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[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] moophone:
no /dev/block/void.

I have in /dev/block:

tfsrloop, ram, bml10-12, stl3-9, ram0

BTW is there some way to get root on these things with no sdcard partition? e.g. upload an su binary to /tmp or something?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] madmack:
yea, some ROMs with a rooted recovery exist. I've read it somewhere, can't remember. try Modoco's.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thedauntlessone:
What AllGamer is saying is if the internal SD is defective, it will die very quickly from formatting. If the SD card is not defective then it should continue to work after like 10 formats. SD storage aren't suppose to die that easily. I've made the decision to continue using my phone as I am and if it dies, then I'll deal with it then. Might just have to flex some oral muscles to have samsung fix my phone.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] daft.71:
Well, my Bell I9000 just died tonight. It get stuck at the I9000M screen and eventually both the menu and back soft buttons light up and to screen never gets into the S logo animation.

I did run Voodoo for a while, then went back to stock JH2 with only the root from OCLF apk program. I discovered my SGS tonight closed with the back and menu buttons lighten and tried to reboot it, do anything.

I'm able to successfully flash the system with Odin, but it never gets to the logo animation.

It's dead jim as they say.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] madmack:
How long did you run JH2 before this happened ?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] daft.71:
I'd say a week. Why?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] madmack:
It just seems that there is a pattern of sdcards failing after reverting back from lagfixes and/or froyo updates. Maybe the fact that we're repartitioning our sdcards is the cause behind all of this after all.

That's how my phone failed at least, reverted the lagfix but stayed on Froyo and in about a week, phone was no more.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] daft.71:
What should I do? I bought my phone and got a 3years contract with Bell on August 28th; which is more than 30 days. Hope they don't fiddle with me on that.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AllGamer:
you got 60 days exchange

and still have your full year warranty
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] asicman:
I applied OCLF on I9000M with stock firmware. Two days later it would not boot up. It doesnt get pass the splash screen and I'm unable to a 3-button recovery. So i returned the phone and got a new one. I'm not applying OCLF. That piece of junk seems to mess up the internal SD.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] daft.71:
One thing for sure, I'm not running either Voodoo or OCLF on my either repaired or replaced I9000M.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] khmerpride:
I've had three gt-i9000m now, one had oclf and the other voodoo b4, third one I still have with no lag fix. The first two rebooted one day and black screen came up with buttons lit. Recovery screen said couldn't access internal sd card. I am on my third exchange now and will not be installing any lag fix as I am actually starting to believe lag fix has killed both my phones...
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ChiGGz:
Has anyone brought in their phone with the non stock ROM installed? I should have done that but neglected to do it. :/
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AllGamer:
Desire Z is pretty decent, unfortunately runs up to 800 Mhz only , and no AMOLED display

the keyboard is a big bonus, and if you are picky like some folks here about the GPS then Desire Z will surely have a good GPS according to HTC fans
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] C.Flat:
It's my #1 choice right now. Unless I see something better in Futureshop when I go in for the exchange.

Samsung failed hard on the I9000m though. I can't wait to see what happens when the official Froyo comes out. It won't be pretty :mad:
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thedauntlessone:
I guess I'm a lucky person (or the failure rates are actually not that high). I have done a bunch of things to my phone and is currently running doc rom Froyo with lagfix. It's really nice don't care too much for other phones now. Gonna keep using the SGS until dual core phones come out and hopefully there will be more phones with AMOLED. I don't think I can ever go back to SLCD.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] daft.71:
The Desire Z might be running at "only" 800 MHz, but the CPU is a generation 2 snapdragon and is actually faster than a lot of 1GHz.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SomEngangVar:
Not to mention overclocking potential. A lot of people are running theirs at 1.4ghz for daily use and then there's the crazy stuff people are doing with the same hardware in their G2's.

I have noticed a difference in the screen. Size, obviously. But the blacks aren't as crisp and dark and there are other colors that seem muted from SAMOLED to SLCD. It doesn't really bother me, though. The pros from the Desire have so far vastly outweighed the cons that I experienced with my two Galaxy S phones. Yeah it has the loose springs and hinges in the keyboard, but those only really affect you when you just grab it by the screen and pick it up, and who does that on a regular basis? I know I don't so it's kind of a moot point. The thing I find myself jonesing for the most in regards to the Galaxy S is the larger screen, Swype and the ability to dictate how many homescreens are on my stock launcher. If Sense has it, I haven't found it yet. I always stick to five but for now I've got two empty ones.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xxgg:
Question to those who have had their motherboard replace.

I don't even know if those of people who got their phone fixed would be following this thread anymore, hope they are to give feedback to others.

My question is, for those who had their Galaxy S i9000M motherboard replaced.

Can you give is update on how your phone is working so far ? (how long since you have received the repaired phone?, have you flashed and played with with roots, lagfixes? Finally, is the phone still alive?)

I would appreciate it if you people could update your status to all of us.

Thank you.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xZeDgEx:
Exactly, you cannot compare clock speeds, unless your talking about the same cpu. The 800 MHz (Second gen Snapdragon) quite handily beats the 1GHz Humminbird in all the CPU tests I have seen.

I am really considering picking up a Desire Z as I will be selling my Galaxy S when it returns from repair (second time.. :mad: ).

Would love more opinions on it.

When my Galaxy S died the first time I got it back from repair and the ticket said "replaced major hardware component". I don't know for sure if this means the mother board or not. If it was my phone died again 2 weeks after updating to JK3 using the Kies Registry Hack. Its in for repair again now.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xxgg:
How did you sent it to repair? through Bell? or did you directly dealt with a 3rd party shop? (if so , which? free repair this time?)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xZeDgEx:
Took it to Bell store. No fee to repair it, its warrantied through Bell. No fee last time either, although I did buy the phone from Best Buy, its still a Bell phone.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xxgg:
i see.

if the phone fails again what are your options?

i assume bestbuy will say 'Too bad!' . ?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xZeDgEx:
I will go back to Bell. The guy mentioned after a third failure Samsung advises to replace the phone. Best Buy will do nothing. I did not sign up for their $12 / month replacement fee (extortion if you ask me). The 1 year warranty is handled by Bell.

However, I will not have the phone long enough for it to fail the third time, that will be someone else's problem.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] YG007:
Well, my phone just died earlier today. Dropped it off at Bell again for repair. It was totally fine until I flashed the speedmod kernel K10H kernel from K9A. No lagfix. It might have just been a coincedence, but I was up and running for a solid month.

Hopefully I'll get my phone back before Christmas. *sigh* :(
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] C.Flat:
Well, I took my phone in and switched it for a Desire Z, best of luck with all your phones when 2.2 officially comes out :(
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xZeDgEx:
LOL

Picked up a Desire Z today too! My Galaxy S is going for sale when its back from repair. I forgot what a quality handset was like.. this thing is awesome, and Sensu UI ****s all over crapwiz. The phone is so fast and smooth, a joy to use. GPS works awesome too.

Good luck to all of you with your Galaxy S phones, I'm out of here. See you in the Desire Z forums.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] musicpking:
i have the same problem, after i got my i9000 from bell for 7days, the internal SD is dead. i am very upset about it:(
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] musicpking:
i have the same problem

where do you get the jphg8 rom please?

thx
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] musicpking:
i got the phone from someone who buy it from Canada bell, seller say it is under warranty by Bell, but i don't have any recepit or invoice.

but the internal memory is error

does anyone would tell me if i mail it to my friend who living in canada ,and he takes it to Bell for repair , is it ok? or i must have the invoice ?

thank you very much
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AllGamer:
yes you need the original or a copy of the original sales invoice

else they will not fix your phone
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] musicpking:
thank you

i can boot up my phone, but there is no memory....i cannot install any apps:(

i have tried to format the card, or use ADB shell to format or mount the internal SD, but it didn't work either
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rombo121:
Free Data

For the last 3 bills, since switching to Unlimited data with bell I have been getting 100% discount on it

Unltd data $60 Data-Centric

less 100.00% Promotional Discount.

Nice eh.

Rombo
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Samdroid_G_S:
Bell Offers unlimited data?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rombo121:
unlimited data

They do, my first month on it I d/l 22gb

It was hard to get it tho, I kinda had to fight for it. But now I get free unlimited data..
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Vaanhoot:
Had my motherboard replaced, but since I used it on Rogers I upgraded through Rogers to the captivate. Currently running Perception 8 with voodoo lag fix installed and it is fast, however my i9000m still seams to run faster on stock firmware with no lag fix installed after the motherboard was replaced. When I got my phone back I tried to mess it up so that I can take it in again because I have insurance that will refund my money or upgrade my phone for free if it needs repair 3 times (lemon policy) but I couldn't break it again. I have flashed it with repartition checked more that 50 times with all sorts of pit files, but it would always work again when I flash back to stock. Even formatted the internal sd a few times. Now I am trying to sell it. I haven't tried any lag fixes or rooting it as I don't use it for everyday use.

Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-i896 running perception 8.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pavbul:
Ok, so I now have my i9000m semi-bricked as well. internal sd card seems to be damaged - "can't mount /dev/block/mmcblk0p1". it was using XXJPO 2.2 Froyo firmware and OCLF installed. failed in about a week after OCLF running.

Flashed number of firmwares already with lot of options (partitioning, pit files, etc.) and nothing worked.

Just in case, I'm able to run the phone after flashing XXJPO stock ROM and speedmod-kernel-k10i-256hz on top of it. Phone turns on and loads, I can call and send SMS. Of course internal SD card is not available. Didn't try external SD card as I don't have one. Maybe I can even install software with it.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xxgg:
Reading the highlighted part... meaning you were able to brick it to some level.?

Stuck at boot screen? What kind of level of brick was it?

Also, whether your repair phone is solid or not... I guess you have done enough torquering to it other time test of time, eh ?

Also, keep is some update if anything goes wrong with your Captivate. Would be nice to know how 'other' canadian galaxy s works in longer term.

Thanks for update.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xxgg:
i had same thing, your internal sdcard have gone to bhell.

time for repair.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Torob:
I just got hit with the internal sd card.... which isn't too bad because i was already gonna send my phone in for a DOA

My question is, I've lost anyway to reset my rom (I had the Docs 2.2 Froyo v7.6.2 or something) .... So it'll be obvious i messed with it, and it has ClockWork Recovery as well..

Will bell care? All i have to do right now because i already talked to them, is pay $45 bucks for a "same featured loaner" while i send them my phone.. once its fixed i send them back the loaner and get my phone and hopefully all is fixed + all the other problems i've been having
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sp991:
If your sdcard is dead try to flash back to stock. It should work in odin but you won't be able to boot till android. This is just to make sure the phone says "I9000M" on boot screen.

After that whatever you did with it is a complete mystery to them as the phose is unusable so they won't be able to see if it was rooted, unlocked or anything else that would void the warranty. I've send mine a month ago and they replaced it. It had been flashed to froyo, lag fixed, unlocked and I even replaced the screen my self after a bad drop from 6 feet high and I received a brand new one (might be refurbished).
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pavbul:
I wonder, if there's a sure way to test internal SD card to confirm it's broken? Using adb, some recovery tool or whatever? I can boot the phone into recovery and access it from adb, so it's well responding.

The thing is that I'm far far away from Canada and it's not very easy to get to Bell store. Want to try going to local Samsung service for paid recovery, so knowing exactly what's wrong is important.

Thanks in advance!
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Torob:
Odin has problems as well

I hook it up and it recognizes the Com Port but when i press start it says "File Analysing.." and it just stays there for however long i have it open, i tried a good 30 minutes -- i'm guessing its because the internal sd doesn't exist to the phone

I have it running on a restore point right now temporarily

I used restore from clockwork recovery to about 3 weeks ago.

Anrdoid loads up, (Froyo Doc V7.6.2 JPA XWJPA)

I can use the phone and browse the internet/wifi but anything that would relate to storage i can't do.

I can't hook it up to the computer, the internal isn't mounted
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] a7ad67:
hi

i am in the same situation like u am also away from Canada and i try the samsung service and the do no thing and thy cant fix it
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] radeon_x:
Anyone from BC sent their I9000M in for repair?

Curious what the average repair time is. I'm heading into week 3 now and starting to get a little fed up with this Galaxy 1 loaner phone. :)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fast1fred:
I'm in Toronto and sent mine in for repair last week of Nov. Just got an e-mail saying that there's no ETA on the repair work as parts are backordered.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] radeon_x:
That doesn't sound too promising :(

Just curious what message you get on the online repair tracker (http://www.bell.ca/support/PrsCSrvWls_MgAcSrMobility_Eform.page)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Uss_Defiant:
Shall we try posting on facebook? I'm into my 4th week and this is getting stupid
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Skud51:
I sent it over to Engadget, so hopefully they post it and can maybe get some confirmation from Samsung/Bell.

Riley
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fast1fred:
I didn't know that site existed. I just entered my phone number and got this:

The current status of your repair is:

Phone is being processed for shipment to the repair facility.

Thank you for visiting bell.ca.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] radeon_x:
Strange. But maybe not surprising - from what I read it's not too consistent in terms of reporting the correct status.

Mine says "Phone is being inspected/repaired."
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] a7ad67:
i try that it dose not work for me it always bot clockworkrecovery mod
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] saikrishnamraju:
Did any one get their phones back from Futuretel? I sent my phone in Nov 2nd week but no ETA yet parts are back ordered... Please post the facebook thread if any one has started yet. Samsung has worst service and they don't care their customers.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] eissan:
Hi guys,

well after using my phone for about 3 month the SD card died...I tried fixing it by going back to stock rom and now i cant even get the phone to boot up :(.

I live in Manitoba where bell does not have any stores. I bought the phone online from howard's forums and the person who sent me the phone also gave me the futureshop receipt. Can I take the phone to futureshop and have them fix it? is there a way I can get bell to fix it even though I do not have any products through them? how about samsung?

Any help would be greatly appreciated! thanks
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tb5...:
i was on docs slim rom...

have a 8gb bell device...

the phone just shut off when i restarted it, it had formatted... i reflashed jk3 and it worked... but it was showing NO internal or external space!!!

now the phone says SD CARD DAMAGED...

is this the message you all got? and if so what to do.:\ return? what is the stock software i have no clue...:confused::confused::confused:
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aofi:
Updated to froyo via kies, after it couldn't see internal or external SD cards. 10 min latter it doesn't even boot the OS.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fast1fred:
Eissan, FutureShop will most likely not handle it. I tried to bring mine in to BestBuy and they immediately refused to look at it and referred me to a Bell centre.

Your best bet would be to call Samsung support and get a transaction number, and instructions on where to ship the phone. Their site even allows you to upload an image of the receipt if you can get it scanned.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fast1fred:
Mine's still at Futuretel, and they told me no ETA as well. At this rate I don't expect to see my phone until the new year. :mad:
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wang1chung:
if anyone is scared about flashing roms for fear of sdcard failure, the official jk4 through samsung kies is no safer........mine just bricked after 12 hours. no root, no apps installed, nothing. took some pictures, and a bunch of phone calls, and it's over. tried flashing back to jh2, and nothing. going back to bell now for the 2nd time to ***** my ass off.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xxgg:
Yeah, look like we won't get our phones back from FutureTel until 2011.

Geez~

I hope it is some sort of new revision of hardware they'll use to repair the phone atleast.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tb5...:
i did this through cwm... formatted everything!

the phone started up i can use it to call ppl but just shows no internal space at all...

i would have to change my vote now i guess...:rolleyes::mad:
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] eissan:
I tried calling samsung and they will not warranty the phone unless I go through bell. they are saying their contract for the warranty is through bell so I have to go through bell...really dumb IMO.

I will try futureshop tonight and see what they do, when I called their customer support they told me that to take it into the store and they will send it to manufacturer for me but we'll see what happens when I go into the store.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] a7ad67:
after many times flashing my phone i jest get this error E:cant mount /dev/block/st110

is that meaning any thing

i was getting the old error
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tb5...:
to the bell users... I9000UGJG9

how did you guys revert back from a rooted 2.2?

please need some help so i can return this.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Samdroid_G_S:
If your talking about your phone saying this in the notification bar no this is not the error. Although my phone did receive that message as well and died approx 1 month later.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tb5...:
yea its in the notification bar...

this is really annoying... in either case.

gonna just keep trying to get jh2 installed through odin... ugh...
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ajjter:
I did " brick" my internal sd yesterday 3 times actually... Just flash stock firmware and the problem is solved, no need to send in for repair.. But this is on a galaxy s int.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xxgg:
this post isn't stickie anymore?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Beast11:
Yea...thanks for that... we obviously havent tried that...

But seriously, this is why this thread is for the i9000M. It has a known issue appearently with the internal flash which just goes corrupt. Countless people have had to send there phones in...
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Torob:
After people get their phones back, what are the results?

Everything fixed? No GPS/slow or problems?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] omnicronx:
Well you can add me to the list of death...

Going to go rip bell a new one and see what happens...

Has anyone else tried anything? Perhaps even telling them you may just pay the ETF and leave?

I don't see why I would want to sit on a ticking time bomb.. and if I'm going to have to buy a new phone anyways done the line, I don't mind leaving bell in spite!!!

ETF + price for a subsidized phone would still be cheaper than buying a new phone straight up..

(not saying i'd actually do it, but it can't hurt to threaten)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wang1chung:
really depends if the motherboard was replaced or not. if you get it back and it was only a reflash, you're doomed. if the motherboard was replaced, you have a BETTER chance at not being doomed.

mine is back in the bell shop after last time only having it reflashed.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xxgg:
anyone checked the latest on parts ETA?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ajjter:
Yes i know the issues.. My internal sd also got corrupt without doing anything,
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Torob:
What phones are you guys getting?

I'm waiting for my loaner phone, but i really want it to be either the i9000 or desire z...

i don't think bell has anything else thats on par with the performance of those two.. and i need a decent phone

I got them to send me a smartphone loaner but they won't tell me what it'll be