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[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] whitewindhtc:
Mine phone has been in for 3.5 weeks already. I sent an email to Futuretel asking when they would receive new parts and whether there is a permanent fix for this issue. They told me that they couldn't answer those questions. ARG...
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Beast11:
once i get mine back it wont be my problem, it going to the first buyer that wants it...
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gnein:
Second dead SGS in a less than a month

I had my first Bell SGS on Froyo (updated through Kies) and it dies within a week and a half. I returned it and they did an over-the-counter exchange. I received my second Bell SGS (i9000m) with stock firmware... stock everything, except a few apps from the market... here I am, a little over two weeks, and it's dead again. Both times because of fried internal SD cards.

Something is definitely wrong with the Samsung devices. Samsung need to take a close look at their devices (at least the 16GB version from Bell) and see what is wrong with the hardware.

I purchased 6 Samsung Galaxy S devices for work in the past month, and I was going to purchase 3 more tomorrow... I'm definitely NOT going to be purchasing the devices tomorrow... I'm hoping the dealer with actually take my 2nd dead device in exchange for another brand phone. As for the 3 devices I was going to purchase tomorrow, I'll get another brand device instead.

Samsung WAKE UP PLEASE! I love your device, but I can't have them die on me all the time!
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] astralmind:
mine has been with FutureTel for a week now and I got told the mainboard was backorder with no ETA.. wow... so it could still be a few weeks... hell even a few months!
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AllGamer:
they will not talk to end users

only to dealers
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Uss_Defiant:
Anyone on the inside have an idea when they'll get more parts? Some of us have been waiting for 3+ weeks and the crappy dumbphones bell gives as replacements just dont cut it, especially when you're paying so much for data
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jark99:
Sent my phone in the last week of October, said it would come back in December 1st or 2nd week, in the meantime i bought the HTC Desire Z, amazing phone, no issues,and i flashed roms and all that cool stuff

as for samsung, i went on Samsung Canada facebook page and told everyone who posted about galaxy s to sell it, need less to say Samsung did a PR and updated their status about froyo .....hahaha....delayed again...if anyone wants a samsung ill sell mine to them, id rather give it to a xda member rather then some random buyer. :)

pm me if your interested. im trying to get 400.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] YG007:
Another Update:

I still read this thread from time to time, and I thought this time I'll update again to give some people out there hope...

Its been 3 weeks and 4 days. I flashed the phone so many times, I lost count!! Phone still works, and I'm running Doc's JPO ROM 7.6.2 with the modem UGJK3 (from Bell's ROM) so I can get the 850MHz. I was one of the people that still had 850MHz on the JPP modem, but after going to the JK3 modem, my battery life is a little better.

Filled the internal SD many times, and deleted random files and refilling it again, and still no problems. Right now my internal SD is 1/2 full.

Anyways, the phone is still working great, and this should give people some hope that when they do replace the mobos of the i9000m with ones that don't have bad HW, they start working like they should!!
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AllGamer:
JK3 seems pretty solid according to the other topic.

I might actually install it and see how long my phone last before it dies

Still on JH2, originally came with JG9

it was one of the earlier releases back from Aug 12 so i'm pretty sure this is one of those in the batch of bad internal SD

but i install updates a lot, and install/de install software very often on a daily basis (to review software from Market) and so far it has been fine. (*knocks on wood*)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xxgg:
Keep us updated on status please.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] YG007:
Yeah, I heard about JK3 being really good, but from the past Bell firmware (2.1), the Korean implementation was bad. (I use Korean 1/2 of the time), so I'm sticking with the JPO for the OS, and using JK3 for the baseband.

Hopefully my phone lasts! Especially after saying that it is working great... *knocks on wood*
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] delly47:
so i sent my i900m away for repairs, but whos to say this wont happen again?

im with telus and was using an unlocked bell i9000m. Im afraid that the new/repaired phone will eventually die again. should i try to sell it on kijiji?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rombo121:
Backorder

I was told by bell that the eta for my phone return in Dec.10th. SO hopefully they get the parts in soon..
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] devilry:
Hey guys,

I'm having similar problems that everyone on here is having. Every time I power up my phone, i see the 2 boot-up screens then the inevitable black screen. If i try to power down, it simply reboots endlessly.

How can I find out if it's my internal SD card that's the problem or something else?

More importantly, I bought this phone nearly 4 weeks ago from Best Buy and I have the 3 year product replacement plan. I was wondering if I should just go and replace my phone with a newer one or try and solve this issue myself?

Before this issue happened a few days ago. I also had another problem where my phone would randomly turn itself off. If I have the phone on my desk it never turns off, but if i put it in my pocket, it always turns off which is really weird. I read people have done some 850 band lock fix that seems to be the temporary fix.

Regards.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AllGamer:
Make the most out of your extra $ that you paid, of course go get a new one

newer releases has less problems
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] devilry:
I would assume newer versions of the phone would be better than then one i have. But I've read in countless threads from others who have replaced there faulty vibrant phones with newer ones and still encounter the same issues eventually.

I guess it doesn't hurt to swap it with a newer one. I'm capable of getting into recovery mode, haven't tried download mode yet. Is it possible to back up my apps and contacts somehow before wiping out all my data to factory default?

Even though 2.2 froyo isn't officially released yet, if I install that with my newer phone immediately will I likely lower my chances of dealing with the internal sd card issues?

I read in some threads that the newer firmware not only improves the performance but fixes a lot of the buggy issues with this phone.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] devilry:
I ended up just trying out the recovery mode and wiping out all my data and clearing the cache partition. Now my phone is up and running again.

But, I'm not sure how my original problem came about. I never rooted my phone or did anything funky to it. I did install a lot of apps, and the internal sd card was full of videos and music. Was it something to do with all that?

Or something else?

I'd really like to find out so I can avoid doing that in the future.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] iamcanadian:
+1

I would like to know too since I've bought my i9000M 4 months ago and I unlocked it without rooting... I'm still running stock ROM. Twice my phone wouldn't go past the Samsung logo. Likely, I was able to do a system restore using 3-button-combo. Could that mean something???

I don't want to damage my phone since I'm using it with FIDO not Bell.

thanks in advance
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wang1chung:
well, i finally got my phone back after just over 4 weeks. all they did was a software reflash as per the warranty receipt from FutureTel. I actually got a copy of it if anyone is interested, but it clearly says "software reflash" on it, code 202.

also got into a scrap with the guy about it because he said it took so long due to hardware being replaced, and i called bull****, and pointed out it said only software work was done, so why did it take over 4 weeks?

also, i marked my motherboard and screws before i sent it in. the screws have been moved, but it is the same motherboard.

so it looks like JTAG'ing is the only way to fix these issues we're having......though i don't understand why some people have had their motherboards replaced. my issue was an sdcard failure, where flashing, repartitioning, and wiping would do nothing. it wouldn't boot up past the i9000m logo without the external sdcard in.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jark99:
Attention

i sent my phone out october 31 and have yet to receive it. My brothers galaxy s was sent out last week and he just received it today! BOTH PHONES have internal sd card failures......i dont understand how his can come backin such a short lead time. I am gonig to look at his phone and see if they flashed or replaced motherboard!....awaiting my galaxy s....how lame
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] whitewindhtc:
For those who have received their phones back from repairs could you please indicate when you received it and whether you've had any further problems. Since Samsung isn't admitting to this problem (AFAIK), it is good to know whether they have implemented some sort of permanent fix.

Thanks
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xxgg:
Did you had to pay anything?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wang1chung:
i am one of the other idiots that is getting robbed by paying the $7 "insurance", so no, i didn't pay anything. though for this phone, i think i will keep it on because i am in the process now of flashing one of Doc's roms that is specific to the i9000m's? quite curious about it, as i understand, he is saying the problem is with the kernel not writing files correctly? i dunno, i'm tired.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xxgg:
Was there any fee for your service ?

I assume futuretel would get some sort of reinbursment from samsung for in-warranty stuff?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wang1chung:
no fee.......and i assume they send a bill to samsung since it's covered under the 1 year warranty.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] knifer:
has anyone been able to sell their repaired phone? how much did you get for it? i'm sick of having to send my phone into get repaired and just want to get rid of it.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wang1chung:
were you on the k9 kernel, and it still corrupted?

edit: looks like you flashed through odin though, and not CWM
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] knifer:
yah i flashed from doc's 1.1 to stock 2.1 with odin and then flashed to doc's 1.2 with clock work. got the sd error and then flashed back to stock 2.1 with odin so i can go back to bell tonight...what a pain in the ass this sd issue has been
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fnakfhe:
Honestly, i dont think its a phone issue, i mean WTF is oden doing wrong.

the phone i had first time worked great for 1 month untill i hit it with oden then it just F''ed up on me, this is now my second phone, and i used oden with the rom of the OP, its working great.

I know from the first phone, if you muck around with oden and start click wipe and other selections you will mess the phone up.

I would not say its the phone problem as i never had the first phone break when useing samsung kies to do bells upgrade of rom to jh2, but only when i used oden v1.3 did it ever mess up.

anyway i think now with oden 1.7 all is ok aslong as we dont keep flashing over and over with diffrent settings like wipe and re create partition or whatever the settings are in oden that seem to be fuc5ing this phone up.

edit: this phone is ****ing garbage, its a sd memory pheon issue.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] knifer:
the thing is that flashing with odin worked ok and it wasn't until i flashed the rom with clock work that i got this problem. i'm not an expert here but a lot of people seem to be getting this problem even when they're running completely stock phones. either way, this is the last samsung phone i'll ever buy. i've already talked 2-3 people out of getting it.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fnakfhe:
To each is own,

I dont think its a bad phone in terms of memory. and i know its a great phone in terms of spec. and in terms of OS quality.

EDIT: IT IS A BAD PHONE FROM MEMORY, I WAS WRONG. **** YOU BELL ONLY BELL PHONE HAS THIS ISSUE.

only think i dont like is the File System used on the storage device. I mean WTF is RFS anyway, and who the hell uses such an unstable and non recoverable file system? they should have used EXT1 2 or 3 or maybe even EX anything Linux would have worked more stable.

Do you know if its useing MLC or SLC memory, and is that why your saying the internal memory is bad?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-level_cell#Single-level_cell

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-level_Cell

How I know it, that there could be just a few idots that keep doing the same mistake on the phone and it keeps crashing with them.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] C.Flat:
I'm definitely placing the blame on Odin here. My Vibrant was flawless, GPS worked well, no lag. 5 hours after flashing 2.2 with f***ing Odin it dies
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] astralmind:
47 people here answered that their SD went dead without flashing anything. Mine went dead a month after flashing Doc with CW, never touched Odin. Clearly, Oding is not the reason for everyone's problem.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xxgg:
It sure is a great phone when it is working OR when you do not have to think about when it might get corrupted. I don't think any should have to worry about such thing when owning any type of a phone.

As for myself? As soon as I get it back fro the repair, I am gonna flash the F(#%*) out the phone and play around with it so see if it'll fail again... repair comes with a 90 days warranty on same issue.

If it works for few weeks without a problem, sure I might keep it. If not I'll be posting it for sale without a second thought.

That is how I am feeling about this phone now.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] YG007:
Update:

So, I had the data corruption happen to me. Was using the phone, and got FCs all over the place. I thought "GREAT! MY internal SD is dead!" but then later found out it was the /system corruption that everyone was getting in the dev section as I had Doc's 7.6.2 ROM on mine.

I rebooted into recovery, said couldnt mount DATA/DBDATA. So I thought to myself ok, its not mmcblk0p1 so I should be able to fix this...

I ended up using ODIN with 803 pit, as I no longer trust 512/513 pit anymore. My i9000m has never been touched with 512/513 pit.. only 803 pit. Flashed a low level firmware which included dbdata.rfs and it came back to life. Flashed Doc's 7.6.2 ROM back and immediately flashed SpeedMod K9A kernel to prevent this corruption from ever happening again. Everything works fine again.

I ended up flashing Doc's v8 JPO ROM (which includes K9A) on this, along with UGJK3 modem (to get the 850MHz), and all is well again.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DoubleDot:
Stock phones fail just the same

I had my phone for 2 months before it failed. I didn't even know what Odin is... Never did anything to the phone, not even a simple factory rest.

Flashing the phone may not help the situation but they are quite capable of failing on their own. Looking at the poll you can see that the majority of the failed phones were bone stock with no lag fix. I'm one of them. It's probably even worse than it looks. People with stock phones probably don't stroll onto the xdadevelopers forum as much as people with flashed phones do.

I know a lot more now after reading these threads but my phone was already dead. I had a failed internal SD.

The behavior was just as you have all described. Phone wouldn't boot without an external SD. It would boot after a reset with an external SD inserted and it would create a 2Gb partition on the external card for system files but no other memory would be accessible.

It's in for service now at Samsung. They have had it for a week and it appears they are replacing the main board. The brief note in the service system just says ''delay - PBA main''. I think it will be a while...

i9000m Bell Mobility
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Freija:
I just got off the phone with a Bell Rep (in Toronto) and she told me they have a backorder on parts, and it's gonna be 2-6 weeks before they get stock in.

FML.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] astralmind:
2-6 weeks.. might as well say a day to a few months .. haha. damn it.

I wonder if the corruption fixes that are surfacing could solve our issue! arg can you imagine ? XDA finds an easy solution while we are waiting for a replacement..
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AllGamer:
another of the units that was sent out a few weeks ago for repair just came back today, they phoned me to pick it up.

does that mean they (FutureTel) already got re-stocked for the PCB ?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xxgg:
Maybe for handsets from few weeks ago?

I received a email today saying parts are in back order with NO ETA.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AllGamer:
its possible just new warranties are back ordered

the phone was submitted back 1.5 week ago
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xxgg:
My phone was received by FutureTel on November 16th.

First come first serve I guess.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] masterslacker:
I gave mine into Bell on October 30th. FutureTel diagnosed it and ordered a new PCB board on November 4th. I'm still waiting for mine to come back.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] striker456:
mine went in a couple days ago, can't mount mmcblk0p1. it's too bad i can't change my vote. i bet this poll is not right anymore. sucks about the backorder. i got a i7500L loaner, which i hate.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Freija:
I gave em my phone on November 12th.

They offered me a Palm Pre as a loaner phone but I don't even know if I can use it since I'm with Rogers.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] scouzer:
You cannot... incompatible with Rogers network.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] C.Flat:
I just flashed another Froyo rom (Eugene's), and my phone actually booted up! BUT, it said Internal SD card damaged and it won't read my external Micro SD card either
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TheChancellor:
So, let me clarify something here. Would flashing the K9 kernel minimized the chances of getting a corrupt SD card after putting on a different Rom? Has any experienced Internal SD card failure after flashing the K9 kernel and then a Rom on top of it, in that order?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xxgg:
Let's get it clear,

flash any unoffcially released rom for your carrier can* brick your phone. Risk is up to you. I think that has been clear enough.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wang1chung:
k9 kernel won't protect you if you have one of the problem phones. mine has failed from it
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tylerham:
The K9 kernel which fixes the bug introduced in ULF when mounting /system as RFS is a completely seperate issue from the problem with the Bell I9000M. The I9000M has a problem when it tries to mount /sdcard. This is still a problem with the stock RFS or EXT4 from Voodoo.

So, no, we don't know if these kernels make the issue better or worse.

Probably neither, as the same code on the international I9000 doesn't have the same problem, which leads me to believe that it's a hardware problem.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rambo6:
My GT-I9000M Just Failed Today

I have been running one of the JPA Stock ROMs from samfirmware.com for about 3 weeks. No Lag Fixes; no custom ROMs. I am a heavy user. I change batteries twice a day.. Whenever I change the battery, I have noticed a burnt electrical smell. It's been that way for a while.

When I went to change the battery today, I got some kind of message, and the phone wouldn't boot. I took off the battery and it would not boot. So I tried another battery. That didn't help anything so not I tried flashing some ROMs that have worked for me. I get the message in red during boot that it cannot mount the sd card or something like that.

There's obviously a problem with the Samsung Hardware.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thedauntlessone:
Let me clarify, flashing ANY ROM can brick your phone if you have a faulty internal movinand. If you have warranty though, I'd personally rather have my phone brick early so I can get it fixed than have it brick after warranty.

Oh hey, someone with a I9000M who is sensible. /high five.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Samdroid_G_S:
I've been running leaked froyo builds for about 3 weeks now first speeds mod then the stock JK3 leaked rom that came out a week or so ago witch is what im running now.

I installed LP launcher Pro last night (friday night) , woke up this morning to LP giving me constant force closes, but Tw seemed to be working fine. Uninstalled and reinstalled LP fixed to FC but all ofmy widgets I downloaded were not showing up and some of my apps I downloaded were gone??

I had OCLF so I removed the lagfix and went back to RFS and then all my widgets came back but I was still missing about 5 apps, then gallery was giving me a FC's everytime I was trying to apply a wallpaper. Went into settings/applications/manage and went to gallery and cleared data/cache on gallery and that fixed the FC issue.

went into Titanium and all the apps that disapeared were listed in there but with no icons and listed as .com.blah.blah but with a strike through them, so I removed them re-installed them and its been running flawless for about the past 12 hours or so except swpye every now and then FC's but I cleared that data on that about 3 hours ago and have yet to recieve another FC on that "yet".

Dunno my I9000M is still holding up im hoping there was just a bug with LP , cause I installed that went to bed right after and woke up to this problem. Disapearing apps seems like a possible SD card failure to me I guess time will tell.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Freija:
If anyone is interested in the repair parts backorder issue, I went back to my local Bell store when I wanted to get my loaner phone (They actually did not have any in stock when I got there, which was totally a waste of time) they told me the repair center would be getting the parts in on December 2nd, so I could be getting my phone back a few days after that.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] alkalain:
I dont know if it as been posted on the forum, but there's a soft especially made for scanning flash drive.

It make read and write test and recover it if possible.

Be careful of what you are doing, if you do a write test, it's like formating your drive.

vconsole.com/client/?page=page&id=13
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Vaanhoot:
Just got my i9000m back from Bell the other day and they replaced the mother board and a power supply. The repair document didn't say anything about internal SD. I would only get a black screen after the Samsung boot animation when I sent it in. I had it unlocked using the SGS Unlock program from the market and was running i9000xxjpm firmware when it went. They sent it away and fixed it under warrenty even though it was unlocked, rooted, and had xxjpm firmware installed. I had to re-unlock it when I got it back, I assume it is because they put a new motherboard in it. Since I have gotten it back I have noticed a big improvement in speed and absolutely no lag at the moment running stock firmware and about 20 apps.