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Well after reading the latest GTG V2.2.2 thread changes today I decided to give it a go as I have really been having a ton of problems with my phone since new. Mostly battery issues but also weird stuff since loading Infused 2.1.0. I had loaded 2.1.0 twice after going back to completely stock but the weirdness persisted. So I backed up all my stuff tonight and then fired up Odin and loaded all the necessary stock files from GTG's Ultimate Unbrick which i have done many times. It started right up and then it stalled trying to establish a connection and this has never happened before. I waited a while to see if it would just go anyway but after 30 min. it was still sitting there and had not done anything in regards to loading up any new data to the phone. So I closed Odin and hit the power button on the phone and it came back up with an icon for phone to computer connection so i tried Odin again and once again it started up and tried to load files to the phone but again stalled and sat there. So i waited again for a while and then stopped everything and pulled the battery hoping that the phone could be brought back into download mode but unfortunately it is completely dead now. No lights no power up nothing??? So I guess I got my answer to my constant problems and strangeness it was the phone itself that wasn't any good. So now i have to go to the store tomorrow and negotiate a replacement phone I sure hope the fact that I spend a ton of money there with my clients corporate phone account will get me some good will and they will just swap it out for a new one. We will see as i really liked this phone it just needs some fixing.
I am a bit bewildered that AT&T/Samsung would release a phone with so many bugs in it. The completely stock phone was buggier than all hell and was only marginally better once I updated to a custom rom. The bluetooth has never been right from day one stock or custom it would constantly disconnect my headset and the GPS was the crappiest phone GPS I have ever had and I have had a bunch of them in the last few years. Here's hoping that the GB update fixes and resolves all of the bugs in this very nice phone.
Sometimes duds slip through the quality control process...
Entropy512 said:
Sometimes duds slip through the quality control process...
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I guess so E but man this has been the worst phone from a performance standpoint I have owned in a lot of years I sure hope it is just a matter of a lemon. By the way I see you live in Owego NY is that the same as Oswego? If so do you do any fishing up there???
You probably just got a phone from a bad batch, my phone works just fine.
Like Entropy said, duds slip through quality control, can't catch em all.
Yeah you have a crap phone. But since you modified the software (god forbid on something you OWN!!!!) Samsung or AT&T(/Rogers) won't touch it. They probably have something to scan for modified software at the door that will shoot you in the foot if you try to walk in.
I've used unbrick at least 5 times because the 2.0 Infused ROM kept messing up my phone. Worked perfectly every time.
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Yeah you have a crap phone. But since you modified the software (god forbid on something you OWN!!!!) Samsung or AT&T(/Rogers) won't touch it. They probably have something to scan for modified software at the door that will shoot you in the foot if you try to walk in.
I've used unbrick at least 5 times because the 2.0 Infused ROM kept messing up my phone. Worked perfectly every time.
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Actually, from my understanding, they don't really question you if you bring in a phone to be replaced. If nothing else, do like what everyone did when the Galaxy S line came out and tell them that it crashed during an OTA update or when you connected it to Kies. Or tell them that you were having issues with it freezing up a lot recently and when it frozen the last time, you pulled the battery and it wouldn't come back on.
There is no reason for them to everyone know that you had custom software on the phone.
Good luck.
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Have to agree with Entropy would say u just got a dud.
Had no issues getting my phone replaced after installing custom rom on it. Went the extra step and soft bricked it and made sure it wouldnt boot past samsung screen before taking it to store. (My micro USB was borked) Had to wait on replacement phone but they sent me home with my phone and unbricked it and used it till new one arrived and bricked old sent it in and never heard anything about it afterwards.
I've used this method many times and never had an issue. (May not work if you get zero lights, etc, but worth a shot)
Just make sure you're not on Windows XP
Read the OP completely
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1216790
May sound silly, but try a new data cable.
sent from my stock Infuse at Tranquility Base.
You might have killed your battery. I assume you need battery power to enter Download mode. If someone more experienced then I can confirm this then take your phone and battery to your local ATT and ask them to test your battery.
Blackberrynomore said:
I guess so E but man this has been the worst phone from a performance standpoint I have owned in a lot of years I sure hope it is just a matter of a lemon. By the way I see you live in Owego NY is that the same as Oswego? If so do you do any fishing up there???
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An s makes a huge difference... Northern border vs. southern border.
I don't fish, I get flooded by the Susquehanna.
Hey, if you are trying to get rid of this, I could use it for the UnBrickable Infuse 4G project. I am looking for a dead board so I can remove the processor and map out the xOM pins. This will let us flash crazy stuff without any sort of reprecussions.
Please consider donating the board to the good of the forums.
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Hey, if you are trying to get rid of this, I could use it for the UnBrickable Infuse 4G project. I am looking for a dead board so I can remove the processor and map out the xOM pins. This will let us flash crazy stuff without any sort of reprecussions.
Please consider donating the board to the good of the forums.
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Whoa? Are you serious about that? Because if that's true, it would be really nice of this guy did that..
Sent from my phone. :3
AdamOutler said:
Hey, if you are trying to get rid of this, I could use it for the UnBrickable Infuse 4G project. I am looking for a dead board so I can remove the processor and map out the xOM pins. This will let us flash crazy stuff without any sort of reprecussions.
Please consider donating the board to the good of the forums.
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Would have sent it to you no problem except that i need to return it to AT&T to get a replacement phone. Sorry I couldn't help.
I went to the AT&T company store that I do all of my bsiness with both personal and corporate. I showed my AT&T girl the phone and that it was dead and would not power up. She tried another battery as I also had done and still nothing. So she tells me becase the phone is over 30 days old i have to go to the device support center to get a new one or call in and they will ship me another phone. Well I couldn't wait for them to ship one as i need my phone for work so I had to drive 35 mi. to the device support center to get another phone. Just strikes me as stupid that they cannot just give me a new phone right then and there. When I got mine I was short of my upgrade period but they gave me a conditional upgrade or something and the phone cost $400.00 so I was pretty pissed off that they were just going to give me a refurbed phone considering what i paid for the damn thing. Actually I didn't pay for it myself one of my clients picked up the tab but I still felt like they really stuck it to me not giving me a new phone. I spend thousands of dollars at their store every year with all of my client purchases you would think they would cut me some slack and give me a new phone???
Anyway I got a "new" replacement phone and it seems to be working fine. The GPS worked far better than my original Infuse right out of the box with the Froyo ROM and UCKD5 modem. I also did a speed test with three bars and got 2735 Kbps Down and 319 Kbps up and it said I was on EDGE?
So I just rooted it and i am going to load up the Infused 2.2.0 and manually install the newer modem and the camera fixes. I am going to hold off restoring most of my apps until I use this one for a few days to see how it performs first.
Oh and the girl at the AT&T support center told me she had to replace my battery because it would not power up the new phone. So it looks like I had both a bad phone and the battery also quit the farm at the same time.
I had issues with my first infuse (I'm in FL) and completely blasted it to the point where it would literally not even respond to any button presses soft/hard or otherwise. It was DEAD! COMPLETELY DEAD...I was very sad. Anyway I was within 30 day startup period and they did full replacement no question asked. I told my local att store it froze and I pulled battery and it wouldn't come back on. They acted like morons and gave me a replacement but i feel like they knew what I did. Didn't say anything though.
Needless to say. I take my time now with these custom roms. Rockin Infused 2.2.3 and loving life with my GB and 30fps.
Good luck!
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I loaded 2.2.3 last night and everything about the phone seems better so I am a happy camper for sure.
Infused with Android DNA
Blackberrynomore said:
I loaded 2.2.3 last night and everything about the phone seems better so I am a happy camper for sure.
Infused with Android DNA
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For that price did they not allow you to keep the old phone?
It would help the cause here if they did......
Hi forum!!
I've been a happy Samsung Galaxy I9003 owner for a while now, and I've always come to this forum for reference on any issues encountered. But right now I have an issue i'm having a hard time understanding, and it's quite a mistery.
Everything started when I downloaded the new Gingerbread update. The phone was wonderful, worked perfectly, but it had one little issue. I left it one night, and the morning after when i picked it up i saw that it was prompting for the initial data (language, use 3G-Wifi, etc). I completed the form once more, and it was back to factory...but in a weird way. Contacts were gone, SMS were gone, APNs were gone, WiFis were gone...but my apps were still there! They were even ordered alphabetically in the menu! Weird, really weird...Background was back to the factory one, icons on the main desktop were back to factory ones, ringtones were back to factory ones. But all my app configurations were still there, emails, gmail, market, corporate email...it was all there.
I discarded this as an issue with the Gingerbread ROM i installed (from Kkrraazzyy's post, the last one), so I downgraded to Froyo once more. Now, why would I ever want to do that?
Idiot me did not look into what version I was running. So I tried the version i remembered I had installed. Worked nice, installed nice...but....next morning...SAME ISSUE! Once more the initial configuration and the same thing...no APNs, no SMS, no Contacts, no nothing, but apps and configs, purrfect!
Now, what I did was move to other Froyo images thinking that I might have gotten the wrong one. I discarded 4 or 5 of them, with different things not working on my phone exactly.
So, after a bit of debating with myself, I decided to upgrade to another GB, but not the final version, a previous one. When i connected it to Samsung Kies, to restore my backup, Kies greeted me with a "I've got a new firmware for your phone...do you wish to upgrade?". I thought "Why not? Maybe if the Samsung software is performing the upgrade, then it might work, considering that i wouldn't be intervening and possibly not interfering with it. So it upgraded, took a considerable amount of time in comparison to ODIN, but it went through.
How did it go? Smooth as silk...everything was wonderful! Apps worked, hardware worked, phone run well...backup went in perfectly...i was so happy! Last night I was watching a movie with it, it was great! So i went to sleep with a happy smile on my muzzle, only to wake up this morning and find the phone with....THE FRIGGIN' START FORM ONCE MORE!! FFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!!!!!!
Once more, no APNs, no SMS, no Contacts, no WiFi, no nothing!!! Back to factory partially!
So now i'm thinking...firmware is out of the question...is there any chance there might be something physically wrong with my phone by now?? Something like...I don't know...I haven't got the slightest idea. So i'm open to ideas about what this might be about..
Oh, a colorful note...don't know if it has something to do, but i consider it sporty to let you know about it. A weird thing about a Froyo version i installed, was that when you woke up the phone, it would show a red sign on the top saying "Internal SD memory removed". I was truly shocked since I thought that the internal memory could not be removed without the phone crashing. But well, i just discarded that data at the time as an issue with the image.
Ideas, anyone? If not, i'm guessing i'll just place it under my car, ran it over, and get another with the insurance...
I think I heared such problem once a time. Try in this way
1. flash kpe with all 4 files
2. flash kpm single file as pda file.
3. do factory reset
if it solve ur problem then its better for u. But if u still face internal sd card error problem then straight way flash stock firmware which is available in ur country & go to samsung center & tell them that suddenly this problem is occured. Dont tell them that u have ever flashed anything on it.
CollieDawg said:
Hi forum!!
I've been a happy Samsung Galaxy I9003 owner for a while now, and I've always come to this forum for reference on any issues encountered. But right now I have an issue i'm having a hard time understanding, and it's quite a mistery.
Everything started when I downloaded the new Gingerbread update. The phone was wonderful, worked perfectly, but it had one little issue. I left it one night, and the morning after when i picked it up i saw that it was prompting for the initial data (language, use 3G-Wifi, etc). I completed the form once more, and it was back to factory...but in a weird way. Contacts were gone, SMS were gone, APNs were gone, WiFis were gone...but my apps were still there! They were even ordered alphabetically in the menu! Weird, really weird...Background was back to the factory one, icons on the main desktop were back to factory ones, ringtones were back to factory ones. But all my app configurations were still there, emails, gmail, market, corporate email...it was all there.
I discarded this as an issue with the Gingerbread ROM i installed (from Kkrraazzyy's post, the last one), so I downgraded to Froyo once more. Now, why would I ever want to do that?
Idiot me did not look into what version I was running. So I tried the version i remembered I had installed. Worked nice, installed nice...but....next morning...SAME ISSUE! Once more the initial configuration and the same thing...no APNs, no SMS, no Contacts, no nothing, but apps and configs, purrfect!
Now, what I did was move to other Froyo images thinking that I might have gotten the wrong one. I discarded 4 or 5 of them, with different things not working on my phone exactly.
So, after a bit of debating with myself, I decided to upgrade to another GB, but not the final version, a previous one. When i connected it to Samsung Kies, to restore my backup, Kies greeted me with a "I've got a new firmware for your phone...do you wish to upgrade?". I thought "Why not? Maybe if the Samsung software is performing the upgrade, then it might work, considering that i wouldn't be intervening and possibly not interfering with it. So it upgraded, took a considerable amount of time in comparison to ODIN, but it went through.
How did it go? Smooth as silk...everything was wonderful! Apps worked, hardware worked, phone run well...backup went in perfectly...i was so happy! Last night I was watching a movie with it, it was great! So i went to sleep with a happy smile on my muzzle, only to wake up this morning and find the phone with....THE FRIGGIN' START FORM ONCE MORE!! FFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!!!!!!
Once more, no APNs, no SMS, no Contacts, no WiFi, no nothing!!! Back to factory partially!
So now i'm thinking...firmware is out of the question...is there any chance there might be something physically wrong with my phone by now?? Something like...I don't know...I haven't got the slightest idea. So i'm open to ideas about what this might be about..
Oh, a colorful note...don't know if it has something to do, but i consider it sporty to let you know about it. A weird thing about a Froyo version i installed, was that when you woke up the phone, it would show a red sign on the top saying "Internal SD memory removed". I was truly shocked since I thought that the internal memory could not be removed without the phone crashing. But well, i just discarded that data at the time as an issue with the image.
Ideas, anyone? If not, i'm guessing i'll just place it under my car, ran it over, and get another with the insurance...
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Did you solved the problem??? I am having the same problem and I tried with some firmwares too.
vishal24387 said:
I think I heared such problem once a time. Try in this way
1. flash kpe with all 4 files
2. flash kpm single file as pda file.
3. do factory reset
if it solve ur problem then its better for u. But if u still face internal sd card error problem then straight way flash stock firmware which is available in ur country & go to samsung center & tell them that suddenly this problem is occured. Dont tell them that u have ever flashed anything on it.
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I'll try that today and get back to you with the results! Thanks for the answer!
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I'll try that today and get back to you with the results! Thanks for the answer!
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LMAO, I lol'd hard at your post regarding it went overnight FUU.
Firstly, the post was a little long, but interesting. Me gusta.
The problem could be the following
- What class is your SD card? Some tend to buy cheap ones, or some tend to offer when you get a SALE they pitch in a ****ty SD card that literally messes your phone. Made in Taiwan > Made in China. For some. There have been cases when the SD card has not been "ejected" properly the phone tends to receive this as a crash and default sets everything back to stock *Apple does this aswell*. But ofcourse I implore you to try using ANOTHER SD card. If your using one that used to be from a Nokia phone then you need to format that ****. Some files in Nokia cause issues with the Android, this happened when I first got my phone aswell. I would suggest getting one from branded companies, Kingston/SanDisk, IMO, Sandisk is the best. Cheap yet to the mark.
- What put me on edge was your contacts and messages being gone. Maybe it's SD related. Iunno.
PS: Don't use Kies. Kies is horrible. If 2 ugly trolls mated, Kies was probably the result.
To test: Use XXKPH/XXKPM Choice is yours, Don't know how to flash it? Link is under my sig, Remove your SD card. Use it for a day, Fill up the internal memory with atleast 500MB of stuff. Lastly? Pray that overnight the trollfairy doesn't swap your phone with a factory reset one .
Hey Misledz! Thanks for your reply!
About the SD Card, I'm using a Kingston Class 4, 8GB one. But the issue is presenting with "Internal SD Card". While i'm doing this with the phone, just out of precaution, i take it out and i haven't placed it inside my phone yet.
And the whole "Trollfairy" thing, it's starting to look like a viable explanation to it, LOL!!
Misledz said:
LMAO, I lol'd hard at your post regarding it went overnight FUU.
Firstly, the post was a little long, but interesting. Me gusta.
The problem could be the following
- What class is your SD card? Some tend to buy cheap ones, or some tend to offer when you get a SALE they pitch in a ****ty SD card that literally messes your phone. Made in Taiwan > Made in China. For some. There have been cases when the SD card has not been "ejected" properly the phone tends to receive this as a crash and default sets everything back to stock *Apple does this aswell*. But ofcourse I implore you to try using ANOTHER SD card. If your using one that used to be from a Nokia phone then you need to format that ****. Some files in Nokia cause issues with the Android, this happened when I first got my phone aswell. I would suggest getting one from branded companies, Kingston/SanDisk, IMO, Sandisk is the best. Cheap yet to the mark.
- What put me on edge was your contacts and messages being gone. Maybe it's SD related. Iunno.
PS: Don't use Kies. Kies is horrible. If 2 ugly trolls mated, Kies was probably the result.
To test: Use XXKPH/XXKPM Choice is yours, Don't know how to flash it? Link is under my sig, Remove your SD card. Use it for a day, Fill up the internal memory with atleast 500MB of stuff. Lastly? Pray that overnight the trollfairy doesn't swap your phone with a factory reset one .
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Man this guy should seriously thing of taking writing as a profession.
ganeshbiyer said:
Man this guy should seriously thing of taking writing as a profession.
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I know right?! Maybe writing is a profession of his. Despite the long nature I was strangely indulged to read it
@Collie, Well the problem happens at times when you don't factory reset. *2767*3855# that should get you in to a manual factory reset. The phone's internal memory sometime's has issues with that, You may however need to flash the latona file to repartition the drive. After the repartition, the flashing of the firmware and lastly, le factory reset. That should serve as a stable ground base
Kingston Nice.
Updates?
KIES really is a POS. Every time i flash a new fw and my phone does the initial boot while its connected to the pc I see the horrid screen on my phone reminding me that KIES is installed on my pc. FUUUUUUUUU
ganeshbiyer said:
Man this guy should seriously thing of taking writing as a profession.
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Thanks!! I'm actually just a Wintel / Citrix / VMWare administrator. I've written a few fanfics here and there back when i was a filly, but not anymore!
Misledz said:
I know right?! Maybe writing is a profession of his. Despite the long nature I was strangely indulged to read it
@Collie, Well the problem happens at times when you don't factory reset. *2767*3855# that should get you in to a manual factory reset. The phone's internal memory sometime's has issues with that, You may however need to flash the latona file to repartition the drive. After the repartition, the flashing of the firmware and lastly, le factory reset. That should serve as a stable ground base
Kingston Nice.
Updates?
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About that, maybe I'm doing the reset in an incorrect way. I've been using Vol +, OK, Power to enter the second recovery mode and factory reset the phone. I don't know if this is the same as using the code.
Update on what I did:
I installed the last version of Gingerbread once more, flashed with Odin. This time i did not install any app or register in google, i just left it as it was. This was done saturday afternoon. At night, i took it with me, and i left it in my bag while I was at the club. When i got back to it, around 6 AM, it hadn't rebooted. So i went home, went to sleep, woke up at midday for lunch and....FFFFFFUUUUUUUUUU!!!!!
LOL the irony of the best order. Well did you try without the sdcard? That's your last option from your side, the next possible is getting the unit changed if you are under warranty, just don't mention odin, rather always blame kies LOL. If the end of the world happened, kies. World War 3,kies. There was a user who had the same issue reported like 5months ago, he had internal ROM problem where the phone failed to save the information it was given causing it to say the internal was corrupt? He ended up getting a new unit and found out later the unit he had previously was a faulty handset
Sent from my GT - I9003 in the bathroom
Misledz said:
LOL the irony of the best order. Well did you try without the sdcard? That's your last option from your side, the next possible is getting the unit changed if you are under warranty, just don't mention odin, rather always blame kies LOL. If the end of the world happened, kies. World War 3,kies. There was a user who had the same issue reported like 5months ago, he had internal ROM problem where the phone failed to save the information it was given causing it to say the internal was corrupt? He ended up getting a new unit and found out later the unit he had previously was a faulty handset
Sent from my GT - I9003 in the bathroom
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SD has been out since day 1, since I started having this issue, first thing i thought is "this idiot is saving its own files to the SD instead of its own memory, and when it reboots for some reason it can't find the files and goes nuts".
So yes, i'm thinking about just taking it to the store and getting a new one...
THAT'S IT! I'm taking it to the store tomorrow...
Now it's just rebooting itself...Samsung logo going on and on....
Thanks everyone for the help!!!
CollieDawg said:
THAT'S IT! I'm taking it to the store tomorrow...
Now it's just rebooting itself...Samsung logo going on and on....
Thanks everyone for the help!!!
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Get it replaced asap so you can join the "famiry" !
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Get it replaced asap so you can join the "famiry" !
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If I don't get it changed tomorrow, my next post will be a link to youtube, where you'll find a video of me lighting it up on fire, then dancing around it as it burns, and finally running it over with my car...total destruction, should be covered by my insurance...
CollieDawg said:
If I don't get it changed tomorrow, my next post will be a link to youtube, where you'll find a video of me lighting it up on fire, then dancing around it as it burns, and finally running it over with my car...total destruction, should be covered by my insurance...
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ROFL, That was literally the funniest thing I heard all month
wish you good luck
CollieDawg said:
If I don't get it changed tomorrow, my next post will be a link to youtube, where you'll find a video of me lighting it up on fire, then dancing around it as it burns, and finally running it over with my car...total destruction, should be covered by my insurance...
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LOL i would have done the same, only a little different, burn it, dance and wait for the ashes to settle, drink up the ashes or feed it to my dog, then walk upto the nearest samsung retailer and take a dump on the entrance entitled 'Now your phone is ****', I'm pretty sure the insurance covers the carpet too.
Sent from my GT - I9003 in the bathroom
CollieDawg said:
If I don't get it changed tomorrow, my next post will be a link to youtube, where you'll find a video of me lighting it up on fire, then dancing around it as it burns, and finally running it over with my car...total destruction, should be covered by my insurance...
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Excellent! I loved your whole style of writing although your issue might yet get resolved at the samsung service center but this description is a total Lullzzz.. Lol!
Also I humbly request you to leave a PM with a few links of your fan fic stories! thanks...
Tapashocked via my gt-I9003 with a random keyboard of my choice !
Misledz said:
LOL i would have done the same, only a little different, burn it, dance and wait for the ashes to settle, drink up the ashes or feed it to my dog, then walk upto the nearest samsung retailer and take a dump on the entrance entitled 'Now your phone is ****', I'm pretty sure the insurance covers the carpet too.
Sent from my GT - I9003 in the bathroom
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Super Duper epic Lol!
Boss you've redefined the whole meaning of taking a ****! :O
Tapashocked via my gt-I9003 with a random keyboard of my choice !
I've tried to search but I haven't seen anything about this...
I was running a leaked GB a while back, I believe it was 2.3.5, and I was having a TON of issues (phone would shut off randomly, I'd turn it back on to a once full battery completely drained). Anyway, I went back to Froyo to try and just clear everything out and start over, when I noticed that AT&T finally released GB on Infuse?! Only to take it away now that I know about it because of "glitches".
Anyway, there's an OTA update that my phone keeps trying to install... it's 19173KB (19MB?) and I hang around 21-25% every time I try to download it.
Is this Gingerbread? What is it? (I'm clear back on 2.2.1 so who knows)
Can I use the newest GB on here without having the same issues? The poor phone had sooo many problems it was saddening, which is what I'm trying to avoid.
Oh another thought, is the fact that I'm of course rooted keeping me from successfully doing an OTA update?
Its a froyo maintenance update.
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I997 using xda premium
Good to know
I FINALLY have a version of GB that doesn't shut off on me and drain my battery all the time...
But now, after flashing dman's UCLB3, my phone will not read an SD card at all...
I've reformatted them, used different ones... nothing. I got the whole video thing to work though, which is a plus!
Any ideas?
(I'd post this over in that thread, but I don't have 10 posts yet, so I'll just stick to my lil thread over here)
heidisory said:
Good to know
I FINALLY have a version of GB that doesn't shut off on me and drain my battery all the time...
But now, after flashing dman's UCLB3, my phone will not read an SD card at all...
I've reformatted them, used different ones... nothing. I got the whole video thing to work though, which is a plus!
Any ideas?
(I'd post this over in that thread, but I don't have 10 posts yet, so I'll just stick to my lil thread over here)
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When you flash dman's uclb3, there is a change in the access of the microsd card.
flashing entropy's kernel may fix this
there is also a method to fix this in his thread...myself and others have discussed this...read the main thread..it will show you how to change it.
you can also read the first 10 pages of vagabond..there is a fix there also
Lol thanks, after I posted this and messaged you I started to look around a bit more... the first couple of searches didn't turn it up, but I'm finally finding some info on it.
the things we do to get gb working... sigh
PS - we need more mac friendly stuff! I don't like having to turn on my crazy desktop of doom.
I wanted to start a thread for those of us that have bricked our Sensation by formatting the SD card while using a AOSP style or AOKP ROM.
Let's use this thread to collaborate ideas and ways to possibly un-brick our devices.
What we know
-Formatting the SD card in past versions of AOSP and AOKP caused the device to "brick" due to possibley reformatting the NAND memory or at least the eMMC partition.
-Our devices are unresponsive and are only recognized by a PC in "download mode"
-AOSP and AOKP ROMs did brick the devices. Instead of formatting the external SD card, it formatted the internal SD card or what is more commonly known as NAND flash memory of the device(Thanks to T-Macgnolia for this explination)
-Only hope may be to try JTAG and RIFF box.
So let's try a think tank and see what happens. If you have any experience with JTAG and RIFF Box PLEASE put in your 2cents.
I am willing to tear my Sensation apart and go at it with a RIFF box since I just ordered a Galaxy Nexus from Google.
I will start researching JTAG and RIFF tonight, but I figured some one should start a thread like this to clear up the HTC Unbricking Project thread.
You got two thanks from me for this, one here and one in the Unbricking Project thread in the development forum. I am like you I can see this subject clogging up the Unbricking Project thread, so this is a good idea here if members will just use it.
Now as for how to revive devices that fall victim to the awful bug that was in the AOSP and AOKP ROMs. I truly hate that such a bad bug was not noticed before so many had fallen victim to it. I also hope someone or a group of someones can come up with a working solution. But from my knowledge JTAG will more than likely be the only option to revive these devices. I hope I am wrong though. Best of luck to all of you.
I don't know much about JTAG at this point, but if it's the only way I'm willing to go for it and share my experience. As it stands now, my Sensation is just a nice expensive paper weight, so I'm not afraid to tear it down
Well best advice I can do is tell you to start eoing searchs on Youtube. Here is a link to the only video I have found on the Sensation so far. You will need to try to find s video that shows the tear down process that will get you to the point the video I linked shows. But at least the video shows the proper way to attach the JTAG and external power supply. I suggest you aleo see if you can not get in touch with josh from Mobile Tech Videos as I know he can give you some very sound advice on JTAGing a Sensation, or just about any other device for that matter. He is known as connexion2005 here on XDA. It also might not hurt to drop ole AdamOutler a PM asking if he has any advice or input.
well im in this boat with my bricked sensation xe, im taking my phone upto http://www.fonefunshop.co.uk/ on wednesday to get it jtaged with the riff box.
but on some good news, if you read the updates on the riffbox it says it can jtag a htc phone via usb (without opening it) but you need a riffbox plugged in to open the software... so if someone could make a hack to open the software without the box connected you might be able to flash the phone
http://www.jtagbox.com/
Guys,
I'm going to RMA my phone with HTC (i got the SD card brick format issue with AOSP)
Assuming the whole of the internal memory got wiped - HTC cannot tell anything can they? So they should repair it with no hassle?
Any advice is appreciated.
just for those of us that are new has this bug been fixed?? as it seems like a pretty big deal. also jupuntobear deals with the sensation devices in download mode to do its s-off so maby they know a way to flash the firmware back onto it?? some sort of homebrew usb/jtag kit maby?
I want to confirm that jtag solution works ... I bricked my phone and now its back to life
I am not the one who actually done the jtagging thing, I will ask him to post a tutorial here on how to do it step by step ...
heavy_metal_man said:
just for those of us that are new has this bug been fixed?? as it seems like a pretty big deal. also jupuntobear deals with the sensation devices in download mode to do its s-off so maby they know a way to flash the firmware back onto it?? some sort of homebrew usb/jtag kit maby?
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The latest Open Sensation builds have that problem corrected, check the change log for more details.
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szunyimen said:
Hello pplz,
I just wanted to let you know about my story:
I had lots of unused crap that was left behind by different ROMs and APPLICATIONs on my sd card, so I used this app called SD MAID.
Then when my phone's battery dead that day, the phone turned off and I could never revive it...
I had AOKP rel 34, the one just before milestone 5.
SO probably that was the cause of the brick.
BE CAUTIOUS with any kind of sd card related app on AOSP/AOKP!!
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I Don't think your Device is bricked...i saw somewhere that sometimes or maybe in some ROMs, when you used up full juice of your Battery, it usually takes time to start..i am obviously not sure if i am right, i just read that quickly and ignored it because i never consume the Battery till it goes to 0% and phone turns off...by the way i think this SD CARD Format doesn't cause bricking in Virtuous Inquisition? it's also AOSP..Although senseless..but maybe some files could be used in V.I As well which causes this.i don't have PC..So my Sensation fullfils my PC Needs (Almost)..so definitely cannot fancy tearing my phone a part...
It seems like JTAG w/ RiffBox is the only way....boooooo.
Does anyone have or know someone with a box, or at least where to get one???
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I Don't think your Device is bricked...i saw somewhere that sometimes or maybe in some ROMs, when you used up full juice of your Battery, it usually takes time to start..i am obviously not sure if i am right, i just read that quickly and ignored it because i never consume the Battery till it goes to 0% and phone turns off...by the way i think this SD CARD Format doesn't cause bricking in Virtuous Inquisition? it's also AOSP..Although senseless..but maybe some files could be used in V.I As well which causes this.i don't have PC..So my Sensation fullfils my PC Needs (Almost)..so definitely cannot fancy tearing my phone a part...
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I don't really know what happen to Alipk52's Sensation. But I can tell you this, the bug that was in the AOSP and AOKP ROMs did brick the devices. Instead of formatting the external SD card, it formatted the internal SD card or what is more commonly known as NAND flash memory of the device. Now with the internal memory formatted this means you have no bootloader which means the device can not boot, which means brick. So yes the SD card format bug did cause bricking.
Hi!
I've read about jtagging withot soldering but via usb cable. So, maybe someone will compile the software emulator of riff box presence...
I sent mine out to HTC since it's still under warranty. Let's see what they do to fix it.
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kmmxracer said:
I sent mine out to HTC since it's still under warranty. Let's see what they do to fix it.
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they will replace the board.
szunyimen said:
GUYS!!!!
OLEGOR215 ON EBAY fixed my phone (JTAG)!
I sent my phone from Vancouver to Philadelphia for $4CAD (!) it got there in 5 days and he fixed it in 1 day, it took a week though for receiving it - so I had my phone back to life in just 2WEEKS!
Thanks and you guys should go ahead and do it!
good luck
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Sending your phone somewhere out whitout knowing the person ? Pretty risky.
Sent From My Sexy Sensation Running Aokp.
szunyimen said:
GUYS!!!!
OLEGOR215 ON EBAY fixed my phone (JTAG)!
I sent my phone from Vancouver to Philadelphia for $4CAD (!) it got there in 5 days and he fixed it in 1 day, it took a week though for receiving it - so I had my phone back to life in just 2WEEKS!
Thanks and you guys should go ahead and do it!
good luck
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The problem you had was not the one described in this thread, and I would put money on him not using JTAG on it at all. I find that often if I let my phone battery die completely it will not turn back on, even if I leave it on charge.
I have to charge it up a bit, unplug it, turn it on, then plug it back in again.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1205983
i think this guy was on to something. if we could create a generic copy of the sensation using this program, with imei and other sensitive things removed and then flash it back using that program. thoughts?
I would just like to offer my Sensation as a sacrifice to the cause. It's bricked either because of the AOKP SD brick or failure to update to the ICS radio before upgrading from 2.3 to 4.0.
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Not updating the firmware only causes bootloops, not a brick.
You'll know if it's proper bricked as it wont even charged.
Several times this past week, my Galaxy S has complained because it thinks I removed the SD chip, though, of course, I had not. It has also sung the "I'm out of power and will shut down now" song, but when I plug it in, I find it still has plenty of battery life. (Was it complaining about the chip, not the power with that song?)
I don't think anything was lost from the chip the first time or two, but this last time I know that it lost some Kindle books, so who knows what else is gone. The 16G Samsung chip is down to 1.2G free.
I'm currently backing up the SD chip and will install another one, but I thought I'd ask if anyone has other thoughts re the source of the problem. The phone is less than a year old.
Thank you kindly.
Try another card first. My bet would be the card is faulty. If you try another one and still have the same issue I'd call Samsung. As far as the battery issue goes get a new one. There have been a lot of reports of battery issues, ROMs rebooting, etc. Most of them where fixed by just getting a new battery.
I'd definitely try to find the cause of the problem before your warranty expires.
I had my microSD holder fail after about 18 months. The early symptoms were that it didn't quite want to "click in" sometimes when I was inserting it. While a relatively inexpensive fix (under $15 for the part off an eBay vendor), getting someone else to deal with the installation is nice.
NanaSarah said:
Several times this past week, my Galaxy S has complained because it thinks I removed the SD chip, though, of course, I had not. It has also sung the "I'm out of power and will shut down now" song, but when I plug it in, I find it still has plenty of battery life. (Was it complaining about the chip, not the power with that song?)
I don't think anything was lost from the chip the first time or two, but this last time I know that it lost some Kindle books, so who knows what else is gone. The 16G Samsung chip is down to 1.2G free.
I'm currently backing up the SD chip and will install another one, but I thought I'd ask if anyone has other thoughts re the source of the problem. The phone is less than a year old.
Thank you kindly.
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I suggest you take that card out and keep it out. I was getting the same problem after i flashed a custom rom and it destroyed my 32gb chip and i lost a lot of important data.
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I suggest you take that card out and keep it out. I was getting the same problem after i flashed a custom rom and it destroyed my 32gb chip and i lost a lot of important data.
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The custom rom DID NOT destroy your sdcard. You either accidentally formatted it or did not unmount it from your pc and it corrupted the data. Custom roms from this forum will not and can not destroy the sdcard. More people would be complaining and the devs would be run off xda if that happened. Stop spreading lies.
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The custom rom DID NOT destroy your sdcard. You either accidentally formatted it or did not unmount it from your pc and it corrupted the data. Custom roms from this forum will not and can not destroy the sdcard. More people would be complaining and the devs would be run off xda if that happened. Stop spreading lies.
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I definitely didn't do either, but i know my duties of protecting the the devs. Things happen and something corrupted the Rom. Most definitely my own fault for not flashing properly or just because there are gremlins living in my phone that refuse to move out. But, thats why i didn't name which rom was it that was related to the problem. Chill out eollie, just trying to help.
If you read what you posted you said it happened after flashing a custom rom. That to most people means you are blaming the custom rom. There is safety checks and balances put in place to protect that stuff. Plus flashing a rom will never modify your sdcard. If anything it will just add some folders when you boot. Again if there was rom out there doing that then people would have reported it. User error is the only explainable answer.
You also told the person to take out the sdcard and leave it out...that also implies you are blaming a rom and not yourself.
Furthermore, I dont care if you want to post the name of the rom. Protecting devs is not my job. But stopping false info about the roms is something I will do. To new people they see these kinds of statements and think Im not going to try to flash that it might mess up this or that. And that decision is based on some false accusations. That is not fair to the community nor the devs.
My screen cracked after reading this post ..but I didn't say which post
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If you read what you posted you said it happened after flashing a custom rom. That to most people means you are blaming the custom rom. There is safety checks and balances put in place to protect that stuff. Plus flashing a rom will never modify your sdcard. If anything it will just add some folders when you boot. Again if there was rom out there doing that then people would have reported it. User error is the only explainable answer.
You also told the person to take out the sdcard and leave it out...that also implies you are blaming a rom and not yourself.
Furthermore, I dont care if you want to post the name of the rom. Protecting devs is not my job. But stopping false info about the roms is something I will do. To new people they see these kinds of statements and think Im not going to try to flash that it might mess up this or that. And that decision is based on some false accusations. That is not fair to the community nor the devs.
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Eollie, my suggestion to take out the card was so she could avoid losing data on it. There really isn't any animosity toward devs or roms inferred there. Telling her to leave it is not going to solve her problem.
Beastmode said:
My screen cracked after reading this post ..but I didn't say which post
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Hey Erik, glad you have a sense of humor, lol. .. Keep it light, keep it real, right? I really do appreciate your hard work and wish i had the time to get into helping you guys dev.
That happened to me on my G1 after I took it in for screen repair.
My screen broke, but my swap file was on my sd card, so I knew that the sd reader was fine because the phone was getting notifications after boot. After I took it in for repair, they fixed the screen, but my phone wasn't booting up, so they told me that I was running a nexus one rom on it and they could fix it for 20 bucks. I yelled at them for blaming me for the problem, then I went into CWM Recovery, and it told me that there was no sd card. I tried pulling the sd card and pushing it around, and even got it to boot once. So yeah, did you take it into any cheap repair shops, cause they can break phones instead of fix them.