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[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] yiannisthegreek:
@AllGamer...

I am curious to know how long you have had your SGS for and if your internal SD has ever died on you before?

Reason I ask is cause you seem pretty dead set against using lagfixes as they seem to be an accelerant to the issue and I also see that you have massive amounts of apps on your device as well.

I have a Canadian i9000M and have had it now for close to 2 months and have never had this problem as of yet and I also have never flashed any unofficial firmwares so I hope my phone will be ok the way it is.

Any advice to give on how to keep my SGS working as it should?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thedauntlessone:
There's pretty much no reason to ask that question anymore because its obvious the phones are just flat out defective
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xZeDgEx:
I really don't think this has any bearing on it. Stock or otherwise, the phones are dieing.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] d3a:
once i get mine back, i will report if it shows signs of dieing internal SD. Im hearing i get the phone replaced if after the 5th time the issue is not resolved going through the repair center. At that point, i would of sold the phone and get a desire Z instead!
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TriC_101:
I have flashed mine about 15 times now and I have corrupted my SD card about 2 times.. their are 2 versions of Odin3 1.30 one that says "PT-1000" and one that says "Android + SLP" at the top.. the one that has Android + SPL is the one that I have been able to recover and reformat my partitions on the internal SD card.. when I flash back to JG8 firmware and selecting Re-partition and check phone EFS clear. 1st I would flash back with 813pit then use 512pit I flashed about 4 or 5 times but it would bring the internal SD card back each time.. now when I flash I download the Roms and install them with ROM manager on the phone and have not had an issue since.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] khmerpride:
If this can be confirmed and tested by others, then it could save a lot of us a lot of trouble.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 4u2nvinmtl:
How do I know if my internal sd is bad? I get force close errors ALL THE TIME. I've factory reset more times than I use the phone!
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rumy:
Can some one try these and report back

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=8689610&postcount=13

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=806402

If these work, it might just mean that we need a custom/different pit file with 2.2
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wang1chung:
this link is incomplete......i think most people here had trouble with the mmblk01 partition, not st11 (2nd link).
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thedauntlessone:
Question is, did you get the mmblk01 error or the st11? I've had the st11 error myself and know it's not a fatal error. The mmblk1 error is the problem here.

Either way, can you upload a "package" for people to try to see if they can resolve their problem by doing what you did? Thx
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] d3a:
sorry to say but this is exactly what happened to mine before it completely died on me and would not stop the force closes even after factory resetting :(
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 4u2nvinmtl:
Where did you go to get it repaired/replaced? Samsung tells me to go to Bell. Bell tells me they don't cover it (because its unlocked even tho i payed them 75$ to unlock it). No one wants to respect the warranty that came with the phone.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dawgpound6985:
They can't tell its unlocked if they can't boot the phone.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 4u2nvinmtl:
The phone is booting I had to put it into recovery mode and flash new firmware to get it working again. Now I get the force close error more than ever and now my bluetooth AVRCP controls don't work. (allows me to change the song using my car stereo)

I just want Bell to put the stock FW back on or replace the handset for one that works with out force closing on me after a day of use.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 4u2nvinmtl:
They could tell when they seen the Fido sim in the phone.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AllGamer:
according to the box, mine was from batch Aug 12

it's been working great since then, did 3 flashes on it all stock JG9 to JH2 to (3B-SPL fixed)JH2 again

the original unit i got on Aug 5 (pre launch day) was bricked trying to install Froyo on the next day (Aug 6 launch day) they ran out of stock, and i couldn't get any until Aug 12

Stock, Fast, no lag, GPS works just fine for walking, biking, driving (still need to test on a boat and a plane), tons of apps installed

i like to review apps that picks my interest and see which one i like more, and do what i need it to do.

Rooted by needs, as many many apps requires root to work properly.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] daylefmp:
Mine died yesterday... checked email in the car, 10 minutes later it wouldn't turn on.... took out the battery, wouldn't boot past the first logo.... re flashed stock firmware, still wouldn't boot...

I only had it for 6 days, so I took it back to the future shop it was purchased, and they exchanged it without question...

it was rooted, stock JH2, no lagfix...
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rumy:
oops, fixed the link

I know, but just figured maybe the solution was the same / similar :)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BA_Flash_GOD:
Hehe Sorry Allgamer I think mines toast now also

Yes indeedy hah.. I believe my i9000m internal SD is now toast as well. I've been on multiple roms both eclair and froyo (mostly eclair JM8) but had actually noticed a bit of freezing during use just the past week, with and without a lag fix on different roms. I thought perhaps it was just moderate lag, but now after any eclair flash I get this gorgeous screen attached heh and I cannot format my internal-SD (can only get to recovery via 2e roms, guessing 3e deals with internal-sd and mines now toast so it reboot cycles) Any Froyo rom that's supposed to have 3e recovery never gets there after the Odin flash now, it merely reboots and recycles the Samsung GT-i9000 screen hehe. I can still access download mode + recovery 2e (recovery only on eclair 2e roms of course), but after any Froyo flash I get no 3e recovery only boot cycle. Boooooo :P Is it possible to get a replacement through warranty as i'm seeing a lot of people aren't getting them?

I had read that jp2 is supposed to have root access in recovery, but theres obviously no way to repart our internal right?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Electroz:
This is exactly what happened to mine and they had to replace the mainboard in my phone. Good luck!
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BA_Flash_GOD:
Not a problem to be honest, I kinda figured the internal was going out with the lag and freezing during use the past week. I said sorry to Allgamer because he went through the troubles of getting me one just about 1.5 months ago :P

Anyways who to send or to talk to just curious, bell or samsung? Did it cost or under warranty for the repair, perhaps you could shoot me some info real quick if you don't mind sir!
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thedauntlessone:
Samsung will tell you to go to Bell. In all honesty, Sammy should just handle everything themselves and say F U to Bell's horrible service.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AllGamer:
you can send it back and I can take it to claim warranty on it
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BA_Flash_GOD:
Well at least with JP2 I can actually access the 3e recovery just tried it, but of course no dice on internal-sd not mounted etc.

Sorry Allgamer I suck man what can I say hah. I was using JM8 when my douched out with no lagfix so no clue.

** EDIT- sweeeeet!
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Devhux:
Sadly, that Forced Upload doesn't really help us - AFAIK, nobody has figured out exactly what that mode does (or how to get a firmware to flash onto a device in that mode).

It did surprise me when I stumbled upon that on my device as well.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 4u2nvinmtl:
I had a hell of a time returning my handset to bell today. The store i bought it from with a service center told me to go downtown. The store downtown didn't have a service center and sent me to another location. The other location wasnt far but once i got to the store is had a sign in the window saying the store had moved into the mall... They took my handset in after i explained all the force close errors I had gotten over the last 2 months. (sadly i think i got the bad batch on launch date) I had to go back to my old iphone 3g with a broken screen and vol rocker (can only turn vol down) but my car stereo controls work :P

To Allgamer that's odd they were sold out so quickly where you were. Here in Montreal not one person lined up to get one out side... I felt foolish showing up to the store 15mins early... (Thanks for all the help man)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rumy:
I just got mine back and they fixed it with a full software reset. arrghhh!

Also, when they return it the phone is re-locked.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] smacman:
Relocked eh? Are you sure it was just a software reset? That makes me think they replaced the m/b.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aridoasis:
please change mine from alive to dead. flashed to JPM... multiple FC then mount error message. not it's just in a continuos boot cycles, and won't go into recovery/download mode anymore (i previously could with the 3-button combo).

gonna claim warranty on it since had it for like 2 months only. grrr... hope it wont take too long...
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xZeDgEx:
Dropping like flies.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wang1chung:
maybe we should also start gathering the last 2 numbers from the IMEI to see if this is really a "bad batch" issue, or if it is spread out through all the batches of phones?

i'm a 52 series, and my woman's is a 53, and we're both still up for 2+ months(launch day bought). i've flashed mine about 10 times, repartitioned about 5, and formatted via OS about 2 or 3. no lag fix though. and we're both still on jh2.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rmanaudio:
Mine is 64 series and I have had it for more than a month with no issues. Flashed it once and formated a few times. I have also installed and un-installed OCLF and Voodoo!

I think as long as you stay with JH2 and dont flash non-offical Bell firmware you have a good chance of it not dying really early.

I dont have receipt so if it dies, im done. But I plan to knock on Samsungs door and demand a fix!
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] plemen:
Looks like the format of the internal sd is getting corrupted - it wouldn't be such a serious issue if we had some method for formatting the internal sd via the 3-button recovery screen. Would really save us if one of the dev's modded the recovery screen to have that function...
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wang1chung:
i was under the impression that you can't format the sd card if you can't mount it, and this is the issue. we can't mount the sdcard in recovery?

as well, i believe you have format options in clockwork recovery? i'm going to go check right now.

edit: confirmed.

format boot

format system

format data

format cache

format sdcard <--------

format sd-ext

maybe if it is possible, a force mount/format option.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Daneshm90:
Yes you're correct. You do get the "Format Internal Sd" option but it returns with the same "Can't mount" error. Im really intrigued as to how samsung does so as well. Perhaps something really low like jtag :S
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] plemen:
Yes I was just looking at Clockwork Recovery - good to see it has that option. Danmesh90 - how are you able to run CR if your internal SD is fried? According to the CR thread:

"The recovery is packaged as an update.zip that you run from STOCK recovery. The update.zip unpacks Clockwork Recovery onto the ramdisk and restarts recovery. When you reboot, it reverts back to the original, unmodified, stock recovery. So,

you will need to keep the recovery on the root of your SD card

as an update.zip, and apply the zip every time you want to start Clockwork."

Thx
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Daneshm90:
Oh my second samsung galaxy i9000m is at a service center as we speak, mind you this is my 2nd within 2 months :(

This "format internal sdcard" option exists in stock recovery as well, i came across it especially when u repartition and forget to select a csc. It takes you to recovery and you can see that option. But no matter what i did i couldnt recovery it.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rumy:
Phone was not opened. I marked the screws and they were not touched.

So I am thinking they have a better flashing tool.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BA_Flash_GOD:
From my picture on the previous page you can see it gives an invalid argument when you try and format the internal-sd via 3e recovery. I found that jp2 does have root access in recovery.. but yes as the others said it doesn't matter, as you cannot mount it, it's not finding it. Correct me if i'm wrong please
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Dr.Mcq:
Mine came back today also.... They told me it just needed a reset.

But when i opened it it was relocked!!!!

Now ill be using the stock rom with no lag fixes what so ever & see what happenes
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dqm45:
Another Bell I9000M user.

Have the stock ROM. Have not applied lag fix or tried to flash any other ROMs.

SD card usage has been light. Had a couple of movies loaded and a few songs. I think it took up around 6 gigs total.

Got my phone in the second week of August.

The phone corrupted my 8GB external SD card, which had 8GB capacity. Trying to reformat in Win7 made the microSD workable, but with 2GB not available, i.e., the card showed only 5.5GB capacity. Put the card back in my BB Storm (where it was originally), and it formatted the card, and restored it back to its ~7.5Gb capacity.

My SGS gives the message 'Cannot mount external SD card. Mount point absent or incorrect'. The internal and external SD cards are unavailable. Internal system area (~1.85GB) is available.

Phone boots up fine when I have this external SD card inserted. If I remove it and boot without, or add another external SD, it will not boot. With this SD, the phone itselfs functions fine, i.e., I can surf the net, use Google Maps etc.

Battery date is July 25.

Hope that helps you guys in figuring this out.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] madmack:
wait, so you have two partitions on the external sd card? or was it restored to the full 8gb capacity once you formatted it in your blackberry ?

do you have both the internal and external storages functioning now ? what does android say about how much space you got on the internal storage, and phone storage when you go to settings ?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dqm45:
No, my external SD card is one partition only, with ~7.5GB available.

Both internal and external cards show up as unavailable in my SGS settings. Neither internal or external are working in my SGS.

If I connect as a USB device to my PC, both drives show up. However, they show capacities of 0 bytes each. The external card works if I connect it directly to my PC.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] madmack:
wow! can u install apps ?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dqm45:
Haven't tried....not really interested until my internal SD storage is available.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wang1chung:
seems like software issue to me? if his external sd card is fine in the blackberry, but unavailable in the sgs, obviously it's not his sdcard. and chances are, the same is true of the internal, which explains why some people's phones didn't have the motherboard replaced.

if we could force mount and format, this could potentially avoid a good amount of repair returns
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Gochris:
Bloody hell. I've tried everything, no luck. Guess I'm off to a bell store tomorrow.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] karakake:
This was covered by Supercurio and other members already in previous pages.

Exactly samething happend to my device, as it didn't boot up without the external sd card inserted. What was happening inside was that the system copied all the

necessary data for handset operation into external sd BECAUSE it couldn't mount the INTERNAL SD CARD! That's why you lost 2GB partition of your external card

simply because it turned into the system partition automatically. In sum, your internal sd is probably fried and there is no known way to fix it by users. I had to send

it back to Samsung... Hope it helps
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] madmack:
Sorry if this is too obvious, but is it possible to make the phone rely solely on the external sd for everything ? I know many phone manufacturers that don't provide an internal sd card with their phones, so maybe we can start relying on that instead of the shaky internal sd.

You know, something like partitioning the external sd card to host the 2GB the system requires, and never unmounting that card.. etc

Shouldn't be a kernel hack of some sort ? As long as the kernel does see the external sd card, i don't see why it would be a problem. I'm not entirely sure, so if anyone has a clue, let us know :)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Gochris:
In my scenario the external is unavailable also.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] YG007:
I was thinking the same thing, but when your internal SD goes, for some people it will remap the external SD to act like the 2GB partition. When you go to any file management or in the settings, the external SD size and the internal SD size will say unavailable. Formatting the internal SD from the settings menu will do nothing, and in the File Manager, it will say "No SD card found" or something along those lines. (I haven't had my phone for a month, so I can't really check).

So yeah, that method of just using the external SD wont work, unless some modding is done. Even then, who knows if the external SD shows up as a device to the OS anymore.

Just wondering... For all the people who did get their phones back from repair, how is the phone working? What did they do to the phone, and how long has it been since you got it back??
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xZeDgEx:
Got mine back on Sept 17th, so far so good. Has shut off on me randomly a few times which it did not do before though. My repair ticket says "replaced major component part".

My buddy only had a factory reset done to his when it died (day I got mine back ironicly). I am worried his is going to die again. His shuts off almost daily..

Neither of us did any rooting or lag fixing or anything of the sort. Mine is stock JH2, his is still the older firmware. Its his first smartphone and he has no idea how to use Kies or update his phone. He still has the stock wallpaper and icons for petes sake..lol. :rolleyes:
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] whitewindhtc:
How has Bell's response been to unlocked SGS coming back for warranty repair. I am not even sure if they can even detect the phone is unlocked due to the damaged internal SD. Approx. how long did it take to receive the repaired phone?

My situation:

Purchased the phone <2 months ago. It had flashed, reformatted and used lagfix many times. Before the phone died I was running 2.2 w/ oclf. Just as it died the OS loaded onto my External SD. This allowed me to boot into android and allowed me to install apps, but I was unable to mount my internal. W/O my external SD I would get stuck right after it shows "samsung + I-9000" screen.

Thanks in advance
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thedauntlessone:
If they can't boot the phone up, they can't "detect" anything. Just bring it back and don't take any bull**** from them.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Gochris:
I tried going to Bell last night to drop the phone off for repair. They said the system is down for upgrades and to come back on the weekend. Arg. Is this true? Or should I go to another store?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aquenne:
Yes, i went trying to take back my SGS for this issue and they said the system is down till Monday.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dqm45:
Same answer I got.

But they took my phone and said they were doing orders manually. Got only the quotation fee receipt, and not a receipt that I had actually given in my phone.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jumbleofletters:
I also had a dead internal SD. Running rooted JPK with lagfix 2.1.

I just got my phone replaced today under the 60 day DOA period. Sadly, according to them, The new DOA period is only 30 days.

Anyway, protip guys. DO NOT go to a Bell dealer store. If your phone is dead, head straight to a Bell Corporate store. I went through a week of crap and multiple stores before someone gave me this advice.

List of Bell Corporate Stores: ht[remove this insert]tp://ww[remove this insert]w.howardforums.com/showthread.php/1303195-List-of-Bell-Corporate-Stores/page3?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Takobo:
geez, so many dead SD. i'm afraid too.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rumy:
from the 15 (Still Working - 2.2 Froyo Firmware/No Lagfix) and the 18 (Still Working - 2.2 Froyo Firmware/with Lagfix)

How many are saying that its still working.

If there are a few who are using froyo for over 2 months on the i9000m then we can conclude that it might be batches that have the issue.

OP is there anyway to resurvey those people?

Also maybe we can get their batch numbers under their imei #s
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] s1301950:
I"m with bell but i bought the phone from source. Should i go to source? or bell?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BakaSenpai:
internal sd car f'ed up..-_-

i was running jp6 trying to flash voodoo 5 pre 3 and the phone is just a little over 2 months old now. -_-

for the imei..last two digits is 10 and battery date is july 18th 2010... O___O
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rmanaudio:
I'm willing to bet that given enough time, every I9000M will have some sort of SD-card failure during or soon after a ROM update or kernal update or even a file system change!!

I wonder how BELL or even Samsung is going to handle this once more and more units start to come back for repair!

Also, anyone know what to do if you have no receipt?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Orillian:
Running with the latest OCLF lag-fix. About 200MB of apps installed.Do not do music and such.

But I did have a crash about 2-3 weeks ago that took my apps with it, broke the lag fix, messed up a couple apps, and I've not had time to backup and re-flash everything yet, but I still have 2 apps that will no longer install and a number 3-4 apps that used to work prior to the crash that now just FC all the time.

The phone just out of the blue turned off and after a long reboot was messed up with about 70% battery left in it! Still not sure what that was about.

Other then that one hickup, this phone has been rock solid and fast with the lag fix.

Model: GT-I9000M

Firmware: 2.1-update1

Baseband: I9000UGJH2

Kernel: 2.6.29 darae.ahn@sep-20 #2

Build #: ECLAIR.UGJH2

O.