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[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Devhux:
Yikes! That makes me worry about my phone. I'm supposed to be getting it back tomorrow, and I sure hope it doesn't die right away.

Mine was purchased on Aug. 6th, so it's definitely one of the earlier ones.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] slaman:
Got my replacement last week... one of two left in Toronto... whew! Two weeks without a phone is painful!

Anyways, I'm not going to install ANY lagfix, and will not be installing any custom ROMs... I'm running the latest official Bell ROM and will just wait for the official 2.2 froyo update...

Although I am tempted to try the European version on my phone.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] daft.71:
I'm officially waiting for the HTC Desire Z on Bell. I kind of been burn by Samsung. the super AMOLED screen and the front facing camera are not features I'd miss considering the lag/SD issues and the non working GPS.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] YG007:
Well after going into the bell store, they admitted that the mobo wasnt replaced, and all they did was a reflash. So the lady who gave me the phone at the store lied to me. Honestly I don't even know what to believe now.

So, after standing around for about 1 hour. They tried to get me a replacement under the Samsung 60 day DOA... BUT since I didn't buy it FROM bell, and I got it from Best Buy, I don't qualify??

WTH! What does it matter where the phone came from? They are all Bell's phones! As long as you have a proof of purchase, shouldn't it not matter?? Why do people that buy from a BELL store get special treatment!? If I knew this, I would have bought from a bell store!!

So, now I have to send it out for repair again!! They better replace the motherboard this time, or give me a replacement. This is the 2nd time its going back to them, and the internal SD only lasted 3 days after I got it back from the first repair. WOW.

So to whoever wants a SGS, BUY FROM THE BELL STORE and NOT from Future Shop, Best Buy, The Telephone Booth, Wireless Wave, etc etc, cause apparently the Samsung DOA doesn't apply there. (Which is totally rediculuous!)

.... another 2 weeks without a phone... *sigh*
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] daft.71:
It is wierd. I bought my first SGS at Futureshop. It went belly up on the 36th day. Went to a Bell store, they said they would send it back to Samsung DOA and get a new one but they didn't have any in store. So, they put me on a waiting list. They got it the next Saturday, but things didn't go as smoothly as planned. The system didn't want to DOA it since it was bought more than 30 days ago. The guy had to do a few phone calls, get someone higher up and eventually, I got out of the store with a new phone.

I guess no store works the same. Depends who you talk to. Maybe also because the guy did promise me a DOA exchange the week before and felt bad for me.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Devhux:
Sadly my SGS was looked at before the new policy kicked in, so it was repaired. They ended up replacing the entire mainboard for my unit though, so hopefully I don't suffer another memory issue. I will not install any lagfix or custom rom for a bit.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nemethb:
My question is, after our warranty ends all together, how much would it cost to send it off to Samsung in the event that the phone dies (for whatever reason, corrupt SD included)?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Arcticsilverfox:
My internal SD crapped itself last week. Took it in on Saturday, told me it was 30 days, not 60 days for replacement. Since it's Baka Wireless (official Bell store, but not 100%), figured it might be different. Checked it in, said it'll take about 2 weeks.

Got a call on Monday, girl said she talked to her manager and it is 60 days so they were giving me a replacement. Picked it up today. Bit sad, as I had the Invis shield on mine, so I asked to keep the backplate from my old phone at the very least.

Came with JH2, 3 button functional. I probably won't do anything to this one until the official Froyo is released.

Sucked living with a temp phone (Nokia 2730), though gotta admit that thing had beast battery life.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thedauntlessone:
Probably just shipping. If they do charge anything, just ask them why because Samsung warranty their phones for 1 year parts and labor.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SpaceCaseDave:
Bricked phone! will Bell charge me 500$ ?

So I rooted and unlocked and lag fixed my phone almost as soon as i got it

and about two week later the phone died (got the sdcard not mounting problem).

Fearing I had voided my warranty I carefully asked some questions to the Bell store guy without revealing what i had done. He eventually told me that if you unlocked your phone any other way then through the official samsung channels then they send a KILL SWITCH SIGNAL too turn off your phone.

Is this for real or just some bull****, do the BELL versions of the SGS have a KILL SWITCH?

The Bell guy also told me that they could exchange my phone under the 60 DOA agreement, but they would send the old one to samsung and if they detected that I had done anything like rooting/rom changing etc. then there would be a 500 CHARGE TO MY CREDIT CARD, and he told me that it already happened to someone and that someone was trying to fight it.

So fearing being charged 500$ I tryed just about every fix that is on XDA forums now my phone is so ****ed up that I cant even get into download or recovery mode (which i could before).

My question is has anybody been charged the 500$ without their consent?

And for all those who have been modding and bricking their Bell SGS phones did you get any problems from when you went to send them in or exchange them?

I was also told by the Bell guy that samsung could send a signal to turn the phone back on?

I don't know what to think anymore, I just want my phone working again and I am considering doing some actual destruction to the phone (like giving it a power surge) so that they wont bother checking to see if it was modded and just send me a new one.

Could all those people out there who have sent in for repairs or had their Bell SGS exchaged, please let me know their experiences.

Thanks.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thedauntlessone:
They are lying. There's no killswitch, and they won't be able to detect root because the phone is literally dead.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SpaceCaseDave:
one of the "fixes" i did changed the bootloader too. Does anybody think they could detect that?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TriC_101:
Bahahahh big time BS!!! that is quite the story this sales rep made up.. he should be fired for such bad BS.:eek:
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Daneshm90:
Yea, pretty sure its illegal to monitor a product that is sold to a customer without their consent, let alone send a kill signal to their device.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] khmerpride:
I'd take that to management and get that sales rep written up for such bs..
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Devhux:
SpaceCaseDave

Looks like you did the same thing to your unit as mine. When I brought mine to the Bell store it was stuck in a reboot loop. It would show the initial boot screen, light up the menu and back buttons then reboot and repeat the process.

The service Centre replaced the mainboard and I wasn't charged anything
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mkurzum:
Change my vote too, woke up this morning and the phone is stuck on an infinite boot loop. Tried flashing all sorts of roms, pits.... no luck

I called samsung canada and all they told me was to go to bell and have them send it out. Only problem is I bought it from best-buy and I'm using fido. So not sure what to do next.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Daneshm90:
Just a quick poll. How many of "Bricked" bell i9000m users have flashed something with odin WITH repartition ticked atleast once?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mkurzum:
Well after messing around all morning, I was finally able to load jg8. Here's what i did:

Remove the external sd card

Load odin and flash pit 512, pda jg8. Tick repartition and phone bootloader update

Once done, insert the sd card. (Phone is stuck in bootloop if i do not insert the external sd)

Now The phone loads into the OS, but neither internal or external sd cards work. I only have 2 gigs of memory available. You can't use any apps that require either sd card.

As soon as the phone boots I get a notification that the "internal sd card has been removed" then I get a notification "Can not mount external sd card, mount point absent or incorrect, please unplug"

So atleast the phone is now useable, I need to figure out how to format the internal card.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cloudrainstar:
My second phone just died on me, same problem with the internal SD card, I was running Froyo versions both times.

I thought this was the issue after my first phone died, so I didn't repartition at all on the second phone (but I did flash other firmwares). I also didn't do any lagfixes this time, but that doesn't seem to help either. I don't think I'll try a Froyo ROM anymore on my next one, but looking at the votes in this poll I don't think that will help?

On JG8 and JH2 versions, once the internal sd is gone, the phone will load the external sd as /dev/block/mmcblk0. I've done this as well. The phone won't load /dev/block/mmcblk0p1 as the "sd card" once the phone is booted up. I've rooted it and mounted it to /sdcard, but the android system still doesn't recognize it. The recovery does recognize it though. I've tried loading clockworkmod onto the sd card and messing around with it, but still no internal sd, so I don't believe there is any way to format the internal card since the phone can't see it.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] willhong:
I'm running on the stock firmware on Bell and yesterday my phone would have to force close a process every time I tried to open Messaging app so I decided to reboot my phone. When it rebooted I would get the "Can not mount external sd card, mount point absent or incorrect, please unplug" message. Several reboots didn't help the problem. It couldn't mount my external sd card either. I assume it's because it can't create the shortcut on the internal sd card to the external sd card.

I looked in SD card and phone storage settings and noticed the Mount SD card and Format SD card options were available. Mounting the card would give me the "Can not mount external sd card..." message so I decided to try to Format the card. Formatting seemed to work and I was able to pop my external card back in and I'm back to normal except for my lost data.

I wonder if rebooting my phone while some process was in a force close state corrupted the internal sd card or if it was corrupted as I was killing apps shortly before I was getting the force close lockups.

I'm curious if anybody with a corrupt internal sd card has tried reformatting the way I did and if those options are available. Would blow my mind if Bell techs change the mainboard for a fix if all they had to do was reformat the card.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AllGamer:
just tossing some ideas

do you thing we can repartition/reformat the internal SD with a JTAG machine or something like that?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Devhux:
Considering most of us couldn't even boot the phone once the internal SD card became corrupted, we couldn't have done that the way you were able to.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ru1dev:
anyone still have their bricked devices and in the GTA?.. msg me for info on the dead internal sd

- my case : Fido user, bought from Tbooth - Bell refuses to warranty -
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] seidren:
I am in the GTA. Fido user. Phone is 'semi-bricked'.

I can go to download mode and flash with Odin. But no matter what I flash and reboot I get stuck on the Galaxy S screen.

I also get the error "/sdcard/svox is not a directory", after I flash and reboot.

Sometimes odin freezes and I just unplug the cable and get the device to pc error, but I can still go to download mode with the three button combo.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] willhong:
I guess most people here have their sd card fully corrupted where only my data partition was corrupted.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] karakake:
Fido user. Bought from Best Buy.

My SGS died yesterday saying "can't mount sdcard"

Tried everything I could do.

Heard Samsung service in Korea offers MoviNAND format, and thought there must be a

way to format ourselve without sending it to the service center.

Found that leaked Korean Froyo firmware actually formats entire MoviNAND, including

system partition (2gb area) and tried that but couldn't flash it on our SGS. (sigh..)

Then, i just went to bell and have them sent my SGS to Samsung...

If anyone is interested, I can send the zImage for leaked Korean Froyo which suppose

to format the moviNand. There should be a way to modify it to work on out SGS but

since I'm not a dev...
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thedauntlessone:
upload it maybe someone can make use of it.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Dark4eons:
Please change my vote as my phone just stopped working out of the blue... got it back to a telebec store (bell evil spawns) where I was told to expect it back in 4-6 weeks and I got a sucky lg loaner >_<
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] garyHal:
Based on the poll, there is a 25% or 1 in 4 chance that I could get a bad phone? That is scary.

That doesn't even include people who already voted and want to retract their votes for a dead one.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xZeDgEx:
Thats just a small piece of the pie.. Imagine all those users who do not post on the internet about their issues, there must be thousands of these phones sold by now.

Its almost like a rrod on a 360, just a matter of when it will happen. Its rather appalling to be honest. Surprised it hasnt made any mainstream media outlets yet. Maybe it should... :cool:

So far mine has been good (some internal hardware was replaced). My friends was only factory reset. I think its a matter of time till his dies again.. :rolleyes:
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] willhong:
I'm wondering if it's a matter of time for mine as well. Yesterday it was just the data portion of the internal sd and a reformat fixed it. Today, I was watching an xvid for a while and all of a sudden the video was choppy then froze while the audio kept on going. I couldn't stop it or go to home with any of the buttons. I pulled the battery and the phone wouldn't boot. I had to do a 3-button recovery and do a factory reset.

For those who have fully corrupt internal sd cards was it a gradual problems leading to it being fully corrupt or more sudden?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mkurzum:
So where's this korean kernel, I'll give it a shot.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xZeDgEx:
It was pretty sudden for me.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] knifer:
Hopefully someone here can help me out. I think I have the same problem as everyone else. In recovery mode I get this error

E:copy_dbdata_media:format SDCARD:
Formatting SDCARD:....
format_root_device: /dev/block/mmcblk9p1format_r
fs_device -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p1
format_vfat_device -> argvi [0] : /system/bin/newf
s_msdos
format_vfat_device -> argv [1] : -F
format_vfat_device -> argv [2] : 32
format_vfat_device -> argv [3] : -0
format_vfat_device -> argv [4] : android
format_vfat_device -> argv [5] : /dev/block/mmcb1
k0p1
run_program: child exited with status 1
E:Can't mount /def/block/mmcblk0p1
(No such file or directory)
E:copy_dbdata_meida:Can't mount SDCARD:
copy default media content failed.
E:Can't mount /dev/block/stil11
(invalid argument)
E:Can't mount /dev/block/stil11
(invalid argument)

My phone only gets to the animated S boot screen and then the screen goes blank. The phone's buttons on the bottom are still on and I have to remove the battery to turn the phone off. How can I flash back to the stock bell rom so I can send it into samsung to get repaired. This is what I have to do, right?

I'm kind of a noob so any help is really appreciated.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] d3a:
My i9000m may have a corrupted internal SD, every few days, i get force closes on every program and only formating through recovery gets it working again... is this the symptom of dead internal SD?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thedauntlessone:
Knifer, try flashing odin with repartition.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mkurzum:
I gave up and sent it back today, I'm with fido and I bought it from bestbuy, but bell still took it back and sent it out no problem, I was suprised. They told me 3-6 weeks. I think I'm going to buy the captivate ffrom rogers and sell my i9000m when it get's back
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Dark4eons:
That's the problem I had, I sent it back to the store for repairs.

I tried flashing it after I had the trouble, only tried it once and it went ok in odin but it was still a no-go on the phone.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] knifer:
so if i understand you right, you flashed it back to the stock rom and took it back? this is what i'll have to do i guess...where did you get the stock rom from?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Dark4eons:
samfirmware.com

But I guess anywhere you can get jh2 will do (I found a csc and a modem file around the forums)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] solipsism:
I took mine back after several flashings. I did put it back to stock before returning it. I took it to a Bell Branded store, although I bought it at memory express. THere is no memoryexpress in my hometown.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] solipsism:
I know a quick way to determine if you should go any further in diagnosing if you have a bad internal sd is too see if you can boot without the external SD.

On my phone you couldn't boot without the external SD. If I had the external sd in it would use 2gb of the external as the internal. Hence not booting without the external.

After messsing around with it for a few hours with supercurio, he ran the output of what the kernal (sorry i have no linux experience) was doing at boot, and could see it reporting a problem with the filesystem on the internal sd. Thats when he said the internal sd was hooped.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] d3a:
i am sooo f***ing pissed. I just sent mine in like 3 weeks ago for no 3 button recovery, And this exact sh*t is happening to mine now, When i send it in this phone better be fixed or else, simply, I will not be buying any samsung product ever again, and will be telling others as well. Android is kick ass, the galaxy S hardware is superb, but samsung clearly is terrible at software and that really ruins everything...
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rmanaudio:
What do you expect from a hardware company??? They make semiconductors and that is all they are good at! They got in the TV world and dominated it and did well with a lot of phones, but I do not think they have the coders to deal with todays smartphone world.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dawgpound6985:
Thats not good to hear. :(
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thedauntlessone:
I have some reliable information from a friend who works at Bell. I don't know why I didn't ask her all this time. Basically, what happened is there was a really bad batch of Vibrant that Bell received. In Vancouver, we only got 1, and that batch was actually sent back to Samsung. But in Toronto, the Bell there receive double the amount of phones, and probably circulates faster, so there's more defective phone on the street. She told me there hasn't been much defective Vibrant's recently. This does give me hope for future owners.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rmanaudio:
Can you ask her how to sell if you have a phone from that bad batch...im sure they can track it.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Uss_Defiant:
Any new ideas on how to fix this? I have the same symptoms (unable to get past galaxy logo) however using clockwork I can actually see the contents of my SD card. Any ideas?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Electroz:
sounds like you have a completely different issue. If it was the internal SD issue, you would not be able to get into clockwork. If a factory reset from stock recovery doesn't work, I think you should try flashing JH2 from Samfirmware.com with Odin and see if that fixes it.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] phzi:
This is incorrect. Sometimes when the internal SDcard dies, only sections become corrupted and the majority can still be read. This sounds the same as my i9000M that recently stopped working due to a bad SDcard. I can still boot into clockwork recovery, and dmesg shows I/O errors galore on various segments of flash.

Reflashing with stock firmware should of course be a first test; but for example on my bricked i9000m flashes succeed, but the phone will always fail to boot - instead stalling on a blackscreen after the S logo.

Also, clearing data/cache, and even formatting partitions from recovery or clockwork seems to have no effect on the actual disk.

For those interested, my phone was about 1 month old, had been flashed with ODIN about 5 times total, and had fairly minimal app and disk usage.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Lightarrow:
Mine just died, same problem. After animation - black screen. Flashed all sort of different firmwares.

Any other way other than getting the phone returned to bell for repair ?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] UofT23:
Had my phone for almost a month and picked it up today to send a text and had been using it earlier without a problem and the screen was just black. Tried pressing power button to turn it off and the menu came up but then froze. Removed battery to restart it and just like everyone, kept hanging at the S logo. So I reinstalled the original rom...jh2 which was successful but still hanging at samsung logo. It was unlocked and using 2.2 with no lag fix.

I ordered online. Hopefully I can exchange it at a bell store. Anyone know and if so, do any stores have them in stock?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] appyet123:
I have two Galaxy S from Bell, both have same problem, black screen after S after each a week of regular use
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] garyHal:
This sounds like "Mission Impossible" where Samsung has your phone self destruct after a length of time.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] appyet123:
Samsung should recall all its Galaxy S. I haven't seem a single phone could be so easy bricked just under regular use.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] reflame:
I bought mine at Futureshop almost 60 days ago and now Bell wants to charge me $35 to send it in for repairs. Any one else get charged?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Dark4eons:
yeah I did, they told me it was a deposit and that it'd be reimbursed if I wasn't the one who damaged the damn phone...
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Daneshm90:
Yea same it said on paper anywhere from 35-75, but i screamed at the guy at the fact that i paid so much for this phone and its faulty. He waived the fee for me.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] appyet123:
My Galaxy S bricked has the date on my battery is Sep 24, 2010. Looks like recent batch (which is still selling by Bell/BestBuy/Futureshop) are faulty ones.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] daft.71:
Did you do anything special with yours? (ie. lagfix, rooted, installing froyo)