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[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Gooney Gu Gu:
For those who are getting bricks from this process

I am planning on updating my original instructions to reflect this post, but I have some new information which might help some of you having trouble getting your phones back into download mode after a partition/format.

Depending on the ROM you were using prior to attempting this procedure, it may not be possible to get your phone into download mode, at least not using the normal method (i.e. holding down volume and power buttons simultaneously).

Some of the ROMs which can be found on XDA are based on sources which have a hardware lockout in place while other ROMs, especially those based on the I9000 might require a different button sequence. One which is impossible on the Vibrant due to some of the buttons being softkeys.

There is a solution however, it is called a 'test JIG' as a relatively new user to the forum I am still unable to post links, but just search XDA for "USB Test Jigs (used for forcing Samsung Galaxy S phones into downloading mode)" or you can also find some useful info on YouTube by searching for "Vibrant test jig".

I discovered this recently by bricking my own phone much worse than I'd ever done, it was completely bricked and would not respond in any way. I was able to restore it again using this method.

I'd been working on solving; why some of you were finding the process works just as my instructions said, while others ended up with bricks. It took me getting my own brick to understand but I guess that is how we learn sorry to anyone else who had to discover this the hard way.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tigernight:
thanks for the reply , but regrading the JIG thing based on TheBeano who posted this methos here ,he said "If your phone screen is always black, that is it does not display the white Galaxy S/Samsung/AT&T logo when you switch it on, then sorry, this jig will not help you" and this is my situation ,any how I `ve just sent it to samsung hoping to fix it under warranty ..
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Gooney Gu Gu:
Actually my phone was in the very state you describe when I used the test JIG. No white text, just a black screen (I couldnt even power the phone on). I may be mistaken, but It is my understanding that the JIG can resolve any brick. Making it a great last resort beforw shipping your phone off to Samsung or the carrier.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Insomaniac10:
+10 for this thread
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pacotort:
i cant get into download mode, i tried the vol - and vol + with power combination and cant get it...also on odin it sees the com4 port when i plug the phone and it get stuck in setup connection :(
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dorsai3d:
I got my Vibrant working again via this method, and now I'm back to JFD, but my sd card partitions are wrong. from root, there's sdcard which is my external, then it has a folder in there labeled sd which is my internal. But when I tried to download something off the net onto my phone it gave me an error that there was no space.

I'm currently pulling a full dump of my internal memory, then going to format and see what happens, but I don't think that will fix the rearranged mount points. Anyone have any suggestions?
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Technowiz:
i got same prob can yo help
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dorsai3d:
Try ParetoLogic Data Recovery, it's worked for a number of people (myself included). It'll take a long time and it'll find every file ever (I ended up with over 20000 files to pull and sort through) but you'll get most or all of your data back.

As far as fixing the arrangement/memory error, I haven't gotten that far yet. Anyone else?
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dorsai3d:
And reformatting with the external sd removed seems to have fixed it.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Dimitri_010:
Help!!!

Trying to fix a friends Vibrant...

He was running jk6 software when the phone bricked itself in his pocket (?).

Now, the only thing we can do is access download mode by holding down the power button.

If I run Odin, and try to start up the phone into download mode, none of the COM Ports detect the phone, even though he is in download mode. Conventional methods don't work (Starting up ODIN, Plug in USB, hold down volume buttons). Only way I access download mode is by holding the power button down.

Also, when I plug the phone into my computer, it gives me an error saying that Windows could not detect the device because it has malfunctioned...Phone also does not charge if i leave it plugged in anywhere.

Any Help?
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Gooney Gu Gu:
Have you tried reinstalling the Samsung drivers? This sometimes helps me when Windows gives me connection errors. Alternatively you can try installing Kies to get updated drivers.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MTSDAN:
Hi i rooted my vibrant installed Axura 2.0.6 used clock work recovery and rebooted to recovery and installed the Rom (axura) rebooted and now im stuck on the Vibrant samsung screen.. any help please...I also tryed up/down volume and power button and still stuck on "vibrant,samsung" screen please help if you can thanks
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sir.kevin:
Frozen at Downloading screen

My Vibrant bricked while trying to install RyanZA's OCLF. I was able to invoke Clockwork Recovery, but the device wouldn't boot past the Galaxy S screen. Tried Odin, repeatedly failed. Somewhere in Clockwork I selected the wrong thing and now the phone is stuck in Downloading...Do Not Turn Off Target for 2-3 hours. Clearly the phone is in a loop. The only option I can think of is a 3-button reboot to break the loop. Any suggestions before I Hail Mary this?
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] toastyy:
I'm stuck at this step:

"Click "PDA" button and select "CODE" file.

Click "MODEM" button and select "MODEM" file.

Click "CSC" button and select "CSC" file.

Plug in the phone and wait until Odin finds it."

What are these CODE, MODEM, and CSC files? I've downloaded the jp5 firmware from samfirmware and i get a .tar file, insite theres cache.rfs modem.bin.. etc but i don't know if they correspond to the files you are referring to? i have a canadian (american?) samsung vibrant I9000M that is less than a month old, so i understand i should be using european firmware.

EDIT: so i was trying to use the american firmware anyway -_-.. now i'm trying euro I9000XWJM9 ##	512.PIT Version 2.1. i tried the latest 2.2 but it didnt work and i realized it might be because it was labeled 802.pit.. no idea what it means but its different so i think thats what caused the problem.

will this new euro firmware work with my phone?

also, there is no MODEM button on my ODIN, only PHONE. i assume i put the modem file in PHONE?

EDIT2: Theres no CSC file in this rar. just phone and modem. I tried using them without the CSC but now i get the same E: cant mount business
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lostinthetriangle:
Sounds like my problems as well! I managed to tick the repartition button and not having a csc or modem file I ended up with the "death buzz" after initial boot screen............Oh sorry I have a Samsung Galaxy S GT-I9000t (Panama) which I was trying to flash to the New Zealand code to get froyo (keeping 850mhz)

After following Gooney Gu Gu's excellent post, I managed to get a Dutch 2.1 rom loaded, then using the kies update upgraded to a German froyo!.....................with a phone file that I found on another post.....from Bell Canada! There is a CSC zip file floating around that has multiple csc files, just wish there was a text file to point out the differences.

Phone now works even seems quicker I can only get edge but that is not a problem as my providers 3g network is having massive problems and does not work properly anyway.

PDA: I9000BOJPB PHONE: I9000B0JP3 CSC: I9000GDTMJP6

I know it's the wrong csc file but I had to go to sleep and that was the one that worked!
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lostinthetriangle:
Loaded Darky's rom today, had a few problems........finally got it up and running. Still no 3G or 850mhz

I then redid everything from scratch, using a base eclair firmware. Then I loaded the New Zealand csc, code and modem files.

All the above using odin. I now have 850mhz, and 3g works........again. Now I have to reload contacts and apps.

By the way Darky's rom was fast!

Oh almost forgot, be sure to reset to factory defaults before reloading everything back.

To late to make detailed report but I have my gt9000...T back again
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xicot:
I have the same problem. I reformated my cards but it still says the same thing, that I do not have any memory left to install apps..even on a fresh install and reformat. The problem comes up when trying to install apps from my sd card...attempting to install Sims 3 has a similar issue.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] threestate:
does this mean you didnt have 3g data on your phone straight from the carrier? I have the same model phone as you, from the same carrier, and although I can get 3g/hspda symbol to appear, i still am unable to actually USE the data side.. calls, sms work fine.

Do I need to update to Froyo using the method you posted in order to get data on 3g?
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] threestate:
seems that my service provider can't even figure out how to get 3g data working on i9000t and said they may have to refund my phone if i'm not happy with only 2g.

i love this phone. if i knew there was a way to get 3g data on it locally, i'd keep it
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] suchavibrantthang:
this post saved my phone! thanks OP!

thank god for ODIN, my pos wouldnt get into recovery mode.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lostinthetriangle:
Actually that's why I started down the road of flashing...............

I picked up my SGS the same day M3 started selling them, 3G worked fine until about 6 weeks ago. Took the phone in and they put it on edge. Wow all that money and that's the best they can offer me?

Have tried many different firmwares which took away the 3G, but I liked having Froyo (flash was just one of the nice things)

Decided to get 850mhz back so I got a eclair version for the 9000t (New Zealand) 3G worked but the same problem you have, data does not work......

Upgraded to Froyo and still the same thing.

Some M3 staff admit running their blackberries on edge as they know there is a problem, but no official word. I am tired of complaining about their service and support.....So still no 3G, even though I now connect with it and no way of getting the Panama JG5, JG7, JG4 back on my phone.......(searched all over the net)

My warranty is out in a couple of weeks, and since I do not have the official firmware on it I can not take it back. The lack of support for the 9000t is amazing. I do not recommend flashing unless it comes through KIES (and that is a piece of garbage software!)
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lostinthetriangle:
I love one of their excuses "We sold to many blackberries during our sale.....network congestion!"

This post got my dead SGS back after i botched my first ODIN flash. Have learned a lot but still need to learn more. And yes I like the phone a lot as well!
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Vinsane:
6th time is a charm. Got it working again!!!
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Charlie Brown:
Same here. No memory left for apps.

And my phone will only fully boot when I Odined "Eugenes Froyo that wont brick" and I cant install any apps because of this.

I wanted to Odin back to stock JFD but it wont boot past the galaxy s animation and then the phone goes black.

I flashed JFD so many times and the one thing I see wrong is that when it is done (passes) and the phone screen goes through the check list (yellow letters), I have a line in red that reads "Data wipe Failed"

Can anyone please help?
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] champ1919:
OMG, OMG.... after 16 hours of flashing, dumping, cussing, praying (you get the idea).... I finally found this thread and IT WORKED!!! Amen and praise be original poster.....
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] slimmk3:
Still need help restoring phone

IM still in question on whether im in download mode or not...i pressed the volume up then down , then power , screen turned black with yellow letters and at the top it says ANDROID SYSTEM RECOVERY <2E> reboot system now , reinstall packages, delete all user data , delete cache data. and there is some more yellow words in the middle of the screen with an asterisk in the background with a triangle and a little green android. is this download mode?? i have all the files to run the odin but i cant get the phone to show up on the computer. what am i doing wrong??
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] slimmk3:
Trying to restore using ODIN3 , its been on system analysis for about 10 mins , should it be on this step for that long??
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] threestate:
some help sorta

I have a chance to trade mine back for a refund... not sure whether I should or not...

do you experience the same audio distortion when recording vid in 'louder' environments... new years fireworks ended up sounding terrible
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lostinthetriangle:
Picked up another galaxy last weekend (not for me) tried my sim in it and the same problems with 3g, they are now admiting openly that they have problems with their network.

And the only other phone choice for me is the iphone.......and I will.not do that.

I have not noticed any problems with the audio.....but up until yesterday was using froyo. Switched back last night to eclair.

Still no 3g.........connects but no data

Have a few days left on the warranty, will probably keep mine.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] threestate:
favor

do me a favor and try recording some video.. maybe in a car with music on... or try the voice recorder and speak close to the mic, lemme know if you have distortion?

i really dont want to downgrade to an iphone4... but i was really hoping for froyo and use of skype... front facing camera seems to be useless right now....
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] The Banterer:
I'm not sure the exact route you took to get there, but I was in the same boat earlier. What caused it in my case was trying to flash to a new ROM without first disabling the VooDoo lagfix. I believe the real cause of the issue was that the VooDoo "update.zip" had been replaced by CWM.

One of the things that was really noticeable in my case was that the audio for the T-Mobile boot animation actually played during the Galaxy S animation (meaning it was playing late). Here's how I fixed mine.

1. Used Odin to load "Euegene's Froyo that won't brick". Like everyone else, I was unable to save any data to the device during this stage, but I was able to...

2. Reload the VooDoo "update.zip" file to the root directory of the internal storage.

3. Go into download mode (hold down volume up and down, power button, releasing the power button after you see the Vibrant logo disappear the first time) and use Odin to load the stock Eclaire ROM.

I was on the verge of giving up and trying to swap my phone out (only had it one day thus far) before finally figuring it out. These steps probably won't be helpful unless your issues resulted from Voodoo n00bness, but they worked for me.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xpgroup:
just want to share my experience:

after flashing numerous roms, i finally got a soft brick... i was able to odin back to stock & showed "Completed" (1 pass, 0 fail) , but the phone re-booted & got stuck at the recovery screen with the following essage:

-- Novi_check Start.. !!

checksum confirmation need_checksum[0]

Not need checksum confirmation

-- Novi_check already executed...

-- Novi_checking done!...

update media, please wait

E:Can't mount /dev/block/stl10

(Invalid aregment)

E:copy_dbdata_mdeia:Can't mount DBDATA:

copy default media content failed.

reboot system now & loop back to the above screen.

tried all 3 Odin versions (1.0, 1.3 & 1.7) with the same problem.

i kept Odin different roms with no success until i found the old "Eugenes Froyo" rom. it went through the whole process & brought my phone back to work :-)
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] guy3322:
[B][/B] I need boot.bin file

I have a samsung vibrant I need boot.bin and sbl.bin files (I found only the sbl.bin).

accidentally burned both files to a version of I9000.

I have no problem if these files are in the package UPDATE.

I gave up so I searched the entire web and not found.

Thanks to everyone who could help
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AXYPB:
I've been waiting for ten hours for the screen to come back after Odin3 reported PASS on flashing the PIT. I've followed the instructions to the letter and haven't touched the cord or the battery. How will I know when it will be safe to pull the battery and continue?
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mac642:
On the first Odin flash, there is no PDA file just the PIT, correct? Is there supposed to be a progress bar or anything?
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] andreip:
Gooney Gu Gu thank you very much, you saved my phone :). I tried for 2 days to restore it back with no luck. Thank you again!!!
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] knightwadda:
Where can i get the following files?

Click "PDA" button and select "CODE" file.

Click "MODEM" button and select "MODEM" file.

Click "CSC" button and select "CSC" file.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] webstas:
I cant find the files as well, i can find the tar'ed pda file and the 512 pit file but the others i cant find anywhere.

I found the CSC, PDA, and Phone/modem files from the lidroid I9000 rom but thats all i can find.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ms.aliess:
Unbrick Success

Thanks for this post. My Vibrant was only able to boot into download mode. I flashed with JFD and got it back to stock. J16 wouldn't work for me either.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ciditin:
Did I brick this?

I like to tag along, I'm not sure if I bricked mine vibrant, it's still power up, only to to first screen, which has the words Vibrant (and) Samsung.

I've followed the instructions below:

1. Download the latest version of the ROM from the original development page.

2. Transfer the downloaded zip file to the root of the internal SD card on your phone.

3. Turn off your phone and wait for complete shutdown (wait for capacitive button lights to go off).

4. Then, boot into Clockworkmod (CWM) recovery. To do so, press and hold these 3 buttons together: Volume Up, Volume Down, & the Power button till the screen turns on, then let go of the buttons. In recovery, use Volume keys to scroll up and down and power key to select an option.

5. Perform a full Wipe (this will not wipe your SD cards)

a. Wipe data / factory reset –> then Select Yes - Wipe data/Factory reset on the next screen.

b. Select “mounts and storage“, then select “format system” -> select “Yes” on next screen to confirm. Then, select “go back” to go back to the main recovery menu.

6. Now scroll to “Install zip from sdcard” and select it.

7. Select “Choose zip from sdcard”. Scroll to the file you transferred in Step 2 and select it.

8. Now confirm installation by selecting “Yes — Install **your_rom_file_name**.zip – The ROM will start installing.

9. The phone will reboot to recovery in the middle of the installation, then continue installing the ROM.

When I got to step 7, instead of running the zip file downloaded on step 1. I run the update.zip (something like that). And I couldn't get back to the CWM recovery screen anymore. Only I can boot it to the regular recovery screen, where it let you:

reboot the system

reinstall packages

delete all user data

delete cache data.

Or boot up to the screen described at the beginning of this post.

So what should/can do to fix this problem?
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] patrick_star:
ROM replacement

Hi, everybody!

So, I've got the same problem. Upper Instructions didn't work for me, so i brought my Vibrant to my friend (he repairs phones in my city) and he told me, that internal memory card has to be replaced. so i wonder, if anybody did that and if I can buy somewhere this hardware?

thanks
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fagnerkof:
Mine got bricked too... First I tried following the steps given by OP, but had any results. So, I tried to odin stock 2.1 (T959UVJFD) and eugene unbrick (Eugene_2E_JK2_Froyo);

But after flasing stock, I just got stuck on vibrant logo and then power off - no matter if I check repartition or no.

And when I flash eugene (checking repartition), I can power on the phone and boot, but can't access internal or external memory, it says that there's no storage avaliable. And in recovery menu I only got

reboot the system

reinstall packages

delete all user data

delete cache data

Trying to Deleting both user and cache data is functional but didn't get me to use the storage anyway.

There's also the message

-- Movi_check Start.. !!

movinand open fail

Movinand Checksum Confirmation Fail

-- movi_checking done!...

update media, please wait

E:Can't mount /dev/block/mmcblk0p1 (or /dev/block/mmcblk0)

(No such file or directory)

E:copy_dbdata_media:Can't mount SDCARD:

copy default media content failed.

What else I can do to get the internal storage working at least? Is there another things I can trying flash on odin, for example?
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fagnerkof:
Now I'm in adb shell, and managed to get this results:

ls -l
drwxrwx--x system system 2012-04-10 14:13 dbdata
drwxrwx--x system system 2012-04-10 14:13 data_tmo
dr-x------ root root 2012-04-10 14:13 config
drwxrwx--- system cache 2012-04-10 14:13 cache
drwxrwx--x radio radio 2012-04-10 14:13 efs
lrwxrwxrwx root root 2012-04-10 14:13 sdcard -> /mnt/sdcard
drwxr-xr-x root root 2012-04-10 14:13 acct
drwxrwxr-x root system 2012-04-10 14:13 mnt
lrwxrwxrwx root root 2012-04-10 14:13 d -> /sys/kernel/debug
lrwxrwxrwx root root 2012-04-10 14:13 etc -> /system/etc
drwxr-xr-x root root 2010-11-03 10:53 modules
drwxrwx--x system system 2012-04-10 14:14 data
-rwxrwxrwx root root 91064 2010-11-03 10:53 sh
-rwxrwxrwx root root 75136 2010-11-03 10:53 libz.so
-rwxrwxrwx root root 24432 2010-11-03 08:48 init.rc
-rwxrwxrwx root root 59364 2010-11-03 10:53 libcutils.so
-rwxrwxrwx root root 5272 2010-11-03 10:53 libstdc++.so
-rwxrwxrwx root root 278276 2010-11-03 10:53 libc.so
-rwxrwxrwx root root 666300 2010-11-03 10:53 libcrypto.so
-rwxrwxrwx root root 91088 2010-11-03 10:53 libm.so
-rw-r--r-- root root 118 2010-11-03 09:35 default.prop
-rwxrwxrwx root root 159864 2010-11-03 10:53 libutils.so
drwxr-xr-x root root 2012-04-10 14:14 dev
-rwxrwxrwx root root 3120 2010-11-03 08:48 fota.rc
-rwxrwxrwx root root 13524 2010-11-03 10:53 liblog.so
drwxr-xr-x root root 2010-11-03 10:53 sbin
drwxr-xr-x root root 1969-12-31 19:00 sys
-rwxrwxrwx root root 945 2010-11-03 08:44 lpm.rc
-rwxrwxrwx root root 379 2010-11-03 08:44 init.smdkc110.rc
drwxrwxrwx root root 2012-04-10 14:13 system
-rwxrwxrwx root root 1677 2010-11-03 08:46 init.goldfish.rc
drwxr-xr-x root root 2010-11-03 10:53 res
dr-xr-xr-x root root 1969-12-31 19:00 proc
-rwxrwxrwx root root 12127 2010-11-03 08:44 recovery.rc
drwxr-xr-x root root 2010-11-03 10:53 lib
-rwxr-xr-x root root 132908 2010-11-03 09:41 init
-rwxrwxrwx root root 51636 2010-11-03 10:53 linker

and

$ busybox df
busybox df
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
tmpfs 155660 0 155660 0% /dev
df: /mnt/.lfs: Function not implemented
tmpfs 155660 0 155660 0% /mnt/asec
/dev/block/stl9 282432 262476 19956 93% /system
/dev/block/stl10 130240 984 129256 1% /dbdata
/dev/block/stl11 30784 20 30764 0% /cache
/dev/block/stl3 6064 4108 1956 68% /efs

Someone know if this is sign of a physically damaged sdcard? Or it is possible to restore partitions using adb? This is whatI'm trying to do, but I haven't any success with the "parted" tool, just get messages of "permission denied" or "parted not found" and now I'm stuck there
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nevrlow:
Ouch.....

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[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] webstas:
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