[Q] Galaxy S loosing signal - Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hi guys, my girlfriend have a Samsung Galaxy S GT-i9000, but in randomly loosing signal. Sometimes you see the signal icon coming and going at will.
She take it to a service center and they say the motherboard was damage, but it was a non authorized center.
My question is: could be any chance to fix this by software (flashing a firmware, etc)?.
Thanks, I will try anything.

Hi,
what version of android do you have? stock-rom (2.3.x) or another mod ...???
Maybe flashing a new modem could help, but only it is no hardware-damage ....
Is the fault since the begin you have the device or does it come actually or after flashing new android-version?
skyx26 said:
Hi guys, my girlfriend have a Samsung Galaxy S GT-i9000, but in randomly loosing signal. Sometimes you see the signal icon coming and going at will.
She take it to a service center and they say the motherboard was damage, but it was a non authorized center.
My question is: could be any chance to fix this by software (flashing a firmware, etc)?.
Thanks, I will try anything.
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freakymod2120 said:
Hi,
what version of android do you have? stock-rom (2.3.x) or another mod ...???
Maybe flashing a new modem could help, but only it is no hardware-damage ....
Is the fault since the begin you have the device or does it come actually or after flashing new android-version?
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It came with 2.3.3 and start failing a few months later, then I try Cyanogen Mod 7 and keep failing so I flash 2.3.6 Samsung official, still fails.
How could I flash a new modem?, where I can get them?

But with the version before 2.3.3 it was okay ???
skyx26 said:
It came with 2.3.3 and start failing a few months later, then I try Cyanogen Mod 7 and keep failing so I flash 2.3.6 Samsung official, still fails.
How could I flash a new modem?, where I can get them?
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freakymod2120 said:
But with the version before 2.3.3 it was okay ???
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For a few months and then suddenly start loosing signal...

I think testing with an other modem (but i have no experience with this ...) and when this doesn`t help ,that it seems to be a hardware error - i think ....
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2398355&highlight=flashing+modem
skyx26 said:
For a few months and then suddenly start loosing signal...
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How to flash baseband??

Some tattoo have baseband version 13.29.55.13G_3.35.07.20 and it doesn't support 3G, whereas tattoos with baseband version 13.29.55.13H_3.35.07.20 does.
Is there any option to flash this baseband of 3G to non-3G tattoos??
Thanks
Yes, use an update.zip. I'll add it as an option in my MCR kitchen.
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paulobrien said:
Yes, use an update.zip. I'll add it as an option in my MCR kitchen.
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So will you bring out a rom with the ability to change the baseband version ?
Shyam
shyamk said:
So will you bring out a rom with the ability to change the baseband version ?
Shyam
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yes he said no... patience shyam.... hope for the earliest release of this new ROM with this option....
keep it up paul...
shyamk said:
So will you bring out a rom with the ability to change the baseband version ?
Shyam
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@ shyam, did you find out anything more positive towards changing the baseband firmware of tattoo ??? even i am as curious a s u r.... please dont mistake me for those words which i said to u to calm down.... ok ???
i hope many european tattoo owners who have a baseband version of 3G could help us right ??? i dont know how to ask them to extract baseband firmware & upload it here.... do u have any idea about that ???
I hope there is some progress............
here u go thacen.... rename it as update.zip & reboot into recovery mode, then apply update.zip from sdcard.... simple.
here is the link posted by paul... the hard working guy. credit should go to him
i am just posting the download link.... for ur convenience.....
http://kitchen.romraid.com/paul/tattoo/update-tattoo-radio-13.29.55.13H_3.35.07.20-signed.zip
So can someone confirm that with the paulobrien's update, could you get the 3g support working?
Update very much appreciated.
harry7 said:
So can someone confirm that with the paulobrien's update, could you get the 3g support working?
Update very much appreciated.
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no its not possible... somehow that baseband has got nothing to do with the 3G hardware... only if u change the spl, then i think we stand a very good chance of getting 3G functionality in tattoo....
noone cared to post us the spl which could give us the 3G functionality.... waiting for someone who can do it.... baseband has got nothing to do with 3G. SPL is must for 3G function....
My advice is don't flash it on non-3G Tattoo. because I've had flashed on mine and it's bricked after that. my phone is now at HTC Care and hopefully they'll repair it.
3DPRO said:
My advice is don't flash it on non-3G Tattoo. because I've had flashed on mine and it's bricked after that. my phone is now at HTC Care and hopefully they'll repair it.
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It is no problem to try..many had tried.. i also tried without bricking, only thing is this could not success changing the base-band version at this time.
I think... in your case, you had removed the battery in the middle of flashing.. that is the problem. This base-band flashing actually require rebooting to continue flashing but you had removed the battery instead... plz be careful next time...plz read all the instructions properly and whole thread before actually jump into...
anyway till now this one is not working... so we need to wait for a working version.
thacen said:
It is no problem to try..many had tried.. i also tried without bricking, only thing is this could not success changing the base-band version at this time.
I think... in your case, you had removed the battery in the middle of flashing.. that is the problem. This base-band flashing actually require rebooting to continue flashing but you had removed the battery instead... plz be careful next time...plz read all the instructions properly and whole thread before actually jump into...
anyway till now this one is not working... so we need to wait for a working version.
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the flashing was successfully until i restart the phone though. I wasn't pull out the battery between the flashing.

[Q] Galaxy S+ I9001 Problem

Hi Guys
I am hoping that someone might be able to help me.
I have a Galaxy S+ that just randomly reboots. It is running 2.3.3 i believe (Friend is using the phone atm)
I got the phone on contract and actually went through 5 phones (and entire stores stock) only to find that all of them have this issue.
No i believe that its a software problem and not hardware as Samsung themselves have said nothing about it and the Samsung Specialist @ Vodacom (my cellular provide) has said that there isn't anything that they have heard or that they know of.
I have already rooted the phone, obviously the problem was happening before the rooting of it.
So my question is that does anyone think if i updated the rom to 2.3.6 or whatever else is available it might fix the problem?
I would prefer to keep the rom stock but will go with idea's that anyone would have.
Secondly where would i be able to get updated stock Samsung i9001 roms?
O really wanna give me gf this phone at the end of the month so please if someone could help me i would appreciate it!
Many thanks in advance
Random_Sheep
Random_Sheep said:
Hi Guys
I am hoping that someone might be able to help me.
I have a Galaxy S+ that just randomly reboots. It is running 2.3.3 i believe (Friend is using the phone atm)
I got the phone on contract and actually went through 5 phones (and entire stores stock) only to find that all of them have this issue.
No i believe that its a software problem and not hardware as Samsung themselves have said nothing about it and the Samsung Specialist @ Vodacom (my cellular provide) has said that there isn't anything that they have heard or that they know of.
I have already rooted the phone, obviously the problem was happening before the rooting of it.
So my question is that does anyone think if i updated the rom to 2.3.6 or whatever else is available it might fix the problem?
I would prefer to keep the rom stock but will go with idea's that anyone would have.
Secondly where would i be able to get updated stock Samsung i9001 roms?
O really wanna give me gf this phone at the end of the month so please if someone could help me i would appreciate it!
Many thanks in advance
Random_Sheep
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i'm not sure about the rebooting problem, but 2.3.3 had other problems in my country, u couldn't send an sms if u had 3G ON , so t-mobile updated all the devices to 2.3.5 , it might be a sign that 2.3.3 has some bugs. my opinion would be to flash one of the stock roms out there , or check if u have an update through kies (although i don't recommend updating with kies as there's a big chance it will freeze during instalation - ya , another crappy samsung software).
Thanks mate i think i will def but i am looking for a uk stock rom?
All i can find is german and polish and balkin.
Random_Sheep said:
Thanks mate i think i will def but i am looking for a uk stock rom?
All i can find is german and polish and balkin.
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Most of the versions if not all include the english language, the european ones surely have UK. It wad already asked in the stock rom thread i think.
Sent from my GT-I9001 using xda premium
Thanks for the help bud.
I downloaded 2.3.5 gonna have a play around tonight.
Ok so loaded a stock 2.3.5 rom and it going 100's now!
Random_Sheep said:
Ok so loaded a stock 2.3.5 rom and it going 100's now!
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nice to see it worked out fine for u
rayiskon said:
nice to see it worked out fine for u
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Just wanna find either a completely stock rom or a decent custom one.
Any idea's?
Random_Sheep said:
Just wanna find either a completely stock rom or a decent custom one.
Any idea's?
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it depends on what u're looking for, i personally prefer stock with a few tweaks here and there. u can check the custom roms available in our dev section, it's not a big choice ,but u can see if any of them suit ur needs.
sudden restart
i am new around here,i got a i9001 and it sudden restarts on every rom i installed, costom or stock. first i taught that it restarts because of its ram, like the memory dump on pc, but then i saw, that i rebooted it and after 10-15 min it sudden restarted. i've been to my carrier for warranty, and what they did it was only a flash of rom version 2.3.6 and they gave it back to me. after about 2 hours since i got it back, it did the sudden restart again. srry for my english.
icstrim702 said:
i am new around here,i got a i9001 and it sudden restarts on every rom i installed, costom or stock. first i taught that it restarts because of its ram, like the memory dump on pc, but then i saw, that i rebooted it and after 10-15 min it sudden restarted. i've been to my carrier for warranty, and what they did it was only a flash of rom version 2.3.6 and they gave it back to me. after about 2 hours since i got it back, it did the sudden restart again. srry for my english.
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Take the phone back, tell them it is still happening.
When i had my problem i just flashed another version and it worked. What custom roms have your tried?
Random_Sheep said:
Take the phone back, tell them it is still happening.
When i had my problem i just flashed another version and it worked. What custom roms have your tried?
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i have tryed all the brood roms, non oc version. at warranty they told me they know that i9001 has problems, but not the one described by me. which rom resolved your problem? now i got the kq1
I tried xxkpu and xxkq1, no problem so far.
If your phone is under warranty, ask for replacing new one.
spectrum011 said:
I tried xxkpu and xxkq1, no problem so far.
If your phone is under warranty, ask for replacing new one.
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they said when the phone came back "the phone did not present the problem sent for" on the warranty paper. They know about this problem, but they dont wanna lose money with extra costs for i9001 owners, it was a mistake made by samsung on this model and they dont want to assume it. I read more about this snapdragon oc processor used on i9001 (1.4 Ghz) and it says that it overheats sometimes rarely in first months, but after some heavily daily use it enters a restart loop ( probably after your warranty expires) and the phone becomes useless. sorry to say that for i9001 owners.
"Recently, a growing number of smartphone users experience temperature-related CPU failures that seem to be inherent in Snapdragon-powered devices, and typically manifest only after several months of smartphone use. Symptoms of this hardware failure are unexpected reboots of the phone, especially in higher ambient temperatures and under high CPU load and/or Wifi use. The phone may then enter a "reboot-cycle", which can only be stopped by removing the battery and cooling the phone. Over the period of several weeks or months, this behavior becomes increasingly frequent and occurs at progressively lower ambient temperatures and CPU loads, until it reaches a point where the phone can only be used in refrigerated and/or air-conditioned environments. It is speculated that deteriorating solder bonds of the BGA matrix (i.e., a lost connection between the Snapdragon-CPU and its motherboard) due to thermal stresses occurring in normal operation is the underlying problem for these failures, and CPU re-heating procedures have been proposed to remedy this problem, but so far with mixed results.[23] These hardware issues have not yet been officially acknowledged by companies that use the Snapdragon processor in their smartphones, even though a very large number of devices (HD2, Desire, Evo, Droid Incredible, Xperia, Galaxy S, etc.) seem to be affected. "
this thing is copied from a romanian site, which was meant to be a review for the snapdragon processors.
Sorry for beeing that silly, but did you resetted your phone?
sure I did, like i said, i tryed everything possible, formattin' partions, hard reset, wipe dalvik cache..
HELP
icstrim702 said:
sure I did, like i said, i tryed everything possible, formattin' partions, hard reset, wipe dalvik cache..
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does anyone solved this problem, I have the sam problem and I can't fix it , what to do? I tried to install several ROMS but same problem again

GALAXY NOTE "black screen" after ICS UPDATE and repartition..please HELP!!!!

GALAXY NOTE "black screen" after ICS UPDATE and repartition..please HELP!!!!
Hello!
i had updated my galaxy note to the latest software via Samsung Ice cream sandwich (Open Europe)...it worked well but after a while i wanted to full wipe from the CWM recovery so i can applyofficial middle east ICS update...but phone freeze on formating/data! and turned off .. and from this point i had repartition it through ODIN and installed official GINGERBREAD..it worked..but i wanted to install KINGDROID ROM...but it get stuck many times when "flashing modem"..and now nothing is happen to it ...can't access download mode...recovery mod...neither boot...and neither showing anything "screen black"...PC also can't detect it "tried multi PC's already"..charged battery for 7 and 8 with no luck !...can u suggest me any solution and in which situation is my phone now!...please notice that i'm in Syria..we don't have samsung service center here!
could u please suggest me any trick or hint so i can make my phone live again !
Thanks...
Sounds like the BrickBug, I guess your only hope is to try usb jig to force into download mode, If that fails send it to samsung for a new mother board.
You downloaded so many firmwares and flashed. did it come in mind to read any of the info comments on the OP threat? Just a question!
Sent from my GT-N7000 using Tapatalk 2
azzledazzle said:
Sounds like the BrickBug, I guess your only hope is to try usb jig to force into download mode, If that fails send it to samsung for a new mother board.
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i will try JIG wish i can found one .. and btw we don't have samsung service center in my country...could the JIG avoid Motherboard brick .. i think am facing hard-brick
thx
Braxos said:
You downloaded so many firmwares and flashed. did it come in mind to read any of the info comments on the OP threat? Just a question!
Sent from my GT-N7000 using Tapatalk 2
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mmm yeh i downloaded so many firmwares about 15 customs alot with failures...but my main problem started with official ICS kernel ...
silent_fear said:
mmm yeh i downloaded so many firmwares about 15 customs alot with failures...but my main problem started with official ICS kernel ...
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It started with official ICS kernel because it sounded like you wiped with that kernel. Read, Read, Read. Can't stress enough!
andreww88 said:
It started with official ICS kernel because it sounded like you wiped with that kernel. Read, Read, Read. Can't stress enough!
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yeh i wiped with ICS stock kernel !!... and ur true i must read much better
if you still have warranty, have it replaced.

no baseband version or imei

hi guys.
I recently had a problem where I was being bugged every 3 hours by Samsung update to do an update.
I have being postponing the update for a week or so now and its getting on my nerves.
so anyway today I did the update.
now my sgs3 lte i9305 has baseband version unknown and no imei.
I have downloaded the latest firmware from samfirmware.com and installed it through odin. but it still says unknown baseband.
I have lost my signal completely...
please help me i'm stumped now.
thankyou..
jim
Donkeytrousers said:
hi guys.
I recently had a problem where I was being bugged every 3 hours by Samsung update to do an update.
I have being postponing the update for a week or so now and its getting on my nerves.
so anyway today I did the update.
now my sgs3 lte i9305 has baseband version unknown and no imei.
I have downloaded the latest firmware from samfirmware.com and installed it through odin. but it still says unknown baseband.
I have lost my signal completely...
please help me i'm stumped now.
thankyou..
jim
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try this thread (- http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1918601- ) maybe it can help you in your problem .. bad english
rabea-abo-awad said:
try this thread (- http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1918601- ) maybe it can help you in your problem .. bad english
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thankyou...
but its only for i9300 models,
mine is a i9305.
guess its fooked
Donkeytrousers said:
thankyou...
but its only for i9300 models,
mine is a i9305.
guess its fooked
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u welcome ...
try this - ask in the thread that i send him for you about your problem maybe someone can help you , (Another solution) :good:
Refer this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2190904&page=3
All sorted guys.... thank you for all of your help.
anyone with the same problem go here...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1946915
its brilliant and simple.

[Q] s advance auto restart

hi there, i have a problem with my phone.it auto restarting , i changed software with odin, but the problem insist.I think the soft isn't replaced because every date after i flashed wifi not working... help me please, thanks.
johnsonxxl said:
hi there, i have a problem with my phone.it auto restarting , i changed software with odin, but the problem insist.I think the soft isn't replaced because every date after i flashed wifi not working... help me please, thanks.
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Firstly, Its a development thread for any questions or help you should post in Q&A thread
For solving the restart problem try flashing Stock 4.1.2 rom using odin and make all wipes for a clean install...
If the problem still persists try downgrading your phone it may help you
jadega said:
Firstly, Its a development thread for any questions or help you should post in Q&A thread
For solving the restart problem try flashing Stock 4.1.2 rom using odin and make all wipes for a clean install...
If the problem still persists try downgrading your phone it may help you
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after downgrade i instal again 4.1.2 and now i have another problem..kernel panic...aa and wifi don't working (wifi error) on both rom
johnsonxxl said:
after downgrade i instal again 4.1.2 and now i have another problem..kernel panic...aa and wifi don't working (wifi error) on both rom
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Are you on stock kernel or cocore kernel??
jadega said:
Are you on stock kernel or cocore kernel??
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stock kernel.. so.. downgrade to 2.3.6 no problem ,just with wifi (no driver), upgrade again to 4.1.2 kernel panic disappeared, but I got to where we started...auto restarting and wifi not working...
johnsonxxl said:
stock kernel.. so.. downgrade to 2.3.6 no problem ,just with wifi (no driver), upgrade again to 4.1.2 kernel panic disappeared, but I got to where we started...auto restarting and wifi not working...
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Then may be its a hardware problem if its in warranty take it to Samsung Service Center they might help you to get rid of this problem...for me my phone is absolutely fine with no problems...
One more suggestion, try custom roms like CM11, Vanir AOSP or stock based custom roms which are available in development thread
jadega said:
Then may be its a hardware problem if its in warranty take it to Samsung Service Center they might help you to get rid of this problem...for me my phone is absolutely fine with no problems...
One more suggestion, try custom roms like CM11, Vanir AOSP or stock based custom roms which are available in development thread
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ok, thanks

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