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[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Unrenowned:
What steps did you take?
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DKA:
I tried this on my Galaxy S GT-I9000 and it didn't work :(
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] b1u3m3th:
It sure would be nice to know how you got it back...
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] HeydavidV:
Thanks for the steps andershizzle! You just got me back to download mode!
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Lavundra21:
when i press the sound buttons and release i get a screen that says unknown upload mode or something. but when i dont press any buttons and press the power or plug the phone into my cpu it just goes into android system recovery mode. while in this recovery mode i cant use anything but the volume buttons(which are reversed) and the menu but that takes me to a different screen with no writing but the android symbol and an exlamation inside the triangle. Odin does discovery my phone which is a good sign. any help would be appreciated.. thanks
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Fancypost:
My phone is still hardware locked after trying this many times, and I can see the phone through Droid Explorer, but I cannot boot to download mode through it, as the console will not accept keystrokes. I have reinstalled the USB drivers multiple times. I hear that if I keep trying the hardware methods, it should work eventually, but if anyone knows why I can't operate the phone through droid explorer, I'd appreciate the help
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kid Poker:
You are wrong to say that it is truely impossible to brick this phone.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] iwillkillyou:
Lol this ain't new, but thank you :)
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Anderdroid:
Depends what you mean by Brick. Unless you purposely flash over the recovery and ruin it then there you go.

Either way, I don't know anything about these 'hardware locked' Vibrants. Don't know what to say for you but adb reboot download is an option if you can access adb.

And yeah. For those of you that this helped, it wasn't for you, it was for your precious vibrants :p
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kizer:
Ive tried many ways and what I've learned that has worked every time is to:

1. Insure phone is off

2. Plug in USB cable to PC

3. Hold down Vol +/-

4. Plug in USB to phone

5. Wait for about a second then Let go of Vol +/-

Walla Download mode

Run Odin. Of course it would really pay off to have a copy of everything you already need backed up and saved at home just in case you have to restore via Odin. Drivers, Odin and of course the files your flashing.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] frankencat:
Gadget Serial USB Driver for Windows..

http://downloadcenter.samsung.com/c...918151418765_Samsung_USB_Driver_Installer.exe
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gonintendo:
please help, i can only get it to the vibrant screen!
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] los0325:
What if the computer wants to install drivers when i have download mode on phone and odin up? my phone and odin are not syncing any ideas :o?
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] frankencat:
I am having a nasty problem, I am trying to flash back to stock using ODIN as I have done many times but this time it starts up and all is going well then it just hangs on

<ID:0/004> Added!!

<ID:0/004> Odin v.3 engine (ID:4)..

<ID:0/004> File analysis..

<ID:0/004> Get PIT for mapping..

<ID:0/004> Firmware update start..

<ID:0/004> cache.rfs

And the phone goes black. Then if I pull the batter I get the phone-->computer icon. I can still get into download but I cant get ODIN to go any farther. Anybody know how to get out of this?
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rramey23:
Thank you so much for this post. Fixed the problems I had perfectly.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] southplatte:
:p Precious Vibrants. Mine was precious until gps didn't work, until found it was HW locked too late, until tmo store gave me the run around. Oh well new one on the way, again I will have my precious.

Anyways, for the hardware lock, it's been determined that it was a faulty bootloader (or something similar) that seems to be completely random on which phones came factory with the flakeyness, and there is a fix: [MOD] Fix for hardware locked phones / cant access recovery without adb.

I suggest ANYONE who cannot access recovery/download mode via the vol/pwr/usb combinations that have been posted to work in the many various threads read that thread and try the fix BEFORE you begin flashing custom roms.

Otherwise, if something goes terribly wrong, you will have a nice "truly" bricked vibrant that sits at the phone-!-pc screen with zero way to access download mode to restore/reflash/recover. The buttons don't get it there and the phone is in a very low level state that it appears the USB is not active and the PC will not recognize it, so adb will not work.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Icedorb217:
I tried your method and its doesnt seem to work for me. I have tried it multiple times all that happens is my phone just boots to the galaxy s logo then does the tmobile noise then the black screen of death. Please Help!
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cgingermany:
You are amazing!!!!! Thank you!!! I had a phone symbol, dotted line with exclamation point and the pc symbol and I freaked! Thanks for keeping us safe :0)
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SamsungVibrant:
I think people are throwing the term "brick" around too losely.

Brick in my opinion means your phone is dead for life, nothing, not even divine intervention can bring it back to life.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] babybirdhome:
Worked for me!

Thanks for posting this Anderdroid! Apparently I can't just click the thank button yet, so consider this that. Fixed my Fascinate right up after a frozen modem update, although I didn't have to do the whole thing as you described. All I really needed was some assurance that unplugging and pulling the battery at the point where ODIN froze wouldn't utterly destroy my phone. As it happens, it didn't. Phew! BIG thanks! :)
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] srtrod:
Blinking Vibrant and Samsun startup...

i have a issue which i have yet to find out how to fix. my phone on power up keeps blinking the Vibrant and Samsung logo, how do i fix this? i tried using the Odin but the phone doesnt connect to my laptop? please help me!
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] carlcj5:
Yes I agree ...bricked is bricked...if it can be recovered...well,it was not bricked
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xriderx66:
@OP can you rename the Title to "SOFT brick" alot of people with actual BRICKED phones will come looking here, and you mention nothing of a JIG, which is needed to unbrick a actual hard-brick.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bqd15124:
You saved my life. Thank you from the bottom of my heart :)
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rawfa:
I'm afraid I might be REALLY bricked. All I get is a BLACK SCREEN no mater what I do.

I've tried pulling out the battery, putting it back again, holding the 3 buttons, holding only the volume buttons, holding volume down and power, holding volume up and power, I've tried plugged to several usb ports. All I get is a black screen.

Is there any hope for me? :(
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bqd15124:
Yes, I got black screen. I though that would be it for me. I tried this:

Originally Posted by kizer View Post

Ive tried many ways and what I've learned that has worked every time is to:

1. Insure phone is off

2. Plug in USB cable to PC

3. Hold down Vol +/-

4. Plug in USB to phone

5. Wait for about a second then Let go of Vol +/-

Walla Download mode

Run Odin. Of course it would really pay off to have a copy of everything you already need backed up and saved at home just in case you have to restore via Odin. Drivers, Odin and of course the files your flashing.

And It worked. Good luck!
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kyle51:
think i have this problem, i tried going back to stock with odin to flash another rom but it froze on dbdata.rfs, i left it like 5 min but it still wasnt going anywhere so i unplugged my phone to try it again but the phone wouldnt turn on at all, iv tried all button combo's and everything but still nothing :(
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sethtyler21:
Hey i was trying to flash stock back to my vibrant and odin said it passed and all but all i get is the vibrant screen then it loops endlessly.

I can still get into download mode and odin recognizes my phone, but i still cant seem to flash stock and recover my phone. IDK what else to do at this point. and ive followed some videos and written directions on how to do this but without sucess :(

leave it to me to do this with my work phone.

Need some direction pls
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thesnowsnake:
Good Day from the brick factory

Well this is my first post, so it may be in the wrong palce and what ever so Mr. Mod feel free to move it.

I have a LG p505r and I did a evil thing with the new rom and its bricked..

Not a little either I get nothin pulling battery holding left foot over right ear nothin.

But I never tried odin before so Im reading on that. I had the phone for 4 days when I knew I'd have to get rid of all that bloatware so this id how it started...LOL

I have found a neat thing under the battery can you tell me what this is??

I love that you guys are hardware geeks as Im a old ham radio guy..I built lots of neat stuff-most of which glowed in the dark...

Thanks in advance.
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] indraq:
Hi all,

This X10 mini pro is my first Android device.

I've heard that Helix Launcher could safe the power consumption.

I already search it in Market to download the app but cannot find it.

Any clue ?

Thank's

Indra

Jakarta, Indonesia.
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] SXUsr:
You can find the link on this page - gadgets.apnafundaz.com/2010/06/helix-launcher-for-android
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] indraq:
Thank's ! well, it seems I have to wait until 2.1 released ... :-)
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] SXUsr:
You can still use the "dounut" version. - http://helixproject.ruqqq.sg/

ADW is better imo.
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] zhoustanley:
after the newest adw update, it has been FCing a lot more then usual and takes longer then before to start back up.....ive switched to helix and its working fine (although i do miss the hidden dock in ADW)
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] mezo9090:
I have adw and it never fc on my 026.

sent from my x10i that is banging for a 2.1 upgrade. ...
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] RoHaM:
eep, just found out why noone has these uploaded, -removed the apk download-

sorry o.o''

~Roh
[Vibrant General] Anderdroid:
Samsung Vibrant Download Mode

Method 1 (without ADB):

1. Take out battery, put it back in. (to turn the phone fully off)

2. Don't turn it the phone on!

3. Plug the phone into your PC, do not hit the power button!

4. See if the phone shows anything on the screen (screen turns on when plugged in) EX: Shows a battery, shows error messages if bricked, etc. Shows anything.

IF the phone screen does 'turn on' after being plugged in without you hitting the power button, so far so good.

5. Now while it's on like this, hold both the volume up and volume down buttons.

6. Hold the power button as well as the volume buttons until the screen goes black.

7. As soon as the screen goes black, let go of the power button! But DON'T let go of the volume buttons!

This is how I got into download mode to fix my 'odd' brick.

Method 2 (with ADB):

1. Turn your phone on

2. Go to Settings -> Application Settings

3. Enable Debug Mode

4. Plug your phone into your PC

5. Install Android SDK

6. Open Command Prompt

7. Type: cd C:\android-sdk-windows\tools

8. Type: adb reboot download

Either of these methods *should* get you into Download mode. After that you should be able to use Odin to revert to stock, tar and instructions here:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=734475

Or flash anything with Odin.
[Vibrant General] sparks.calvin:
I am in a situation where I rooted my phone but never made a recovery and now I did a factory reset and I only get a force close loop when booting and cannot do anything. I am not able to get into debugging mode to use ADB and the hardware buttons are not working any suggestions on how I can fix this

The only thing i did was remove some bloatware which is why I did not do a recovery since I wasnt removing anything important. Phone worked fine until I tried to do the factory reset now everything just force closes and cannot do anything
[Vibrant General] Hondatech44:
I turned my phone on then removed battey. hold vol up and down together then plug the phone in via usb to pc, should enter download mode after a few seconds (don't press the power button at all)I use odin to flash back to stock.
[Vibrant General] bdgiese90:
THANKS!

This saved my ass lol :D I was lookin at it like wtf? cuz odin failed and then when i reloaded and tried again nothing happened so i unplugged. I don't know what I was thinking when I did it, but I did lol.

Thanks again bro
[Vibrant General] plymouthman17:
just Odin back to stock and start over there is realy no other way to fix fc
[Vibrant General] younix258:
OP: what youre doing in your hardware button combinajtion method is lettinf it boot, then pressing the up+down vol and doing a hardware reset (by holding power key). You can cut oout a step by holding tthe up down keys when you plug in. It should boot to download automatically.

Also, you should mention in your post that the button combination is different for people who flashed gingerbread bootloaders..

Another thing, i believe the newer android sdk moved the adb package to C:/android-sdk/platform-tools/ ..

To tthe person with the force close issue, read the OP, go into download mode and use odin to flash to stock.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thevumeister:
I tried out the rooted froyo 2.2 with new radio and wimax. For some reason, I just didn't like it. So I tried to nand restore back to DC. I know it's a good nand backup, cuz I used it many time before. Except this time, when I did the nand restore, I kept getting bootloop at the 4G logo. What should I do? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Franteeko:
Im running damage control 3.2.3 netarchys 3.7.5 kernal and konikubs detox evo. When I click start tether, it says unable to start Tethering please try again. Any ideas? I have used it before and it worked fine but now its not. Thanks for the help
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Franteeko:
Okay update. So I reinstalled wifi tether and now the app will start fine but now I can't seem to findthe network when I scan for it on my computer. Help!
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Franteeko:
I fixed it. The version I was running was ad hoc only instead of infrastructure. Please close.
[General Questions and Answers] julian2596:
is there any cool themes for the tilt2 like the windowmobile7 themes im been seeing and android theme
[General Questions and Answers] julian2596:
PLS close THREAD
[Vibrant Accessories] hurrpancakes:
Is there any info regarding a case or battery for the vibrant to use on a powermat?

Sent from my Vibrant
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rocklee99:
How do i know if nand is unlocked?

(also, when i ran "simple root" ad go to step 2, it said "unable to find device", so i unplugged it and put it back in and re did it and it worked, is that ok??):confused:
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sHiNeR2:
I believe when you have nand unlocked, you will be able to enter recovery without a computer. So when you do a hard reboot, you can selct recovery and it will send you to the recovery screen. If you didn't have nand unlocked, you would get the black screen with an exclamation point inside of a triangle. I'm a noob, but I believe that is the correct answer.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SteelH:
Did you do toasts part 2? Thats for unlocking nand. You could try renaming a file in the /system folder on you phone from root explorer. If you can't then nand is locked.

That's incorrect. Recovery is separate from nand unlocking. You need to flash a recovery image in order to have recovery. Search for clockwork recovery or amonra recovery.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 063_XOBX:
You'll know you NAND is unlocked if you boot into bootloader and in the top left it says 76 for the version. If it says 79 your NAND is locked
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rocklee99:
well i did simple root, and no i cant rename those folder:(

...now what, i flashed a stock 1.47 rom, i thought u couldnt do that unless u had nand unlocked???:confused:
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rocklee99:
and it does say im bootloader ver. 76.2000

so now your confusing me, i can't rename system files on "astro" but my bootloader is 76.200...:confused:

root explorer says i cant rename because they are read only files
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sHiNeR2:
Sorry about that. As I said, I'm a noob.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 87Octane:
If your boot loader is 76.200 then you have nand unlocked. On root explorer make sure to hit button that says "mount r/w" as the system folder is read only by default.
[EVO 4G General] dca1970:
So far, A+. Not a really huge update, but well worth it. Overall smoother, Big difference in video quality and audio. flash works good. Battery life better.

How do i post video's? (says invalid file type) sorry kind of a dummy
[EVO 4G General] svinyard:
How would you describe the video quality? I did some in-house testing with mine and found it to be pretty weak still...no empirical testing though. I was mainly interested to see if we could get rid of the damn chop when in lower light settings (not that low though).
[EVO 4G General] dca1970:
I thought the choppiness was much better. I set to H.264.

I have 2 short comparison videos, if I can figure out how to upload!
[EVO 4G General] svinyard:
yeah I've heard the H.264 is pretty good now but the real deal is the 720p and it SUCKS still. I mean who wants to go around saying "You want to see my H.264 video recorded on my phone?" No....I want to say "hells yeah, 720p looks damn good now!".

Anyways, maybe we will get 720p on H.264 soon!
[EVO 4G General] dca1970:
I give up. If you want to see the video's go to:

youtube. search 1970dca :(
[EVO 4G General] R4Y0:
Updated to rooted deodexed 2.2, its great, but I can't find the tapatalk pro app in market... can anyone else confirm this?
[EVO 4G General] spiicytuna:
This is a work in progress... check out this thread: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=7390531&highlight=xml#post7390531
[EVO 4G General] fsuwade:
well i will have to say using wifi and gps on all day i am setting at 13 hours unplugged and still have half of the battery.

when i was on 1.32 i could not get more then about 4 hours of use from it. so i am happy with that. i hope that on tue. that it gets even better.

but as far as everything else no issue here.
[EVO 4G General] formulabird:
My battery life has seemed to drop off drastically. Almost back to as bad as it was with 1.32. I can almost watch my battery drop. hopefully tuesday official release fixes this.
[EVO 4G General] xgoochx:
My battery life suck as well going to 2.2. The signal/ reception is terrible for me as well with 2.2. Definately hope the "Official release" is better or I'LL be rooting.
[EVO 4G General] dav1boy:
2.2

my battery life is still puke even on 3g but my signal strength has improved greatly. i use to never, and i mean never, be able to connect to 4g at my house. since flashing 2.2, not only does it connect, i also get 4-5 megs down :D
[EVO 4G General] gigadigit:
My battery life is a lot worst now. but I can now connect to and use 4G. Before, i can see the 4G sign for like 15 sec and then it would disappear.
[EVO 4G General] LudoGris:
I get great battery life now and 4g. I am loving the leaked 2.2. I am looking forward to the official Froyo so people will work on the root again. Not that I need it especially, but wouldn't mind having it just to delete the Sprint stuff.
[EVO 4G General] sloth3:
How come everyone has gotten this update but me?!?! I just checked manually and it said there were no updates found. WTF
[EVO 4G General] Plancy:
Not a lot of people have, I think maybe one or two people claim they've gotten it from a pull. Wait for 8/3 to get the official release, it will be less likely to brick your phone or have bugs. I've been checking since Friday.
[EVO 4G General] AzN1337c0d3r:
There's also a bug where any notifications or Google Navigation voice prompt kicks in, your music pauses and does not resume. Did not happen in 2.1
[EVO 4G General] tgruendler:
I love how people are crying about the 2.2 update that they downloaded and installed and was told by HTC and Sprint that it was not the official update. I want to know if anybody in this thread that is crying about the update got there update OTA. If they did, I will take what I said back, if not, quit your *****ing about a non-official update.
[EVO 4G General] aduljr:
that is an annoying bug :(. had to go back to 2.1 until I was done with my road trip
[EVO 4G General] zackhow:
Same here, battery life has been noticably worse with the leaked update.
[EVO 4G General] NonCorp:
Somebody pee in your corn flakes?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] olisun39:
As per Samsung on FB, Froyo to be released by the end of September.

"Samsung UK Mobile: Afternoon everyone!

We have seen quite a few questions about the Froyo update. The latest news is that this is currently in development and will be released for all networks at the end of September."
[Touch 3G General] medvesajt:
I bought a HTC t3238 phone 1 week ago.

Its a very good phone, but i have a problem with it.

When i firstly wanted to use the cam, the picture is turned 90° right!!! :confused:

Somebody help me please!!!
[Touch 3G General] medvesajt:
thanks for helping me...:mad:
[Vibrant Accessories] speedysilwady:
And it is amazing! adds the perfect weight, doesn't seem to attract lint and it makes this phone look damn good! It has a detachable clip which i found can also be used as a kickstand i guess lol. Its 2 pieces consisting of a chrome cover and a textured back. I bought it for $30 from my local t-mobile store which was pretty steep in my opinion but i love it!

Pics:
[Vibrant Accessories] disturkis4u:
Are you referring to the gel skin?
[Vibrant Accessories] speedysilwady:
No this one is a 2pc case with a chrome piece on the front and a soft textured (rubber?) Back with a detachable clip
[Vibrant Accessories] badaphooko01:
How much was it?
[Vibrant Accessories] kboater:
did these just come to the stores? last week all they had were the gel skins. how much was it and that would be awesome if you could post pics
[Vibrant Accessories] Pneumatic:
Pics please.
[Vibrant Accessories] bobofosho123:
+1 for pics, let's see this thing, says it ships on 8/6/2010 according to bodyglove's website: http://www.bodyglovemobile.com/product/flexchrome-snap-on-for-samsung-vibrant,212,19.htm
[Vibrant Accessories] paradox4286:
It was 30 for mine, but otterbox quality and looks way better!
[Vibrant Accessories] disturkis4u:
Oh they have those for the cliq, my touch slide etc. way too bulky and ugly for me..I'll pass
[Vibrant Accessories] ryan562:
if this had a kickstand like the one they made for my hd2 id buy it

Sent from Samsung Vibrant using XDA App
[Vibrant Accessories] WilliamStern:
Yes, pics would be great!
[Vibrant Accessories] speedysilwady:
alright everyone i hear ya lol, i took plenty of pics, im uploading now. will update op when theyre ready
[Vibrant Accessories] DKYang:
I agree. After looking at the pics, it's even more convincing that it's a similar one that I had for the G1 which I didn't like since it adds too much bulk than I wanted.

But thumbs up to the OP if he likes it, hopefully the corners don't wear out fast on you after putting in and pulling out of your pockets a lot.
[Vibrant Accessories] Gr8gorilla:
this is the same case that bodyglove is selling on their website. I have been planning on buying one I am glad to see some pics. The kickstand is what is gonna do it for me!
[Vibrant Accessories] rashad1:
Hideous, I hate cases. I never drop my phones, and take really good care of them.