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[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ahsm:
Hi guys!

Maybe someone can help me. I did everything as instructed in the link provided to androidforums. First I flashed with JPM and 803 pit but before I even tried to flash to yoak it would just keep restarting, no swiggly Samsung animation, just straight to the screen where it says Samsumg and the model number and it kept rebooting to that. Second, I tried JH2 and 512 pit and the same scenario. What other combinations can I try? Is there anything I can do? Please help me! :(
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] neoalucard666:
If you have access to download mode, just flash yaok right after flashing jpm.

Tonight I will try the format options in CWM.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ahsm:
JPM is 2.2, right? I had 2.2 and it had the sd card issue. What do you mean flash yaok right after? After it finishes flashing it has the restart right? Do I need to remove the usb cable right after flashing with JPM or JH2 and the pit file and I need to restart Odin right? It just keeps rebooting. :(

EDIT: This is my first time doing something like this, is there a detailed guide? Excuse my nubness please.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nemethb:
Didn't work for me. I still have the boot loop.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Stiffler's Mom:
My Froyo 2.2 kies update lasted 5 mins before several force-closures. Powered off. Reboot got as far as the Galaxy S splash screen, then black screen. Menu and Back buttons remained lit if pressed. Could not formal internal SD as I too got the 'can't mount dev block mmcblk0p1' message.

Dropped it off today at Bell for repair. Oddly enough, they only noted the hung black screen in the repair order. I repeatedly noted my suspicion that the SD Card is defective as it couldn't be formatted. Meh. I asked for new hardware rather than a flash fix. Meh. We'll see what I get back.

Unrooted, no lag fix.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] quaff:
Yeah this just happened to me too. I've been using JK3 for a few weeks now perfectly. Decided to downgrade to JH2 then upgrade to JK4 through kies (can't find the download anywhere for odin), 2 hours later, the phone started force closing on me when I connected it to ADB. Wtf. It's dead again. I took it back previously to get repairs. Looks like I'm going to have to do that again. This is ridiculous.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] adamge:
You guys ever come across a Canadian bill ($5, $10, $20) with a stamp on it that says 'track this bill at yyyy.com?' We should start doing that with Galaxys. There should be a website where you search by your current Galaxy's serial number, and then note down where you are located and the date you have the phone. Then when someone gets their second, third, fourth... Galaxy, they can see where that phone has been.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] archangelz:
Joined the club. Flashed to 2.2 and phone SD fried after 4 days. Things seemed laggy then everything FCed. Luckily I had only bought a few days before and returned it to the store for an immediate replacement. Bad thing is I reflashed the new phone with 2.2 thinking I had a defective phone the first time.

Feel like I'm sitting on a time bomb right now.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tony604:
I know that feeling... on my 3rd Galaxy S. I apparently don't learn the first or second time :s

1st one went bad.

Sent 1st one out for repair, Bought 2nd one.

Sold 1st one when it came back from repair

2nd one crapped out.

Bought 3rd one, which is still alive for now

2nd one still out for repair and will be sold on arrival.

Third time's a charm right??
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] archangelz:
Are you sure you don't want to sell your third one and keep the second one when it gets back? From what I've been reading its a manufacturing defect with the internal SD cards aggrevated by the data writing from the upgrade, so any phone that's made it back from the factory should be better off than one off the shelf.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] quaff:
This isn't really the case. I had mine repaired previously, and upgraded to JK4 on the repaired phone. I still had the same internal SD card issue after upgrading to JK4.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Hachi_Roku:
I have an i9000m in the US. I've had the phone since about august 20 something or so. Is there any way I can send it in for repair directly to samsung; my SD just gave out this morning?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] archangelz:
That's not promising, so they're replacing the defective components with more of the same thing? Wonder why they're doing that. With the number of defects coming it I would expect them to make some hardware adjustments to mitigate secondary returns.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] archangelz:
You should just be able to take it to a samsung depot for repairs. There are lots locally in the US.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] D.C1986:
Ok guys. I have a situation i don't know if it is a sign of my internal SD is F'ing up...

I didn't have any problem with JK4. However, after i installed the OCLF the phone started to become very unstable. So I remove the OCLF. I was not able to uninstall the EXT 2 file. Then after that my phone freezes frequently and went to the black screen. but i was able to restart it and everything. but then as the day go by the problem becomes more frequent.

So i did a factory Reset, clear cache, and format internal SD. Currently, it doesn't have any problem right now .. but what you guys think ? did those who have a internal SD problem had similar problem ?

oh I have also rooted my phone, but i dont think that is a problem right..
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Hachi_Roku:
I woke up this morning installed some app updates and then a whole series of force close errors started. I power cycled and all my apps were gone.

Two weeks ago It had randomly shut off and wouldn't boot, I did a restore with CWM and everything was fine until today.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] can3gxw:
Here's the latest update from Samsung Canada as per their Facebook page:

Looks like Samsung is finally officially accepting the problem and possibly trying to figure it all out! Remains to be seen, however, what the final outcome will be.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] trdcameleon:
Damn! I was on JK3 still 3-4 weeks and everything was fine!! I installed Z4Root and Z4mod and it was fine for 2 weeks.. now, when I go into recovery mode, I cannot see my sd card (no SD card format option)!!!

I flash with UGJH2 and I will go to the Bell Store tomorrow!!

I'm thinking to switch with a iPhone 4!! :S
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] emdoe:
SD Card Failed on JH2 and JK4

My second Galaxy S just died. I just would like to share my experience to help people.

First one purchased in Mid Aug (Manufactured date was June). This was updated to JH2 as it was available (some time in Sept?). After two weeks with JH2, it slowed down with many apps and widgets and finally crashed and stop working.

Fatory reset to JH2. This time apply rooting and OCLF. Flying fast and very satisfied until mid November.

All of sudden, phone died with SD Card failure after all (stuck at "S" logo then blank screen). Tried 3 button reset and flash with other firmware using ODIN, but no luck.

Send in for repair on Nov 22. After a week I started pressuring bell store to get it back from repair. They told me that the repair was pending parts. I kept bugging them next several days. They sent a few emails to Samsung repair shop in Richmond. It helped, Samsung decided to send me a new (or refurb) one instead of keep waiting on parts.

I was able to hold my new phone in three weeks (Dec 13). It came with JH2. The manufacture date on the phone was Aug instead of June. Fingers cross.

Another problem started. Could not get on the network at the store. It was system back end issue (not a problem with the phone). It took 3 days to get my network back for voice and data after extensively talking to technical support (Dec 15).

I upgraded to Froyo right away (JK4) and rooted but no lag fix. I was happy with performace of Froyo. However this morning it died again within 48 hours with Froyo (inifinite loop at "Galaxy S" logo). It seemed to be another SD Card failure.

I went to the same store and show it to the store clark. I told him if the problem is related to SD Card again, I won't wait for another three weeks. Phone must be exchanged in place!! I told him that I was going to try flash at home and let him know.

At home, I tried flash with JH2. Then the same symtom as the first phone happened (stuck at "S" logo then blank screen). I just tried possible solution by sp3c5. (JPM & Yaok)

http://androidforums.com/samsung-galaxy-s/235987-clueless.html

No luck.

I concluded with two symtoms for SD Card failure:

1. with 2.1 - stuck at "S" logo then blank screen.

2. with 2.2 - inifinite loop at Galaxy S logo.

I am sending the phone again tomorrow. I will request for new one in place or wait for only 2~3 days max for them to confirm the hardware (SD CARD) failure. I won't wait for "pending parts".

Will let you guys know how it goes...
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tienshi:
I'm based in BC and I sent mine in on Dec 1st. I just got it back on the 16th. From what I understand, they thought it was going to take longer pending parts, but the parts had come in recently to Richmond. Hopefully their supplies are still up and will have it repaired quickly for you. Just and FYI :)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] alexbob1318:
I've just had the same problem here :(

Damn thing is that I'm Australian and purchased the Bell version from an online store.

Is there the original Bell 2.1 or 2.2 ROM that we could try flashing on with Odin? Because then it'd be the official software so it would still be OK with warranty?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gtg2:
You cam pick up jh2 (2.1) from samfirmware.con
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] trdcameleon:
it's so frustrating that I think I will ask Bell to replace my SGS by an iPhone 4!! Never have an iPhone, but never heard a similar problem with apple!

I bought mine mid september! Go to JK3 root and lagfix with no prob for 2 weeks..

Same thing here

JK3 - S logo then black screen

JK4 - reboot in loop
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vancouver_hawk:
Vancouver, Canada. Sent my Galaxy S on December 10th and got it back on December 17th :). Internal sd and camera replaced...
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] miniflight:
u guys r soo lucky to get them back soo quickly lol

i sent in on dec 10 and the status said that repair parts r being backordered, expected to arrive on jan 06
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kaiser__sose:
I sent mine in for repair on Dec 10th and today my status says in transit back to store! hopefully by Monday it's ready for pick-up
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
So did you get the same phone back or are they changing the whole front panel?? Because I was reading somewhere that they were replacing the whole phone so ppl who had scratches and dents on the screen previously, got it back brand new with no scratches.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Spudsicles:
My phone just died... stuck in the infinite logo loop. So is it confirmed that the infinite logo loop is the internal card SD failure on 2.2?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] story:
I got mine back from repair. I updated to 2.2 Froyo before it was available on Bell.

Same phone, same ESN, it was still unlocked when I got it back.

I wonder what they fixed.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] alexbob1318:
Hey guys

Has anyone worked out whether this is a hardware or software issue?

I'm getting a brand new replacement Galaxy S Vibrant (Bell) sent down to me in Australia after mine died within 48 hours of receiving it. I won't be putting Froyo on it, I'll keep with 2.1 for now.

However, I'm pretty freaked out about doing many things on the phone in case it is a hardware issue. If it is, what do you guys think Samsung will do about it?

Living down here in Oz it's a bit harder for me to just walk into a Bell Canada store so obviously replacements & repairs are a bit harder :P
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] quadracer111:
What a joke....

Today my SGS died too, force closed a bunch of things, restarted it and it was stuck in a black screen. Internal sd died. I just flashed froyo about a week ago, really buggy and slow, the 2.1 with lag fixed was wayyy better. I undid the lag fix, and unrooted before flashing just to be safe.

Went and stood at a jump.ca store for 3 hours, and what did I get for a loner phone?? A freaking dinosaur motorola flip. Unreal. I asked for a phone that can do email (for my business), but no, F this.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zumi78878:
guys, how do i track the status of my repair for my samsung galaxy s? i sent it in, through a bell world store but they gave me no numbers or anything. just an invoice and the invoice #
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 4thought:
http://www.bell.ca/support/PrsCSrvWls_MgAcSrMobility_Eform.page
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ssj2miguelx:
Wow... how is that possible?!?!? I am noob so I dont know, but common knowledge tells me if the SD died, know did they know it was unlocked and that there was a fast fix?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ahsm:
My SGS does the infinite loop as well. I would like some clarification in regards to the above quote.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] seeARMS:
Boot into recovery. If you get the error "E:Can't mount /dev/block/mmcblk0p1", then I believe the internal SD card is dead.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] miniflight:
I got my phone back, it is a new replacement (main phone, motherboard). It has different IMEI.

I sent on Dec 10 and got it back today Dec 23. So that is like 3 weeks, pretty fast. Though it would take longer, bought a backup phone lol.

Btw, they stole my screen protector :(.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] reeneebob:
I sent mine in 6 weeks ago, and today they updated the tracker to "phone being prepared for shipment to the customer"

Now, there is a post at atmobile.ca that indicates Bell and Samsung have temporarily suspended repairs and are sending new handsets, but you have to call Bell.

http: // www . atmobile . ca/2010/12/bell-samsung-galaxy-s-vibrant-another-android-2-2-update-and-new-warranty-process/
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Moosterly:
man can't believe this SD card mount issue is so huge! Guess I'll share my story with you guys too. Truth be told I picked up my phone used (one of the first releases) and the previous owner had an early firmware from Europe in it that prevented me from accessing 3g networks. Since I was a noob at androids at the time, it took me about 2 weeks before my friend and I took a day to sit down and figure what was up with it. Installed one of the unofficial jk3 back in late Nov. and everything worked sweet! The phone was amazing with all its features working. However, in about a week i noticed applications like the camera failing when I had tried to boot it up. Only after turning the phone off / on is when the camera would work again. A day or 2 after that, I tried to load up movies onto the external SD card through Kies and after a few corruptions and freezes during the upload, it happend. At first the screen was locked with a pattern lock. To my surprise I put in the wrong pattern and it let me pass. Ofcourse my reaction was like 'wtf?!' I then purposely screen locked the phone and then not only my original pattern but my incorrect pattern woudln't work. The back up e-mail bypass woudln't even let me in. At that time, I was forced to turn the phone off and do a battery pull. Once that happened...that is when the phone decided to crap out and I was given the interal SD card won't mount info.

I'm a Rogers customer and using the phone unlocked and made the mistake of telling Samsung that i bought the phone used which automatically voids warrenty. Luckily though, I didn't provide them with the serial number so I had my buddy call in for me after that. After a month of delay and ofcourse with the holidays included the phone is finally to be sent in today.

I guess my biggest question at the moment is should I keep the phone when I get it back or just sell it? I am not sure if it will be repaired or replaced (realized this was an option after reading some of these threads). Is it common that the repaired ones have failed again? Your responses are appreciated. Thanks
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lgkahn:
everybody who is selling these.. you are just passing of the problem to some unsuspecting person.. can you really do that in good conscience
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AllGamer:
it's a 50/50 chance to get a brand new phone, or you might just get your old phone back repaired

and then from that outcome, you have yet another 50/50 chance to see if you got a good replacement, or a new replacement with faulty internal SD
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ssj2miguelx:
How to bring your phone back from the dead!

Dude,

Just if you have Bell I9000M just attempt to update your phone to JL2. This ROM does bring back phones from the dead. If this has no luck for you (even though I believe it will work ), the next best thing is to deal with Samsung directly; do not go to Bell. Samsung has really great costumer service and they will take care of you. Here is how to update your phone to JL2 because JK4 is bricking phones - thread. Here is also the link to get your phone replaced if you cannot get your phone back from the dead - thread.

Let us know how it goes. :)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Moosterly:
Oh don't get me wrong...i'm not trying to shove a problem to someone else. After all, when I get the phone back it'll be fixed or replaced. So the phone will be in working order again. I'm just one of those guys that's very attached to my phone so its got to be reliable and long lasting. When the SGS went down, I wouldn't be able to go online or accessing my e-mails for days and sometimes weeks cause I'm always on the run and seldomly home. By the time I get home i'm exhausted so after dinner I just crash. It doesn't help that my company has webmail, social networking and all blocked too. I am thinking about going back to blackberry seeing my last berry lasted me 3 years with no hardware issues.

To answer the next question, I have tried flashing between older roms and although successful; still no luck. SD card just would not mount. Oh well, it's been sent in already. Hopefully I get it back soon cause life without a smartphone has become difficult for me sadly to say =( When I get it back, I may opt to go back with a berry or just wait till the next gen. of smartphones get released.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xaav bp:
Mine too died :(
[Nook Color General] Sirchuk:
$375 base price up to $550 with a trans-reflective display and 4g. I'm really tempted to return the nook and pre-order the Adam. I've been interested in it since it was first announced.

Dual core NVIDIA Tegra2, the transflective display (Pixel Qi), 185 degree swivel camera, HDMI port, connectivity options, storage options, and Adobe Air and Flash support.

Even $499 for the Pixel Qi display is probably worth while. If I remember right, it's a 10" tablet.

Thoughts?
[Nook Color General] plympton:
Definately wouldn't get it without the Pixel-Qi screen - as the regular LCD is most likely NOT IPS, so the quality is going to be unknown (random). I think Pixel-Qi is supposed to be quite good.

Any hard specs about the size, weight, resolution, ports, etc? I couldn't even see if it's running Android - looks like it's Linux + Skin (Eden)
[Nook Color General] Sirchuk:
I think it's Android 2.2 with heavy customization, they are comparing it to 3.0? I'm not entirely sure. There's isn't a comprehensive list of specs for it yet as far as I know, hopefully as the pre-order kicks in there will be more details. For $125 more than the NC I will jump at it, and likely jump at the Pixel Qi screen instead of the standard LCD at $499.
[Nook Color General] stwallman:
I wouldn't go anywhere near that thing yet. Nobody has ever seen a physical device yet (not even a video).
[Nook Color General] techboydino:
thats just crazytalk. check the blog. its there. videos a plenty from CES a year ago. i wrote about it here if you care to see.

im preordering in about 1 minute.
[Nook Color General] xwint3rxmut3x:
I've been following it's development pretty closely and there's no doubt it's a sexy device. I kept having an internal dispute between me really wanting all the specs/ features in the Adam vs me really wanting a 7 inch tablet. Luckily for me the $50 price hike on the wifi only pixel qi just knocked it out of my price range. I'll be watching closely to see how it fares against the Q1 tablets that are going to rain down like hellfire. Good luck Adam Tablet.
[Nook Color General] techboydino:
the prices are actually lower than originally stated. what do you mean price hike? :confused:
[Nook Color General] devis:
Which 3G? I bet it'll be the ATT 3G...
[Nook Color General] techboydino:
From the blog, all the answers you want right there.

The Pricing

If you remember I explained that it’s possible that we would be able to cut the price of one of the variants further. So here is the confirmation! You know we have 6 variants : LCD (wi-fi only), LCD + 3G -900 series, LCD + 3G -850 series, Transflective (Wi-Fi only), Transflective + 3G -900 series, Transflective + 3G -850 series.

Earlier we told you that the first version will start at $399. But now the LCD Wi-Fi version will start at $375.33 and 3G version at $425.33 (for limited period?). Transflective version (Pixel Qi) will start at $499.45 for Wi-Fi only and 3G variants at $549.99 (2 variants in 3G, 900 series and 850 series which takes the variant numbers to 6!). (For specifications please see our website).
[Nook Color General] xwint3rxmut3x:
Pixel qi was originally supposed to be $50 more than the $399 model. So while the cheapest model is cheaper, and there is suddenly two more models, the pixel qi is more expensive than initially announced.

"In SlashGear’s extensive look at the Notion Ink Adam tablet we’ve all been waiting for, their tipster has purportedly confirmed pricing and a launch window. There will be an LCD version with WiFi only that will cost $399.99, $449.99 for the 3G model + LCD or for WiFi only + Pixel Qi display, and $498 for the Pixel Qi + 3G version. The tablet will be available either December of this year or Q1 of 2011, depending on testing and FCC approval." From August 12th
[Nook Color General] PJE66:
The device from CES was basically a LCD in a case with the NVidia Tegra 2 development board!

I think I'll wait for the device to become available and fully evaluated before ordering.
[Nook Color General] devis:
The blog doesn't have a search function. But it's a pretty nice collection of info.

Found the 3G elsewhere... and it isn't very intuitive either, unless you're familiar with GSM frequencies. Need to look at the version numbers. One's a 850 - ATT the other's a 900 - rest of the world.

No any other USA providers.
[Nook Color General] Sirchuk:
Yeah, AT&T only kills the 3G for me, though I don't think I would ever use it anyways.

Hmm, to return the nook and wait for Adam reviews, or to keep the nook and...I don't know. Wish they had sent out demo units to reviewers.
[Nook Color General] discourse:
I waited all year but after tasting sthe sweet IPS screen of the Nook Color and iPad, I have no use for it. I'm looking forward to a MeeGo tablet some time next year though. If they can get that Clear Black Display Amoled on it then I'm sold.