This morning I updated to 2.2 JPK using ODIN. Worked perfect all day, rebooted device, would not load anything past "sgs" and "S" went to black screen, only thing active was the led for two bottom buttons. Tried rebooting, pulling battery, factory reset cleared cache. Before it crashed I received a message that said "internal sd removed" tried flashing it again, tried a few other newer versions of 2.2, even tried downgrading to 2.1. Now, whenever I connect to my pc the battery icon appears, then dissapears, then appears... I cannot put it in "Download" mode anymore either. If I pull battery then power on, it just shows first samsung i9000 screen then turns off. Any suggestions? Called samsung they were useless, said I would have to take back to the dealer, however It is a bell mobility phone, I unlocked it and have been using with Rogers for a month. I offered to pay for them to take the phone and load the stock firmware but rep at samsung said I would have to send it through a dealer. Am I better off just putting it on ebay and let someone else deal with the BS?
It sound like a broken sgs.
Some sgs(bell) tend to break the internal sdcard. The only solution for that is to send it to repair.
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I may have bricked my phone while flashing with odin to stock froyo 2.2 rom. The download mode works but i cannot get into recovery mode it just flashes at the logo screen gt-i9000m over and over and over again.
Is there a way past this or do i have to send this phone in for repair?
I have stock everything.
My phone battery died and I have spare batteries and changed it to a fully charged one. It booted up and said that a bunch of apps have to be FORCE closed... so I rebooted it.
Now it's doing the same thing yours is... the logo screen flashes over and over.
I pulled the battery to hard boot it. Then without turning it on I plugged it in to charge... so it tries to go to the charging battery icon and then flashes the logo screen over and over again.
This is my second phone... first one kept eating battery life and got real real hot.
omg stoopid samsung. I can get into download mode just fine, when i reflash it just stuck at the boot logo. Are you able to send yours away for repairs? i have mine unlocked but i also got warranty from where i bought it at wireless wave. i rather not send it in though...
I couldn't get into any menu's... sent the piece of **** away for repairs. I almost threw it at the wall behind the clerk at the bell store.
same boat here, i woke up this morning to find a bunch of forced closed messages. so i hit okay, my phone was all screwy so i turned it off, pulled out the battery, put it back in and started the phone and ta-da the galaxy S TEXT (not logo) kept...well it looks like it would boot over and over again just to the title screen, shut off and boot again. If i do the 3 button press to get to download mode i see that screen and i cant do anything else, actually i dont know what to do there.
I bought this thing in august so i am good for warranty, oh i haven't once rooted or lagfixed or anything, i just unlocked it, and with rogers instead of bell, but yeah i called bell and they refuse to help. The guy was not cool with me unlocking the phone, says i might not be covered under warranty anymore.
Next week i am going to take it to the bell repair center in person, see what they say.
Not sure what to do now. EFF!
Last samsung phone ever. the LG optimus 2X looks pretty awesome.
I'm having the same issue, my phones all stock.
When I got my phone this morning is was turned off, I plugged it in, powered it up, saw the Samsung logo and intro play and I walked away. When I came back I tired using my phone but only the lights, on the buttons, turn on but the screen and the rest of the phone doesn't respond. The lights will stay on forever.
If you can get into download mode, have you tried flashing it with some other Rom? Like DocX custom rom?
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Try booting into recovery mode (vol-up, home and power). Do you get an error message under the menu? If so, report it here or do a search on that specific error. It appears that some errors are easily recoverable from via flashing while others are not.
gtg2 - Try booting into recovery mode (vol-up, home and power). Do you get an error message under the menu? If so, report it here or do a search on that specific error. It appears that some errors are easily recoverable from via flashing while others are not.
The flash will go through completely and pass, as soon as it reboots to the Gt-i9000m logo it will just loop continuously. even when you hold down vol-up, home and power, it just doesn't recongize those buttons but will recongize vol down, home, power what gives?
Valinorian - If you can get into download mode, have you tried flashing it with some other Rom? Like DocX custom rom?
Yeah tried darkys 5.6 rom, does the same thing shows gt-i9000m logo then loops it self
dtran00 - that sucks man, but bell offers unlock codes so i dont' see how that can void your warrenty when you have to pay $70 for the unlock codes no?
Spudsicles - hopefully i won't have any troubles but i might end up throwing it at them lol
Seriously this is a good phone but the problems omgosh.
regarding everyone with the boot loop errors, Sounds like you have got the corrupted internal memory. This is a common problem everyone has been having including me. You will have to send the phone off at bell. I'm still waiting for mine to come back to me, sent it off Dec 1, although some people are reporting repair times within 5 business days.
To the best of my knowledge, that does NOT necessarily indicate flawed internal memory. I've experienced a few errors myself - one was a real SDCard issue which required repair while the others I was able to recover from.
Have you tried reflashing firmwares via Odin with the repartition option checked?
Have you tried booting into recovery using ADB? I'm not an ADB pro myself but do know it's possible. You'll have to google for instructions.
So This morning I decided to give my phone a restart, when I am holding the button to turn the phone one and the samsung boot screen comes on (the white one thats says I896 and samsung in white) and then after that it just goes blank and you can here it play that noise that it would normally make with the samsung boot screen.
After waiting on the blank screen for a few minutes I touched the buttons and the button lights came on. I pulled out the battery and I was able to boot the phone in the recovery screen where i tried to clear all user data and clear the cache, this did't change anything.
This phone was on android 2.1 stock build for rogers, with z4root and oclf (oneclicklagfix) v2 or v2.2 i think. I bought this phone on sunday so it is pretty new.
I am wondering what I should do about this, I spoke to my friend and he said He should be able to fix it with odin and even put 2.2 on it. If anyone has ever had this happen to them or they know anything about it i would be happy to know.
Rather than having your friend void your warranty, why not just return it?
if he purchased it from a reseller such as craigslist or ebay, then he might not be able to take his phone in though. Odin1click to stock usually solves soft-brick like issues though..
hi, last night i was in the midst of selecting a song in winamp and i fumbled my phone. it fell about 3-4 feet to the hard floor, popped open, battery flew out. when i put it all back together the phone would no longer boot.
it shows me the galaxy s i9000 screen and then it turns off, turns back on, etc etc forever and ever.
i can access download mode but not recovery mode
prior to the dropping i was using darky's canadian froyo version for over a month without any trouble. i have tried to reflash using odin but the issue persists. this is my second galaxy from bell and last time it took over a month for my new handset to arrive so i would like to fix this myself. does anybody have advice about this problem? thank you
Hi,
I am running a custom ROM (Darky's 9.5) on a rooted Galaxy S with Voodoo Fix. All has been fine for the past week since I changed to this ROM.
However, today, suddenly the phone switched off and then immediately turns on by itself and as soon as the Galaxy S screen appears it restarts again and the loop continues.
I removed the battery, but as SOON as I put the battery back in, it turns on by itself and resumes the on off sequence.
So its IMPOSSSIBLE to get into recovery mode, it doesnt work even though I have it enabled. I can get into Download mode but it lasts 5 seconds as the phone switches off and back on.
I can connect via USB to computer in download mode, but like I said it lasts 5seconds.
Is my power button jammed or is there something sinister going on? lol
Doubt I have warranty as I bought it off eBay many months ago...
Thanks for any advice!
Here we go again yet another Darky broke my phone post .
You have no warranty full stop as you flashed a custom rom ..
Usual fix for dead Deadlys rom is flash stock Froyo 2.2 rom via Odin with pit 512 and repartition checked .
However as you cannot get to download mode i would try first factory reset .
Second three button download recovery jig from .
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=819551
You could always ask Darky .
jje
Thanks for your response.
Don't know why the ROM would behave like this a week after being ok, perhaps an app has caused the issue to surface.
I cannot do a factory reset, the phone is in a continuous loop off switching on then restarting within 5 seconds. It doesnt get past the initial Galaxy S boot screen.
I shall get my hands on a JIG in a couple of days. Not sure how that will stop the loop but worth a shot I suppose. If that dont work, this phones dead isn't it?
UPDATE: SOLVED.
It resolved all by itself. Basically, I got fed up and I left it to loop back and forth from the boot screen....and after a few minutes I returned to the phone screen to find it had booted up fully to the normal desktop.
Very strange. I might just have a dodgy phone.