yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Galaxy S I9000 General] drknss99:
Picked one up from best buy today. They had one left in stock and tested recovery mode on the spot and it worked! Talked to rep at a bell store before going to best buy and they said that all the new batches have the recovery mode working. S/N begins with "R8". Date code? is "10.08".
[Galaxy S I9000 General] :
Can anyone Confirm please?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] xtoad:
I have 2, bought the same day at the same time. Both with s/n beginning with R2 and both with date code 10.08

One goes into recovery, one doesn't. The one that doesn't was updated through Kies last night....uhh..that was before I read all this stuff today, sp I can't say whether the update had anything to do with it.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] opensourcefan:
Just to confirm. Is this what people are doing cause it worked for me...

Download Mode

from phone OFF, volume DOWN, home button and pwr button.

Recovery Mode

from phone ON, volume UP, home button and pwr button. Release pwr button upon seeing white Samsung Boot Logo.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] :
Updates thru kies & still doesn't go into download mode?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Beast11:
Then i guesss your right, they must've just been being douches...
[Galaxy S I9000 General] 2000impreza:
I have a Bell Vibrant that matches this criteria ( 10.08 date and serial starting with R2Y). I have no issues getting into recovery and download using the 3 buttons. Also did the update through Kies and confirmed still works after.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] canadian_psyko:
10.08 is the code from under the battery.

GT-I9000M/XDA App
[Galaxy S I9000 General] casperr:
I dropped by at The Source today, first phone I tried among the 7 worked right away. It has R8 serial code. Finally!
[Galaxy S I9000 General] brunes:
This is starting to jive with what I expected. Date code 10.08 are working, date code 10.07 do not. Date code 10.06 probably also work.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] pure_energy1:
Nope... mine has a 10.08 date code under the battery and it doesn't work. So there goes that theory.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] :
One more Disappointment !!
[Galaxy S I9000 General] bobjr:
10.08 and R3Y serial. No 3 button. Waiting patiently for a bootloader to be written!

I've rooted and unlocked. Would like to flash some ROMS, but am a bit afraid. Coming from a Hero, where it was safe to flash away... The i9000m is much better hardware.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] MomijiTMO:
Hey guys, I'm from Australia and my phone isn't able to boot into recovery mode or download normally.

HOWEVER, I am able to get into either mode after I've warmed up the phone, ie, gaming + charging. Once it is warm to touch, I have no issues. This indicates that it must be a hardware issue, not software.

Does anyone want to give it a go? I just put on Robo Defender and got a decent maze thing going and left it there for 20 mins. I guess you could watch a movie or run a benchmark.

EDIT: R6Y here.

EDIT 2: Ok I've punched through a few methods and this is what always works for me to get into recovery.

Turn on phone.

Plug in charger.

Allow phone to warm up so to speak.

Turn off phone with charger still connected.

Wait for the phone to completely shut down. The battery screen with show up. This is when you hold volume up + home + power.

You will not see the Samsung Galaxy S splash screen. Instead the battery screen will reappear. If you keep holding onto to all buttons, this will loop.

Let go of power when the battery screen disappears, ie, between loops.

With some luck and a bit of voodoo magic, you will be in recovery mode.

EDIT 3: Ok I turned my phone off let it get to room temp (18C). Put a wheat bag on it to 'warm it up'. Recovery mode :) Download mode :). No charger required. To get into either mode, I followed the standard procedure so the previous steps are not needed.

This is weird.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] marzoco:
Hopefully this will help in the development somewhere. Just got my phone brand new from Best Buy in Langley and verified the three button boots work, which they do. Unlocked sim and still worked fine. Flashed JP2 firmware (2.2) via Odin3 and now it will only boot into Android normally or the dowload screen. The three button boot to allow a flash from the internal SD does not work.

Update: Got to boot into download once and only once, will not go back into it at all.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] MomijiTMO:
It's good to know Samsung have fixed it.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] :
Who Told you that?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] jensy:
What? Kies isn't showing me any updates available for my device, so I'm sorry, but thats just not true.

Source?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] MomijiTMO:
Wait a second. :p

What I meant was that there are phones filtering through that are fine. It's just ours that are neutered (or somewhat neutered in my case).
[Galaxy S I9000 General] snapper.fishes:
Odd indeed. Especially with the battery screen. It's meant to be the S screen. What happens if you don't warm up your phone, but simply kept it plugged in? (Aka, turn off the phone, let it cool, and then plug in the charger). Can you still boot into recovery mode then?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] AllGamer:
I'll encourage anyone with a 3 button disabled SGS to give it a shot

just warm it up a bit, and see how it goes

volume down + home + power
[Galaxy S I9000 General] ysandhu:
It works Guys..

3 button method never worked for me..

But when u try it with charger plugged in ..it works like charm..
[Galaxy S I9000 General] jensy:
This didn't work for me. Why on earth would Samsung make some phones have a temperature-subjective download mode?

And if Samsung didn't mean for it to happen, then the fact that a little heat can drastically change the behaviour of the BML, is a very, very scary thought.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] AllGamer:
That was exactly what went through my mind :eek: when MomijiTMO suggested to me the heating solution.

:)
[Galaxy S I9000 General] MomijiTMO:
Nothing.

So after installing various programs I went and tried my hardest (8 times) to get into recovery. No dice.

Did my little heat trick and it works. I don't need the battery charger anymore. I just went about doing the standard procedure. The only rational reason is a dodgy solder joint or something but even that is scraping the bottom of the barrel.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] decepticon:
As this thread goes on it makes me more and more grateful that mine works.

If anyone figures out how to extract the bootloader I will post mine so you guys can try it on yours.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] jensy:
Should I be starting a bounty thread for this issue?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] AllGamer:
under normal circumstances i'd have said yes for sure.

but there are rumors floating around Samsung might release a fix in the form of a firmware on september

it's expected to come along with the Froyo release

so, lets hold off until then and see how it turns out.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] decepticon:
Samsung is supposed to have a fix for everything in September...now if only they would hurry up with their cure for cancer lol
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Fishie:
I have a I9000 and tried the 3 button combo with the charge in place and unfortunately no luck... too bad because besides this it is a perfect phone..

I'm I the only one in Holland with the problem of the 3 buttons?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] seidren:
This is really really weird. I tried the 3 button combo with the charger on.. but no go.

Then I "warmed up" the phone as suggested for about 15~20 mins (played robo defence).

Then tried the 3 button combo and both recovery mode and download mode worked.

What a surprise!!!
[Galaxy S I9000 General] MomijiTMO:
Yay someone tried it (Robo Defence is fun :p).
[Galaxy S I9000 General] ysandhu:
As I said earlier it worked with charger plugged in.. is not true.. it did not work second time i tried..

Bu Yes it has sth to do with heat stuff.. i played asphalt5 .. and tried after .. worked like a charm...
[Galaxy S I9000 General] DarthV:
Even if that's true, it's still useless. Right up there with being able to use the SDK to reboot into recovery/download. Works great until you're bricked, then isn't so good after that.

If it's a cold solder problem, that's not going to be fixed with software. If it needs heat for the volume/home buttons to work, should be interesting to see how the phone enjoys the winter in Norway/Sweden/Finland/Canada ;)
[Galaxy S I9000 General] AllGamer:
and reading all the results just makes me want to say this again

I can't believe such a defect passed through the QA department :eek:
[Galaxy S I9000 General] :
Guys,

Why don't we setup a time in advance & call Samsung Canada within one day complaining about the same thing so we can raise it up?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] MomijiTMO:
You don't say :p.

I can't think of a good way to communicate this to Samsung. I'm going to roll with 'gaming' as getting it into download mode. Then again, seeing I've gotten it into each mode at least 30 times, I might not bother.

Samsung, you failed lol.

[As mentioned earlier, other ways to warm it up include a nice battery charge and.... using a wheat bag or a hot water bottle to get it warm. Sealed bag + no air is of course a must. If your phone is bricked, you could try these methods.]
[Galaxy S I9000 General] bdking2:
I work at a Bell store. With the phones being plugged in for about 5 minutes I can finally get into download/recovery mode. None of them would do this before.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] MomijiTMO:
I guess I'm going to badger Samsung AU tomorrow.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] AllGamer:
it is not just Canada, people from Australia and many other countries getting their SGS are having the same problem
[Galaxy S I9000 General] lattentreffer:
Same over here in Germany. I've bought my phone last week and it's incapable of going into Download- or Recovery-Mode :mad:

Brand: o2

Stock Android 2.1

I9000AOJG1

That's really a bit frustrating.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] astralmind:
Can other people please test this method ? Full charged, played 20 minutes of RoboDef and it didnt work for me. even with the phone warm to the touch (GPS also used)..
[Galaxy S I9000 General] MomijiTMO:
EDIT: Beaten.

I'm guessing you tried it a few times astral. :( It sometimes takes a few goes, especially recovery mode.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] astralmind:
I tried download mode as I've read it was easier to get to and no success there either. I tried quite a few times indeed yes. While charging, after a full charge, no battery, battery back in, warmed up with GPS, intense gaming (well RoboDef for 20 as posted), still nothing.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Fishie:
same here...no success after several atempts. fully charged playing asphalt for 15 minutes and still no download mode..
[Galaxy S I9000 General] xtoad:
Yeah me too... No success with the 'warm-up' method. Also let me say again that I have 2 with the same date code and beginning serial # and within 1000 on the number on the box, and that I can get one into recovery EVERY time and the other NEVER. The NEVER one has been updated via Kies (and I didn't try recovery before...) but a few other ppl have updated via Kies and are still able to get into recovery.

I quite frankly don't buy the 'warm-up' method. Perhaps people got lucky with their timing? I can easily get into recovery every time on the one I have that works...And never on the other.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] 2000impreza:
I've been following this issue since the start. I can't help but to think this is a defect on the device. Perhaps someone can start a online petition to put heat on Samsung to get this resolved. It sounds fairly widespread as it affects users in multiple countries. Fortunately for me my Bell Galaxy S has the 3 button mode. I've been looking at buying another one however I doubt I will long as this issue exists. I find it ridiculous to have to search through and test multiple units just to get one that works as it should.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] namams:
Doesn't work for me.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] pure_energy1:
Nope didn't work (recovery or download modes).

Tried warming it up by plugging it in AND playing Skies of Glory for 15 minutes.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] tarambuka:
Tried this warming up trick couple of times with no success. What I think is that most likely the key factor in these cases is the charging process combined with some timing luck with the warmed up state of the phone. Otherwise it totally doesn't make any sense. :(
[Galaxy S I9000 General] seidren:
I just did it and got it working again.

Make sure the upper back of the phone (near the camera) is warm.

About 15 mins of heavy usage is enough.

Switch the phone off.

Don't remove the battery.

Keep the charger connected

Wait for the green battery sign to show up.

Hold the Vol Up and Home and Power button.

Don't let go of any key.

After the Galaxy S logo shows up you will get into recovery mode.

But like someone suggested before, I would like to be able to do this when it matters (when i brick my phone).
[Galaxy S I9000 General] PatcheZ:
dumb question...

is it possible that it's only a two button combo to recovery?

(ie. vol. up + power, or vol down + power, or maybe a up and down vol + power)
[Galaxy S I9000 General] hondaguy:
Are you asking because you tried it and it worked for you?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] AllGamer:
Thanks for all the great feedback Khar00f, and welcome aboard :)

yes, everytime i aproach a sales guy at different stores, the pay i paint the picture for them for why we need to test the 3 button is just as you described.

another method that works tell them it works just like the blackberry key combination that restores the blackberry back to a working state

apparently blackberry is more well known to include this build in feature than any other phone, so as soon as you mention that, most Sales people will pick up and know exactly what you mean.

remember the SGS is only 1 month old, most sales people still doesn't know what is "normal" in the phone, much less what it can do out of factory.

just some patience teach them a bit, and they will usually be very grateful to you for showing them those new tricks.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] ysandhu:
I might sound stupid now...

But for some reason this 3 button method is working for me always.. no need to play game... or charger plugged in stuff...

I do not what happened... it is just working now..
[Galaxy S I9000 General] mkleijer:
Nvm, i need to learn to read!
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Daneshm90:
:confused:

The point is to be able to recover ur device in the event where ur device doesnt boot (incorrect firmware, rom boot-loop). In those cases, core isn't running hence adb <anything> wont work.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] mkleijer:
Ah maybe i should've taken some time to read the thread :rolleyes: My bad!
[Galaxy S I9000 General] PeePeeHead:
I tried the heat-up trick and it didn't work so i got fed up and went back to costco. I asked to try a new one and it worked right away.

The new one has the same number on the box as the old one: 65xxxxx. Underneath the battery of the new phone says R3xxxxxxxxx 10.08, same with the old one.

It seems the 3 button combo has nothing to due with the serial numbers, as both my phones were virtually the same.

Also just a thought. For those people saying that the heat-up trick works because of a bad solder point... i don't think that can be possible. I'm no expert, but there is no way your phone can heat up so much that it'll fix a bad solder point... right?

edit* also just wanted to let you know that this costco has a demo phone that has the 3 button combo working.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] AllGamer:
@ PeePeeHead

How much did you pay at cotsco?

Yesterday i asked at cotsco they wanted to charge me $600

instead of $500 from any where else
[Galaxy S I9000 General] PeePeeHead:
$148.99 for the phone and i had to sign on for 3 years.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] AllGamer:
oh never mind, so you went with the "locked" contract option... is okay i guess if you plan to stay with Bell forever.

but their price plans are horrible.

the SGS is very data hungry phone
[Galaxy S I9000 General] MomijiTMO:
I just woke up. Well it seems that what works for me and a few others isn't a global fix which is a shame.

I'm definitely going to call up Samsung AU today, maybe someone should call up your Samsung. Say some LOONIES on the internet warmed up their phones and got it working therefore it must be a hardware fault. ***** and moan!

It would be cool to compare plans.

I got the phone free on a $49 per month contract including 2Gb of data, unlimited national sms and $300 of credit for calls and whatever isn't mentioned [~$46.1CAD]. Our plans were super expensive and didn't include data a few years ago. The iPhone has changed all of that for the better!
[Galaxy S I9000 General] AllGamer:
That's the only thing of the iphone i'm glateful it finally made the phone companies make some sensible data plans, before iphone, it was horrendous! :mad:

like $60+ for 3Mb of data

a whole friking 3 Megabyte for twice of what i'm paying now for 6Giga of data. :rolleyes:
[Galaxy S I9000 General] gladman:
Great post from the Bell sales guy.

That said my SGS is going back. The GPS issue, the three button problem, the market not downloading issue, are all irritating enough to make me overlook the great screen and light weight.

Maybe Samsung needs another edition to get things right. Plus, HTC has a great UI.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] winningarrow:
the heating up trick aint working on my phone (it's bricked btw), guess have to return after all

if these download/recovery mode are a well documented features then it's definately a hardware defect, i'd say

shame on samsung, they must have received a lot of return units based on this
[Galaxy S I9000 General] AllGamer:
oh yeah indeed,

we need to make more people aware of this, to return all the ones that are not working, to have them fixed
[Galaxy S I9000 General] MomijiTMO:
2 guys from Aus just got fully working phones.

Gah.

Ok I'm just going to keep mine. 10 seconds of hairdryer gets mine into download mode ;).
[Galaxy S I9000 General] brunes:
Can you post DETAILED INSTRUCTIONS on how you get it to work? I tried following other posters instructions and can not.

- Did you power down the phone and THEN plug it in, or plug in in while powered down?

- How long do you have to leave it charging?

- How long do you hold the 3 buttons, EXACTLY. Other poster said some random amount of time. Do you release right before battery icon vanishes? Right after screen goes black? Right before GalaxyS shows up? Right after GalaxyS shows up?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] brunes:
The person I talked to knew 100% what the download feature was. she was quite knowledgeable. She even knew that it was being discussed online (maybe she visits XDA, who knows). That said, she said she could not warranty exchange the phone because it was not a hardware defect and that it was going to be fixed. The only way I could have exchanged it would have been if I was under 30 mins, which I was not.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] astralmind:
I'm sincerly hoping that it is a software issue. Come to think of it, even if it was somewhat hardware related, it should be possible for Samsung to release a software fix that would somehow let us access the download/recovery mode through other key presses....

Now will Samsung do anything about it... that's a whole different story.
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] freshkid87:
I'm Fairly savvy with computes and technology this has me at hump

what i have

Usb coard

Sd Card

G1 Phone

Windows 7

Q.A) how do i know what model stock version i have on my G1? ( I AM stuck at the google activation screen, so i can't go in and check

B. I downloaded everything i need to, Drivers and on my device manager i see ADB device and it shows HTC Dream

C. My SD Card is not showing up or is grayed out almost as if the g1 is not even reconginzing it.

I really can't do anything as far as rooting without a sd card, so how do i make my phone reconginze it?
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] johnson8cyl:
U have to activate it I think to be able to mount your sdcard to the computer or to get the info for your phone so start there. Then I beloved holding volume down and power will get u the info. When u plug your phone in u have to pull down from top of phone and click mount to get SD on computer
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] freshkid87:
damn, i live 4 hours from the nearest T-mobile store
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] johnson8cyl:
U don't have a sim card with them I take it? Or a friend who does. Lol
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] oldnoob:
Call them or go on the web and order an activation kit, they'll mail it to you.
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ilostchild:
alright man im help you out get passed that :) jus follow these instructions

But what you can do is check your hboot and what bored you have!

power down and hold camera buttong and press power

keep it held down till you see 3 tri colors, and make sure your hboot is not 1.33.005 or something along those lines

if its at 0.005.00 something then you can use the Dreaimg and go down and then use these instructions to get passed it then do the telnet root, and from there follow root instructions

if you have white screen with 3 skateboarding androids and hboot 1.33.2005 then you have (death SPL) but im sure your still on stock hboot and all but you can check what bored you have and grab the right Dreaimg for your phone
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] starbase64:
Hallo,

I have experimented a bit with the settings in SetCPU and achieved a score of 1870 and more with Quadrant.

The value is reproducible, that is not a fake.

my SetCPU values:

HardSPL: v3

Rom: Starbase64 v22 Custom Rom

Rom Base 2.10

Radio: 2.12.50.02_2

OS Build: 25012

Android: MattcFroyo 1.5 with Overclock Kernel

These videos based on Mattc Nexus Leo v1 with Overclock Kernel 925mV and setcpu.txt for setcpu.

[YOUTUBE]73V8rqGw50c[/YOUTUBE][YOUTUBE]om9latw2P88[/YOUTUBE]

with friendly greet

starbase64
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] RJackson:
Wow, amazing scores. I can't wait until the htc-msm-2.6.32 git starts to get performance like this. :O
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] suryo88:
damn, the highest score i got on quadrant is 1438
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Proz00:
what is the vcore ?

i just install NexusLeo v1

got 1650 on 1.13 oced
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] thesweeney:
vcore = core (cpu) voltage
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] starbase64:
Hi,

i use the 925 mV zImage from here:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=746997

with friendly greet

starbase64
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] thesweeney:
Anything special in your winmo rom that contributes to your high android scores?

Is your rom available to download or is it private... Had a look in the HD2 Winmo ROM section but couldnt find it....please share if poss :)
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] starbase64:
Hi,

my rom is not special, a custom rom build with ervius kitchen. is a german rom:

http://www.handy-faq.de/forum/htc_h...rbase64_customrom_25012_v21_07_08_2010_a.html

with friendly greet

starbase64
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] shineproductions:
my score is way lower

:) hey what do you get for linpack?

after reading this, i tried installing MattcFroyo 1.5 with Overclock Kernel on my original T-Mobile USA 16 GB SD card; but inside a folder, that i named android3.

my high score is only 1522 :(

what else, if anything, did you do to optimize MattcFroyo 1.5 with Overclock Kernel?

are you using fullram?

are you using 1GB data?

thanks in advance for any suggestions!
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] starbase64:
Hi,

i have only changed the values in setcpu and overclocked zImage, no other modifications.

I use 1gb data.img on 16 GB Storage Card.

Copy the attached setcpu.txt to SD Card Root and use it with setcpu:

Device selection > Show Other Frequency Sets > Custom Frequencies Reads from: ... (last button)

with friendly greet

starbase64
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] kingofyo1:
would you be able to post a complete americanized version of your rom for us complete with kernel and everything please?