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[Galaxy S I9000 General] arr0ww:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=883820

Follow this post and file a complaint. I would then call Bell and ask them where your phone is.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Karmalina:
So this morning I received a call from a Bell representative regarding the Froyo update.

She basically told me that they expected 2.2 to be re-released for Bell customers again in the next few days.

The call was following up on an mms issue that I opened	a ticket for early November (my phone was unable to receive mms messages from some people, which was resolved by Froyo).

She insisted that the issue was a software problem. If I hadn't been woken up 2 hours into my post night shift sleep I would have picked her brain more, but I was barely conscious at the time.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] haloimplant:
JL2 thread says it is now up on Kies?

Should be interesting to see if it still bricks many phones.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] omnicronx:
We can only hope :)

On a happy note, it seems I'm not going to have to wait 5-6 weeks, so I wonder if Samsung has got their act together.

My phone was completely dead and is now being reported as 'Phone is in transit to store.' on the bell tracking site.. I only brought my phone in Saturday the 11th (11 days ago), so it seems like a quick turnaround compared to others in the past.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] darrenweiner:
Can I suggest that everyone whose internal SD died to email Bell's executive office.

executive.office@bell.ca

My phone crapped out on me on Nov 22. It has been at the Samsung repair depot ever since awaiting parts (I assume a new SD card). Bell gave me a crappy Omnia II as a loaner for $25.

This past Monday, I sent Bell's executive office a very nice polite email stating that it was unreasonable for such a long repair time and that I was paying for data plan that I could not use because Omnia sucks for anything but phone calls and email.

Today, I received a call from Bell apologizing for the delay in the repair and they will be refunding my data plan for the next 3 months ($90). Bell also said that they tracked down my repair and the phone is on its way back to the Bell store for me to pick up hopefully tomorrow.

At the end of the day, I'm not happy that the phone crapped out on me but at least Bell did the right thing by agreeing to refund my data for 3 months. I would recommend people to email Bell with a polite professional email.

Good Luck!!!!
[Galaxy S I9000 General] evil-doer:
so does anyone here have a repair tracking number for the bell site?

is it 10 digits? if someone could give me the first 6 or 7 digits maybe it would be helpful in figuring out what the hell this moron did to screw up the number. a private message would be fine.

thanks.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Samdroid_G_S:
Its on the receipt they print out and give to you when you bring your phone in and if your a bell customer you can just use your cell phone #.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] archangelz:
Yea... I really really hope this is just a low level SD driver issue that corrupts SD cards. If it is, we can just get this flashed and no biggie after that.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] evil-doer:
its not on my invoice and im not a bell customer.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] raylee4204:
my phone died on Dec 13th

I sent off my phone through Bell at Fairview mall in Toronto on Dec 16th

my repair status now says:

Parts required to repair phone are backordered. Delivery of parts expected on 20110112 .
[Galaxy S I9000 General] silentalarm:
I am so lost. I never thought updating could be so complicated... Anyways I'm wondering if ANY 2.2 roms are safe for the i9000m. I'm interested in Darky's v7.0 Gingerbread Edition rom. Will it cause internal sd issues? Can someone point me in the right direction. Thanks
[Galaxy S I9000 General] YG007:
Wow, no replies?? The first few digits I got are: 05014259xx
[Galaxy S I9000 General] cytherean:
I'm interested in that ROM as well. Any bell customers tried flashing that after getting their phone back from repair? Hoping that it doesn't cause any further internal SD issues but it if it does, better sooner than later (i guess).
[Galaxy S I9000 General] evil-doer:
nope, you were the first. thank you for the reply.

the number the guy at bell gave me is nothing like that. i guess ive gotta call back if i want it.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] geeboi88:
hi all, i need some help if possible. i'm trying to recover my files before i send in my phone. after a odin flash and oneclikc root i've finally been able to access adb. i can adb pull but i don't know where my files are. i tried /sdcard but i think that's only pulling the main partition (the 1gb partition). does anyone know how i would pull the other partition?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] geeboi88:
please does anyone know how to adb pull the secondary partition of the internal sd? i did a "adb pull /" which got me all of the system files. but i don't think this is accessing the secondary partition. i feel like i'm so close to recovering them.. yet so far...:(
[Galaxy S I9000 General] BlackDino:
Try flashing jL2 I hear it fixes the internal ad problems

http://xdaforums.com/forumdisplay.php?f=657
[Galaxy S I9000 General] tilallr1:
I just got:

So that means it will take over a month to get my brand new phone back. :mad: Anyone know though if this is good news? Are the parts suppose to fix the phone permanently?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Kewjoe:
What Manuf. date was your phone? (behind the battery). I haven't seen any recent fixes (replaced motherborads) that came back with issues. But that isn't conclusive.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Kewjoe:
Not sure if this is good news or bad news.

I dropped my phone off for repair on December 13th. A few days later I got the "the parts required to repair are back ordered until 01-11-2011"

I just checked today and now I'm getting

"The current status of your repair is:

Phone is being processed for shipment to the store."

I really hope I got parts replaced and that the problem is permanently solved. Whoever else has had a back-ordered parts status, should check again. I wasn't expecting a change until mid-January.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] tilallr1:
Didn't record it before I submitted in for repair. The interesting thing to note, was that the phone my wife received as a replacement, had some things that looked different than the other 3 I have seen. There was this sort of blue/green shielding material near the sim card and sd card area. Anyone else see this? So far her phone has been working with Froyo 2.2 since about the 8th of December. Unlike mine that both didn't have that and fried in about a week. Each one.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] tilallr1:
It could be they just saw it would take too long and are sending you a new phone. The repair guy at the Bell store said he saw a lot of new phones being sent out instead of repairs. So you might not have the problem fixed. Which sucks. Better check to see what they did when you get the phone back.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] evil-doer:
that sounds encouraging. mine went in on the 13th as well. tho i have no idea what the status is. maybe ill call in again and hope for someone who speaks english properly
[Galaxy S I9000 General] jcdsilva:
Mine went in on the 12th and last night changed to processing for shipment to the store. Too bad I fly out for Xmas tomorrow morning... Have to wait till I get back to get my phone.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Kewjoe:
Btw, my repair order # is 10 digits all numbers. Starts with 05
[Galaxy S I9000 General] dawgpound6985:
Define recent. Mine was "fixed" about 2 weeks ago and it crapped out again. They said they replaced the PBA.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] EddieLND:
My phone went away for service on November 7th for this problem, I was getting a blkmmc01 error or something along those lines signifying that the internal couldn't mount.

My phone came in to the store yesterday, but I'm in Nova Scotia for Christmas and my phone is in Ontario. Luckily, I managed to get a loaner from them after 5 weeks...
[Galaxy S I9000 General] evil-doer:
oh jeez. on a hunch i just punched that tracking number the bell guy gave me into purolator.com...

yep. he gave me the god damn tracking number from where it came from bell to future tel via purolator.

at least i know future tel got it on the 17th i guess. what an idiot.

i also see that bell world at upper canada mall in newmarket sat on the phone for 3 days before they delivered it.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Kewjoe:
That certainly is not encouraging :(
[Galaxy S I9000 General] YG007:
Yeah, the same thing happened to me in the beginning of november. I got my phone back on Nov. 2nd, saying that the PBA has been replaced. Then it breaks again on Nov. 28th.

I really hope that Samsung released a new revision of the MB this time.

--EDIT--

I just checked my status on the bell site. It says that the "Phone is being processed for shipment to the store." Hopefully they replaced the mobo and not a reflash like the other 2 times I brought it in...
[Galaxy S I9000 General] deezy7:
Fan-effing-tastic. New motherboards still getting fried.....maybe we should start another post, asking who got new motherboards, what date it was, and if they still got fried.

This isn't looking good and more and more likely that I will have to sell this off when I get it back :( Too bad cuz I LOVE this phone. Why did we in Canada on Bell have to get stuck with the one I9000 that got screwed over :( :( :(
[Galaxy S I9000 General] zshakespeare:
I got a new motherboard, back in september after the first time my SD got fried (on 2.1), and it died last week.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] jcdsilva:
I just got off the phone with someone from the Bell Executive Office. They called me as a result of a tweet I made voicing my dissatisfaction.

https://twitter.com/#!/Bell_News/status/17268175716483072

The fellow I spoke to acknowledged that there is a problem, and that they are working with Samsung to drive a resolution. He said it's related to Froyo, but didn't have any specific information about the cause of the issue.

I got the fee for the loaner phone credited back to me, and I got an assurance that once I get my Vibrant back if there's any further issues or I'm not happy for any reason Bell will exchange my phone for any other phone they offer at no charge.

Really, the only thing I want is to know that I'm not going to have to go through this again. I like my Vibrant, and I would like it to work properly. I don't really have any desire to move to a Desire Z. Since it's not realistic for them to make that guarantee the offer of a new phone of my choice at no cost is the best they can really do, and I'm satisfied with that offer.

They are going to get in touch with me again in 3 weeks. By then I will have my phone back (Phone is being processed for shipment to the store.) and hopefully Samsung has a new 2.2 out the door that doesn't brick phones.

If I still don't have a working Vibrant on 2.2 by then I'll have to seriously consider a move to the Desire Z.

So, the moral of the story is Bell is apparently listening now. Contact the Executive Office via the email or Twitter account above. They are personally contacting people and offering to make this right in any way they can.

Now, if Samsung would start pulling their weight then maybe we'd really be in business.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] evil-doer:
yet we've been seeing this phone bricked from 2.1 updates and general use, and ONLY this model of the phone is getting this type of bricking.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] deezy7:
Thanks for that...I've posted in the Montreal Service Center forum here asking for people to state when they got new motherboards that also fried. Because the center told me that they have made new ones, and since it's December now, you'd figure Samsung has figured this out by now damn.

I think Samsung is doing what they can, since they are sending out new and hopefully remanufactured motherboards, all under warranty. And they've pulled the 2.2 update, so they and/or Bell are working on that too. But I think definitely without our voices in the community that this would not be happening as fast or at all!!!
[Galaxy S I9000 General] jcdsilva:
I agree totally. There's more than just Froyo at work here.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] arr0ww:
Thanks!

I just emailed both the email from the twitter page and the Bell Executive Office.

I linked them to my CCTS thread, i will make sure to update if i get a response.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] tilallr1:
Thanks for this. I did contact them as well. Hopefully I will get a call back soon. In all truth an honesty, I doubt very much, from what I have been reading on this thread that Samsung has fixed the problem. I am positive, that within a short while your new phone will simply brick again. As I am afraid mine will as well. That's why I suggested avoiding this aggravation (Of setting up the phone for the 5th time) and just switch both my phones over the the HTC Desire Z. At least we know that it doesn't have any major defects and is running happily on Froyo 2.2.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] jcdsilva:
Yeh, but the thing is I don't want the Desire Z. I don't want the added bulk that thing has due to the keyboard. I wanted a nice, thin, andoid phone, not a bulky, heavy unit like the D Z.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] tilallr1:
But whatcha gonna do? In the end I just want Android 2.2 and a phone that works. ;) Bell can't offer me that with anything else they have. Can they?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] evil-doer:
werent people saying the memory controller is different in the bell vibrant? is that true or just a rumor?

if that was the case, its possible that the software in every single firmware has been incompatible with that controller and that the next specific bell vibrant 2.2 firmware will correct this.

but that also means that flashing custom firmwares (from other phones/networks) will probably NOT support the different memory controller.

thoughts?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] jcdsilva:
Yup. And that's the way they got us by the balls.

Maybe I get the DZ, unlock it, and swap with my Fiancee's Desire... She did originally want a hardware keyboard... ;)
[Galaxy S I9000 General] tilallr1:
Thats smooth thinking. ;)

Tell her its an upgrade too.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] aaronxvx:
I wish I had seen this sooner before buying the galaxy s on Saturday. It lasted me until Wednesday when it froze and then wouldn't restart without being loaded into recovery mode. The second time it happened it wouldn't mount the SD card when I tried to wipe it.

Prior to that happening I noticed the phone would freeze randomly and take screen shots after I tried to hit the back arrow touch key, and then the home button. However when I tried making screenshots intentionally I couldn't reproduce that action.

I took my phone into the Bell store today (in Charlottetown, PE) which is actually a franchise store, under the name The Rolling Phones. I had taken my sim out before going in because I figured I'd just get a replacement and the girl said this was the reason my phone wouldn't start. I told her no, and she said "yes it gets you on the network". So obviously I'm not dealing with anyone knowledgeable there as much as I am salespeople who are more than happy to take your money, but can't really help you. I showed her that putting the sim in makes no difference, and she agreed to replace the phone, which took an hour because apparently their servers can't handle the current traffic of people getting new phones,etc.

I asked her if anyone else brought this phone back, and she told me it was the first one they had, and when another employee there overheard and asked what the issue was, I told him it was the SD card and he said "oh yeah, another guy came in with that".

When I got the new phone today I asked her if I can switch to another one if the replacement messes up, and she said yes but within 14 days and not over 30 minutes.

The replacement has JK4 on it, and is apparently newer than the one I had so I hope that it a)actually works or b)messes up again within 2 weeks so I can switch to an HTC Desire, which I didn't want in the first place because of the fold out keyboard.

Fingers crossed.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] tilallr1:
Man isn't that fold out keyboard looking hotter and hotter every minute you read posts on this thread. ;)
[Galaxy S I9000 General] dawgpound6985:
Its definitely not Froyo. I picked up an i9000T around the same time I received my repaired i9000M as I was planning to give either phone to my gf. I flashed both in the very same ways: no lagfix, lagfix, Voodoo, Speedmod, and both had the same apps installed and used in the very same way as I alternated between the two while flashing ROMS on each.

My i9000T is still very alive and doing well. I actually flashed more on the i9000T because I experimented more on it as I was planning to keep the i9000M once I thought it was stable enough and give the i9000T to my gf. The i9000T actually felt more responsive and had at least 100 Quadrant points more than the i9000M with the same exact setup. The only thing the i9000M had better than the i9000T was the GPS (more solid locks) and bigger internal SD. The i9000T has been a pretty solid alternative so far.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] AllGamer:
there are pictures floating around here in the forum with the picture for the I9000M and the regular I9000 internals

and both of them shows different chip for the same 16GB part of the motherboard
[Galaxy S I9000 General] arr0ww:
Do you have a link to those?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] AllGamer:
it'll take a bit to dig them out, i vaguely remember some of them are in the Accessories section, and the rest is scattered within this forum, either general, or Dev, or QA

... so lets start with the ones that i do remember....

OMG! thanks lord for the Wiki :p

I9000M

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=796241

reference off site for the I9000 8GB

http://www.phonewreck.com/2010/08/19/samsung-galaxy-s-teardown/

additional resources from the Devil itself

http://www.samsung.com/global/business/semiconductor/products/fusionmemory/Products_MoviNAND.html

now lets try to dig the 16GB parts for the international I9000

you can try this one

http://www.careace.net/2010/06/09/disassembly-of-the-samsung-galaxy-s/

but the pictures are not closeup enough like the other 2
[Galaxy S I9000 General] evil-doer:
so ya it could just be as simple as a driver problem. but WHY did we get a different memory/controller?

and how modular are these drivers? can people build custom firmwares and drop in the different memory controller driver into our build easily enough?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] arr0ww:
Well im getting my phone back today, only gone for 1 week. They did a reflash and its back to 2.1. Guy at Bell said they are waiting on Samsung for a fix for the 2.2 software.

Im going to stress the crap out of the SD Card and see if i can get it to fail on me. Any tips to what i can do? Going to dump a HD movie on and off the SD card over and over.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] que3jxp:
Go and in stall BeyondPod and download all the podcasts you can find and then delete them and then DL them again.

My phone is being shipped back now so I should have it in the next week or so (The one time the holidays suck). When I am in the store, I plan on totally setting everything up and restarting several times before I leave. If it dies, I am demanding a whole new one and if that dies, then I am going to suck it up and go to a DZ.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] tilallr1:
I believe someone said to start recording HD video. That fills up your card pretty fast and you don't waste data or minutes. Also, puts more stress on the card than anything else I believe. Try that and get back to us.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] arr0ww:
Sounds good i will try that tonight when i get home. Are there any options i need to check to ensure its in HD?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] bestbeancounter:
Just called Samsung and they've emailed me a shipping label to be sent away to fix. I didn't have to go through Bell which is good since I bought this phone privately.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] tilallr1:
I believe that is the default setting. 720p/1080i. You can of course go into the settings to see if there is anything else that can add fodder to the fire. But I think you just need to switch it over to Video record and start recording anything ... a wall ... whatever ... till the card is filled. Then play it back. See what happens.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] YG007:
Dont even play it back. After you fill the card, copy the file to your PC. If it copies over, then you know the data is good. Then erase the file on the phone, repeat.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] tilallr1:
Reboot the phone several times too in between, and while the SD card is full.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] TriC_101:
I wonder what chip they are using in the i9000m Vs the Captivate since they are both 16GB and the Captivate has no issues.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] neiu:
update on my phone. Just picked it up today after sending it in a week ago. My phone was replaced and I now have a new imei. So glad to have it back. I know I'm one of the lucky ones to get it back so soon and have it replaced and not repaired. Just an observation my sd and sim slots are colored blue not like the original silver on my previous phone. Anyway goodluck to everyone else with theirs.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] can6rxw:
No to good luck to us...it's good luck to you! Hope you have no issues!!!
[Galaxy S I9000 General] can6rxw:
I'm currently loving the Legend Hell...I mean Bell sent me. It's making me drool a little over the DZ. But...unforutunately, the Galaxy S is a far superiour phone than the DZ...I'd be taking a step backwards. Then again, if it works, then it's all good! Ah the questions I'm asking that I NEVER thought I'd ask when I ponied up the money for the SGS!
[Galaxy S I9000 General] arr0ww:
Can you please let us know the build date and the firmware version.

If you are willing try and stress out the sd card by recording a tonne of HD video and dumping it to your computer.

Thanks!
[Galaxy S I9000 General] adamge:
You are severely naive if you think these phone dealerships care about providing you with quality service.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Norgando:
Bell makes you fight for just about everything. I frequently have to reference previous calls, date and time and promise made, to ensure they deliver. In this case, I had to push for a loaner phone at no charge...lucky me, compared to some on here it would seem.

Nice to find fellows-in-arms on this great forum. Thanks for contributing and creating avenues to fight this bs such as the petition and complaint form!

My phone is in transit. I dearly hope mine isn't merely flashed leaving me feeling like I'm back in October, waiting for 2.2 again...and with that same sense of owning a faulty device (that freezes and dies here and there!). I'm in Vancouver, btw, anyone else get theirs back lately with good news? (i.e. didn't take long/had it replaced)

One other thing, a bit off topic maybe, but has anyone else had no luck in getting the phone to connect to the tv with headphone jack to rca? I've got more to say about this if anyone's interested. I actually added that comment on my Bell repair form, so we'll see if it's addressed
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Lokks:
Man mine has started lagging and FC on some apps. I am seriously considering the Fascinate...cannot think of any other 4 inch phone here in canada with a Super Amoled screen. The way things are going I think I can do without the front facing camera.

Is there any difference between the vibrant and fascinate apart from the front facing camera and the flash?