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[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AllGamer:
It died after JK4

OMG!

WOW! here's an irony...

phone was originally JG9, went to JH2 no problem, updated from JH2 to JH2+SPL fix no problem, when from JH2 SPL fix to JK3 no problem....

now after upgrading from JK3 to official JK4 toasted, during when i was restoring all the stuff back from Titanium Backup

it got stuck several times, rebooted the phone a few times, now it's totally black screen, and with the soft key lid, but doing nothing :eek::confused:

I can go into both Recovery and or Download modes

I can flash back to any version of ROM i want, but always get the dreadful message /dev/block/mmcblk0p1

.... sigh... :( time to dig out the invoice and go to the store for repair
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Frostshock:
And as if on cue, there it goes. Unlocked phone, one of my widgets was screwed up, then black screen. Reboot, black screen. And of course today is the day I finally root it, but if it can't start they can't tell so ha :p

I am not willing to submit to dead SD yet though. This phone has been working since August 6th. I'll try wiping everything that can be wiped in recovery mode.

Edit: Nope, it's completely dead. I have the smartphone protection plan though, so I can "lose" this phone and get a brand new one for $150. Although preferably they give me a replacement then and there or a Desire Z. I do not want to leave the store tomorrow without a permanent replacement.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] d3a:
Ive upgraded to 2.2 through kies and im going its all going fine for the past 12 hours... lets hope this doesnt jinx it!
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] contalyst:
Good luck on a permanent replacement... Unless you opt to buy a new SGS via the protection plan (you can only do it twice I believe, maybe three).

If they do give you a different phone or something, PLEASE let us know how you talked them into it :D
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Frostshock:
I'll see what I can do, but I am 18 and I got a credit card about a month after I got the phone so it's technically on my dad's account. The bill was also slightly cheaper on his because all of our other services come from Bell. They might give me a hassle, but I'll bring the account number, credit card number, and I'll see if I can get a scan of the receipt which is at home while I am at university :mad:

Defects in parts are specifically covered though so I hope to make the argument since this line of phones is defective I want to be moved to another one.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fnakfhe:
mine died two days ago, i sent it in today,

they say 15 days to get it back?

but she did not take the box, only the phone with no battery and no battery cover.

she says they will change the motherboard and i will get a new phone with a new esn number.

im so lost, damn you bell, i bought a new phone and now they will refirb my phone and put a motherboard in it,

so now its used and has a new motherboard?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] D.C1986:
Oh man. AllGamer, can't believe yours died too. I'm on JK4 for a week now and I'm very very scared. I dont have my invoice anymore only the box with the barcode on it...if it ^*(%*, then FML...
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ahsm:
Hi everyone,

Welcome me to your club! Last month I went to visit my cousin in Spain, and I really wanted the Galaxy S because the Blackberry just was not cutting it for me anymore, and I really wanted to use the camera to record videos in 720p as we rented a car. While on the plane to Europe I was filming the cities during night time from the window and my internal SD card failed before I even set foot in Spain :(. I have a Bell version and I have no receipt for the phone. The battery manufacture date is 2010.08.16 if it helps. I am with Fido, and the phone with running Froyo 2.2. What are my options? Do I have to find a friend with Bell and go with them to the Kiosk? What are my options? Now I have no phone and no xbox :(.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] yhdks:
Wait.. so if you don't have the receipt, you can't get the free repair? FML... the only thing I have is the box with the barcode. What should I do?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] D.C1986:
I honesty have no idea. they might tell you to go deal with samsung directly.

It is like buying a PS3. if it screws up, then you cant go future shop after 6 month and tell them to fix it for you. you can only seek help from sony. (unless you have their warranty of course)

Off Topic: oh between word about Sony, their service ctr awesome. They get the job done. best warranties ever.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sherazshahid1:
So many more SD failures! The reason it happens in my opinion is that when ever large amount to data is written to the faulty SD cards they fail. To see if your can die one day try recording 720p video for a 20 minutes a couple of time. Just before mine died it would give errors when I tried to record 720p video because it was trying to write to the internal SD.

I find it so sad that a big company like Samsung would spend so much money on trying to make customers loyal through branding exercises but wouldn't solve the real problems that are much cheaper to fix. They need to replace all our phones with new ones with an apology otherwise they would have lost us forever.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ahsm:
That is exactly what happened to me. I was flying to Spain and recording a long flight video from my window. I will let these smilies illustrate how I felt starting from when I was recording to when my phone died: :D:eek::confused::(:mad:
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CASz:
same except mine lasted 48 hours - took phone in today.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] danial.aw:
hey is this only happening on the official ... or did it happen in JK3 as well? (i hear there is no substantial difference)...

id rather not have to wait 4 weeks to get a fixed phone
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Croak:
They're not doing local motherboard swaps for SD card failure now, there was too much of a backlog. They're simply replacing the handset on the spot after they test it out at your nearest repair depot (really dead, not water damaged, etc). Well, not actually replacing it on the spot, there's still some inventory issues, but they're replacing them as fast as they get them in from Samsung and get them back to your Bell store.

All defective units are now being shipped back to Korea for factory refurb, so there's a chance your unit is a refurb that's made the round trip, but it had to go through cosmetic QC first, which means it has to LOOK like new.

It was a win for me (besides the 10 day downtime) the little chip on the glass near the speaker was gone, so were the fine scratches on the Home key, and the scratches on the plastic and bezel around the USB port. Had JH2 installed on it already, and of course a new IMEI.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MaestroSeven:
This just happened to me today. Bought my phone on launch day back in late August. I have never used Odin on the phone or any lag fix or even rooted the phone for that matter. I upgraded to Froyo on Thursday night and the phone was working great. Much quicker didn't have to use a Advanced Task Manager app anymore. It was great. Last night the battery went dead and the phone shut off so I plugged it in and let it do a full recharge. The powered it up this morning and it took a long time to boot up but then when it did boot up it froze, black screen. Now it just powers up then black screen. Went into recovery mode tried to format the internal SD card and it still gives the error that it can't see the SDcard.

So looks like I am going into Bell tomorrow to send it in for repairs. It is too bad because the phone is a great phone. But it has issues (GPS worked better with froyo but when turning corners in the car it would keep running straight and then catch up after a few hundred meters and correct to the right street). I don't think I will ever buy Samsung again. Maybe to get the Nexus S if it is available in Canada. I hate apple and all apple products but I haven't heard of the iPhone 4 dying like this. Maybe it is time to switch and become an apple zombie!!!!!

I don't know I am just pissed off and not thinking straight! Lol!

Anyways that is just my two cents regarding this issue.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ahsm:
Can someone help me out please? I got my SGS from someone I found online. He did not give me the receipt, if I find him and he gives me the receipt will I be able to send the phone in for warranty repair? Is there anyway to repair the phone without having a receipt? Can I print out a fake receipt, as if I bought the phone from my local store or on the internet or something like that? What are my options?

:'(
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aofi:
dido... but mine died within 20 min of the upgrade :( waiting until Monday to send it in, can't afford to pay for a loner phone so I'm not sure what I'm going to do...
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CASz:
All I want is a SGS with Froyo on it. When I used it after the upgrade before the factory reset it was so smooth. GPS lock in 5 seconds inside the house. When I called Bell tech the guy went through some stuff with me (I could not get into the 3 button recovery mode) then said he was going to get the Samsung # for me to call. When he came back he said take it to the store; he'd put a note on my file to accept the phone for repair. At the store the repair intake person said the last person had their phone back in 9 days even though they say 2 to 6 weeks.

I looked at phones and the SGS is still the one I want in hand :(
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Sp3c5:
I managed to fix it! Bell GT-I9000M Exploded Internal SD card Issue!

Although mine started when I was watching a movie off allshare, phone froze. Took out battery, and had the infinite starting loop. In other words, would no longer boot!

This was from a virgin phone, complet bone stock! No lag fixes, no playing with Odin, no NOTHING! Can you believ that? I was so pissed. It was so random to! Right in the middle of Saving private ryan!! Ive been tinckering around for the past 7 hours and learnt alot!

So in a quick summary, the real breakthough happened when I had JK3 installed (after scwering around with odin and various firmwares for HOURS!) and decided to go for a JPM with 803 pit file. My phone booted past the samsung text, flashy S screen and hung on a blank screen. Whoopie.. (sarcasm detected) Then installed Yaok 1.5 and pretty much buttoned mashed CWM, like litteraly pressing anything related to internal SD card, at one point I remember selecting memory sizes, 1024mb and 64mb! Phone boots, past the samsung, past flashy S, a blank screen. Im eating cereal all I sudden I see the top taskbar appear, I spat my cereal eveywhere. I was soooo in shock, I was like dude no way! This was after 5 straight hours of reading and installing and reading and so on. Phone was HIGHLY buggy, for close TW constantly, random vibrations, super slooww, Internal SD card WAS not present, selected format Internal SD,took 30 min! showed i Had 13gb used and 5Gb free, wtf?

Closed the whole thing off, flashed to jk3, no go. Faulty again, No SD card DBDATA problem. Flashed to UGJH2, BOOM, back to 100% Then updated to new JK4!

Complete Details of my whole night in this forum post! Everything in there.

androidforums.com/samsung-galaxy-s/235987-clueless.html
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Frostshock:
There appears to be two different kinds of SD death.

1) The phone boots past the S logo to a black screen with permanently lit menu and back buttons if you touch one of them. Download and recovery mode are both accessible from the button combinations.

2) The phone is stuck in an infinite loop displaying GT-I9000M and does not get any further. Recovery mode is not accessible, but download mode is.

I have the first kind and I'm pretty sure the phone is toasted for good. Although the above poster seems to have recovered the phone from the second kind with a bit of luck.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] adamge:
Frost, mine died as #2 yesterday, about 48 hours after installing Bell 2.2.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gtg2:
I had the first issue above on two different phones. One was completely dead and sent in for repair (although I want as thorough in trying ad the above poster). The other phone I was able to recover by clearing data and cache and reflashing another firmware.

If you experience this issue, don't give up immediately.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] que3jxp:
And I did not but in the end, it was dead.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] can6rxw:
Well....unforutuately I'm a part of the club now. Ran mine for several days before it went. Curious though...before it bit the dust, my reception icon had the circle with the line through it...it could not get a signal. Internet wouldn't work, text messages, nothing.

But I loved my phone on 2.2! It was so smooth and worked perfectly! But the guy at bell said that there was an issue with the 2.2 release. Now, I'm not sure if he was talking out of his butt or if there really is an issue with Froyo on Bell. Anyone heard of this??
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Sp3c5:
Mine was a #2 and It's running great with the 2.2 update from Kies.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ssj2miguelx:
I am happy I read this thread. I am not updating... I am waiting for somebody to say that Bell fixed their SD issues!
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Samdroid_G_S:
Hmm weird cause I had both these issues on my phone. Just flashing different firmwares got me to different places in the boot process. That's why your thinking there's 2.

Flashed JH2 to try to go back to stock , no recovery download mode worked would not go past i9000M logo , just boot looped.

Flashed JK3\JK4 would past the i9000M as well as the animation Galaxy S video then hang after the intro video. Recovery worked/download mode worked.

So I believe it all depends on what firmware your using as to how far your gonna get in the boot process.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Samdroid_G_S:
Well Just checked my repair status and it finally changed and as suspected there was no bringing this phone back from the dead.

Heres my tracking message.

The current status of your repair is:

Parts required to repair phone are backordered. Delivery of parts expected on 20110103 .

Thank you for visiting bell.ca.

/sigh :(

Anyone wishing to track your repair you can see your status here:

http://www.bell.ca/support/PrsCSrvWls_MgAcSrMobility_Eform.page

Your phone number or Repair order number found on your receipt you received when bringing your phone in can be used.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] striker456:
My repair status hasn't changed in the 2 or 3 weeks that it's been in.

The current status of your repair is:

Phone is being inspected/repaired.

I think it's probably a bad sign since they probably haven't even looked at it.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Sp3c5:
Guys just try my method! It has worked for another user on AndroidForums.com!

-Flash to JPM firmware, 803.pit and re-partition.

-Boot once, it will hang after flashy S logo.

-Flash with Yaok 1.5 and 803.pit.

-Select reboot in CWM and I will boot into OS!

-Once in OS you CAN format the internal SD, do it. *Note, OS will be extremely buggy and slow!

-Flash phone with UGJH2 and 512.pit, re-partitioned.

-Phone 100% again! Update via Kies if desired.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] neoalucard666:
I am this aforementioned user and, if I may add something, it really did boot into JPM after flashing Yaok but the format internal SD card option doesn't work for me, neither flashing jh2. Also, the glitches and force closes are due to a widget on the second page so just trash it.

In any case, Its a good step ahead for me :)

Oh and also, I didn't have to boot JPM once before flashing Yaok. Just remove the battery when in recovery, download mode then flash (without re-partition)

Thanks again
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Sp3c5:
I appreciate the time you took to sign up and back me up neoalucard666. I thank you.

Formatting the Internal SD in JPM with Yaok 1.5 took a good 30 mins for me. I would like to add that pressing Format Internal SD yielded no feedback what so ever. It was only randomly after about 30ish odd minutes that a message in the task-bar appeared saying that it was formated. I proceded to check the storage. 13gb Used, 5Gb Free. Odd? Indeed. Puzzeled? Yes. But after this I remember flashing to JK3 with no dice and went to UGJH2. From there on it was cake.

Now running Froyo for a whole day. Smooth as can be. Maybe I just got really lucky? Try screwing around in CWM in the partition/allocation size options. I remember doing something similar.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] maxximux2000:
I was getting #2 while my phone was upgraded to Android 2.2 and once I was able to downgrade to 2.1 stock UGJH2 I am now getting #1 and cannot get anything better. Tried the steps sp3c5 tried to fix his, but was not succesful with mine. I think the only thing left will be to return it to the store for repair.

Thanks Bell for an upgrade that will take my phone away for a few weeks.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sackofnoise:
downloading jpm as i write this.. Hope this work! (finger crossed)

(hope i won't have to return it to bell (again, come back from bell like 2 weeks ago, updated and then failure :() First failure was with froyo through kies registry hack+oclf now it crashed with official froyo and no lagfix :( (don't know how they did but i kept the same imei/screen (i had a screen protector and it came back with it))

Hope i can have my galaxy up and running for the holidays :)

Anyone also tried this method?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] maxximux2000:
in my case, after installing jpm, it restarted to loop at boot. even installed yaok1.50 anyway but still loop. Trying now the JG8 in case that help, but gives the same result as JH2. blank screen after the flashing S
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Sp3c5:
Try messing with the CWM SD card options. It must of triggered something.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sackofnoise:
WOW

WOW! IT ACTUALLY WORKS (well i am only seeing that my phone booted up in android and daily briefings force closed but at least it "WORKS" :D) just wanted to say a big THANK YOU!!!!!!! will try to keep you updated and try to flash back to jh2...

Again THANK YOU! :D:D:D
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] trdcameleon:
I think I'm lucky, because I installed JK3 2-3 weeks ago and then root and installed OCLF. I had to reboot my cell, but it stop on the Black Screen. I then format the internal SD and do a Wipe cache/factory reset and now, everything is back to normal. I re-rooted-it with Z4Root and re-lagfix-it with Z4mod and it's fine since then..

Super smooth and no problem with the SD Card.. Hope I don't have a cheap SD card!

I bought my phone end of september!
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] adamge:
I want to remind folks that, if there is a flaw inherent in nearly every Galaxy's internal memory, _and_ your phone has suffered from crashes and instability due to internal memory problems, then I think you are wasting your time screwing around with the phone to try to get it to work again. For how long will it keep working? Just take the flawed piece of crap back and get a new one. I did, and my simple dumb loaner slider has simplified my life and taken away plenty of stress. Battery looks like it is going to last more than 24 hours, probably won't take 4+ hours to recharge, the alarm clock is definitely going to work tomorrow... Life is good.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sackofnoise:
Hi, gonna get it back to bell also but the only thing is that the holidays are coming and some (well at least i do) will try to tinker with it since bell take at least 2 weeks here to repair it (so i can have it ""working"" (just could get jpm working, not jh2 but it's definately a plus from the bootstuck) or send it to bell and have it only for like the 14th of january... :S)

JPM is definately buggy so will continue to try to get jh2 on it :)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] neoalucard666:
What's funny is that I can see my stuff on \sdcard when I choose the "install zip from sdcard" option in CWM but the OS still won't recognize the partition. The data is not corrupted since I can flash .zip files or previous backups that are on the sdcard just fine.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sackofnoise:
Unfortunately, i can't flash jh2 (turn back to bootstuck) i can run jpm but it doesn't recognise my internal sd (say it is corrupted :S) can't install anythin, will try with a external sd tomorrow...
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Sp3c5:
Well at least its progress! Try to format SD from JPM. You will get no feedback from pressing the button but later on, a message will appear in the top taskbar saying it has been formated.

It's better to get it to work now while phone stock is low due to holidays then brick it after to get properly working hardware after the rush is over. This way you minimize wait time.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sackofnoise:
Will continue to try:D Flashed jk3 and it works (well like jpm) couldn't make jh2 to work (i think it must be because the yaok kernel is for jpm/2.2 and jh2 is 2.1)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Sp3c5:
Repartition, 512.pit and JH2. Make sure you did all that.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sackofnoise:
So, in order, jpm with repartition

Yaok, no repartition

jh2 with repartition? (with 512?)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Sp3c5:
Yes but I always associated the correct .pit will everydone Odin operation.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ms1234:
I was wondering if someone can let me know.

I have flashed owm and now have booted in to recovery mode. It now says Clockworkmod recovery

I have a list of options. I have tried to go into mounts and storage and then format sd but I keep getting the same error about not mounting. Should I be going into advanced cmw features and trying to partition sd card?

never mind I have jpm working now. Trying to format sd card from there.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TriC_101:
very odd I using the method above I can see my internal SD from Clockworkmod recovery but I can't see it from the Android system... and the same goes for my ext SD card as well.. this tells me I don't have a hardware issue.. but something eles is going on... very odd. also I can more and copy files on my SD card from adb shell.. but I can't see it on the phone.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] neoalucard666:
Exactly what happens to me. Maybe JPM does not support 16 internal sd cars, I don't know. If we were able to flash jh2 somehow it might see it.

And Sp3c5, I did all the steps correctly (more than I can count), and it looks like you got lucky and your sd card was less corrupted than mine. Maybe there is a way to refine this method tho. Thanks again.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TriC_101:
ya its very odd.. I can't even see my ext Sdcard I put in and I know its good but I can read it from ADB shell.. but I can't from the android system of the phone very odd I can't install apps says that I have no space or SD card but from ADB shell I can... very odd...
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Sp3c5:
Maybe play with the format SD card option in advance CWM options. I did.