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[Vibrant General] RickCain:
Yep, I was trying to flash T959UVJE8 including the modem, csc, and pda when it just went blank and will not even turn on. No charging information when connected, NOTHING. This was after flashing the JM1/2 firmware today and realizing the modem/csc was EU and wouldn't work here in the US. This just sucks.
[Vibrant General] i-render:
I have this problem too. After flashing T959UVJE8 my vibrant is bricked :(
[Vibrant General] AustinKnight45:
No irs not you need to get it into download mode then you have to flash back to stock vibrant with odin keep reading the forum man I'm going to bed

Ya sent from my Vibrant, and no Im not going to send it back ;)
[Vibrant General] i-render:
My phone is not respond to key press, not recognize computers, not boot up :(. help me please
[Vibrant General] squidsoffury:
Same thing happened to my phone without any luck of powering it up. I changed firmware once and attempted to flash it back to stock firmware and upon restarting, it never turned back on :(

Plugging it in doesn't bring up a charging icon. I tried all sorts of button combination's to try getting it into download mode, but no luck. Can't communicate with it via sdk or odin. Anyone have any other ideas??
[Vibrant General] RickCain:
I same thing here bro..... I am going to attempt to return the phone today at a T-Mobile store.
[Vibrant General] i-render:
Guys, how to fix my problem? Please? help me :(
[Vibrant General] oc3rulz:
one thing you can try (i had the power button go out on my nexus one)

Plug in the phone to charge, have the back cover off and keep pulling and re-inserting the battery, to see if it comes back on.

do this in like 3-5sec intervals. pull the battery, let it stay out for like 3secs, then put it back in the phone. wait like 3sec to see if the phone turns on.

anything to try and help
[Vibrant General] youneek:
Launch Odin. While holding both volume buttons down, plug the phone into your computer. Dont touch the power button. Your phone should show up in odin.
[Vibrant General] i-render:
not worcked
[Vibrant General] mjpacheco:
Worth trying, including with the phone "not" plugged in, yesterday I was in a totally dead state and pulled the battery and put it back in, amazingly it returned to life.
[Vibrant General] oc3rulz:
This is also an option, but as my phone is not "bricked" I can't say this will work either. but I did get mine to respond this way, it immediately put it in Download mode from boot. Worth a shot

Try the above mentioned from "youneek"
[Vibrant General] dex1701:
I had this same thing happen after Odin froze during a flash of the stock Vibrant US firmware. I thought for sure it was dead...no battery charging icon when plugged in, couldn't boot into download mode, no signs of life at all...nothing I did made it do anything. After messing around for an hour and a half I figured out how to get it to boot into download mode:

1. Removed SD and SIM card

2. Removed battery

3. plugged the phone into USB

4. held down vol-up and vol-down

5. popped the battery back in while holding vol buttons

This got me into download mode consistently when my phone looked 100% dead. After that I unplugged it from the computer (still in download mode), fired up Odin, set up my flash files, and plugged it back into the computer. It then showed up in Odin and I was able to re-flash successfully.

Maybe it will work for you guys too. Don't put the SD card or SIM card back in until after you flash, though. I couldn't get mine to flash correctly with the cards installed.
[Vibrant General] i-render:
tried all this solutions. nothing works for me :(
[Vibrant General] dex1701:
Did you try my suggestion above?

Also, if you press and hold the power button while holding vol-up do you get a screen with a list of IRQ numbers in red?
[Vibrant General] i-render:
I tried your way, too, nothing. There is no image on the display, is not recognized by computers. (Sorry for my english)
[Vibrant General] dex1701:
Mine didn't show anything on the display and wasn't recognized by computers either. I couldn't even get it to show the battery charging image when I plugged it in. The method I described worked for me consistently even though I couldn't get the phone to do anything at all under any circumstances. Sorry it didn't work for you. I'd still try it a few more times, though, just to make sure.
[Vibrant General] ArbitrageMan:
I hadn't tried the no SD card, no SIM card routine, however, that didn't fix it for me either.

I bricked my phone last Thursday trying to flash a new kernel, and could never recover it via ODIN. It kept getting stuck on zimage or cache.rfs. Thankfully the replacement arrived today from TMo... Im still a little shell shocked and scared about trying to flash anything onto the replacement.
[Vibrant General] dex1701:
Yeah, mine got stuck on those every time until I tried flashing with the SD card and SIM card out of the phone. I really, really thought I was bricked until I figured out the "battery out, usb in, hold both vol buttons, battery in" method. My phone wouldn't do anything at all.
[Vibrant General] i-render:
Thank you for trying to help me. I hope that my vibrant is ever going to live
[Vibrant General] lvl1nerd:
YOU ARE DA MAN! Thank you so much! I was about to return the phone also :)
[Vibrant General] M5devil:
Looks like I'm the only one who has a true brick here...

None of these methods work on my phone, because it looks like some phone respond to the volume+power keys and some simply don't.

My phone gets stuck on the Vibrant boot loop when I try to turn it on. Or it gets to a grey color battery screen when it loads via USB cable.

Anyone experienced the grey battery screen???
[Vibrant General] Kyim4202:
Thank You, used this method and it worked. Didn't work with my PC, but it worked when I used my daughters netbook.
[Vibrant General] tsnow247:
I'm having the same issue.

Although Mine started doing this after I tried the "unlagfixme.bat"

I think my boot file got misplaced or deleted and so now all I get is a Vibrant splash screen boot loop.

If I plug it in I do get the battery charging image.

no luck on any button combos for download mode.

does anyone know of any hard disk software that can be used to show the contents of any hard disk no matter what? Data recovery software or something. I'm pretty sure that all I'm missing is a boot file.

Thanks for any help.

T

Edit: While the phone is boot-looping at the vibrant screen Odin will recognise it for a second. So I tried typing "adb reboot download" and "adb reboot recovery." Both of them gave me the response...

"error: protocol fault (no status)"

Does anybody know what this could mean?

I'll try and post a logcat if that will help anyone help me.

Here's the logcat
[Vibrant General] atoz350:
He's not the first one. I bricked mine 6 days after buying it. Flashed through ODIN back to stock...entered the .pit file, and forgot to enter the .tar file. Also hit re-partition. ZAP, black screen. Only able to see if it's on if the room is totally dark. I just exchanged it with the excuse: " I unplugged it from the charger this morning and it won't come on."
[Vibrant General] RickCain:
I had the same exact problem and thank god was within the first 30 days (lucky to be in Cali). Walked in told them it wouldn't turn on, which it wouldn't, and they gave me a brand new Vibrant.

From that point on I have not visited the i9000 forum here in fear I will flash my phone to its death......
[Vibrant General] fragimar:
This saved my life. Thank you!
[Vibrant General] jimliza:
help

i flashed my phone with "froyo no brick" and now im stuck in recoverymode

can anyone please help up is down and down is up. can had a workind adb interface am now having driver issues... please please help willing to donate the cause i was on stock rooted clockwork recover windows 7 32 bit
[Vibrant General] darksandz93:
wait you guys are saying you bricked by flashing stock rom through ODIN?? im scared now....dont wanna use ODIN now.
[Vibrant General] Colt1911:
Dude! I owe you a beer! No, seriously. PM me a paypal and I'm buying. Your method saved my ass. Took me a while to sift through all the search results and I consider myself lucky to find the info you presented.

I actually brought the MT3g out and fired it up. I thought I was gonna have to do the USB resistor trick on my Vibe.
[Vibrant General] Colt1911:
Old thread, yes. But, maybe someone will stumble onto this and benefit like I did.

Odin 1.0 hung and bricked my phone.

What I had to do was use Odin 1.52 and it worked fine. It was easier than pie.
[Vibrant General] Asgard_online:
The same problem - Vibrant looks like DEAD

Hi All.

I have the same problem:

Some days ago I received my brand new Vibrant and tried to flash it by Odin 1.7 (the target was to get a russian locale on it)

After flashing, phone goes to reboot and never boot up again.

I tried:

1. Vol Up + Vol Down + Power after inserting battery

2. Battery out, USB in, Vol Up + Vol Down, battery in

3. Battery in, USB JIG in (301KOm on 4th and 5th pins)

Nope. Nothing works. No leds, no logo screen - nothing.

I have no warranty cause I'm live a far far away of T-Mobile :o

Is there any other suggestions to bring my baby back to life ?

I read that RIFF Box JTAG can help resurrect phone, has anyone tried that ?
[Vibrant General] wildklymr:
Dont touch power at all when going into download mode. Open odin first. Pull out battery, put back in. then hold both up and down volume keys and while holding, plug in the usb.
[Vibrant General] Asgard_online:
Not working.
[Vibrant General] wildklymr:
Did these methods work before? Because it sounds like you have a hardware locked one. There is a fix for that if you could boot it up, but it looks like you're out of luck.
[Vibrant General] _atlien_:
Those batteries got charge right? Are you getting the charge icon when you plug phone to charger? If battery at zero usb might not bring it to life right away.
[Vibrant General] Br1cK'd:
Did you remove the sim and sd cards? Those should be out when trying to access dl mode.

Sent from my Vibrant running Macnut R10
[Vibrant General] Asgard_online:
Well, I was able to get recovery mode, but cannot get a download mode with buttons (actually while phone was alive I not tried the method with pulling battery out, usb in etc. - so I don't really now), used adb to get download mode.

The recovery mode is inacessible on a hardware locked phone, isn't it ?

Battery is well charged, tested with voltmeter (4,07V).

On battery charging there is no any activity, screen is black, but phone heating near sd card socket.

Yep, sim and sd cards was removed.
[Vibrant General] motoyola:
argh!

anybody found a way to resolve this? i just got this very same problem

no power,no connection, main lcd wont even light up anymore

ive tried every single solution in this thread and the computer wont even detect it.

this happened when i tried to flash T959UVJE8-factory-final-MS_Guru pda,modem,csc files through ODIN1.7 (from 2.1 stock)

after it finished flashing it rebooted and never woke up again

would really appreciate if someone got back it back from the dead
[Vibrant General] Asgard_online:
Well, yesterday I got info, that man with exact same problem found a technician with RIFF Box (it's a hardware JTAG controller), and he flashed new bootloader. After this operation phone was able to get into download mode. I'll try to find it in my city.
[Vibrant General] sgtslayer321:
worked great for me thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:d
[Vibrant General] mosennsteau:
Just tried this and it worked perfectly! That was after trying almost 2 hrs worth of other suggestions.

Thanks
[Vibrant General] abdrhmn:
Whats te meaning of (RIFF Box) booting ??
[Vibrant General] motoQuigley:
OMG Thank you

This worked, consistently. The phone was totally dead after the battery died during Odin flash. TY TY TY TY
[Vibrant General] Only Loki:
I bricked mine a few weeks ago. That was the second phone, even though I was Odining when I did it I don't think that was the cause of it bricking. I think that my nand chip was fried.

Before flashing I was having problems installing app and restoring apps and pretty much saving anything to the system partition. Everything would read and my text messages were working but that was it so I thought that maybe I should flash because it was a new Rom.

During the flash back to jfd my phone started to smell really funny. And then boom nothing.

Afterwards I realized that before I got the nand problem, my phone was charging on the couch and had slipped into one of the creases and had got so hot that it was hard to hold and I had to pull the battery and put it in front of a fan.

Similar thing happened to my first vibrant. I was charging it, using GPS and surfing the internet on it while it was sitting in the car cradle on the hottest day of the year hear in Detroit. It was like 98 degrees probably more on the dashboard. Got a kernal fault message on that one.
[Vibrant General] dverrette:
You are the Man!
[Vibrant General] Tynen:
I know when I bricked my phone it showed Computer ! Phone screen. (it was harrdware locked so no hope for recovery)

On a good note I got t-mobile to replace it for freee! :)
[Vibrant General] Ms_Vibrant:
umm speaking of help!

i havent bricked my vibrant (yet, hope never)

but i reverted back to jfd via odin, i flashed without problems except that i cant type anything on the browser , any java type serach bar on the browser , i cant type anything... the keyboard pops up but nothing i entered shows up in the search bar or anything to type on the native browser??

anyone know why? and how do i fix this?

i flashed jfd , then j16 (odin and kies) but none seems to fix the problem..

but on jk6 it's fine... but i'd like to be on stock j16, and i dont wanna be on that with the whole keyboard browser issue going on..

can someone please tell a fix regarding this.. what do i do?

thank you
[Vibrant General] Kilted_One:
It just sounds like you have a bad load. It's okay, it happens. Just grab the stock stock file from a different source, to make sure it wasn't the file that caused the problem, and reload.
[Vibrant General] Ms_Vibrant:
^^ thanks for replying :)

ive been trying to fix it for the past 3 days and it just wont get back to normal..

i already flashed another jdf firmware from another source which is from samfirmware( the first one was from xda).. still, the same problem..

and another thing, whenever i do a factory reset , my GPS is always on... something tells me that i may have messed the software when flashing JK6 for the first time where it got stuck in recovery mode.. it's as if it had saved my system settings in the way that my phone was set up or the state of my phone prior to update.. does that make sense? i had swiftkey on at that time, and i think the gps was on when i tried to odin JK6 to my phone.. soo since it failed to update perfectly being stuck in recovery mode... the current settings of my phone got stuck as well? so now the keyboard does not work in browser coz i had swiftkey on when i updated? so now it wont find it? but on messaging , email , dial , it's fine..and also i did not do a factory reset/ clean wipe first before i updated to jk6 coz i read somewhere that it updating via odin wont delete my data... little did i know that it gave me problems... or maybe because i did not uncheck repartition when i updated to jk6 that's why it got stuck in recover mode and messed up my browser?

i dont know anymore, ive lost a lot of hair already from the constant pull-outs every after flashing and seeing the same issue aaarrrgh LOL ( i kid!).. and the only third party b rowser that works out of all the browser available in the market is firefox and opera..

i even tried uninstalling browser apk and installing it .. still, the same problem..

i replicated the procedure i did the first time i tried to flash jk6, but only this time i did the procedure on clean factory reset-ed j16... hoping it would come back to normal.. so it went to recovery mode again.. pulled the battery then flashed JFD.. still the same problem..

now my phone is afflicted with a bug that i cant resolve...

i have given up , thouhg i know thta i can get a replacement , but id rather not... ill just wait until the official froyo update comes and hopefully that will fix it... maybe the eclair 2.1 firmware in my phone is just messed up now ... coz when i flash JK6 , the browser is fine.. so maybe froyo will fix it .. if it doesnt , then ill get a replacement one..

sighhh.. lesson learned = never again to flash anything! ill just leave my phone the way it is... or perhaps a gingerbread firmware is what ill flash when it gets around.. LOL

ill stick with firefox for now.. not bad anyway. i would've kept the jk6 leak on my phone , but i cant stand the feeble soft key buttons... the onyl issue i cant stand, so forget it..

oh well..
[Vibrant General] Ms_Vibrant:
yay! finally fixed it.. LOL
[Vibrant General] baggedaccord:
mine was like this for three day no power no anything if i left it alone over night it would go it to download mode for me an the i did the nobrick eugene then flash back to stock after 3 days of a paper wight my vibrant is back to running try to put nobrick froyo then back to stock worked for me
[Vibrant General] brnbock:
I suggest if any of you are still having problems try this method, seems pretty solid

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=819551
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] funkeee:
Hey folks

I'm running Amon Ra 1.7, and I have a lot of Nandroid backups. I was wondering if there was any recovery tool that allows us to add comments to each backup to help differentiate them. As of now in Amon they are sorted by date. Having several backups each day, it gets very difficult to keep track of what each one is. Having a little file on my sdcard is helpful but cumbersome.

Thanks
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] kyouko:
You can always just mount your sdcard and rename them. Just dont use funny symbols such as $ or % and you cannot have spaces. Use an _ instead.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] UrbanMuppet:
Have you looked at Clockwork? With Rom Manager you can name the backups prior to making them.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] halfelite:
I installed rom manager and was going to start testing out different roms but had a few questions.

1. If I backup my current rom with rom manager are all my apps/settings saved in that backup.

2. I backup all my paid apps with titanium backup. once I flash a new rom can i restore my paid apps back on a new flashed rom.

Thanks

Chris
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] omegasun18:
I believe Rom manager back up just does a Nand Back up for you. if this is correct then yes all your apps and settings are saved I am not 100% because i havent used rom manager much.

with titanium back up yes you can restore your paid and all other apps onto the new rom, it also saves there settings which is a big bonus.

What i usually do is make a nandroid back up through recovery for each rom I try. (i have a stock oh **** fall back nand as well and i save all these on my computer except 1 or 2 i use frequently).

I assume you are using the stock rooted rom now. I would make a nandroid of it then do all the wipes and flash a new rom set it up and as long as everything is working you are ready to go. before flashing the next rom yu want to try nandroid that rom and that way if you like it better you can easily restore the back up and be right were you left it.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] UrbanMuppet:
Rom Manager makes a full backup of everything. I have't tested Titanium backup yet.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] michaelvibe:
Couldn't have said it better. My nandroid back ups are starting to pile up....
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] smith10:
I am using ClockworkMod Recovery v2.5.0.1 and in an attempt to use Fresh Evo 0.5.3 I screwed something up. I downloaded the zip file while I was at work to my sd card. In Recovery I went into "install zip from sdcard" and selected the zip. When I went to reboot the screen gave me the white boot up. After about 10 seconds the screen went black, then the white boot up came back on. This loops continuously.

On top of this, I didn't install the Evo-Recovery correctly (I dont have any recovery that I know of).

I was using the DetoxEVO Theme prior to this, and attempted to go back to it after wiping both user data and cache partition. The loop continued to happen.

I'm completely lost here and really would appreciate some help. Is there a way to access my sd card and drop the Evo-Recovery in and then run the recovery? If anyone could help that would be awesome.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nyc_zx10:
What did you name the file that you placed on your SD card ?

You can remove the SD card and load it onto your PC via a card reader.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] smith10:
I've got a card reader, but I'm not sure where to go from here. I deleted the Fresh Evo 0.5.3 zip file and tried to install a recovery backup using Evo-Recovery.zip, but it's still stuck.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tauzins:
u had to wipe data/clear cache before u tried flashing
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CrazyFoool:
After flashing FRESH, then going back to stock with this method.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=731801&highlight=back+stock

My wifi does NOT work, nor does facebook sync my contacts.

Anybody else have these problems, one or the other? I'd like to get this fixed. :confused:
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nyc_zx10:
Do your Google contacts sync ?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CrazyFoool:
only w/ 3g.

yeah, my google contacts sync...super slow but they sync...and i believe my friendstream sync too when i'm back on sense.

I'm going to run the RUU exe to see if it works.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CrazyFoool:
OK I FIXED THE WIFI!

but my facebook contact still won't sync w/ my contacts so no pictures and it says i have no friends.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nyc_zx10:
There appears to be a problem with Evo and Facebook users who have a lot of friends.
[myTouch 3G, Magic Apps and Games] ali2010:
plz help bored of my phone wanna customize it any themes for my mytouch 3g slide:confused:
[myTouch 3G, Magic Apps and Games] Binary100100:
I bet that you didn't bother looking here: myTouch 3G Slide Themes and Apps
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] spartansbleedgreen:
I rooted via Simpleroot and flashed Damagecontrol. I'm trying to remove some of the crap apps like Teeter, Flickr, etc and when I try to delete the apks via android mate it says they are deleted but still show up. When I try to remove them via adb I get an error saying remove failed, read-only file system.

Am i not properly rooted? Need help.
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DjCalvin:
2 Questions.

1. How can i install ringtones and use the default app to show them all? (I usually use astro to set a mp3 to a ringtone, but I found a rom with a bunch I liked that were not in the Rom I am using currently) I like using the default selector.

2. How can I pull the ringtones out of another rom?

ty
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ahjee:
I removed default ringtones by using ES file manager in the market (make sure to go to settings and allow root permission a well as read/write) once you have the app and open it and back out of the sd card root into OS , select system folder then media, in there is notifications and ringtones and whatnot. Now that you know where to put the ringtones just copy and paste them there.

Now I'm a noob so there may be an easier better way but worked for me ha ha.

Oh and ringdroid app from the market works well in trimming them. I usually make tones then put them in as system defaults.

Sorry can't help with question two