[Q] Phone stuck on boot animation, but changed nothing, before restart - Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hello,
My situation:
I was playing around with the phone, doing normal things, restarted it, but now it is stuck on boot animation (left for an hour, still on boot animation).
What i dont understand, is why this happened?.. I didnt change anything, apart from installing couple of games and force closing several apps since the last restart, but that shouldn't affect it, should it?
Is there any way of turning my Galaxy S on, so that I could at least save my contacts and then i could do a reflash...
I could do it now (recovery and download all works), but i dont want to loose my contacts...
Any help is appreciated,
Thanks

phemark said:
Is there any way of turning my Galaxy S on, so that I could at least save my contacts and then i could do a reflash...
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First powerdown, pull out Battery, SIM CARD, and EXT.SD card, press power button for a minute, than powerup without SIM and Ext.SD Card...make sure you have more than 50% battery charge before you attempt any sort of flashing.
This alone could your problem

xsenman said:
First powerdown, pull out Battery, SIM CARD, and EXT.SD card, press power button for a minute, than powerup without SIM and Ext.SD Card...make sure you have more than 50% battery charge before you attempt any sort of flashing.
This alone could your problem
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Thanks for your answer xsenman, however doing what you suggested didnt work, phone still on boot animation...
I checked my gmail account online, and it has some contacts, but not all.
I will be reflashing my phone tonight, but if anyone can suggest any way of saving all contacts before i do so, please let me know

phemark said:
I will be reflashing my phone tonight, but if anyone can suggest any way of saving all contacts before i do so, please let me know
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I assume you had a chance to try out the other options for bootloops in My Android Solutions try them first

xsenman said:
I assume you had a chance to try out the other options for bootloops in My Android Solutions try them first
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Yes, but all of the solutions require flashing, so not so in recovering contacts..

Hey, just try to flash another kernel via Odin! Maybe that fixes your problem...
(Flashing another kernel doesn't affect your data/contacts etc.!)

phemark said:
Yes, but all of the solutions require flashing, so not so in recovering contacts..
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you will not lose your contacts by flashing only a kernel

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Cry for help! D:

I tried to root my G1 from this link..
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=442480
Made it through the first few steps well, until i finally began to upgrade the image dreaimg or w,e.. It failed on me & now i cannot leave the screen. I remove the battery & turn it on. but when i do it stays in the same spot.. I tried everything & need some help.. ]:
Here is a pic of the screen.. : http://img683.imageshack.us/img683/4355/picture001bk.jpg
Did it start updating, then stop in the middle of it? Did the phone turn off due to running out of battery during the flash? Did you format your card to FAT32, download the proper RC for the original sale location of your phone?
Try pulling the battery at, then removing your SD card, do a long format to FAT32 (whether it is or not) copy the dreamimg.nbh onto the SD card, put the SD card back in the phone, put the battery back in, put it on a charger not turned on for 30 minutes, then take it off the charger...
Now that you have done all that, try booting into boot loader again by holding down the camera and power button until it goes into that screen again and does it's thing.
If this doesn't work, well, good luck since I have no idea from there.
Yes i've tried all of that.. Once i remove my battery it turns on, but as soon as i put it on again it turns on & the same screen appears.. There nothing i can do to go back to the Home screen.. D':
I most likely made a mistake but now i cannot fix this! ]:
SOme onee! please help me.. ]:
Everyone continues to ignore my thread..
have you tried to reset within there by pressing Home+menu+end? ppl are not ignoring.. jus they dont kno how to help.. as the guy already gave ideas that im pretty sure everyone would have said
Jose_95 said:
SOme onee! please help me.. ]:
Everyone continues to ignore my thread..
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When does this screen appear? Instead of the G1 screen or after it? If after, hold down home+Power and get into recovery, try reflashing your rom.
ilostchild said:
have you tried to reset within there by pressing Home+menu+end? ppl are not ignoring.. jus they dont kno how to help.. as the guy already gave ideas that im pretty sure everyone would have said
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I tried that combination just now & it wont work either.. ]: I've tried all combinations with buttons i know to try and reset the phone to get away from that uploader thing.. But nothing works..
BTaylor927 said:
When does this screen appear? Instead of the G1 screen or after it? If after, hold down home+Power and get into recovery, try reflashing your rom.
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That screen is the only thing that ever appears on my phone.. ]:I cant take that screen away like i want too.. So it appears instead of the G1 screen..
If that is the only screen that ever shows up, you very well may be bricked, I hate to say it.
It really sounds like during your flashing of the .nbh file it was disrupted for one reason or another, either the battery died or it was a corrupted file, so the only file left on the phone is the boot loader. Thus, it is the only thing that will show...
Of course, I am not 100% positive without knowing exactly what you did, not being able to mess with the phone myself, and so forth.
Some people have been able to bring phones back from the dead by getting lucky and being able to get ADB to work... try plugging the phone into your computer using a data cable and see if you can get any sort of ADB to work, perhaps seeing if you can get the stock HTC update program to recognize the phone and hopefully flash it into working.
pjcforpres said:
If that is the only screen that ever shows up, you very well may be bricked, I hate to say it.
It really sounds like during your flashing of the .nbh file it was disrupted for one reason or another, either the battery died or it was a corrupted file, so the only file left on the phone is the boot loader. Thus, it is the only thing that will show...
Of course, I am not 100% positive without knowing exactly what you did, not being able to mess with the phone myself, and so forth.
Some people have been able to bring phones back from the dead by getting lucky and being able to get ADB to work... try plugging the phone into your computer using a data cable and see if you can get any sort of ADB to work, perhaps seeing if you can get the stock HTC update program to recognize the phone and hopefully flash it into working.
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So then is there anyway to restart the phone? Like a secret way? & when i connect my phone to the computer when its shut off, it appears on the computer but not completely.. it says that one of the files are not recognized. Damn, this is really a pain.. ]:
So, you cannot boot into recovery, correct? And have you tried to connect to your pc and use ADB?
rjgonza said:
So, you cannot boot into recovery, correct? And have you tried to connect to your pc and use ADB?
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Agreed.
You should read up tutorials on ADB and see if you can use ADB to access your phone. If you can, your phone can still be recovered.
If not - then yeah, brick.
akapoor said:
Agreed.
You should read up tutorials on ADB and see if you can use ADB to access your phone. If you can, your phone can still be recovered.
If not - then yeah, brick.
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I cannot connect it to my computer at all.. Once turning on the phone the only thing that appears is the loader thing.. Whats ADB? how can it help me?
The Search button is your friend.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=502010

Bootloop with no possibility to enter recovery mode and no suitable drivers :(

I rebooted my Samsung Galaxy S I9000 today and got a bootloop.
(I wasn't messing with firmare or smth, it was low on memory and clearing doesn't help so I decided to reboot it)
When I try to enter recovery mode I am getting the same bootloop.
The only thing that I can do is to enter download mode.
But no driver is working for me so Odin can't see the phone.
The firmware is Andy Thomson's ICS (version prior to 2.8.10, one ore two earlier, I can't remember precisely) with Mackay kernel.
I've tried countless number of drivers on Win7 х64 and XP 32 and it's still "Unknown device".
I've tried Samsung drivers extracted from KIES (including latest 1.5.9.0)
I found some hacked versions that said to be specially modified for win7-64 and ICS roms
I tried to extract drives from Heimdall - no luck with that too
I installed the Android SDK and USB drivers from it
All of above didn't help
Any suggestions?
Gloosy said:
Any suggestions?
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try the procedures and solution on My Android Solutions link below
xsenman said:
try the procedures and solution on My Android Solutions link below
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Holding power button without battery solved my problem with non-detecting device. When I connected it to computer, the drivers were automatically installed and now Odin can see my phone. (But without picture and the com port is on yellow background if it means something) That's at least something, thanks!
But flashing pit or kernel or pit with kernel (as in your instructions about bootloops) doesn't help. I still got a bootloop and the picture on boot is still from Mackay kernel despite i've flashed it with semaphore and didn't see any errors in Odin while flashing.
Still cant get to recovery mode (tried different combinations from your faq)
Gloosy said:
Holding power button without battery solved my problem with non-detecting device. When I connected it to computer, the drivers were automatically installed and now Odin can see my phone. (But without picture and the com port is on yellow background if it means something) That's at least something, thanks!
But flashing pit or kernel or pit with kernel (as in your instructions about bootloops) doesn't help. I still got a bootloop and the picture on boot is still from Mackay kernel despite i've flashed it with semaphore and didn't see any errors in Odin while flashing.
Still cant get to recovery mode (tried different combinations from your faq)
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get into download mode and flash a JPU ROM plus Semaphore of CF root to recover
Gloosy said:
I rebooted my Samsung Galaxy S I9000 today and got a bootloop.
(I wasn't messing with firmare or smth, it was low on memory and clearing doesn't help so I decided to reboot it)
When I try to enter recovery mode I am getting the same bootloop.
The only thing that I can do is to enter download mode.
But no driver is working for me so Odin can't see the phone.
The firmware is Andy Thomson's ICS (version prior to 2.8.10, one ore two earlier, I can't remember precisely) with Mackay kernel.
I've tried countless number of drivers on Win7 х64 and XP 32 and it's still "Unknown device".
I've tried Samsung drivers extracted from KIES (including latest 1.5.9.0)
I found some hacked versions that said to be specially modified for win7-64 and ICS roms
I tried to extract drives from Heimdall - no luck with that too
I installed the Android SDK and USB drivers from it
All of above didn't help
Any suggestions?
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have you tried installing the whole Kies? Because that solved my problem when I experianced your problem.
Jayfunk said:
have you tried installing the whole Kies? Because that solved my problem when I experianced your problem.
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Thanks, but that part of the problem was already solved earlier in the thread.
But I did install Kies before that and it didn't help.
xsenman said:
get into download mode and flash a JPU ROM plus Semaphore of CF root to recover
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Thanks, but I've already reflashed stock and Jelly Bean after that. Everything's ok now except that I hoped to solve it less radically.
Hi there, same thing happened to me (except my phone was low on battery so it was shutting down. Bootloop now)
As i have a charging-screen loop, i dunno if my phone is really charging or not. should i just wait one hour or so be4 i start flashing it with odin?
dont wanna flash my phone with 5% battery ..
Goerni said:
Hi there, same thing happened to me (except my phone was low on battery so it was shutting down. Bootloop now)
As i have a charging-screen loop, i dunno if my phone is really charging or not. should i just wait one hour or so be4 i start flashing it with odin?
dont wanna flash my phone with 5% battery ..
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Never Flash Phone with low Battery Charge, use external charger to charge Battery First to full, if possible
First powerdown, pull out Battery, SIM CARD, and EXT.SD card, press power button for a minute, than powerup without SIM and Ext.SD Card....
thanks 4 your fast reply!
xsenman said:
First powerdown, pull out Battery, SIM CARD, and EXT.SD card, press power button for a minute, than powerup without SIM and Ext.SD Card....
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Did that already, and will do that before i flash again.
Since i don't have an external charger, and no device where my battery would fit in, do u know what likely it is, that my battery is charging up?
Goerni said:
thanks 4 your fast reply!
Did that already, and will do that before i flash again.
Since i don't have an external charger, and no device where my battery would fit in, do u know what likely it is, that my battery is charging up?
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it depends on what is causing the bootloop, If the bootloader is the problem, than it may not charge your phone . so try to power down and try charging, see if you get charging screen on your phone, when phone is "OFF"
Try not to take the risk of flashing with a low battery charge as , nothing would work, if you lose power when flashing botloader or when booting ..see My Android Solutions, scroll down

[Q] Samsung Galaxy s GT-i9000M KG3 No boot problem

Okay so I am Stuck :| I am not bricked Because I can Odin Flash But I go into Boot loop every time the System Information is in the title but still no luck :| can anyone help me
I have tried everything now and need answers fast please help I'm not mean I will thank anyone who KIND of hels me with this post even providing links or descriptions on what to do <3 PLZ help xD
mkaa00x said:
Okay so I am Stuck
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try a solution from My Android Solutions
But First powerdown, pull out Battery, SIM CARD, and EXT SD card, press power button for a minute , than powerup without SIM and Ext.SD Card...make sure you have more than 50% battery charge before you attempt any sort of flashing to solve your problem
UGKG3 bootloader and flash files in My Android Collections
Thankkks
xsenman said:
try a solution from My Android Solutions
But First powerdown, pull out Battery, SIM CARD, and EXT SD card, press power button for a minute , than powerup without SIM and Ext.SD Card...make sure you have more than 50% battery charge before you attempt any sort of flashing to solve your problem
UGKG3 bootloader and flash files in My Android Collections
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THANKYOU FOR HELPING ME OMG I LOVE YOU <3
-also how Can I it I don't know if it's root I'm glad I got out of that constant boot
mkaa00x said:
THANKYOU FOR HELPING ME OMG I LOVE YOU <3
-also how Can I it I don't know if it's root I'm glad I got out of that constant boot
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install this to find out https://play.google.com/store/search?q=root+checker&c=apps and flash this http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?0md9198nm85t89c with Odin for Root and CWM, if you want to upgrade to ICS or JB

[Q] Bootloop problem - no way to enter recovery

Hi,
I was runing CM10 with Semaphore 2.3.0 kernel and decided to do backup. At the moment I had 20% of the battery and unfortunately, I've stopped backup process.
The problem is that phone is stuck in bootloop, doesn't want to enter recovery console with powerup+home+power but I can enter Download mode with powerdown+home+power.
What should I do?
Please help!
Download Odin and download an official firmware from sammobile.com.
Then flash it through Odin.
just use Google if u don't know how to do it.
Sent from my GT-I9001 using xda app-developers app
markobj said:
What should I do?
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First powerdown, pull out Battery, SIM CARD, and EXT.SD card, press power button for a minute, than powerup without SIM and Ext.SD Card....Do remember to backup your contacts, data, images etc and also your EFS folder before flashing a ROM and make sure you have more than 50% battery charge before you attempt any sort of flashing.
This alone could have solved your problem, if it did not, try a solution from My Android Solutions

[Q] Stuck at bootimage, comp finds it, only at downloadmode

Hi, today my phone crashed like hell and i decided to restart it. But first i got the bootloop problem. But after a few restarts the phone just started to boot up in the boot screen where it only says: Samsung Galaxy i9000 etc. My computer still recognizes the phone but only in downloadmode. I am using the Cyanogenmod 7.1, 2.3.7
Please help!
And sorry for my bad english. it's my second languade..
First, just try another ROM.
If that doesn't work, then do a factory reset and then try it.
If you are not able to boot to recovery, then download Odin, an official firmware from sammobile.com, and flash it through download mode. I am going to sleep,so Google it if u don't know how to flash through odin!
Sent from my GT-I9001 using xda app-developers app
Asdarn said:
i got the bootloop problem.
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you can get a rescue kit from My Android Collections and or a solution from My Android Solutions
But First powerdown, pull out Battery, SIM CARD, and EXT.SD card, press power button for a minute, than powerup without SIM and Ext.SD Card....Do remember to backup your contacts, data, images etc and also your EFS folder before flashing a ROM and make sure you have more than 50% battery charge before you attempt any sort of flashing.

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