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[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] michaelmurfy:
I would say the best way you guys can help out would be setting up SSH access to your computer (if it's OSX or Linux based) - that way Supercurio can remote access the shell + access the phone.

It won't be a good idea to post SSH details on the IRC ofc, so flicking him a DM with the details would be best.

All you really need to do is install OpenSSH on your computer, and set up a limited user account (Just a regular user will be fine) - Forward port 22 through your router to your computer, and give Supercurio the details. Make sure the Android SDK is available in his home directory so he can use that.

Sort out a time for Supercurio to SSH into your computer, and make sure your phone is connected. Join up on the IRC at that time and he will speak directions to you as needed.

But indeed a good idea, I actually was thinking of a way to fix this too.
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] supercurio:
Thanks for your reply. We spent several hours fighting with a dead phone yesterday on IRC.

I update the first post accordingly.
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] supercurio:
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[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] pr0cs:
man posts like these are terrifying.

Samsung has a disaster on their hands.
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] Kenorn:
I had a dream...

Still waiting for mine to come back. Should be another week or 2.

I had a dream that they shipped my Galaxy back with stock Gingerbread.
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] Dawgplg:
Called Bell when I got to work today and I was told immediately that I would need to send my phone in. They suggested taking it to a Bell store and see if anything can be done there. Likely they are hoping that some people just think their phones are broken and can get them up and running without issue.

Mine is dead, as was previously posted. Bad news is I will likely be without a new one until after Xmas and probably New Years... Being a corporate device we tend to get them replaced by our corporate store and let them deal with Samsung. Semi good news is I have a WinPhone7 to play with in the meantime... Bit boring though :(

Anyway doesnt look like Bell is putting up much resistance, sucks that the phones have to go in, but I guess its better than their previous approach which was blame the customer for breaking it, and try their best to not repair... Crooks.
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] Caskast:
Wow this is scary to read i have had my sgs for a week now never had a phone like it! Maybe i should stop flashing it so much and hope this dosnt happen to me.

Goodluck to the sgs owners this has happend to.

Sent from my GT-I9000
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] phzi:
hey supercurio;

I've got an i9000m with corrupt internal SD that after a few hours I've managed to revive to a booting state with an external SD card; originally it was a #2 case, but after several DD if=/dev/zero runs, several odin flashes, and a bunch of adb shell fiddling, it boots (although no user-settings are maintained between boots).

the kernel dmesg shows many pages of:

If you want a unit to test a theory on, I'm in the voodoo irc channel. I'm half-working on partitioning/mapping an external sdcard to replace the internal one atm.
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] Kenorn:
Got my i9000M back...

Apparently, there is a new Canadian Froyo update to be released on Dec 24th.

I was also told at Bell that if my phone dies again, I can call Samsung or something and Samsung would send me a brand new phone.

Looks like they are well aware of the issue....

Hmmm.......
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] ragin:
I know Samsung has a few guys logged on to XDA. They have to. I wish we could start a real Flame War against Samsung, & see if they respond. :D:D:D
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] g00ndu:
Well, you certainly looks like an ideal candidate! ;)
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] jdrom:
Any further progress on this?

I have a i9000M that we can test on. Waiting for my warranty kit to return it in along with a loaner phone, so it's free game until then!

Mine is stuck in a constant boot loop regardless of the firmware I use. I can get the Steam kernel up and running but that's about it. External SD doesn't allow it to boot either.

As a possible work-around, I was wondering if all the internal SD stuff could be re-mapped to the external SD? At least it would let us use our phones...
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] risqu3:
you all are small time.

My phone has been gone since November 20th. I still have not received it back.

Go samsung.
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] dcarr622:
I think Supercurio made it clear that he isn't going to be able to come up with a fix...it's more complex than he originally thought. Failed hardware is failed hardware, after all.

With two I9000M's in the house I'm crossing my fingers that we don't have problems. One of them has been flashed dozens of times, the other one just once to Doc's froyo release from shipped JG9.

It seems that Samsung is willing to repair phones regardless of whether or not you are on Bell, check other threads for repair info. And if you on Bell, I believe they give you a $100 credit. So this is a resolvable problem. I just hope I don't ever have to find out if this warranty coverage extends to United States users, but I hope the answer is yes.
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] supercurio:
Unfortunately only a fraction of the the phones can be made usable again easily: the ones booting using the external SDcard instead of the internal.

But based on report a lot of phones have their internal sdcard "still dying", which means it's detected by the phone and the boot process is failing, trying to read and write data from it.

After the live analysis/attempt on IRC I believe I could be able to build a special kernel for those phones, to make them work.

But only if I have a sample here. Doing it remotely with someone in the other end of the planet is a bit too hard :D
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] jdrom:
Well shipping would be a bit expensive from Canada to France I'd imagine and slow... I could just send the phone though without battery/cover right?

If I wasn't waiting for the warranty kit though, I'd probably mail it to you. Maybe the next time it dies I will if you're serious about building a custom kernel.
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] supercurio:
Yes, this is an unfortunate and delicate situation.
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] rathan.yo:
my i9000m can't boot .

i need some please . Help.!

thank you ...
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] cantIntoCode:
Return your phone! I like how everyone on this forum throws out orders without even thinking first...
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] Raqun:
internal SD Error

Hello,

I have a problem with my internal SD.. it's very complicated how it came to all this so i'm going to give you a short version..

I've had the phone for over a month now using darkys roms (with voodoo enabled) and then my cat peed on the phone which resulted in me opening it up and cleaning it with alcohol as it went into a restart loop. the phone then booted into recovery but i couldn't mount the sd card.. i then used the JPU 2.2.1 firmware and instaled it with odin. and it worked.. i could access everithyng normaly, but then:

I tryed to do a wipe version of darkys 8.0 and the phone froze when installing.. afterwards i tried to install a stock 2.2.1 JPU firmware and it kept restarting, then i tried the 2.1 again and after the boot animation it booted into a black screen with buttons working (LED).. after some research i installed 2.2.1 again and used speedMod 256 Hz with odin.. now it boots normaly to the system but the internal sd can't be mounted any way so i cant install any apps or use the camera, etc.. it's strange, cause i can't even mount the external SD not in the system and not in recovery (clockwork or e3) (it seems the ext SD is recognised only as a subfolder of the internal SD.. it sucks) so i can't format it.. i still have some hope because the phone boots every time i flash speedmod over 2.2.1 firmware and works as "normal", even if i restart (except some settings not being saved like my google account info..

I guess i hope there is some way to make the phone recognize the external SD card as it's default with some custom kernel, that is why i posted in this thread..

My phone is Europe I9000 non carrier version..

If someone can help me i will be extreemely grateful!

Thanks
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] pejmany:
Hey supercurio,

quick question:

for situation number 1, what are the options? and how far is booting?

it gets into the os or just past the bootanimation?

mine is the i9000m and it fried like, yesterday, and i got it working but it randomly died a little afterwards. the whole shining s animaiton comes on but then the screen goes black.

Anything can be done?
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] Stevethegreat:
Can't one simply replace the mmcblk0 (or p1, p2) files with healthy ones pulled from a healthy i9000m?

Or they're simply unable to be pulled?

edit: Also -I think- I'm a third category given that my phone boots w/t external sd, even though it lacks mmcblk0p1 and mmcblk0p2; as much as mmcblk0 cannot be parted either...

Of course upon booting I can do very little with the phone. Only things that require the ROM (the 2GB of phone storage) to function can actually work. So for example I can see youtube videos, but I cannot install anything. Also without SD -naturally- every reboot wipes my personal data...So yeah I have a weird phone that kinda works even though it shouldn't have...Oh, I can make calls too...I think.
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] phzi:
Stevethegreat: I've seen a phone that dropped the mmcblk0 device altogether. You're very lucky that you can still boot on that thing. You definitely can't just flash a copy of mmcblk0 on these phones - it's the same thing as installing a full rom - the very problem with these phones is that the MMC controller or flash memory is causing corruption.

It's possible that a kernel and init could be cooked up that re-maps the internal partitions exclusively to an external sd. But it's kinda pointless - I had a partially working setup for one of my i9000m phones w/ corrupt SD... but I gave up in lieu of shipping it to futuretel and receiving it back with a new mainboard after 5days. Better to just get the device repaired while you can. Samsung authorized service centers are repairing these phones without receipts (they aren't even a year old after all).
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] Stevethegreat:
Thanks for your advice, but I'm afraid part of the reasons of why the SD died is some water damage that the phone suffered a few days before the SD stopped working.

That -most possibly- makes the RMA a no-go (I don't think Samsung or anyone will accept to replace it). That means that a Rom that maps the external SD as an internal SD will literaly save my phone.

Also my external SD is 32Gigs so my phone will *actually* have more memory than Nexus S. So if you or -anyone- knows how I may cook (or where I can find) such a ROM I would be eternally grateful (the phone is too good for me to be willing to trash it)...

edit: And more generally, if Supercurio (or anyone) was able to cook an (Odin flashable) rom which mounts the external SD as if it was the internal SD, half of the problem would had been solved for most of the people. Of course it won't be a real fix (the internal SD will remain dead) but thousands of users will rejoice with having their phones back in a working fashion (albeit not in their best possible condition)...

Hmm, it seems I'd have to start developing some dev skills to make this work...
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] xaav bp:
The only problem is that someone need to send him his phone which nobody is willing to do thats understandable considering that this device cost 500$ and it's more reliable to send it back to bell

Ps: Ne décourage pas supercurio et continue il manque de développeurs comme toi
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] gfacer:
give it a few months

Give it a few months, the warranties will start to run out and then I am sure a paperweight will become available...
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] Londarth:
I dont know where to start...2 days ago my perfectly healthy I9000 (international) rebooted. CWM booted to tell me my lagfix configuration changed...ofc i ticked NO remove the new config. After that came the infinite loop. I was not worried, everything backed up recently. To my surprise after some tries at Odin flashes i realized my internal memory is gone. In last 2 days i tried alot of ROM's via Odin but nothing worked. Untill after flashing stock XWJS5 i decided to flash Speedmode K13C. My system booted but all SD partitions have avaliable space 0/0. I went back to CWM mounts and storage and to my surprise i managed to mount data! Now i have a semi functioning phone 1.87GB of my external SD are shown as Internal Data partition but the rest of my external card are gone. When i pull it from the phone and insert it to my card reader windows sees my card as 6GB card. From storage manager i see the 2GB partition that phone made for it self but can't access it. Anyhow i can download and install apps from market even if i have a dead internal sd... Wish i could mount the rest of it as internal so i can take pictures and use aps that need to save data...

Hope this info can help your reaserch...
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] manjish:
i as well as some others with t mobile vibrant got the sdcard mounting problem......we've tried everything and no go........the internal 14 gb partition has disappeared....we are assuming that its a toast

please help us too......i cannot do warranty as i am very far from USA...the phone can boot "Eugene_2E_JK2_Froyo" everything is normal except the internal sdcard not mounting......i could live with this rom if ext sd is mounted as internal.

we are discussing it here

im ready to test anything you put out....but please help!!
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] Akhara:
est ce que c'est toujours d'actualité?

mon Galaxy à les meme symptome, internal SD card is damaged..
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] intelligencexan:
What are the chances of this happening to a proper working device?
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] shone79:
re:

Is there any news on this project?

My I9000 8gb intertnational is officially dead, internal sd failure. Is there any way to use external sd like internal, to flash custom kernel or something?

Please developers try to change kernel for us unlucky users,a really havent money to pay repair (150eur+), and there are many users with same problem like me.

Ty in advance.
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] wyefye:
i'm seeing a lot of strange explanations and answers in this thread, some of which appear to be wrong.

MMCBLK0p1 and 2 are PARTITIONS.

Corruptions can be repaired.

At some point, there was a stock rom the fixed all this crap.. jpc or jpm or something. there was a thread on this that seems to have been long since buried that i cant find any longer.

The PARTED fix should work, but the issue is that i don't have a Kernel with SU built in, and parted certainly is not there. roms flash fine to the device thru odin, but upon boot it just dies, to me this seems like a combination of a bad kernel, and bad partitions. the SGS forum here is so fragmented with roms and kernels its insane.

Mine just failed recently after i flashed the hampsterbread rom.

What we need is to find what stock rom it was that reformatted the partitions, and a kernel flash that comes with all the root a parted stuff. ****, they can bundle clockwork mod, why not SU and parted? also, why cant we get a special tool in Speedmod or CWM to reformat the internal partitions? Also, why are we depending on the internal storage if its so ****ty?
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] phzi:
It's actually you that is wrong. It's not the contents of the partitions that get corrupt... it's the hardware. There is no fix for a failing SD card except to replace the faulty hardware, because even if you could map around the damaged bits, you're just going to end up with more later - and anyway, it seems like the problem is probably related to the controller that interfaces with the SDcard, and not the sdcard itself.

You can re-partition the system with ODIN, it's not going to help anything. The hardware failure has nothing to do with which rom you flash, it's just faulty hardware that will crop up eventually. You can connect via adb and DD the whole drive with 0s, and then repartition, it still won't fix the hardware.

Sending it back for repair is the solution. Anything else is, at best, post-poning the inevitable; and probably just wasting time.

As for designing a new init to use an external sd for all partitions; I wouldn't count on it ever happening, there's just very little point.
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] bartybet:
try JL2. I think thats the one
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] _fly:
Im suprised with all the New android builds there is in the development section, i was just wondering, if someone can Help me Find the Best, fastest, most stable build, theres so many to try i dunno wich one to go with... ty so much
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] smaiitm:
Experiment

Not much of a surprise that nobody has answered.

All the dev's are outstanding contributors. So feel free to explore, experiment and decide for yourself the one that suits your taste.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] TheATHEiST:
Nobody can give you a real answer to this as the answer would be subjective. Stability and speed differs from person to person so you need to look about and try for some builds for yourself and come to your own conclusion.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] huggs:
I would try JDMS Ultimate 1.62, it has a ton of features, some of which you cant find on other builds. It is 100% stable as far as I can tell, it's the build I've been using the most

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=782301

I would change the kernel to the one listed in my signature with this build, as it seems to speed it up and eliminates 95% of slow-wakes.

Or if you want something that boots fast, try a Super-RAM build.

IMO they're not quite as stable yet, but they are FAST!!
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] _fly:
ty ! great builds
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] chico0713:
I have a HTC Diamond that has a german rom and I want to change to english.

I need help please.

I have tried to sync to active sync and it say usb device not recognized.

I need a GURU to help.

Thanks in advanced.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] ayyu3m:
Seems to me like a connectivity issue between your device and the laptop.

Which operating system are you using. Please explain a bit more.
[Mogul, XV6800 General] fsubartender:
What is the best ROM to use on the Mogul if you are not using the carrier?

I have an old Mogul that I just want to use WIFI ONLY .

Any suggestions?

Thanks in advance.
[Mogul, XV6800 General] LargePrime:
D.N.E. 890
[Mogul, XV6800 General] Manicmobileaddict:
Wow, I'm not alone. Just want to play with my Mogul for nostalgia. What's D.N.E. 890? Would like a 6.5.x with Touchflo or Manilla or whatever it was.
[Mogul, XV6800 General] LargePrime:
DNE google it.

and there is a 10 character minimum for posting
[Mogul, XV6800 General] TeleFragger:
well i just got another mogul from ebay... $15 shipped.. and will be in my mud truck for gps and speedometer...

anywho...

see sig for what im running on it... easy.. dont install the carrier cab and gps takes alot longer to sync but does.... and is ACCURATE!!!!!!!!
[Droid X General] bd1212:
Okay, well, I've tried multiple custom ROM's, I've sbfed, I've done literally everything I can possibly do to try to get this issue to go away, but it still remains.

Basically, if I am on a phone call, I hear a static like noise in the background. It almost sounds like the camera shutter is moving around when I'm listening to what the person on the other line is saying... its nowhere near terrible, but it is a slight annoyance as I do not have crystal clear calls like I usually do (I had crystal clear calls on my D1, and my brothers phone has crystal clear calls, too, so I know it's not my signal thats causing it).

I am still within my 30-day return window... but that ends on 12/22/10 and I am currently on a custom ROM for 2.3.340 so I can't sbf back to stock android.

What should I do? Get a replacement? Can a baseband update fix my problem? HELP!!!
[Droid X General] johann718:
Looks like hardware issue. Not software. Send it back and get a replacement.
[Droid X General] bd1212:
Won't VZW notice that my DX is rom'd and rooted?
[Droid X General] Jiggity Janx:
May be a shot in the dark, but you may want to uncheck Enhanced Audio under Sounds, Media Audio Effects, Phone Speaker. It seems plausible to me that the settinngs for your phone speaker are used for the earpiece as well. I know I was having problems with the wired connection using Enhanced Audio and would get a slight background static noise when using it. Again, just a shot in the dark, and anyone is welcome to inform me if I am off base...

Also, you can always just use TBH .340 files with RSD to put your system to stock .340 if you have to return it.
[Droid X General] jeftep:
If you blow hard into the earpiece (reccomend a can of compressed air) does the sound lessen or go away? If so, its hardware.

Either get a replacement, or shoot more compressed air into the earpiece like myself and many others have. Reccomend you replace it, I'm just lazy.
[Droid X General] dispatch1054:
I had this same exact problem a couple days ago. It sounded like the earpiece was rattling around when people talked, and even the ringer was buzzing a lot. As you know, its very irritating and upsetting considering how expensive and praised the X is. I was within the 30 day window though and I went and exchanged it. Call quality on this phone is now perfect with no buzz whatsoever, even at full volume. Go exchange! You deserve a working phone :).

Also interesting, the first phone I bought already had the battery in it out of the box, the new one didn't. And the top of the lcd had rounded edges instead of square which I though was peculiar...
[Droid X General] DNak206:
+1 to this and if it doesn't work, one of my ex's is the best blower I've had. :cool:
[Droid X General] z06mike:
Try this: http://www.breakandmake.com/2010/07/15/how-to-increase-droid-x-call-quality/
[General Questions and Answers] seanlee2128:
hi everyone i pretty new at all this and i know alot of you are going to tell me that i could have searched it but i have look and i just cant seem to find the right answer.... i bought an evo off a guy on craigslist and the phone was working fine he told me it was rooted and when i got the phone it had fresh 3.2 on it... while having the phone i went threw an update to 3.4 and everything worked fine ... well i tried to update to the 3.5 and so much went wrong. i downloaded the file and tried to flash it and when i did that i couldnt get the phone to turn on would just go to the white htc evo4g screen... so i tried and tried and nothing so i went to my backup rom which was fresh 3.2 after i did that i was just going to try and start over on fixing the phone... after i did that i tryed to boot into recovery and now i cant even do that.. it goes into the boot loader then when i click the recovery button just goes to the white htc screen and stops there i have to pull the battery just to get the phone back on..... does anyone know what i can do... i tryed to just re root the phone and when i did that it said main version is older and it wouldnt go to the next step i guess .... really frustrated please help... and when i was going to from the 3.4 too 3.5 i cleared all the data and i cleared permissions or parmision i forgot what it said .. i thought i rememered doing that last time but that might have been my mistake? and if so how do i fix this