I've been having massive battery problems with my SGT (yes, I've read through all the posts, I've tried Battery Calibration, etc etc.) I'm still under warranty (tab is about 7 months old), and I'm running WJJ7 firmware (Euro, GSM, unlocked).
I'm not really willing to open up and disconnect the battery, as this will void my warranty, so I'd rather have the service center do that. I've gone ahead an wiped the phone, unrooted it (after making rotohammer + Titanium backups), and am just about ready to send it in for repair.
I'm wondering if I should try out a different ROM, either a custom one or an Official Samsung GB ROM -- its not clear from the threads whether or not, if I do an official GB update, whether or not I will end up with a locked bootloader, which is something I dont want. Alternatively, I could try the Overcome ROM, but then if I have to send it in anyway (I really suspect the battery is hosed -- goes from 90% to 1%, and after 2 hours of off is up again at 40%) I have the PITA of attempting to reflash to stock (something I haven't done on this phone, but on others).....
Any advice would be helpful.....
This is the second time in two days that you have posted a [Q] in the general section.
PLEASE USE THE Q&A SECTION!
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This is the second time in two days that you have posted a [Q] in the general section.
PLEASE USE THE Q&A SECTION!
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First: Sorry about that; totally my fault for directing this to the General and not the Q&A section
Second: You must be mistaking me for somebody else -- If you search the entire Galaxy Tab section, you will find exactly 2 posts by me -- this as a new thread, and another as a followup several weeks ago to something else (only vaguely related).
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Hello
I hope i have posted in the right section and someone can explain too me if this is right or wrong.
I just downloaded the 2.0 version of samsung kies software,when i plugged my phone in it said i could do a firmware upgrade for my phone.
So of course i did so,i first done the backup which was an option in the process.Then pressed ok and it started doing its thing.
Well i left it and came back too see a green android guy on the phone and a message on laptop saying the update had failed and i need too recover the fail by going into emergency firmware recovery mode.
I did this(pressed yes) and it started doing its thing again and rebooted the phone,after it had done it said too disconnect and reconnect my usb cable which i did and the phone was back running again.
The question i have is what basically just happened?
I presume it was a fail on the firmware update since thats what it told me but on checking my stats it had done what it said it was going too and thats upgrade from CSC: JP5 to CSC: JP6.
So it said it failed but on the samsung kies software it now says the csc JP6 and i cant update any firther.
Im sorry i should maybe of checked the code better too be honest i didnt check the full version upgrade, i just thought ok firmware upgrade yup ill do that and flicked through the yes options til the upgrade started.
Thanks for any replies.I have a untouched samsung galaxy S by the way,i not done anything too it except installed apps and games.So no roms,no lag fix,no hacks at all.
Its been a coupleof days now since my post so hope its ok too comment in it again so maybe i can get some help.
Im not sure if my first post explained itself enough so if anyone has any questions i will be happy too answer them.I dont know if my phone will be affected long term but the fail or not.
Csc..what is this why had the software felt it needed too be changed from 5 to 6 ?
the fact it said it failed yet on checking i cannot update again and it has in fact changed from 5 to 6 as it said it would.All my added shortcuts on home screens went but the files stayed.
csc....has anyone also got the changed firmware like i have and gone through the failure too get it.
Im trying too add my own questions in the hope someone has some answers since i see many questions get answered in this section within no time,but mine seems too of stumped some.
thanks for replies guys it will settle my mind and i will of course try too find my own answers and if all else fails i will contact samsung and ask them what went wrong.
Hi,
I installed Kies today and connected my girlfriends cellphone, a Samsung Champ Duos (don't know if it's a phone only for the Philippino market)... Same here, started up first time and Kies prompted me to update the phone's firmware. I followed the steps, something went wrong and I was told to perform an emergency recovery.
I tried, but after 63% an error message appear telling me that something went wrong and "if the problem persists please contact support centre".
I've tried the recovery process maybe 20 times now and same every time. I have already sent an email to the support, but hoping someone here knows how to fix this in the meantime.
Thanks in advance!
Not sure Kies can be unreliable...
Have you tried another computer?
Try the recovery again but hold the usb cable in place, it may have a loose connection
Either way support should answer you shortly and they will sort it out, as it should be under warranty and kies messed it up. They will probably tell you to find your nearest service centre...
@Caz2k11 if you ever read this again and still haven't got your answer, it shouldn't have affected you that there was a problem installing in the first place.
CSC - there is a sticky on the the general section that describes most of this stuff but in brief i think its either country specific code or country service code, something like that. Really its only important if you have problems downloading things from the market, or reception/data related issues. Usually carrier related... Its worth checking you have the correct one when you update as it saves you from changing it later which results in a factory reset.
Ahh damn it...
Got a reply from their support this morning. They apologized and told me I have to send the phone to my nearest service centre. Great for me living in the province and I'll bet the closest service centre is located in Manila....
Does anyone know if the *original rom* is available somewhere on the internet?
Most of us do not use kies to update
You can fiind the latest original ROMs at samfirmware.com
jc
3d_jc said:
Most of us do not use kies to update
You can fiind the latest ROM ar samfirmware.com
jc
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Hehe no ****
I'm running Andriod on my HTC Leo as well, but this is my girlsfriends phone, still warranty so I'll be a bit careful at the moment.
Have registered on the site mentioned above, not sure which file I'm going to use or anything, since I cannot start the phone to see the current firmware etc. The model no. is GT-E2652W and "SSN" is "E2652WGSMH", does that mean it's a E-series phone?
It means a few things ...
First of all, you are totaly at the wrong place since this forum section is for Samsung Galaxy S, and you Champ Duo , well, isn't a Galaxy S !
Second thing is that this forum, as well as samfirmware, deal mostly with Android phones, which your isn't, I believe. It does somehow look like, but isn't.
Sorry I can't help more
jc
3d_jc said:
It means a few things ...
First of all, you are totaly at the wrong place since this forum section is for Samsung Galaxy S, and you Champ Duo , well, isn't a Galaxy S !
Second thing is that this forum, as well as samfirmware, deal mostly with Android phones, which your isn't, I believe. It does somehow look like, but isn't.
Sorry I can't help more
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Yes, I'm awared of that. Found this thread when I Google-searched "samsung emergency recovery".
Sure, no arm done, it's just that non android phone have a different way to recover. I did a couple of googling too, but must admit I did not find a great deal of information either,
Sorry and best of luck for bringing your device back to happiness.
jc
Hi, I just rooted my phone and installed Darky's ROM etc. Everything went perfectly but I just did a factory reset on my phone through the settings > privacy menu. Then i turned my phone off, now it's stuck on the boot screen (the one that says:
Galaxy S
GT-I9000
Samsung
)
Anyone know what I can do to resolve this?
PS, I've tried booting into recovery and download mode,- only download mode works
Flash ressurrection with Odin, or just try reflash a kernel.
Post in right section next time !
And don't say "dead" "brick" if you have download mode, nothing is more "noob" !
Sent from my GT-I9000 using XDA App
Flash another ROM in Odin with re-partition. You need CSC, Modem, and ROM. The next time, factory reset/wipe, clear cache, and clear Dalvik cache before flashing to a custom ROM, not after.
Also, this is the wrong section for this.
If download mode still works, its unlikely that its ' dead'.
Probably just a corrupted filesystem or some missing file that it needs.
If youve tried everything else, the thing left to do is flash a complete firmware via either Odin or Heimdall, in download mode. That should give you a working phone again.
First, wrong section... post in the right section next tome.
Get darky resurection edition and flash with odin, then reflash darky nornal rom from cwm
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WiwiPouPou said:
Flash ressurrection with Odin.
Post in right section next time !
And don't say "dead" "brick" if you have download mode, nothing is more "noob" !
Sent from my GT-I9000 using XDA App
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Apologies for being a noob, couple of questions though:
never mind
EDIT: Thanks for your responses, and don't answer the above question
thanks for your help everyone
Which is the correct section for this type of thread though?
And Mods- please move this thread to correct location, cheers!
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Apologies for being a noob, couple of questions though:
never mind
EDIT: Thanks for your responses, and don't answer the above question
thanks for your help everyone
Which is the correct section for this type of thread though?
And Mods- please move this thread to correct location, cheers!
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follow this guide for flashing stock rom --> http://darky.ficeto.com/community/i...-stock-rom-over-darkys-rom-gt-i9000-only.486/
AND: if you can access DL mode then Recov Mode is working too. You are just doing something wrong then ... for Recov Mode you need to release all buttons when Galaxy S logo appears.
WRAITH07 said:
Apologies for being a noob, couple of questions though:
never mind
EDIT: Thanks for your responses, and don't answer the above question
thanks for your help everyone
Which is the correct section for this type of thread though?
And Mods- please move this thread to correct location, cheers!
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For questions maybe the questions and answers section
Anyway, with download mode our phone is pretty much unbrick/killable unless you flash another bootloader which is a) rare and b) not really a threat either
I think my phone is dead.... can anyone help me verify that? I've been reading all over and tried all ways to get a response, but there's none.
I pulled the battery and let it sit for several hours before inserting. - No response.
Put in my spare batte, have it plugged to charger. Also no response.
Plug to PC, PC doesn't even see the phone.
Cannot go into recover, download or boot or show any signs of life.
It was charging fine one moment (last saw about 80%) then about 10 min later, went to unplug to use.... but found the phone dead and rather warm. (not sure if that is usual since the batt was being charged)
Anyway, I flashed my phone only 1 week ago using "Insane" kernel and doing Overclock to 1200 with about -75 undervolt across the frequencies. Did I kill the phone by doing this ???
What are my chancs of getting warranty on it if the service centre manages to find out it had been flashed??
What are my options now? Any other areas to chek and try to recover?
Thanks
Well, if you can't get into download mode, there is still one more step to try before giving up. Go to ebay and search for I9000 usb jig. That might be able to force your phone into download mode. (They are cheap. Very cheap.)
If that doesn't work, there's nothing else you can do but to bring it back to a service centre.
Check out the info for the rig you mentioned. Apparently, it doesn't wotk for phones that are totally dead. i.e. no signs of life at when buttons are pressed, no lights etc.
I brought the set down the to service centre and luckily, the lady there did not ask me anything much. She just swapped out the batt to verify, plugged into USB charger to verify... then started to fill in the form for the phone to be sent in for repairs. Though she's not the repair person.... she did mentioned that all data would be lost and most likely a new board would be put in.
I'm keeping my fingers crossed that'll be the case... just gimme a new PCBA w/o trying to repair the current one. Hope they don't have any diagnostic tool/fixture where they can boot from a "debug" chip (such as processor, etc) to do board level repair.... then it might just show up that I'm running a modified kernel & ROM.
They cant check, if you were runnig custom ROM. Stop worrying, mostly they do not have a choice but to replace PCB. This is my personal exp. with samsung.
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I got a hold of my friends galaxy tab by sprint and he had asked if i can fix it. The problem that he is having is that when you turn the tab on it gets stuck in the "Samsung" screen where it flashes but never fully boots up. Now typically if this occurred on my galaxy s phone i would just simply odin back to stock problem solved. However im not too sure the same applies for a galaxy tab. Can someone please help me out with this and let me know what steps need to be taken.
He did mentioned that before this problem occurred all he did was leave it charging over night and then unplugged it and tried to power it on and thats where he encountered this odd problem.
did he modify it at all?
maybe the kernel got hosed some weird way on the way it got charged, maybe overcharged and crapped out... you could try to reload a kernel...
when this happend with me, I had rooted it and applied cmw 3.0.0 without a kernel to support the ext partition. Try powering it off and holding down the vol button while powering it on. Does it go into download mode. If so get himdell from github (it acts similar to odin) once the drivers are loaded, install the libusb drivers for himdell in the galaxy tab drivers. there should be instructions in the text doc on what to do.
you can use himdell_frontend to flash a new kerenl.
Go to.. Galaxy Tab General
Or to... Galaxy Tab Q&A
This section is for posting of dev projects/guides/ref etc not for questions or general discussion.
when using himdell, is there a file(s) that will restore back to stock ?
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when using himdell, is there a file(s) that will restore back to stock ?
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As others have pointed out, this thread belongs in Q&A or Gen, however, having said that:
There's a discussion on flashing back to stock on a Sprint Tab here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=969892&highlight=sprint+stock+firmware
That thread points to another that yields the file, but the discussion in the one I linked looked to be worth reading.
I can't comment personally, as I am running a VZW Tab.
Good luck.
ok so i have a sprint galaxy tab i was trying to put this on my tab with no idea what i was doing....http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1020167 i had flashed it on the the device then it hung at the samsung screen forever without ever changing so i went to the restore option in the volume up power settings and selected a random restore point to boot from my tab came on this time back to 2.2 or whatever it was but i was getting all these force closes i go threw the setup process on my phone and now when i click on my wifi i get a error and my screen does not turn to the side and a bunch of other stuff can someone please help me i had no idea what i was doing when i did this i just want my phone to work like it worked when i got it out of the box please help thank you....
First, wrong section..
Second, check this thread for answers.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1133053
alright well i have tried the stock rom section of the link you gave me plenty of times since yesterday and i have the sw upgrade app running on my computer but i always get the same damn error when im at the start software download screen....cannot open binary file!....wtf
What you have done wrong is rushed into something you have no clue about which is a stupid thing to do with your device. First read, read and more read and when you know what you are doing THEN attempt to flash your device and not until.
Also you are posting in the wrong section, You have no business posting anything in here. If you want to ask a question then you reply to a roms thread or create a topic in the Q&A forum.
This isnt just a couple of boys complaining, it's a solid rule here.
Don't respond here - let it die. Then go to the Q&A section and start fresh there please.
its alright this can be closed now i fixed my tab
I actually thought the topic of this post was sarcasm. Got a laugh out of me. Thx.
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its alright this can be closed now i fixed my tab
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Glad for you. What was your fix? Lets get some good out of this.
Hi all experts,
Yesterday my GT started force closing ALL apps all of sudden. So I tried to reboot the GT and it was stuck at the SAMSUNG logo screen.
When it finally boot(occassionally) to home screen, icons and widgets ALL GONE back to default, apps still force close. Showed setup screens (put in sim...etc). Lookout app shows installed on Market but cannot run. Some apps previously installed showed "free" in Market seems like never installed. Popouts showing force close still.
Open Recovery it shows (see picture). Anyone please HELP!
Well your tab is screwed up lol (for a reason I dunno due to lack of details). Flashing a stock firmware should fix it right away. Charge your tab to the 100%. Go to overcome website and follow the instructions (READ THE GUIDE, then REREAD IT AGAIN) to flash a stock ROM of your choice (or you can flash our stock safe v5 as well. The choice is up to you) once you are done you will be on a pure unrooted stock rom. Feel free to stay on stock or flash w/e custom ROM you desire
I think my GT has always been on stock Rom. I z4rooted it at 2.2 after awhile had all kinds of problems. Then I updated it to gingerbread thru. Kies and it went fine for 2 weeks.
Do you know how to find out which original Rom it is supposed to be with? (I bought it second hand, unbranded international GT-P1000, when I got it it had TGY rom) Let me know what info/detail you need I will post them...
BTW, 1 out of 5/6 times I went to Recovey, it showed something like 'checksum (0)' 'no need to check' but still shows the 'cant access to system/csc/TGY/system' (see picture) When boot it still stucked at logo screen...
anyone expert can help?
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Flashing a stock firmware should fix it right away. Charge your tab to the 100%. Go to overcome website and follow the instructions (READ THE GUIDE, then REREAD IT AGAIN) to flash a stock ROM of your choice (or you can flash our stock safe v5 as well. The choice is up to you) once you are done you will be on a pure unrooted stock rom. Feel free to stay on stock or flash w/e custom ROM you desire
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Your question has been answered... We can't help people who DON'T read their responses...
Yeesh....
I did read the responses and brought TAB to local cellphone repair store with Darkpal's solution. I tried 3 of them and none of them were able to solve the problem having tried to flash different roms, and none of them were confident about finding the "original stock rom".
I was suspecting hardware issues, because this TAB I have was second handed therefore I have little idea what "stock rom" it was with, and the larger than usual gap between case and screen on SIM/sd side of the TAB suggested it had been opened.
All in all, I sent my TAB to Connexion2005 who said will JTAG my TAB. Let's wait to hear from him and I will post the result here.
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I did read the responses and brought TAB to local cellphone repair store with Darkpal's solution. I tried 3 of them and none of them were able to solve the problem having tried to flash different roms, and none of them were confident about finding the "original stock rom".
I was suspecting hardware issues, because this TAB I have was second handed therefore I have little idea what "stock rom" it was with, and the larger than usual gap between case and screen on SIM/sd side of the TAB suggested it had been opened.
All in all, I sent my TAB to Connexion2005 who said will JTAG my TAB. Let's wait to hear from him and I will post the result here.
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I am here to report the outcome as promised. Sent the Tab to Connexion2005 for JTAG and got it back after 1 week. It has been over a month and everything works fine. I have to give Connexion2005 the credit to revive my $400 investment. THANK YOU!
Also thanks to all attempted to help in this post. Thread closed!