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[Galaxy S I9000 General] munkster63:
rolson 1 aa battery charger

Thank u velly much at xda i knew nothing about flashing when i bricked my phone but this problem led me (through necessity)2 embark on the journey of learning about my phone when i built the jig and it worked and i achieved download mode i knew things were looking up living in a motor home with no pc made the journey a tad harder the first internet cafe on the isle of wight thought i was up 2 no good when i had to reboot pc after installing software told me it would stay on but alas it never i was JUST TRYING 2 FIX MY PHONE the second and only other internet cafe told me what i was doing was totally illegal i managed not 2 kick of and as a gypsy that was a miracle my phone fixing came to a abrubt halt until i found a windows 98 celeron computer in a skip no that line was unfruitfull(if any one is on the isle of wight and they want a free celeron your welcome)a friend in rhyde steve at the doctor martin vintage store

kindly gave me his front door key and was very understanding when i bashed his p as u go dongle (only working 9 months a year i was skint)it put considerable strain on my relastion ship as my partner got a bit sick of driving me 2 rhyde on several unbricking excursions and then after making every mistake possible i was able 2 make a phone call again but me in my infinite wisdom bricked it again (in 2 months bricked about 50 x) then i was folked as had no money left 4 petrol my beloved galaxy was resigned 2 the sort out when possible filing cabinet until work

phoned and once again possibilitys opened with work secured i was able 2 buy a new laptop so today of i went with my windows 7 64 ready 2 rock back in with the jig ow no no yellow rectangle but then yes yellow rectangle in hand i started 2 flash and flash and flash and then the sand dunes came before my eyes i was whole again thanx XDA

JIG rolson do a 1 aa battery phone charger the micro usb plug unclips so after u have unbricked u can solder the wire back and u have a emergancy phone charger (until u brick again
[Galaxy S I9000 General] jscurtu:
Wanted to share how I build my jig :D :
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Pietplezier:
That's HUGE :D
[Galaxy S I9000 General] jscurtu:
Well, yes.. kinda.

its 3cm.. but its built out of stuff I already had :-)
[Galaxy S I9000 General] jiyosyed:
thanks for this info
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Pietplezier:
Looks bigger on the picture ;)
[Galaxy S I9000 General] galaxynasa:
I tried that,,,, it works 100% thanks:)
[Galaxy S I9000 General] xxgg:
sweet, felt good to help out a yet another user.

enjoy!
[Galaxy S I9000 General] matteool:
works fine!!
[Galaxy S I9000 General] EmryX:
Anyone know if we can do this for the Galaxy Tab? Because i screwed the first BootLoader and i can't go into download mode...
[Galaxy S I9000 General] vinclar:
Seems that it can because it has the same chip, but you will need to modify the 30 pin connector.

What do you mean with screw the first bootloader, is it a complete blackscreen? If its that I think that the tab doesnt know that its a tab and you will need a jtag. Correct me if I'm wrong.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Pietplezier:
The jtag stuff is kinda expensive..
[Galaxy S I9000 General] borayman:
thx for this tutorial

gonna try to make one on weekend, in case my phone is locked

hope i can buy the right device ;]
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Cbetter:
thanks heaps it should solve my problem
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Cbetter:
will this work if i cant get download mode because i am half way into an install. i flashed my phone with darkys latest rom and for some reason when it boots it goes past the white galaxy logo, gets to darkys rom with the green writing and gets to select language but the screen wont let me select anything, the volume can be turned up and down the back arrow works but nothing on screen. i have tried odin it see's my phone but it stops not long after i try to reflash any help would be good
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Cbetter:
thanks the jig got me to download mode, so i tried a new flash but for some reason when all was complete phone's screen wouldn't respond gets to select langue again not sure what to do ?? but thanks for the jig
[Galaxy S I9000 General] burimii:
can someone help me, i have plenty of resistors but i need the colors or as i can see on this page http://www.hobby-hour.com/electronics/1k-8k2-resistors.php they are with percentage can some one help me what colors should i use ?

thanks in advance
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Cbetter:
mine are a light blue color which doesn't matter its the stripes that matter look for the tightly bunched stripes and read left to right they will have 5 stripes on them or 4, mine had 5 stripes orange black black orange red is a 300k resistor the last color dictates tolerance mine is red meaning 2% tolerance the next one was 1k brown black black brown red last color red = tolerance 2%. i dont think it matters to much it might so get as close as possible! you need 301k use this calculator to see what resistors you have http://www.hobby-hour.com/electronics/resistorcalculator.php

hope this helps it did for me ;) as long as it = 300 or 301 kohm if i read it right. very big thanks to the original poster

TheBeano
[Galaxy S I9000 General] alex.bacer:
Great job ! Thanx
[Galaxy S I9000 General] madmax916sps:
Thx you Help me well
[Galaxy S I9000 General] herebox:
301k did not work !! does not work .. Vibrant tmobile, Tried many times with two (2) different usb plugs and any different contact points for solder.

What did work was this:

Pull battery to kill phone.

Reconnect battery.

Wait for either battery progress bar (does not work) or phone != Computer

Hold Volume Up+Down then Power.

Wait for screen to go black and release Power (only).

Hold Volume Up+Down and arrive at Download mode (!).

This worked for me when stuck at Vibrant / i9000 boot screen logo screen after attempting to revert from 2.2 team whiskey bionix rom to 2.1 eclair rom in order to retrieve some settings from a backup. After attempting to revert the kernel, the phone would not progress past the virbrant boot up logo. Jig did not work, update.zip did not work, Odin DID NOT WORK, I had to use the above method and Heimdall and split out the contents of the tar file provided for a full reset.

Write at herebox.org if important -- good luck!
[Galaxy S I9000 General] DjAbu:
Thank you! This saved my friends SGS after unsuccessful flash of "3button Fix"

Everything was OK,but still bad flash!

And this is my mod of this JIG :)

I know, it is not pretty, but it is working like a charm ;)

3 x 100K ohm resistors. Total 300K ohm. Result: Download mode!
[Galaxy S I9000 General] DjAbu:
Brown, black, yellow, gold.

This 100K ohm was what I used. 3 of these, total 300K ohm.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Pietplezier:
Nice one :)
[Galaxy S I9000 General] martijn00:
Little bit too much work for me to do. I use software to get it working insted
[Galaxy S I9000 General] DjAbu:
Yeah,but what if your flash operation will fail? And all you see after that is phone /!\ PC... Then you will miss this little miracle. ;)
[Galaxy S I9000 General] 0xE5:
I just built one of these for my Vibrant. I know I made it right, but I still only get to the phone /!\ computer screen.

any ideas?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] DjAbu:
If U R 100% sure of that,then only way to recover your phone is..... warranty service. I've heard that they flash new ROM for about 50€ (60 bucks..?)
[Galaxy S I9000 General] sha4096:
About those who cannot get close to 301k. Try to find an old piece of electronic junk like an old radio, television, CRT screen, etc. Make sure it has been disconnected from the power supply for a long time and don't touch pins of large capacitors (the big cylinders..).

What you are looking for are trimmers (see pictures attached to the msg) that you will desolder from the board. You can even cut the pins of the trimmers flush from the board with a sharp knife or small scissor.

They are small potentiometers (trimmers) that you can wire in series with your resistors. They usually have three pins. The middle and left pins can be soldered together, the other pin is left alone. You end up with a variable resistor that you can chain with your device. With a screwdriver, you can easily adjust the resistance and check the final resistance with a multimeter. There are numbers of the trimmers, for example "103" or "472". The first two digits are the resistance value and the last digit is a multiplier. 103 = 10 + 3 zeroes = 10000 ohm = 10K. 472 = 47 + 1 zero = 4700 ohm = 4.7K.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] romsky2000:
Android sysyem recovery <3e>

Samsung Recovery Utils

- for BML -

Enter: OK Key, Select : Vol UP / Vol Down

reboot system now

apply sdcard:update.zip

wipe data/factory reset

wipe cache partition

format internal sd-card

update media, please wait

E:Can't mount /dev/block/st110

(Invalid argument)

E:copy_dbdata_media:Can't mount DBDATA:

your storage not prepared yet, please use UI menu for format and reboot actions.

copy default media content failed

Here's what happened:

I flashed my SGS using ODIN v1.0 with PIT, s1_odin_20100512.pit and PDA, JPY_JPY_JPY.tar. The process was successful but after the reboot the above message shows on the screen, I have tried wipe data/factory reset in the recovery mode but to no avail. The phone now is just stuck with the S logo and occasionally vibrate. I badly needed your help! Thanks

Model Number: GT-I9000

Firmware: 2.2

Baseband Version: I9000BUJP5

Kernel Version: 2.6.32.9

root@SE-S611 #1

Build Number: FROYO.BUJP7
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Pietplezier:
Try to flash the blootloader ( 3 button bootloader )
[Galaxy S I9000 General] romsky2000:
Sorry, but how can I do that?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] tone2010:
301K right?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Pietplezier:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=810686
[Galaxy S I9000 General] arnordus:
Does the hairdryer also work??
[Galaxy S I9000 General] l0rd_hex:
Only if you've been drinking and only if it's whiskey.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] DjAbu:
Try. I heated my phone with blowdryer and it went to download mode.

Tried my friends phone,unsuccesfull.

Just do that jig. You dont't need to be a wizard or rocket scientist to make one.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] axander:
Is that posible to LG Optimus with dead boot?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] mustainegab:
I confirm that the 301k method works like a charm!! I can send the tool I made to anyone who needs it. free+shipping (usually 2~5 dlls):)
[Galaxy S I9000 General] ArmitageShanks:
Had exactly the same error happen on a friend's Galaxy. What you need is the JIG to get the phone into download mode, and the three-file version of the JPU firmware which you can download from samfirmware.com - it's incorrectly labeled as one file on the site, but actually includes the PDA, MODEM, CSC, and PIT files that you need. Set up Odin to use all four files, enable repartitioning, and start the flashing process.

Do not bother trying to flash the 3-button bootloader first - chances are Odin will report a write failure if your phone is in that state and it won't take hold. Just flash the JRU firmware using all the files provided as described above - it appears to already include the 3-button bootloader from what I can tell.

Once you've done that and the phone is brought back to life, use the 3 buttons to get the phone back into download mode and flash the JPY firmware as a single PDA file with *no* PIT file and *no* repartitioning (i.e. the "normal" single-file upgrade process). :)
[Galaxy S I9000 General] telkane:
just to add i was able to achieve same results with 330k resistance telus fascinate
[Galaxy S I9000 General] telkane:
figured maybe a seperate post was in order

just to add i was able to achieve same results with 330k resistance telus fascinate
[Galaxy S I9000 General] wolexie:
I've bricked my sgs...

Any chance of borrowing your usb jig cable?

Please help!!!
[Galaxy S I9000 General] telkane:
its not hard to make your own try this video

YouTube - Samsung Galaxy S (How-To Unbrick *USB JIG Method*)
[Galaxy S I9000 General] ArmitageShanks:
Are you worried about soldering your own jig? If so, you can do it without any soldering if you have the micro USB breakout board (order it from proto-pic.co.uk, search for "USB MicroB Plug Breakout Board") and some 300K resistors (can be picked up from your local Maplins for a few pence).

While the phone is off (with battery inserted and screen facing up), insert the breakout board and carefully touch the two ends of a 300K resistor to the GND and ID contacts on the board (being sure to have some form of insulation between your fingers and the resistor!). The phone should wake up and presto - download mode! :)
[Galaxy S I9000 General] wolexie:
Thanks guys...

I have sorted it out now - very easy with the youtube videos...

No need to solder...
[Galaxy S I9000 General] telkane:
good to hear i just recovered from a soft brick myself
[Galaxy S I9000 General] chromii:
Most cables do not have a wire connected to pin 4, so this will not work.

If you buy a cheap car charger ($10AU) this usually has a risistor between pin 4 & 5.

The Galaxy uses the resistance value on pin 4 to determine what passive device plugged in is.

Just replace the resistor with 4 resistors ie 100K + 100K + 100K + 1K.

This will give you the desired 301K valu. Note solder them end to end (in series).

There was only 2 wires in my cable GND on pin 5 & Power on pin 1, remove these.

Hope this helps :)
[Galaxy S I9000 General] DjAbu:
300K ohm is also good enough. I have heard that 330K ohm works as well, so no need to be exactly 301K ohm.

Just solder 3x100K resistors and then hard flashing.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Esahin1992:
nice i like it
[Galaxy S I9000 General] B[L]A[D]E:
You saved my phone!!!!!

THANKS!!!
[Galaxy S I9000 General] jimmmaras:
thank you very much man!!
[Galaxy S I9000 General] GeneralSmart:
very nice, everything worx like a charm now
[Galaxy S I9000 General] mobile mouse:
Hi my i9000t is stuck on the large S start up screen, the S comes up and then the blue graphics then the screen goes black and you cannot use anything, touch the back key or the left bottom key and the lights on them two keys comes on and stay on with nothing happening.

i can not get it back to the three button mode to reset it or try running the new ROM on it again.with volume up or down, it just goes to the standard start up every time, and reading through this thread about the jig, and this looks like my way out, ok so i have a new micro usb b connector i have removed the cable and the four wires that was soldered onto the contacts.

ok i have the picture of the usb b with the five pins for the wires to attach to, but there is a problem from the diagram it is showing us the back of the connector, so that we are looking at the five pins ??, or the front socket part of the usb b plug ???.

and now the next problem is that my pin layout is different to the drawing, looking from the back of the plug at the pins where the wires should go, the diagram has five pins in line right to left, but my plug has two pins at the top and three on the bottom, none of the pins are numbered to give me a clue as to what the pins are for and i cannot find a diagram of a similar socket on the net, so any help would be really appreciated with this, many thanks in advance and the very best of regards and wishes to all....

Dave
[Galaxy S I9000 General] TheBeano:
The diagram is looking at the front of the plug. If you look through this thread there are lots of photos and videos, I'm sure you will find one that's similar to the plug that you have.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Nate River:
pure awesomeness :D

used this to get my phone working, did some sh*t while flashing, then bootloop and no buttoncombo worked it out.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] carmelo3:
thank yuo very much
[Galaxy S I9000 General] RorixRebel:
i just created an accout to say thanks , you saved my phone

the ridiculous part is that i was unlocking the 3button combination lol

then it died or bricked which is the same to me
[Galaxy S I9000 General] jerikthompson:
Dont laugh, this just saved my sons phone...awesome!

I had to use 200 ohm (5 of them) and two 150k ohms. Make sure you get 1/4 watt resistors.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] joycie840:
i made one of these yesterday after watching a few youtube vids and to my suprize it really does work and i only used three 100k resistors joind together and cut my usb lead in half so the pins was showing and touched pin 4 and pin 5 and it went strait into download mode and my fone was bricked b4 this so who ever thought of this thank you very much you are a god :)
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Lazieye:
My phone was stuck on logo coming up then a black screen and vibrating intermittently after botched firmware upgrade through kies

Bought the USB board with 5 connectors and using a 300k resistor touched the two connectors as instructed.

Can confirm it worked a treat, went straight into download mode. Also can confirm that it can be done everytime the connections are made.

Can't thank you enough for this tip, in total cost about six pounds and don't need to mess about with 3 button tricks (euro phone so it is disabled) can get to download mode any time I need.

Sent on my revived Galaxy S
[Galaxy S I9000 General] krulgrizzla:
hi im new here..btw galaxy s rawks~
[Galaxy S I9000 General] keslami:
No download Mode logo!?

I just wanted to share an experience with everyone.....if you try to go into download mode and you still get the "ph!pc" icon don't be intimidated by it. I had this problem and even made a jig ad wouldn't get the download mode icon. So I tried leaving the battery out for 5 minutes, having odin on, connecting the micro usb to pc and the phone, holding the 3 buttons (I have a Vibrant) and putting the battery back on, I noticed that odin shows a connection but I still had "ph!pc" icon other than the download mode. I tried flashing my phone by odin and it worked beautifully......I'm not sure if this situation has been discussed previously (There are just so many threads to read) so I apologize if I'm duplicating, but I think it gave me a big hope about fixing my phone when it bricks.

Cheers
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Pietplezier:
You used the jig?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] johnaugustine1:
you can enter download mode with terminal emulator

type su to enter super user mode

type reboot download

thats it your phone s in download mode.worked for me
[Galaxy S I9000 General] tonymy01:
You can't really do this if the phone has a corrupted operating system (or no operating system if, say, you delete or corrupt the partition table, or even simply you have something broken in data and the phone double vibrates on boot and won't complete the boot).

This thread is about using a hardware jig to get you out of a nasty pickle if you can't use the three button mode to boot the phone into download...i.e. The last resort to 'unbricking' for an average user who doesn't have access to a JTAG.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] alferret:
SGS jig usefull for GT I5500 maybe...

I have a jig for a "just in case" scenario as I tend to flash my SGS quite a lot. Anywho for anyone who may be interested my wife has a Galaxy Europa GT I5500 and I tried the jig in this (out of curiosity) & got the following...

******************************

MDL Factory Download Mode

Bootmode = [fcde8462] , [f1e2d3c]

HW Rev : 4

odin_init()

******************************

Thought I would share this & l'll post it in the I5500 thread for their infomation too.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] iammacgyver:
Thanks a bunch TheBeano! I just made up the dongle using a 300k and a 1k and it worked straight away.

I dont have 3 button recovery so you have made me very very happy.

Cheers!
[Galaxy S I9000 General] 6stringster:
Hi, I am anxious to get some answers about my soft bricked sgs i9000. The problem occurred exactly 1 and a half months ago, thats right my phone has been dead since then, while upgrading to froyo 2.2 using kies, the phone went to the Phone ! Pc logo now im not a techie but i tried to make one of these jigs myself the result was failure, so i ordered one from ebay, it took 2 and a half weeks to arrive to dubai from lansing, and now i finally have it, but the problem is that after following the instructions on how to get to download mode using jig the result is still failure. i switch the phone off, pull out battery, wait 15 seconds,put it back and insert the jig, after 5 seconds it shows the same bricked screen again. Also my PC does not read the phone. now i have a semi bricked phone, a jig that can fix it but with no idea what to do. and would appreciate if anyone can understand my problem, and offer any solution.

Thank you,

Salman.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] DjAbu:
Are you sure that Jig is properly made? That could be just a micro usb with some **** inside.

Make 1 yourself. It is easy. :) 300kOhm is enough.

JIG with microusb
[Galaxy S I9000 General] 6stringster:
Hi, thanks for replying, but i've pretty much seen all these how to videos i've even tried making a jig myself but failed for some reason, as in it was pretty much doing the same thing this jig that i ordered from ebay is doing. with a full battery i follow the instructions but once the jig is inserted it goes back to the phone ! pc logo not download mode. i waited for this jig for like 3 weeks, during which i was using another phone but i still miss my sgs, its just the bootloader that's messed up, otherwise the phone is brand new without any scratches etc. my pc doesn't recognize the phone its just the stupid phone pc logo all the time. i keep searching all these forums but no one seems to have the same problem as me, most of the people have fixed using the jig. the phone cost me about 2300 dirhams and samsung told me that their pc can't recognize the phone so they will change the entire motherboard and charge me like 1050 dirhams. which is almost half the price! the jig was my only hope and now that too doesn't work i might be missing something i don't know cuz im not that much of a technology person, but still 'soft bricked, phone ! pc logo, professionally made jig, and still no download mode. :(
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Lazieye:
Just a couple of things to make sure of. Battery is fully charged, you pull out battery and re-insert on each attempt of connecting jig. Jig must have five wire connectors (some micro USB connectors only have four).

If none of this helps a last resort could be to get a USB MicroB Plug Breakout Board from Sparkfun.com. (Google it)

That is what I used with a 300k resistor, make sure you insulate the resistor before using.

Preferred this board as I was sure micro USB had five wire connectors and this is easier to ensure the two relevant connections with the resistor.

Hope this helps.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] gingerbreadman222:
or you could just get one of mobiletechvideo jig
[Galaxy S I9000 General] dovwilson360:
i have a galaxy s i9000 and it will not go past the galaxy s screen,i have made a jig following in detail from vids on youtube ect,i have had no joy at all,but i have 2 galaxys that are working and the jig doesnt work on them either,so im thinking my jig is wrong,if anyone is good at the jig making thing could you get back to me please,i can take pics of my jig for help.PLEASE HELP!!!!!!!!!!!
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Pietplezier:
You got the right pins?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] keslami:
Have you checked mt post?

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=12357347#post12357347

try to do this: pull out the battery and after 5-10 minutes put it back. do not turn on the phone, just connect the JIG and wait for 3 seconds. have Odin running on your computer and when you see the Phone!PC on you phone's screen pull the JIG and connect the phone to your PC. wait for a couple of seconds. if Odin shows that your phone is connected use the stock ROM to flash your phone. If Odin doesn't recognize your phone, unfortunately it's bad news!