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[Q] Samsung Galaxy S turn black and white screen after update froyo 2.2

I have a SGS with firmware I9000DXJG4. My phone cannot use the 3 buttons to get into Recovery mode and Download mode. So i rooted using One-Click Root for I9000 by TGA_Gunman. and it created a Super-User and i can used the software to reboot into recovery mode. Then I run the voodoo5.
After that i found out that samsung kies release Froyo 2.2 and i use the Samsung Kies software to update the firmware. It ask me to backup my contact. After that it download the new firmware version. When i came back i saw my phone SGS blank and only white color on menu n return key.
I try to reboot and take out my sim card n memory card and battery and the result still the same. I can see the Samsung Logo S then after a while it disappear and show black screen.
I try to connect my USB to my PC but it cant detact my drive.
Anyone encounter this problem ? Anyone can help me.. before i send back to Samsung service centre.

Well sounds to me that you forgot to disable voodoo and tried to flash a new firmware. If and when you get you phone working again never try to update the rom or firmware with voodoo enabled.
Can you remove the sim and battery unplug the phone from the comp and plug the cable into the phone put the battery back in and then hold the volume buttons in and plug the cable into the comp. Does the Yellow droid digger come on your screen. If so then you can get odin and flash back to your stock firmware and start over again. If not then you will have to see about getting a replacement phone.
In the future never mess with flashing anything with voodoo enable as this will happen again.

sparker366, thanks for replying my post.
Yes, i forgot to disable the voodoo and unroot it. That is my mistake. I tried your step and it won't come out the Yellow droid digger come on your screen. That is because i remember my firmware is the latest which the samsung developer remove the 3 buttons functions to allow us to get into recovery mode and download mode.
Anyway my problem solved. I decided to send back to Samsung service centre and told them that my problem suddently blank without telling them that i flush it.
I am lucky that they willing to flush a new firmware Froyo 2.2 and told me that i am the 2nd customer who flush the new firmware. Now i don't want to touch anything on it again.
Thanks sparker366 for giving me some info.

*HELP*!! Soft-Bricked i896 Captivate after Rogers 2.2 update

I need help from you guys. I have a Rogers i896 Captivate.
Today 2.2 was made available as an update on Kies, and silly me, believing that it would work properly, decided to do the update.
Just so you know, I have completely stock 2.1 on my phone, unrooted, nothing.
I plugged it in, backed up my SD card, backed up my contacts, then started downloading the update.
It then said it couldn't get into download mode, saying to try again later. I do, same result.
i try booting the phone into download mode, and Kies starts trying to connect to my phone. After a while, my phone screen turned a very light blue, and Kies told me the phone was unresponsive, and to restart the phone. I do, and voila. I get the magical connecting icon. I can't find a picture, but I'm sure you know what I'm talking about. The icon of a phone connecting to a PC, but there's a yellow exclamation mark.
This happens every time I press the power button, or if I try and enter recovery mode.
I can however enter download mode. I just don't know what to do with it. I haven't used Odin, and don't want to risk further damage.
More than anything, I just want a phone. At this point, I'm willing to use a non-stock ROM, although I'd prefer a Rogers ROM mostly, as the GPS actually seems to work sorta.
If anybody could walk me through the process, or link me to something that can help me do this.
*edit*
Wait, hold the phone.
I tried it one last time, and this time I got a popup in Kies saying my last upgrade attempt failed and my device may be unusable. click here to restore the original firmware. Currently doing that, we'll see how it goes. *crosses fingers*

Just put the phone in download mode then click on the update firmware button in kies.
It will probably say it has to restore the firmware that's fine just click through and it should finish and you'll be on 2.2 pm me if you have more problems
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I896 using XDA App

Nevermind all. Panicpost. I've got it figured out. Crisis averted.
Mods, feel free to lock/delete/move if you like.
However, for those who might have the same problem, if you can get into download mode, while in Kies, click firmware update, then at the bottom it will tell you you can restore the original firmware. I did that and the problem was fixed.
Now I'm going to be an idiot and try the 2.2 again

Actually, I just noticed. After "bricking", and restoring the firmware, I now have 2.2
Better yet, none of my apps or anything are gone! It just reset my homepages, Widgets and shortcuts are missing, but everything else is good.
whatever haha.

Actually if your in Canada the update has been out for a week now, but glad you have your phone working. I started the 2.2 thread and its mentioned in that thread how to get the 2.2 through Kies without issue.

I May Have Bricked It

I was playing around last night with updating my phone with a different and everything was fine. Today, I installed the proper kernel and it installed and ran fine. I decided I would install a different kernel, one that has audio via USB for the dock and after I selected the file with Odin, I started the install and then I noticed Odin said something about it being finished and removed. Now I started my phone and it just sits at the screen that says Galaxy S. The phone will not start and I cannot get into recovery or download mode. I have tried every button combination I could find online. Does anyone have any suggestions on how I can get into either download mode to install the kernel again, or recovery so I can just install the zip to reload the software.

Have you tried a jig or adb to get into download mode?
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I have never been able to properly get adb working, I know I am doing something wrong, but I actually just finally got it working. I was able to use One Click Root to have it restart my phone into recovery mode and I was able to reinstall the software and kernel. Everything is going good now, except I can't use the kernel I wanted to use because I don't know if it has CWM3.
This is the kernel that I actually wanna install.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=916233

You have SOFT bricked it which means you can get it out of it without JTAG at this point. Go to YouTube and search ODIN 1 Click and watch the video I made to help flash stock firmware.

Any updates OP?

Have you tried taking out and reinserting the battery then volume up, volume down while inserting your USB cable? That saved me one time. Then I bought a JIG.

Thanks for all the help, but I actually figured it out. I had forgotten I installed bootloaders and it changed the button combinations for Continuum.

[Q] Odin wont recogize my Captivate

So this is my first question ive posted. i hope its in the right place. I havent found anything on this specific problem anywhere
Anyway I was running SerendipityVII and started having issues with some things. so i flashed DarkyRom from recovery.. everything was fine for a while but some of the aspects of Serendipity were still showing. so i decided to use Odin to flash back to 2.3 then flash Darky alone. So heres the issue. after flashing the PIT, pda, csc and phone files from the SerendipityVII install download, you then need to flash reorient Kernel1.1 which appears to fix issues with the original flash,(auto rotate not working properly, home button acting as back button, etc) well after rebooting and putting phone in download mode again to flash kernel. Odin will now not recognize my phone. Kies will not recognize it either. so when i hook up the phone Windows(XP), recognizes the different hardware elements of the phone depending on mode but installation fails on several of them...
Now thats the problem. the question is can i fix this? Oh super one click root wont recognize either and in recovery mode the power button wont select the option. Stuck on a jacked up version of 2.3 and need to do something...
Thanx in advanced

ok not too long after posting this question i figured out the issue. turns out yes it was a driver issue and i think i was caused by kies... anyway i uninstalled the samsung drivers under control panel. rebooted computer then reinstalled them and Viola.. Odin works again

Pantech Burst Bricked HELP!!!

I recently picked up a Pantech Burst phone from At&t, and upgraded to ICS. I then proceeded to root the phone using the prestoroot.img method and it worked. Everything was running dandy until I got the VM Heap tool app and(stupidly) set the vm heap to 52m and attempted to reboot... It failed and all I got was a loop of boot up animations. I tried several times to reboot, and then tried to boot to recovery mode and factory reset. That worked, but it STILL didnt reboot..! I dont have a backup, and whenever i try to " Install update from external storage", it just fails over and over again. I found thestock firmware and downloaded it to my external sd card and install(still to no success). Im only 13 and cant afford a new phone! PLEASE SOMEONE HEEEELLLLPPPPPP!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Use P9070_Download_Tool_v3.3.zip and flash PRESTO_BIN_JUUS09032012_TP20_user using this method http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=28602800#post28602800. You might find other answers in that same thread Pantech Burst Essentials.

I love you!!!!!!!
dvinelord said:
use p9070_download_tool_v3.3.zip and flash presto_bin_juus09032012_tp20_user using this method http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=28602800#post28602800. You might find other answers in that same thread pantech burst essentials.
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it workkeed!!!!!:d

DvineLord said:
Use P9070_Download_Tool_v3.3.zip and flash PRESTO_BIN_JUUS09032012_TP20_user using this method http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=28602800#post28602800. You might find other answers in that same thread Pantech Burst Essentials.
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I bricked my phone few days back doing restore from CWM 6 downloeded online from ROM manager,
I wiped cache dalvik etc & rebooted, I could see the Tap the android screen then suddenly blank now it wont start
I get QHSUSB_dload in PC device manager any way out
I tried this method but I dont get the download button to click it remains greyed out.
Is there any driver for QHSUSB_dload?
Or do I have no hope at the moment or in near future?

just don`t use ROM manager for installing recovery . usually the result is bricked phone

Yah, i remember a fastboot brick i got from rom manager (LG Optimud ME)
Sent from a 2.8 inch screen

I also just bricked my Pantech Burst the same way...using ROM Manager. Is there a way to fix this or am I out of luck? I did try the method posted at the top of this thread. It just gets locked in the S/W Upgrading screen. Any help will be greatly appreciated.

I'm too in same situation.....i tried it updating via Pantech OS Upgrade tool......it updates successfully but doesnot bootup....
and now it shows some S/W Upgrading with red colour background
plz help me out:crying::crying::crying::crying::crying:

coolamjadkhan said:
I'm too in same situation.....i tried it updating via Pantech OS Upgrade tool......it updates successfully but doesnot bootup....
and now it shows some S/W Upgrading with red colour background
plz help me out:crying::crying::crying::crying::crying:
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Mine did not upgrade successfully, but I have the exact same problem. On day three of waiting for a callback from Pantech on the issue. They are supposedly talking to the techs in Korea about it.

Maybe solved!
tajlund said:
Mine did not upgrade successfully, but I have the exact same problem. On day three of waiting for a callback from Pantech on the issue. They are supposedly talking to the techs in Korea about it.
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Don't know if this is going to help, but I had the problem (as I described) red S/W Upgrading and couldn't do anything. Well, after about two weeks of sitting with the battery out, I decided to redownload and rerun the Pantech update app, and lo and behold, it fixed my phone. It also installed a more up to date version of Android 4.0, I went from 4.01 to 4.04.
This is after running the updater a good 30 or so times the past two weeks hoping for anything to work, now today, bam, it works fine.
I would recommend anyone in this situation give the most recent updater a try, it may solve your problem.

need help with my burst!!!!!
Hey! i have a pantech burst and i love it! but i had to reset it and now it wont work. my exhusband root it a few months ago....and he deleted the keyboard and the launcher..... so.... when i turn it on i cant do anything cause i cant write .... and if i skip the android start menu i cant see anything cause i dont have a launcher.... please someone help! what can i do?

:crying: Bricked my phone total unable start. any hardware diagnostic tool or manual reset button.
please help urgently

needhelppantech said:
Hey! i have a pantech burst and i love it! but i had to reset it and now it wont work. my exhusband root it a few months ago....and he deleted the keyboard and the launcher..... so.... when i turn it on i cant do anything cause i cant write .... and if i skip the android start menu i cant see anything cause i dont have a launcher.... please someone help! what can i do?
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would you like to sell it cheaper rate???

Bricked Pantech Burst Stuck in S/W Downloading Mode and completely wiped ...
Ok I am having a similar issue guys. Last night I had to wipe my phone because it was overly full and I switched providers and the phone had become unusable. I tried using clockworkmod to do this and it wiped everything ( including clockworkmod. ) Now I only get a S/W Upgrading screen with a red box. I tried using the pantech download tool and the PANTECH_PRESTO_BIN_JUUS03122012.pdl file. It did appear that it was installing it but then it became stuck at the very very very end of things. I basically had to take the battery out to do anything at all as I had left the phone on all night to download the pdl file but without any luck.
When I reboot the phone it had the S/W Upgrading mode with the red screen. I've tried all of the different key combinations on the pantech burst etc volume up + volume down and power, volume down + power, volume up + power. None of these things will reboot the phone.
I am hoping I can use the pantech download tool to install a different pdl instead and possibly get it working that way. I know that when the phone is off if I plug it into usb then the screen lights up on it with the S/W Upgrading screen and the red box. If I press the power button or any other combinations of buttons + the power button it also does this. It literally will not do anything else.
I cannot use pantech pc suite because the phone originally was so unusable I could not put the android apk file on the phone even though I have it on my laptop.
I tried using adb and fastboot and it will not even find my device through ANY usb port on the laptop. I've tried deleting and reinstalling the drivers over and over. The only thing I know to do is reboot afterward and hopefully it will find my phone on usb with adb. If I can just get to a bootloader or flash functional firmware onto this phone I think I could get it working but I do not know enough about the pantech burst to try physically jumping anything on it in order to hard reset it.
So my only options right now look like maybe get a different pdl, possibly reboot and the drivers may find my phone, or JTAG this thing.
I can't put it in usb debugging mode because it won't boot. Since adb does not even find the device as being attached it seems as if this phone should be operating in a different port mode or something to make it visible. I could be wrong but I am hoping that rebooting fixes the driver issue and makes the phone visible.
I tried PDAnet also and once again it does not work because it cannot find the device. This could be a usb cable issue I suppose but I only have this particular cable I am pretty sure
I might try another cable as well...
Any other ideas ? Am I going to have to JTAG this thing or should it be fixable using the download tool and a different pdl ? Or do I need to find another way to completely wipe the phone first and THEN use the download tool with the pdl file ?
It does get a bit confusing with so many mods, roms, and methods to recover android phones. If I can get the phone to boot then I can reload my backups and all should be well. I do need this phone for business purposes also. Any ideas guys ?
PS> I am also pretty decent with linux distros like arch or ubuntu so I would like to also know if it would just be better to do this in linux and possibly use linux to manually switch the phone to a different device mode to make it visible in the instance of there being nothing wrong with the drivers.
Thanks for any ideas or suggestions ...

UPDATE - progress ???
dsull1981 said:
Ok I am having a similar issue guys. Last night I had to wipe my phone because it was overly full and I switched providers and the phone had become unusable. I tried using clockworkmod to do this and it wiped everything ( including clockworkmod. ) Now I only get a S/W Upgrading screen with a red box. I tried using the pantech download tool and the PANTECH_PRESTO_BIN_JUUS03122012.pdl file. It did appear that it was installing it but then it became stuck at the very very very end of things. I basically had to take the battery out to do anything at all as I had left the phone on all night to download the pdl file but without any luck.
When I reboot the phone it had the S/W Upgrading mode with the red screen. I've tried all of the different key combinations on the pantech burst etc volume up + volume down and power, volume down + power, volume up + power. None of these things will reboot the phone.
I am hoping I can use the pantech download tool to install a different pdl instead and possibly get it working that way. I know that when the phone is off if I plug it into usb then the screen lights up on it with the S/W Upgrading screen and the red box. If I press the power button or any other combinations of buttons + the power button it also does this. It literally will not do anything else.
I cannot use pantech pc suite because the phone originally was so unusable I could not put the android apk file on the phone even though I have it on my laptop.
I tried using adb and fastboot and it will not even find my device through ANY usb port on the laptop. I've tried deleting and reinstalling the drivers over and over. The only thing I know to do is reboot afterward and hopefully it will find my phone on usb with adb. If I can just get to a bootloader or flash functional firmware onto this phone I think I could get it working but I do not know enough about the pantech burst to try physically jumping anything on it in order to hard reset it.
So my only options right now look like maybe get a different pdl, possibly reboot and the drivers may find my phone, or JTAG this thing.
I can't put it in usb debugging mode because it won't boot. Since adb does not even find the device as being attached it seems as if this phone should be operating in a different port mode or something to make it visible. I could be wrong but I am hoping that rebooting fixes the driver issue and makes the phone visible.
I tried PDAnet also and once again it does not work because it cannot find the device. This could be a usb cable issue I suppose but I only have this particular cable I am pretty sure
I might try another cable as well...
Any other ideas ? Am I going to have to JTAG this thing or should it be fixable using the download tool and a different pdl ? Or do I need to find another way to completely wipe the phone first and THEN use the download tool with the pdl file ?
It does get a bit confusing with so many mods, roms, and methods to recover android phones. If I can get the phone to boot then I can reload my backups and all should be well. I do need this phone for business purposes also. Any ideas guys ?
PS> I am also pretty decent with linux distros like arch or ubuntu so I would like to also know if it would just be better to do this in linux and possibly use linux to manually switch the phone to a different device mode to make it visible in the instance of there being nothing wrong with the drivers.
Thanks for any ideas or suggestions ...
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OK quick update, I found the pantech burst upgrade tool and the burst-hack.cmd script
I managed to successfully find my phone with the upgrade tool and it completely ran its course and I am guessing it installed Ice Cream Sandwich.
My new problem is that the phone goes to the pantech logo boot screen if I plug the phone into usb but that is all it will do. If I unplug the phone and try to get into S/W Upgrade mode again or power it on it will not do anything at all. Basically the display only comes on when plugged in at this point so I am wondering if the battery is even charged or if it will charge. I read somewhere ( in the gizmolord forum ) that a guy had the same issue as me and he ran this tool for his pantech burst and then left the battery out for 2 weeks and tried to power it back on and it worked for him.
Is it possible that I just need to power the device down completely and let it completely discharge before it will reboot or is this thing bricked ?
I am thinking that either the battery needs to charge, or the phone needs to discharge and power down completely, or the phone could be bricked. I have a feeling it is not bricked because the update tool said everything was successful and no errors or anything.
I will try leaving the battery out for awhile and letting the phone discharge on its own and see what kind of results I get. I would think that 16 - 24 hours would be sufficient. Any ideas ?
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Ok so I did a bit more digging and research and found out that the culprit is most likely the poorly designed charging circuit in the pantech phones. I found a tech blog called Mikes Techblog where he shows how to solve this on a pantech jest phone with the same issue. The problem is that the battery is 3.7v and is currently reading 2.8v on the volt meter. The phone will not even attempt to charge until 3.7v is available on the battery because of how the charge circuit is designed. I am going to try the usb cable trick and usb adapter and see if I can monitor its progress with the voltmeter and get it back up to 3.7 volts. After this it should allow me to charge it normally and should boot just fine. It is showing the pantech logo which tells me that the firmware is there and isn't buzzing or doing anything else weird so more than likely this is related to the battery and not having enough of a charge when running the official upgrade tool. This problem probably had already existed prior running the update tool and is why the S/W Upgrading screen only would come up AFTER being plugged into a power source and would disappear immediately. If the battery had any charge whatsoever and if the phone could see it then I would see a screen that tells me to plug my phone in and charge it. I am thinking this is solved but will only know after I charge the battery. From what I've been reading in comments from others the battery issue is prevalent on many different pantech phones including the burst model. Other people with the pantech burst have said in comments on Mike's blog that this made their phone boot right up and said that this was EXACTLY the issue. Perhaps the best way to use these pantech phones is to never ever let them fully discharge the battery.