yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] onaquest:
Oh geez, that was mindless of me. I do see the full filesystem when its mounted as a removable disk. Yea, that wouldn't be helpful.

I really hope you're right :)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Electroz:
Well, mine says specifically:

This means the mainboard of the phone was replaced and upgraded.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] madmack:
Anyone with a bricked phone, did you have the 16GB or the 8GB version ?

Mine (was) a 16GB. Maybe this bad batch is only for these with 16GB storage.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thedauntlessone:
The I9000m only comes in 16GB.

Guys, do you think a class action is viable against Samsung Canada/Bell? 20+% broken phone is RIDICULOUS.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] madmack:
oops. thanks for the clarification.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thedauntlessone:
SD cards often have bad batches especially the higher capacity ones. However, if it is a software problem and if they do have some magic APP that can reset the phone, they should release it for consumer use because that's the least they owe us.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Dr.Mcq:
well i just moved from htc HD2 to the i9000m( JH2 firmware)...

after 24 hours of using it i decided to upgrade to froyo (jpk) and it was a faliure coz it did not even boot & i lost the 3 button reset functionality (i tested it before & it was fine for both the download and reset modes)

So i sent my unit to bell canada and 7 days later i had the same device with a software upgrade only from samsung.

so this time i upgraded to jpk with no issues and once i used oclf 2.1 the phone just worked well for a couple of hours then hangs after a battery pull on the s logo upon restart with random vibrations.

a factory reset fixes the issue... so i tried using oclf 1.0 which also worked for a couple of hours until i reached the dead end of a dead sd with (I/O error)

so the device now is with bell for repairs....

GOD i miss my HD2... i used to flash 10 ROMs a day with no issues at all
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AllGamer:
I'll join in if you prepare one :D

i'll be happy to receive an extra phone as compensation, as asking for money usually you end up with like nothing, as the Lawyers fees will eat it all :p
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AllGamer:
Logic check....

ROM is not the same deal as Internal SD

these 2 are separate issues.

SGS can flash 10+ ROM without any problem

Internal SD not being able to receive 10+ formats is the issue

if the HD2 came with a crappy internal SD that also breaks down after 10 formats, then you're talking about the same issue

If you just count ROM then they are the same without issues.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Dr.Mcq:
now developers are working on developing android working from nand which i think requires formating the internal sd (till now no problems so far)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] prince_72:
I did not know about this thread so guys count me as one of the users with

a dead internal SD

I flashed the phone around 20 times with different versions and all of them

had or the can't mount sdcard or dbdata (block0 and sometimes block1)

or sometimes in some roms I did not have any error but always I had the black screen.

One thing I noticed is once I flashed a Tmobile rom. Of course this rom did not work

but it gave me adb shell. I was able to see some files and one of them was redband_ua

I do have the voodoo fix.

Is there any of you which have succesfully recovered the phone from this situation?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rmanaudio:
No way to recover yet!

We should start a class action law suit against Samsung with the Bell Vibrant model! I think we have enough people.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] prince_72:
I was thinking if one of the kernel developers gives us a special kernel

with all the tools in order to recover it.

For example we can flash this kernel so we can have a screen menu like the clockwork

recovery for reformating the internal SD as RFS to be able to restore from a nandroid

to provide an adb shell and maybe to provide the driver for kies to be able to restore it.

It is just an idea.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] YG007:
UPDATE:

I just got my phone back from Bell. They said they replaced the mobo. So, I'm thinking that they used bad chips, who knows. They also could have just replaced the mobo cause they're lazy?? I'm kinda leaning towards the first point.

Anyways, for the record, I'm running JPK now with recovery 2e, root, TWLauncher mod, etc etc. My first unit had the battery dated:

2010.08.15

BTW, the last 2.5 weeks has been hell without this phone!!!
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Daneshm90:
Im don't remember exactly, but i cud've sworn that when i flashed jpk w/o csc, the recovery had a format internal sdcard option:confused:

You could try that. What i did was :

i was on stock 2.1 rom.

Check repartition, with 512pit and jpk modem/pda. No csc.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nemethb:
What exactly happened to your phone? My battery is dated 2010.08.15 as well. I recently put a lot of stuff on my Internal SD and shortly after the phone was giving me mass force closes and all of my apps & data along with Bells was not visible or accessible. I did a factory reset and all is working fine now, but I'm hoping that wasn't just a sign of the hell to come.

I'm using a stock phone with JH2.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] YG007:
nemethb: That is what happened to my phone.... >.<
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thedauntlessone:
An interesting reply on Samsung Canada fb page

So... After 60 days, Bell is the one charging you for repairs, not Samsung. Does anyone have knowledge in filing a class action? This is worse than RROD.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Daneshm90:
Ok so i can confirm, when u flash jpk (alteast, not sure about other roms) w/o a csc and boot into recovery u get a "format internal sd" option. Now theres nothing wrong with my sd ("so far") so won't do it but someone who can get into recovery but has the situation where phone won't recognize the sdcard is welcome to try it.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aznserpent:
How do I change my vote? I was using 2.2 Froyo (no lagfix) and it WAS working for 5 days...

Then it died with mentioned problems. I have since replaced it with DOA at BELL store. The battery manufacturing date is 9/24 (lets hope this batch is better).
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] daft.71:
People shouldn't install 2.2 to begin with. It's not official yet. Maybe there is a reason for that.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] smacman:
Generally if the disk can't mount, it can't be formatted.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Daneshm90:
Ive heard cases where /data mounts fine but the other partition of the sdcard doesnt (If im not incorrect, they are both on internal sdcard?)

Anyway i just thought this might be worth noting.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] prince_72:
Very interesting

I read somewhere about the recovery using kies

There is a registry entry for emergency recovery and I put it to true

Then Kies told me that my phone needs to be flashed and I let

kies to download the firmware and to flash my phone.

Kies told me to put the phone in the recovery mode (download mode)

and start updating the firmware. At the end Kies told me that the phone will be rebooted. I was waiting for the reboot but nothing.

I was waiting for few mins after kies finished and I tried to reboot the phone.

As a result........

THe phone now is completely dead. There is no power. Nothing

I plug it to the wall and no charging icon. I mean completely dead

Thanks kies for making my phone from half dead to completely dead.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thedauntlessone:
It was probably going to die sooner or later. Kies just took it's last leg on faulty hardware.

Serious question, has anyone used the phone 1+ month, no problem (lagfix or not)? Just to give some ppl hope. I received my first force close today when social hubs abruptly stopped working (IM won't connect, mail won't sync) and uninstalled with titanium backup. I think the program got corrupted and my phone will die very soon.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wang1chung:
i've had it since launch day (beginning of august) and flashed a few 2.1 roms, and flashed jpk two or three times (repartitioned a few times too) before i got scared and went back to 2.1.

i agree with what was said above. this could very well be the reason 2.2 isn't official yet.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rmanaudio:
I have had mine for more than a month and my battery date is august 15th. I have flashed and repartitioned a couple of times and formated the SD a couple of times also. NO issues. I do not have much data or apps on it. I keep all my music and videos on my external SD. I do not have receipt, so if i goes...im done!
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thedauntlessone:
Btw, if you don't have a receipt, you can always try and bargain with a bell employee, like pay them x amount to get it fixed. I've triple confirmed, samsung provides 1 year free parts and labour warranty but you have to go through bell. Samsung doesn't know if you have a receipt or not, so if the bell employee is willing to charge you x amount to send it to samsung you can get it fixed. It doesn't hurt to try.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] khmerpride:
I would like to change my vote to 2 broken phones as I am on my third one now. Had it for a little over a week, I hope this one doesn't break on me too..
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rmanaudio:
WTF are you doing to break them? list all your internal SD transactions please. Copy, moves, formats,etc.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] daft.71:
Do you still do unregular things to them? (as in, rooting/lagfixing/2.2ing)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 0fishal:
Had my phone since Bell started offering it in august. Went dead 2 weeks ago. Just got it. The receipt says they change the PBA and had BGA problem. I'm a nube so I don't know what it means. The Music Player was going on by itself before it went dead and still does after the repair... I love the phone but I don't trust it to be honest
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] prince_72:
As I said my phone after kies update is dead. I bought it 1.5 months ago.

I called Samsung to tell them about the phone and Samsung told me that

do not accept phone from customers for warranty but only from Service Providers.

I went to Future Shop to tell them to return the phone to Samsung and

Future Shop does not want to accept it. They claim it is Bell's phone and they

never take phones back (to take the 550$ it is fine with them).

I called Bell while I was in Future Shop and Bell does not take any phone

since I am not customer with them.

Here is my question. Who is responsible for the phone. Everyone claims no responsibility.

How do I repair the phone?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thedauntlessone:
Bell HAS to be responsible because it's "their" phone. Take it to any Bell store and tell them to fix it. If they say no, just give them a little hell. It's their responsibility.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xZeDgEx:
I got mine from Best Buy, when it died (as many seem to do) Best Buy had none to swap. I took it to Bell who sent it for repair. Take it to Bell, you are a Bell customer.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] khmerpride:
The first one had one click lag fix 2.0, the second one had voodoo b4. They died after a week. I am not using any lag fix on my current phone and it's still working. Another guy I know his phone died without applying any roots or even a lag fix. His died just from uploading a lot of movies from youtube to his phone...
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Beast11:
So i went to the Bell store to get my phone exchanged and they essentially sent me away tell me their 'manager' or something wasn't there and they couldn't do it. He said this was because the 'manager' wasnt in or somethingg. The guy told me to call tech support (i dont know why...) So i called them and they told me they cant do anything, i just have to go in the store and get it exchange. The most important thing they said wass that the DOA date has been extended to Jan 26th or something :D

So mess up the phone as many times as you want untill then :P
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] prince_72:
Hi beast11

Where can we find some information about the extended DOA to Jan26th

I have to do the same so I need some data to present.

The Bell people do not know or at least the most of them
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AllGamer:
that is news to me as well

Jan 26 that's a long time, are you sure they said that?

i know about the 60 days, but nothing about next year Jan/2011
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rumy:
My phone got fried today.

I was running JPK for around 7 days.

I was using my phone normally with an external SD card. Mostly reads no writes to both internal and external.

I tried to use something and I got a msg saying SD card not accessible.

when I trird to reboot all I see is a black screen... bahhhh :(
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Beast11:
Call in to tech support. They should give you a definitive answer. And if you go to the store and they say that they cant replace it, call in from the store.

I was also very surprised about the jan 26th date. The person may have been mistaken, so if someone else could call in to confirm that would be great.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] er1cha:
I had the same problem. Thing is, I'm on Rogers. Anyone had anyluck getting friends on Bell to return it for them?

Also, is there any official documentation of the 60-day DOA return policy?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Beast11:
if you have your bell receipt just go in and tell them its messed. Im using mine on fido, i just told them im using it as a tablet...
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hburn:
i work at a bell store and im sending those phone to waranty and got the same problem and had to send my own i9000m to samsung this week ill see what they did when it get back to see if they will do the same as you or totaly replace it
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rumy:
They do a software reset and it seems to fix the issue. Anyway you can find out what tool / pitfile they are using to flash it, also if you could get your hands on what they are using it would be great.

Look, bottom line this is a software issue where the SD partition gets corrupted. Now I am not sure if its restricted to a batch of phones or all bell canada phones, but I think if a senior member can help us with some developer assistance or bring it to the attention of the Cyanogenmod, I think they can make a fix.

Its not hard, all we need is a custom recovery with the option to force mount and repartition the internal SD card. or something along those lines.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Electroz:
This is not the case. If you read this entire thread, several people, including myself, have reported that the mainboards of their phones have been replaced. This is clearly a hardware issue.

Please stop posting this a fact when you have no proof to back up your statement.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kcmarus:
new bell vibrant user here, phone was working fine for about 2 weeks and then outta nowhere got the dreaded internal sd corruption. what makes it even more frustrating is that everything on this phone is completely stock, didnt mess around with ANYTHING, not the firmware, apps, anything. Didnt even load any music, the internal sd had MAYBE 1gb of storage used up. Battery date = 08/21/10.

I bought this phone second hand and therfore do not have a reciept.. someone please tell me im not completely screwed. i cant afford to buy a new phone.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rmanaudio:
Sorry to say, but it is messed up. You need to call Samsung and explain your situation. The phone has 1 year warranty. You need to find a way for Samsung to take the phone directly from you, as bell will not even look at you if you dont have a receipt. Call Samsung Canada and start crying!
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zorxd:
In theory, you have to right to go to a Bell store and get your warranty honored. If they don't want you should sue them. It's your phone and you can do what you want with it, including changing for a rogers SIM card. That shouldn't void your warranty. Just like you could buy the phone for $500 without any montly plan and use it as a PDA. Your PDA would still have a 1 year warranty and service from Bell.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] er1cha:
Thanks for the info zorxd. I'm going to try return it this weekend. I think i will try telling them i used it as a PDA, seems to be the path of least resistance.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sackynuts:
I'm getting my SGS next week - I'm in Denmark and it's a new batch. No problems reported elsewere? Am I in the safezone, or?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] khmerpride:
I think this mostly applies to bell phones in canada.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kcmarus:
I emailed the guy i purchased the phone from, and he said that if i register the IMEI on Bell, they can send me out an invoice. Is there any truth to this?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rmanaudio:
That is a bunch of B.S.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rumy:
I have proof, my repair orders. I think some service centers are changing the board, while some are just doing a software reset. There might be multiple issues with similar symptoms / end results, or just that the samsung has made a software fix available to service centers. This is all speculation, but the fact remains that my phone was fixed with a software restore.

These internal memory cards are split into partitions, and from my experience the mmcblk0 partition gets corrupted as I can still write to the mmcblk01 partition. The recovery does not have adb access thus there is no way to force mount / repartition the card. If we were able to get a recovery that would allow root access we could then we could use linux utilities to repartition the card.

Also, please refrain form using a condescending and/or authoritative tone in a "discussion forum" especially when you do not have authority, this is a discussion and every member has a right to their opinion.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rmanaudio:
This man speaks the truth! I just cant see someone like Samsung making bad memory. They are the largest creator of memory chips! They would not mess up! Also, why is that it only seems to effect the Bell version?!??!!? I think this is fixable via some sort of software utility and or files.

I have my money on not being a hardware issue!
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kcmarus:
i pray there is some sort of software fix then. Ive gotten my phone to the point where everything works, except the issue of the sd cards. It's stuck on silent ringtone and i think if i install too many apps it'll start lagging up bad. But i guess we'll deal with it until this whole thing is resolved (hopefully).
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AllGamer:
excellent remark, i totally agree with this

that's what forums are for anyways.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TriC_101:
Well my phone will not boot now I just got the error that mmcblk0 partition will not mount.. but the odd thing is I can still apply update.zip.. so that means that its just coruped.. there has to be a software fix for this..
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Electroz:
Well, when I connected mine up and got into an ADB shell from recovery, mmcblk0 was not showing up whatsoever. So clearly, mine was not a software issue.

Your phone showed the issue on the 7th and was fixed on the 8th. Most people here have had to send their phones away to the Bell Repair center for repairs, not just take it to a bell store so they could do a factory reset or whatever they did.

When you had the issue, exactly what did you try with your phone prior to bringing it back to bell?

I apologize if you feel I was trying to portray "authority". I was simply asking you to read the full thread and to post your opinion as an opinion and not as fact. These forums are confusing enough, especially for new people.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TriC_101:
WOW... so I played around with Odin3 for 3 hours and I flashed back to PDA I9000UGJG8-PDA-Kernel-Bootloader-CL440317-Low.tar and selected Re-Partition..and pit 512.. and low and behold my internal SD is working again and everything works.. and mounts. very odd...... someone eles should flash back to this rom and see if it works for them. after I flashed back to that rom I can now flash to any other room without issues. very odd since I could not even read my internal SD before.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] greeced:
Excellent! Now if we can get someone else who is experiencing SD failure to try this it may price it's a software issue
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Electroz:
I tried this with mine, but it didn't work. It seems some people are mearly having partition corruption, which looks to be fixable. While others are having hardware failure of the internal SD.

Nice find though for the people with partition corruption!
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Daneshm90:
Hey, not sure if u came across my previous post. Just wondering if u've tried using the "format internal sdcard" option u get in recovery when u flash jpk w/o a csc with repartition checked ? Id like to know if it does nething. (most prolly it won't work cuz it can't mount the sdcard but hey, worth a shot).
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Electroz:
When it happened to mine I could not get into recovery with any Froyo build. It work show the I9000 logo screen repeatedly. Download mode worked fine, but it would not go into recovery at all.

Recovery for any 2.1 build worked fine. But it was not able to format the card.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Daneshm90:
Ah k. Yea my phone would turn off after the first splash screen. In battery charging screen it would keep looping as well. No recovery, only download mode.

I only discovered this "format internal sd" after i got the replacement phone n flashed jpk from ugjh2 w/o csc. So far i haven't had a chance to try it, n hope i never do.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TriC_101:
Thats the same issue I had with mine I could only go into download mode. and I could not get into recovery when I had the SD problems.. the phone would not get past the gt-i9000m screen.. but when I flashed that old rom everything is fixxed.. I tryed about 12 roms but that one was the only one that fixxed it.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] madmack:
I really think that there are two different problems here. you can tell which by simply getting your phone into recovery mode.

they are both identical in terms of (cannot mount mmcblk) but are followed by different texts. one is (no such file or directory) which means your actual hardware is broken, and the other states (file exists) or (directory found) or something a long these lines, which means you have a partition problem that can be fixed by resetting the partition table either with Parted or flashing some ROM that will repartition for you.