yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ameedi600:
Will this work, I got this comment from a user on the dow forum and I was wondering if someone has given this a try, if you want to see what else the user said then go to the dow thread on page 82. Here is what the comment said: When I have had that problem on stock KB1+voodoo (I haven't tried DOW) I have fixed it by grabbing a copy of fat.format from a rom and pushing it to /system/bin. after rebooting recovery I was able to enable/disable voodoo.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ssiddiqi1:
well this confirms, that your sd card cannot be repartitioned. It is untouchable :-(
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ssiddiqi1:
You can try, but I doubt it. I do not have any hopes.

I had once internal sd card messed up due to Dead Horse kernel. I repartitioned it with the pit file I posted. It was a backup repartition file from my Vibrant with ext4 extension, then I UVJFD and repartition with pit512. After that I decided to stay away from OC kernel.

Your case is different, you cards are fried and untouchable.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ssiddiqi1:
BTW: fat.format should already be in /system/bin on your phone. It is in every ROM, including Eugene JK2. Also fat.format does not enable or disable voodoo. It is used to format the sdcard with FAT32 partition.

Again, you can try, but I highly doubt it would work.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ameedi600:
Do you think the pit file that you posted would work on my phone, if it doesnt, how much do you think I should sell it for
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ssiddiqi1:
You can try,

I doubt anything could rescue these phones.

I have no idea for how much you can sell

I checked today at Amazon, they are selling Vibrant 4G for $149.99 for existing TMObile customers if you extend contract for 2 years, and $99 for new customers It is more expensive if you buy directly from T-Mobile. Amazon is giving out our Vibrant free, after rebates, with 2 years contract.

So it can give an idea what Vibrants worth now in market.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ameedi600:
Has anyone tried the je8 firmware with ssdiqs pit file and repartition checked
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ameedi600:
Has anyone tried the je8 firmware with ssiddiqis pit file and repartition checked
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Binary100100:
You should consider checking Craigslist or eBay.

But also consider that you're phone is pretty much useless without an internal sdcard or access to the external sdcard. Plus you can't download and install any apps from Market. So I would say... no more than $50. Unless you hide the fact that it's messed up and intentionally rip the person off... but personally, I could never do that and I wouldn't ever associate myself with anyone that would even try.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] upbeat.addict:
why is everyone looking to sell these things? it was first released in june, should these not be covered by our manufacturer's warranty still. i checked mine last night with samsung and they confirmed. im just trying to decide now if i should go thru tmobile so i can get fronted a replacement or wait it out with samsung.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Binary100100:
I bought mine off Craigslist so they won't replace it even if it was still under warranty. I personally think that's stupid. Curious if I could go through Samsung directly...
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] upbeat.addict:
i only had to use the IMEI to register mine with samsung man. there's a date of purchase, but just use something after july 15th and you should be good. its at least worth a shot to open a ticket and try. although i did see where a proof purchase maybe necessary...give it a go.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ssiddiqi1:
You might be better off with TMO, if you revert to UVJFD, even it does not boot. Samsung will repair, TMO will replace it with refurbished one or a new one if they do not have a refurbished in stock, then TMO send your old Vibrant to Samsung for recycling.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ameedi600:
I baught mine off craigs list and he said that it had warranty under tmobile but I dont know what to tell them to find out if it does, and if it has samsung warranty, what do I tell them to convince them and would it cost me any cash.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ssiddiqi1:
Call TMO tech support, give them IMEI number and tell them that you bought from someone who claimed that he bought from TMO. They maybe able to check it. You are TMO customer so maybe they will help. However, if you say that you bricked it by installing a custom kernel and rooted phone, then that technically void the warranty, and neither TMO nor Samsung will take it back. So I do not know what to tell you to tell TMO, it becomes an ethics issue. Call the TMO tech support anyway and see what they can do. It depends upon whom you get, I had sometime very friendly support who helped a lot, and I had once a customer support girl who basically cheated on me, she gave me a lower price on phone and entered a different price in the account, which I noticed after 2 months. I had to make a threat of fraud law suite in writing to resolve the issue.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] manjish:
Ok guys I have an idea...back when I used cm6.1 kanged from eugenes site...i remember external sd was mounted as /sdcard.....

im at college now.....you guys can give it a shot...ill try when I get to my home...

if it boots we will have around 70 % working.....

Also somewhere in i9000 forum supercurio said that its a easy fix..... corrupted sd problem as it was common problem with bell canada galaxy s.but its paused now.....So hope for the best.....i cannot do warranty stuff and im stuck with this phone and need to make it useable
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ssiddiqi1:
external sdcard mounts to /external_sd on froyo, since internal sdcard is not mounting due to bad sectors, the /data is not mounting, therefore I doubt you can do what you are trying to explain.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ameedi600:
I am going to try samsung, what do I flash to the phone to not let them know that it is rooted. Also do I check repartition while I flash it
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ssiddiqi1:
UVJFD, repartition checked or not, does not matter, it is not repartitioning anyway
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ameedi600:
Are you sure they won't notice and what will samsung do to it. Wait do I also flash the pit file with it too
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Halieus:
Replace with FFC mod

Is anyone still working on a fix for this?

I was able to format my external sdcard while it was in my g1 so it seems there must be some way to fix the internal. I don't think tmobile will take mine back due to my FFC mod. I have been able to get mine to boot into jdf rom after froyo that does not brick, but it eventually mess' itself up enough again that it goes back to the boot loop. Anymore ideas? Is there another thread with more progress?
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ssiddiqi1:
most probably samsung will replace motherboard for which they would charge.

have you talked to T-mobile first?
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ssiddiqi1:
tmobile or samsung will not take it back if you modified hardware for FFC.

you got booted with UVJFD? It is internal sd card which is messed up and untouchable, external card can be formatted on another phone or PC, but questions is how to fix the damaged internal sd card which is beyond repair with current solutions.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Binary100100:
It's not just the internal storage. It's the data too.

We can't format the internal sd storage because the system won't even pick it up. Almost like it was completely removed from the phone. This puts us in a difficult position since MOST roms need to mount the internal sd storage partition in order to boot up. And since the sd isn't there (or fried like bacon) most roms won't flash via odin. And of course if the sd isn't there we don't have any downloading capabilities or flashing from recovery either.

I have three ideas and they are all kinda rediculous.

Make a complete ODIN flashable rom specific JUST for those that have this problem and have it mount the external sdcards instead of the internal storage. That might at least give us SOMETHING!

Locate the memory card component on the motherboard (or whatever it's called) figure a way to hook it up to a computer and try to access it by force. I haven't seen any pictures of the inside of my phone and I'm that savy to even understand what I was looking at.

Best idea: Look on eBay or Craigslist for someone selling a phone because of a cracked screen or whatever (not water damaged of course) and swap out the parts.

That's where I think we're at... unless someone wants to suggest something else?
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ssiddiqi1:
Internal sd card is soldered to the motherboard, like a chip. It is not that easy to take it out or swap it. A while ago at some forum someone posted pictures of Vibrant motherboard.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Binary100100:
Perhaps you can just probe at the connections? I dunno.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ssiddiqi1:
It could be controller too. Read here exact story with Bell Canada Vibrant

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=919162
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tekowalsky:
Glad I found this thread ... sorta...

Well, add me to the list of folks who installed the Team Whiskey DOW kernel and got burnt.

I installed DOW 1.4 with Bionix (I believe) earlier this month. I had two or three instances where my phone was dead when I picked it up (had to pull battery). So I clocked the kernel down to 1.2 with SetCPU.

Yesterday I picked up the phone, it was dead, and a battery pull got me to the green robot chick boot screen where it froze. I've since gone through all the usual increasingly complicated efforts to recover a bricked phone.

Before I found this thread I was only able to get a live phone using Eugene's kernel -- with two exceptions. Just like everyone else here I couldn't access my internal SD card. My phone also refuses to recognize my SIM card.

I have a question... I read through most of this thread. Where are the Team Whiskey guys right now? This was after all their kernel/ROM. Has anyone discussed this with them?

At the least I'd hope this kernel would get yanked from their download section but so far it hasn't.

This issue is really, really bad.

Time to try the methods from this thread... I've tried most everything else.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Henchman:
I posted over a week ago that the ROM should be pulled.

Frankly , I find it irresponsible to not pull a ROM that has created as severe a problem as this one.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ssiddiqi1:
NO idea about TeamWhiskey, as far as I know by reading DOW threads at XDA, SamVib phone was bricked too, so I believe they know it. He exchanged it.

Now if you would have stopped OC, not even 1.2, and reverted to stock+voodoo only after initial crashes, you would still have been enjoying your phone :-) OC puts stress on hardware beyond the limits it was engineered for.

I had tried only once DeadHorse, and my internal card was messed up, but recoverable, after that I never flashed any kernel which had OC code in it. These are my personal opinion and preferences, with all due respect to all the developers.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ameedi600:
I called t mobile and told them that I bought the phone off a friend and that he notified me that it had warranty, so the customer service person told me that the person that bought the phone off tmobile can only use the warranty. I then decided to call samsung and I gave the tech person my IMEI number and she said it has warranty. I then told her that the phone is stuck on the vibrant screen and that it wont boot up. She then gave me a repair ticket and sent me info on how to send it to them. Lastly I asked her if this was going to charge me and she said no because they only charge for water dammage or physical dammage to the phone, in which my phone does not have. So I hope to God that they will repair it for free and send it back.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Binary100100:
I guess I'll give it a try because we're in the exact same situation here. Bought off Craigslist and brick by DoW.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] manjish:
Ok for anyone interested

visit to mount external sd as internal to take photos and listen to music....

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=11680374#post11680374
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Binary100100:
I'll give it a try when I have time. It's a nice start if it works.

Here's a thought though... if we replace the file in a Bionix rom, make an odin flashable version of the rom, maybe we can force it to boot since it might eliminate the internal sd issue?
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tekowalsky:
This does work. I can get into my external SD now.

I've seen some weird things in the filesystem. I copied files into /sbin and rebooted to recovery. I then rebooted back to regular mode. I looked in /sbin using Root Explorer. Every file I'd written to /sbin was gone. /sbin was back to exactly the files that had been there before I made changes.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Williaml232:
Same issue here. I'm hoping for a fix since I bought from Ebay. If nothing comes, I'll be looking for one of those new dual core phones.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Halieus:
Get DoW Pulled?

I guess that's the real fix go get a dual core :)

In the mean time is there anything we can do to get TW to pull at least the specific version of the DoW kernel that did this. The only problem is I don't remember which version I was running. I THINK that is was the fist version with the chick as the splash screen pic, but I could be wrong.

Maybe we should all put "Bricked by DoP" in our signature. lol (Destroyer of Phones)
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Binary100100:
I hate to say it or even admit it but...

+1 on this.

I think in order for it to get pulled we need a census of how many have been effected and compare it to how many haven't. If the percentage is significant enough then maybe...

But look at it this way. No one forced us to use it. We all know that there are risks. No one needs to tell us what those risks are. And were you (not "you" but anybody in general) complaining about the kernel before it was bricked? I wasn't. I was happy with it. So let's not send the developers to the firing squad for it but I do think that this needs to be announced to warn everybody of the risks involved. Perhaps that would be enough.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Halieus:
+1 (If I +1 your quote +1ing me does it make an endless mirror?)

I'm not mad at TW or anyone else I did this to my own phone knowing the risks. I just think DoW should be pulled or a warning given as you say. Just kidding about the "DoP". Though it is tempting cause I think its funny.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Williaml232:
Someone told me that the Vibrant was unbrickable before and I believed it.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Williaml232:
So why does eugene's rom work while other roms won't even boot?
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Binary100100:
It's because the sbin directory gets re-written after each boot.

Can you install apps now too?
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] a4 moda:
what pissed me off beyond reprisal is that I posted 10 days ago, "PSA- MUST READ"

and the thread was locked because some dirt bag said. "disclaimer has been posted, it's your responsibility"

meaning, it's our fault that we flashed a defective Kernel. Granted, I take full responsibility, but we as a community still need to know about it, so that people can MAKE that decision whether to flash it or not.

Rather, they stifled my post, *(Locked), and Morfic's "fix" with JE8 didn't do SHZ&T.

So, just keep passing the info around. Don't use DOW. Just don't do it.

Sorry guys. we're in the same boat. Thanks for Ssiddiqi1, we at least have options to fix it. He's done everything a man can possibly do. He spent 8 hours with me trying to recover my Internal SD.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] maxdiesel215:
I have tried all of the methods that have been discussed in this post and the last idea that was posted allowed me to install apps. I pushed the fstab.vold to my phone and restored to Eclair using Odin 1.81. I used

pit: s1_odin_20100512.pit

Bootloader: stock+Voodoo-Froyo-T959-UVJK2

PDA: T959UVJFD

I get an error showing that I can't mount my external SD but I now have 1.73 Gb of space to use for applications.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bartek25:
if it shows 1.7 gb free but u cant install apps its because u partition your internal memmory instead of sd . but i didnt read the thread so i dont know what are you talking about ;P
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ssiddiqi1:
Your /data partition is fried. You are seeing only 1.73 GB which allocated to OS. You need /data partition to mount and work properly for applications to install. I do not think there is a fix for this issue. The kernel crash had either destroyed the /data partition (14 BG) on internal sd or over-clocking had killed the controller on the motherboard, btw internal sd card is soldered to the motherboard therefore there is no easy way to replace it, except to send it to TMO or Samsung for a repair
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sillymeeee:
Me Too

OK,

Is there a light at then end of this tunnel?

Are the phones soo messed up that they cannot be brought back to their original state?
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Binary100100:
Yeah... but it's a train. :(

There is no fix and probably never will be.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Binary100100:
Hmmm... what if we use a2sd with an ext partition and mount /data/ on the ext partition?
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tekowalsky:
I'm not using the vold.fstab trick any more.

My data partition is mounted. I don't believe that was always the case. I didn't do any tricks to get it there. For a while I was seeing 0MB available for applications and I couldn't download apps.

I am now seeing 1.81GB available "Application Storage". I just went to the market and tested. I can download/install applications. If I use ADB to "ls /data/app" I see the applications I just downloaded.

In Settings I see "Unavailable" for the amount of space on both SD Card and Phone Storage. My internal SD does not mount. My recovery is the 3E Recovery. I can use SuperOneClick to get root in my phone and to get shell root in phone mode. In recovery mode I do not have root.

In parted I can see an 8 GB SD at /dev/block/mmcblk0. /data is /dev/block/mmcblk0p2 and is 2 GB. parted sees the other 6 GB as /dev/block/mmcblk0p1. I can mount /dev/block/mmcblk0p1 manually.

The data partition is mounting automatically. Is the external SD the normal home for the data partition?

At the moment I am using the following:

the voodoo kernel posted earlier in this thread

SuperOneClick to get root after each boot

Still stuck at the 3E Recovery

Eugene's JK2 for the following:

Param.lfs

PBL and SBL

dbdata

I am using the factoryfs.rfs, cache.rfs, and modem.bin from JK6.

(Yeah, it's weird but it works - sorta.)
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ssiddiqi1:
and train goes to Samsung, who could fix your phone by replacing hardware. If it is still under warranty, give them a call.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] drewdude007:
eugenes no brick

http://eb-productions.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=samsungsgs&action=display&thread=8
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ameedi600:
My phone finally booted up, all I had to do was:

1) Start ODIN and get Vibrant in download mode

2) ODIN Eugene's Jk2

. Do not check re-partition in ODIN. Do not use PIT512 file to re-partition

If it turns on then it is not bricked, although it can be frustrating to fix it.

I will suggest following

1) Start ODIN and get Vibrant in download mode

2) ODIN Eugene's Froyo-that-does-NOT-brick. Do not check re-partition in ODIN. Do not use PIT512 file to re-partition

3) Reboot

4) Start ODIN again and get your Vibrant in Download mode again

5) ODIN PIT512 file and UVJFD stock, make sure you check repartition in ODIN this time.

6) Reboot

My mistake I did boot up but I dont got no memory so I think you have to flash the pit file as well as the uvjd.tar with repartition but do this after you have successfully flashed Eugenes jk2 I just flashed the pit file with the Uvjfd and now the vibrant screen keeps turning on and off, sort of like a boot loop
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ssiddiqi1:
After flashing Eugene's no-brick-froyo, you must boot your phone, let it sit for a while (10 minutes) then get it into download mode, and ODIN pit512 and UVJFD.tar with repartition. Boot fully again and let it sit again for a while (10 min) before re-rooting or flashing anything else.

Try ODIN'ing UVJFD.tar again with with pit512.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ssiddiqi1:
For whatever reason, you maybe missing data file from JFD. Either these are not ODINing or getting corrupted? Did you have voodoo install and enabled before flashing DOW? if so, Did you disable voodoo before flashing DOW?

I am sure UVJFD file from Shorty's locker are good. I had use them a couple of time. I can upload somewhere the UVJFD.tar if it helps and needed? It had worked in my hand.

Are you getting replacement under warranty? If T-Mobile noticed custom ROMs were installed on it, they will bill you $495 at a later date. Be aware of it.

EDIT: May be give Heimdal a try. You can get it from Shorty's File Locker. It has a tutorial on how to use it. You will also find a link to GUI (Heimdal-frontend) tutorial, in case you are not comfortable with command-line options. ODIN is buggy and sometime it does strange things.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ameedi600:
I had voodoo enabled before I installed dow kernel
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ssiddiqi1:
Always disable Voodoo before flashing any kernel, even its instructions say "safe to flash with voodoo enabled." I guess that was your problem. It damaged your file system. Try Eugene no-brick foryo, then ODIN and repartition with pit512/UVJFD.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ameedi600:
I just flashed Eugenes no brick and now im on a screen asking me to format memory manually but I dont know how to press ok
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ssiddiqi1:
I never got this error. Someone may have a better suggestion. However here is mine... As I wrote in my previous post, your file system could be corrupted. I guess, your internal SD card needs formatting. Go to Menu-->Setting-->SD Card... and unmount Internal card then format it.

Then ODIN the pit512/JFD with repartition.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ameedi600:
I cant get past the recovery 3e screen, any other suggestions
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ssiddiqi1:
Do you mean: after flashing Eugene's Froyo, phone booted and it goes into 3e recovery?

Can you choose reboot or boot using power button? Does it go back only into into 3e recovery, doing so?
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dan0zone:
Between every flash you have to let the phone boot ..... do NOT go into recovery MANUALLY till the phone has done its automated stuff ... You need to check reformat when odin JDF so it will undo the voodoo... Then let it boot ......
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ameedi600:
No I am not able to select an option and when I try to turn it off and on, it always ends up in the recovery 3e menubut when I use Eugenes Jk2 .tar it boots perfectly with the exception of the memory not available
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ameedi600:
How do I check reformat under odin, I cant seem to understand