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[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] whitewindhtc:
Vaanhoot, when did you return your phone to bell?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xxgg:
So...

Will you be flashing the hell out of your phone over and over and again ?

Or stay totally stock now?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BA_Flash_GOD:
Hah nice that's mine then of course

Yeah, then you're referring to my phone obviously (I sent it back to you 10/22 actually) so you got it back then? What's up, as i'd like to get it back unless you just want to give me the full amount I gave you for it. Let me know
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AllGamer:
it's still at the store, haven't picked it up yet, keep forgetting to bring the invoice with me
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Vaanhoot:
I'm going to stay stock until the official Bell update comes out, which I hear is soon. It seams faster than when I had froyo and lag fix installed. Only thing I really miss is Skype.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BA_Flash_GOD:
Yeah good stuff
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jfcron0:
So I seem to be victim of a bad internal SD because my phone won't boot anymore. The Galaxy S logo loads and then all I get a black screen. I was told in another thread that this was very lickely an internal SD issue.

So I called Samsung Electronics Canada Inc. (1-800-726-7864) and they told me they didn't do mobile phone repairs and that I had to take it to my carrier.

The thing is that I bought the phone at full price from 'The Source' without a carrier plan. I am now using my phone on Rogers network. When I initially purchased the phone the vendor told me that past the initial 30 days I would have to contact Samsung directly if I ever have issues with it.

Now I highly doubt Bell will honor the warranty of my phone because I did not buy it in a Bell store and I don't have a cellphone plan with them. I'm not sure about The Source because of what they told me when I purchased the phone and I really don't think Rogers will care for a phone they don't sell at all.

I'm sure someone has been in the same situation. What did you do?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] frandromeda:
Argh, when I checked the status of my phone this morning, I see this:

Parts required to repair phone are backordered. Delivery of parts expected on 20101221

I'm stuck for another month on this POS loaner phone. Balls. Hopefully the new hardware that's backordered is better than the old...
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BA_Flash_GOD:
Yeah no joke, not acceptable by Samsung in the least! People having to wait months for a replacement device, by the time we get them back they will be old hardware and a fraction of the original value. Not cool in my book at all, These duped models should have been first on the scene. Samsung branching out so much is giving them quite a stir. Don't count on anything being better than the original, if anything they are taking less time on this because of the sheer volume
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Uss_Defiant:
May I ask when you returned your phone? I sent mine in on the 8th and still nothing...
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Vaanhoot:
I was in the same boat as you, bought my phone at Future Shop, unlocked it to use it on Rogers, rooted it, installed a lag fix, and upgraded it to froyo using Odin. After a few weeks I was getting force closures so I tried reflashing the froyo rom which bricked my phone. Same as you, stuck on black screen after Samsung logo. I removed my Rogers sim card and put the Bell one I got with the phone in it and took it to a Bell store for repairs. I told them I was using it as a PDA when they asked me for a phone number linked to the phone. They took the phone no questions asked. I got it back on Friday, they replaced the motherboard and a power supply. Never charged me a penny for the work. Just do the same. It is a Bell phone so they have to honor the warrenty no matter where you bought the phone. I had to pay $35 to send the phone away which they gave back to me when the warranty work was done.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aGalaxySfan:
Here's something that may or may not be useful. Bell's "Track your repair" page:

http://www.bell.ca/support/PrsCSrvWls_MgAcSrMobility_Eform.page

I sent mine in 5 weeks ago and all I see is "Phone is being inspected/repaired."
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] frandromeda:
I sent it in on Monday the 22nd of November, from a Bell store in downtown Ottawa. I got the status from the same link that @aGalaxySfan just posted above. Yesterday, my status still said "Phone is being inspected/repaired" Only today did it switch to the "parts are on backorder" status.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Lightarrow:
I just checked that link and mine says "Transaction closed" what does that mean ? Hopefully good news ?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aleks07:
Thanks for the link! I checked my phone and it says:

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The current status of your repair is:

Parts required to repair phone are backordered. Delivery of parts expected on 20101206 .

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I took it to Bell on Nov 7th in Toronto.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SomEngangVar:
My second i9000M died two days ago. I left the thing completely stock since I didn't trust it at all and it still ate itself. I was watching tv, before the show started the phone worked fine. After the 1 hour show I go to check it and the screen won't turn on. I pull the battery and get the stupid "internal SD removed" bs again along with all the regular errors. Take it to Best Buy. Get a Desire Z. Am happy again. I wasn't about to go through a phone a month waiting for Sammy to finally acknowledge that they messed this up and fix it. The guy at Best Buy's patience was even starting to wear out with the phone. He actually had the misfortune of having to call the Samsung tech support. You guys can probably figure out how well that ended up, haha. I hope you guys that decide to stick this out end up with something good for it. With all the hassle this phone better end up being worth it. Hopefully Samsung will get their act together and you'll all end up with an amazing piece of kit.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xxgg:
haha

i figured you would have learned your lesson by not buying... yet another i9000m :D

I know once my i9000m comes back from repair shop... I'll be jumping ship to HTC brand as I am not even going to give a 2nd chance.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Beast11:
...If it comes back from the repair shop... Its only been a week for me, but from the looks of it, its gonna be a lot longer.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Singhman:
Well, it happened to me too. Boot screen animation comes up, and then black screen, with the menu and back buttons lit up. POS phone! I have had it with samsung...never will i buy a product from them again. Isn't there a way to expose this company? So many people are buying their products not knowing that sammy does not care about its customers. They sell crap. I will buy an HTC next..had my touch for 3 years, dropped it on pavement like 100 times...still worked perfect...gps was perfect on it too.

Now they give me an original galaxy for a loaner phone...what a POS it is! Sooooooooo slowwwww. Samsung sucks!
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] greeced:
Ha... your experience is exactly like mine.. They gave me an i-7500 Galaxy as a loaner.. POS phone.. extremely slow. All the while they charge me a $25.00 loaner fee that I managed to get credited to my account.

Why? Because I still had my HTC Touch Diamond in my pocket, but they couldn't use it as the "loaner" because it is CDMA and would screw up my pricing plan. What a joke.

I literally submerged my HTC Touch Diamond in water. I thought it was toast, but once it dried up.. worked like a charm. Dropped the dang thing so many times.. Still worked and no serious scratches either. The only thing was the magnet for the Stylus came loose. I opened the thing up and glued the magnet back in place.

Like you, I agree. Samsung is crap. I will never buy another product from them again. Too bad I'm on a 3 year contract with a phone I have to walk on eggshells with. Currently in for repair while I try and use an Android 1.5 phone. So much for froyo. lol
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Beast11:
Bestbuy let you switch phones just like that??? Even after 30 days?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SomEngangVar:
Hah. Actually I only tried another one because I had a replacement warranty through Best Buy. I didn't have to pay a thing.

Replacement warranty. It's something like $12 or $13 bucks per month. You can exchange it for any phone you want if they can't get it up and running again in store. You only have to pay the difference if the phone you're replacing it with is more expensive. Needless to say, I will probably only buy phones from them from now on. The service from Best Buy themselves has been exceptional. I got a bit of a bad vibe when I replaced this one since they were so tired of having to replace the phone but that's understandable, haha.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Beast11:
wow thats amazing... my cousin was telling me about this, but i didnt know you could switch with any phone...
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jfcron0:
Awesome I'm very hopeful now. I also have the Bell SIM so I'll just do like you did and pretend I'm using it as a PDA w/o a phone plan.

Thanks!
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Gochris:
Just got broken phone #1 back from repair today, my 2nd phone died last night, so now it went in for repair at the same time I picked up #1. Geez!

They replaced the entire phone, brand new, no repair. Hopefully the 2nd one gets back in a couple weeks.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aslan_slipknot:
Phone died

i wish i could change my vote in the poll. I voted working on stock 2.1 with lag fix. But my phone died yesterday ( failed internal SD card) it was working for the best 4 moths but as soon as i updated it through kies to JK3 froyo it died few hours after :(. Honestly this is bull**** we should organize a class action law suit against samsung.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bobola:
Good thing I got the bell SIM card too.

Good plan if my phone gets issues.

What did you say when they ask where did you get the phone?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Beast11:
You don't need the sim... That sim is inactive... you could sell it if you want ( i think bell sells them for $5) Just tell them you were using as a tablet and your fine...
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mistermoot:
2 dead phones in one month

So I picked up an I9000M from Bell on November 5th and it died on the 19th. I exchanged it for a new one on November 29th and the SD card died today (December 2nd)

The first one I flashed a bunch of times and experimented with until I had it running beautifully on Doc's JPO with the no rfs advanced ext 4 lagfix.

The second one I only rooted and flashed once with Doc's JK3 v1.2 and this time I used the more conservative vodoo lagfix running data as ext4 and the rest remaining rfs. It worked beautifully, no bugs or fc's until today when I was downloading some really large map files for Aura GPS and the SD card portion got corrupted and I got a "damaged SD card" warning from media scanner. I rebooted and all seemed well but later the same evening again trying to download a 400+MB map it rebooted and that was the end of this phone.

I'm going to hopefully get another one tomorrow if they have one on hand and leave it stock for a while and I hope someone will figure out the cause of and/or solution to this problem.

Has anyone had any of the replacement Motherboards from Samsung die again!? I'm imagining they realize there is an issue and are shipping some properly fixed replacement boards otherwise this is a fairly hopeless situation.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Vaanhoot:
Well I had the reciept which clearly showed that I bought it from future shop.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xxgg:
we sure aint' gonna get our phones back from retail shop during christmas/new year weeks.

oh well.

it's like killing us twice
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Leifer:
Thanks for the link. I dropped mine off Nov 11th, the response back from the 'Track Your Repair' page is "Phone is in transit to repair facility" :confused: wtf ?!?

I called the store and they said it was shipped the day after I dropped it off, they're investigating and will back to me. Apparently Samsung repairs are done locally in Richmond.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mercath:
No, its the Vibrant, not Odin. Other versions of the Galaxy S don't have these issues. I've had several Captivates, flashed the hell out of them, Odin'd the hell out of them, not a single issue.

Had two Bell Vibrants die on me.

Trust me, its the phone.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ChiGGz:
Did you guys have to take it back to the same store that you bought from for the warranty service?

I wanted to call around the bell stores and see which ones have at least an android device as a loaner..
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Uss_Defiant:
Nope, I got mine from the Source but returned to a bell corp @ fairview (where they also gave me a new orig. galaxy as a loaner)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] frandromeda:
Actually, you have to take it back to any Bell "product assistance center" which may or may not be where you bought it from. The list of these stores in Canada is found here:

http://support.bell.ca/Documents/Mobility/Other/Store List Update(en).pdf?ver=50.0

I got my phone from BestBuy and took it back to a Bell store, no problem. It seems like they've stocked up on original galaxys as loaners, 'cause that's what they gave me too. After the sgs goodness, this phone makes me want to throw it out the window, but at least my google contacts are all still there...
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ChiGGz:
Where did you guys to get the Orig. Galaxy phones? Every place I call is telling me they dont have any smartphone loaners...wtf
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] C.Flat:
Got my new phone today, thank god for the replacement plan. I'm treating this one way better, no rooting or odin. If it fails it'll fail through kies
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Singhman:
My phone has been "fixed" by Bell Mobility. The problem I had was this:

Startup animation comes up, and then black screen, with the menu and back buttons lit up.

Its now being sent back to the store. I asked the employee at the store what they did to my phone (new motherboard?)...and they looked up the memo, and it said that all they did was re-install the software and wiped the memory!....what the...

is this gonna be a proper fix? Why did it happen in the first place to a totally stock phone? Will it happen again...only time will tell. Samsung sucks.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xZeDgEx:
Mine just died again... I knew it would happen. I'm out. Even if they fix it, it is going for sale. **** Samsung.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] C.Flat:
If my new one dies I'm definitely getting it replaced with something else. This is ridiculous

I wish there was a better poll though. One that compared the failure rate with Odin and without. I know it wouldn't be really accurate, but the one in this thread has too many options
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Samdroid_G_S:
From what I read around here a large % is user error or recoverable. It seems like half the people who's SD's die post about it asking how to fix it and what to do next. To many noobs not doing enough reading and just jumping right into it.

Not saying that there is not a problem with the i9000M there is defiantly a problem there I just believe flashing in general is the cause no matter the program your SD is gonna die if its a faulty one.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Beast11:
Here you go... http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=832116
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tony604:
My second one to die. The first was fixed and sold. This one crapped out too. I can't handle this crap anymore. Time to move on to a different phone. You shouldn't have to hold your breath and cross your fingers every time you flash your phone. Or in my case the second time, I just rebooted it. Then it went into a boot loop, and that was the end of it. Flashed with Odin, but didn't help. Good luck to all you guys, I'm so done.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Skud51:
I just had an interesting experience. Got my phone from Bell at the beginning of Nov. Immediately unlocked it and have been using it on Sasktel since then.

After a week I went from stock JH2 to Doc's 7.6.2 JPO. A little over a week later my soft keys stopped working reliably (back/menu/home).

Flashed the Bell JK3 via Odin and everything was back to normal, running very well until today. Was writing a text message, letters started showing up slowly, the gmail app forced closed, then everything was fine... Phone still worked.

I decided to reboot just in case and that was it.. The SGS logo came up and after that just a black screen. The phone would vibrate once, pause, then three short over and over. Did a factory reset and it was back..

So, I hope this isn't a sign of things to come, but I fear it may be the beginning of the end for my phone..... :(

I loaded Doc's JK3 on it this time since all my stuff was gone anyways..

My brother bought an SGS from Sasktel just the other day. I don't think he will flash it or anything, so it will be interesting to see if it messes up on him.

Riley
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wang1chung:
ticking time-bomb my friend. i would go back to jh2 if i was you. post back after a week if you're still up.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] spydr11:
My phone died after 28 days. I bought it from Future Shop, they sent me to Bell. Bell told me that Samsung extended the return policy on this phone to 2 months but they couldn't return it. I went back to Future Shop, the cell shop guy couldn't help me but I talked to the manager and he swapped it out no problem. I had it for about 5 weeks when he swapped it.

P.S. I never flashed it before it broke (tried after but no luck) and I installed voodoo lag fix from some app in the android marked. It died the day that I put on lagfix.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wang1chung:
yeah, it seems that depending on if you are blessed with the safe phones, you can do anything, but if you have the more sensitive phones, any little file system change (lock screens, roms, lagfix's) just accelerate the failures. you might be lucky since you have a new phone now though.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] C.Flat:
Not even the new ones are safe sadly. my first one died five hours after using odin to put jk3 on it. It was manufactured on October 31st
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wang1chung:
ok, so here's a question for the guys who understand linux and how this phone works.

if a lot of people are getting their phones back with just a mere reflash, then it's safe to assume that the OS, bootloader, etc got corrupted, and it was reflashed through jtag'ing.

now, i remember reading that you can dump the bml1-9 through adb (dd if=/dev/......), and that it was possible to reverse it from a backup you had made.

so if the bml's contain the bootloaders that are not corrupt, should we not be able to flash the bml's back through adb using a recovery from a kernel that supports adb?

well, i know i am going to backup all my bml's now, and then WHEN it fails, i am going to try it.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fluidd:
"Can not mount External SD card Mount point absent or incorrect."

What does this mean? I am getting it in the notification bar.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xxgg:
Have you tried System Restore?

Flash again?

If you get same result, your internet sdcard might be toast.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xxgg:
More and more failures of the phone.

Bell's i9000m really does fail more than other versions of Galaxy S.

Samsung Galaxy S seems to the best selling android phone too.

Too bad... this feel like the 1st generation XBOX 360 :)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wang1chung:
only difference is the 1st gen xenon xbox's will last forever simply by turning up the speed of the cooling fans. we have no simple fix in sight.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] C.Flat:
I've been thinking the same thing.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fluidd:
Yeah I tried to do a restore from the phone and then inside Recovery Mode it says unable to mount int sd.

Then I flashed back to JH2 multiple times, and same problem. It boots up normally; but then it says "Cannot mount to external sd..."

For everyone else that had this problem, how did they fix it? Is there no fix for this? Either than bringing it into a service center? If if you do bring it in to a service center? Do they actually "fix" it?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] C.Flat:
Second phone just died 1.5 days after installing JK4. Trying now to install other Bell 2.1 Roms to see how it goes

Honestly this is ridiculous. I might switch it out for the Desire Z if I can't revive it
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dawgpound6985:
But thats the thing...The partition breaks when I flash a Froyo ROM. I fix it by Formatting the internal SD Card in recovery which then says its fixed. However, my logcats using DDMS, definitely show cluster errors when trying to wipe/factory reset. Refer to my post in this thread:

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=8359517&postcount=22

With that said, my phone boots the Galaxy S logo and stays there no matter how long I leave it on. This is an improvement though, in that, it doesn't just turn black and the menu buttons stay lit. However, booting to the Galaxy S logo takes 15-30 minutes probably due to the cluster errors which need fixing.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dawgpound6985:
If you know how to fix those cluster errors, then we may be able to fix the problem. I've already tried fsck_msdos but get a "[NO WRITE]" error. I have to head out to school, but I will come back to this thread later. Lets get the ball rolling for this fix. I believe if we can mark those clusters bad and tell the OS not to use them, we may get it to work.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] moophone:
Interesting you say that. My texts don't send at home (concrete condo) either. I get really terrible signal strength, and when its low It usually wont send texts. I know its the phone now, because this piece of crap samsung windows mobile phone gets 3 bars and hasn't had any trouble sending texts from home. Note, this happened with the stock firmware too though, but I had to upgrade because of the freezing with the stock firmware on low signal strength. Hopefully the new phone has better signal.

FWIW I get about 10-12 hours with moderate use. I installed juicedefender to try to stretch that out.

Hopefully Bell will get 2.2 soon. The dealer said they were actually waiting on google to approve it, not Bell but who knows.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bigc_13:
I just got my phone back yesterday from having the Internal SD replaced, no phone for 2 weeks was a sad sad day
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dwathey:
What would be the best way to stress the internal sd to see if it is defective?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AllGamer:
formatting it a lot

that is guaranteed to kill SD cards really fast, i've killed many USB disk like that and SD cards even more
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dwathey:
If formatting is guaranteed to kill any sd fast, wouldn't I just be killing my sd for the sake of killing it then?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AllGamer:
that's the best way to stress test any Flash media, it should not die if they were made good, but if they die after like 10 formats, then they are bad