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[Q] Loop and rainbow screen after flashing

Ok i finally found out how to root and flash my SGS4G and after finishing everything the phone got into a rolling restart loop with a rainbow screen. Trying to use odin to return to stock but it doesn't stay on for more than 10secs so Odin cannot really do anything....
Help?

Can you get into download mode?
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The rainbow screen means you flashed a gb ROM on froyo boot loaders. What ROM did you flash? Is Odin recognizing your phone?
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Audiophile-ftw-newbuild. Odin sees my phone but the phone is restarting before i am able to do anything. I cannot get on download mode because i cannot see anything on my rainbow screen. Only a t-mobile logo at the beginning saying Galaxy S 4g
Here is the link for the ROM
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1214260
This is what i got for trying to work on it at 4am. I did not install the bootloaders for GB as you said. Anything that I can do to fix it?

Did you even try to get into download mode?
pull battery out then turn it on while pressing both volume buttons, and have USB connected. I don't remember exactly how to get into download mode, but try everything, then you Odin to a froyo ROM and start over.
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yes i did. I managed to make stop restarting, odin sees the phone on com3 and i am trying to flash it back to stock but Odin stacked on setupconnection for a while now (10mins)
Just to clarify a few things since i am new to this. (i flashed my vibrant with no issues many times before)
Where do i add the *.tar file in Odin? PDA-Phone-CSC?

I had that issue.. powered the phone and the computer off and on... plugged the phone in after Odin was up and went into download mode then it worked.
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camalus said:
I had that issue.. powered the phone and the computer off and on... plugged the phone in after Odin was up and went into download mode then it worked.
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Im on DL mode now finally but odin does not see my phone and the drivers failed to install on my pc. restarting pc now to retry

now im on the DL screen but Odin does not pick up my phone. Anyone has a link for the drivers of SGS4G to install them manually?

ok i manage to connect everything together and i am now in the recovery mode. whats next? please help!!!!

This is what you need to do:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1223765
Once you get to step 11 you can flash Audiophile again (or any other GB ROM you wish). This will install the bootloaders you need and fix the "rainbow screen".

i managed to fix it and i got black_ice. I am on the "wait 10mins" part and then have to restart one more time. We will see what happens. If it doesn't work i will follow your steps

crematorio said:
i managed to fix it and i got black_ice. I am on the "wait 10mins" part and then have to restart one more time. We will see what happens. If it doesn't work i will follow your steps
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Glad you got it working. Just make note of which roms are froyo 2.2 and which are gb 2.3. They require different boot loaders and the only way to change boot loaders is with Odin. I hate Odin because of the frustration when it freezes, stalls, or doesn't recognize the device. To each h his own though
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ok i flashed black ice when it boots though there is an android logo on top of the t-mobile logo and the phone doesn't seemed to change anything.
I am currently running on KD1 baseband and v3.0 bali_sgs4g kernel what did i do wrong?

Did you read the black ice thread? The whole thing? That would be a good place to start. I don't recommend black ice for your first flash though, allot of people never got it to work or went through hell to make it work.
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crematorio said:
ok i flashed black ice when it boots though there is an android logo on top of the t-mobile logo and the phone doesn't seemed to change anything.
I am currently running on KD1 baseband and v3.0 bali_sgs4g kernel what did i do wrong?
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The andoid logo over the T-Mobile logo is normal from what I understand. I had that issue as well when I was on froyo.
If you are still experiencing other issues, I would suggest restoring a nandroid backup (if you have one) and starting over fresh: install a fresh kernel and ROM. If you want to stick with froyo, I suggest drhonk's Bali v3.3 kernel, and any of the froyo ROMs will be fine.
If you want to try GB, follow the link that I posted earlier to find FB's GB Starter Pack.

well i just reflashed again, im waiting for the phone to boot up..my issue was that the phone looked stock and couldn't find any themes or something to change it. i read the thread, i guess my question is the theme that i saw on the screen shots of black ice, does it come with it or not because im getting really confused with this thing lol
Axura was much easier on my vibrant....

So the only issue you have now is that the phone looks stock?

i followed your guide and i was able to flash it everything looks ok. thanks all for the help and special thanks to ultimakillz

[Q] AT&T Logo flashes, goes straight to Samsung Logo

I'm not one for making my first post to a forum a quest for help, but I'm in a bind and I don't know where else to look. You folks know your stuff and if anyone can help me I'm confident it's someone here.
When booting up my phone will display the AT&T logo for merely a second and then jump to the Samsung logo where it stays. It never moves beyond that logo.
I cannot get into recovery, it just loops through the AT&T and Samsung logos.
I can however get into download mode, and I have used GTG's Ultimate Unbrick but nothing changes.
I've also tried the Factory/Return to Stock options and again, nothing changes.
If anyone has a suggestion I would love to hear/read it.
Thanks in advance,
prairied0gg

prairied0gg said:
I'm not one for making my first post to a forum a quest for help, but I'm in a bind and I don't know where else to look. You folks know your stuff and if anyone can help me I'm confident it's someone here.
When booting up my phone will display the AT&T logo for merely a second and then jump to the Samsung logo where it stays. It never moves beyond that logo.
I cannot get into recovery, it just loops through the AT&T and Samsung logos.
I can however get into download mode, and I have used GTG's Ultimate Unbrick but nothing changes.
I've also tried the Factory/Return to Stock options and again, nothing changes.
If anyone has a suggestion I would love to hear/read it.
Thanks in advance,
prairied0gg
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when you say nothing changes, are you saying that the Unbrick never starts in Odin, or you saying that Odin sees the phone and flashes the stock package and you still get the bootloop.
If odin IS seeing your phone, you CAN get out of the bootloop.

Thank-you for the reply.
Odin recognizes the device, and will flash the stock package, but upon restart the device stops at the Samsung logo.

prairied0gg said:
Thank-you for the reply.
Odin recognizes the device, and will flash the stock package, but upon restart the device stops at the Samsung logo.
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Did you flash the pit file from GTG UUnBrick? You might need to repartition.
I'm not a developer but I try to play one on XDA. Seriously I'm not a developer. DlevROM Yo!

yes, I flashed the pit file (re-partition option was selected).

If you used the Unbrick....repartition should auto check if you put in the Phone,Pda, and Pit......
but check that anyway.....you never know.
how about flashing a voodoo kernel with odin, get into Recovery that way.....then try flashing another Rom and see if you can get out of that Bootloop. Im actually Doing this RIGHT NOW.
but the unbrick should work if done correctly, i have never had an issue especially if odin is seeing the device.

prairied0gg said:
yes, I flashed the pit file (re-partition option was selected).
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And yet your still stuck at Samsung logo?
I'm not a developer but I try to play one on XDA. Seriously I'm not a developer. DlevROM Yo!

i'll try a voodoo kernel - I'm game for trying anything at this point
ya, I'm stuck at the logo even after flashing the unbrick with pit.

I flahsed the kernel from here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1197248 and I'm back in business.
Thank-you again to everyone who replied, offered their help and/or gave advice. I greatly appreciate it.

Samsung looping

phone is on infused v2 and is now just looping after i restarted it, samsung samsung samsung.... how to fix this?

aviationmech406 said:
phone is on infused v2 and is now just looping after i restarted it, samsung samsung samsung.... how to fix this?
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Have you tried anything to fix this......??
if not just pull batt, hold power and both volume up/down at the same time....when the first samsung logo appears let go of power and continue to hold till you get into recovery. should be like 10 sec maybe 15
wipe data factory reset and you should boot past the loop....if not you most likely have to reflash or use the ultimate unbrick.

mine did this when i deleted the lagfix folder by accident (trying to fee up space) i ended up booting into red recovery and disabling voodo lagfix, rebooted then went back in to recovery and re enabled it.

Im not able to get the recovery to come up, everything is jacked, im trying to track down instructions for that ultimate unbrick..
Ok found this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1116251&highlight=unbrick but the part where it says make sure your phone is com## in the odin, mine isnt showing up with that?

aviationmech406 said:
Im not able to get the recovery to come up, everything is jacked, im trying to track down instructions for that ultimate unbrick..
Ok found this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1116251&highlight=unbrick but the part where it says make sure your phone is com## in the odin, mine isnt showing up with that?
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Did you get this working? When I was running Infused I had to repeatedly do battery pulls and the three button meth. to get the recovery. Should seriously try to get recovery to start before doing a back to stock.
As for Odin recognizing the phone, did you make sure you have the kies with the drivers installed, did you try different usb ports and/or computers caus sometimes the drivers act funky. Have seen other people have problems with Odin and the drivers.

Got odin to work and its back to stock, only problem i have now is when the date/time is set to automatic it sends it completely off the grid, i have to manually set it which i dont like to do, any quick fix to this?

I'm having a similar problem. My phone is bootlooping and my pc and odin are recognizing it, however the issue is that the phone only turns on for half a second before shutting back off, not allowing me to do anything with it. Anyone know of a way to fix this?

aviationmech406 said:
Got odin to work and its back to stock, only problem i have now is when the date/time is set to automatic it sends it completely off the grid, i have to manually set it which i dont like to do, any quick fix to this?
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Even on stock? Ive seen this problem with custom roms like dlevrom 5.0 but not on stock? Cruise over there and see what he did to fix it. I believe there is a program called fastfix to force the locales to show up with North America. Nevertheless, check your locale and text in settings to make sure if the correct locale for your area is shown. If not there is a program in the market to force the correct one. Sorry, dont recall the programs name. Maybe the fastfix or fasterfix.
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Astirnon said:
I'm having a similar problem. My phone is bootlooping and my pc and odin are recognizing it, however the issue is that the phone only turns on for half a second before shutting back off, not allowing me to do anything with it. Anyone know of a way to fix this?
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Go to either the thread on the Heimdall one click back to stock or the thread on the Unbrickable mod, read up on your download mode access problem and figure which direction to go. Sounds like a soft brick but anything other than a black screen period is salvagable so your all good.
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Pull battery plug in USB cable hold volume s power buttons insert battery should put you at download screen to odin to stock.
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JLR9914 said:
Go to either the thread on the Heimdall one click back to stock or the thread on the Unbrickable mod, read up on your download mode access problem and figure which direction to go. Sounds like a soft brick but anything other than a black screen period is salvagable so your all good.
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Ok I did both, Odin had a different "modem" I guess so my time was off, I tried the heimdall one and it gave me the gingerbread update which is nice but im having a problem I turn on phone after and after the Samsung comes on it does this sketchy screen with a lot of colors then boots into "atts rethink possible" not sure if anyone can help with that.

aviationmech406 said:
Ok I did both, Odin had a different "modem" I guess so my time was off, I tried the heimdall one and it gave me the gingerbread update which is nice but im having a problem I turn on phone after and after the Samsung comes on it does this sketchy screen with a lot of colors then boots into "atts rethink possible" not sure if anyone can help with that.
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Sounds like the rainbow thing peeps were getting when they used gb leaks with the froyo bootloaders? You are still booting up fine so that is good. Head over to one of the leaks like UCKJ2 or 4 and study first because the gb bootloaders might solve your rainbow but they are to be used with caution, you could brick your phone real quick.
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[Q] Infuse forces into unique boot loop

Hi, I'm new to posting on these forums but I have been on here for a while and appreciate the work of the devs on the roms available. I have a problem, and I haven't been able to find any threads of anyone having this problem before.
My Infuse was stock froyo and working fine. I then updated it to stock 2.3.6 with ODIN with option c from this thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1613523
After that, I immediately updated it to the unofficial cm9 and the problems started. The phone would work fine, but in about 10 minutes of use, it would restart by itself and go into a boot loop. Sometimes the samsung logo would loop only twice and restart. Other times it can loop up to 50 times before restarting.
I noticed I had a rainbow CWM screen so I updated to the GB bootloader through ODIN. Didn't work. I then went back to stock 2.3.6 with odin. Didn't work. I then went back to stock 2.2 froyo through ODIN and re-partioned the PIT file. Still boot loops. I'm stumped.
Anyone have any idea what's causing this? I appreciate it

So you are able to enter download mode and successfully flash something? Somehow something appears to have been corrupted..
My only suggestion would be to try "one click unbrick" and see if that does the job
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andros11 said:
So you are able to enter download mode and successfully flash something? Somehow something appears to have been corrupted..
My only suggestion would be to try "one click unbrick" and see if that does the job
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All of the "one click unbricks" say that it isn't necessary if the phone is able to enter download mode. Is it still ok to try?

tried one click unbrick and it wouldn't allow me to use it. I then tried going to stock 2.3.6 using heimdall and still have the same problem.
I don't think its a problem with the rom, it has to be something else. But its not a hardware problem since it started once I used ODIN for the first time.

That's strange.. one click unbrick should have been able to run and reboot your phone. It probably would not solve your problem but should have at least ran successfully.
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one click unbrick just said something like, "if the phone is plugged in and everything is fine then visit resolution center".

[Q] Rooted Froyo to Frozen Galaxy S 9I000 after a flash with SGS Kernel Flasher

I have like many, played with my Android for 2 years now. I have a bricked Infuse GB (finally toyed with it to its death last week), so I pulled out my old Froyo unrooted backup. I rooted with SuperOneClick - easy. I made some kernel tweaks in Rom Toolbox Pro, and also changed a few status bar icons. I did several reboots and all was running well. I did need to adjust some more tweaks but I saved those for my next big change, when I decided to.
...look into more of what I could do and downloaded the zip file for Voodoo Sound. I read that this could do wonders on my Froyo stock rom and was compatible - actually, I read fairly safe. So I can't say if this caused this or not. It could have been my lack of booting after each simple change, font, notification icons..etc. But I didn't do much more before I flashed Voodoo Sound
I downloaded SGS Kernal Flasher from the market, and when I flashed and it booted, I got the SAMSUNG screen. Then followed by a new black screen with GALAXY S GT-I9000 in white with Samsung logo on bottom. And it stays frozen. I cannot enter recovery mode or download mode to my knowledge - or should I say, experience.
Since this was my backup and what I was doing seemed relatively harmless Im a bit shocked. I loved that my font and icons were changing, something I couldn't do with my gingerbread infuse using rom toolbox pro.
So now I am stuck on a bootscreen I've never seen before, nor intended to flash if that is what happened. Was this flashing Voodoo Sound or was it my negligence with other? I just rooted this yesterday after getting too frustrated to fix the GB. I don't think I had but 4 apps downloaded and really left most of the build.prop stuff alone beyond some minor adjustments for battery life.
So I'm stuck on a boot screen with a phone model I am not familiar with, cannot get into download mode or into recovery mode. I had a TWRP Recovery zip file I never set up yet, never got CWM recovery working - regardless, I just started playing with it so I'm lost as I thought I could just wipe, reinstall packages and reboot fresh. I hate this to be my first post, but I usually find all the answers I need from you guys and I appreciate all the efforts you put into this site to help noobs like myself from creating disasters. I just didn't know what to do and if I'm not hard bricked, I don't want to end up that way.
I thought unrooting would work, but I can't get into the phone so it won't connect to the computer. Also, when plugged in, it shows a battery frozen at zero. I know it's probably charging but that must mean I messed up something that starts at boot. Anyone willing to help me resolve this issue and get me back on so I can make phone calls again - something I should probably stick too, haha. But sometimes, mistakes are the best teachers...so maybe I'll learn something easy from the pros here.

Well u have the wrong kernel flashed some how
I would try a different computer and go for the heimdall package to take phone back to stock.
As soon as you do get to download mode and I know it sucks with bad kernel flash I did before my self. Gotta just keep trying ..... If you got power u can get download mode.
For more information go to qkster thread ...
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Prometh1216 said:
Well u have the wrong kernel flashed some how
I would try a different computer and go for the heimdall package to take phone back to stock.
As soon as you do get to download mode and I know it sucks with bad kernel flash I did before my self. Gotta just keep trying ..... If you got power u can get download mode.
For more information go to qkster thread ...
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Thank you, I'll search that out. Well, I thought bricking was more potential, but if I can do a recovery on both that'd be great. I backed all up to laptop and gdrive before - and actually thought about leaving it "new". As my first root and tweaking, or "modding" out the GB was great. And I never picked Froyo back up, but I just wiped it and rooted it yesterday, and I only used it for a month when I got it (long story with phone provider and a dent on the side (but I have two Infuses,Froy and GB)
But I am going to stay away from flashing. That got the GB...but since you brought up the power option. I thought they were toast. If it takes me a few days to learn, I'd do it in a heart beat - they both have power and that means I can get them both working. The GB has a PC on left, Phone on right and a triangle in middle. I didn't read into fixing that - which I thought would be tougher than grabbing my other. Maybe I can get both working and get some more insight.
I appreciate it, and anyone else who inputs. I'll start reading into that other thread after dinner, cross your fingers for me. :fingers-crossed:

I cannot find the specific thread you were directing me to. But I was successful after many attempts to enter download mode. It is being recognized but unable to access the insides of my phone. If I click reboot from download mode (volume down), it boots to the stuck Samsung logo. If I push up, it's in download mode, but I have nothing to send commands to it as it's not being recognized beyond the Samsung USB composite.
Can someone direct me to where the thread may be about the frozen/stuck Samsung boot logo? Also, frozen 0% battery level but charged all night.
I'm trying to find something specific on this but it's difficult being an Infuse Froyo and I'm stuck on the Galaxy S GTI900 which was never there before my last reboot - obviously whatever I flashed was probably for the Galaxy S. I get SAMSUNG, then the Galaxy S screen...can't seem to get into recovery because it's too fast before stuck again.

Take out the battery, put it back in do not turn it on hit volume up and volume down plug in USB that's the download mode you are looking for
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