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[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] que3jxp:
The update is pulled so I doubt anyone as of the end of this current week (W/E Dec 18) will be getting 2.2.

I can now confirm also that all of the franchise stores have been notified to tell users/new buyers to NOT update their phones if the update still shows up (Which it should not). The Main Bell/Aliant store in the Regent Mall in Fredericton got their notice yesterday and today.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tylerham:
Perhaps they think that the update was bricking phones. If we're lucky, their investigation may lead them to fixing the real problem.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rambo6:
Internal Memory Problem finally getting some coverage

I woke up to find the problem mentioned on Engadget. Apparently, Samsung is blaming this on the Froyo update. We all know better. Here's the link.

http://www.engadget.com/2010/12/18/samsung-pulls-froyo-update-for-bells-vibrant-after-reports-of-f/
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ccrows:
I live in the US and bought my phone off of eBay. I have an eBay receipt but not the original Bell receipt.

Is there any number or place that I can send mine since this died after I flashed to Froyo? :confused:
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Karmalina:
Call Samsung canada directly and they will open a ticket and email you a shipping label.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] abnormica:
I'd be interested to hear if this works for anyone. I bought mine from The Source, but when the phone died, they told me to call Samsung. I talked to 'Krystal' from Samsung, and she told me there was nothing they could do. According to her, "everybody knows that you're on your own if you buy a phone without a provider". Her words, quoted for the wtf content. I told her the warranty says nothing about that, and I asked her straight out if she meant to say that Samsung won't support their hardware even though it's in the 1 year warranty period, and she said that was correct. I'm still waiting for her manager to call back.

I ended up taking it to the Bell store at Mavis and Britannia in Mississauga, and, after an ungodly long wait, they took it without any fuss. There was a matter of a $35 deposit, which seemed strange. I mean, they've got my $500 phone... I was told that it would be less than two weeks, but I'm pretty sure the guy was slightly calendar challenged. Hey - if it show's up in two weeks, then I guess I'll be pleasantly surprised.

Samsung owes me a little piece of my life back.

Also, I need to change my vote from works to dead...
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ccrows:
This is where I'm at (post #6)...

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=10022585#post10022585
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Alfahmad:
Had the same problem

http://www.samsung.com/ca/info/contactus.html

Called Samsung and they emailed me shipping label
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jark99:
My galaxy has been gone since October 31,2010. i have been waitingh for them them to give me a call and they said the parts were on backorder.....wtf?. sigh...im using my htc desire z and i cant believe the galaxy hasnt come back.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] andreschardong:
very nice!! works for me too, but internet sd card (partition 2) seems to be broked. im trying to format, but no luck so far, maybe the fix of this post will help: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=845708#9316375
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xxgg:
Look like a lot of people are still waiting for their Galaxy S to come back from FutureTel ?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] reMer(x):
Are the new i9000's better?

Does anybody know if the new phones from Bell are any better than the old ones?

I bought one off Kijiji a couple weeks ago and it died within an hour of having it, so I got the lady who sold it to me to exchange it. So far, this one is Ok, but I'm still worried.

If the thing craters, what should I do with it? What's the best way to get it repaired if I don't have a receipt?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] notoriouspk:
Call samsung canada they might replace it without reciet
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] johntitor:
OK I called Samsung Canada. I'm at the US.

They told me my warranty was voided because I got it into the US (WTF?)

I told him all the classic stuff... It's a Bell phone, from Canada, I'ts unlocked, I didn't make any strange things to it... I need to know how to repair it... bla... bla...

They guy that took the call told me the only way was sending it through bell...

I'm not at Canada !!!!

What can I do next?

------------------

I'm definitely buying another android phone... but NOT BUYING A SAMSUNG MOBILE ANYMORE.... I'm tired of SAMSUNG bad customer service.... (This includes US & CANADA)

I want to get it repaired to get the brick to work... and give it as a gift or sell it....
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xxgg:
First of all you should call again to talk to someone who knows what they are talking about.

But!! You do require a canadian shipping adress. That is a must requirement.

Call the number on my signature
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lgkahn:
tell them you used to live in canada when you bought it .. no contract and since moved to the u.s. see what the say.. i think in that case it is illegal to void warranty.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nightmare56:
i will call both numbers tomorrow the one alfahmed posted 1-800-726-7864

and the one in xxgg's sig 1-888-751-4078

I got my phone from kijiji two months ago and it died today. I don't have a receipt.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] B.H.O:
ouch! Mine died 2 weeks after I got it... Flashed it with 2 to 3 Roms... and died... The reason why I Flashed tho was because The Menu and Back softkeys were active when ever they wished... They would be active every 5-10 sec by themselves ... that's when i knew something wasin't right... any ways i'm done with the Galaxy .... no point in going back when ppl are on their 2nd and 3rd phones.... Just got the Xperia X10a ... happy with it....
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sleeplessfreek:
i just got my phone back from futuretel and they actually gave me a brand new Galaxy S
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hoagieh:
Going on my 3 phone.. hopefully this one will have better luck!
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Stiffler's Mom:
Just got a call from Bell; my phone is ready for pick up. New mother board & memory, allegedly, and now has Froyo, allegedly. Knowing my luck with this phone, it probably now has the iPhone's alarm defect too...
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gtg2:
I apologize for the wasted post but... that was funny :)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xxgg:
Well ??

Well ???
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] johntitor:
So I think I'll do the same as this user, :S as I'm just on the same situation:

http://bit.ly/epLss3
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] johntitor:
Well after several weeks arguing with Samsung Canada support I decided the best way to get rid of this problem is through EBAY...

As you may know they are not helping me out cause I'm at the US, So this is like my last resort.

If anyone is interested on getting a phone that has the SD Card problem cause of the Froyo update in order to fix it or get it replaced please go to http://bit.ly/eygnOb

Thanks Guys.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xxgg:
i've just got back my phone after 2nd repair.

this is my 3rd phone now...

let see how it goes.

oh god, failure of this magnitude should be recalled. stop being sold, give alternative to those with problems.

(#&%)(#*% you Samsung!!
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shaahinjjj:
Does anyone know if the new Galaxys from Bell that come with Froyo pre-installed have the internal memory problems too or not? Waiting for my 3rd replacement and it was promised that it's the new series that come with 2.2 installed. Let's see if that's gonna make a difference.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] que3jxp:
I am now a breath away from 4 weeks on a December hardware that came with 2.1 and was updated to 2.2 JL2 right away. (My old phone that died was an August)

The only real issue in all this time is that the built in audio app does not respond to Bluetooth transport keys on my headset. Fortunately, I use Beyondpod for podcasts most of the time so it is not that big of an inconvenience. I have not seen one Force Close or one crash of an app.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gtg2:
No one knows for sure yet. Some phones with 10.11 (shipping with 2.2), 10.12 (were shipping with 2.1 but now appear to be 2.2) and possibly 11.01 (?) dates have certainly failed. The numbers appear very low so far which either indicates the problem is (mostly) solved, there just aren't many of the newer phones out yet or the newer phones haven't been out long enough.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Froster08:
Just got mine back from warranty repair. I took it in the second week of December and got it back yesterday.

I got my old phone back, but apparently the motherboard was replaced. It came preloaded with JL2, which is a lot better so far than JH2 was, but nowhere near as good as Doc's JK3 was when my phone died.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BottleB:
My phone still running. Got it in Oct it came preloaded with JH2. Ran it stock for a long time. I went from JH2 to JK4 to JL2. Then flashed Hardcore speedmod...got a little trouble after that. apps kept force closing and softkernel reboots...i then flashed JS3 with JL2 modem from the magic kitchen and its been running fine ever since! Still on my 1st i9000m...! KNOCK on wood!

edit : no lagfix btw.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nedthehead:
Mine just died on me. Was running Darky 9.3 and Hardcore's Speedmod ULFK. Ugh. Shipping it to Samsung today. We'll see how long it takes to get it back. I REALY don't want to wait 2 weeks for a new phone...

EDIT: Has this issue been fixed in the recent models? Mine was purchased in November, so still under Sammy's 1 year parts and labour, but I don't want to get a new model back and run into the same problem
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dgovil:
So there goes my i9000m. Definitely the internal card failed.

I was always so lucky in that mine was a 17/07/2011 model that had working 3bn combos right out of the box. Then recently it started failing.

Going to call Bell and Samsung tomorrow to figure this out.

Is it a 1yr warranty on it? I still have my Bell receipt and all(though it was previously unlocked by them). I have a trip to go to for most of April so will probably only be able to attend to it in May, so I hope my warranty still holds up.

Have to use a ****ty iPhone 3G for now. Miss the back button so much.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jt_kyle:
if ur a bell user and ur overclocking your i9000M 90% chance your phone will have an internal sd mount failure. it is what it is people. canada gets **** product all the time.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wang1chung:
just an fyi, just finished sending my phone in for replacement (mmcblk0p1 error) and it seems they have been taking a ****load more sgs' in lately (black screen with soft keys lit up symptoms).
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] madmack:
:eek: again ?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] que3jxp:
Has to be asked...

Were you doing anything more than just using it?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wang1chung:
lol, nah, this was the womans phone. i'm running darky's v10 rc6, but the woman was just on regular stock froyo. she did take a ****load of movies and pictures, which probably put it over the top.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] que3jxp:
Ya, that sounds like just another round of crap luck.

What mfg date was on it. Just curious...
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wang1chung:
launch day phone, 10.08
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] que3jxp:
Mine was a launch phone too and it was one of the first to die from the bad official 2.2 in December.

Lucky yours lasted as long as it did...
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hansonator:
Mine is a launch day phone, got it the day they were released from Best Buy. The manufacture date is July 2010. I have flashed it numerous times with very few issues. Currently using Darky's 10.1. Guess I'm one of the lucky ones, but I won't be canceling the SPP any time soon just to be safe. ;)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wutang780:
just bought the phone and im have the same issue when i flashed with odin. did i brick it? is there any ways to fix it???

i get this E:Can't mount /dev/block/mmcblk0p1
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lgkahn:
if you dont have to many orlarge apps original lag fix works fine i still use it on my i9000m and have about 100 apps.. it just copies the databases to faster nand ram.. no changing partition type or anything..

ie

D:\galaxy>cat speedtweak.sh

#!/system/bin/sh

## this script is made by deckcard##

## clean up csc folder

echo

echo Speed tweaks that move data from mmc to nand

echo

echo busybox cp -rp /data/data /dbdata >> /sdcard/1.sh

echo mv /data/data /data/data.bak >> /sdcard/1.sh

echo ln -s /dbdata/data /data/data >> /sdcard/1.sh

echo reboot >> /sdcard/1.sh

su</sdcard/1.sh

rm /sdcard/1.sh

D:\galaxy>
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rumy:
Okay,

So I have sent in my phone twice now and both times it has come back fixed with a Full software restore from the service center.

The first time I upgraded to JP3 and applied the lag fix and after about an hour I got force closes and after a reboot I got E:Can't mount /dev/block/mmcblk0p1 (or /dev/block/mmcblk0) (No such file or directory) E:copy_dbdata_media:Can't mount SDCARD:"

I tried re-flashing eclair, froyo, repart with odin with no luck. I sent it in for service.

The second time, after I got it back decided to stay with eclair, but it was slow. So I tried to do the OCLF and it worked fine, but was still slow. I decided to risk it again and went with JPH flash and PIT 803. Things worked fine, I tied to root it by mucking with the recoveries and during that process I got the same error as above. I just decided to send it in as the first time I shad spent 2 weeks trying to reflash and no luck.

I just got it back and this time I just did the JPK with PIT 512 upgrade after doing a factory reset in eclair. I have decided not to root / OCLF it and so far so good. It has been 24 hours and I have not had any issues.

I think this is just a partitioning issue that ODIN is not able to resolve. Hope we can find a way to force a repart using ODIN.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] clubtech:
Or they might have fixed it the first time by replacing the corrupted SDcard with another one from the bad batch which got corrupted again.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] madmack:
you had the "no such file or directory" error and when you got the phone back, they said it only needed a software restore ? I mean, no hardware replacements (motherboard/sdcard) ?

if so, then this gives us hope that these problems can be fixed without sending our devices back if we can figure out how exactly are they reflashing or repartioning the device.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] daft.71:
Update: My local Bell store put me on the waiting list for another Samsung to replace my now decease one. I should get it by next week or something.

Friends don't let friends install lagfixes. Especially when dealing with flash memory.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Electroz:
The lagfix has nothing to do with this. So far the poll is showing that more phones without the lagfix have died than phones that have had it. You just got a defective phone, plain and simple. It was nothing you did. Samsung seems to have just shipped a pile of cheap/defective phones to Canada.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] daft.71:
Well, it might be well the case. But I'll tread on the safe side when I get my replacement unit. After I had removed the lagfix and stuff, I wasn't noticing any unmanageable lag either. I only ever noted it when I was installing like 10 applications at the same time.

Maybe we're expecting too much of our devices.

I've been running a firewall off a compact flash (running OpenBSD) for like 5 years now. And I haven't had a single issue with it. You know why? Because the filesystem is read-only. I worked for a company that built IPv6 routers that had compact flash on em and we were chewing them like candy. You know why? Because they were writing like crazy on them.

And for the record, I was one of the people who voted "Still working" on that poll.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] donkeyhitman:
Funny how not one phone died while using other 2.1 (eclair) firmwares. I'm glad that I'm on JM8 (knock on wood).
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] khmerpride:
I will not be using any lag fix on my phone from now on until it's been proven to not mess our phones up. I already had two phones that got the internal sd corrupted. I'm also a very heavy user on the phones and I haven't had any problems with the third one I have now which has no lag fix.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] alexincanada:
how long is the stock shortage?

Like many others, my bell i9000m is dead - it is not powering on.

I was running froyo no lagfix.

Luckily, I bought the best buy protection plan so I can get an over the counter replacement.

However, best buy is out of stock and they are not sure when more shipment is coming in.

Does anyone have any insight on how long the supply shortage will be?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] onaquest:
I voted 'Still Working - 2.1 Firmware/No Lagfix'

I've had the phone for 3 days now, no issues. The phone was purchased from Bell, and I'm running 2.1 JH2, with no lagfix.

As the phone is still new to me, I haven't tried any different firmware versions, or done anything with the partitions on the internal flash sd.

I'd like to load test my stock phone to assess the lifespan of the internal sd. Can anyone recommend what i can do to test this.

Also, FWIW the datestamp on my battery is: 2010.09.12
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] khmerpride:
I have seen some people samsung galaxy s internal sd fail from just heavy use. They weren't even rooted, or had a lag fix applied. They just watched a lot of videos on their samsung.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AllGamer:
read doesn't kill internal SD

only writes
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] asicman:
Apply OCLF and let us know how it goes. If your internal SD gets messed up (which mine did), you can simply exchange it for a new one. :D
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rumy:
Yup,

They only did a software restore, according to the paper anyways.

The first time I did not think to do this, but the second time I sent it in I looked at the screws carefully and can tell you the phone was not opened.

I am thinking they use something other than ODIN to flash. We need to get our hands on that tool.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] madmack:
or maybe they have some kinda secret pit file :rolleyes:

this gives hope though. Wish we had someone who knows an employee or is an employee himself that can leak that secret out somehow !
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nemethb:
I'd like to change my vote from Working to NOT WORKING. I figured I'd dump stuff on my SD to see if it would die and it did. I put 5GBs of music on it and it worked fine up until I restarted it. Once I restarted the phone I lost access to ANYTHING third-party. It doesn't connect to the network. None of the Bell bloatware is accessible. None of the apps I installed work. No third-party widgets work. Upon boot up I get mass force closes.

Looks like I'm going to Bell tomorrow.

Edit: JH2 with nothing done to the phone. It's safe to say the SD cards are at fault, not the lag fixes or rooting.

Edit 2: On this note I suggest anyone that got their phone in August load it up with lots of crap and see if you can kill it. It's better to do it now than later.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TriC_101:
I have not had one issue with my SD card.. its almost full and been formated about 5 times.. and partitioned 4 times.. also have tried a few lag fixes.. now i'm on JPK and their is no need for a lag fix with this rom since its so fast..

What are the dates on the battery's of the people phones that have had their SD card fail... just wondering if it was a batch sent out around a particular date.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thedauntlessone:
Same, I've repartitioned like 4 times now and have used lagfix since day 2. Flashed jpk and back to jh2 just 2 days ago (lost 850mhz band so I just said F it). However, I don't think my SD card is immune to dying. The day the phone dies is the day i cry =/
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Beast11:
Wonderful. Last night i voted still working with eclair and as of this morning i am pretty sure its fried. I can only get into dl mode and ive tried flashing and reflashing. The phone will boot right after a fresh flash but it wont be able to mount internal or external sd.

Does anyone know if the warranty is still valid if you are not using the phone on bell?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nemethb:
August 15th I believe. About 4 days before I got the phone.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nemethb:
How can you check your Internal SD for errors? I had the recent incident I described above but I was able to factory reset via 3 button combo. I have a feeling though it will be a recurring issue so I want to know now if there is actually something wrong with my internal memory.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dawgpound6985:
Like someone suggested earlier, stress the card by formatting it over and over again. A good SDCard shouldn't fail only after a few formats.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nemethb:
That isn't what I was asking. I want to check if there are any bad sectors on my SD as I've already stress tested it.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] onaquest:
I'm also wondering how the internal sd can be verified. I found this on google, I'm thinking it would take quite a long time to verify 16gb though.

http://pcsplace.com/hardware/how-to-check-pen-flash-drives-memory-cards-for-errors/
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nemethb:
That clears any data that's on the Internal SD. I think more harm then good would come from that. :(
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AllGamer:
it wont work

the internal SD is split in 2 GB and 14 GB

you wont be able to run any sort of program to check the entire disk without destroying the phone
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sirphunkee:
Everyone who's posting in this thread, please make sure you vote in the poll as well (if you haven't already)...it's important that we get as wide of a sample base for that as possible ;)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AllGamer:
i'm looking forward to see the same poll for the I9000 16GB model

it's known to have the same problem

8GB version seems to be immune, that's why there was a shortage of the 16GB version when the i9000 was just released.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rmanaudio:
What is the point...it does not seem like a hardware issue, as the people who have sent it back for repair, got it back with no trace of hardware replacement. It looks like samsung repair team is flashing it with some utility that re-partitions the internal SD correctly again. I can't see samsung (the biggest semi-conductor manufacturer) making a bad batch of internal SD ram.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] daft.71:
the issue is many who voted "Still working" would vote otherwise today. I'm sure one of em, since my SGS is bricked.