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[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kronomike:
We know that the Canadian i9000M is basically the same as the international and European i9000, as well as the i9000B (Brazil). Their firmwares are mostly compatible with one another. Yet only the Canadian i9000M has massive reports of the deadly failure AKA the dead internal SD. The exact cause of the problem is unknown. We are not 100% sure what is killing it. It's widely accepted that the root of the problem is the faulty hardware used in certain batches of the i9000M. But there have been an alarming number of failures with latest hardware. What made the i9000M hardware so different from other i9000's? Weren't they manufactured at the same facility? No other i9000's used the same batch of the hardware? Can it be mainly firmware related?" Can there be some bugs or malicious codes in the canadian firmware, which leads to the failure of the hardware? I'm really intrigued.

Is there enough statistics on this issue?

Has anyone had his i9000M flashed with a stock ROM from another region (i9000, i9000B...), and it still died?

Have you flashed it fully or partially? (sbl, modem, etc...)

The same questions for those who flashed a custom ROM that is not based on a Canadian stock ROM.

We need more inputs to solve this annoying mystery once for all. It's freaking annoying knowing that you can't rely on your phone as it could just choke and die, and there's nothing you can do to prevent it.

Sorry for my English as it is not my primary lanuage. I hope I made it clear enough.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] delly47:
i flashed my phone with the european froyo when it first came out via the kies reg hack, and my phone had the internal sd card error within days. i never did rooting or lag fixes or anything.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tekkneak:
It certainly is a Hardware issue from Samsung on Bell Galaxy S Vibrants. It is recognized and exists on all models prior to 10.12 (take out your battery and you will see this number directly below the UPC code) - mine was 10.07

Bell recognizes this and that is why they are offering:

* Expedited replacement

* $100 credit

* additional 2 year warranty on all models prior to 10.12

Tekky
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gtg2:
So that there's no confusion... there's no evidence that any recent hardware dates result in fault-free phones. While the reports of failures on say 10.11 or 10.12 phones aren't substantial, they are definitely coming in. I'm a pessimist so I'm attributing the low numbers simply to there not being many of these phones in the market yet or to the simple fact that they haven't been in use for long (e.g. I have a 10.11 phone but only received it on Jan 4).
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mortify1:
What about those that aren't on Bell's network but picked up one of their phones? Would I have to register to a pay-as-you-go Bell plan and then be eligible for the extended two year support?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] seeARMS:
My opinion: It was the secondary bootloader in the Canadian ROMs that killed our phones. This is basically what both Samsung and Bell have said as well; that flashing JL2 will fix the problem.

Yeah, there have been reports of phones running JL2 dying, but there have been much, much less people saying this compared to firmwares such as JK4. (Might be because JL2 is so new, but I don't think so.)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Lightarrow:
Received my repplacement dec 24th (10.12) flashed like crazy, filled the sd card many times, formattted lots of times and no slowdown or issue whatsoever :P am not on doc v8 from kitchen :P
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lgkahn:
that makes absolutely no sense a bootloader cannot kill the phone it doesnt do anything except during boot.. peoples phones were dieing while running.. and there is so reason you shouldnt be able to use any i9000 firmware.. it is just bad hardware.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] windraker:
When I got my second phone it had JH2 (which doesn't have a sbl.bin).

I then flash JL2 (after removing the SBL.bin from the tar file). The phone died and I'm getting a new one from Bell.

Does this mean that removing the sbl killed my phone, as it never had one to begin with?

Thanks.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] htp1498:
i think it's a hardware issue, because this phone is dying from numerous factors - it dies on multiple firmwares both custom and official rom. it dies on lagfix phones and non lagfix phones. therefore it is clear that this i9000m is a faulty product, and the issues has to do with samsung manufacturing process of this phone. And their official rom is not efficient as well. The GPS function is non existence, while u flash a custom rom it is working okay. which is ridiculous, because pushing a product like this into the market while promoting its gps feature that doesn't even work on majority of their phones is just disappointment.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dqm45:
Do you have a link to the extended warranty? I can't find anything on their website or via Google.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] seeARMS:
Why did you remove the Sbl.bin? The secondary boot loader apparently fixes this issue, so if anything you should flash it instead of removing it...

It had one to begin with, it's a boot loader so it must have had one. The JL2 version is just improved, so removing it wouldn't flash anything; you'd be stuck with your JH2 SBL.

The hardware is nearly identical to the i9000. I don't think it's a hardware issue.

Let's just wait the amount of phones dying (that run JL2) to match those dying that ran JK4. Then we can conclude the SBL didn't fix it.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] windraker:
I removed it because on the phone before that after updating to JL2 I couldn't flash JH2 anymore because JH2 didn't have the bootloader. I asked some devs here and they said it would be ok to remove the SBL.BIN as it locks the phone somewhat, especially that post about the galaxy tab getting new boot/sbl files.

I want to be able to go back to a previous rom, and not have to fiddle around moving bootloaders between tar files.

I was planing on removing the sbl/boot from all future roms as well, so they don't do a checksum on the firmware
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] seeARMS:
To get back to a previous ROM, just flash a previous ROM that contains a secondary boot loader, then you're able to flash anything. It locks the phone to some extent - until you just flash a different SBL.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] windraker:
Not all roms have a secondary bootloader, even JS3/JPY didn't come with it, so I'm not sure why bells does :(
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] seeARMS:
There isn't much known about it, but it'd make sense if the SBL of the older Bell firmwares killed the phone, so that's why Bell included an SBL in the newest JL2 firmware... There isn't a reason to actually install a SBL, so why else include one? To fix something. :)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Samdroid_G_S:
This is what I believe as well , I am on my second SGS now it's a 10.12 phone had it since Dec 23rd came with JH2 I installed JL2 on the 24th and then from there went to a custom rom/kernel that same night been flashed it 20+ times so far with no issues. First phone a 10.8 died within 2 weeks of flashing custom roms.

From my understanding the first batch of Bell i9000M's some of them were stuck without 3BR (3 button Recovery) due to a .SBL problem so they released a new .sbl with JH2?? to fix the issue so users could get a working 3BR. I believe they did not test it long enough and there was still an issue between the .SBL and the primary boot loader witch was some how killing internal SD cards this is why even some users phones died on JH2 as well. This is just my guess really as I'm no tech expert but just follow a lot of threads here on XDA about the I9000M. From what I can see there has been a huge decrease in dead internal SD's since the release of JL2 , I think it was about a week after it was released I read about the first one that died on it vs JK4 where there was 5+ people within the first day a few within the first few hours of it's release.

For those of you saying Bell/Samsung admitted a hardware problem I do not believe they did , Samsung blamed it on software and pulled JK4 from Kies if they honestly thought it was hardware they would of never removed JK4 from Kies.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] seeARMS:
Good post; exactly what I think. Samsung has indeed blamed it on software, not hardware: http://www.facebook.com/topic.php?uid=260085296049&topic=15210
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kronomike:
Thanks for your suggestion.

So flashing JL2 SBL is our best bet to prevent our phone from dying as we are running out of options...

Just use Odin to flash the phone with stock JL2 ROM? (with Phone Bootloader Update checked)

Will flashing another kernel (eg, Speedmod) overwrites the SBL, making the phone vulnerable again?

*Found the answers after more readings. Thanks.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Lightarrow:
Correct me if im wrong but flashing a kernel does not override the SBL.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kronomike:
Since other i9000's don't have the same issue as the i9000M. Does that mean flashing a non Canadian stock ROM with SBL also does the trick?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kronomike:
You're right ... I got confused since flashing a kernel can give you something Clockworkmod recovery. I thought it's part of the SBL as it is activated by pressing the 3 buttons.
[General Questions and Answers] treinengek:
Hey guys,

So i installed a rom with xdandroid build in, now Android doesnt run and windows doesnt load even activesync how can i go and fix this problem?

greetz from me
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hurricane350:
Ok, I don't know what I'm doing wrong, but I can never get rid of stuff completely.... like my Gapps are still there after everything and all I install is CM

I tried:

Wipe data/user settings

Wipe Cache

Wipe Davlik Cache

I also tried:

Wipe data/user settings

Wipe Cache

Wipe Davlik Cache

Format Data (in Partitions)

Format Cache (in Partitions)

Format Boot (in Partitions)

Format System (in Partitions)

I have tried both these options and I am still left with remnants of previous ROMs. Any suggestions? Do I have to load PC36IMG.zip and then root everytime to have a clean install? Seems a little extreme...
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] iitreatedii:
amon ra or clockwork and what version
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hurricane350:
Clockwork 2.5 (previously), but I just switched to RA Recovery v2.2.2 still have Gapps on my phone... CM doesn't include Gapps right? I remember having to install them before unless something changed
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AbsolutZeroGI:
Can't get rid of gapps, dude. CM requires it that they be there so they're protected files that you can't erase (unless you flash a new rom, which has all the gapps built in anyway).

I hope you like Google programs, because you are stuck with em :D
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hurricane350:
I love Gapps! I just suspect some of my FCs is because I had an older version of them. I am running CM7 now and I have the new GB Gapps but I thought it was odd that Gmail, Maps, etc was still on there before I even flashed the new Gapps

So to answer my original question, there is no way to completely wipe short of reimaging with PC36IMG and rooting again?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bwcorvus:
Run FORMAT_ALL from the post below. Once its down booting your new install, do not put your information into the setup wizard (just keep hitting skip). This will get you a clean install. REMEMBER FORMAT ALL WILL ERASE EVERYTHING ON YOUR PHONE (not sdcard/recovery/boot/s-off).

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=785271&highlight=format
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hurricane350:
I'll give it a go, but according to Caulkin's thread all it is doing is what I did already! (wipe data, cache & format boot/system) I will try it out though. Thanks!

I did never try skipping the setup wizard... Hmm
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bwcorvus:
This is the key, it will not restore the old apps, if you skip the wizard.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hurricane350:
Well, I did it! Yippee!

I did the following this time around:

Wipe data/user settings

Wipe cache

Wipe Davlik cache

Ran Caulkin's Format_all.zip

Installed CM7 nightly

Funny thing is, it bypassed the setup altogether... I'm guessing because Gapps were finally gone! It brought me right to the home screen, I opened up apps and no Gmail, no Market, nothing! Finally!

So I rebooted Recovery, installed GB Gapps and I am running smooth as butter (No FCs yet!)

Thanks everyone! Especially bwcorvis for the link to Caulkin's script
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bwcorvus:
Glad i could help :)
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] gu:
My wife just got a X10 mini pro, and I'm aching to play with it. I've been tweaking and hacking my windows phones for nearly a decade, but Android is all new to me. So I hope you'll forgive me if these questions are stupid.

1. Are there any reasons not to root (apart from the user being able to mess things up)?

2. Is it possible to unroot if I want to?

3. Is it possible to make a full system backup before I root?

4. What is the best method for backing up the system after I root? Does Nandroid work with X10 mini pro? Or is this the way to go: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=878427?

Thanks in advance.
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] HerrKuk:
#1 You can lose your warranty

#2 YES, it's possible to unroot, z4root has that option, but i never tried it. Can someone confirm?

#3 I do not think so

#4 yup, with xRecovery, lots of how to- threads in this forum
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] gu:
Thanks a lot, HerrKuk (nice nick :)). I'm looking forward to exploring the Android world.
[Nook Color General] thisisjjd:
I'm a bit confused about getting my Auto-Nooted 1.0.1 NC visible to adb on my mac.

Situation: I have the NC as well as a T-Mobile G2. I also have a linux machine.

On the Mac, if I plugin the G2, it shows up under "adb devices". But if I plug in the NC, it doesn't.

However...

On the linux machine, the NC shows up just fine in "adb devices".

The fact that the G2 shows up on the Mac makes me think the mac is configured correctly.

The fact that the NC shows up on linux, makes me think the NC is configured correctly.

Why won't the NC show up under 'adb devices' on the Mac?
[Nook Color General] thisisjjd:
I should also point out that the NC does show up in System Profiler on the Mac when connected to USB:

Nook:

Product ID:	0x0002

Vendor ID:	0x2080

Version:	2.16

Serial Number:	2005210058833xx5

Speed:	Up to 480 Mb/sec

Manufacturer:	B&N

Location ID:	0x24110000

Current Available (mA):	500

Current Required (mA):	500
[Nook Color General] eyecrispy:
Weird. I use a Macbook for all my rooting and haven't seen that. Could it be your cable? Have you tried ADB Wireless to see if that'll work on your Mac?

I know that I had a crappy usb cable and had all sorts of issues but when I used a different cable, it was fine.
[Nook Color General] thisisjjd:
I'm using the same B&N supplied cable on both linux (that works) and on Mac (which doesn't) so I kinda think it's probably OK. I've tried with it plugged into a hub and directly into the iMac with the same (bad) results.

I haven't tried adb wireless -- for the moment I'm doing everything on linux.

Thanks for the suggestions.
[Nook Color General] h1m1le5:
I have the exact same problem. ADB wireless works, but none of my 3 macs can use USB and ADB on my nook, either in Eclair or Froyo.

The problem now is that I have dualboot Eclair / Froyo, and Froyo is stock, so I can't do anything with it because Market isn't installed. Can't install ADB Wireless because I don't have Market, and can't install Market because ADB USB doesn't work... sigh.

Any ideas? thanks...
[Nook Color General] spyz88:
When I ran into this problem all you have to do after you install the SDK is connect your Nook to your Mac, then open terminal. Afterwards enter:

sudo sh -c "mkdir -p ~/.android; echo 0x2080 > ~/.android/adb_usb.ini; adb kill-server; adb devices

Then reboot your Nook and your set. You only have to do this once, after that. ADB works fine.
[Nook Color General] h1m1le5:
Hmm... Thanks for your response, I just tried that and all it gave me was a > prompt. I thought you might have missed the final " at the end, so I added it, but it reported back

error: protocol fault (no status)

EDIT: After rebooting from Eclair into Froyo, now it works! Thanks so much spyz88... This changes everything!
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] (nico):
I've noticed that all sound on my device don't work anymore except when the sound level is set to the maximum level.

I've done all bunch of stuff with my phone, but I don't really remember changing anything related to volume.

Does anyone else have the same problem ?

Also can anybody dump the registry folder HKCU\ControlPanel\Volume so I can compare with my settings?

Thanks,

Nico
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] xboxmod:
on htc trophy

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\ControlPanel\Volume]
"Key"=dword:2
"Screen"=dword:2
"Mute"=dword:7
"Volume"=dword:C666C666
"MaxSystemUIVolume"=dword:1E
"MaxInCallUIVolume"=dword:A
"MaxdBAtten"=dword:2D
"MinInCallVolume"=dword:1111

if you have change key like this:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\EventLog\Channel\

apply attached xap to restore original state.
[General Questions and Answers] visione1986:
I bought a fabulous android device, and I'd like to give my old Htc touch Viva to my father BUT WM 6.1 original is not accessible to a 60 years old man.. the font is too small, buttons are small the interface isn't intuitive and so on..

My simple question is:

Is there a ROM that fits my needs? in other words: is there a ROM for old people that could be installed on my old phone? :confused:
[Nook Color General] guchdog:
Has anybody tried getting SMS on your nook? I tried getting Google Voice to work but can't remember specifically but I ran into some roadblocks getting it to work. It was looking for local phone services or something. Has anybody got at SMS to work on the nook. I think it would be nice to send and receive text messages.
[Nook Color General] easy9:
this would be awesome
[Nook Color General] lucifurious:
I got Google voice am to work but I'm not sure how.

Magically transmitted across the interwebs by my kickass NookColor!
[Nook Color General] theadlee:
Google voice works great on NC for SMS
[Nook Color General] guchdog:
Thanks, I have to retry this. It was late when I was installing, could have missed something.
[Nook Color General] jmoch2:
Make sure you have a Google voice number not just the account. I had to pick a gv number in order for texts to work.

Works great here too.

Sent from my Nook Color.
[Nook Color General] lifegoesby:
Google voice working here. Yes, make sure you have chosen to get a gv. Number and not just using your cell phone number with gv
[Nook Color General] madman390:
Google voice downloaded from the market works on my daughter's nook. She can send and receive texts. Is there a way to get the contacts to show up? When she tries to compose, it seems the only option is to manually type in the number. I can't find a way to access an address book from within google voice. Am I missing something?

Thanks!
[Nook Color General] beehiveblack:
How do you get a number for. The nook.

I have gv on my phone already but how do I assign a number to my nook.
[Nook Color General] runhopskipjump:
Just use the same credentials. You should receive messages on both devices. I have my iPhone 4 and nook set up for that. Unless you want to deal with another number there is no reason to create a new one.

Nook Color+Rooted+OC@1ghz+Nookie+Contributed$=Awesome
[Nook Color General] Humanio:
Has anyone tried getting WhatsApp to work? It needs to send a confirmation sms to your specified number, I'm trying to find a way to bypass that portion. Google Voice works great in the mean time, but Whatsapp is great for sending multimedia.
[Nook Color General] destrekor:
I am sensing a little confusion here...

Remember folks, true SMS messaging requires cellular service, as it uses the cellular radio to send packets of information to the cell towers and through the service providers.

The only way to go about text messaging without a cellular radio on a device is to use a VOIP service (Voice Over IP) that also allows text-messaging. I'm actually not familiar with Skype at all, so I'm not sure if they also use phone-numbers, but with Google Voice, you have to have a phone number, which is one that is provided to you (you get to choice of available numbers).

The only other option for messaging over text, other than using a VOIP service that offers a texting feature, is to use an instant-messaging service (i.e. AIM).
[Nook Color General] Humanio:
Agreed. I completely understand the sms bit, which is why google voice works. But Whatsapp is also data based, which is why its so great. However it still requires an activation step but sending an sms to your number which obviously cant be done. However I'm curious of anyone knows of a way to bypass the activation portion altogether?
[Nook Color General] madfatter:
cant you tell it to send a sms to your google voice number?
[Nook Color General] slugbug2010:
I can't seem to get this to work. I DLed the google voice app from the market, it walks me through set up, I log in with the same gmail account that my gvoice # is assigned to, but then it only shows my mobile number, not my gvoice #. I select add a # and then the screen just stays put....nothing happens. I have to press n to go back to my home launcher.

Any hints?
[Nook Color General] tgallant21:
Has anyone got a contract list to work with google voice?
[Nook Color General] iotta:
not working

what do you guys mean by this? I can't get mine to work. Like the other guy said, i downloaded from market, selected my mobile phone number (when I try to add a phone number it doesn't work). I can send text messages that send from my GV number but I can't receive any messages. I can't receive any messages on my mobile phone either, for that matter.

Any ideas?

I don't have Google Voice installed on my mobile phone, but that shouldn't matter, right?

Thanks!
[Nook Color General] pianoblack:
GTalkSMS / TalkMyPhone

I've been using a neat app called 'GTalkSMS' (available on Market) that allows me to use Google Talk to send and receive SMS from my phone number. GTalkSMS works great when I'm at desktop and is also quite serviceable from the Nook.

You may have to first set up a separate Jabber chat account for the phone (if you're using Google Talk as the chat program). After that step, I've used it for:

- sending & receiving SMSes (after forgetting my phone at home/other side of the house (lol));

- looking up contact info on the phone (includes email & physical addresses as well as phone numbers);

- locating my phone with GPS coordinates and by setting it to ring;

- writing on my phone/sending links or clipboard content...etc.

I don't have Google Voice locally, so I'm not sure how it compares -- let me know!
[Nook Color General] RileyGrant:
TextPlus seems to work. (;

Sent from my rooted Nook Color.
[Nook Color General] jparness:
I've used GTalkSMS and Google Voice, and I prefer Google Voice, only because I don't have to set up a Jabber chat account to make it work, and it allows me to use the same number for SMS on all my devices. But if you don't have a Google Voice number, GTalkSMS is the way to go!
[Nook Color General] dls1234:
i just set up google voice. took 2 minutes and works great except it wont let me add or save contacts
[Nook Color General] |attf|:
I use google voice. works fine. Just for txt of course.

I imported contacts with the vcard file.