Here's my problem:
My Galaxy Tab was running some italian stock rom with root when i bought it (second hand) and i wanted to change it to stock swedish so i used spooffw and updated through kies. Everything seemed to go well but now (before even installing any apps) it freezes and then reboots very very often (like every 20 minutes). Does anyone have an idea what the problem could be and what i could do?
Did you do factory reset wipe via CWM? if no, please try that first. If problem still occurs,
you may want to flash again, try the following steps:
On your computer,
download firmware at: http://fus.nanzen.se/
(from Hoffighter's posting) http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=1350960
Download Check Fus Downloader 2.1, using the Check Fus Downloader, download the Firmware you want (P1000XWJJ3 for GT-P1000 Sweden). It will automatically decode the .enc2 file to.zip file
Extract the .zip file generated from decoding file to a folder and you will get
.tar.md 5 file.
Download Odin3 1.85 (search "odin3 1.85" in XDA Dev forum)
open Odin3 1.85, attach the .md5 file to the PDA field on Odin.
(Leave pit, phone, and CSC blank, uncheck re-partition)
On your G-Tab:
Go to download mode (Press and hold Power Button + Volume Down at the same time until your phone restart and you can see download mode screen).
Connect your G-Tab to your computer's USB,
and on your computer, click start on Odin - It should finish flashing in 2-4 minutes.
Once flash successful, your G-Tab will be automatically rebooted. Unplug your G-Tab from your computer immediately.
Let me know if you have any question following above steps - or if you can't find any of the things I ask you to download.
Good luck.
Thanks for your reply and for those easy to follow steps! It's flashing right now, i'll come with an update later when i've tried it out for some time.
Edit: As it happened most often with google maps navigation (like every 10-20 minutes) i just tried that and after 12 minutes i got a reboot with my newly flashed firmware. Any other ideas what it could be?
Edit 2: Decided to try a custom rom and thought i'd have a go at Overcome, before installing it i flashed stock safe v5 as they recommended, i thought that i'd try this for a short time to see if its working better and it does. No reboots using navigation for nearly an hour. So my question now is what are the downside of not using the swedish firmware but using this (XXJQ1) instead?
Edit 3: After having tried 3 different roms (the swedish stock, XXJQ1 and XXJQ8 2.3.6) and only having problems with the swedish one (flashed several times and tried it and same problems everytime) i've decided to stay with another rom. Now i would like help to choose which one. XXJQ8 would be nice but i had wifi problems, read about other having the same, so i want some european stock that hasn't got any land specific apps (Like XXJQ1 has some italian apps and so on). Does anyone know a stock rom that hasn't?
Glad you worked it out. There is no downside choosing non swedish rom except for custom apps that you rarely use or you can find in market.
I am using this custom ROM based on German rom and very happy about it fasr smooth good battery life and ice cream sandwich theme. You can try, but as always at your own risk:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1409469
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If wifi is the only problem, and you are happy with stock rom you can try this attached modem for JQ8 Rom:
JPZ-modem.zip, flash itfrom recovery mode. (Of course you need to root your G-Tab first).
I was really impressed with that custom rom you recommended, everything is smooth and i can actually watch flash streams in 720p BUT wifi disconnects and reconnects all the time, even when trying the modem you suggested. I know that its about the dhcp settings in my router set to forever but unfortunately i have to use that so 2.3.6 just doesn't work for me. I guess i'll have to use one of the 2.3.3 stock roms.
Big thanks for all your help yappoe.
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Hi guys,
Hoping someone can help me.
I attempted to flash my ROM with Darkys, but my Galaxy S didn't play ball and stopped booting.
So I followed the usual steps to get it back via odin.
Procedure:
1.Open ODIN. (And close Kies, if you have it open. It is important to have ODIN open BEFORE connection the phone via USB!)
2.Select the PDA/Modem/CSC/.PIT files in Odin. (.PIT and PDA are required. CSC and Modem are HIGHLY recommended. They may be necessary depending on the PDA! Try flashing all three BEFORE reporting bugs, if you only used one initially!)
3.Check the "Re-Partition" checkbox.
4.Turn the phone into the download mode by pressing and holding VolumeDown+Home+Power.
5.Connect your phone with your computer and wait until the drivers are installed.
6.When the drivers are installed, click Start.
7.The phone will be flashed and once it’s finished, it will boot up. (Do NOT disconnect the usb-cable, remove the battery or otherwise interrupt this process!)
8.You have successfully flashed your phone.
Now, It worked yesterday and all was good, but as you know Eclair is powerfully S*%t So I tried reflashing darkys from the Clockworldmod, and this also killed the phone preventing it from booting.
After this I could not access recovery mode.. only Download mode.
Rinse and repeat the steps above... Sadly now once my phone goes to reboot after reflash in Odin, it freezes on the white rotating circles.. and doesn't progress. as mentioned above, I can only get into Download mode.
My Galaxy is a GT-i9000 (Australian Optus).
Can someone please help?? I've looked around but can't find a fix.
If you can help me out that would be Awesome..
Since you are using eclair, I would suggest first upgrading to a stock froyo (there is a froyo upgrade guide in general) and if that works try darkyys rom.
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Flashed xx rom twice and it broke your phone . Lesson learnt ???.
Go to Rom Kitchen and download a rom to your build and flash .
http://romkitchen.org/sgs/?s=home
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=817703
First you may need to flash a clean setup
Block 2 Odin method .
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=818556
jje
My father in law bought a new phone SGS on O2 and I offered to unlock it as I have unlocked my husbands last week (he's was on O2 as well but in 2.1 or 2.2.1 version I think-froyo?)
Before I continue may I say I know you guys out there know so much more than me and I really need your help. I really tried to help unlocking this phone and for hours I searched and read things like reboot, download mode, recovery mode, flashing, JKV and so many other words and letter that I could not understand. Very few I understood in the end but may have messed up badly (?).
Please, I need help and please treat me as if I were your mum or even grandma. Step by step in simple normal English please.
My father in law's version is 2.3.3
I tried unlocking it the way I unlocked my husband's but didn't work. After looking for hours I thought that the best way to do it would be to downgrade from 2.3.3 (gingerbread (?)) to 2.2.1 (froyo (?)) and then unlock it.
I found this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1089989
and tried to follow it.
I downloaded EZRom and EZboot-Froyo-1.0.tar.md5 from the same post.
I followed:
•Download the right version from section above
•Reboot your phone into Download mode
•Connect your phone to computer
•Run EZOdin
•Select EZboot-Froyo-1.0.tar.md5 or EZboot-GingerBread-1.0.tar.md5as a PDA file in EZOdin
•Check the "Phone Bootloader Update" checkbox
•Click Start
I waited for the phone to turn off and feel the little vibration but didn't. Instead it just froze at the first screen when you turn on the phone. The black background with white letters: Samsung Galaxy...
I waited and waited and as nothing was happening I then I took the battery out. Put it back in and tried turning it on. I wouldn't it would just stop and that same screen, the black and white one.
I reread
•Wait until phone reboots and make it reboot into Recovery
SO then I remembered in the many threads I read about the recovery mode so 3 clicked vol up + button at them bottom and turn on bottom.
It gives me a few options. When I click on reboot all it does is show me the black and white screen again and nothing else. ah!!!
I took the battery off and put it back on many times, I also selected the fatory reset option and tried different buttons but nothing. Please help me.
I'm happy to phone any of you guys to help me and guide me even if it's just to put the phone back to what it was before, turning on normally, etc. I'm feeling really sad and a bit stressed as these days are supposed to be a nice time to spend with my little ones and family.
Anyway, please ask me anything.
Thank you so much in advance. I really hope I didn't do anything wrong and I'm just stuck because I'm ignorant in this matter. Thank you
I was never a fan of EZ-stuff.
That said, think you can easily solve that flashing your phone with odin and a proper rom. At this point i am unclear about what bootloaders you have on your phone since you've tried a downgrade.
Without getting into further details (sorry, at work atm). You can get tutorials easy for all of this around this forum.
I'd get Odin, get a proper stock rom from samfirmware with bootloaders included and flash it fresh from start with that. Doesn't really matter if it's froyo or ginger as long as it includes bootloaders.
You'll be left with a working phone at this point.
From here, if you still want to try to unlock it, i'd flash a kernell that would get me root (like the ChainFire one) since i find this the safest and easiest way of getting root on your phone and do a backup of your EFS partition (preferably saved in your computer or wherever outside your phone). This is very important, if you lose of mess up with this part of your phone it will be a pain.
Now, there are several ways of unlocking this phone, the only one i found to be most reliable (but not the easiest one) is to manually edit the nv_data.bin file (located in your EFS partition in hexadecimal.
There's a tut right here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=761045&highlight=unlock
Thank you so much for taking the time to reply although you are working!!! Really appreciate it.
I'll try your suggestion but I don't know how to choose the right stock rom with bootloader from samfirmware. I went to the website and registered but don't really know what to do.
I know you are working so might not be able to help me, may be someone else?
Here's where I am. Update. I found a list of firmware. This is the last one on Samfirmware.com.
Europe Samsung I9000 Firmwares.
I9000XXJVS ##
512.PIT
2.3.5
2011 September 8
CSC = I9000OXAJVS
DOWNLOAD
Things I need: (I think)
-Download a firmware (should I use the lastest one?) or 2.2 or 2.3.3? . Is there one better than the other? or is it my choice? How can I choose the best one for me?
-Odin. I have OdinMultiDownloader v4.03 in my desktop. Is that the best thing to use or should I use Ezodin. I don't know what the difference is.
-(Do I need to download or do anything else?)
Things I should do:
-Put phone in download mode
-Plug it to the laptop
-Open Odin (or Exodin?)
-click PDA. Choose the fie I downloaded-firmware.
(-after this I don't know what else I should do or tick or untick)
Am I in the right track or completely off it?
Thank you again to anyone taking the time to read this.
Download Jvt From sammobile. com, you need Odin on your PC (1.7 or 1.8) plus Samsung drivers. Read there flashing guides carefully, check you have download
Mode, battery charged > 50% etc
There is also a video on youtube which shows you how to upgrade to jvt.
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Sounds like you've got the boot-loop problem, which means that you most likely "soft-bricked" the phone. Don't worry, this isn't that big of a deal and can be fixed with relative ease. I agree with the posters above, a clean flash with Odin will probably fix your problem and get you out of the boot-loop.
I'll go into a bit more detail with some steps (feel free to correct me if I missed anything)
1. Download Odin 1.85 here.
2. Head over to Samfirmware.com and grab the latest firmware for the phone. I recommend Gingerbread 2.3.5 (JVT).
3. Make sure your computer has the proper drivers installed so it can communicate with your Samsung Galaxy GT-I9000. If you've flashed the phone before with your computer then you probably have the drivers installed, but here's a link for them just in case: Samsung USB Drivers
4. Enter download mode on your phone, depending on your firmware, it could be Vol down + power + home OR Vol up + power + home. Pull the battery out, pop it back in, and hold those three buttons until the phone turns on.
If you can't enter download mode with the 3-button hold method, then you might have to do so via ADB with the command "reboot download".
Getting into download mode is pretty critical, as you cannot progress further without it.
5. Once you're in download mode (should see a triangle with an Android shoveling stuff in it), plug your phone into your computer's USB port and open Odin. In Odin, press "Reset" on the right hand side. Odin should be able to detect your phone (this is indicated by a yellow box on the left side). I'm using a PC, so inside the yellow box I see something like this: 0:[COM9]. On a Mac it probably says something different, but as long as you see the yellow box appear then it's all good.
If you don't see the yellow box, then there's no communication between your phone and the computer, which means that you may have to reinstall the Samsung USB drivers.
6. With the contents in the firmware package that you downloaded from Samfirmware.com extracted, load them onto Odin accordingly.
PIT: use s1_odin_20100512.pit
PDA: JVT (sometimes the PDA is labeled CODE instead)
PHONE: JVT (sometimes labeled as MODEM instead)
CSC: use HOME-MULTI-OXAJVT (should be about 9.5 MB in size)
Since your father-in-law's phone was originally 2.3.3, you shouldn't have to alter the bootloader with Odin, so leave the bootloader field empty.
7. Once you've loaded up all the necessary files, make sure Re-partition and Auto-reboot is checked. Leave the rest of the checkboxes as it.
8. Press Start. This should initialize the flashing of the new firmware. After the phone has been flashed, it should reboot automatically and should hopefully be able to get past the Galaxy S black and white logo (aka. boot loop).
9. The phone should be in working order now. I used this method to unlock my SGS: SIM Unlock on the SGS. With this method, your phone needs to be rooted, so head on over to ChainFire's thread here to install his kernal which is already rooted.
Flashing firmware can be pretty scary since nobody wants to end up with a brick that costed $400 and it seems like so much can go wrong, but hopefully the steps I've provided helped. Good luck!
Hi guys, since I had this problem I have flashed darkys rom because I know it works and needed a working phone but I still need help flashing BVJVC as I wish to have my stock orange rom back.
The problem is that when I download BVJVC from sammobile.com (formerly samfirmware.com) I then load up odin and load the JVC_JV6_JV3.tar file into PDA (it's just the one file) and put my phone (Galaxy s i9000) into download mode, plug it into my computer and click on start. It all seems to go well, no errors showing in odin and when complete my phone comes up with some kind of status 7 error (I can't remember the exact thing it said) and just sticks on the samsung galaxy s screen (the one the phone boots up from)
I have also tried using check fus downloader, selecting Orange UK and it downloaded the same rom, it too failed. And I'm not sure what to do with the zip.enc2 file as I just unzipped the normal zip file and used the .tar file within that. Not that it's important.
Please can you help as I really would like my stock rom back and to be able to update via kies again.
Thankyou in advance.
Hi!
I just recieved a Galaxy S and i have a problem.
At the beggining, the phone bootloops. Then I full wipe it, so now doesn't have that problem. Now the problem is, that when it loaded and show the start settings (select lang, date, time etc.) every single application on the phone "Force Close" and the phone reboot itself and repeat the same procedure. I don't know what kernel, ROM the phone use, but i think it is the stock one (2.3.4 or 2.3.6)
I am able to go to Download Mode, but when I do that, the phone can't connect with ODIN, also my computer doesn't recognize my phone when i am in Download Mode (when i try to turn on the phone, then my computer recognize: Samsung Android USB ...)
I also tryed to change the ROM via recovery, but there i've got very few options (reboot, apply updates, wipe data, wipe cache), so i'm not able to change the ROM from there.
Please, tell me what to do.
Edit: Sorry for my bad english
I'm pretty sure you only installed the wrong USB drivers. There should be some sort of tutorial on the web to get the right drivers for an Odin access. Anyways, be sure that KIES and all child processes are killed when using Odin (use the task manager to look that up).
Feel free to ask further questions
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Hey! Thanks for the drivers above. The funniest thing is that the computers in my school recognized my phone, so do ODIN. But my computer still not recognized the device. Tonight i will send files to my flashdrive so tomorrow i will flash ROM with ODIN in my school (i have an admin account ) When i get back from school, i'll post the results here.
[sorry for my bad english, again]
Hi, again! Today I messed everything up. First, i flashed with ODIN the Darky's ROM but after installation 20 minutes the phone freezed at the logo (no progress there). Then I flashed CWM with ODIN and tried to install CM10 without success. After the installation the only thing which was changed was the CWM (new version 6.x.x.x). Then I tried to flash new kernel (Semaphore_JB_2.5.0s) and now its freezes at the logo "SEMAPHORE". I dont have recovery anymore, only the Download Mode.
Please, give me a link with the steps or show me how to install new ROM property, because this is the 3rd day i'm trying to start the phone with new ROM. Kies don't help, because "USB Debugging" is not activated on my phone (i can't activate it, because of the problem).
Thanks.
cm9 with odin
for cm9 with odin check this link: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1419102
Flashing shouldn't take more than a few minutes. CM9 was stable for me - with cm10 I still have a few problems.
start from stock rom
I think you should flash stock rom first.
flash GB firmware 2.3.6 (recommend JVU).
flash CF-root for jvu.
you can find stock firmware easily here as well.as instructions.
make sure play around with your phone for a while after done. then go ahead to any custom rom.
Hi,
I have Samsung Galaxy S I9000 running Ginger Bread.
I wanted to upgrade my phone to Ice Cream Sandwitch or Jelly Beans. In order to do it, I started with below steps to root my mobile.
1. Installed latest Clockwise Mode application into my phone.
2. Installed Odin3 v1.7 in my laptop.
3. Downloaded CF-Root-XX_XEU_JPY-v1.3-BusyBox-1.17.1.tar on my laptop.
4. Started Odin first.
5. Disconnected mobile and started in download mode with Volume Down + Home Button + Power Key.
5. After starting the download mode, connected mobile to laptop using the USB.
6. Keep all the default values in Odin3 i.e. Re-Partition option unchecked, Auto Reboot and F-Reset Time option enabled. Selected tar file CF-Root-XX_XEU_JPY-v1.3-BusyBox-1.17.1.tar in PDA option.
7. Connected mobile and it detected ID Comm [Highlighted in Yellow].
8. Finally click on Start button.
After starting the process was completed and Yellow color changed to Green one, phone was auto reboot.
But after reboot it is just stuck on start of screen and not going ahead. I wait for 2 hours but still not working.
Could you please help me how I can solve this issue now?
Did you try to pull battery out and restart the phone again?
Do you still can go in CWM with 3 button combo again?
If yes then try to flash a ICS or JB kernel (depending on what ROM you finally want to have on your phone) via CWM and then go in advanced and restart recovery (if available), otherwise just try to flash the rom.zip on top.
If CWM is not possible, the go in download mode an falsh a tar version of kernel via ODIN.
Here are different semaphore kernels for each android version:
http://78.46.194.137/downloads/gt-i9000-ics
http://www.semaphore.gr/downloads/gt-i9000-jb
For ics it should work after 1. flash, but for JB you have to flash it 2 or even 3 times, if after restart phone does not boot. Then battery out again, start in recovery and flash zip again.
Good luck and good success .
I think, at this position, installing a new gingerbread stock ROM will be preferable. Try installing XXJVU. Then root with cwm and install any slim bean version in case you are interested to use jelly bean.
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Sure that will be the best way....but my suggestions do not take much time, so why not give them a try .
But if its not going, then a restock is the best you are right:
What I always do for restock is using slappys rescue kit.
Unzip it and flash the Rom via Odin. There is everything, also a txt file with a guide included.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=29114573&postcount=2
If you want to have slim rom then its recommended to flash CM9 first or flash a modem afterwards via cvm, because slim does not have a modem included.
And/Or just follow the installation guides/recommendations from the single ROM Threads.
Thanks Guys for your help.
My issue is resolved with below post.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1809098
phone not starting
guys i cant start my phone....even the three buttons ar not working...it is just loading and loading....help please
model-gt-s5830i
viral1999 said:
guys i cant start my phone....even the three buttons ar not working...it is just loading and loading....help please
model-gt-s5830i
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You are here in totally wrong section: this is a i9000 help thread section. Hopefully you didn't flash a i9000 rom, otherwise your phone is hard bricked.
tetakpatalked from Nexus 7 flo
Me 2: It was from low battery in my case
I had similar problem when rooting my Samsung Galaxy S5 smartphone with Odin3. After rooting with a success message my phone was showing just the Samsung Logo each time I was trying to turn it on without loading OS. I googled and directed here and connected my phone to the charger as its mentioned in a link you provided which solved your problem. It turned on automatically after a few minutes while of charging and when turned on it was charged approximately 40%.
As I was very afraid my phone got serious harm at first I hope this maybe a sedative probability for duds really worry about what happened to their smartphone.
I rooted my phone le tv without pc bt after rooting it is not starting pls help me how to start my mobile again
Imbhavya said:
I rooted my phone le tv without pc bt after rooting it is not starting pls help me how to start my mobile again
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What exactly did you do, which phone model and what does it display now?
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