Q. About Download/Recovery - Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hey Everyone..
Ive always been able to get into both download and recovery mode...but when I was going to apply a ROM to my phone i checked it and now i cant access either of them....
I havent flashed a new firmware or used ROMS or anything yet....it seems like it just stopped working?
Have i done anything to disable it or something????
Should i just do the FIX (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=785201) to get it back working or is there something else i can do...
I have Froyo 2.2
Baseband-HVJP3
Build-FROYO.HVJP4
Thanks

i would suggest you do the fix, but be patient and read properly, cause one little mistake will brick your phone, and you wont be able to get into download mode to fix it.
i have no idea why your problem has arisen, thats very strange.
perhaps you should invest in a USB JIG as well. a very life saving tool

ahh k then.....
Maybe i should try wiping and reseting my galaxy s ?.. maybe ive installed something that blocks it?
Anyways thanks for your help

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Big Problem with my Galaxy S

Hey Guys
got some problems with my galaxy s
tried to delete the contacts manualy and mixed up some stuff.
then i replaced /system/app/contacts with the one from the n1 from froyo
after this i did a hard reset and a cleared the cache.
now after reboot i got a lot of fcs and cant enter menu or anything, but i need to enable usb-debugging to come in to recovery mode or download mode since this phone has no 3 button recovery or download mode
does anyone has some sort of suggestion how to solve this problem?
greetz and thanks for every reply
And guess what
It had to be posted in android development section!
Tried adb in recovery?
tried it and didnt work since adb isnt activated on the phone and i cant enter settings menu because i everything fcs within a second
Ah rite, I thought ADB was always active in recovery mode...Apparently its not.
And yes, this looks bad. Nothing comes into my mind... Is there a way to flash update.zip from external sd?
i guess there is no way to flash it without recovery...
if i gett wifi working is there a way to open adb via wifi without using an app like adbWireless or with the terminalpro?
Thread moved. Why was this posted in Development?
WB
I think this is one nasty brick...
Does kies recognize the phone? There is a way to reflash current firmware using it...
sorry for posting in developer thread...
if i try coneccting with kies i get android.process.media fc
I'm afraid I cant help you. Try good folks from #project-voodoo on freenode.
Lack of 3 button recovery is a *****.
jea i still dont get why they even blocked 3 button combo
well ill try a little more and tomorrow im going to call the shop were i bought it...
lets hope they are realy nice people
*edit
if i try to conecct with kies i come to that point that kies says " Das gerät wird verbunden" wich is german and means something like the device is beeing coneccted ...
wanted to give a short update
i am getting a new phone tomorrow and then i will be sending my old phone back to the shop where i bought it hope this one doesnt have the 3 botton mode locked

[Q] pattern locked. cant figure it out!

hi guys..
i have a problem with my sgs i 9000 and im getting really insane.
ive read every post about the patternlock issues but still cant unlock my cell..
First of all i know that im typing the email right but it tells me that its wrong.
I did a factory reset with the (volume up-power key-homebutton), the reset worked but it still askes me after the google account again!.
when im calling my phone to do the tricks and go to the setting (which ive read in many sections) the phone doesnt bell or anything, its on and the simcard is fine but when im calling from my home phone doesnt ring or anything..
ive tried to plug the usb but its dead it doesnt recognise the phone with kies or anything..
Any ideas guys? im desparate because ive lost many things on the phone and i need it now!
im running android 2.1 eclair and voodo lagfix 3,0.
anyone?? who can help
drtheo4u said:
anyone?? who can help
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The best way to get back up is use odin and reflash stock eclair ROM from download mode.
can you plz discribe with some more details what im suppost to do? or tell some page that i can find the faqs about odin and the download mode..
thx for any kind of help!
drtheo4u said:
can you plz discribe with some more details what im suppost to do? or tell some page that i can find the faqs about odin and the download mode..
thx for any kind of help!
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=846913 try that, it has all the stock ROMs just reflash with odin and that should do the trick, instructions on how to do it are on that post too,
good luck
** As your gunna re-flash, Have you not considered a new custom ROM altogether ? plenty to chose from on this site. **
I suggest you follow the above link and flash to stock. It's very simple.. takes me 10 mins to get back to stock and up and I have only done this 2 times. There are people who do it several times a week.
I suggest you go for Darky's 8.0 ROM if you're new. It's one of the best.

[Q] Trying to install Phoenix ROM

clockwork recovery mod seems to be stuck on this:
-installing: SDCARD: Phoenix.zip
Finding update package...
Anyone know what I should do?
thanks
If I reboot my phone will it mess anything up?
Heh, nevermind I rebooted my phone and tried again and it looks like its working
It probably will soft brick your phone, which is no big deal really. If it is indeed stuck, take your battery out and reboot. Hopefully it got hung up before it did anything
Edit: Nice, it didnt brick your phone haha
Yeah I was pretty freaked for a bit lol. So what exactly does the phone getting bricked mean? Like you wouldnt even be able to get into download to use odin to put it back to jf6?
you experienced a "soft" brick
a full brick you will see a special screen, and will have difficulty getting back to download mode. there are usb jigs that can be bought or made to get into download mode when bricked. it involves 3100 k ohm resistor and pin 4 and 5 on the usb port
Wow thats really interesting, thanks for the info!
hope i never brick my phone lol
I think even if you do brick you phone u can say that ur phone messed up with downloading something on kies and get it replaced not sure tho
i'm on Phoenix right now and want to give FF a try. what is the best way to flash a new rom?

[Q] Help! Bricked Galaxy S trying to flash a kernel with Vodoo

Please I really need help.
I was trying to flash a kernel that i found in a forum, i tried with Voodoo, my phone was already rooted. Then i heard a female robot voice saying something about "partition" and a process that was gonna take like ten min. From then, colorful lines appeared in the screen, something like static and just nonsense lines. Im all crazy, because i cant put my phone on recovery mode or anything and its rebooting on and on every few seconds after showing several lines and nonsense. Please somebody help me im desperate.
Can u get into download mode?
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No i cant, sometimes i cant even turn it off, i press the 3 buttons, and it just goes to the white samsung logo and again to these colorful pixels, the computer doesnt even recognize the phone since it keeps rebootin on and on. Really i need help, i dont want to lose everything or take it to samsung.
you need to let it go. Its installing that kernel, and it does it while that lady robot speaks. It will take a while.
It sounds like you are in bootloops, try removing battery for 10 mins, replace and try dl mode again, if it does get into dl then pull battery again, replace and charge phone. Next make sure you have right kernel for your rom/firmware, and make sure you get everything set up right with odin, if you can't get in dl pm me and we will try and get it sorted, and don't panic
Edit. As stated, voodoo conversion can take quite a while and I'm guessing you panicked and disturbed phone during conversion
Insanity cm 014/glitch
I tried that yesterday, actually i removed the battery the whole night and its the same. Another problem is that my phone is not able to turn to download mode with the commando of buttons, that option was diabled in many, at least thats what ive heard. I tried to let the process go, but it went like that for like 30 secs and then it rebooted and it did that for all the rest of the afternoon, im talkin about hours. What is dl, download??? Man im new in this, what is pm?? I think thats what i did man i panicked and disturbed the process, im really desperate Help tell me what to do i want to pm u to get some help, but i dont know whats that lol. Thanks actually i found a tutorial to get these kind of phones into download mode with a resistor of 301 ohms and a connection, but then if i succed in that, what... what i really want is recovering it, rebooting it without losing anything. Or at least resetin the phone, but i dont know what to do when i get to that part. Im really panicked and i really appreciate your help
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqxearzXrVY
Have you got y your stuff backed up with titanium?
Insanity cm 014/glitch
i think i did, i download it and I played around with the program, i was kinda busy then so i thought i could better understand the program later, i did some stuff but im not sure i backed up all my apps and stuff, i hope i did.
Man tried what the video shows, not workin!! i really thought that was gonna work, the phone just do the same, it goes to those weird messed colorful pixels
You'll have the wrong bootloader or a Froyo-kernel running on Gingerbread. You can't get into download mode? What about recovery?
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I reckon your best bet now is the 301k resistor jig
Insanity cm 014/glitch
It worked!!! Now im about to install a rom i found on the internet, the thing is i wanted an official one and i guess those arent. Do u know if i will loose everything, u know like the info in the internal sd card?? i guess i wont. And also, do u know if theres an official rom of the froyo 2.2 around?? Thanks for your help
Dont just install any rom you found on the internet, its what got you into this mess in the first place.
Go to the developers section and read, try and understand what you are actually doing first, if you have to install anything download it from that section, at least you will have some help if you screw it up again.
YES you will lose data flashing over the top just mucks things up, i would suggest backing everything up using Titanium backup, then go to samfimware.com and get a factory rom, doing a full data wipe.
You won't lose pics and music, roms etc stored in sd card, but you will loose internal data, settings, that kind of thing
Insanity cm 014/glitch

[Q] I think its Bricked..and odin doesnt work

hey guys i have a captivate that i tried flashing and was successful then i tried again and the screen went black. im not sure if my battery died during the process or what but idk what to do. I cant get into recovery mode, i can only get into downloading mode but none of the odin's ive downloaded have recognized my device today. they worked fine yesterday. then i tried "hemidall one click" to try and get it back to stock but no luck. also when i try to power on I get the "Cornkernel" loading screen since that was the kernel i had loaded when it was working, but it fills the bar then shuts off. so it seems like im going to be at the mercy of a computer program since i am unable to access anything on the phone, right? I recently upgraded to gingerbread before all of the flashing of the new roms. all i want is to get back to either froyo or gingerbread, i dont really care, heck ill even take 2.1 at this point. if anyone knows whats going on and can help me thatd be great.
Thanks
Remember to use a rear usb hub for destop and run as admin. Heimdall will mess up your odin drivers.
You may also want to check out the captivate connection issues thread.
Also, to clarify further on prbassplayer's point about Heimdall, it will write its drivers over the drivers assigned to the USB port you are plugged into when it detects your phone. So if you have 4 USB ports and you use port 3 for Heimdall, it would look like this:
1 - Odin port
2 - Odin port
3 - Heimdall port
4 - Odin port
All this means is that you'll need to be aware of the port you used with Heimdall, or just reinstall the odin drivers (they'll overwrite the Heimdall setup).
OK so i tried what you mentioned in that thread on the connection issue and unfortunately it didn't work. is there a way i could start fresh? like delete all the drivers from my computer and then try it again, or do u not think that would work? im open to any ideas/suggestions right now because i hate having an extra paperweight and the thought of buying a new phone.
Don't know if this'll help or even why it worked for me but, when I had problems with odin recognizing my phone, I reinstalled/repaired samsung kies and odin would work for at least one flash.
Note: used full odin (not oneclick)
Good luck
hey guys thanks a bunch i finally got it to work. i had to use a different computer like you said. What a great feeling to have a functional phone again..
Thanks Again!!
So i got the phone back up and running android 2.1 and I would like to get it back to the stock 2.3 I had before the whole mess of rooting and stuff. but when i try to upgrade with kies or straight on the phone it ends up failing and telling me to try it again. any ideas why this is happening? or how to fix it.
blackjack54 said:
So i got the phone back up and running android 2.1 and I would like to get it back to the stock 2.3 I had before the whole mess of rooting and stuff. but when i try to upgrade with kies or straight on the phone it ends up failing and telling me to try it again. any ideas why this is happening? or how to fix it.
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Kies sucks lol
look at my sig the first "go to" has the One Click Odin file to get you to stock and rooted 2.3 ...should take no more then 5 mins to do it
the link on that page for the 1 click odin doesnt work.
Try looking >>HERE<<. There are more one clicks there than you will ever need (hopefully)
Thanks I think I might try one of those. But considering what happened earlier in the week i want to clarify/ask a few ?s about that page. How do I know which Gingerbread to use of the 3 listed? How do I know whether or not to click the one with or without the bootloader? I'm new at this with android but I used to flash roms on my old windows mobile htc TILT.
blackjack54 said:
Thanks I think I might try one of those. But considering what happened earlier in the week i want to clarify/ask a few ?s about that page. How do I know which Gingerbread to use of the 3 listed? How do I know whether or not to click the one with or without the bootloader? I'm new at this with android but I used to flash roms on my old windows mobile htc TILT.
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if you have never flashed GB bootloaders, you need to. Just oonce will work from that time forward. After you flash bootloaders, it's best to avoid them. A bad bootloader flash is one of the few things that will turn a Captivate into a paperwight. About which GB to use, I would say KK4. Its the same as the Official KK4 that was released. So to recap, flash bootloaders only once, then use no bootloader packages after that.
Im not sure if I unlocked them or not honestly. I know i had the phone rooted at one point and was running Cerberus rom. is there any way for me to check?
If you don't know, flash them.
ok i apologize in advance if this is a stupid obvious question..i got the odin one click and i was looking at the page u referred to me to and im wondering what the kernel is for? you cant place it in the odin one click obviously so is that just to keep things together or do i actually need it?
The kernel links are just to use if you want to root the stock rom. You have to use full Odin for those. Stick with the one click until you feel more comfortable in flashing AND do a lot research before your next flash.
so i got the KK1 gingerbread working and everything seems to work fine but now my data doesnt work. So I cant get ATT 3g or edge or anything the only internet i recieve is wifi. anyone know why this is? or how to fix it. ive tried a reboot and nothing ive tried changing the settings under network settings.

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