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[Streak 5 General] kbkwa:
Hi,

First may i apologise if this has already been solved, but i cant find the thread.

I have a O.2 UK streak 4399 version 21.

I followed Pauls instructions to change baseband to the t. However now I can not boot. I get stuck on the dell logo. when I try recovery it just goes to a black screen.

I think its something to do with the 'system' files or 'etc'.

Fastboot is working.

Im quite a noob, and have flashed several times. this time i dont know whats wrong?

You guys on XDA are awesome and have helped so much before, I hope you can help now.

Many thanks !

I found an old stock recovery and flashed it. thankfully now recovery works.

Back to 1.6, 4399, with no flashing led's. :)
[Streak 5 General] kbkwa:
I got it to boot,:) but I have flashing home and menu led's.

For some reason Recovery still wont work and goes to a black screen. No matter what recovery I seem to use?:confused:
[Streak 5 General] rodjordan:
Take a look here. (note try opening the link on a pc not from your streak.

http://android.modaco.com/content/d...m/317549/how-to-go-back-from-21-to-00-builds/
[Android Software Development] smoothone:
The Facebook widget on the Dell Stage Launcher will not connect to Facebook to authorize. My logcat says

"E/Dell-Facebook( 2533): Failed to get a new session with exception: org.json.JSONException: No value for session_key".

I was wondering if someone could point me in the right direction, thanks.

This is a really nice launcher I wish we could get this social widget going. The launcher is fast and looks nice. Here are some screenshots from my phone!
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] edisepic:
Is there anyway to get the miui lockscreen slider on other EVO roms
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TheMagicalSock:
Lockscreens are pretty much impossible to port. They're usually buried pretty deep in the ROM's framework.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] edisepic:
dame really. id love to have that lockscreen. im not a big fan of the rom but i love its lock screen. thanks for the fast reply
[Vibrant General] VeryCoolAlan:
I have had the nexus and g1 and sprint hero and these phone have never bricked or failed..abrielle I flash a rom on my vibrant i start to get nervous and cross my fingers it doesn't brick again..

There are probably more threads on"help I bricked my vibrant" here than there if on other phones?

What do you think?

Do any of you agree
[Vibrant General] C-4Nati:
That might be because its the only phone u can fix from a brick.
[Vibrant General] itsjusttim:
Most people who think they bricked there phones only soft bricked it which is easily fixed.. This phone is actually pretty hard to brick imo..
[Vibrant General] lqaddict:
No it is you :p

Most of these "I brick my phone" are due to PEBKAC or OTA update.

Most of these "bricks" are fixable.
[Vibrant General] ipeench:
The term brick is being tossed around to much. Bricked mean no nothing, nothing at all happening, no lights turning on, no vibrations nothing...nadda...

Not "OMG I BRICKED MY PHONE IT SHOWS A COMPUTER AND A PHONE ON THE SCREENNNN HALPPP"

The Vibrant is the hardest phone I have ever seen to brick. I cant speak for other Galaxy S phones cuz I only have the Vibrant. So far I have only heard of one fool proof way of bricking the phone, it was something that had to do with pulling the usb while using odin.
[Vibrant General] eortizr:
+1 and even a USB pull during Odin will only soft brick,, I have done that several times.
[Vibrant General] jblparisi:
I have come from a Nexus One and i agree 100%.
[Vibrant General] swehes:
Actually. I did this and even that didn't brick the phone. I managed to get out of the brick by using volume buttons and usb cable. But my phone seemed dead to the world. No power button. Nothing when plugging it into the usb. But some more reading was done and I got life into it.
[Vibrant General] jamboy5590:
really? I think its easier to brink my psp then the vibrant
[Vibrant General] VeryCoolAlan:
Yea but the other phones don't even soft brick never noe even for an ota..

Constantly fixing a soft bricked vibrant

Don't get h me wrong I love my vibrant
[Vibrant General] jblparisi:
Trust me, i have bricked it almost once a day.

Never on the Nexus One.
[Vibrant General] Tpavey:
A lot of the bricks are due to lag fix. Other phones don't deal with this. If you don't mess with lag fixes it updates quite well. Also the leaked firmware we get from samsung to play with probably isn't as stable. The hardware is good, samsung doesn't do the software well.
[Vibrant General] VeryCoolAlan:
Yea but like other phones also have their perks as well but I don't know you have to do a lot of things to the vibrant before you can use it s power
[Vibrant General] brian_v3ntura:
the vibrant is probably one of the hardest phone to brick. all these "bricks" are caused by user error on their part. and from what I can tell from your signature, you're not very smart either. a g1 should never use 256swap.
[Vibrant General] questgraves:
Technically...

I always thought "Brick" meant just that. literally a worthless device best used,like a brick, as a paperweight or something heavy to throw through your ex-girlfriends window. i have abused the vibrant in unspeakable ways and with a 5 minute odin, little nandroid maybe and good as new.
[Vibrant General] All~G1:
I agree with this. "brick(ed)" has become to general now.
[Vibrant General] s15274n:
I think we all KNOW that BRICK = DEAD PHONE/PAPER-WEIGHT. I have always been bothered by people throwing that term around way too easy... I used to fight it, but so many do it, it's unfortunately become the norm.

Perhaps we just need a new name for SOFT-BRICK....

How about thread titles like this so it's more clear it IS NOT a Brick:

[Q] Help, I just LIMP-DICKED my Vibrant!!!
[Vibrant General] dan0zone:
Its annoying to me to ... This tells me that some of the users on here still DON'T understand enough of what they are doing , if every time they get a BOOTLOOP , they say that they Bricked the phone ....

Bricked means just that , Brick....

The only known way to revive a phone that has been bricked is by the use of JTag(mostly used to revive Bricked windows mobile phones) , to date theres been only one ANDROID phone for which JTag has been developed , and thats the G1 ......
[Vibrant General] VeryCoolAlan:
My g1 ran superb on 256 swap on 2.1 hero
[Vibrant General] r3skyline:
Imo, the iphone is the easiest phone to brick. Even with one touch jailbreaks and such...
[Vibrant General] Salithox:
people need to learn to read.

everyone that is throwing the word brick around don't really seem to know what they are doing with there phones to begin with. i'm not saying it to be mean. but really, this phone is almost un-brick able. i remember the first time i got the (phone!pc) screen, i wasn't worried, do to the fact the phone how power in some form which meant it was save able. i read the forums and found help but never once said i bricked my phone to anyone. if people would just read the sticky's and look around with the search button then there wouldn't be so many random "I BRICKED MY PHONE!" threads cluttering up the board.

thats just my 2cents, hope i didn't offend anyone, that wasn't my goal at all.
[Vibrant General] tjhart85:
Most of the people who say this phone is easy to brick don't read the instructions on what they are flashing before hands.

Most of them have a lagfix that they didn't uninstall or flashed the wrong battery mod or tried to change system files or whatnot.

From what I understand, most of the other recoveries out there backup the kernel, which could be why we see so many people whining about the vibrant vs other phones.

On the other hand, how many people were there that flashed the wrong radio/SPL combos for their G1s and bricked them? There were quite a few and there was no simple fix for it other than begging Tmobile to send you a new one because your phone stopped booting & you just don't know why.
[Vibrant General] vamp6x6x6x:
Actually, it is very hard to brick to be honest, and even if you did happen to brick it you can always get into download mode one way or another.

I know this because I was an idiot and didn't read all I could about roms and tryed to go back to stock and whatnot...But the point is I was able to get it into download mode eventhough it litarly had no rom installed at all
[Vibrant General] dan0zone:
AGAIN

If you can get the phone into DOWNLOAD mode , it was not BRICKED to begin with ....

BRICKED means TOTALLY DEAD , NO DOWNLOAD MODE ,NO RECOVERY ,NO BOOT .....

If you get the black screen on boot ,after flashing a rom , it means your in IE mode (Idiot Error Mode) , because you either didn't read or understand the given instructions ... If you end up at the flashing S screen for a longer than usual time (unless the rom does this on first boot ) , then your in a BOOTLOOP and may need to reflash the rom , this time double checking your steps ....

A bootloop was easy to detect on phones like the G1 ,where , it would get to the android loading screen and the animation would just loop over n over , past it's regular boot time ,,,,,,,,,,,,then , usually you would have to wipe and re-flash ....
[Vibrant General] vamp6x6x6x:
Oh ok, if that's the true meaning of bricked then the vibrant is next to impossible to brick altogether.
[Vibrant General] draikz:
I have not seen anyone with a TRUE TRUE hard brick, not sure if it's even possible for the Vibrant.

The closest I've seen was my phone. Where it would NOT boot, but even then, you can just do a battery pull, plug in, hold buttons, put in battery while holding the buttons and it would boot directly into DL.
[Vibrant General] shawn605:
The Vibrant is the only phone I've rooted and re-ROM'ed. Probably because it was so simple.

I've put probably 5 or 6 ROMs on, and soft-bricked it the 6th and 7th time. Each time I easily ODINed back to stock... Using ODIN to go back to stock is easier and faster than flashing a new ROM.

So... So long as I can always start over, I don't care if I have to ODIN in between every ROM.

Long live the Vibrant!
[Vibrant General] turbosix:
tofu comes in bricks

tofu is soft

we should rename the term. "HALP I JUST TOFU'D MY VIBRANT"
[Vibrant General] s15274n:
^ I'm all for it... I might To-Fu my Vibrant tonight so I can make a video demo of how to use ODIN to get back to stock, ha.

I guess that's better than seeing LIMP **** all over XDA. Good call.
[Vibrant General] oka1:
Dude.........it's You

This phone is sooo forgiving.........if your bricking it you are not doing all the steps in flashing..............it's you
[Vibrant General] Sdobron:
If you can fix it, it's not bricked...
[Vibrant General] xent:
Brick is a very vague term especially on Vibrants (or the other variants). "Brick" actually means the phone becomes inoperable or useless (eg. a brick) and the only way to fix it is to JTAG it. Since the phone has the USB port provided that the recovery handler or the usb "drivers" is intact, the phone could still be rescued without using JTAG. It is probably easier if we call it something else other than "brick" or "soft brick".
[Epic 4G General] mlee0921:
i lost my phone that had no lock on it.

i researched and found out that i can use the same gmail account on both phones. and that's exactly what i'm worried about. i don't want the person that finds that lost phone to log into wifi and use my stuff.

my question is: if i change all my passwords for gmail and whatever other apps i have that require a log in and password, will the lost device also update it?

how do i go about making sure that the other person cannot access my accounts through wifi?

thanks in advance
[Epic 4G General] Kcarpenter:
If you change passwords the lost device needs the new password as well. So if you change it, no need to worry.
[Epic 4G General] mlee0921:
for facebook, yeah it asked for the new password, but for my k-9mail, it did not ask for a new password.
[Epic 4G General] mlee0921:
actually, thank you. i was just being impatient because i had changed my password on gmail and my replacement phone didnt ask for me to re-enter my password, but not it did. thank you!
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chrisz5z:
Well being that my Captivate is bricked im looking into getting another Galaxy S phone.

Between the Captivate, Vibrant, and I9000....which would you choose?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] r3ferrei:
In my opinion the captivate because of the high class look and feel of the device. The rest of the galaxy s line looks cheap. This is the only one that stands out.

If not the captivate, then the i9000 or epic because of the front facing camera. The included software is moot because of rom flashing.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] eviling:
i have a captivate my self, but the vibrant is easier to hold. but really it doesn't matter. but since your getting a new phone, might be a good idea to go with something else, the galaxy s is already dated, the 4g mytouch is nice, the g2, theres the droid x, droid 2, epic, evo. all amazing phones, the droid x is personally my faverate of the lot, well the evo is the galaxy s lol but flash + full keyboard = win.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rhiannon224:
Why don't you just send it to Samsung and have them flash it back to working order? Seems a bit extreme to buy a new phone, yours can't be that old. Also, have you tried everything? How do you know it's bricked? Did you even try a JIG? You have options. Hell if your gonna dump it that easily send it to me, I can always use a spare to flash, I'll cover the shipping costs, these phones can't be bricked.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MikeyMike01:
i9000 based on the abundance of ROMs, kernels, etc. , FM Radio, FFC, and freedom from AT&T.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fatttire:
This
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Xstop:
I9000 > Captivate > Vibrant

If AT&T didn't touch it, Captivate hands down.

Not to much into the 3gs look of the vibrant or I9000 though, front facing camera...ehhh, I don't need it.

But final decision should be up to you, and what you want.

And ditto what Rhiannon224 said... Are you sure your phone is completely bricked? Not to say you haven't tried everything...
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chrisz5z:
When i first messed up my phone and tried everything i could find then i started this thread -->http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=818347, and came to the conclusion that my only option is to try Samsung warranty.

What would you recommend i tell them when i call for warranty?....i doubt "Loading custom ROM" is covered in the warranty :D
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rhiannon224:
Blame the AT&T OTA update, it bricked a lot of phones and Samsung is aware, that is why we got Mini Kies. Samsung will probably just reflash it and you should be good. Also, I have read that this will fix the button combos that some didn't have. Perhaps you got a corrupt bootloader, a Samsung flash will fix it.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] koreancanuck:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=775911

I'm not sure if this will work.. just trying to give you another method to un-brick the device if possible.

If you really want to buy a device, I agree with one poster above. There are other phones just beside the Galaxy S line. MT4G looks very promising as do other phones. If I had to choose.. I'd say i9000 just because I like flashing too much.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chrisz5z:
I know this thread is over a month old but i figured i'd give an update.

The call with Samsung when smoothly and the rep didn't even question it when i told her it was because of an OTA update. Had to wait about 3 weeks to get my phone back and it was actually packaged more nicely than when i got it new. So overall i was impressed with Samsung.

Just to note, If any of you guys have to send your phone to Samsung....when you get the phone back let it charge for about 45 mins before turning it on. When i got it today and it didn't turn on while plugged into the charger (or from charging for bout 15 mins) i got pissed lol :D

Glad to have my phone back and thanks for all you guys input :)
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bames:
Wouldn't trade my cap for other versions. I have held the vibrant....fascinate....epic and thought they felt cheap and flimsy compared to that cqptivate
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mikey7436:
I just completely erased my phone back to stock. Now when I go to the market I can choose update all or allow automatic updating anymore?? Any one know why? Im running completely stock now, just like I was before.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] willcwells:
Were you running a custom rom? Had you installed the 2.2 market? Sounds like you had the 2.2 market and reverting to stock put the eclair market back. I would suggest DLing the market apk from the tips and tricks thread and installing it.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mikey7436:
I wasn't running any other rom but stock. I didn't even download the 2.2 market so I don't even know how I got it before
[Streak 5 General] oddbert:
hi there everyone.i just flashed 2.2 using fastboot.everything works fine and im well happy.anyway ive noticed that universal androot does not work for some reason.so i downloaded z4root of the market free and its works a treat.just thought id share.:)
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] suedeboogie:
the numbers and keys on my qwerty keyboard are either in the wrong place or not operable after i flashed my Tilt2 with the energy rom
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] sagarc88:
u have to install the keyboard settings for your phone. i think energy ROM has a carrier provisioning tool. it should in tools or something. try to use that for your carrier. if it still doesnt work, just look for keyboard settings. its everywhere in all threads. :)

EDIT: the carrier provisioning tool should definitely work. it should be in the tools folder. make sure u restart. and as forum policy.. please search before u post. if u just do a 'keyboard fix' search in the energy ROM thread, lot of posts come up which tells u this same thing.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] redpoint73:
It says right in the Energy ROM thread FAQs how to set the phone for the correct keyboard mapping.

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=4579513&postcount=6

Carrier Provisioning: There are many different carriers, and some require different provisioning. If you are experiencing issues such as sending/receiving SMS/MMS, or your physical keyboard is not mapped corrected, you MAY need to provision for your carrier. For AT&T and T-Mobile, go to Start > Tools > Carrier Provisioning and select your carrier.
[Streak 5 Themes and Apps] jdmadonna:
I upgraded to Froyo yesterday and was sad to see that the native wallpaper selector for the streak was gone. You now have to crop your image and lose some of it in landscape mode. I happen to fool around with a couple of apps and have found a solution. You need to have ADW Launcher and WallSwitch, both available in the market for free. In ADW Launcher you can choose how the screen display is used. Check the function to disable wallpaper scrolling between screens, this will keep the image centered when you scroll left or right. That's pretty much it for that app. Next, in WallSwitch, make sure your settings are set to auto for Processing Method. That's it!! You can choose to have your wallpapers change automatically, and at different intervals if you like, just an added bonus if you like to have something different displayed frequently, or just turn off auto-switch to keep the same image all of the time.

oh! I almost forgot... very important... in order for your image to show up full screen with these settings, you need to have your image file resolution set at 800x378. I know it sounds weird, but after much fiddling, I have found that it is the perfect size so the app will auto crop and make the image full screen.

Hope this is of help to anyone who would like to try it.
[Streak 5 Themes and Apps] cue_32:
actually 960X800 is the size I use and it fits perfectly....
[Streak 5 Themes and Apps] cue_32:
here's a couple I use
[Streak 5 Themes and Apps] ipguy:
mine
[Streak 5 Themes and Apps] jdmadonna:
How are you getting it to go full screen using the stock selector? I can only select a portion of the picture?
[Streak 5 Themes and Apps] Keethos:
I think I've figured this out, the stock selector selects images that are 960x800 (well of that ratio anyways) but when in landscape mode, you only see the top half of the image, thats because the stock selector is catering for both landscape and portrait, so if you turn your phone to portrait mode, then you'll see the whole picture (plus swiping to the sides).

While it is in landscape mode, it is only displaying an image that is 960x480 (if using an image that is 960x800), so if you create a wallpaper that is 960x800, but then have the main image of what you want in the top of the image that is about 960x480, then when on the phone, you select the whole image, you have the main part of the image appear in full in landscape mode.

Example, see the image attached, the area in the box and above the coloured line is what will appear on the phone in landscape mode....however when you turn it in portrait mode, for this picture, you have a white strip across the bottom. Hope this helps people.
[Streak 5 Themes and Apps] Keethos:
The question is, is there anyway of getting the UI to show the bottom half of the image instead of the top? (Using Launcher Pro Plus)

I have more decent images with something that is along the bottom that I do that is along the top if you know what I mean.
[Streak 5 Themes and Apps] Keethos:
Thought I'd Share

Thought I'd share my current wallpaper, managed to find these two images that has most detail along the top half of the image (bar the Aston, I had to mod it slightly :D). Again, these are 960x800 images but I've made sure that the main part of the image is within the 960x480 of the image. Oh and for some reason, when the phone is locked or in the clock dock mode, the wallpaper shifts to the middle of the image too, proper weird!
[Streak 5 Themes and Apps] umair239:
Download JustPictures app from the market, it lets you set the wallpaper without any cropping, i am official froyo and its working perfect and so far I am able to set any picture as my full screen wallpaper, hope that helps....
[Streak 5 Themes and Apps] Keethos:
Just tried this app and I'm still stuck with the square crop box, is there anything in particular you are doing to change this? I find the picture I want, press the menu button, then choose "use picture as..." then "set as wallpaper" and then I have a crop box appear.
[Streak 5 Themes and Apps] Spectre51:
Getting the same thing, it still crops it.
[Streak 5 Themes and Apps] rvbarton:
Very nice download! Thanks for sharing!
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] eunkipark92:
Ok.. so i thought this was weird.

i was having wifi problem. not being able to get connected or even see the networks on my phone.

CM6.1 and superhybrid 2.11 does not have problem its just when you flash a theme or kernel it start causing problem (FOR ME IN MY CASE, i dont know about you), and wifi eventually stops working.

currently i am running lastest radio korean version.

Whenever i flash a wild monk or other kernels on CM6.1 wifi stops working

When i flashed the stock theme that was provided on the op from superhybrid 2.1.1 the wifi stopped working.

i just thought it was weird and wanted to know if any of you guys are experiencing same problem as me.

Let me know Thanks!
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] danger-rat:
I've tried a few WildMonks on CM 6.1 nightlies, and don't have any wifi problems...
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] eunkipark92:
which version are u using.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] danger-rat:
CM 250 nightly, and I think the WildMonks is:

2.6.35.8_AVS-925mV-CM_CFS_20101116_2329.zip

Its listed as #154 in the About Phone info (don't know why they never make the file name the same as the version info)