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[Q] Phone not working after updates - vibrates randomly - screen remains blank

I got the SMS from vodafone that the Froyo update was available for my phone, and fired up Kies to run the update. Lo and behold, it wouldn't start. Tried to reinstall - that wouldn't work - installer failed.
Grabbed another laptop, installed Kies there, plugged in the phone - nothing - Kies didn't recognise phone.
Got to the point where Kies on the phone was restarting every second and not doing anything else.
After reinstalling USB drivers on computer, decided to do a factory reset on the phone, so did this - and then the phone won't start properly. It starts up but then I get error messages saying that TWLauncher has crashed and needs to restart.
Try another factory reset - nothing.
Decide I'm on a hiding to nowhere here, so progress down the ODIN route.
Download Odin and the various files, manage to flash the phone just fine.
When it restarts however - start up animation plays ok, then the screen goes blank and the phone starts vibrating randomly.
If I go into recovery mode, then I get a red error message on the screen saying
update media, please wait
E: Can't mount /dev/block/stl10
(Invalid argument)
E:copy_dbdata_media:Can't mount DBDATA
your storage not prepared yet. please use UI menu for format and reboot actions
copy default media content failed.​
I've tried the wipe data/factory reset, the wipe cache partition, the format internal sd-card options - none work.
Any ideas?
I have a completely disfunctional phone right now ;(

Update: I found this posting http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=788850 and have resurrected my phone via the instructions linked to here: http://briefmobile.com/how-to-android-2-2-on-galaxy-s
So I'm now on JP1 - but am a little wary of upgrading to anything else!
What is the recommended way of doing so - ideally I'd actually like to get onto the Vodafone UK version of Froyo, purely for warranty purposes...

Well - decided in for a penny, in for a pound... went with another JPO install - it did the same weird black screen / vibrating thing, but when I yanked the battery and did another factory reset, it seemed to sort itself out.
Now I just need to find a lagfix/root that its happy with

Nice one, I flashed the cl kernel from xda developers it gives you root and 2e recover so you can use update.zip files. Need to fladh using odin but it's very easy just follow instructions. I them installed voodoo 5 pre 6 using update.zip, wonderful! Good luck
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[Q] Random Boot Loop on SGS I9000

hey guys:
I have a problem that's killing me. Everything was fine on my phone, i had flashed to Darkys v9.2 had the speed mod kernel and the lagfixes working great until randomly my sms kept force closing and wouldnt load. I tried re-booting my phone and now its stuck in a bootloop. I tried flasing back to I9000UGJH2 with Odin and when i do it flashes fine and stops at the recovery mode first boot with the following message:
format_vfat_device -> argv[1] : -F
format_vfat_device -> argv[2] : 32
format_vfat_device -> argv[3] : -0
format_vfat_device -> argv[4] : android
format_vfat_device -> argv[5] : /dev/block/mmcb1
k0p1
run_program: child excited with status 1
E:Can't mount /dev/block/mmcblk0p1
(No such file or directory)
E:copy_dbdata_media:Can't mount SDCARD:
copy default media content failed
After that i hit reboot system and it goes to the SGS boot animation and then to a black screen. My touch screen buttons(taking about the home and back) still light up when i touch them but its just a black screen. I can get to recovery and download mode but cant seem to fix the problem. If i boot to recovery mode it gives me the same message.
So i said screw it and tried to flash to I9000XXJPY. This worked but after it flashed it tried to boot but got stuck in a boot loop. I can still get into download mode but not recovery mode. So right now I'm stuck between a blank screen and a bootloop. If anyone has seen this and has any type of solution it would be much appreciated. Im in Canada and through sasktel. I really need my phone and im willing to try anything. im pretty computer literate. To me it sounds like there may be a problem with my internal SD card, but im not a doctor. Im fairly new to the SGS and i really like it. I've searched the forums and cant find a similar problem out there. I may have missed it, If there is allready something out there please let me know.
Edit 1:
Is it possible that there is a problem with my motherboard?

JH2 is 2.1 & Darkys 9.2 is based on 2.2.1
Whenever I have had problems with any ROM including boot-loop I always flash JPU (2.2.1) via ODIN with re-partition checked regardless of having any lagfig disabled or enabled.
Or you could try Darkys Resurrection ROM http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=940671

i tried that but no dice. i re-partitioned and flashed back to JPU but no dice. its still stuck in a boot loop. Does anyone know where i can get the original BMC 2.1 firmware or if that would help at all?

Help
Please someone help! Im still stuck in the boot loop. Im pretty sure that i've got a redundancy but not sure how to get rid of it. I've flashed all over the place and done a re-partition with the PDA, CSC, and the 512 pit file for JL2. Im still stuck in a boot loop and i really need my phone. Anyone have any other ideas?

I'm having the same problem, i tried to instal gingerbread on my phone but failed so i went back to froyo, when i finished rooting froyo it rebooted and i can see the S logo flashing and then the screen goes black and the phone just vibrates every 15sec or so. If anyone can help just tell me what to do. Thanks.

im having the same problem with my sgs and i found this while i was looking into the forums. some guy seemed to have the same problem and some how he managed to fixed it. this is his post and im quoting:
""Originally Posted by Encrypted1024
WOW! I am back up and running. This appears to be a data partition issue.
Can't say exactly what I did but here it goes. I may have done these things more than once today so you may have to run through this procedure a couple of times.
- Flashed JH2 with repartition and pit 512. (Stuck in bootloop)
- Flashed JL2 with Repartition and pit 512. (Boot to S Screen now)
- Flashed with SpeedMod 12
- Boot to recovery mode
- Format every partition
- Flash to JH2 with repartion and 512 pit. (Back to boot loop)
**** Heres where it was different***
- Flash to JL2 without repartion or pit
Booted up and working.
I know, sounds sketchy, but I must have reflashed my phone with 10 different firmwares today.
After I got it booted up I flashed it with Darky's 7.6 ROM. It gave an error at first about the data parittion but it repaired itself after running lagfix and changing to ext partition.
I may recomend to flash with Darky 7.6 and apply lagfix to rebuild the partitions and see if it fixes this issue right away.""
im not that into these kinda stuff i just want my phone working again. u guyz give it a try and if u succeed using this plz plz plz lemme no how u did it. or if u did it with a different method or something plz lemme no. thanks

Possible Eureeka!
I think i may have had an apiffany. The bootloop, from what i understand, is caused by a redundancy in the boot sector. I think what you may have done is by flashing the new speedmod kernel and formatting the partitions you may have eliminated the redundancy. That's what i think may have happened. If I'm wrong please correct me. I'm fairly new to this but I've done a ton of reading and research. If I'm wrong please let me know so that i can try and figure out what worked. I'm running into another problem now. I think i may have re-partitioned one to many time. Does anyone know a way to re-format the internal SD without being able to get into recovery mode. Ive lost that ability now. Its completly stuck in a bootloop no matter what i flash to.

bootloader
i think another problem that may be causing this mess is that on a couple of flashes i had the update bootloader and the phone efs clear checked. Is there any way that that has an effect on my phone? if so is there a fix attached to it? Please help, losing hope fast.

[Q] Odd Problem - Soft Brick

Hi,
I installed Galaxian Soup 1.5.1 beta a week ago and all has been running fine. This morning the tab was blank like it had run out battery so I put it on charge and found it wasn't dead. Tried to reboot and it's just stuck at the "Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9" screen. I was using it fine last night and haven't changed anything!
I've tried ODIN to restore Stock Recovery which said it passed and worked, but still the same problem. It has removed CWM though. When I try to do anything in Stock Recovery it complains about not being able to mount the /data directory.
Is there anything else I can try, do I need to use ODIN to flash a ROM again? If so, can you tell me which file to use as there are hundreds in the Galaxian Soup zip.
Thanks!

Flash stock rom with Odin. Unfortunately you also need to wipe data in stock recovery for this to work, so you will loose everything.

Thanks for the reply. Unfortunately this hasn't worked, it passes in Odin but then on the tablet it says E:failed to mount /data, and "your storage not prepared yet, please use UI for format and reboot actions.
Trying to factory reset fails.
Any other ideas?

OK, a bit more detail. I use ODIN to flash the stock rom found here - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1483168
It passes and goes into recovery but complains in red letters about not being able to mount /data, can't access /system/csc/XEU/system in yellow and can't mount /cache or a few other subdirectories.
I select wipe data which appears to work although it complains about make_extf4fs failing on /dev/block/mmcblk0p8. It then complains about not being able to mount /cache and other subdirectories again.
I then select reboot, it complains again about not being able to mount /data and /cache and switches off, not reboot. If I turn it on again I'm straight back to recovery.
Got to be something I'm missing here!
Any input appreciated.

It seems your partition tables are messed up, but i have no idea how this could happen if you didn't flash anything that could cause this, maybe a hardware problem?
There is a way to repartition the tables, you need a PIT file for this. I have not done this myself, so unfortunately i don't know much about it. Try to search for a PIT file, but make sure it's for your tab model, otherwise you can mess it up completely.

Many thanks - that fixed it! For future reference and for anyone searching this thread I found the pit file here - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1406137&page=9 and flashed it with ODIN together with the standard firmware I mentioned in the earlier post.
It's not all good news though. The tablet now keeps freezing. Even in recovery while I was trying a factory reset for the freezing. This leads me to believe it may be a hardware problem that caused the original brick and ongoing freezing issues. What do you think? Does it save a dump anywhere when it crashes?

Glad to see it worked. Maybe try to flash the stock rom again, now without the pit file. Also try factory reset in stock recovery. If you are still having problems, then im afraid its a hardware problem.

Yeah, I came to the same conclusion. It was hanging even whilst in stock recovery which means it had to be a hardware problem. Took it back to the shop and got a refund, new one is on it's way.
Bit nervous about ROMing the new one! The only thing I can think of is maybe overclocking damaged the cpu, although I only set it to 1.4Ghz. Or I was attaching a card reader and it was complaining about a service crashing when I removed it. Maybe it would have happened whether I messed with it or not!

Mbuxton said:
Yeah, I came to the same conclusion. It was hanging even whilst in stock recovery which means it had to be a hardware problem. Took it back to the shop and got a refund, new one is on it's way.
Bit nervous about ROMing the new one! The only thing I can think of is maybe overclocking damaged the cpu, although I only set it to 1.4Ghz. Or I was attaching a card reader and it was complaining about a service crashing when I removed it. Maybe it would have happened whether I messed with it or not!
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I have been flashing different roms, kernels and recoveries on my tab for more then 200 times probably. And i have been using Galaxian-Soup AOSP ICS rom with molteys kernel for almost two months. Never had any problems (that i didnt create myself). Never used overclock, but havent heard of anyone who has had problems with it either.

[Q] Need some Help, possible file system issue

I have a Verizon Galaxy tablet 7 inch the original one. I have had many custom roms on it in the past. Recently I had AOKP on it...I am not sure what build. For some reason my kids were playing with it and it would not boot up. I went into recovery and tried flashing AOKP and it would stay locked up on the boot screen. I eventually tried flashing all ICS roms with no success. I eventually ended up trying to go back to stock. I can get into download mode with and communicate with Heimdall and/or Odin. The problem is that every thing I flash goes into a boot loop. when I go into recovery I get an unable to mount error like E: unable to mount cache and one for kernel and about 6 more. I figure that there is something wrong with the file system so I have used a pit file when I flashed with no success. I am not sure if there is an issue with the file system being the wrong type or if I have to many partitions now. I know that the mount error in recovery is where the problem has to be. If someone could please point me in the right direction. I have been all over these forums.
Thanks,
Leroy

In order to determine if it is file related. Try to do a full wipe right after the Odin.
That is all 3 Wipes (Cache,Dalvik,Data)
Also check all the boxes on the right side of the Odin screen to flash the stock rom.

Well I got a little further now it boots up after 5 minutes and states encryption unsuccessful and asks to reset tablet. There is some threads on this so I will get to trying to resolve this. In fact I just realized this is how everything started off I didn't read the message and powered it down. So it must have started on its own or from the kids playing on the tablet.

Is there any way to determine if your internal memory is shot. It seems like there is a problem mounting my internal memory > emmc?

Galaxy S Problems - Need Help Fast!

Ok so I have been looking around for two days now and have not been able to find an answer to my problem. I've even searched and tried everything on these forums so please don't ask me to google or use the forums search.
I've got a Bell Canada Samsung Galaxy S GT-I9000M, it was working fine a few days ago and I picked it up to check my messages and it was frozen. After a few minutes I pulled the battery and went to restart the phone.
The phone will now only show the Samsung Galaxy S white logo and simply restart itself and play that logo over and over. If the phone is plugged into the wall it will show the battle charge logo briefly and than restart to the logo. It will go no further than this point.
I have tried to do a factory reset via Home + Power + Vol Up but it seems to reset itself before it will actually load into that menu. Home + Power + Vol Dn will bring me to the download screen which is stable and will not reset the phone.
This is where it gets strange, I have tried Odin and a 100% stock flash on the phone with no luck the phone just sits resetting. After a download of DarkyROM it will actually load the white Galaxy S logo along with the DarkyROM logo and simply go back to resetting.
So the phone is clearly in some state of a working order able to download and accept ROMs but just keeps restarting itself after the white initial Galaxy S logo.
Any and all help would be appreciated! I hope I have explained this problem well enough, maybe it is in need of being brought to a shop to be fixed? Just happens that the warranty expired last week, almost seems coincidental.
Thanks!

After you installed DarkyRom (or any other ROM with CWM), did you try re-entering the recovery menu? Perhaps you will now be able to enter recovery?

tptp said:
After you installed DarkyRom (or any other ROM with CWM), did you try re-entering the recovery menu? Perhaps you will now be able to enter recovery?
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No, after the install of the ROM it would load up the white galaxy logo along with the DarkyROM logo and than just go back to resetting itself over and over. I could still go back to to the download but not access the reset menu.

Knagar said:
No, after the install of the ROM it would load up the white galaxy logo along with the DarkyROM logo and than just go back to resetting itself over and over. I could still go back to to the download but not access the reset menu.
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run through My Android Solutions, link below and do the first step after that to immediately to recovery or download mode , than flash a rescue or resurrection kit from My Android collections, link below, all this done without sim card or exts SD card inserted

None of this has worked, I have tried every trick I can find on the net but I can't seem to get it to go.
As before the phone will go into download mode, will accept roms and so on as shown by the DarkyROM logo showing up and going away with the removal of it.
After every attempt I am still not able to get into recovery mode but am still able to access download mode. The phone seems to be in some state of working order but continues to reset itself only when turned on but will run stable in download mode.
ADB doesn't see the device and even if it did I think it would still just reboot once it started into recovery.
It's almost as if the phone starts and after it shows the starting Galaxy S GT I9000 it just turns itself off for some reason
Is their any way to totally reformat the phone and start 100% from scratch without getting into recovery to do factory reset?
Step by step instructions on what to do and download for Odin would be fantastic. I am still not sure 100% on what the PIT/Bootloader/PDA/Phone/CSC are or do so the files I need to put in those and a good explanation would be great!

This happens sometime. To fix, Do this.
1. Boot into download mode.
2. Flash stock ginger bread with Odin using 512 pit.
3. Now boot into recovery and wipe data/factory reset.
4. Boot again into download mode.
5. Flash devil or semaphore kernel.
5a note. Your phone doesn't need to be able to boot. All we need is recovery mode.
6. Boot into the new recovery and wipe data/factory reset.
7. Format /system.
8. Flash ROM / gapps etc.
9. Boot with success.
10. Happy dance time, brings good luck.
Sent from my GT-I9000 using xda premium

Knagar said:
Step by step instructions on what to do and download for Odin would be fantastic. I am still not sure 100% on what the PIT/Bootloader/PDA/Phone/CSC are or do so the files I need to put in those and a good explanation would be great!
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ok, try flashing a gingerbread Ezboot loader, visit My Android collections, link below, has complete guide at download page

Well I've tried both suggestions with no luck. I am starting to think it's some sort of hardware problem which I can't understand because it is 100% stable and won't reset in download mode. It will accept ROMs and so on but instantly just starts to restart itself after the first logo is shown. No work around will let me into recovery mode and no method I have found so far will just reload how the phone boots. I guess it's time for a new phone eh chaps?

Knagar said:
Well I've tried both suggestions with no luck.
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hmm, its strange..anyway, you should remove SIM Card and Ext SD card, and try to use any tool from My Android Collection, to format the Internal SD card and flash a 2e recovery to see , if you can get your recovery back or even a i9000 rescue kit would be good to go after formating your Internal SD card
Formatting you Internal SD card, will resolve any settings, data, delvik cache etc that would be the cause of your initial problem.. there are formatting tools as well a recovery tools that can be used to achieve this

Did u flash the correct stock firmware for ur I9000M? try this http://www.hotfile.com/dl/162558059/7efd7bc/I9000UGKG3_I9000BMCKG3_VMC.zip.html.
Source : http://www.sammobile.com/firmware/?page=3&model=GT-I9000M&pcode=0&os=1&type=1#firmware

Ok progress is being made, first I used Odin to load I9000UGKG3-I9000BMCKG3_VMC in the PDA slot without doing a reboot. Then I loaded JPK_Root_Recovery_2e using just the i9000_Kernel and was able to boot recovery.
After doing a Wipe Cache and then Factory reset the phone went back to a boot loop and I was unable to get back to the recovery menu.
After repeating the first steps I am once again in the recovery mode with no boot loot but am unsure as to where to go from here.
Currently the screen reads
Android system recovery <2e>
Samsung Recovery Utils
- for BML -
reboot system now
apply sdcard:update.zip
wipe data/factory reset
wipe cache
-------------------------------------------------
E: Invalid command argument
-- Install from package...
Finding update package...
Opening update package...
# Manual Mode #
--Appling Multi-CSC...
Installing Multi-CSC
multicsc : src /system/csc/BMC/system/ .
*EDIT* Seems once you restart from the recovery mode it goes right back to a boot loop, was not able to apply the SD card update either. So getting to recovery is currently a one time deal without having to go back and reload VMC and 2e. Once restarted all is lost.

You will need to flash another firmware with 3 file method @odin. Search on this forum a firmware and flash it!
Don't worry, u can't brick your phone that easily. I flashed my phone 10times in a day, for boot loops, when i tried to upgrade to 4.0.4
Sent from my GT-I9000 using xda premium

Ok so this time I used Odin to do VMC in the PDA slot, then I9000 Kernel went back to VMC and loaded that then when I restarted the phone it went back to the same boot loop.
I have no way to clear the internal SD or anything like that because the programs will not see my phone connected to my PC.
What could be causing my phone to just continue to restart?

Knagar said:
Ok so this time I used Odin to do VMC in the PDA slot, then I9000 Kernel went back to VMC and loaded that then when I restarted the phone it went back to the same boot loop.
I have no way to clear the internal SD or anything like that because the programs will not see my phone connected to my PC.
What could be causing my phone to just continue to restart?
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I gave u a source, download the guide on flashing through odin. It should work. Dun flash 1 file by 1 file.
EDIT : u can find more firmwares here. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1102881&page=1
Pm me if you need any help!

Ok so here is where I am at..
I have tried everything everyone has listed so far. The only think that has made any sort of progress at the moment is going into download mode, connecting to the USB after loading Odin. Using JPK_Root_Recovery_2e I9000_Kernel.tar will bring me to the recovery screen.
wipe cache partition + reboot = boot loop
wipe cache partition + wipe data/factory reset + restart = boot loop
wipe data/factory reset + restart = boot loop
Any of the above mentioned plus loading stock firmware results in a boot loop.
Any of the above mentioned plus loading DarkyROM Resurrection 10.2 will again show the Galaxy S I9000 Logo plus the DarkyROM logo and proceed to boot loop.
Clear cache and factory reset than load of i9000XXJVT pit/pda/modem/csc results in boot loop.
If I am missing something please explain in detail and not shunt me off to some other page.
As before I have tried everything mentioned with no luck at getting past this boot loop. Clearly the phone is able to accept roms and so on so the internel SD seems to be ok but the boot sequence seems scrambled. Strange that it will boot to download and boot to recovery with JPK but upon restart it just boot loops and without Odin and JPK I can only get back to download mode.

Seems to me you also have some partition woes. Try to find an older rom (Milky's worked for me) that requires re-partitioning to be done. Flash via ODIN, wait for 10-15 mins for whole process to complete. CWM flash any rom from there ... (Darky's Extreme also repartitions)