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[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ByteFalcon:
check this link with all the official RUUs and download one that is from your region or download the generic World wide english one (WWE)

its a utility that runs on windows and installs a fresh official ROM on your device
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ArielK:
dude and where is the link? :)

*During the RUU installation it says to turn on my phone and do several things...

I CANT TURN ON MY PHONE!
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] friedkimchi:
Try.

Try reformatting your sd card in windows first?

If you have ubuntu, you could use gparted to format it.

Or use another sd card.

Since you can access your sd card, download clockworkmod and the necessary files needed to root your phone, including a new rom. (I don't know how its like on windows as i use a mac so...)

Start the rooting process again using unrevoked. See if it starts up your phone.

If you can, flash the new rom.

Hopefully everything will work out.

P.S. What rom were you using before this happened and what version of rom manager were you using? Perhaps this might help other people.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ArielK:
First of all, I was using the newest version of ROM Manager and an Israeli ROM based on the LEEDROID.

but it all relays to the past, i got my phone back on track!!!

I found an old folder on my computer which included all my SDCARD content(I rememberd that i've backed up it on the pc once), so i copied everything to the SD, and than it let me into the recovery mod, and i had an old Nandroid backup.

EVERYTHING IS FINE NOW, THANKS EVERYBODY FOR TRYING!
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ByteFalcon:
weird...i'm pretty sure i posted the link...

here it is again: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=695667

Edit: i guess i was too late
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rikki123s:
Hello Guys,

I am currently using the Miri WM 6.5.X 23152 with Sense 2.5 V26.0 Rom for my HD2 and after installing Cookies Home tab & the editor, everything worked great, and almost still does :)

My problem is when I was playing around with the options for changing the wallpapers (of which is a set of custom options after installing the cookie home tab), I came across the 'Skin Taskbar and Softkeybar' option. Not knowing what the 'Taskbar' or 'Softkey bar' was, I foolishly decided to skin it to see what happened.

After the phone had reset, I noticed that the top bar (the taskbar) had skinned perfectly, however, the bottom bar (the Softkey bar) had turned black.

If you are familiar with this cooked rom from Miri, you would know that the softkey bar is the same design (or close to) as the tab bar for the main sense UI.

Now everytime I try to remove any skin from the softkey bar, whether this is from the wallpaper option 'Skin Taskbar and Softkeybar', 'Skin Only Softkeybar' or both, the bar remains black.

Is there a way to get the original Miri Softkey bar design back (perhaps a re-tweak in the registry with the default file location of Bars background image? If there is a registry value for it).

Rik.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rikki123s:
Anybody? :(
[Galaxy S I9000 General] gtg2:
There's a couple of existing i9000M failure related polls but they're focusing on the firmware version. As far as I can determine, firmware/ROM versions, rooting, lagfixes and other software have been ruled out as the culprit. Instead, I'd like to begin tracking the failure of the new hardware being offered by Bell following their new replacement policy with Samsung. We know the older hardware is a complete failure - is the newer hw any better?

Since you can't change your vote after the fact, I'm not including a "working fine" option. Instead, I'm ONLY looking for those folks who have had their replacement phones FAIL to report their hardware dates (i.e. you had to return the phone and were unable to resolve the problem through flashing).

How do you find out my hardware date? Pop the back cover, remove your batter and look for the year.month numbers below the bar code & S/N. Remember, the date is stated as the first 2 digits being year and the last 2 being month.

[UPDATE: Jan 18/11] The poll options were expanded to include a Jan 2011 date and anticipated Feb & March dates as well. If this continues, I'll add newer options to the poll. I simply had the "post 10.12" option changed to 11.01 since that would be the only post 10.12 option available at this point.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] AllGamer:
added to the HOT ISSUES I9000M sticky

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=886158
[Galaxy S I9000 General] jdrom:
Both of mine were 10.10's. This 3rd time though it has to go for repairs as Virgin Mobile isn't doing the direct replacement like Bell.

I've brought up the Bell stuff with them multiple times now and they won't say anything to it. I think they must be banned from speaking of Bell :p
[Galaxy S I9000 General] archangelz:
Mine was a 10.08 that failed. Got a 10.09 that has been working flawlessly since I upgraded to JK4 then the JL2 on the day it came out (2 weeks ago now). Going to take some HD video this weekend to test it out.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] TorontoR:
Well, most of us have had mulitple phones. What if my JL2 dies next week? I can't update the poll and you will have incomplete data if this is the case for others that have voted too.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] gtg2:
Nothing in this world is perfect - least of all these forum polls. Fortunately these results aren't going to result in a life-or-death situation. Just looking for an indication.

It might be worth changing the restrictions of the poll (assuming a mod can do so) so that we can submit multiple votes.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] slaman:
Five phones have failed on me now... this is pathetic. I love this phone, but it won't last more than 60 days.

All my phones have been 10.10 or before....

Don't know what to do... I'm REALLY frustrated.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] TorontoR:
This poll is moot. You will not get much of a picture of anything. The key would really be able to modify a vote a few weeks down the road, or perhaps add instructions indicating if folks have received recent replacements, NOT to vote for at least a few weeks or until they have sd failure.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] gtg2:
That was the point of "I'm ONLY looking for those folks who have had their phones FAIL to report their hardware dates (i.e. you had to return the phone and were unable to resolve the problem through flashing)."

Maybe I'll clarify the post to ask for reports on replacement phones received after the month of December.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Videonut:
It would be interesting if the users with 10.11 and 10.12 phones would post if their phones had the sd card won't mount message or if the failures were fc's, apps not installing, super lag, stuck at logo screen, etc. Also if they've done any rom flashing or lag fixes etc.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] slaman:
Got a 10.12 replacement today... will let you guys know when it fails.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] TorontoR:
Yes that bit of clarification would help....so that this thread doesnt gett buried, should get a mod to sticky it.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Motoemt:
Failed 10.11

I picked up a brand new SGS on Dec 31, 2010. Awesome phone, had fun with it newyears eve, Dropped some videos and a little music, maybe 5 gigs total onto the internal SD. Loved the phone, nice bright screen. Things were awesome, well until Jan 5th when i was installing an app from wifi, and it failed so i redownloaded it again, and again failed, finally got a force close message so i decided it was time for a quick reboot of the phone. Thats when I went oh S$*@, it just kept rebooting. Samsung Galaxy S I9000M. I'm going back to virgin today, to get it swapped out to a new one, Virgin will replace phones within 14 days directly but after that you have to send it for repair, but @least virgin gives you a free loaner phone unlike bell.

I'll give the sgs 1 more try, and see if i cant force it to fail with some big data writes. Most likely they'll have more 10.11 hardware with stock JP6 flashed onto them.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] slaman:
Heh. Failed.

I'm done.

HTC Desire Z it is.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] DvTonder:
I suggest you wait for this http://www.bce.ca/en/news/releases/bm/2011/01/05/76802.html

After 4 failed phones, the SGS is history as far as I am concerned.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] ManMOuntain:
How many SGS have been sold globally, is it 10 million?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] gtg2:
Agreed. I'm no fan on the desire z. If my phone dies again (and the new moto phone is out), that's what I'll be pushing for as a replacement.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] DvTonder:
And your point is?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] AllGamer:
on the voting poll

the 2 people that voted, what is the date on your sticker? :confused:

11.01 ?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] slaman:
I don't know if I have an option... I'm within my 30 day period and will be returning my THIRD dead phone... after 30 days, I'm stuck with sending it in for replacements rather than getting an immediate replacement. I can't go phoneless anymore...

The Motorola Atrix is a bad-ass phone, but don't expect it until early Q2, and know that it will have a locked bootloader.

Edit: Poll-owner, add 4 more votes for pre-10.10 for me (since I could only vote once), and 1 vote under 10.12 - thanks.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] astralmind:
Just got a 10.12 today, 3rd phone... I thought the 10.12 were safe ?!? starting to freak me out here..
[Galaxy S I9000 General] chevy2410:
Just got my 10.11 today. Can I assume that at some point these will fail as well?

Chevy
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Alfahmad:
I got my phone back

10.12

Failed with internal SD card failure after few flashes

I am done with this phone ....
[Galaxy S I9000 General] DvTonder:
Which roms did you install and did you apply any lagfix?

I had my 10.12 fail after 5 hours with Darky's rom and lagfix applied.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Alfahmad:
Stock Firmwares for different region

No lagfix.

So what our options now, should we go back to Samsung again?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Alfahmad:
I guess it was not the real internal SD card failure as I am able to get my phone alive again

I think previously I flashed the phone with re-partition option checked

Now I flashed the phone again with this rom

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=853950

Froyo 2.2 JL2 and the phone is working

However, if I flash any other rom even JH2, the phone will not boot and I get dead black screen

Any suggestions? I need to unlock the phone and flash a rom from different region :)
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Samdroid_G_S:
Yea I have a suggestion read abit more next time before flashing :) anyway since you flashed JL2 you flashed a new .sbl (secondary boot loader) this boot loader is not compatible with 2.1 roms such as JH2 it is however compatible with 2.2 and 2.2.1 roms your only way back now is finding a full 2.1 JH2 firmware that includes a .sbl and flash that through odin.

As far as unlocking I seen a new app in the dev section claiming it works on JL2.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Alfahmad:
:)

I figured out that my phone was not actually bricked after some reading ;) too late ;) I even was unable to get to the download mode with the 3B. However, I manged to access the download mode through adb. since my phone was in USB debugging mode before it bricked.

Now, I am not sure if I am using the correct partition or no. if JL2 is working fine does this mean the partition is OK !!

Or,

How can I go back to the original stock rom which was installed in my phone.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Samdroid_G_S:
Why would you want to go back with 2.1 stick with jl2 or a custom rom. Just use odin and flash hardcores kernel. Use root in cwm recovery once hardcores kernel is flashed cook your self up a rom with docs kitchen save it on your sd and flash with cwm.

If your heart is set on JH2 then like I said your going to need to find a full JH2 rom that contains the .sbl and flash it with odin with update bootloader checked.

As far as your partition question Im not sure I believe its a 512 pit and my theory is if it aint broke dont fix it in other wirds its working so juat leave it unless you start running into issues.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Alfahmad:
Thank you Samdroid_G_S

I am selling this phone, this why I am trying to restore the factory setting. I believe it's a very nice phone. however, it's to complicated, rooting, and unlocking especially if you are not a Bell customer and you need to use this phone with a different carrier. I wold prefer to go with the European version SIM unlocked and 1900 band for 3G. Though, I will be missing the 850 band.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Samdroid_G_S:
Its actually not that complicated heres a free unlock app in this thread.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=906255
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Motoemt:
10.11

Well the new phone is starting to exhibit the same behaviour my previous one did.

The back key get's stickied and is activating when im not even touching the screen, pressing home causes screenshots to be captured instead of returning to the home screen.

I'm going to load the **** outta it today and see if she'll fail, and if she does i'll swap it out while Im in the city. going to get another unit, and if it fails I'm going to be screaming bloody murder.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Corvillus:
Stuck at GT-I9000 bootloader screen

I noticed that TouchDown died this morning, couldn't recover data, etc. Then tried to get into Titanium Backup to delete the data for it, which is in my Tools label on Folder Organizer, force closes on Folder Organizer. Rebooted phone. Stuck at the bootloader screen.

Second I9000M, 10.12 rev. Came with JH2, flashed to Doc's v6.1 the day I got it back, JL2 modem.

Going to try using Odin to flash JL2, failing that, it's going back to Bell.

Edit: also can't get into recovery.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Samdroid_G_S:
So you went from JH2 to Doc's v6.1? You never went JH2>JL2>Docs?

If you skipped the JL2 in between your the 3rd that I know of (10.12) that went from JH2 directly to a custom rom and skipping the SBL update that has died.(well not confirmed dead yet I guess).
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Corvillus:
Yeah, I tried flashing JL2 to fix this but couldn't even get it to flash (it always hangs at cache.rfs). Tried flashing JH2, flash worked fine, phone can't boot, but can get into recovery. Also, oddly enough, it can still format the partitions when doing a factory reset. I don't get mmkblk0p1/2 not found this time around as I did with my previous I9000M, instead I get a bunch of format_vfat_device parameters displaying for /dev/block/mmcblk0p1 (and nothing for mmcblk0p2, it just finishes successfully). Which leads me to believe that this might be another issue. I'll try flashing it again from another machine, but barring that, it's going back to the Bell store for another replacement, unless anyone here can suggest another fix.

Edit: before anyone asks, mmcblk0p1 also formats successfully, it just displays the arguments passed to newfs_msdos for some reason.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Samdroid_G_S:
Have you tried repartitioning with odin then flashing JL2 after repartitioning? Try using a 512pit as well.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Corvillus:
The first thing I tried was JL2 straight up. Then tried JL2 with repartitioning. Then tried with bootloader flash turned on and repartitioning. Then JH2 with repartitioning (which worked). I'm going to try JL2 on my Mac when I get home (which I know didn't have any problems flashing JL2 with SBL to a friend's phone a few weeks ago that had this same issue).

Edit: In all repartitioning cases, 512.pit was used.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Samdroid_G_S:
Jh2 will not boot as you have flashed jl2 with the new secondary bootloader that is not 2.1 compatible. You will need a full Jh2 rom that includes a .sbl to flash over it for it to work.

when you flash jl2 first time repartition after that completes reflash jl2 without repartition and no pit just jl2 tar ball in the pda.

Edit found a full JH2 2.1 Rom that Includes the .SBL, just make sure update boot loader is checked when flashing it.

http://www.multiupload.com/EZF1IEZ34H
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Corvillus:
Doesn't really matter, phone is dead now, JL2 flashed fine, but 3e recovery is reporting that stl10 can't be mounted. Must have just been a fluke that it was working in JH2, maybe it hadn't completely died yet. (Did about 6 or 7 flash attempts today so that might have put it past the edge). Thanks anyway though, I'll download that JH2 ROM to have on hand. :)
[Galaxy S I9000 General] wang1chung:
an stl10 error does not mean sdcard failure, just means you flashed a rom without dbdata.

flash the jh2 rom that samdroid_G_S listed, with repartition and phone bootloader update ticked, and you'll be good.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Corvillus:
I guess it can't hurt to try, unfortunately I already have an advance replacement under way.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] gtg2:
That's a great observation. However, there are several reported 10.11 phones that shipped with JL2 pre-installed that have gone on to die.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] gtg2:
At the very least, it'll further the knowledge we're building about what can and can't be fixed and how to go about doing it. Troubleshooting feedback = good.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] wang1chung:
well, it's not possible to go from jl2 to a custom rom because of the locked sbl, so you would HAVE to change the sbl in order to flash anything else.........so i don't think that has anything to do with it. either way, your sbl is going to be different than jl2's sbl............or am i way off here?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Corvillus:
True. Anyway, flashed that JH2 image, now it's doing the same thing it actually did on Doc's ROM before I tried to get this flashing done, it freezes at the kernel boot screen and doesn't get any farther than that (doesn't get to the animated logo, no boot loop, no black screen, nothing, just Galaxy S GT-I9000M frozen there).
[Galaxy S I9000 General] wang1chung:
did you wipe data/factory reset?

did you repartition with 512 pit?

did you tick phone bootloader update?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Corvillus:
Yes, yes, and yes, though I attempted the wipe after the flash. I can try flashing it a second time though.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] wang1chung:
nah, i got nothing if you did all that............does recovery mode give you any errors?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Samdroid_G_S:
This is not true.........A locked Secondary Boot loader means that it can not be changed the JL2 SBL is not locked cause it's possible to flash over it with another .sbl.......

The .SBL included in JL2 works so far on all 2.2 and 2.2.1 roms it just will not work on 2.1 roms. No custom rom such as Doc's or Darky's changes the .SBL. I'm currently running Doc's rom with the JL2 .sbl for example.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Samdroid_G_S:
Flash the JH2 I linked try it with no pit , no repartition , Boot loader update checked put the tar ball in PDA , The file is Zipped so make sure you use 7 zip or Winrar to unzip the tar ball
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Corvillus:
Tried that, doesn't seem to have worked. SBL obviously flashed fine since it's on recovery 2e again, and everything seems to have went well otherwise. But it still won't get past the kernel splash when doing a normal boot. Going to try flashing JL2 now. Is there a ROM that includes a dbdata.rfs for that or should I just flash it over JH2 without doing a repartition?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Corvillus:
Tried flashing JL2 as I mentioned, still can't boot. Now I get the Can't mount /dev/block/mmcblk0p1 (I/O error). So the internal SD is corrupt (though not necessarily completely dead). In any case, I'm putting this away for the time being, have to be up for work fairly soon.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Samdroid_G_S:
yea seems like your sd is toast :-(
[Galaxy S I9000 General] gtg2:
+1 on another great response. I'm running one of Doc's JPY (2.2.1) ROMs after receiving my JL2 phone.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] gtg2:
Quick update:

I've had Jan, Feb and March 2011 dates added to the poll to correct my previous shortsightedness. The old "post 10.12" was changed to the Jan 11 option.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Motoemt:
Phone 3

Well I'm on number 3, Same batch as the previous 2.

Currently in Alberta, Seems all the handsets on stock in this part of the country are 10.11, I'm pondering, if i'm going to keep replacing them until I get a good one, or perhaps try to change to a different phone. I'm hoping to see the Motorola Atrix available, soon, so i'll demand a switch over to one of those.

Phone # 3 information

New phone details,

Virgin mobile canada (AKA Bell canada)

Hardware 10.11

Model GT-I9000M

Firmware 2.2

Baseband version I9000UGJL2

Kernel Version 2.6.32.9 - shout.lee@SEP-09 #3

Build number FROYO.UGJL2

Same as previous 2.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Motoemt:
Seems like not many people are still updating this topic anymore. Well phone 3 is starting to exhibit strange behavior now. Of a side note virgin has told me I need to reflash this back to 2.1 but do not provide the image themselves. They told me to goto Samsungs site and find it myself. LOL..

They need to get their stuff together not tell people that they have to suffer with old software because the manufacturer used defective parts.

Are any people in alberta getting newer than 10.11 hardware? Are the newer hardware rev's still exhibiting this behavior? Has anyone opened a borked sd phone to see what manu the sd is?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] wang1chung:
actually, after i got my 10.07 back from repair with the invoice saying " reflashed code 202 " or whatever, i ripped it apart and took some pics of it.........but that was over a week ago, and this phone won't break. i even ran jk4 for over 5 days, which previously bricked my phone in 12 hours........

the bga chip is marked:

samsung 040

klmag8dehe-a101

n2vzcea1

there is also a '12' written on the motherboard, but i don't think it's a 10.12 revision as i saw someone else's motherboard that he took pics of in july that had a '10' on it. so no gaurantee chips marked with this are the "defective" ones.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] gtg2:
Wow.. the i9000M forums have quieted down a LOT. I remember how around the beginning of Jan there would consistently be 6 out of the top 10 threads relating to this issue. Does silence in this case indicate that the issue really has been resolved with JL2??

My replacement phone (my 3rd received at the start of Jan) has been running very well. Just noticed beginning yesterday that there's been a small bit of lag but I think it's too early to say there's a problem. I've been running one of Doc's 2.2.1 ROMs from his kitchen for around 3 weeks now.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Woolios:
Going Strong on 10.11 No RFS, Ext4 No problems w00t maybe this might go well over 1 month so far in my hands
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Bughlol:
Actually I'm increasing my post count to "ten" to be able to post in the development section !
[Galaxy S I9000 General] ccrows:
Which Hardware version do you have?...
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Marcel0:
just get you phone rooted it fixes all the problems
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] Jeroentje1991:
With the stock HTC headset you can't control the volume as there are no volume buttons. I was wondering if there exists an app that can control the volume by holding for example one of the headset buttons.

For Android I found an app (Headset Volume Control made by Androidpublisher), does this also exsis for Windows Mobile? :)
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ryno502:
I was just curious if there was a way to change the screen resolution to a higher setting, for example, 540 x 960 like the DROID Bionic that was just announced.

This is easily done on PC's, obviously, I was just curious if it was possible on the Epic as well.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LucJoe:
The screen has a certain number of pixels. That is what the resolution is set at.

Likewise, with PC monitors, the screens have a certain number of pixels (native resolution) and should pretty much always be run at this resolution.

There is no way to increase the number of pixels.