yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Vibrant Android Development] zimphishmonger:
My battery mods will not work, they were made for the stock jfd builds. This build uses a new framework

Sent from my SGH-T959
[Vibrant Android Development] lemarg:
same here, any luck or ideas?
[Vibrant Android Development] justin683:
ok heres the skinny on the battery icon mods, the stock accurate battery works fine, all other will cause a phone and media force close just a heads up to yall...
[Vibrant Android Development] jayprime:
Im going to flash through Odin. I see a .tar file and a SS_DL.dll in the JI5 zip. Do I just flash the .tar with out a pit or do I want to add the 512 pit. Do I just ignore the .dll?
[Vibrant Android Development] smashpunks:
i added just pit and tar. WOrked great 512 pit
[Vibrant Android Development] jayprime:
Thanks I'm gonna try right now.
[Vibrant Android Development] Texag2010:
Ok I'm kinda upset. I had OKAY gps before...lock of about 3 maybe 4 sats and now after this update I can see the 11 or 12 sats but can not get a single fix for the life of me. I saw other people have problems as well but no solutions yet. If someone sees this post and its working, can you please give me the correct settings? I haven't changed anything on the GPS settings since I got the phone mid July

THanks
[Vibrant Android Development] beren28:
just left into keys

Hmm the above is testing the voice entry on swype. Not so good. Installed fine once I got kies to recognize the damn phone. Died at galaxy s logo on first boot, pulled battery and now it works fine.
[Vibrant Android Development] vamp6x6x6x:
ok, I need help I keep trying to update and get this: http://i52.tinypic.com/sotwev.jpg

What do I do?
[Vibrant Android Development] chtse53:
Sync broken except Google

I cannot add facebook and twitter to the sync accounts due to login failure. I read several people experienced that too.
[Vibrant Android Development] paxton:
thanks for all the reports from those who've installed, any chance of someone putting together a .zip for us windows-less slackers?
[Vibrant Android Development] ktwebb68:
that may be the most accurate truth I've ever read online. samung is a joke.
[Vibrant Android Development] dalepa:
Same issue here... Did you find a work around?
[Vibrant Android Development] Dammit2Hell:
This has nothing to do with the update. This was an issue before. Mine will usually say this from time to time. I turn my phone off every night when it charges. In the morning when I turn it on, it has always successful synced. Try turning it off then back on. It should sync fine.
[Vibrant Android Development] dalepa:
same issue here... did you find a fix?
[Vibrant Android Development] jayprime:
Wow everything went real smooth. Used Odin no hangups or crashes, no data loss. I lost root and oh man all that bloatware is back. But I gained HD recorder, media hub, task manager.
[Vibrant Android Development] Emama:
same!

I have stock phone
[Vibrant Android Development] db3:
I've been trying to get into download mode or recovery but the same icons just keep reappearing. my phone is not hardware locked and since we received our phones on the same day i assume she's not hardware locked either.

also, i tried pulling the battery and starting with the phone off, but same results.

wangjt, i did that. i don't think it quite sank in yet... i'm sure i'll get an elbow in the ribs around 3am :(

EDIT:

Ok, i got it working. seems the real trick to getting into download mode is to power down, then hold vol up & down, then insert usb cable. it worked twice for me (first to odin to JFD, then to odin to J15). and i couldn't get anywhere with the vol down & pwr button combo. well, hope this helps someone else. i'm beginning to feel like less of a noob. :)
[Vibrant Android Development] dalepa:
I started the upgrade and kies said my battey was too low... Now whenI try again, I get this message too... Looks like a windows registry mixup?
[Vibrant Android Development] sheek360:
Im just hoping for a zip file i can flash through clockwork
[Vibrant Android Development] jonjacobmoon:
Can you use ODIN on parallels? I am not going to bother to get bootcamp, partition my mac, and such just for this update.

This whole process is ridiculous. Why should it be this hard?
[Vibrant Android Development] DarkAgent:
Model Name: SGH-T959

Current Version: PDA:JFD / PHONE:JFD

The device's version cannot be updated.

!@#$%^
[Vibrant Android Development] lemarg:
Same for me
[Vibrant Android Development] sheek360:
im sure by tomorrow morning a good samaritan will offer a zip solution
[Vibrant Android Development] :
i'm completely stock and it's won't let me update either. same message. guess it just wasn't meant to be. sniff sniff
[Vibrant Android Development] wizern23:
same here. im bout to try a reinstall of kies.

could root access be doing this? im running stock with root.
[Vibrant Android Development] jonjacobmoon:
What do you mean by "zip" solution? What will that do exactly? Will it be a non-ODIN, non-Kies way of updating?
[Vibrant Android Development] saxmanmike:
pulled

It looks like Samsung pulled the build. It was there earlier but i had to wait for my battery to charge up. Now the upgrade is gone. I get a message saying there is no upgrade.
[Vibrant Android Development] lexluthor:
Sorry, maybe a little more details?

I have Odin3 v1.30. Now what? How do I put the phone in recovery? Do I need the .pit file too? Where do I get that from?
[Vibrant Android Development] lexluthor:
I think you are right. That's probably what happened here.
[Vibrant Android Development] AustinKnight45:
Has anyone flashed this with OCv4? Or do I have to flash back to stock kernel first prob do but thought I would ask..
[Vibrant Android Development] grennis:
So what, just use odin on the link already posted to install
[Vibrant Android Development] BennyJ:
Yep, I'm getting the same, it was there about an hour ago, but the updater was crashing before it would download the update, installed on a new machine and now both machines show no firmware update.

I did notice that it seems to be timing out on hitting the Kies update server as well, so maybe the update hasn't been pulled, just the download/update server is offline
[Vibrant Android Development] kcbboy:
For those of you having trouble with it saying there's no update did you guys reboot your comp after you installed kies? I had to do this before the drivers would recognize my phone. And like others have said are you using version 1.5.1?
[Vibrant Android Development] lexluthor:
It's recognizing our phone. It's just saying there's no update. That's with 1.5.1.
[Vibrant Android Development] LeggNet:
Yeah, that's what I'm guessing happened. I ended up installing with Odin which was extremely easy.
[Vibrant Android Development] DarkAgent:
It isn't a driver issue or version issue -- there just is no update available anymore.
[Vibrant Android Development] shardz:
I'm wondering why samsung pulled the firmware update now. hope it doesn't mean anything bad for us that did successfully update
[Vibrant Android Development] DarkAgent:
Not only is the update no longer available, but I talked to Samsung Tech support and they told me "There is no software available for Samsung Vibrant. If you download KIES it won't even work for your phone. Any update will be pushed OTA."

Maybe someone accidentally flipped the switch?
[Vibrant Android Development] tenbeau:
I flashed the zip with Odin and all went well. I then tried to root with one click root and failed to root the phone. I then tried the putting update.zip on internal sd card and it appeared to work but Superuser just continually force closes. I then tried the One click again and it would still not root the phone.So basically I have no root and I have no idea how to proceed. I have superuser installed but it just force closes and so Titanium Backup and Rom manager are useless. Any and all help is greatly appreciated!!!!!!
[Vibrant Android Development] Dougefresh91:
For every person that installed this successfully, it seems like there are ten more that are having issues. And for what? A lousy update that leaked out weeks ago? Meh.
[Vibrant Android Development] blackerwater:
You sir just won a cookie. Pulled the update.

Sent from my vibrant
[Vibrant Android Development] shardz:
Time bomb starting now.... :(
[Vibrant Android Development] demo23019:
funny it worked for me
[Vibrant Android Development] SeanFloyd:
I know this is noob-status guys but I downloaded the zips and I didn't see any .pit files, how do I flash this using Odin?
[Vibrant Android Development] wizern23:
weird...im downloading the update from here now http://fus.samsungmobile.com/Phone_Binary/9/SGH-T959_T959UVJ

I5_T959TMBJI5_T959UVJI5_T959UVJI5_UV_TMB.zip.enc

i have no use for it but was just checking to see if it worked
[Vibrant Android Development] dalepa:
This looks like the actual update file which is still there: http://fus.samsungmobile.com/Phone_...T959TMBJI5_T959UVJI5_T959UVJI5_UV_TMB.zip.enc

I bet they just updated their Kies database premature on their end, but now have rolled it back so Kies doesn't try to update now.

Guess they realize that Kies is a POS and don't want people using it.
[Vibrant Android Development] demo23019:
Thats funny considering kies isn't tied down to one phone.

Kies told me their was an update.

After upgrading i suddenly got a tmobile spash screen

And all my t mobile bloatware came back

And funny my phone now reads T959UVJI5

and it runs great

Ohh Samsung :D

I think this "leak" was Samsungs way of secretly releasing official update to the public , because tmobile has their head up their ass and taking forever
[Vibrant Android Development] N8ter:
I'm willing to bet it's a beta rom.

I hope not too many people do it and end up in a situation where they have to go through hoops and bounds to flash back to stock so they can get OTA updates.

I have installed Kies but I have never been able to get it to recognize my phone, even using the USB drivers for Vibrant from Samsung's website.

On either XP 32-Bit or Vista 32-Bit.
[Vibrant Android Development] kcbboy:
yea this would suck if this is not the final release and it ends up being pushed ota and people who did update won't get it...
[Vibrant Android Development] demo23019:
People who updated are fine

why wouldn't we still get it
[Vibrant Android Development] merlino211:
anyone who pushes this and needs to revert can simply ODIN3 the stock firmware from release and recieve OTA's as expected... :\
[Vibrant Android Development] Texag2010:
That's probably why! You gotta keep up with the times! Why still on the ancient operating systems and not W7?! Haha JK. I wish I hadn't updated :( My GPS is completely broken now (see the sats but no locks at all). Hopefully that's why Sammy pulled it and will put a new one with a 100% GPS fix
[Vibrant Android Development] timsterzzz:
I got the "boot to black screen" yesterday trying to remove a lagfix. I just used odin to flash back to stock. Once I got back in I was able to access my rom backups.
[Vibrant Android Development] lexluthor:
Will you still retain all settings/software if you do that?
[Vibrant Android Development] bbuchacher:
Flashed this update,

Facebook sync didnt work.

GPS was better but only with wifi enabled.

I found internet to be spotty when driving around and when it actually was connected even tho on 3g was overall slower than before.

Reflashed to stock Tmobile firmware and no issues downgrading.
[Vibrant Android Development] jayprime:
Is anybody having trouble mounting there sd card after JI5 update because now i dont get the mount option any more.
[Vibrant Android Development] merlino211:
This is just extremely frustrating. It's like samsung *WANTS* to suck... The entire development on this phone is a flop, they can't produce a simple update to fix basic needs, and they hosed the 2.2 update by delaying it now 3 months past when they initially said it would arrive. It looks like we're stuck waiting for the Dultz over at CM to figure out what a good developer is, rather than a guy who hangs in a bar all night.... Sad.
[Vibrant Android Development] grennis:
why are you people so worried about getting OTA?

If you are here, you are on this forum, and you flashed with ODIN or Kies, you won't need an OTA... Ever.

We all know you will be back here tomorrow downloading the latest and not waiting around for the OTA right?
[Vibrant Android Development] demo23019:
I did but it mysteriously started working.

you have to go into settings, applications, and under USB setting you have to change it to something other than mass storage then change it back to mass storage then plug it in it should work. But it might happen everytime, like it did with me. You could just select "ask in connection" that should fix it
[Vibrant Android Development] jayprime:
Ya Im the idiot. I had to toggle the setting back and forth. It was initially on mass storage, then i toggle it to media hub and back and now it works. Thanks!!
[Vibrant Android Development] rhcp011235:
Hey Guys,

Sorry I just got back from my short wedding + dinner out. I saw you guys got a packet dump + the .enc file :)

Question is. Is the GPS in this different then the JI2? Is the modem any diff then JI2? JI4?

You all seem to mention task killer etc. This is all in eugene touchwiz rom. Which was pulled from JI2. The question here is.

Did anyone test the JI5 modem.bin? Speed wise? via speedtest?

I am only asking because i assume you guys have it installed. I cant honestly flash and reflash back and forth. I use my phone for bussiness. But, hopefully someone can shed some info.
[Vibrant Android Development] xalucardx:
+1 Im with you man that'd why I'm jumping to the G2 , I love my vibrant but the lack of support from samsung makes me want to make the change , the community has done a lot more than samsung...
[Vibrant Android Development] rajkumar484:
I think they are lack of testers and are looking for some help from us...

may be they will release the official version after fixing the issues reported here...
[Vibrant Android Development] Bugdog:
Why are you so worried about other people's business?

If you don't have anything to contribute, on this or any other forum, you should mind your own business ... Always.

We all know you will be back here tomorrow trolling again, but we don't have to put up with it, right?

Thanks for sharing though, bro.
[Vibrant Android Development] JWhipple:
Facebook just logged in and syched after trying for hours. Someone else try!
[Vibrant Android Development] All~G1:
I kinda find it funny how the average posting of this thread is almost 1 post per every 2 mins for something that no one really confirmed or that Ive seen to have any real difference. Considering sammy is denying it, results are not consistent with users, & it's causing some problems, it just goes to show you how "flash happy" most ppl here are.
[Vibrant Android Development] bbuchacher:
every developer here works their ass off for free why even be a asshole and say anything like this? seriously? go **** yourself. sad thing is that guy who hangs out in a bar all night is smarter than your entire gene line.
[Vibrant Android Development] haxvn:
I saw update from JFD to JI5 lastnight via Samsung Kies, but i get the same error today
[Vibrant Android Development] Dougefresh91:
Where are you getting three months from? I thought it was promised at the end of this month? Pretty sure that's a fail, but still, where are you getting three months from?
[Vibrant Android Development] wendellc:
About 4 hours ago I installed Kies and update was available but due to my low battery it would not update it. Now, it seems the update in no longer available.:mad:
[Vibrant Android Development] cpg1987:
How do i use the .zip file thats still on Samsungs website if i have a Mac??
[Vibrant Android Development] damngood98:
BURN!!!!!!!!!!!
[Vibrant Android Development] didyourecognize:
what a jackass. get a different phone and get out of here
[Vibrant Android Development] JWhipple:
Anyone else getting Facebook to sync? Or was mine syncing a fluke?
[Vibrant Android Development] daddysays:
HaHaHa

I like Wes, but yeah........ Wish Koush had a Vibrant.

Bright side though, we got Eugene.

Wes is a good dev, but he is WAY more interested in partying, rightfully, than working on a phone he doesnt even use as a daily driver. Cyanogen is said to be getting a G2. CM8 will be on THAT in a week. We will still be waiting on 2.2, and the will have 4.0. lol.
[Vibrant Android Development] heygrl:
What?

If your GPS was better on WiFi it's either based on a fix before you enabled WiFi or it's a fix based on your WiFi connection. aGPS won't download over WiFi.

Sync is broken..

If it was searching for GPS, it will lower speed. Still have no clue what people are talking about when they say 3G is slower on JIx
[Vibrant Android Development] dotnetguyaz:
What kind of an idiot are you? Ok, fine. Samsung has screwed up on the update. That means you need to attack the guys over at CM who have worked for years to bring us the most amazing ROMs and fixes where the manufacturers couldn't? Way to go there brainiac for biting the hand that feeds.
[Vibrant Android Development] billydroid:
I hope cm devs figure out a way to make your phone explode in your face. Really, why would someone post something so stupid. Also this update is ****.
[Vibrant Android Development] flameinthefire:
samsung pulled the update? man........ this sux i have a hardware locked vibrant i cant even revert back to odin.. this sucks
[Vibrant Android Development] daddysays:
hahahahahaha

Too funny
[Vibrant Android Development] G1-evolve:
This ^

+1
[Vibrant Android Development] JWhipple:
But is sync broken? It must have been a damned fluke for me then because just a short while ago after having tried for hours it worked.
[Vibrant Android Development] heygrl:
Well I mean I haven't tried it in the last 30 minutes but it was broken for me.

EDIT: Sync is working now.
[Vibrant Android Development] dbm0361:
So the update was pulled?
[Vibrant Android Development] flameinthefire:
yea this is just sad.... i have no way to revert back now.. cuz i have hardware locked vibrant
[Vibrant Android Development] Viralblack:
There are a lot of improvements that I think in general everyones just overlooking. they added some new features and the installation with Kies (which everyone knows is about as productive as an abortion with chop sticks) is screwed.

I Odined this release to my phone and I havent found one problem with it, not a single complaint.

I just got an exact location fix in my back yard, first time id EVER turned the GPS on and it had my fix "40m" with the blue dot DIRECTLY over my position in 7 seconds.

Its "official" but not really official. It was a leak, probably officially let out, so that we could perfect it. And it will get perfected, its good qualities will be integrated into things like eugenes builds and the unholy awesome that is Bionix ROM. Give it a little time, its a good ROM.
[Vibrant Android Development] grennis:
Actually Wes was asking for CM6 vibrant alpha testers on twitter tonight.

Maybe this comment from merlino got him motivated?
[Vibrant Android Development] glensta:
Disregard-nevermind
[Vibrant Android Development] qreffie:
I read every damn post in this thread so I feel I should at least get air my frustration:

Saw the update thread, downloaded the first link to keis, installed it, keis never asked me to update to 1.5.3 or whatever, it found my phone right away (after I finally figured out I had to put the phone in keis mode), said there was no update. Got pissed, kept reading (around page 23 about this time), started downloading the uk version from samsungapps, that took FOREVER on the Starbucks wifi connection I was on, uninstalled keis, removed the folder, re-installed uk keis, it still never asked me for an update, ran it as admin, plugged in my phone it took about 5 min to find it and, there is no update, wanted to yell obscenity quite badly but couldn't since I'm in a public place, so I'm deciding to just say F it and wait for a zip flashable through clockwork.

I really do love this phone, but unless Samsung does something incredibly great, they will lose me as a customer forever. I can honestly say that I'll probably never buy another Samsung phone ever again after going through all this and if nothing happens for this device to get it up to perform as it should have out of the box then I'm seriously never buying any of their products ever again (and I love the hell out of my Samsung HDTVs). I'll keep the phone for a few more months, but If I don't have a fixed GPS and froyo by December, then I'm just going to get rid of it for a G2 or something that wasn't made by complete idiots. This is just unacceptable.
[Vibrant Android Development] 30Glock:
I am thinking J12 is better then this, But I will test drive this for a couple of days.
[Vibrant Android Development] RobBull69:
So team douche is supposed to give up on their lives to bring us free software? I'm as antsy as anyone, but Eugene and the other devs here have been kind enough to give us some kick ass updates and have improved the experience over the craptastic Samsung experience. You are spot on about Samsung sucking hard though.
[Vibrant Android Development] DarkAgent:
Can you please tell me how to Odin this? I downloaded the file but don't know how =(
[Vibrant Android Development] acjames:
i concur. Sync is now working for me now too.
[Vibrant Android Development] tenchi-kun:
I finally just downloaded the update and ran it through Odin since I had previously updated to the JI2 firmware. Haven't run into any issues as of yet with JI5, was able to flash through clockwork the Galaxy S startup/shutdown video, the accurate battery mod that worked on JI2 and the Captivate camera. Haven't seen any issues syncing with FB or twitter as well.
[Vibrant Android Development] zimphishmonger:
Im just as disappointed with Samsung as everyone else, but dont take it out the the CM team. Samsung is the one who cant fix a simple GPS issue on a SMARTphone lol. I thought that since Samsung was pushing this phone worldwide that they MIGHT support the Galaxy S, but it seems not. Yes, they stated September for 2.2, but the GPS should be have been fixed via an emergency OTA within weeks of the phones release, as all other manufacturers seem to do when a MAJOR issue is found on their phones immediately after release.

Extremely disappointed with Samsung, but Im holding out for support from the CM team eventually. Luckily Eugene and JAC have been pumping out some great kernels and builds for us in the meantime
[Vibrant Android Development] smashpunks:
I agree I flashed via odin and I have only a compass issue. Everything else is great including gps...

People will always find something to complain about. even when the nexus one got 2.2 people complained and were talking about going back to 2.1. Lmaoooo

There will never be a rom that makes everyone happy...
[Vibrant Android Development] flameinthefire:
what i wanna know is why was it pulled.... this sux
[Vibrant Android Development] werdz2:
GUYS Tmobile just posted on their twitter the following!!

http://twitter.com/TMobile/status/25942543501

DO NOT UPDATE!!!
[Vibrant Android Development] Viralblack:
If you downloaded the link from here for odin, put it into odin 1.3 on top of a stock vibrant image (Probably want to flash the JFD image if you dont already have it there)

Open Odin 1.3

Use the PDA option and put in T959UVJI5(FUS).tar

Select PIT and put in the PIT file for the Stock JFD image

Be in download mode, DONT have any lag fixes installed, Flash

imho, heres what I did, and mine runs perfect.

1) Disable Voodoo with disable_voodoo.zip from Clockwork

2) Rebooted

3) adb shell, su, mount to verify EXT2 partition

4) Download Mode, Flashed JFD via Odin 1.3

5) Rebooted

6) Download Mode, Flashed JI5 via Odin 1.3

7) Rebooted

8) Success, no force closes, perfect GPS, high and stable modem speeds

the known issue, imo, is that Kies is backwards and a failure. Its overwriting good data over a hundred combinations of lag fixes, upgrades, custom libs and modifications.

Odin to Stock, Odin to JI5, Profit. (Im going back to Bionix 1.4 in a few, but for reference, if it doesnt work your phone hates you, or youre doing it wrong.)