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[Vibrant General] mmalott:
Looks like according to Twitter a bunch of the general users are getting bricked phones from the OTA update... I guess its back to Eugunes ROMs for me.
[Vibrant General] heygrl:
If you've bothered enough to install Clockwork Mod why haven't you updated via Odin? Why would the OTA matter?
[Vibrant General] ULiAsuj10:
Anybody getting OTA without data plan...??? Let us know..u make lots of people happy.. :)

Sent from my SGH-T959
[Vibrant General] mrqu1cky:
I have the same problem. Mine went through the update to 100%, then said update failed. When it rebooted, it hung on the samsung Vibrant screen and never left. I had to call Tmobile and they are shipping me a new phone next week. Until then I guess I'm stuck on my old iphone.
[Vibrant General] bcmatteagles:
I have a rooted stock rom - RyanZA OCLF app -applied 2.1 lag fix then unapplied it prior to update. I use android-wifi-tether, Titanium Backup, clockwork mod also ROM manager. (did not remove any of the bloat)

Ran the update this morning (boston) and waited anxiously as it took a few minutes on the galaxy s screen but right when i was getting really nervous, I hit the power button and that either caused it to complete booting or was a coincidence of loading at the same time, I'm leaning toward it being a coincidence though.

Either way, I'm updated and GPS is much faster and the phone is generally zippier though not scoring as high on quadrant as when I had OCLF on
[Vibrant General] bosox86:
I checked out this link. Looks like there is a camera software update, which could be why it bricked my phone. I was running the captivate camera at the time, everything else was stock vibrant.
[Vibrant General] angry english:
Yes I just got the notification of the update and im using cincinnati bell with no data plan, it came over wifi and like I say I dont have anything with tmo.

Now my new problem...........and as you can see im a total noob, when I noticed the upload in the status bar I went ahead and uninstalled oclf and when it kills all tasks and then reboots after it finishes the notice for the update is no longer there, will it come back?, I know I can use odin but ive never used it as I only got my galaxy 4 days ago, im an iphone man who fell inlove with the galaxy and jumped ship

Thanks

Dan
[Vibrant General] AgentFour20:
I also can from the iphone . From what I read after all the updates have been pushed it will be available to manually download .
[Vibrant General] ULiAsuj10:
Thanks for info...how often is ur vibrant on wireless...mine is like 90% of time so I should get it right...

Sent from my SGH-T959
[Vibrant General] kboater:
i was waiting for the update too, but with how many people were getting soft bricked, i finally tried odin.

that is my suggestion, odin is not hard, and im glad i learned it now. looks like the OTA bricks as many close to stock phones as modded phones.

So update it with odin and you will keep all your data and settings, if you wait for ota and it bricks it, then you have to learn odin anyway to recover and then you will have to wipe your data
[Vibrant General] angry english:
Yeah you will get it, im on my wifi 4pm until 6am a apart from the weekend where its 90% of the day, my update came around 8pm before I lost it lol

So just to clarify for people worried, I got my update over Wifi, my phone is rooted, unlocked using on cincinnati bell, with no data plan.

So expect yours soon
[Vibrant General] ULiAsuj10:
Thanks again....

Sent from my SGH-T959
[Vibrant General] d01100100:
In some ways I consider the soft brick a blessing in disguise. Coming from a Blackberry previously, I'm used to having a desktop application to push OS updates (waiting for TMO to push a Blackberry update is like waiting for molasses to roll uphill). The OTA forced me to prepare both making backups and eventually learning how to reflash the phone.
[Vibrant General] Dammit2Hell:
Hello. Have you gotten your OTA yet?
[Vibrant General] iiibradiii:
I'm in Greenville and I received mine on Friday of last week (3 days ago).
[Vibrant General] lolcopter:
Obligatory I haven't received the OTA update yet so I'll post here and hope for the best reply

*fingers crossed*
[Vibrant General] dalephil22:
That makes a lot of sense. If you don't mind me asking, where did you find the information to learn how to use odin?
[Vibrant General] dalephil22:
Sorry. Previous post was for kboater
[Vibrant General] masterotaku:
I lack the patience for such things when Odin is at my fingertips. :)
[Vibrant General] Dammit2Hell:
I hear ya, I had every intention of doing it myself but woke up and it was ready.
[Vibrant General] MurdockBaracus:
Finally!!!

Finally got the OTA!! 6:21am Ontario Cali. Tried my hand with Odin and no success. Now for FROYO,just finished reading an article about samsung releasing 2.2 on stock galaxy phones in Korea. Thats a good sign....:)
[Vibrant General] mmalott:
As odd as it may sound, I have 3 PC's and 2 netbooks in my house and none of them have Windows. Ubuntu on all of them. When I looked at Odin it was a windows app. But like I said, no big deal to me. I just wanted to check it out for myself.
[Vibrant General] tru_mastapiece:
It worked!.. just got da update oct 12 11pm Cali. Phone was rooted with da OCLF, gps fix. Undid da lag fix & Unrooted it usin da OCLF. In den i crossed ma fingers n went for it, few MW2 matches later i checked it in boom it was done. My question is do I still need the lag fix?

(Update) for sum reason my vibration stoped workin. Nomore vibration @ at all. WTF!

(Update 2) i figured dat it was da OCLF was responsible for da lack of vibration. Undid the lag fix n all is back to normal. Any othe laf fix i can use? Email me @ tru028@gmail
[Vibrant General] patriot1973:
WTF?! Goddamn man, was that supposed to be English? da, dat, usin, den, ma, sum, workin, othe, laf.... this country's future is doomed. I'm headed for Brazil and leaving it to the ghetto thugs and cockroaches... Goodnight, America. You were once beautiful.
[Vibrant General] Oniyuri:
America is

STILL

beautiful.
[Vibrant General] outllaw:
Lol I once thought that then I discovered France

Swyped from my Bionix running Vibrant using Tapatalk Pro
[Vibrant General] Oniyuri:
Well, I believe "to each, his own" but to imply that America's not beautiful just because someone didn't use proper English on an internet forum is pretty silly. I mean, I'm not in the US right now but that is home and there's nothing wrong with it.

Anyhow, back to topic. :)
[Vibrant General] PlacidCat:
Still no update in MN

Sitting here in MN wondering where the heck is my notification... I have no data plan, just WiFi. So, two questions: anyone out there with no data plan get the update? Second: anyone out there in MN get the update? Just a little frustrated with the rollout.

EDIT: Sorry, I see in previous posts (now that I've gone through most of them) that people on WiFi only have been getting the notification. What worries me is the OCLF factor. I am rooted with Ryan's OCLF. If I get the notification and undo the lag fix, seems like some people lose their notification. Is this a consistent behavior?

EDIT: Jeez, impatience is getting the better of me. I think I might just use ODIN over lunch as per the Official JI6 update thread.
[Vibrant General] calming:
I gave up on waiting for Tmobile. I updated through Kies Mini.
[Vibrant General] tru_mastapiece:
Ok to da assh***s talkin shyt about ma ghetto talk, tru i am ghetto "LA cali". another thing u guys r stupid u think i have all THE time in THE world to write perfect english on a forum. U think i wulda graduated from USC business wit ma slang? Fukk no "u can take da playa from da hood, but can never take da hood from da playa"
[Vibrant General] patriot1973:
And that, sir, is why you will always be looked upon as nothing more than a 'hood rat. No matter what school you graduated from. You can dress a turd in a tux, but underneath it's still a turd. (Not that I'm necessarily calling you a turd, just creating an example.) Carry on...
[Vibrant General] lrobles787:
It comes a few people at a time. If send to everyone at the sametime is going to cause problems most likely. Coming from a computer Network Administrator...
[Vibrant General] flywatt:
I'm floored. I got the update today, and it bricked my phone. I've downloaded Odin and J16, however when I start the phone in download mode, I'm unable to get Odin to reconize my phone. Windows 7 says it was unsuccessful installing the driver Gadget Serial. I found another forum that said downloading Samsung PC Studio, and the driver will be included. However, that didn't work either. I'm floored. I cant find this Gadget Serial Driver anywhere. Because of that, Odin doesn't reconize my phone. Any suggestions? If not, looks like my next stop is TMobile to plea with them...:(
[Vibrant General] rubberwheels:
This is a load of bullcrap! I ran the update on my phone. it says it'll take approx 10 min. Then when it hits 100% it says "Update Failed" "Rebooting phone" The worse part is that the phoine hangs on the dam Vibrant screen. Guess I need to do a naniod restore. I forgot to make a backup since i thought that these dam updates wouldn't do this to my phone. I was better off with an iphone.
[Vibrant General] lolcopter:
sweet, they just pushed the update to me this morning. :)

too bad i was low on battery, so i'm gonna have to charge for a bit and try again in an hour :mad:
[Vibrant General] Zylograth:
why is anyone waiting for OTA when you can get the update through mini kies and have a nice day?
[Vibrant General] gaalaagaa:
Anybody wants cookies?
[Vibrant General] lolcopter:
mac

10 char
[Vibrant General] Zylograth:
you don't have any PC friends? will mini kies run in parallels? I guess if you are stuck then you have no choice. But if it were me I would find a way LOL
[Vibrant General] trunkstar1:
Just to be clear... you'll find plenty of ghetto thugs and cockroaches in Brazil. The other poster was right, America IS still beautiful. Leave it to the Ron Paul "libertarian" to say something like that. ;)
[Vibrant General] lolcopter:
Meh, not in a huge rush. I'm on power pc mac at work and home LOL
[Vibrant General] lolcopter:
Battery finally charged enough, ran the update, everything good so far still messing around

All stock

Edit: signal and gps definitely improved. locking at least 6 birds, although I could get that sometimes before too
[Vibrant General] flywatt:
Had the same problem today. Had to push J16 manually. Took me about 4 hours to resolve.
[Vibrant General] rubberwheels:
did you lose any data? like texts, etc...?
[Vibrant General] flywatt:
No, I didn't loose anything. All my texts, applications, emails....everything was in tact. I didn't have to re-install or set anything back up. I was a little ticked that all the bloatware I previously deleted was back, but at least the phone is working.

I got the OTA update yesterday morning. It bricked my phone. So, I used Odin to push the J16 update manually. The big problem I had was when I was ready to plug the phone into the computer and hit "start", my computer couldn't find the driver "Gadget Serial" for the phone, and Odin didn't detect the phone either. I downloaded Samsung Kies from the Samsung website (free), which included the Gadget Serial driver I needed. Reebooted the computer, walked through the steps, and voila! Back to normal.....well almost anyway. I just re-rooted my phone, and it's not letting me delete bloatware. Still trying to figure that one out. But I'm glad I'm back in business.

I tried to post the link for the Odin/J16 tutorial, but I don't have permissions to do that....sorry. Just search it in this forum, that's where i found it.
[Vibrant General] foxdude0486:
Just got the update this morning. I hadn't been keeping track, so was hopeful it was the 2.2 update. When I noticed it wasn't I was all upset. But better than nothing I guess. Update went fine, no hangups, nothing deleted, couple new features, and right away I noticed better reception in my cubicle (normally 0/1 bars, not solid 2 bars).
[Vibrant General] bigragu:
I'm confused. I am on Bionix 1.8 and OCLF. I haven't received notice of this OTA, but do I even need it when it comes? What is in it that I don't already have with Bionix? Is the only thing I'll get out of it the excitement of possibly soft-bricking my phone?
[Vibrant General] ddot3000:
HELP!!

I'm stuck on the Vibrant Samsung screen after the update. How do i get my phone working again??
[Vibrant General] lexluthor:
You won't get an OTA notification when you are on a custom rom. You can't OTA over that.
[Vibrant General] erlxda:
Postponing update

I spent some time rooting & reconfiguring my Samsung Galaxy, and it has worked great for weeks. I'm not installing the update. It's annoying, but I'm continuing to select postpone because the update will screw up my fixes, and I can't afford any more downtime. Sammy shipped millions of misconfigured devices...not sure I'll go with Samsung next time.
[Vibrant General] erlxda:
Before the update was your phone rooted and did it have the lag fix?
[Vibrant General] flywatt:
Read my previous post about Odin and the update. I had the same issue.
[Vibrant General] Nickarus:
JUST got my update notification here in Kansas City, Kansas.

Guess this location is on the backend of the rollout, but I think it's a blessing in disguise... now I've seen enough people getting boned to know what not to do.

Finished my nandroid backup at work today. Will push via Odin tomorrow or on Saturday.

A few quick questions: My phone is currently hardware locked (cannot enter recovery mode via buttons). Does that mean if something goes wrong I will have no way to utilize the backup? If so is it advisable to pursue the hardware lock fix first before moving away from JFD?

Would keeping a nandroid backup off the phone add a layer of protection, or is it pointless?
[Vibrant General] lolcopter:
not rooted, but i've read all over the place that lag fixes should be reversed before updating. i did switch the default launcher back to TW though (running LP)
[Vibrant General] iggins007:
HELP.

got the update, but when it was 100% it said update failed and now i'm stuck in the Vibrant screen. it's been 10 mins. please help. :(:confused:
[Vibrant General] DynamicXL:
just updated and i have been stuck on the loading screen :(

edit - just did the odin option and it works fine now.
[Vibrant General] CustomGrain:
So the update was pushed to my phone this morning. I clicked install and sat my phone down. Came back to it after a couple minutes and noticed that it had just rebooted, but once it was done it seems nothing has changed. Still showing JFD version, media hub not working, everything is as it was before the "update". I have no idea what's going on now. Rooted running clockwork, no custom roms or kernels.
[Vibrant General] CSpreha:
Atlanta here, got the update yesterday afternoon (10/17/2010), Only mods at the time were root, was running the original JDW firmware from purchase. Flash went fine, did stick at the bootup screen for a bit, kinda scared me but then it came up to my locked screen and I booted up from there. 1st thing, YES, compass fixed, goes right to location now. Compass, Compass Ball, 3d Compass, all work fine now. GPS, first test loaded up Maps, still took a few mins to lock, never did. Loaded up GPS Test, found many more than it normally does, went back to maps and it was working, down to 16feet. "Places" can find me now and locate food and ATMs.

My rotate toggle widget seems to not work now, need to find a new one, it wont let me disable rotation settings.

Media Hub now loads and runs.

Quadrant gives me an 880.

I show SGH-T959, 2.1-update1, T959UVJI6, 2.6.29, ECLAIR.UVJI6.

Don't see anything else major yet. Seems fast. I had just undone the lagfix a few days ago, I would say this is just as fast.
[Vibrant General] runningerin:
I don't want the update either. Any way to get rid of the notification permanently?
[Vibrant General] smashpunks:
agreed. Reception is amazing as it has since JI4 for me... Personally if this is true and only a 2.1 version im sticking with BIONIX 1.4, things fast, gps rocks, battery is freaking OUTSTANDING and UHHH, yea I got the JI6 baseband also with it too. Things a beast. THIS is definetely what the SGS should have shipped with.
[Vibrant General] smashpunks:
I take back my statement. Thanks

THANKS OP also... Just wanted to make sure and couldnt believe it... wow
[Vibrant General] Oniyuri:
I know, lol. I had the same attitude when I was on the Tmo forums. First I was like "WHAT?!" and then I went to all my gadget sites and saw nothing. Came here, saw it again and then went to androidforums like right after, lmao.
[Vibrant General] smashpunks:
Well, Im on Ji6 leaked in a custom rom, so Im just gonna stay since its no different, but good new for those that dont root or flash roms cause I think GPS works great now compared to stock and The signal is much better with less droppage when covering the phone...

Awesome tmobile and samsung.. Good feeling that there atleast trying, even though its not 2.2 this still gives a good feeling..

EDIT: So if were already on baseband/version JI6 we wont recieve a notification CORRECT? Since were already on it? It wont see a update right?
[Vibrant General] Oniyuri:
we haven't rooted or modded our Vibrant yet. i think we have a near perfect phone. our GPS wasn't gawd awful, the accuracy was a bit off and that was only sometimes. i wanna root but i'm saving up for my own Vibrant (i've been bogarting my bf's Vibrant for well over a month now). the only thing that's keeping me from buying one is the hardware lock issue.
[Vibrant General] smashpunks:
Yea, I got a buddy at work who has a hardware locked one and its a bummer. I heard they fixed the issue in the new batches, I could be wrong.

WEll, I agree, the phone was pretty good other than a few bugs, and I think most if not all are now fixed. Yes get that vibrant, save save save. I love this phone. Just need 2.2 and I will be happy, everyone can take gingerbread Ill be happy with 2.2.

Back on topic Who else got the notice??????
[Vibrant General] arin8000:
Guys, can I get an update on my rooted and lag fix installed Vibrant???
[Vibrant General] smashpunks:
are you running stock rooted rom?

If so Im not 100 % sure but id say yes if your on stock rom. Is it voodoo lag fix? cause Id undo that first if you get the notification..
[Vibrant General] jir591:
I did the update and now my phone is stuck at the startup screen. WTF? Anyone know how to correct this? It was rooted and had the lagfix
[Vibrant General] smashpunks:
you should be able to. Place on root of internal sd, rename to update and hit reinstall packages. I think i did that with my n1 back in the day.. without root as long as its a signed official rom.
[Vibrant General] smashpunks:
what lag fix? voodoo?

rooted shouldnt matter. If anything itll just unroot you. But as far as lag fix if its voodoo you should have undid that first.

Keep waiting could take a while.
[Vibrant General] arin8000:
Yes, I'm running stuck rom with voodoo lag fix. Tnx for your help
[Vibrant General] smashpunks:
thats your problem. You need to undo voodoo before you flash or it will cause crap..lol
[Vibrant General] cowppl:
How long do these OTA updates normally take to reach everyone. I have a non rooted phone with no lag fix, but I don't have a data plan since I bought the phone retail. Does this work over 3g or am I fine if I don't have 3g but have WiFi instead
[Vibrant General] smashpunks:
it will run on wifi also. Should take a full day maybe 2. im assuming 1 day.. Yea though wifi will work.
[Vibrant General] cowppl:
Thanks. Big relief for me
[Vibrant General] smashpunks:
no problem... Big releif for everyone. Not froyo but a much needed update for those that dont root or flash roms. Ive been running leaked roms since they leak and I can say GPS and reception are Vastly improved. Gonna make a lot of people happy..

Good to see samsung also doing something for us..
[Vibrant General] hkfan:
So how this ota works? I mean do they follow some serial number or their customer database.

I have stock rom but I am not a tmobile customer.
[Vibrant General] jir591:
Not sure which lag fix. How do I unistall the lag fix at this point ? I had clockwork recovery installed but when I go into recovery mode clockwork is gone. I also did a Nandroid backup but how do I get to it?
[Vibrant General] arin8000:
Can I undo lag fix using Oneclick app which I've used to install voodoo?
[Vibrant General] Leoslick:
Mine pops up on complete system reboot. But I just kill the system service app that is pushing the update using android system info app. So now I don't have the annoying arrows in my notification bar and no postponed reminders after 24 hours.

Sent from beyond galaxy s
[Vibrant General] smashpunks:
you already tried the update though right? If so and your stuck on the vibrant screen your gonna need to ODIN back stock and fix that Partition first. Then once fixed voodoo should be gone, then do the update again.

Like I said though if you tried the update with the Voodoo lag fix your in for some fun especially if you dont know how to use odin...

edit: I dont think you updated. So, if that has gotten rid of your voodoo fix before, id say yea it should work.
[Vibrant General] arin8000:
I haven't update it yet so should I use oneclick to undo the lag fix?
[Vibrant General] smashpunks:
if that has worked for you in the past. I undo voodoo by placing a file named

disable-lagfix in the voodoo file on internal sd. use like notepad to make that file. Just a blank file from notepad saved and named disable-lagfix. Now go to file manager and find the voodoo file on your internal sd. Place the blank file in there and reboot your phone. You will here the girl talk and repartition back to stock..
[Vibrant General] arin8000:
Thank you for all your help :)
[Vibrant General] jir591:
How can I remove the partition when I can't even connect to the phone?
[Vibrant General] smashpunks:
your welcome.. Hope you get it going... Also when your phone finishes un doing lag fix. Leave that voodoo folder alone till you flash or update. If you delete the disable-lagfix file before you flash/update it will redo the lag fix when the phone boots...

So, undo lag fix, update, and if you want voodoo again just delete the disable-lagfix file in voodoo folder and reboot, it will then put back to ext 4....
[Vibrant General] smashpunks:
you know how to use odin?

Thats the only way at this point now if you flashed with voodoo still installed. Basically you soft bricked the device but its still recoverable.

ODIN back to stock, it should fix everything, then you should recieve the notice again to update. This time you should have no lag fix installed and everything will run smooth...
[Vibrant General] arin8000:
Do you know how long it takes ? It's on step 2 now

It's back now! Tnx again you were very helpful
[Vibrant General] adamboyd83:
Havent gotten my update notification yet. But I was wondering if anyone else has intalled the stock lockscreen and has had problems with the update? I have it installed and dont wanna do the update when it comes and have a bricked phone.
[Vibrant General] smashpunks:
It doesnt sound like anyone has got the update yet succesfully other than op.

Im not for sure but I dont think the Lockscreen mod would mess anything up.. Just a guess
[Vibrant General] smashpunks:
like 5 to 10 mins.

edit: cool you got it... no problem.
[Vibrant General] jir591:
Thanks , that's what I did .. now back to stock.
[Vibrant General] MMcCraryNJ:
Does the current root method work with this update? Or did they plug it?
[Vibrant General] smashpunks:
cool, hope ya get it worked out. That voodoo is nice but does put some sort of voodoo spell on ya if you dont remove it.. lol
[Vibrant General] smashpunks:
it works for the leaked version, so Im assuming so...