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[Vibrant General] Blown 89:
Kies tells me "Firmware Version: Unregistered Device"

Called Samsung and sat on hold for an hour after their level 1 support couldn't help. Does anyone have any idea how to solve this because it's apparently that Samsung has no clue what's going on. I'm on JI5....phone is registered on Samsung.com
[Vibrant General] Coniglio:
I am on Step 3: Configuring Device/Driver Install but it seems that there is something that the computer is not able to instal...

MTP USB DEVICE...

What can I do :S!
[Vibrant General] kangxi:
You need to flash back to stock. It is not going to recognize an uofficial firmware version.
[Vibrant General] Coniglio:
I've seen that I gotta use USB Debugging, dunno if thats right cause there's a red sign on the top of my phone.

At the moment the software is downloading the update, let's see what happens :/
[Vibrant General] Coniglio:
pfffffff I think I did it... but my gps is still not workin :s
[Vibrant General] jblade1000:
just wanted to say, after trying the "Force OTA" method to no avail, i went ahead with the kies mini method. i had to try every usb port on my computer and every combo of kies mode vs usb debugging but it finally worked. Downloaded binaries, flashed the firmware and then much like everyone else there was this anxious awkward pause at the Samsung Galaxy S screen and i timed it, 9 minutes 36 seconds of "OMG i bricked it". it finally booted up and all was good, no data loss or anything like that. it appears i lost root. and one last thing....jeez i forgot how much redundant crap/bloatware this thing came with...going to root right now
[Vibrant General] Dammit2Hell:
I went from stock to OTA JI6. Kies Mini still tells me unregistered device. Why would it not recognize the official JI6??
[Vibrant General] N8ter:
It doesn't come with much at all. TeleNav and GoGo are the only real offenders.

Maybe I'm just fortunate that I use Facebook, Layar, and watch the free VoD channels occasionally on T-Mobile TV?
[Vibrant General] GreggoryD502:
Any way to update thru the phone, without a pc? Mine is dead, havent had time to do anything about it yet.
[Vibrant General] tweak89:
Worked great for me! The full version of Kies would always fail to download the update, Kies Mini did it all in just a few minutes.
[Vibrant General] rajkumar484:
Go Back to stock and try

which ROM are you currently having..

If you are not in stock version, i doubt if this will work..
[Vibrant General] rajkumar484:
Problem is getting Interesting

I tried reboot, it didnt help..

I noticed this though... The new wall paper that i am trying to change to is displayed when i change my launcher..Again, in ADW i wont be able to change wallpaper... And when i go to TWiz, i see the last one that i was trying to change to.

EDIT: The second reboot did fix this.. Thanks Ryan.
[Vibrant General] FamousDroid:
im getting "The application twlauncher( process com.sec.android.app.twlauncher) has stopped unexpectedly.please try again????" And im also getting "the process android .process.media has stopped unexpectedly. try again"

wtf? i did all that i was supposed to do. everything fine till reboot then got those messages. anyone have a fix on what i need to do?
[Vibrant General] ShinyBuddha:
Wow..really? I mean like really????!? Nice to see a proactive approach to manufacture support. Yet another reason to love this phone.

(sry, I tend to praise more than *****/whine...)

edit:

@FamousDroid: Were you stock? If not, please list all mods/fixes applied to your phone. Lag fixes should be disabled, launcher pro should be disabled, etc...

Most likely the easiest way for you to get the JI6 goodness it to flash via Odin. Directions are in the Vibrant Bible on the Dev section of the Vibrant sub-forum and/or the Tips & Tricks sticky thread in this sub-forum.
[Vibrant General] Yellow C6:
Worked smoothly for me. I was rooted and had mobile AP and gps file fix from JI2. No problem with the update. I lost root and mobile AP but that's an easy fix.
[Vibrant General] felix.akinyemi:
I'm getting "Unregistered Device" on firmware version and firmware upgrade is blank. Anybody else getting this error?

I have stock rooted JI5
[Vibrant General] novafluxx:
Thanks for this. It's much appreciated!
[Vibrant General] FamousDroid:
had oclf, and battery mod, think a disabled oclf but think that might be the problem. so what should i do now? lol im screwed?
[Vibrant General] ryan562:
u need to get or flash back to stock JFD unrooted via odin
[Vibrant General] ryan562:
put your phone in to DL mode. then use odin to flash back to stock firmware JFD. then try kies mini again or flash ji6 through odin as well.
[Vibrant General] felix.akinyemi:
On the website it says I don't have to go back to stock to get the update.
[Vibrant General] RaDoLLa:
It upgraded smoothly but on restart i started to panic a bit since it hung on the galaxy S screen for about 2 to 3 minutes lol....once it turnt on I was a happy camper.
[Vibrant General] ward360:
I updated through kies mini on my windows 64bit ultimate box. No problems at all.

I put my phone back to stock before I flashed.

I did have root, oclf, and a bunch of stock apps deleted, I nandroided back and got rid of root and oclf as well as deleted any update.zip's that were lying around. Gonna do my wifes stock phone as soon as it charges.
[Vibrant General] oka1:
No problem on win 7 64

I loaded it and loaded without problems. I loaded so when 2.2 comes out I can load from Samsung.........whenever that is

You know i read alot of complaints but I have really none of the problems everyone seems to be lamenting about.

I installed the voodoo lag fix rooted/customized the rom and did a simple gps fix in about 30 mins and this baby has been humming my quadrant bench is 1870 and my linpack is 10.362. So either some people here are messing with the phone until the mess it up or .....??? not sure I have just found this phone WAY easier to toy with than my other previous phones
[Vibrant General] 201reyes:
Mini Kies Steps and Download - direct link

If you follow the steps on this page it WILL work, on a non rooted Vibrant. Takes about 10-20 minutes total time from start to finish.

http://ars.samsung.com/customer/usa...ID=2&PROD_SUB_ID=557&PROD_ID=560&AT_ID=341559
[Vibrant General] iynfynity:
if i had the updated my phone thru odin, would you advice that get this update instead because it came from samsung?
[Vibrant General] 201reyes:
I did this update on my wife's vibrant, all good to go....could not use ndrive previously due to gps issues, but now gps rocks, ndrive working great, media hub looks promising. phone seems snappier...
[Vibrant General] FamousDroid:
thats what i was thinkin, dumb question here but how do i get into dl mode? im hardware locked
[Vibrant General] fnakfhe:
Phone is currently Canadian Bell Vibrant.

Running JH2 with the bell CSC. The bell mod. CSC is not the same as posted on XDA.NET.

So the question is. If i upgrade with mini kies will i lose the bell pre installed CSC.
[Vibrant General] fnakfhe:
Phone is 100% stock.

If i use full kies i get jh2 is the newest rom. And no update is available.
[Vibrant General] solkanar512:
****ing christ, I shouldn't have to buy a different computer or buy/pirate Windows just to apply an OEM patch. Why is it so difficult for Samsung just to send out a simple file to transfer to the phone via USB and have it flash that way?
[Vibrant General] felix.akinyemi:
Has anyone successfully updated from JI5 (rooted) to JI6 with kies mini without having to go back to JFD

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[Vibrant General] N8ter:
I'm trying to do it right now for my new Vibrant that just came in. I hope it doesn't miff anything up, or my power doesn't cut off (it's raining here... I always get nervous when I have to do stuff like this when it's raining).

I'm a bit sadfaced, though. The full version of Kies has tools to manage your phone that I would have liked, and Android is lacking those tools. Transferring Video/Audio to you device from WMP in different formats, playing files on the device, etc. Stuff like that. Don't really care about the tethering and stuff like that TBH. Android is just missing good tools to manage/access the phone and DoubleTwist has such terrible performance that I cannot use it.

Oh well. Maybe they'll get around to releasing a full Kies, but I'm liking them releasing Kies mini so I can upgrade my phone before I put a lot more stuff on it!

Hopefully it doesn't miff anything up with my install Apps. My phone is totally stock and unrooted, except for the Apps I installed from the market (and WhatsApp APK from their website).
[Vibrant General] TheMightiest1981:
Well I'll be the first to say "thank you kies mini" you have officially soft bricked my phone. My phone is stuck between, download mode and a failed upgrade to JI6...talking about the decision I wish I didn't make. This **** sucks!!!!
[Vibrant General] N8ter:
If you complain about getting bricked please list if you were rooted and/or had lag fixes, etc. on your phone.

Inciting a frenzy is not cool, and complaining whilst giving basically no information makes your post useless.
[Vibrant General] khulsey:
:D Very happy now, I had to reinstall kies mini because the first time i tried something f'd up the usb connection and the update failed. after that kies mini couldn't connect to my phone. following a reinstall the update went smooth. phone seems very smooth, no lag. havent tried the gps but im sure it works. thanks kies mini. now bring me a froyo update.
[Vibrant General] N8ter:
That makes me feel better and not want to click Cancel :P

And yes, I hope they release FroYo soon through Kies Mini (and hopefully a full Kies soon, too) :P

Looking forward to a functional GPS. I feel a lot more secure doing this with all the bricked modders complaining, though, since this phone actually isn't hardware locked (took sending back 3 others to get to that, though :P ).
[Vibrant General] TheMightiest1981:
Ok, so I'm rooted with Ryanza's lag fix. Kies mini finished downloading the binary files, then upon applying the upgrade files, the update failed the screen on my vibrant turned green. Now the kies emergency recovery is telling me to reconnect the usb cable while holding up and down volume keys. When I do this all that happens is it tries downloading the files again and fails over and over again. when I try to boot into recover there's just 2 icons on screen one of a phone and one of a pc with a connection arrow between them. So I'm officially lost, I was doing good with my adjustment until now...damn, damn, damn!
[Vibrant General] anthonys2r:
Upgraded successfully through Kies mini (bone stock with no root).
[Vibrant General] PaiPiePia:
Accept the fact that Mac are not the greatest thing in the world, there are something that it just can't do. Get over it.
[Vibrant General] krazie1:
Can anyone that updated through Kies Mini from JFD to JI6 post a VIDEO of how the update is? Like show the GPS, the DBm bars, and whatever else. Big Thanks to who ever it is to do this.
[Vibrant General] N8ter:
Same. Mine finished and my phone is fine.

Maybe I just need to use it for a while or something, but the lag seems SIGNIFICANTLY WORSE than before. It's freezing all over the place while sliding between home screens and even stopping and completely refreshing the display (but SLOWLY) at times.

No Rotation Lock in the Notification bar or more colorful settings menu. I was looking forward to that, Lol. Love the Task manager, though. That should help conserve some battery since there's a bunch of Android Apps that don't even exit if you close them. Simple and functional. Reminds me of the Task manager in Windows Mobile.

The phone does feel faster, but I don't know where this lag is coming from. Maybe it's just cause I just updated it. I rebooted it and will see how it feels tomorrow when I wake up.

No more battery pop-up :p nice elegant sound and message/icon in notification.

Media Scan seems a bit faster, but without a FS change something tells me that is always going to suck hardcore...

GPS WORKS!

Can't wait for FroYo now. With FroYo performance improvements, and improvements in functionality (Flash, Air, C2DM, etc.) I think I will finally feel like I've gotten my money worth, and stop complaining (as much XD) :P
[Vibrant General] fnakfhe:
Just attempted to update,

Kies does not detect my phone, just sits there waiting for me to plug it in.

However windows does see the phone and shows its memory disk, but kies mini does not see it.
[Vibrant General] N8ter:
785 on Quadrant. That's worse than it was before the update... Factorably worse...

Nevermind, it's back to normal. Guess it was just a glitch or something.
[Vibrant General] ryan562:
any of you guys on windows XP 32 bit? i'm trying to flash my friend's stock vibrant to ji6 on his xp cpu and it's not even reading his phone. i might have to go back home and let him use my win 7 laptop.

could it just be the drivers? cus otherwise he can still access his internal and sd memory by plugging his usb cord. it's just that kies won't recognize it.
[Vibrant General] heygrl:
If there is freezing I suggest you do a data wipe, if the Kies Mini update didn't do that already. I don't have any freezing when going back to or swiping between screens even with 5 other apps active -> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jl1Q2qlRNwE
[Vibrant General] N8ter:
I updated mine from XP 32-Bit. It was 100% smooth.

Make sure you connect in Kies mode (it's in settings). If you're seeing the SD cards in the phone showing up as drives on you computer, you're not in Kies mode. It will be fairly obvious and Kies Mini will automatically detect it.

If it's still freezing tomorrow I'll do that, but I don't feel like setting up all my apps yet again. It's like constantly reinstalling windows on you computer and having to reinstall your apps (i.e. it sucks, Lol), just faster.
[Vibrant General] aeson:
Phoenix! haha thanks for the video!
[Vibrant General] ShinyBuddha:
Sounds like you've never read any install guide when upgrading to stock firmware. 98% of the kids on here can tell you to disable lag fix before updating...hate to sound like a jerk but you did this to yourself. Don't expect anyone to help you if you can't be bothered to do a little research first.

/rant
[Vibrant General] FamousDroid:
ok having big issue here, now i have force close on phone. wont allow me to change anything im stuck.

i have oclf and battery mod, stock rom
[Vibrant General] f1restarter:
Model Name: SGH-T959

Firmware Version: Unregistered device

Firmware Upgrade:

Doesn't give me any option to upgrade. Running unrooted phone.
[Vibrant General] noahgray:
And I just switched to mac.
[Vibrant General] mleach07:
Ji5 to JI6 does not work!!!

Hi after about 2 hours trying to figure why mini kies would not recognize my device,I am one of the elite who installed JI5 before it was pulled from kies by Samsung,so i tried to update my Vibrant through mini kies to JI6,to no avail it kept saying unregistered device,so i flashed back to stock and tried the update again and it worked like a charm!!!:) So if you are on JI5,you must revert back to stock then run the JI6 update through Mini Kies for it to work!!
[Vibrant General] nacron:
If you have another home app, you have to switch it back to the TW app as default for the kies mode to work. I found that out as I was going to kies mode but nothing would install on my computer. But I have a new problem, the MTP driver that installs says that the default windows one is better than the samsung one and won't install it and the other driver that's installed when you do kies mode just keeps installing. Trying another computer now.
[Vibrant General] Wearespacepeople:
Awesome. I actually almost got excited to finally update my phone for a second. Of course thats when I realize Mini Kies isn't detecting my phone. But wait! I figured it out! Of course now Mini Kies just keeps crashing for some strange reason. No idea what the hell is up.
[Vibrant General] f1restarter:
how do you flash back to stock, thanks in advance for the help.
[Vibrant General] j56bp:
total BS.......its not working kies suck a$$ mini can't even see my phone! i did all the things/followed as listed, but no go.................samsung/tm...............blows:eek:
[Vibrant General] Oniyuri:
ok, so assuming that your phone was in kies mode are you sure that your phone's drivers were installed correctly and it was bone stock (no root &/or lag fixed)?

meanwhile, i haven't worked up the courage to use miniKies yet. anyone with an unlocked Vibrant had issues with getting locked back onto Tmo? I'm kinda worried that's gonna happen if i go up to JI6.
[Vibrant General] solkanar512:
What a terribly stupid thing to say. There is no technical reason for it not to work and it wouldn't be more difficult to simply allow it.

Rather, they spent more time and effort to make it work for fewer people. What the **** is the point?
[Vibrant General] NoDataFound:
Just did this, worked without issue.

Had the following installed:

Root

Mobile AP

Startup/Shutdown from 9000

EDIT: i had to reroot and reinstall all the flashes.
[Vibrant General] reetska:
Make sure you have USB debugging enabled.
[Vibrant General] TimFr:
Had a question about Kies Mini for those of you that did the update . How does it actually do the update? Does it reboot the phone into download mode and then flash it essentially like Odin does or does it copy something to the phone, forces a reboot which then allows the phone to flash itself, kinda like an OTA update?
[Vibrant General] tpreludesh:
i ran this last night on both of my vibrants on 2 different 64bit windows 7 computers, one a laptop and one a desktop, it worked flawlessly both times. the only thing is it did not include the 10th aniversary sims game like it was supposed to. it did however have everything else that it was supposed to
[Vibrant General] tpreludesh:
when it applies the update, yes, it puts the phone automatically into download mode and flashes like odin, but it does not wipe the internal memory. once it finished, all of my settings were the same as well as all my downloaded programs were still installed and running perfectly. this is a very convenient way to update our phones and I hope they stick to this for the future
[Vibrant General] Dammit2Hell:
x64 Win 7. I uninstalled Kies, deleted it's folder, ran ccleaner to clean reg entries, installed Kies mini and It crashes as soon as it recognizes the phone. I'vr tried running as admin and in xp compatibility mode and I still get "minilauncher application has stopped working" Anyone else seen this?
[Vibrant General] kmfisher:
Doesn't work for me. "Unregistered device" I was on the stock JI5 version that was on Kies, not rooted. I don't want to lose all my apps and data. What a PITA. There should be an option to force the firmware update.

Is there a way to go back to stock without losing all my apps and data?
[Vibrant General] DreamcastDC:
After seeing Samsung release this, I think T-mobile was the one holding back updates for the Vibrant.
[Vibrant General] nelsonator1982:
hey guys worked for me if it doesnt recognize it in kies then turn on usb debuge mode worked for me
[Vibrant General] chronos7:
I'm having this happen too...
[Vibrant General] tructo:
After I install the update I am keep getting forceclose everytime I try to access ringtone volume. Does it happen to any 1 else?
[Vibrant General] kmfisher:
I fixed my issue and was able to update. Here's what I did:

1. Download and install Kies mini to get the Samsung USB drivers.

2. Install Odin 1.3 (1.0 didn't work right - I'm in Win7 32-bit)

3. Download the stock firmware for JI6 from the Bible thread in the Dev section

4. Followed the "Eaysest was back to stock instructions" with one big difference: I did not choose a PIT file. I only set the JI6 .tar file in the PDA section. That was it.

That was it. It upgraded fine, rebooted okay, and I didn't lose any data.

I verified with Kies mini and it now states that I have the latest version instead of saying "Unregistered device".
[Vibrant General] iynfynity:
Is this update better than the one we are using in odin? Because the one that update are having market issues.
[Vibrant General] Pacothebandit:
HOW???? I have been trying any my MTP USB drivers keep failing to install. I am not using a custom launcher and have Win 7 64 bit. Anyone?

SWEET!!!!! Put your phone into USB Debug mode and BAM! BAM! BAM!
[Vibrant General] secularhuman:
Downloading now

I uninstalled OCLF and when i plugged the phone into usb it went to usb debugging mode and the down load started.
[Vibrant General] secularhuman:
downloading now

Oh and I went back to the stock launcher.
[Vibrant General] Pacothebandit:
So has anyone ran Quadrant to see if this fixed the Lag issue?:D
[Vibrant General] tructo:
Quarand is the same 800+
[Vibrant General] NoDataFound:
I have. I wasnt a complainer about lag before, but my score stayed the same. I dont feel there is a difference in speed.

My quadrant scores were within 10points of each other before and after update.
[Vibrant General] denny_1986:
++++1

someone answer this guy!
[Vibrant General] tphone:
Don't know what ODIN is because I am new to Android, but Kies mini upgrade went perfectly smooth for me. I have stock 2.1 update 1 software, Kies mini runs on Win7 Ultimate X64. I wouldn't have the time nor the knowledge to muck with my phone at the time being. I will explore more over the winter holidays about taking advantage of many other hacks and improvements. Thank you.
[Vibrant General] puremalice:
call me crazy....

but that site doesn't look very official to me. The bright pink banner was my first clue. I can't seem to really find a link to the main Samsung site just to another page that doesn't look like a company like Samsung would put up.

I think I will go other routes.

Good luck
[Vibrant General] pavvy:
I believe it's official; I learned about it this a.m. via GalaxySsupport: https://twitter.com/GalaxySsupport/status/27135324673
[Vibrant General] NoDataFound:
Same. Ignore those who say it isnt official.
[Vibrant General] vaughnsphotoart:
Trying to get some info from GalaxySSupport on twitter as to the "Unregistered Version" question. I'll post if I find anything out.
[Vibrant General] wrxpirate:
I ran quadrant and got 880...lower than my 894 that I ran before the J16. I ran two more times and got 862 (!) and then 907. I'm wondering how accurate quadrant really is... Any theories? I'm stock and no lagfix or root.

On a sidenote, my phone was stuck on the galaxy screen...pulled the battery and same thing on reboot. Long press on power button and got the lock sreen and it booted up. Weird...

Also I did notice that the phone in general seems a bit less laggy. Apps load faster and I haven't had my phone freeze on me yet. My xda app doesn't FC everytime I press the back button anymore!
[Vibrant General] manticore1977:
the GPS seemed to be working great when I first ran the update earlier today, went outside and got a lock pretty quickly...however I decided to try to use "My Tracks" on my lunch break and could not lock on to a signal at all. *sigh*
[Vibrant General] inverseflux:
Reflashed to JFD to run this update last night. Works great, only issue I saw was Sims 3 parse error.

Pretty pleased with this build... first time I've felt ok with not rooting to get what I need from the ROM... that won't last long I'm sure. :D
[Vibrant General] iynfynity:
have you done an update with odin first? which one is better?
[Vibrant General] vaughnsphotoart:
Pardon the noob question, but this stuff is confusing. I'm 13 pages into the JFD thread and still haven't found an answer.

I want to go back to JFD, so I can get the ji6 through mini kies. Is it possible to use the standard "Android system recovery" with the "reinstall packages" item, to flash an update.zip that will return me to JFD?
[Vibrant General] joonsim:
I'm so pleased with new firmware that I upgraded via kies mini. This new firmware has more and more feature.

Swype now supports korean and voice.

(you can easily switch between korean and english, if you swype the swype icon and "q" or the swype icon and "ko")

Task manager. Media hub. Hd video. Etc.

I don't know why people is having a trouble during or after the update.

The updating thru kies is really easy and simple.