u can't brick a galaxy nexus software wise.

You can only break it.

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If I have helped you.... hit that sexy thanks button. ^_^
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] shreddintyres:
There is always the possibility that this utility presently is not compatible with Windows 8. You may want to try it on another comuter, tho if i recall correctly windows 8 is more or less a UI refresh of Windows 7
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] t.saddington:
Thanks for sharing, I am bookmarking this page as it is most likely going to happen to me :eek:
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] got556:
This definitely came in handy this morning. Got my g/f's replacement GNEX from VZW. Unlocked it, rooted it, and after installing CWM I was going to install Touch CWM and accidentally flashed the Nexus 7 touch recovery. BRICKED. Thank you so much for this thread. It worked.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] LDelSanto86:
Saved this page as I'm pretty new to root and I'll no doubt need it at some point. Is this a fool proof way to unbrick the gnex or is it a crapshoot? Thanks!
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] chewy74:
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[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] heiszakee:
Hey! This just may the thing i need to get my nexus up and running! However the download link seems to be down. Can someone mirror it please? :)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Lesicnik1:
Link works normally here.

Mirror: https://www.dropbox.com/s/b28hxmxwi6bo0sb/OMAPFlash_tuna.zip

(File might randomly be removed one day as I clean my dropbox folder)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] :
It happens to everything man. You flash the wrong zip for you phone it would brick. It is normal. It is me like saying I will flash a zip files meant for the Gnexus on the HTC spicy (I think that is what it is called). It would brick. But you are right the Gnexus is very hard to be bricked in any case.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] mumaxe:
YOU

You have no idea of what a ****hole you just got me out of!! I love you
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] cobrabkex:
OMG I was scared!

You can just have me now!!!! Thanks for the info and the link to the download, and thanks to the person who created the original file. I must have done a bad flash of a kernel and I thought I was done for.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] jericho7:
I am such an idiot, I had read this thread when I first got my Nexus, last week this exact thing happened to me and I totally forgot about this thread and sent it to my carrier for repair, oh well, atleast now if they call back saying they would have to charge me for repairs cuz my warranty is void for flashing ROMS, I'll just tell them to send it back and fix it myself lol
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Nochnoy:
This info saved my phone. I thought it was dead.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] FdCrucian:
Hey, guys. I've just registered to say thank you to mr. legija for excellent work. From Russia with love.

But i have some questions:

I've unbricked my i9250 about 2 times using this software, but today it's bricked again (i think that the battery was 0%), so i've ran the *.bat file again and again and again... and nothing happens. No errors, log says that all complete and perfect.

What i've already made:

1. Re-install drivers

2. Reboot the PC

3. Pulled off the battery for 8 hours

4. Charged up the battery in the other nexus to 100%

AS a result: i have no errors in cmd log file, but phone is still bricked.

Help me, please.

Thanks.

Alexander
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Pierceye:
By battery at 0%, do you mean it died during a flash? I'm not positive about the GNex, but that was an absolute sure-fire way to hard brick an Evo 4G.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] exzacklyright:
I keep getting an error when i run the .bat file so I think it's a driver issue. Followed the OP's instructions but there's lots of models under the omap_winusb.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] efrant:
4460
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] exzacklyright:
instead i just installed via double clicking on omap44440 device. and i got it like this.. but .bat file still has errors with the driver.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] sumit hooda:
this is really amazing thread, this is something every gnex user must bookmark .
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] lemmy_0:
I'm having exactly the same problem.

Stuck at sending data.

Can anyone help?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] yyz71:
Oh Man thank you very much for this:good:Fix my sh t:D
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] keroz:
I'm stuck at step 7, when I plug my gnex I hear the usb sound and after sec the unppluged usb sound.

This is how the devmgmt looks like after that...
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] dpgetz:
Good info! Thanks :)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] nexnoob:
Help

I would like to start with a huge THANKS to rekrapg for the solution and countless other experts here in XDA-Developers.

Am based in India where Samsung didn't launch the phone officially which didn't stop us from getting it through friends and relatives from abroad. My phone is from the US Google Play Store which, I guess, is called the Takju. However my friend bought it 'used' locally and hence have no idea which version it is. Unlike me he didn't receive any OTA 4.2.1 update and hence believe it to be a non-play store model.

One fine day his phone switched off and when powered on it went into the Google, Nexus logo loop. So he heads to the Samsung service centre which turns him away since the phone is not supported officially. He persuades one of the employees to try his hand in fixing it and he did something which effectively bricked it (a plain black screen with no reaction to any button presses) as described by rekrapg so am guessing the employee tried flashing a different phones' ROM.

The phone is now with me, I have followed this thread by rekrapg and did taste some success. The screen now shows the “Phone.. Yellow Triangle ..PC screen” described in this thread (http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1985860&highlight=bricked+triangle+exclamation+computer+screen). This thread ends with reference to rekrapg thread again.

I have no idea where to head to from here. There is no insurance, no replacement, nothing. We bought the phone purely relying on the open source credentials of the Android platform and the countless experts here in forums like XDA. Please help. Thanks a ton in advance.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] nexnoob:
Re: Help

Well we gave up after reading through this thread (http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1671044&highlight=hard+brick+hope). Looks like it is a hardware brick and nothing can be done except replacement which sadly is not possible.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] fultonpub:
good info
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Philsener:
Hi,

i tried the OMAPflash-bat-thing and it always stops at a certain point. After downloading "...\tuna\sbl.img" it stops, nothing happens after that point with the batch (waited for 20 minutes now).

any ideas? cheers!