yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[G Tablet General] butchconner:
It's bad when you have to reply to yourself???!!!

But I also had a thread in Development which Roebeet answered and triggered me to find the answer to this too.

I wound up taking the Vanilla 3053 rom as listed in Roebeet's FAQ thread. I made a "Recovery" file with Command in it to start the update. Then put that along with the downloaded 3053 update.zip in the /sdcard directory. Brought up CWM and started the zip file running. It picked up the recovery file the first time through, showed the boxwitharrow that goes with regular recover and completed.

Then it rebooted again and repeated the same load using regular recovery. When all was done, I had a OTA 3053-level tablet. I then reset the user data to make sure all was OK there, and I went in manually in ES file manager and deleted the old CWM directory and backup directory under it.

So now I am back to 3053 totally stock and should be able to get any OTA update that might come along.

Thanks to all who made suggestions.

Rev

EOT (End of Thread)
[G Tablet General] roebeet:
Ah, I was the one who wrote that as I recall. Weeks ago, but it feels like a lot longer. I think earlier revisions of clockworkmod required that or else update.zip file updates would fail. But .08 seems A-OK.
[G Tablet General] butchconner:
roebeet, et al:

I think it would be a really good thing if folks would confirm what you are saying here -- which is what I experienced last night when I took mine back down to OTA 3053 version.

I was able to setup, flash the 3053 rom and cover up CWM (after doing necessary repairs with it) without doing an nvflash -- just using the recover process.

I think this is important because lots of folks would have the reassurance that they could recover if they make a mistake with only the normal flash procedure.

Or if someone wants to try modding they can know that they will be able to get back to an essentially "stock" machine if they need return/warranty options.

Rev
[G Tablet General] roebeet:
At this point I would recommend flashing to 3053 anyway - it's the latest one and you can do the next person who owns your device a favor. I wouldn't even look at the previous two firmware updates, at this point.

For me, it definitely works with cm .08 and it definitely wipes recovery with standard. Do that, plus a user data wipe, and you are 100% vanilla.
[G Tablet General] butchconner:
Yea!!!!!!

Merry Christmas to All and to all -- how about let's get some sleep and then get down to some serious modding! :)

Rev
[Galaxy S I9000 General] kayvanmsh:
If any of you guys know someone in media, can you tell them to talk about the sd card problem, so, samsung would admit it, and give us our money back.

They say it's froyo update that causes the problem, but from the polls we already know people with eclair have problems too.

Media can be TV, radio, and internet. Famous sites like engadget should talk about it. News should talk about it.

Let's make samsung and bell pay
[Galaxy S I9000 General] got_milk:
Your prayer has been answered: http://www.engadget.com/2010/12/18/samsung-pulls-froyo-update-for-bells-vibrant-after-reports-of-f/
[Galaxy S I9000 General] kayvanmsh:
Wow now that's fast

Now if only TV talked about it too...
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] synaesthetic:
I was having this problem the other day when flashing Nero v1. Wanted to Odin back to stock before flashing it, and it stuck on cache.rfs no matter how many times I retried. Had the lovely phone ! computer icon and a phone that wouldn't boot.

Ended up fixing it by accidentally running Odin without any PIT or TAR file selected, and it cleared the error and caused the phone to boot back into Eclair. Flashed Nero on top of that and ended up getting... a really slow, messed up phone, so I flashed Bionix again and nandroided back to my backups.

Going to stay this way until I can figure out how to properly Odin without always getting stuck on cache.rfs! Anyone help us out? Flashing Nero on top of Bionix gets me a very unstable phone!
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DEFINITIONOFREAL:
Pull the sim and sd cards
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SamsungVibrant:
really why? I odin with the sim and sd card in always, I haven't had an issue.

Is pulling the sim and sd exclusive the above mentioned problem(i.e only when you see phone to computer)?
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DEFINITIONOFREAL:
Odin can be tempramental at points and cunfuse external.sd with internal witch causes it to stop at the cache
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bnielsen40:
This was happening to me when I was using odin 1.0 - switched to 1.3 and haven't had any problems since. So try using a different version of odin.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] asicman:
Has anyone tried this?

I still have 2.1 and I'm scared to upgrade to 2.2. If 2.3 ever comes out I'll still be scared to update. I'm scared of the day when my phone will go into the reboot loop and cannot be fixed without sending to the service center. I'm scared that when its in for repair, parts will be back ordered. And I'm scared of being without a smartphone for over a month.

I'm on my second SGS. I want to be proactive and exchange my current (working) SGS for a Desire Z. I have all of my receipts and have had this second SGS for about 3 months. How difficult will this be?

Thanks
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CASz:
Really difficult I think. You'd be better off selling privately or trading in at Futureshop for a credit then buying outright. If you have multiple returns on the same handset you MIGHT get a early renewal price but some peeps here (that'd be XDA) are on their 8th device.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xxgg:
Flash the heck out of it and enjoy! If it bricks again...

Now you'll be on your 3rd Galaxy S,

Demand to see the manager and demand that you want to HTC Desire Z.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] asicman:
What I'm worried about is that instead of being on the 3rd SGS, they will send the 2nd in for repair. Surely after 3 months you can't get an exchange, right?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xxgg:
Warranty is 1 year.

Not sure what 3 months you are talking about.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Auzy:
Why not try it and find out? Wouldn't that be the most accurate way then asking a few random people online?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] asicman:
But thats 1 yr for repairs. After 30 days from the purchase/exchange date, you can't get a new phone. At least this is how I understand it.
[Galaxy Tab General] dh010447:
I'm trying to find somwhere to buy the T-Mobile tab, on contract, for $350, with no tax.... Any ideas? If i can get activation waived, that would be even better....
[Captivate General] SBcaptivate:
I have Samsung captivate Galaxy S (ATT)

Not sure what option I chose on recovery mode(I guess would've removed the update.zip)

Now phone is always booting to recovery mode with few options as Reboot System Now

Reinstall packages

Reinstall packages says cannot find sdcard/update.zip and comes back to same recovery window

:confused:

What are my options now? Not sure I can return to att store with recovery mode showing(which shows its my mistake and not issue with the phone as such:mad:)
[Captivate General] mattbeau:
Just one click downloadable jf6 will work just relax follow the instructions and you'll do just fine heres the link http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=731989
[Captivate General] mcord11758:
As long as you have a windows pc odin will be your hero
[Captivate General] SBcaptivate:
Thanks for the respose.

I did try those options before posting this, what ever method I try, its always going to recovery mode.

Method 1 is showing always device offline even though odin sees at COMx

Method2 & 3 return to recovery mode, even though I wait for more 10min holding the volume up + down + power/usb as in method2/3 mentioned..

Now my confidence is slowly going down on getting this phone up..

Any others options?
[Captivate General] SBcaptivate:
Odin shows this for quite sometime (phone in recovery mode not download mode)

<ID:0/005> Added!!

<ID:0/005> Odin v.3 engine (ID:5)..

<ID:0/005> File analysis..

Method one returns:

C:\temp\android-sdk-windows\tools>adb shell

error: device offline

(I did use the stock cable, am mentioning this since I just saw this thread: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=726348)
[Captivate General] mcord11758:
Pull bat sim and external sd. Put bay back in. plug in usb while holding volume up and down. Try this
[Captivate General] SBcaptivate:
I tried as mentioned, remove all and put battery with volume up+down pressed and plug USB, it waits for sometime then It goes to recovery menu..with exclamation mark + android image

It shows #Manual Mode#

Appling Muti-CS

Installing Muti-CSC
[Captivate General] mcord11758:
Have you tried a jig
[Captivate General] SBcaptivate:
Not sure what is JIG, can you pls guide me..

am also searching the forums right now for jig. Thanks.
[Captivate General] SBcaptivate:
Is it something I can get in local electronic stores?
[Captivate General] norcal einstein:
A JIG is a MicroUSB plug with 301kohm of resistance between pins 4&5. It is one way to force your phone into Download Mode.

You can make one, or buy one :)
[Captivate General] Soulweaver:
I just bought one off of him. Good price and he did something most people wouldn't do for a stranger
[Captivate General] SBcaptivate:
Wow.. Not sure I searched these forums in & out but the combination of keys worked for me is not in any which I went thru..

As you saw from above, mine is totally bricked, when adb shell was there, I see just 1 file, segmentation fault(reboot did not work for me this way somehow) and Immd purchased Jig..

after sometime, I keep on trying different combinations and following worked

1. Remove USB cable

2. Choose volume up + down + power , keep it that way, so that it keeps blinking att logo, then release all keys

3. connect USB cable.

I can see the adb shell

typed adb reboot download

Already odb is started for me

get the stock version

Thats it.. am happy, now that I got some expertise and also bought Jig, I can play more confidently with this toy :)

Thanks very much for everyone who replied..
[G Tablet General] ngorgi:
(if anyone can, please change these to links. I'm not allowed to post links yet since I'm a new user)

First, download the froyo image from:

developer DOT nvidia DOT com SLASH tegra SLASH downloads

Then, download this and merge it with the folder that the Nvidia tools install to (you'll have to overwrite 2 files).

www DOT dropbox DOT com SLASH s SLASH wrcd87u1iy31u4e SLASH nvflash_gtablet_2010110500.zip

Download Clockwork Recovery, get the recovery.img file from the update.zip, rename it to clockwork.img, and move it into the Nvidia folder.

android DOT d3xt3r01 DOT tk SLASH cyanogen SLASH harmony SLASH root SLASH ClockworkMod_Gtab_v08.zip

Connect the G-Tab to your computer via USB and power it on while holding Vol - (NOT +!). The screen will go on for a few seconds then turn off. The tablet's not off, it's just in APX mode.

Go to Device Manager and install the drivers for it (they're in theNvidiaFolder\usbpcdriver).

Open a command prompt in the nvidia folder and enter "nvflash --bl bootloader.bin --download 9 clockwork.img"

It should do it's thing and if it goes fine, you'll get your recovery back!
[G Tablet General] brookfield:
You are the man!!!! I am back in business. I was on the right track, but you figured it out and I am a happy camper.

Anything you need, let me know (except girls, currency, drugs)
[G Tablet General] brookfield:
Quick question, Now that I have NVFlash setup and working, is there a simple way using NVFlash to take a snapshot of my Tablet so I have a backup image if I need to restore?
[G Tablet General] roebeet:
You could try this: http://tosh-ac100.wetpaint.com/page/Backup+and+Restore and just use bekit's bootloader.bin.
[G Tablet General] ald9351:
I'm a little confused. This says download the file, but overwrite two files?

I have downloaded and installed the first thing. Now i have downloaded the second file but not sure what to overwrite.
[G Tablet General] brookfield:
You need to unzip the files into the same directory. When you do it will ask you to overwrite 2files binloader is one of them
[G Tablet General] ald9351:
Ok, I know that I am missing something here. I have unzipped the "nvflash" file to this directory (C:\Program Files\NVIDIA Corporation\tegra_froyo_20101105).

I am never asked to overwrite anything. Is this the "NVIDIA tools" folder mentioned in post 1?

Sorry this is so hard for my small brain.

EDIT:Nevermind, I figured it out anyway. Thanks
[G Tablet General] rothnic:
I'm confused as what you mean by get your recovery back. Did you have a problem where it was overwritten?
[G Tablet General] ald9351:
No, for some reason it just goes away. Not sure why. When you hold power + "vol +", it should boot to recovery, but it just boots to CM.

Anyway, this was a lifesaver for sure today. Thanks for your help everyone!
[G Tablet General] tonya20a:
Thanks, that helped a lot - works fine!

T.
[G Tablet General] stugots101:
I hate this tablet. I got the unit today and installed the OTA update and doing so i disabled clockword recovery. I followed these steps and got it to work from cmd and it went through the downloading process. My tablet is stuck on entering nvflash recovery mode. When i reboot and try the recovery it goes black again. I am positive I did it correctly and got the confirmation screen at the end of cmd.
[G Tablet General] ssmithri:
I had the same issue... could not boot into recovery or the rom... right after installing clockwork .12

I had to take my unit back and get a new one...
[G Tablet General] brookfield:
What version of the clockworkMod image do you use to FLASH into the recovery Partition. I did not use the latest, You may need to try the 2.5.1.3 (That is what I used and it works).
[G Tablet General] lilsalmon:
Thanks!

ngorgi,

I just wanted to give you a big thanks... I had borked my g tab till I ran through your walkthrough.

Thank you so much!

-Lil'
[G Tablet General] ngorgi:
Glad to see this actually helped a few people out :)

Now I may be wrong here (and if I am, PLEASE correct me), but I've come to the conclusion that this device is simply UNBRICKABLE. I've had my recovery disappear, had the magic value mismatch error, even had the device freeze in Nvflash mode where I had to wait for the batteries to drain before I could restart and I've been able to fix it EVERY TIME. Nvflash is too awesome.
[G Tablet General] sincerity:
FWIW, this is the only method that would work for me getting clockword to install on a fresh out of the box unit....I tried the sticky and it would show me the ! for a brief second and then reboot...

thanks!
[G Tablet General] haltol:
HELP recovery problem

nvflash --bl bootloader.bin --download 9 cwm254recovery.img

HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
[G Tablet General] jimcpl:
Try doing:

nvflash --bl bootloader.bin --getpartitiontable mypt.text --go

To get you partition table and check the .text to confirn that part9 is SOS.

Jim
[G Tablet General] tcrews:
I am not so sure. One of my GTablets will no longer boot. I have to use nvflash to boot it. Battery drain, reset button inside, nvflash stock rom, TnT-light...whatever, the tablet will not boot. Nvflash and format parition 2 and I can get it to proceed into booting. I can nvflash bekits recovery and install roms or kernels.....reboot or power off and it will not come up until I nvflash "force" it to boot.

So i am not so sure they are completely unbrickable...just hard to do so. Mine started with the magic value mismatch error.

Sent from my Viewsonic 10" GTab...
[G Tablet General] haltol:
help Got a brick.

Got a brick. I can not get into the APX mode.

Hold down Volume (-) and power while booting - did not work. May have other options?
[G Tablet General] jimcpl:
tcrews,

I posted recently on your "guidance" thread under General. Can you take a look at that?

Jim
[G Tablet General] aabshire:
Thanks, got me out of a jam!!!
[G Tablet General] zvelez:
help to recover GTablet

I wil trate to recover my GTablet, with press "Turn On"+ "Vol Up", but nothing change, appears a msg:

"Detect a recovery key Pressed"

Booting recovery kernel image

And that's all

Can anyone help my to recover plese

Thanks

Rob
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xriderx66:
What does RE-PARTITION MEAN in Odin?
[Epic 4G General] monnie27:
So, yes before anyone tells me to read, Ive read the instructions on how to use Odin again and again. I downloaded Odin and the 64 bit usb drivers, i have a laptop running on windows 7. I put my phone in downloading mode and connected it to my laptop, but nothing seems to happen in Odin, no COM number, just nothing, I uninstalled the drivers and Odin and installed them once again, and i tried a different port...still nothing. I'm running on the leaked android 2.2.1, the phone is not rooted, just flashed with the update.

Any suggestions??....
[Epic 4G General] Koadic:
Try a different USB cable/port... The one that is included with the Epic is a peice of crap as far as I am concerned.

Another idea... Try right clicking on Odin and running as administrator (not sure if this will effect anything, just throwing ideas out there).
[Epic 4G General] monnie27:
Yeah I bought another cable i know the one that comes with the phone is useless.

Will give a shot to the administrator idea and see what happens o.0,

thanks
[Epic 4G General] kenvan19:
The other thing is that you must put your phone in download mode, open ODIN and THEN plug in your phone. Aside from that, the USB thing is your best bet.
[Epic 4G General] monnie27:
Well...i tried running Odin as administrator, launched it before plugging the USB into the phone and the laptop...and once again...nothing...I'm using a Gigaware USB cable, this is just driving me insane >.>
[Epic 4G General] kenvan19:
My last bit of advice would be to check in IRC at #samsung-epic the people there are very versed in using ODIN and are very helpful
[Epic 4G General] mattallica76:
I've had this issue before myself. I have two Windows 7 machines, both 64 bit. One would recognize my phone in download mode, and the other would not. I installed the correct drivers on both machines.

Make sure you are connected to one of the USB ports on the rear of the machine. Some people have had issues using the front USB ports.
[Epic 4G General] monnie27:
ok thanks, I managed to get it to work somehow, i repeated the process od uninstalling and installing the drivers, Odin and somehow it worked this time. However i had Kies installed on the laptop, so i decided to uninstall it just for the heck of it ....and well after that, Odin recognized the phone o.0.

But thanks to all of you for the support ^_^
[Epic 4G General] eigerzoom:
i would love to know the source of the x64 driver...as i found it to be a load of horsecrap

the driver found on the samsung website installs on both x86 and x64 machines in my experience

i was running windows server 2008 x64 at the time and only got the phone working with the driver directly from the samsung website

peoples long winded history of drivers and windows makes for a bad situation...at least be willing to try THE MANUFACTURERS option first

i bought my phone used...but it did come in the original box...

i just wasn't sure enough, then, to say that it is BS for a company like samsung not to distribute some kind of media/drivers with, or preloaded on, the device.

http://www.samsung.com/us/support/downloads/SPH-D700ZKASPR
[Epic 4G General] monnie27:
well..i got the drivers from this page:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=798067

and used BitZipper to extract them, it worked this time.
[Epic 4G General] eigerzoom:
good news

enjoy dk28

it saved me from believing android was a suckers solution to windows mobile

my phone instantly locks gps now and the easy access to enabling 3g via the power button menu was nice

i am a believer...adb is my new god...reborn in code...blahblah...

actually i'm just glad something like a cellphone can simply work simply as it should

finally after billions of ages of fail
[Epic 4G General] monnie27:
Well im actually having some problems with the gps navigation and lock. The location is not accurate, it was extremely accurate when i was running on 2.1 and i had no probs with neither of them. I saw a thread related to this issue before and ill see what can be done..
[Epic 4G General] eigerzoom:
the only method that worked for me:

odin back to dI18 (.md5 extention removed/renamed to .tar extension)

get gps lock

odin dk28 modem (modem only) with victory_8G_100528.pit

gps lock again

odin dk28 (.md5 extention removed/renamed to .tar extension)

i actually didn't even try to get a gps lock after flashing the dk28 modem...

the key here seems to be performing the modem flash separately/first as there are multiple bootloaders working
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ppmz:
Hi All,

I am searching for the source code to this kernel my phone is running:

2 6 32 9 jetaek lee sep-11 #1

Could someone point me to it? It's certainly not on Samsung's opensource web page. It is actually the kernel Cog b6 is shipped with.

I thought I'd have a little play with the Si4709 FM radio module, but can't find a compatible kernel source to compile. I've spotted at least one thing in the Captivate src (2.6. 29) that could prevent it from working, that is present in the i9000 sources.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ranatsu:
The captivate doesn't have the fm module
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] designgears:
There isnt any 2.2 source for the captivate.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ppmz:
Yikes! That makes it hard to compile kernel modules that I can insmod :(
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kaik541:
yes it does, it just isn't working. it's based on the broadcom chip inside the device (same one in all US variants and the i9000). just like the nexus onehad the same chip the original desire had, and yet didn't have FM Radio. if this man can figure out where the block is coming from and can re-implement it in the kernel, then it should work. (emphasis on should)

what you can do is build against the i9000 source (it's not pretty doing this, but it works) or even the galaxy tab source. And as long as it's something you want to do with injection (i.e. in the ramdisk) then you can do it.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ppmz:
I thought it was the Silicon Labs Si4709 in the i9000 that gives you FM radio, if it's a Broadcom chip, then I'm confused.

I just played with compiling Si4709_driver.ko on my Captivate and tracked the failure down to i2c_read returning -ENXIO. So either the i2c driver doesn't work on this kernel (SDA, SCL gpios wrong?) or there's no i2c slave on the bus to talk to.

I'd happily hack at it a bit more, but I reckon the Si4709 may not be soldered on the board!
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] designgears:
Well, its not anything in the kernel, if the the kernel was blocking it, flashing an i9k kernel would make it work, and it doesn't.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kaik541:
to be honest, I never did much research into the FM radio chip. I read somewhere it was the broadcom chip responsible for it, and I kinda just went "yeah, sure" so I could very well be wrong :D
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Dave the Knave:
Hasn't this topic been beaten to death already? We don't have FM radio capabilities.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cappysw10:
Apparently one more beat down was necessary. :rolleyes: