So a customer brought me a Samsung GT-I9000M from Canada. When you try and turn it on, you get a white screen that turns on and off at a regular interval. Trying to use the Odin and some of the 2.2.1 images, I've gotten it to where it will show the Samsung Galaxy S GT-I9000M boot screen, then it just turns on and off at that screen at a regular internval.
It seems hard to find a north america image in the list of images and I'm not sure what all the other letters mean in the names, do I need a bootloader version or what?
Is the turning on and off of the screen related to the firmware being messed up or is that a hardware issue and not a software issue. I have no history on the phone other than it came in with a white screen turning on and off.
Any ideas, help would be appreciated.
Loaded up a Froyo with a kernel, flashed it, it still gives me the boot screen and then the screen turns on and off. When it's in download mode, the yellow triangle and words are fine and don't flicker, so I don't think it's hardware. Any ideas what to try and flash to fix this?
getochkn said:
Loaded up a Froyo with a kernel, flashed it, it still gives me the boot screen and then the screen turns on and off. When it's in download mode, the yellow triangle and words are fine and don't flicker, so I don't think it's hardware. Any ideas what to try and flash to fix this?
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try to use a recovery kit from MY android Collections link below or Quick Fixes and solutions to get a better idea
xsenman said:
try to use a recovery kit from MY android Collections link below or Quick Fixes and solutions to get a better idea
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Does it matter if it's a 9000M since most of the tools seem to say 9000 ??
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I have updated the phone to android 2.2.1 and after reboot it appears Samsung's logo, vibrate once, but then it goes to a black screen, vibrating something like this: "bzzz.....bzz-bzz.............bzzz....bzz-bzz...." and so on )
The phone didn't restarted by himself, I had to chose system reboot. There were some red lines, but I don't remember what they were saing, as I did not pay attention to them
The update was made through Kies. The phone was with 2.2 version and was rooted with some app from the market, don't remember which, and is from Orange Romania.
So...what I need to do? Does anyone knows? It's not even my phone, my brother has it, but I'm the one who wanted the update )
L.E.: LagFix was also installed on the phone and I think those errors was from some files which could not be edited or something like that...and please, I'm a little desperate...
CaracalSef said:
I have updated the phone to android 2.2.1 and after reboot it appears Samsung's logo, vibrate once, but then it goes to a black screen, vibrating something like this: "bzzz.....bzz-bzz.............bzzz....bzz-bzz...." and so on )
The phone didn't restarted by himself, I had to chose system reboot. There were some red lines, but I don't remember what they were saing, as I did not pay attention to them
The update was made through Kies. The phone was with 2.2 version and was rooted with some app from the market, don't remember which, and is from Orange Romania.
So...what I need to do? Does anyone knows? It's not even my phone, my brother has it, but I'm the one who wanted the update )
L.E.: LagFix was also installed on the phone and I think those errors was from some files which could not be edited or something like that...and please, I'm a little desperate...
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Which firmware you had before update? 2.1 Eclair? Most known lagfixes supports for 2.2 froyo
Did you tried your luck with odin?
Thank you androidsl for reply. The phone had froyo 2.2. I don't know where to get odin, this is what I'm searching now. I am downloading I9000XXJPY.rar from samfirmware right now. After I'll get it, I will try to install it with odin, even if I never used it before
And that charghing battery appears on screen when I plug it in USB powered off like it's charging. If I turn it on, no sound as a new hardware detected hears, so it's posible to do anything with odin if my computer doesn't see the phone connected?
Another thing...I can't get the phone in download mode :| It must be the one with 3 buttons problem..damn! What can I do?
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Thank you androidsl for reply. The phone had froyo 2.2. I don't know where to get odin, this is what I'm searching now. I am downloading I9000XXJPY.rar from samfirmware right now. After I'll get it, I will try to install it with odin, even if I never used it before
And that charghing battery appears on screen when I plug it in USB powered off like it's charging. If I turn it on, no sound as a new hardware detected hears, so it's posible to do anything with odin if my computer doesn't see the phone connected?
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Did your phone have working 3 button download mode?
Press Volume down key and while holding that press home key. while keep pressing those two, press the power button and hold the all three keys until you saw the boot screen. then release all keys.
If you have a yellowish screen saying "Download mode, do not turn off the target", Man this is your lucky day
If I press those keys and release them after that samsung galaxy s logo, it gos into that black screen and vibrating thing again. If I keep pressing those 3 buttons for a long time it just rebooting continuously (samsung galaxy s logo appears-disappears-appears-disappears-appears-disappears etc until I release the buttons and goes into that black screen)
So, to be clear what is going on with the phone. It's turned off. I turn it on and it displays that samsung galaxy s gt-i9000 logo, then that animation with that sound..and that's all. After that..a black screen and vibrations
If you can not get to download mode that is a thing to consider. no download mode mean no odin
In that case i think you have to get a custom USB flashing cable to get into download mode. i saw ebay have that cable for a low price
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=819551
Or return phone to vendor for repair .
jje
you need to hold vol down + home + power while the phones off and it should go into download mode.
what rom did you have before trying JPY?
My brother is leaving town after a few hours and he needed the phone. Eh...)
I will buy a microUSB cable and mod it for download mode. If that's not working...I will go with it on a service. Thank you guys. I thought that something could be done, even the 3 buttons method doesn't work
Greetings all!
I have an AT&T Tab that I got a few weeks ago, and yesterday I let my curiosity get the best of me and decided to flash the Euro firmware to enable the calling function. It flashed flawlessly and, popping my personal SIM in, I could easily make calls and text and was pretty happy with the experience aside from two things. First, the home screen was no longer centered (page 3 of 5) but was on the far left on page 1. Petty concern, perhaps, but I really prefer the symmetry of the stock AT&T layout (as well as HTC Sense). I haven't enjoyed any aftermarket launchers so I didn't want to bother when them, and that would have been acceptable enough if it didn't result in the loss of my Media Hub and the $50 credit I got from registering the device with Samsung. Also perhaps a petty concern, but a concern nonetheless.
After getting it fully rooted and adding apps, the Tab would freeze horribly, becoming completely unresponsive and requiring a hard reset. This was after installing Titanium. But by this time, I decided to have a go at reflashing the stock ROM as provided by rotohammer. He did indeed warn us that there was no boot screen, and he was correct. Aside from that the experience is completely stock and just as it should be.
But the reason for this thread is...WTF can I do to get some sort of flash screen and boot animation so I'm not looking at a black screen for ages until the lock screen comes up? I've tried replacing the boot animation ZIP file with some files provided on these forums using Root Explorer, and it has no effect at all.
For some of you brains out there, I'll present a bit more info that may be of some use if you're willing to try to figure out a resolution to this:
Upon powering it on, the Galaxy Tab Samsung image appears for a second or less, then the screen goes black. After a few moments you hear the chime that accompanies the normal Samsung boot animation, but the screen is still black. Finally, after the typical length of time for booting, you can access the lock screen, but you have to hit the power button to get it to appear; it doesn't just light itself up as it should. I actually have to put it to sleep with one push, wake it up with another, then the lock screen appears and I'm using my Tab like normal. There was one time that I pressed the power key as it was booting and I saw the image of the boot animation briefly, but that's not typical.
Another thing that might help you figure out the root problem here is that I can't boot in Recovery. I power off completely, hold down the Power and Volume Up keys until I see the backlight come on, but the screen remains black. I can't actually see any of the text on the screen, but I know from experience that the device is in Recovery because if I hit Power, it reboots again, just as it would if pressed in Recovery (when the reboot option is highlighted).
When I put it in Download mode, I do see the normal screen with the Android shoveling.
Surely the inability to see splash screens and boot animations is related to not being able to see the Recovery menu, right? Can anybody help me get a splash and animation going on this without affecting anything else? I know that this too may sound petty to some, but I really want to make this the perfect tablet experience, like it was before I started messing with things.
I should also note that the shutdown animation works just fine. So far the entire experience seems pretty normal once you get past the boot.
Several peeps have had a blank boot screen issue after flashing a rom on att tabs; myself included. The blank boot screen usually has a thin white line, too.
Maybe check out this thread for some ideas: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=928076
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fwelland said:
Several peeps have had a blank boot screen issue after flashing a rom on att tabs; myself included. The blank boot screen usually has a thin white line, too.
Maybe check out this thread for some ideas: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=928076
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Thanks for the link! I looked around but didn't find any proposed fixes. Obviously overlooked this one.
However, that fix seems to be for people who go from stock to custom. In my case I went from stock to Euro and back to stock, but the resulting symptom is the same as described in the above link - except I have no white line, it's just black.
Given that I went back to stock and have this problem, will the above referenced fix work for me, or am I FUBAR? I don't want to risk bricking it just to fix the boot animation issue.
I cannot say for certain if it will help in your case. But here is my sequence of events that cause blank screen and when I applied the fix in the link:
Stock (non-blank boot)
Jmev4 rom (blank boot screen started)
Jmiv2 (never bothered to fix boot screen)
Overcome 1.3.0 failed install due to blank boot screen and cant 'see' recovery mode
Jmiv2 again fine but with blank boot screen
Follow link to fix blank boot
Jmiv2 now with fixed boot screen
Overcome 1.3.0 success!
So maybe you can apply fix to stock?
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Hopefully some of our dev wizards can chime in? I'm wary of trying something out that might turn my Tab into an expensive scrying mirror.
I ran the fix for the blank boot screen. Odin declared the flash a success but I can confirm that it didn't fix a goddamn thing! There is absolutely no change in the device whatsoever after installing the jj4 bootloaders.
Just to confirm, it was downloaded as a .ZIP file which contained a .TAR file. It was the .TAR file that I added into the PDA field; that was correct, right? Or was I to insert the .ZIP in the PDA field?
Does anybody have any idea why there's no visible splash screen, boot animation or recovery mode screen? Rotohammer: are you still alive? I got this stock ROM from your post; surely you've figured something out by now, no?
If Samsung/AT&T finally release 2.3, do you think installing it will resolve this issue? Where is everybody that could help with this??? Have they all forgottten about the Tab and gone on to bigger screens/greener pastures?
Hi Folks,
I have been using an unlocked Captivate for 3 months. I recently flashed MIUI ROM - 1.7.8 (from Cognition) and it was working fine for a day. Suddenly, when I had put the phone on charge (power not USB), the screen turned black and the phone is not working after that.
I flashed to stock (ODIN: as mentioned here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=776255) but after that the AT&T logo comes up (with the screen display very dull) and I hear the Samsung startup sound (no screen). That is all. It goes to black screen with the buttons highlighted.
If I connect it to my PC, I can browse the SD card but the screen doesn't turn on at all. I tried re-flashing to stock multiple times with no luck. Please help!
indophile said:
Hi Folks,
I have been using an unlocked Captivate for 3 months. I recently flashed MIUI ROM - 1.7.8 (from Cognition) and it was working fine for a day. Suddenly, when I had put the phone on charge (power not USB), the screen turned black and the phone is not working after that.
I flashed to stock (ODIN: as mentioned here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=776255) but after that the AT&T logo comes up (with the screen display very dull) and I hear the Samsung startup sound (no screen). That is all. It goes to black screen with the buttons highlighted.
If I connect it to my PC, I can browse the SD card but the screen doesn't turn on at all. I tried re-flashing to stock multiple times with no luck. Please help!
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So your saying your phone actually fully boots, you just can't see it? (I would test this by calling myself) This is a problem I've never heard of.... Can you boot into recovery with a working screen? Could be a hardware problem, considering how it happened.
Hi,
I was able to call my number earlier (before flashing back to stock) but not anymore (get a busy line after the first ring). However, I get the AT&T screen (only time I see something on my screen) and the Samsung startup tone and the buttons are all highlighted. The screen is black.
Even when I did Odin, I was doing it from a black screen (the Download icon on the screen didn't show up). I never get to see anything on the screen other than the at&t logo (so not able to boot into recovery actually!).
I just hope it is not a h/w pbm. I would rather try fixing it myself (if it s/w pbm) than taking it to the store
indophile said:
Hi,
I was able to call my number earlier (before flashing back to stock) but not anymore (get a busy line after the first ring). However, I get the AT&T screen (only time I see something on my screen) and the Samsung startup tone and the buttons are all highlighted. The screen is black.
Even when I did Odin, I was doing it from a black screen (the Download icon on the screen didn't show up). I never get to see anything on the screen other than the at&t logo (so not able to boot into recovery actually!).
I just hope it is not a h/w pbm. I would rather try fixing it myself (if it s/w pbm) than taking it to the store
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What kind of charger were you using? Honestly, it sounds like you fried some of those beautiful innards I'm no expert, though.
Twicebak3d said:
What kind of charger were you using? Honestly, it sounds like you fried some of those beautiful innards I'm no expert, though.
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It could possibly be because of the power issue (my charger model is ETA0U60JBE which supports 100-240v and I have 240v at my place so it should not ideally be a pbm). I'm just trying to see if there is some s/w fix for this situation before giving it for a h/w check.
Would this be a problem with my LED screen (though I see the at&t logo come up)? If it is, would it be some connection issue to the LED screen or a completely dead LED?
The right side of my Vivid's screen is notably darker than the left and the of the 4 buttons on the bottom of the screen, only the home button appears to be at the brightness it should be at. The rest are all super dim or off. When I turn my vivid off, the screen is off, but the button lights are still on. The 4 buttons also work. Ive tried taking out the battery and putting it back in numerous amount of times and restarting it. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to fix this?
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The right side of my Vivid's screen is notably darker than the left and the of the 4 buttons on the bottom of the screen, only the home button appears to be at the brightness it should be at. The rest are all super dim or off. When I turn my vivid off, the screen is off, but the button lights are still on. The 4 buttons also work. Ive tried taking out the battery and putting it back in numerous amount of times and restarting it. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to fix this?
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Well, try flashing another rom, or downloading and flashing the RUU. or send in to ATT for warranty repair if still applicable.
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XxSHaDoWxSLaYeRxX said:
Well, try flashing another rom, or downloading and flashing the RUU. or send in to ATT for warranty repair if still applicable.
Dont Forget to Hit Thanks!!
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thanks for responding
Well the problem with that is that I've never had a custom rom or an unlocked bootloader and I cant get a warranty repiar.... Do you have any other suggestions?
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thanks for responding
Well the problem with that is that I've never had a custom rom or an unlocked bootloader and I cant get a warranty repiar.... Do you have any other suggestions?
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You can still run an RUU if you've never unlocked. Turn USB debugging on, put the phone in Charge only mode, run the correct RUU (Gingerbread if you're on Gingerbread, ICS if you're on ICS)
However this sounds like hardware to me
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You can still run an RUU if you've never unlocked. Turn USB debugging on, put the phone in Charge only mode, run the correct RUU (Gingerbread if you're on Gingerbread, ICS if you're on ICS)
However this sounds like hardware to me
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i agree. you might be screwed here
I would think something got messed up and its making it do that. Try flashing an RUU or custom ROM like they said. Hopefully its not the actual screen if it is just replace it
Hey everyone,
I am the proud owner of a Samsung GalaxyS GT-I9000, but I do not have any idea how they work. That's the kinda noob, I am. So I was wondering if you guys know what my problem is, that is underneath:
The moment I turn on my Samsung GT-I9000, you'll see the opening screen showing the traditional GalaxyS GT-I9000 and Samsung logo, like every other Samsung Galaxy S.
Normally after that you'll see the big S showing up with its tune. However, here comes the strange part mine turns itself off and on again but it never passes that opening screen. It gets stuck in an infinite loop. I had this problem earlier, but by simple entering download mode and by turning the phone on and off again, it went on.
But no, it keeps in that infinite loop.
I have tried going into download-mode, press Volume Up + home button etc. But nothings helps.
Anyone has a suggestion on what I can do or what the problem is?
SamsungR said:
Hey everyone,
I am the proud owner of a Samsung GalaxyS GT-I9000, but I do not have any idea how they work. That's the kinda noob, I am. So I was wondering if you guys know what my problem is, that is underneath:
The moment I turn on my Samsung GT-I9000, you'll see the opening screen showing the traditional GalaxyS GT-I9000 and Samsung logo, like every other Samsung Galaxy S.
Normally after that you'll see the big S showing up with its tune. However, here comes the strange part mine turns itself off and on again but it never passes that opening screen. It gets stuck in an infinite loop. I had this problem earlier, but by simple entering download mode and by turning the phone on and off again, it went on.
But no, it keeps in that infinite loop.
I have tried going into download-mode, press Volume Up + home button etc. But nothings helps.
Anyone has a suggestion on what I can do or what the problem is?
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Hi there, have you tried to reinstall the rom from odin?
SamsungR said:
Hey everyone,
I am the proud owner of a Samsung GalaxyS GT-I9000, but I do not have any idea how they work. That's the kinda noob, I am. So I was wondering if you guys know what my problem is, that is underneath:
The moment I turn on my Samsung GT-I9000, you'll see the opening screen showing the traditional GalaxyS GT-I9000 and Samsung logo, like every other Samsung Galaxy S.
Normally after that you'll see the big S showing up with its tune. However, here comes the strange part mine turns itself off and on again but it never passes that opening screen. It gets stuck in an infinite loop. I had this problem earlier, but by simple entering download mode and by turning the phone on and off again, it went on.
But no, it keeps in that infinite loop.
I have tried going into download-mode, press Volume Up + home button etc. But nothings helps.
Anyone has a suggestion on what I can do or what the problem is?
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Which Rom do you use?
You could search the wiki, maybe there is a solution to recover from bootloop
Or you could use a JIG
Hope i helped