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[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cm1ck:
Good luck man. It may take powering on and pulling the battery a few times, but eventually I expect that you'll see your device listed in adb and can reboot into download mode with the 'adb reboot download' command.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Thegreat520:
Email me if u havent got it yet

Thegreat520@gmail.com
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hockeyrcks9901:
Please actually read what I've posted...the directions may seem the same as what you've tried before but there are slight differences in some of them that may make them work for you.

First Method

1) Pull the battery, sim card, and sd card.

2) Reinsert battery but do not press any buttons.

3) Plug into usb that is connected to your computer. If something shows up on the screen (charging logo) then you should be golden.

4) Hold the vol up, vol down, and power until the screen comes on, immediately release the power button but not the other two. Hopefully it will boot into download mode and than you can use Odin to get back to stock.

Second Method

1) Another method that seems to work for some people is to pull the battery, sim, sd card.

2) Reinsert battery and hold both volume buttons but do not press power button.

3) Then plug in usb. The phone should boot into download.

I know you have tried at least one of these button combinations but not sure if you had the sim and sd card out of the phone. My phone would not go into download mode without having both of those out of the phone.

Also, make sure you are using Odin 1.7.

Third Method

1) You will need the samsung ADB drivers installed for your phone and ADB.

Samsung Drivers for 32 bit Windows: http://files.androidspin.com/downlo...=SAMSUNG_USB_Driver_for_Mobile_Phones_x86.exe

Samsung Drivers for 64 bit Windows: http://files.androidspin.com/downlo...ung/vibrant/&file=usb_drivers_GalaxyS_x64.zip

2) Remove sim card and sd-card. Remove the battery.

3) Hold buttons vol up, vol down, and power.

4) While holding down those 3 buttons put the battery back in and keep holding all 3 buttons until the vibrant disappears and reappears. Once it reappears, release all 3 buttons.

5) Now connect your phone to your pc via USB cable.

6) Open a cmd prompt and navigate to the folder with ADB and type "ADB REBOOT DOWNLOAD" caps are not necessary.

7) Your phone will reboot into the download screen.

Typos and other gibberish courtesy of Swype
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ionic7:
What 2.2 rom did you flash? If it was one based on an i9000 build try using i9000 download mod recovery if you havent, vol down home button and power button.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jblparisi:
I honestly would still do the resistor trick if i were you even if your device is not HW locked , it is totally worth a shot as you have nothing to lose.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jrizk07:
To the OP, where do you live? maybe someone can help you out in person instead.

Also a hardware locked phone may not get into recovery without adb, if you did before chances are it's not HW locked.

Download mode is particular, Try it this way.

Phone off, take out the battery and make sure nothing is plugged into it.

Plug in the usb to the phone, then the computer.

Hold Vol up and down + Power and keep holding them.

Insert battery, Once the phone screen turns on it should flash and go to a black screen. at that time let go of the power button ONLY and you should see download mode.

This has worked for me every single time, try this and let us know what happens.

Make sure when you odin to keep re partition UNchecked, just load the pda (.tar) file and it will reload the system with all of your data intact.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PaiPiePia:
No one else caught this but OP kept refering recovery mode as download mode and think his phone is not hardware locked.

Recovery mode not equal download mode. Download mode has a digging android mascout.

He is probably not trying th e combination of keys because he thought he tried them all when he entered recovery mode.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hockeyrcks9901:
I noticed that you also said you do not know how to use Odin. I'll explain it in this post in case my other posts get you into dl mode. All my instructions in this post assume you got into download mode and assume that you have downloaded Odin v1.7 with the appropriate files. I'll link to them just in case.

Odin and Files Needed Available Here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=734475

1) Open Odin and verify that one of the Com ports shows a device connected. If it doesn't try using a different usb port.

2) Load the .pit and pda files. It should be pretty obvious how to do that once you are in Odin.

3) Make sure that the option to partition is unchecked. The other two options should be checked.

4) Hit start and wait.

5) Your phone will restart when Odin is done and you will be good to go.

Typos and other gibberish courtesy of Swype
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jrizk07:
Having him load the pit file will wipe his data.

I do recommend doing this after he recovers what he needs to. To the OP what are you trying to recover? Text messages??
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hockeyrcks9901:
I thought it only wiped the internal sd card if you repartition? It doesn't matter if he looses app data so long as the internal sd card is not wiped because he has a nandroid backup.

Actually I'm like 90% sure that Odin will only wipe the 2GB application storage partition and will leave the internal sd card alone.

To the OP...the guaranteed way to get your phone into dl mode is to solder the 301kOhm resistor jig. If you want to make one the link to the thread is below.

xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=819551

If you aren't comfortable soldering this, I'd be happy to make one and ship it to you...figure around $15. It would only take me a day to make it once the parts got to me and I could ship it out same day to you. That $15 would include USPS shipping but I'd be happy to rush ship to you for w/e that would cost. I'm not trying to make any money, just offering to help ya out.

Typos and other gibberish courtesy of Swype
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] apollouser:
Just sharing information from my recent experience: I recently had to use Odin after a failed obsidian flash and when I attempted to get into download mode, it would stay at the "vibrant" screen but on my computer Odin connected to my phone with a com port. In other words the phone was in dl mode but it displayed the vibrant screen. Odin flashed successfully. If I recall correctly I waited til after I would see the battery charging screen before trying to get into dl mode. Hope this helps.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] disturkis4u:
Try this to get into download mode. I was in a similar situation a few days ago and this was the only way that got me into download mode.

I did the following:

1. take out the battery, sim and microSD

2. put battery in

3. ONLY hold vol down & power

4. plug in the USB and voila...download mode!

every method I read suggested using vol up+vol down.. none of those worked for me"
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Gibsonusa:
same problem as the op

Hi i have the same problem as the op. i am able to get it into dl mode and am dling the odin files provided above. anything that i should know for future reference. I've heard its very hard to completely brick a phone, but i understand what the op is having a hard time with, and was it helpful that i saved my nandroid backup on my pc?

I am having no luck getting the pda files to show up i guess i could be doing something wrong, replacing the phone i dont think is going to be an option (cash flow is been choked off due to hours reduced at work). maybe a little hand holding i think would help. still have the android digging guy on the phone though so i guess that is ok?

i can not remotely do an android system recovery. so
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hockeyrcks9901:
Can you get Odin to load the .pit file?

The pda file should be a .tar file type. Make sure that you did not extract it.

Once you get your phone booting again, you can recover with the nandroid backup using CWM recovery.

Typos and other gibberish courtesy of Swype
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] swehes:
Where are you located at?
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Gibsonusa:
Hi, well after looking I found out that I was a tard, and got the pda going. However. I am still looking to revert back to stock. Warranty purposes and such. I can flash the axaur rom (not sure I spelt that right) but trying to recover to stock is what flunked me. Phone is working with the rom that I tried (good rom btw). Thank you for the help. And I'm in kent wa.

Sent from vibrant
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] }{Alienz}{:
To op: if you cannot get to download mode, make or buy one of the resistor-based plugs that force a vibrant into download mode. They work even if nothing else does and will allow you to odin. I dont remrmber all the details but the i9000 forums had details on how to make one. Pm me tomorrow if you can't figure it out still.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] velocity92c:
Well her new phone came in the mail yesterday and it went straight into download mode. I even tried using ADB on the old phone and it still wouldn't work, so I can only assume it is hosed. When I said that I literally tried every combination of holding down buttons, plugging in cords, sim/sd cards in/out, I must have tried over 200 combinations and nothing worked. Pretty frustrating that people thought I was just hitting the wrong buttons. Got it the very first try with the new phone.

ANYWAY, thanks for everyone's help. I think the old phone is bricked and it is going back to t mobile.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] G1rome:
Pm me I will fix your phone for free!
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thenotoriouspie:
I had this problem. I kept reconnecting my cable into my phone different ways until my computer picked it up.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fixedonfixies:
Have You attempted the command "adb reboot recovery"? I had a similar issue and that got me past the Vibrant screen? although I didnt wipe my data so idk if that may lead to different results but its worth a shot right, once you are on the Vibrant screen just shoot the command and see what happens.

Good Luck!
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mcclurej:
I had similar problem. I downloaded and ran Busybox. This fixed getting into recovery with Rom manager. If this works give the 100 to the developer of busy box.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jettco:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=846532

Read and follow I was same problem and it work.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] FriendlyCanadian:
cm1ck....thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you...

I did the exact same mistake as the OP and I had the exact same problem as the OP, this was the ONLY method (aside from physically making a JIG) that worked. If there is a place you want me to make donations, or anything please let me know. Your advice helped me big time...I think the OP would have benefited too if they did this because we had the exact same problems!

I hope anybody reading below will find this information useful:

For the record, I used both PIT and TAR files from images found at: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=734475

The link will give you the stock firmware. When the phone rebooted, the SD cards had all the information but the phone was not showing all my applications. Thank God I had titanium backup and Rom Manager, I booted into recovery mode twice and kept selecting "reinstall packages" after the second time, I was able to get into the clockworks recovery manager and I was able to restore my old ROM.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sk8erdude525:
i PMed you;)
[myTouch 3G Slide General] gamikzone:
hello, its that time of the year where i get to upgrade my fone :D , im unsure which fone is better, mytouch 3g slide or the motorola backflip, which one works better with speed performance and for the price tag? :confused:
[myTouch 3G Slide General] megan23247:
The slide is better fo sho.

Sent from rooted Mytouch slide.
[myTouch 3G Slide General] Whoareyou:
The Slide is better than the backflip, but the G2is better than the slide :D
[myTouch 3G Slide General] OuncE718:
Definitely the Slide. I had a touch pro 2; fortunately the digitizer messed up on mine and that's when I discovered Android. Don't get me wrong, I love the touch pro 2. The best keyboard hands down is on the TP2. The speaker and dual mic's work excellent, but the software (windows 6.5) suck compared to Android.

Black myTouch Slide w/stock rom

www.GoTeamFriday.com
[myTouch 3G Slide General] gamikzone:
i have to agree lol, my touch pro 2 is fine just has alot of scuffs on the side,i love it but im tired of windows 6.5 lmao, so yeh i think im going 2 get the black mt3g slide :D
[myTouch 3G Slide General] OuncE718:
If you are willing to throw down some more cash I would recommend getting the mytouch 4g since it has a faster processor, front facing cam for video calls, larger screen, etc.

Black myTouch Slide w/stock rom

www.GoTeamFriday.com
[myTouch 3G Slide General] DarkScorpion01:
I agree with this, or even the G2. The MT3GS is nice, but a lot of devs are leaving it for other phones.
[myTouch 3G Slide General] OuncE718:
My moto is "if you want dev support, you need 1ghz on your court". Its true.

Black myTouch Slide w/stock rom

www.GoTeamFriday.com
[myTouch 3G Slide General] Ace42:
Honestly I would save up money will next year, I think your tmo officer will still be available. if possible wait for phone that ships with 2.3, since gingerbread is around the corner.
[myTouch 3G Slide General] gamikzone:
not really man, i bought the mt3g slide for $200, what i usually do it keep my fone for around 4-6 monthz :D
[myTouch 3G Slide General] OuncE718:
I thought this post was about you asking which phone should you buy? So you bought the slide, how you like it? Does it feel like a major improvement coming from the tp2?

Black myTouch Slide w/stock rom

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[myTouch 3G Slide General] gamikzone:
well i bought it off the internet and it won't be here until monday-wednesday :(, but i will tell yu once i get it :D
[myTouch 3G Slide General] OuncE718:
I could bet money that you'll definitely love the Slide, especially coming from windows mobile. Have you ever owned an android or played with one? The only thing you might miss from the tp2 is the keyboard since it is a 5 row in oppose to the Slide's 4 row and that the screen tilts like a keyboard.I used to love tilting the screen and people staring in amaze. Some people actually thought the phone was a mini laptop. Although the screen is bigger than the slide, I have a feeling you'll get used to the Slide's smaller 3.4 inch screen in oppose to the tp2's 3.6 inch.

Black myTouch Slide w/stock rom

www.GoTeamFriday.com
[myTouch 3G Slide General] gamikzone:
i havent owned an android but i have tried it on my tp2 with the port, it doesn't run good on it lol but yeah i have played with one and i love it, and yeah my tilt is getting a little flimzy lol people enjoy tiliting it back n forth like i do constantly and yeah probably i went from a 2.8 inch screen on the fuze to this 3.6 so i'll b fine xD and also a resolution change going from 480x800 to 320x480 also.
[myTouch 3G Slide General] OuncE718:
I know the screen resolution is lower on the myTouch Slide, but I think the screen actually looks better than the tp2 for some reason. I remember I used to always play with Android on my tp2. The tp2 is the phone that introduced me to Android unofficially and the G1 was my first official Android phone. Let us know your thoughts about the Slide. The only thing I hate is the signal on the Slide. Every now and then for some weird reason the signal bar goes from 4 to 2 bars. I think its a software issue though.

Black myTouch Slide w/stock rom

www.GoTeamFriday.com
[myTouch 3G Slide General] gamikzone:
yeah the tp2 screen is not as good as the mt3gs, i got mine yesterday :D im loving it, best phone i have ever had, and yeah i noticed that, i may have 2 bars and it drops to no signal,i havent rooted my mt3gs yet it's time consuming and im too nooby to figure it out lol
[myTouch 3G Slide General] OuncE718:
What don't you like on the Slide compared to the tp2? What do you like about the Slide compared to the tp2?

Black myTouch Slide w/stock rom

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[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Astral07:
Hi, like in Windows on a PC, after some time it becomes slower as it hasn't been restarted for a long time. Do you think the same thing happens to android? How often do you think we should restart our phones? Once a day?
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SXUsr:
Depends really, if you notice a slow down then it's maybe a good idea, but I personally have never rebooted the phone just for the sake of doing it.
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] k1sr:
Just to qualify your comment, you don't use task killers either, do you?

Personally, I have found a few times where I've needed a re-boot. I don't use task killers, but I have been using up to 5 homes, with some fairly resource hungry widgets, so there's a good chance I'm putting a bit of a strain on the system... that being said though, I've only reset my device for that reason about 2 or 3 times in total...

Android handles resources 100 times better than windows mobile...

actually, that's wrong. it's 1000 times better
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SXUsr:
No, I did on 1.6 but haven't bothered on 2.1 as the battery life has been fantastic so not felt the need to use one.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] master_dee:
hi,

I rooted my htc desire a few days ago using unrevoked 3.2. I then backed it up and wiped the phone and installed a custom UI (MIUI). I had loads of trubble with installing the rom and then found that my back up wouldnt work either. Today i tried a hard reset but when i boot the phone up all im getting is the o2 boot screen (branded phone to o2). All i want is to go back to what i already had on before (htc sense 2.2), no other custom roms:(:(:(:(:(

thanks in advance, please help. my phone is useless at the moment:(:(
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] tahahawa:
I may not know much about HTC hardware and sense i do know that if can find the original ROM there should be instructions to install it or just try flashing it. I'm sorry if im mistaken.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] master_dee:
How do i flash it and what does flashing do?? and were can i find the original ROM? sorry im a noob
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] dehaani:
Download and flash RUU_Bravo_Froyo_O2_UK_2.14.207.1_Radio_32.44.00.32U_5.09.05.30_2_release_144166_signed.exe from here: http://www.shipped-roms.com/shipped/Bravo/

You may need to have HTC Sync installed on your computer to flash the RUU.

This information is well discussed in the Desire section of these forums, you should check it out.

Good luck.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] !PANDA:
I am running a ustom ROM (in signature) and dont want to brick my phone so want to ask first..

Here is what it says..

Would you like to download the fallwing system Software update?

You can now download the latest software update for the new features and improved performance. It won't delete any of your content aand we'd reccoment using wifi...

... -Update: Anroid OS update patch

-Enhanced multi inbox Gmail support

-Improved RUS keyboard layout

25.06MB

so what is it?

thanks!
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 3722:
It's an old OTA ver. 2.10.405.2

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=779608
[Vibrant General] Mouahmong:
I have a question. Hopefully someone could possibly help me? I have onyx r2.2 running flawless. But I really like the Multi-touch keyboard from GothicKanged Froyo. So I downloaded the whole update.zip of GothicKanged and pulled that apk from the rom but when I try to install it, it prompts me telling me that it will replace another keyboard but all my data will be saved, I click okay and it tries to install but doesn't. I also tried using root explorer and placed the apk into /system/apps and it shows as an option but it won't ever load up and just force closes.

Any suggestions?
[General Questions and Answers] vigge_sWe:
I am going to another country next weekend and I want to make sure that no internet data is used, because I would have to pay $5 per MB. I have a samsung galaxy S, how can I turn Internet off but still able to make/receive calls and sms?
[General Questions and Answers] the_scotsman:
There are several applications you can use to control data usage.

My personal favourite is APNDroid (which is free from the market). When you use it to disable data, it renames your APN, so that there is no way that data can connect under any circumstances. You can also add a widget to your homescreen for quick access to it.

This would be my suggestion to you :)
[myTouch 4G General] travisjames:
EDIT: Pre-OTA MyTouch 4G's now have the ability to be rooted! http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=843428

For those of you who never received the OTA update that brought 2.2.1 to the MT4G, you have probably noticed by now that you are having problems or you are not able to root your MT4G.

When trying the rooting process by grankin01, the MT4G will freeze during this command:

dd if=/data/local/hboot_dhd.nb0 of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p18

This happens for reasons currently unknown. I figured I would make this thread to answer the questions of the people stuck in this situation.

If you figure out a way to perm-root your Stock MT4G, please use this thread to document what you did to perm-root it.

EDIT: When running *#*#CHECKIN#*#*, this is what I get in logcat:

11-11 16:06:40.620: INFO/CheckinTask(1609): Checkin success: https://android.clients.google.com/checkin (1 requests sent)
11-11 16:06:40.630: INFO/CheckinService(1609): From server: Intent { act=android.server.checkin.FOTA_CANCEL }
11-11 16:06:40.640: WARN/ActivityManager(1311): Permission Denial: broadcasting Intent { act=android.server.checkin.FOTA_CANCEL } from com.google.android.gsf (pid=1609, uid=10003) requires android.permission.HTC_FOTA_UPDATE due to registered receiver BroadcastFilter{470209c8 ReceiverList{47025b30 1311 system/1000 local:46f73288}}

Not sure why I get a Permission Denial from the checkin service.
[myTouch 4G General] brian6685:
I agree, having to wait for this stupid ota update sucks!
[myTouch 4G General] Phateless:
Already got AN ota update. What does it change? Where do I check to see if I'm updated?
[myTouch 4G General] travisjames:
The OTA updated your MT4G from Android 2.2 to 2.2.1.

Also, the Software number went from 1.14.531.1 to 1.17.532.2.

You can check under Settings > About Phone >Software information
[myTouch 4G General] bblanski:
No wonder I was having issues. Thx
[myTouch 4G General] Phateless:
Yup, I'm up to date.
[myTouch 4G General] macfan74318:
It updates to Android 2.2.1

To check go to Settings -> About Phone -> Software Information and check Android Version

Hope this helps

macfan74318

EDIT: Looks like travisjames beat me to the punch.
[myTouch 4G General] unremarked:
Someone really needs to have aLogcat rolling when they get their OTA so we can get the link for manual updates.

I swapped mine out last night and now I'm waiting on the OTA with it going.
[myTouch 4G General] travisjames:
Good idea, let us know if you get the link. We might still have a problem applying the update though.

We have the OTA, but when we try to apply the package via the stock recovery, it throws an -Invalid Operation- error/exception.
[myTouch 4G General] Kline:
I error out before then. Insmod throws an error on the ko file (other than the one it should). Searching the forum basically lead me to believe it was because it's for the wrong kernel/architecture.