yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CzarDestructo:
Pushing Bionix1.6 with these instructions and installing the zip via recovery mode worked perfect. Thanks buddy!

I assuming the formatting that this package did while installing was what was neccessary to get back up and running? I'm going to try and bounce back to my old nandroid backup in a little bit because I don't feel like settings up the phone all over again.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] maydaysos:
Can we just use clockwork to flash a new rom?
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] velocd:
So reading through this entire thread so far I see that people are getting stuck at the vibrant screen and have only rooted the phone? Just trying to figure out if I need to unroot before the update so I don't have to odin back.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BradBot:
That's the case with me.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cesarscav:
Hi all I have the update in hold for 24 hrs, i'm in bionix 1.4, how can I disable the schedule update
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mr Mufakka:
Just an Update for my situation.

Talked to TMobile. New phone should be here beginning of next week. No more scratches on my screen or a crackling ear speaker. Woot! I will, obviously, lose any info/pictures that were on my phone which kind of sucks.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lqaddict:
There are reports at TMO forums that it even bricks stock virgin phones.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] velocd:
Use these instructions if you want to recover your info from the phone.

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=8510555&postcount=137

That will at least get you back to stock jfd.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mapinkerton:
@Camalot - Thanks for posting the detailed instructions! I had exactly the same problem from a failed JI6 update overnight, and you just helped me fix it!!

I made one small adjustment though that might help others here.. Instead of using ODIN to flash back to the stock JFD ROM, I flashed directly to the leaked JI6 ROM available here:

Download JI6 tar - xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=798125

Following those instructions, I flashed just the .tar through ODIN and did not flash the .pit - just as described my phone was back in working condition and running the JI6 firmware. Best of all, my data was intact so my phone was instantly back to normal, only better.

I hope this addition is helpful to someone else.

[edit - this is my first post so the system won't let me post URLs.. sorry I had to mangle the links to get them through the filter]
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BradBot:
Going to give this a try. Hope all my information is intact when done!
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Darksurf:
I had this issue after wiping then flasing to Bionix 1.6. Then installing apps and enabling lagfix. Next reboot, for some reason I was stuck at galaxy S logo for 10 min then the phone just shutoff.

What had happened is after installing lagfix, the phone I shut it off and connected it to the charger. Then the battery came up and showed it was charging and it started converting RFS to EXT4! At first I thought, "ah, not what I wanted, but OK" Then after trying to boot up it just got stuck at S logo.

What I did (yes even after EXT4 conversion), I booted into clockwork recovery and did a data/factory wipe and rebooted. It fixed the issue. Was pretty scared at first. I dunno if my Vibrant is hardware locked. I would have cried if it was. This phone is my little netbook in my pocket.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DirtyDre:
well im trying the Odin solution and it says file analysis and on my phone it says installing Multi-csc doesnt do anything else, help please im i doing something wrong
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] andy696:
I had the same issue, I am rooted on stock with bloat removed, no lag fix.

I had vibrant9 on my sdcard so I flashed that and then restored from a nandroid.

Now do I wait for T-mo to push it again or flash it myself?

mapinkerton, what steps from camalot's post did you do? Do you have to run Odin twice?

Is step 11 the way to get into download mode for step 4?

Edit. I have just noticed my baseband is JI6 but I do not have swype update, media hub etc.

Edit2. Thanks for the help, especially mapinkerton and camalot. I used odin to flash the update,now everything new is there, I still only get edge at my desk though, I was hoping that improved.

Now have to add root again.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Wykedx:
So just by creating a folder named this you can disable the lag fix? I'm confused
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mapinkerton:
Let us know how it goes.. hopefully this is a good fix for anyone else stuck at the "Vibrant" boot screen after the JI6 OTA install.

For reference, my phone was rooted with the Mobile AP installed, and I had uninstalled the Ryanza one click lag fix v2.1 prior to the OTA.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BradBot:
On step 4 "Put phone in download mode" How exactly do I do that? I have Odin open and phone plugged in. Don't see download mode anywhere.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mr Mufakka:
Sweet! Thanks!
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mapinkerton:
Here are the steps I followed from camalot's post. I did not have to run ODIN twice, but YMMV. I was also using ODIN 1.3, so that may be a difference. Here are the exact steps I followed..

Download ODIN3 1.3 - xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=790026

Download JI6 tar - xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=798125

Open Odin, plug in your phone, then put it into download mode.

load the JI6 .tar file in the PDA area. (leave PIT blank)

DO NOT check 're-partition'.

Click start, let it finish. I got a number of scrolling messages in ODIN and my phone restarted twice on its own before booting normally. It did sit for several minutes on the Galaxy S animation before finishing startup normally.

To put it into download mode, I did not take the battery out as described by camalot in his step 11, but that would probably work - I followed instructions I found elsewhere (edit: see following post), but it did take several tries. You'll know when you're in download mode because you'll have a giant yellow triangle on the screen telling you you're in download mode. Once the phone indicated download mode, I had to unplug the USB and plug it back in before ODIN recognized the phone. (it was my first time to use ODIN)

Hope that helps..
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mapinkerton:
If you search the xda forums or just Google for vibrant download mode you'll find several different approaches, and at least one of them should work for you. It took me several tries to get it right. Here's a step-by-step that also includes a screenshot of what download mode looks like:

androidforums.com/vibrant-tips-tricks/177526-how-enter-download-mode-what-worked-me.html
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BradBot:
This also worked for me. Data appears to be intact! Just had to get the correct USB drivers to get Odin to work. Thanks everyone!

USB Drivers: http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=7238660&postcount=1

So, this means the update did not install on my phone though, right? If so, what are we looking at as a means to get the update? Wait for someone to release a version to flash? Redownload the OTA?

Edit: Strange, looks like the update did actually install. I've noticed new features like the HQ button on youtube videos and a notice that pops up in the taskbar when your battery is charged. I wonder if my GPS is working now?

Edit 2: Bloatware is back, but that's a small price to pay to have the phone working.:D
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] boodies:
WHAT!!! :D
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tengis:
Installed this after resetting my phone to stock:

http://ip208-100-42-21.static.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=782027&highlight=rom+manager

I use the top option with stock Kernel. My battery life sucks BALLS - my phone has been unplugged for maybe 2 hours and its at 70%. All I did was set up my email accounts with the exact same settings.

Also, GPS takes a long time to connect still. Took over a minute and Im in one of the largest cities in the country so I imagine that GPS signal/satellites would be abundant. I dont remember having an issue when I had my jookie-junk iphone.

Im skeptical on what to install on my phone to improve battery life and increase speed - its hard to sift through this forum and be just a power user with decent enthusiasm toward the platform without being a hardcore enthusiast thats up to date on what everyone is doing.

Thoughts?

And do people use programs like advanced task killer? Do they really do anything? Coming from the world of Microsoft Windows and being a computer technician since I was 16 its hard to let 10 apps stay open on my phone at all times. lol
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mapinkerton:
That's great to hear! (the working part.. not the bloatware part) :)

As far as I can see, the OTA just failed for some reason, but by installing the same JI6 update through ODIN, we were able to successfully update the phone with the same firmware we should have received in the OTA update.

Everything seems updated.. I have content in the media hub now, voice input on swype, a Samsung task manager, and my GPS is locked on 6 satellites from down in my basement office.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sw20:
FWIW my experience:

After I allowed my phone to autoupdate, it was stuck on the Vibrant screen.

I only had root, stock lock screen, GPS fix, battery meter hack.

I had to use ODIN to push back the OEM software, wiping everything including root (internal SD was ok)

Then rerooted, installed ROM manager and restored an old nandroid backup.

Getting my phone to download mode I did:

Remove SIM, SD, & Battery

Put in battery

Hold VOL+ & VOL-

Plug in USB cable

That instantly put my phone into download.

Sometimes Odin would be stuck at "File Analysis" this step is supposed to be quick like 1 second. I would unplug the phone, and that would halt Odin, and try another USB port. I did this for 2-3 USB ports with no progress, so I turned off the phone and put it back into download mode again and it worked.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] daddysays:
If it is the ji2 gps fix then you may just need to flash the ji6 kernel.

Sent from Vibrant Frankin	Twiz Update3 JI2 modem.bin jac kernel with voodoo lagfix on XDA app with no fc's FINALLY!
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] daddysays:
You should have a task manager with the newer builds. For me personally I find, of all the threads and roms and mods on here, was that overall the stock JI2 build is the best for batt, everything working, gps, etc. I always test the new roms and my favorite was eugene373's frankintwiz update 3, with the JI2 modem.bin pushed through odin. Everything worked right except the signal always had 1 bar our full bars. Which wasn't that big of a deal to me but couldn't remember which nandroid it was so just went back to JI2 with some custom mods.

Sent from Vibrant Frankin	Twiz Update3 JI2 modem.bin jac kernel with voodoo lagfix on XDA app with no fc's FINALLY!
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] alex0000:
i flashed bionix to fix ota ji6 boot issue

standard report: had rooted phone, ota update parked me at the 'vibrant' boot screen like everyone else.

i booted into recovery via the vulcan grip, clockwork->nandroid restore: same problem. well now i'm ****ed right.

vulcan gripped again, went into clockwork, and installed bionix 1.6 i had on the sdcard... this booted fine.

at this point i assume i can nandroid back, but bionix is fine

-alex
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BennyJ:
Following these steps exactly worked for me, not sure what caused my update to fail in the first place, I didn't have a lagfix installed, and I had done a full reset last week in preparation for the update (I did have the lagfix installed previously).

Thanks for posting this, saved my sanity (at least for another day)
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mapinkerton:
Great to hear.. thanks for the update!

I'm a longtime lurker on XDA, having used many of the hints found here. It feels good to give back. :D
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fishman0919:
My girlfriend got her update yesterday and it went fine, she was on stock unrooted... a friend got his update today and he was stuck at the T-Mobile/Vibrant screen... stock unrooted, he has only had his phone 8 days so he returned it to the T-mobile store down the street and they gave him a new one. His said 2 other people were in the store with the same issue.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jstein222:
i have this problem too and I have a mac so odin is out for me. are there any other ways t get my phone working. can i flash the ji6 kernel through clockwork?

also, if i wipe and do a factory reset, will i lose my photos an paid apps....will it even work?

the only mods I have are ji2 gps fix, better battery mod and root
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AgentFour20:
Havent got the update yet in california , not that region matters . But I'm glad a fix had been found for the stuck screen issue .
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] velocd:
Not good with Apple computers but cant you use bootcamp and load a copy of XP up? I'm sure its a PITA but you would be able to use odin.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] clemsonboyz:
Followed all the steps to a T here, but I can't get my phone to connect to Odin. Any suggestions?

I have downloaded everything and put the phone in download mode after opening odin
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mapinkerton:
Try unplugging the USB cable from the computer for a few seconds and plugging it back in while ODIN is open. I had to do that before ODIN would recognize the phone.. if that doesn't work you may need to update the USB drivers mentioned earlier in this thread. Good luck!
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Dasugo:
Ok, so if rooted or lag fixed or non stock kernelled then the OTA update will not work properly right?I guess Iwill update to the latest bionic/ eugene build and wait til these good devs come up with the new hotness.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tengis:
Battery life is absolutely HORRIBLE with the ROM I installed... :eek:
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dan1son:
I don't post here much... mostly just read it, but I wanted to say thanks for the quick ODIN guide. Got my softbricked phone back up to snuff after a failed OTA update.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tduermeier:
Just wanted to share the same experience. Had called tmo and was told I would need to either wipe the phone or replace it, both of which would have left me without any of my contacts and all my data lost. Thanks to you all on here I now have my phone back up and running.

Thanks!
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] muzhik:
Thanks for the guide, fixed my bricked vibrant... :D
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mapinkerton:
Did running a task manager help? Once I installed Advanced Task Killer and set it up to autokill the bloatware I haven't bothered to remove, it more than doubled my battery life.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] camalot:
Make sure you have the correct drivers. what steps are you following, exactly?
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] J3ST3RM4A3:
My Vibrant is fixed!!!! Thank you OP!!!
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] youneek:
I posted an article about how to fix your phone if this happens: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=803492
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ipugh:
This may have already been posted in this thread -- but I received the same error as the OP ..

It was fixed by going into recovery mode and running "Delete All User Data"..

I had to restore all of my stuff, but that was no big deal.

$0.02

Ian
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mapinkerton:
The solution I posted on Page 5 of this thread (post #48) seems to work for most people without deleting any user data. If anyone is soft-bricked by the OTA and you don't have a restore point, it's worth a try.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PelicanJack:
I successfully completed the solution on page 5. MobileAP was removed in the process, re-rooted using oneclick root, installed mobileAP... and now seem to be unable to delete any of the bloatware reinstalled with the new update.

Tried root explorer and terminal emulator, neither work. I cannot remove/modify the startup/shutdown sounds either.

Something I am missing?
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Excelsius:
I want to confirm that this worked for me as well - I did have to connect the USB the first time to install the drivers (disable any firewalls and antivirus you might have) and the second time ODIN recognized it, but data download failed. I disconnected the USB, removed the battery, and put the phone into download mode again using your technique. Everything worked this time and my phone is back to normal.

However, I'll add that this technique un-roots your phone. I can't open my Titanium Backup. So should I follow the regular procedures to root the phone again (do you have a recommended guide?) or should I just leave it? Those annoying on/off sounds are back. If my phone is now pretty much stock and all the future updates will install without an issue, then I won't bother rooting again. But if the phone still can't be updated automatically, then I might as well use the root functionality.

The crazy part is that before and after I rooted my phone I asked about automatic updates and was told that they will work fine since I did not touch the rom. Obviously, that was not the case! I can imagine what a large number of people are going to be affected by this update brick. I just wanted to thank you for taking your time to find out the correct fix and then posting your findings. I had a lot of important data on that phone that I would have lost if I had partitioned the phone completely. Since you might know these phones pretty well, what software/methods would you recommend to sync the folders in the phone with a windows PC? I have not been able to find a good solution and close calls like these make me realize that all my important info should be backed up regularly to my laptop.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Excelsius:
Are you really rooted? Do you have that superuser or something like that icon in your apps?
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] joshthewaster:
Coming from what baseband?

Had I'd rather not lose data but I'm on JI5. Managed to get the stock kernal flashed in recovery and I downgraded from JI5 but the baseband doesn't change? I think?

Anyway I borrowed a windows machine to use odin to fix my phone and i'm downloading everything now.

So should I try to just upgrade? And what drivers do I use?

Edit: I'm on an x86 based pc......so I use 32 bit drivers. I think?
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PelicanJack:
Yes, hence my confusion :(
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mapinkerton:
I haven't tried it personally yet, but I've heard this may be a problem with the leaked JI6 ROM vs. the OTA JI6 ROM. Someone on XDA has posted the actual OTA JI6 ROM, so if you reflash on that version, that *might* fix your problem.

There are some minor differences in the ROMs in terms of file size, content, etc, but nobody knows exactly what those differences are. I think it's the same link posted before, but it's been updated with the OTA JI6 ROM now.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=798125
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mapinkerton:
I've started backing up my phone as well. I don't think this is a problem with just rooting, because there are plenty of users on t-mobile forums who had the same issue who don't even know that XDA exists - as far as I know, this problem is just hitting people randomly and it's an issue with the actual OTA.

Apparently TMO is getting slammed with phone calls (someone reported a 40+ minute wait calling customer service yesterday) and they're having to ship out a lot of replacement phones. I'd much rather fix it myself and keep my data.

Regarding the root, yes you can just reroot with the same method if you want/need root capability. I would assume we'll still get OTA updates on this ROM, but I'm no expert. That said, now that I've flashed my first ROM and fixed the problem created by their OTA, I don't think I'm ever going back. :D
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] futuralabs87:
I flashed the j16 leak or OTA I have no idea but it worked after that soft-brick update. However, I can root but no OCLF or removal of bloatware allowed.

EDIT: I'm an idiot. OCLF works and if your rooted and want to remove bloatware just download busy box and you'll be able to do it with root explorer.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PelicanJack:
Same for me, thanks for the help though!

Bloat removed.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nastynateyj:
Has anyone tried this? My phone was bricked and had to use ODIN to get back to stock like many people here. I'm back up and running, un-rooted and waiting for my prompt from T-Mobile to update again with no luck.

Will this code above actually trigger it?
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Dreh4christ:
my phone got stuck at the vibrant boot screen to .theres is no fix. i am getting a new one from tmobile.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AgentFour20:
There is a fix its called odin and reading .
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] etgeek:
I've also had an issue with JI6... I've been reading through the thread and trying every possible thing to try and resurrect my phone from the dead but with no luck. I think I've got one of the "hardware locked" Vibrants. It'll partially boot up: Vibrant > T-Mobile > Galaxy S > Black Screen of Death. It'll sit like that with a black screen until the battery dies. The touch buttons light up on the bottom if touched and it'll reboot if the power button is held down for a few seconds, so it's still "alive" per se.

I tried to ODIN it but my PC can't "see" it (nothing pops up in ODIN nor in Device Manager), and adb is useless as well. Crazy thing is that in Device Manager in Windows when it tries to boot up it'll load the drivers for the SD cards but when the volumes are populated, it states that there's no SD card, internal or external. I'd love to try and get it fixed myself, but otherwise I'm gonna drive down to the T-Mobile store and see if they can hook me up with a replacement.

Attempting to boot into download or recovery modes hasn't worked. I've tried everything that's been mentioned. Any ideas or should I just swap it out??
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AgentFour20:
Try this if this doesnt work go to tmo and tell them ota bricked your phone .

1) pull battery

2) hold vol up + down (do not let go)

3) put battery back in

4) plug usb into phone
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] etgeek:
Regardless how long I hold Vol + and -, I get the green battery screen, unless there's something I'm missing (timing or whatever). Looks like I'm going to T-Mobile :(
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ejamin73:
Thats what I did after it was stuck at the vibrant screen for ~20 minutes. Try to do a nandroid restore with no luck. Used the ODIN & was up & running in no time. Strange thing is that I'm sure I flashed the JI5 & when I checked I have the JI6 update applied :confused:

Also didn't loose any apps or setting & was still rooted.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mapinkerton:
You can try XDA search and Google search for: Vibrant download mode

There are a number of different ways to get there, but that's the key to getting ODIN to work properly for the flash. Here's what works for me consistently without having to pull the battery:

Open ODIN on PC

Power off phone

Attach phone to PC via USB

Wait for green battery to appear

Hold down volume + and - (do not let go until step 8)

Hold down power button for a second or two until green battery disappears

Phone will power on and enter download mode (see below for screen shot)

Release + and - volume keys

Unplug USB and reattach for ODIN to recognize phone (may take a minute)

NOTE - Step 9 is not required if ODIN has already recognized the phone. You'll see one of the top boxes in ODIN turn yellow and an "Added!!" message will appear in the message area when the phone is properly connected.