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[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xan:
If no recovery/download mode working...

Only UART/JTAG, check on progress on this.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Konshens:
Thank you for your help...

Quite expensive options aren't these, GOOD THING I HAVE INSURANCE!!!

There must be a software way around this thou...

HELP!!!!
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cantIntoCode:
If your phone can't get into download mode due to it being disabled it looks like your pretty much screwed. You could phone samsung and see if they'd fix it.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rawat:
If you can get to the AT&T logo part, I'm assuming you should still be able to get to download mode. Did your phone have dl mode before?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Konshens:
Yes my phone could get into dl mode b4 but now it doesn't work any more, phone just keeps on showing at&t logo and rebooting.

When I put the USB lead in the phone does not switch on at all..

thanks 2 all for assistance in this horrible mess negligence has left me in.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AllGamer:
the USA models goes into download mode by using the volume up + volume down + power

see if that works
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Konshens:
Thanks for your reply...

no joy... any other viable button combinations I could try? I've already tried many to no avail...
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nemethb:
I'm no expert on the matter but don't you think that since you flashed a Captivate ROM on an I9000 that the home button wouldn't work since the Captivate doesn't share the same home button? Logically I would try looking for what the combo is for the Captivate to get into download or recovery mode. Now, I may be wrong and it may not work if the captivate uses its home button to enter the home button but it's worth a shot.

Edit: I just checked here and it says you hold both the volume up and volume down button while you press the power button. Try that.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] foom:
With the device off, try holding both vol + & - then plugging in usb cable. Thats how a captivate enters download mode. If flashing the i9000 on captivate changes the button sequence it could not hurt to try.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Konshens:
@ Bell & foom....

I understand both your thought pattern and YES this was mine also...

However thus far no combinations have worked, still continually looping the at&t logo.

If I plug in the charger or USB whilst its doing this it kills the device, it wont switch on...

Knowing the different CAPTIVATE button comb. to recovery or download mode would be a big help right now.. also how the buttons would be mapped... i.e Captivate rom. on GALAXY S device?

How would one fix a captivate that was continually re-booting at operator logo start-up? Might be another way to angle this?

Thanks....
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lostabeer:
Think u are better off paying the guys at samsung or phone repair store to load the right firmware back in if u dont have the 3 btn combo...
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] icejagans:
try downloading that one click unroot program, plug the sgs into the computer and then force unroot, although the unroot won't work it should then allow the sgs to enter recovery mode.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Konshens:
Unfortunately my PC is not recognising the phone...

Plugging the USB in while the phone is switched OFF does nothing....

lugging the USB in while the phone is switched ON.. Turns it off...

Same things happen when the Charger is plugged in.. Althou the phone seems to still charge!!!

Arghhh..

Thanks for your suggestion thou.. Any more help/ ideas are welcomed...
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lostabeer:
Last resort maybe try heating up the phone like the others did to force download mode?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] swatsqad:
so any news on this? i too have successfully flashed the captivate rom on my unbranded i9000 :) the official repair shop i first took it to (mttc <Lithuania>) told me that it needs a new motherboard, and it would cost me 700LTL(270 $us)... kinda sounded like bull****, so a week ago i took it to a private repair shop, they said they had jtag, so i should be hearing from them this week, if not, i'll buy the stupid riff box myself and repair it..

no button combination worked for me, and the symptoms were exactly the same, flashing att, usb kills it etc. etc.

well, my advice would be to keep contacting different local repair shops, and asking do they have a jtag that supports the samsung galaxy s, if they do, the repair shouldn't cost more than 25$, at least thats what I've been told. good luck, and stay in touch, update on your process, cause the number of people flashing the wrong rom on the i9000 is horrifying.

it kinda sux that its so easy to brick the sgs... and its wrong for people to state that "if you have 3button combo enabled, you are safe", well thats just bull****.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Konshens:
No GOOD news as of yet, but I am in the process of to admitting my SGS to a official samsung service centre.. I was also thinking of sending it directly to them for repair...

???

Still been trying some other things to try and jump-start this blasted thing in the meantime but NOTHING IS WORKING!!!!

I to am thinking about purchasing this riff box or JTAG but it would be for a ONE TIME USE only... Seems like a waste of money when I can just claim a new SGS through insurance only thing is playing the WAITING GAME!!!

I Shall definitely update this thread with any progress made in the coming days...

Here I was thinking I was a lone soldier with this dilemma...

Also I agree... SGS = Too easily bricked.. and no solution?? Other than splashing out 100+ £/$... in your words truly SUXXXXXXX!!!!
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Electroz:
Sorry, but ANY phone (or even any electronic component for that matter) is easily bricked if you flash firmware from a completely different device onto it.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] swatsqad:
well, afaik, its very hard to fully brick a new htc device.

anyway, i suggest you try finding a jtag repair shop first, as samsung will take a lot of time to "repair" it, or even tell you that it needs a new motherboard..
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] foom:
Heres what i would recommend.

1. Assure phone is connected via usb to computer (assuming usb debugging is enable and usb driver is installed for phone).

2. Download Adb.exe and minimum require files. (I recommend putting it in a directory at the root of c:\ - ex: c:\adb)

3. Open up command prompt.

4. Type c:

then press enter

5. Type cd adb

then press enter

6. Type adb reboot download

Then press enter

When the phone reboots, it will take you to the download screen.

You might want to have odin opened.

If anyone want screenshot and detail instructions, let me know i can create one and post it.

Hopefully that works for you.

By the way it will work even through infinite boot loop. As the screen boots just have "adb reboot download" ready and hit enter as the att logo comes up. If done at the right time it will reboot to download mode.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] swatsqad:
phone wont turn on with usb plugged it :/

atleast thats how i remember it. when i get it back from the shop i'll try again >.<
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Konshens:
Greattttttttttttt newsssssssssssss to follow shortly!!!!!
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] swatsqad:
hmm.. excited ^^ ..

also, the repair shop told me that they might be able to fix it, so im hoping i'll get it back next week : P
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Zetalai:
Okay.....1 month ago I told that guy to add some big red "NOT FOR I9000" in the thread and he now deleted it....great.

Now, there are few hypothesis about what happened

We all know Captivate have different buttons with i9000, so flashing Captivate rom may remapped the key definition, that's why the 3 button trick is not working

Or maybe

The Captivate rom crashed completely with the i9000 rom, damaging the bootloader section causing continuous loop of the cursed AT&T logo.

Whatever, what I'm going to stress here is

Any kind of key combination is not gonna work in a i9000 flashed with Captivate rom

Currently there are only 2 ways of fixing it

1. Send it to a guy capable of fixing it with JTAG (Using trace32 or riffbox)

2. Send it to Samsung and pray they don't charge you $500 for a new board
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] compuse:
If you flashed it wrongly, a samsung center SHOULD be able to flash the correct version instead of swapping the board.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Zetalai:
At Hong Kong, they told me it is their company's policy to NOT do any reflashing of bricked phone if they see any trace of end-user flashing.

As we all know, I9000 won't have that "AT&T world phone" thing, and a change of boot animation or logo definitely mean a end-user reflash, they say even they have the tool to reflash, they have to send the phone for a motherboard change (in a cost of about $500 without labour and shipping)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TheNikkoMan:
After trying to flash via odin inside a virtualbox session in Arch Linux, i got the wonderful orange triangle and pc screen. I got pissed off, and threw it in the box I had opened just a few hours ago. The same night however, I took it out and tried a hundred times to get it into download mode. After trying a hundred times, I got in! :D

So, long story short, don't give up, keep trying. Good luck! :D
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] swatsqad:
dude.. wheres the great news? i already told you those facts.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] swatsqad:
um. more details please. were you stuck on the ATT boot screen too?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Zetalai:
Well, at least we now have riffbox JTAG working now, which would cost around 50 USD, if you want a even cheaper DIY option, I would recommend you to go to the JTAG/UART thread and give a hand to the developers

Or if you got the time and patience, just stick with the 3 button thing, it MAY work but that didn't work for me, so does the ADB and oneclicklagfix/root method.

Last month the 500 dollar board change is the only way out
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Konshens:
Hi all.. Right I said I had great news right.. ?? Well here it is...

So after trying for days on end all different button combos, hairdryers... and so forth.. I thought let me give this warranty thing a try.. knowing of course it was a very longshot...

Anywayz... I contacted Samsung directly enquiring if I could send my phone to them directly, or if like Nokia they had a pick up and drop warranty service Unfortunately NO!! was the answer and I was directed to this nearest Samsung service centre...

When asked at the Samsung service centre what I did to the phone I acted extremely oblivious to what had happened.. claiming I had attempted an firmware update via kies...

I then asked them how they would proceed to fixmy phone and they said they would flash it via download mode etc... I told them that I had tried that and the phone simply would not enter download mode.. They then told me that they might not be able to fix it then and it may have to be sent of to Samsung, which would prob. inccur charges...

I then instructed them to send it straight to Samsung as I didn't want their repair guys messing about with it trying to do what I had done time and time over...

The service centre was excellent.. up to the time tracking was provided for my repair with a 14day time frame in which to complete...

I am so pleased to say.. after ONLY 3days my Galaxy S was returned to me..

FIXED!!!

NO CHARGES!!!

NO SERVICE BLEMISHES FROM MISTREATMENT!!!

They flashed it to Eclair i9000JM1 Firmware version 2.1- Update1...

What to do now.. Think Im gonna just wait for the official update to Froyo end of month!!! What do yall think????

Oh and swatsqad if I were u friend, I would just take a chance and send it via warranty.. the worst they could do is say they are not fixing it free of charge, give u a price, at which point you can decline ???

THANKS FOR ALL THE HELP PEEPS!!!
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] swatsqad:
i dont have a warranty...
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Konshens:
How comes???
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lwjkkk:
that's problem
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] swatsqad:
my device was bought in the uk, and on the way to lithuania, the warranty got lost
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Konshens:
swatsqad... the way I understand it is your warranty can be identified from your serial number... no need for paper piece.. I did not provide any paper work, receipts at all when I took it to the service centre...

????
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] swatsqad:
seriously? well... we dont have an official samsung repair center here :/ anyway, i made a visit to the repair shop its in now, they told me they will be able to bring it back to life, i just have to be patient, approximately in 1 week from now hope..
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Konshens:
oh shame, well good luck and keep us posted!
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] swatsqad:
good news! most repair shops will now reflash your bricked sgs for 50$ (usd) :) just got mine back today. phew. well still, 50 bucks to learn a lesson is dumb : P
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Konshens:
Nice.... at last boi!!! 50 bucks not bad...
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AllGamer:
read this topic to save $50

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=819551
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] swatsqad:
thanks! so wait, that means the galaxy s is.. unbrickable? (at least not to the level of throwing it out).. cool
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AllGamer:
as long as you can enter the Download Mode

you'll always be able to reload another ROM to fix whatever problem it's with the phone
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sackofnoise:
Did you find a fix for a corrupted sd card? (after a lagfix (oclf) and froyo jpm?)

Can't find any :S but i can go to download mode...

(well not at the moment since i also screwed up my bootloader but i'll do the resistor trick posted 2 posts ago and hopefully be able to get back in download mode...)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nwood:
Thanks! found this post via Google, fixed my phone thanks to your link!
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chupacabra613:
Hey guys!

I actually did the same exact thing and ended up with a tmobile galaxy flashing the at&t logo. (my gut sank). I was able to download odin and a .rar that had a JI6 512 pit. I was able to enter recovery mode using odin and reloaded that bad boy up. However...I still have the at&t logo flash for a fraction of a second before the phone does the samsung load animation. Weird. I was able to get all functions working (gps,pic msgs, and edge/3g) The only two things out of whack are the At&t logo and that I can't download apps from the android market. Any Suggestions> Thanks in advance!--Al
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chupacabra613:
Got the android market to work...reset the phone. Now about that AT@T logo....
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Konshens:
I would say if the AT&T logo is STILL veering its UGLY head then the phone has not been completely restored properly...

I say wipe the entire thing.. clearing all caches.. formatting all SD cards etc.. 1stly install a stock Eclair rom.. and then go from there...

???

Let me know how u get on???
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Konshens:
Also that Market problem is soooooooooo jarring!!! I had to try so many different ways of trying to get it to work after installing a custom rom that I forgot which solution actually worked in the end...

Generally there is some good help and methods to try if you access the "help" through the market on the phone...

What are the exact symptoms of the market failure anyways? Be specific I may have a fix
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aarisaanig:
Should i upgrade firmware in kies? because i downloaded new update kies. then

then start. then it's say firmware can be upgrade? will i get froyo right now? -_-.. sorry

im such a noob.
[Droid Eris Themes and Apps] es0tericcha0s:
White Circle Metamorph

*Disclaimer* I am not responsible for damaging your phone. You have to realize by now that all modifications performed by you are YOUR responsiblity. I will feel bad if it messes up your phone somehow, but I don't have any $, so you are on your own. :P To be on the safe side, always do a Nandroid back up before playing with the framework-res.apk *Disclaimer*

So, I have moved on in the phone world to the Motorola Droid, but I want to show you all that I still have some love for the Eris world. I have been seeing some interest in using the Circle Battery icons, so I went a head and modified the Transparent Chaos MetaMorph to just give you the battery icons only. Prerequisites:

1) You must be rooted.

2) You must have Metamorph and Busybox installed.

3) You must have a folder labeled: AndroidThemes on your SD card.

4) You must download this: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/9903887/Transparent_Chaos.zip and put it in your AndroidThemes folder on SD card.

So, here's how we do this thing then:

1) Open MetaMorph

2) Unzip/Extract New Theme

3) Choose your Transparent_Chaos.zip

4) At this stage, it will probably boot you out of the app with a warning about it not being named right (blah blah blah), but not to worry, just go back in and then choose the Pick Existing Theme, navigate to the folder Transparent_Chaos and then chose the Transparent_Chaos.XML file and select.

5) It will apply, and then tell you it made a change that requires a reboot, select OK or Yes or whatever.

6) Enjoy.

It will wipe your wallpaper too, though I am not certain why. Easy fix though lol. If there is enough call for it, I can make colored versions. Hope everyone likes it :)
[Droid Eris Themes and Apps] Kruby:
Thanks, looks great.
[Droid Eris Themes and Apps] Bayhill Jacket:
Works like a charm and looks great, thanks
[Droid Eris Themes and Apps] es0tericcha0s:
Sweet, glad you guys are liking it and thanks for the feedback. :)
[Droid Eris Themes and Apps] Captainkrtek:
Transfer 10char
[Droid Eris Themes and Apps] KingNemesis:
anyway I could get Circle battery with % on it
[Droid Eris Themes and Apps] es0tericcha0s:
Most roms have this baked in. I know the Cyanogen based roms do, not too sure about Sense roms. I haven't used one of those in 6 months probably. If you have a CM based rom, you'll find this under Settings > CyanogenMod Settings > Status Bar > Battery Percentage. If you have a Sense based rom, you might want to check out this other MM theme I made, here: http://androidforums.com/eris-all-things-root/183907-circle-battery-zip.html#post1653756

This is just the battery from xtrRom so thank the dev for that, I just made it into a MM theme. Hope this helps.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tweak89:
Was attempting to flash one of the leaked samsung roms using ODIN. Only way we were able to get phone into download mode as using the ADB command line with ADB Reboot Download.

Odin saw it, we started the process. Seemed to be working, but it got stuck with a black screen for over an hour (when I flashed my Vibrant process to all of 10 minutes). We thought the phone just didn't reset, so we unplugged it and hit the power button...and the dreaded cell phone...!...PC screen came up.

I've tried all manner of trying to get into recovery/download mode with no avail. Again, we tried EVERY combination of button presses to get INTO download mode initially, but only the ADB command line method worked.

Now we cannot get past this screen. Any ideas???
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] splayer7:
SCREWED!!!! Call TMO and have them send you a new one. Nothing you can do if it is hardware locked.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tweak89:
That's what I was afraid of. That is what he is going to do, glad mine didn't have that happen as that ROM has my Vibrant working like it should (GPS works now!!)

I wonder if having to force download mode via ADB was an indication that this phone would have a problem with flashing anything to it??

Never had a brick as many times as I fooled with my Dash and G1. Guess it was bound to happen sometime.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] masterotaku:
if the battery pull method won't get you into download mode you're likely screwed...

- Make sure USB cable is connected to PC, but disconnected from phone

- pull battery

- hold down VOL+UP & VOL+DOWN and do not release

- insert battery

- insert USB cable into phone

If after a few seconds download mode appears, release VOL keys...and....you've got download mode...if not, it's safe to say your gonna replace the phone..

If that works, I'd also recommend using Odin3 v1.30 instead of v1.00 that most people use. Available here... http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=790026

Wishing you the best of luck!
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 98classic:
Try runnin odin with NO pit or pda file. Ive been at that screen like 100 times, let me kniw what it does
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tweak89:
You mean start ODIN and just plug in the phone?
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
try my steps in this post , works every time for me, to get to download mode ...
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] dephtones:
Hello,

I am curious about some themes that I found very slick from Android-themes.net

I was wondering if I'm running CM6 on the incredible, can I use these themes, or do they have to be specifically tuned for the incredible?
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] daftlush:
That Deadmau5 theme is SICK!
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] billbrasky82:
I have been having an issue with my screen. Randomly the screen will become unresponsive. I will be playing a game or something and the screen will not respond to my presses, even the buttons at the bottom dont work. If I hit the power button to turn off the screen and wait a second it will become responsive again. This happens while the phone is in my hands so I dont think it is the grounding issue. The other strange thing is sometimes like if I am typing a text it will start doing things on its own like typing a bunch of random letters and such. Or if I am on the homescreen it will try and resize widgets and slide to the next screen.

Anybody come across this issue or know what I can do to fix it? I am running Cyanogen right now but it happened on Fresh as well all with the stock kernels.

Thanks
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] signals:
Yes, I have that issue as well... When I first got the phone it was a rare occurrence, but over time it seems to have gotten worse and worse. It always seems to be worse if it's plugged into the charger, too.

I decided to do something about it today, so I just flashed the stock (rooted) Sprint OTA on it, and am planning to take it to the Sprint store to see if they will replace it under warranty if I can demonstrate the problem.

I'm heading there now. When I get back, I'll post what they say about it here.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] signals:
Just got back from the Sprint store...

The technician spent about 20 minutes looking at my phone, then returned it to me saying "You're right, that's pretty annoying." and said that they would replace it under warranty for free. He ordered one and said I could come get it on Monday. I know I'll get a refurbished phone, but I figure a refurbished phone that works is better than a new phone that doesn't.

It would seem that it's a hardware problem, and you'll probably also have to get yours replaced, too.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] billbrasky82:
ah bummer, thanks for posting that at least now I know. I just need to figure out how I can make the issue occur so I dont waste my time at the sprint store.