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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

Bricked and Stumped :(

Ok, So I flashed dmans UCKK3 Rom and everything was great. I decided to flash the Stock Kernel back, extracted and flashed the zImage for stock Rom and borked my phone. It gets stuck at the Samsung Logo and goes no where.
So, I thought, easy fix. Pulled up my Heimdall One-Click and booted into Download Mode and flashed. Still, same problem, phone boots up to Samsung Logo and goes no further.
This pissed me off a little bit so I decided, if I can get back into Recovery, I would be golden. So I used Heimdall One-Click Defused to get CWM back. Well, that works, I have Red CWM.
Reflashed the UCKK3 Rom, after I wiped Data/Cache/Dalvik of course. Rebooted, and low and behold, stuck at Samsung Logo once more.
So now I am frustrated and pissed as this is my only phone currently, so I broke out the GTG Ultimate Unbrick, guess what now, I can't get Odin to recognize my device. Yes, I uninstalled and reinstalled the Drivers multiple times, once from a direct download someone has posted in GTG's thread and Once from Kies, and Odin still will not detect my device, IE The Com##.
So, after a cup of coffee, I remembered some people were having issues due to there USB Cable, so I traded it out with several different ones I have from prior phones, didn't change.
So now I am stuck.
I can get into Red CWM. I can mount as USB Storage to drop any RoM I want to on my SD card. I can even enter Download Mode, however I can't get past the stupid Samsung Logo.
Any help is appreciated as I am currently stumped.
Thanks

The good Ol' 3 finger trick isn't working to get your device into download mode? You could order a USB jig from Amazon/Ebay they've been proven to work.
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if you flashed kernels in heimdall try flashing the unbrick in heimdall.

You can make your own jig. I spent a dollar at radio Shack and cut up a usb cord to make my own. Go to mobiletechvideos. com and it will show you how to make one.
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Try switching computers. Worked for me.

tmease1 said:
You can make your own jig. I spent a dollar at radio Shack and cut up a usb cord to make my own. Go to mobiletechvideos. com and it will show you how to make one.
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theROMinator said:
The good Ol' 3 finger trick isn't working to get your device into download mode? You could order a USB jig from Amazon/Ebay they've been proven to work.
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Ok, So I flashed dmans UCKK3 Rom and everything was great. I decided to flash the Stock Kernel back, extracted and flashed the zImage for stock Rom and borked my phone. It gets stuck at the Samsung Logo and goes no where.
So, I thought, easy fix. Pulled up my Heimdall One-Click and booted into Download Mode and flashed. Still, same problem, phone boots up to Samsung Logo and goes no further.
This pissed me off a little bit so I decided, if I can get back into Recovery, I would be golden. So I used Heimdall One-Click Defused to get CWM back. Well, that works, I have Red CWM.
Reflashed the UCKK3 Rom, after I wiped Data/Cache/Dalvik of course. Rebooted, and low and behold, stuck at Samsung Logo once more.
So now I am frustrated and pissed as this is my only phone currently, so I broke out the GTG Ultimate Unbrick, guess what now, I can't get Odin to recognize my device. Yes, I uninstalled and reinstalled the Drivers multiple times, once from a direct download someone has posted in GTG's thread and Once from Kies, and Odin still will not detect my device, IE The Com##.
So, after a cup of coffee, I remembered some people were having issues due to there USB Cable, so I traded it out with several different ones I have from prior phones, didn't change.
So now I am stuck.
I can get into Red CWM. I can mount as USB Storage to drop any RoM I want to on my SD card. I can even enter Download Mode, however I can't get past the stupid Samsung Logo.
Any help is appreciated as I am currently stumped.
Thanks
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I stated I could even get into Download Mode so a Jig is not going to do me any good.
on a side note, I finaly got it back up and running but I had to use Odin V 1.81 for it to recognize my device. Odin 1.7 wouldn't detect the Com Port for my phone. I am going to assume something happened to my Partitions. I ended up flashing the Kernel located in the Victory Rom forum included with Odin v 1.81. After about a 10 minute wait for it to Convert Partitions it finaly booted up. Thank god.
So I am not running UCKK3 Rom with that Kernel and all seems to be well now. I literally stayed up untill 5 AM fixing my damn phone, and the sad part is, I am still not sure wtf I did to begin with lol.

xKrisx said:
I stated I could even get into Download Mode so a Jig is not going to do me any good.
on a side note, I finaly got it back up and running but I had to use Odin V 1.81 for it to recognize my device. Odin 1.7 wouldn't detect the Com Port for my phone. I am going to assume something happened to my Partitions. I ended up flashing the Kernel located in the Victory Rom forum included with Odin v 1.81. After about a 10 minute wait for it to Convert Partitions it finaly booted up. Thank god.
So I am not running UCKK3 Rom with that Kernel and all seems to be well now. I literally stayed up untill 5 AM fixing my damn phone, and the sad part is, I am still not sure wtf I did to begin with lol.
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SO how did you run Odin without being in download mode?

Come on guys, OP's stated twice now he CAN enter DL mode, and it's fixed it already. Also, since when is the "good ol 3 finger trick" for DL mode? That's for recovery...just saying lol. Glad you got it fixed

xKrisx said:
I stated I could even get into Download Mode so a Jig is not going to do me any good.
on a side note, I finaly got it back up and running but I had to use Odin V 1.81 for it to recognize my device. Odin 1.7 wouldn't detect the Com Port for my phone. I am going to assume something happened to my Partitions. I ended up flashing the Kernel located in the Victory Rom forum included with Odin v 1.81. After about a 10 minute wait for it to Convert Partitions it finaly booted up. Thank god.
So I am not running UCKK3 Rom with that Kernel and all seems to be well now. I literally stayed up untill 5 AM fixing my damn phone, and the sad part is, I am still not sure wtf I did to begin with lol.
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I read somewhere that the stock kernel won't work if your still on ext4(or whichever) that it has to be switched back to rfs
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And that was my problem in the end. The Rooted / Deodexed / Zipaligned Rom for UCKK3 was originaly on Entropy's Kernel. It uses EXT4 partitioning. When I flashed the original Kernel it uses RFS and well thats were things went wrong.
But what the most unusual thing was, Odin V1.7 would not recognize the COM## port for my phone so I could not use Odin originaly. I was searching and getting pissed when I found the .zip in Victory Rom that contained an upgraded Odin and low and behold it work.

Black screen after Galaxy S logo!!!

I was running ICSSGS rom for a week now, but i didnt really liked it so i decided to for the first time go back to stock. I used AdamOutlers UCKB2 Heimdall One-click back to 2.2 froyo. Entered download mod smoothly, flashed without any problems, and then phone started booting. Att logo, att animtion, galaxy s animation for about a minute, and then...black screen. I left it on a black screen for about ten minutes, nothing happened. When i touch capacitive keys they stay lit up and thats it. I tried flashing same thing again, as i could enter download mod without any problems, but i faced same problem. Then i tried flashing it with bootloaders box checked, faced same problem. Is there anyone who could help to get phone running again ?? I need help desperately!!
UPDATE:
Ok i tried , Odin super one-click back to stock eclair 2.1, flashing went smoothly, and now phone is stucked in flashing att logo (keeps flashing att logo). I tried to enter download mod again, but now it just starts charging when i do key combo and usb plug.Also, cannot enter the recovery.

Not sure what's going on with the flashing but sounds like you will need a jig to get into download mode. Of your phone came with 2.2 out of the box that's probably why the Odin one click 2.1 didn't work. I'm guess maybe bad download of the heimdall
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[Q] stuck on factoryfs

My infuse was running aokpcb rom. i made a backup of my previous rom, AEON v1.3.1. i restored using nandroid back to AEON but when i reboot its stuck at the samsung screen. I tried GTGs Odin back to stock multiple times using different ports but it always gets stuck at factoryfs. i even rebooted the computer and tried it again but still no good. I've used Odin back to stock a couple times before so im used to the program. now ive ran out of ideas and i would greatly appreciate the help. THANKS

Try heimdall...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1524081
If that doesn't work 'I' don't know what to tell you
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And don't restore with nandroid, just to a full restore back to stock with odin or hemdall and reflash the rom.

Im not 100% but i think with aeon the first boot will freeze up at the factory screen. Try pulling battery then reboot..
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isaiahe97 said:
Try heimdall...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1524081
If that doesn't work 'I' don't know what to tell you
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+1 odin sux. it's funny how some independant guys can reverse engineer what it's doing and write something better.

Happens to my Infuse all the time now, even using Heimdall. I just pull the battery, get back into the alternate download screen, reload the drivers (if necessary) on the pc and re-run Heimdall. It always seems to get stuck twice, but works the third time. The last time I took it to stock & did a "factory data reset", just to see if that would clear up whatever the issue was. Unfortunately (?), I haven't tried going back to stock since.

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+1 odin sux. it's funny how some independant guys can reverse engineer what it's doing and write something better.
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Not sure if your being understood.

Sorry for not responding. I've been at a summer camp for the past week. Anyways, when i try to install drivers with heimdall it aborts the procedure and then freezes the program... and when i plug in my phone into the wall charger, the screen stays off..

Young_Khalifa said:
Sorry for not responding. I've been at a summer camp for the past week. Anyways, when i try to install drivers with heimdall it aborts the procedure and then freezes the program... and when i plug in my phone into the wall charger, the screen stays off..
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Heimdall is great when properly set up and WHEN IT WORKS. What I do, and this'll bring it back from pretty much anything, is use gtg unbrick, and if it doesn't boot from that flash, (and mine doesn't because its a rogers ) , i then flash the Odin stock lb3 pack, and boom back to normal no matter what I flashed. I imagine if you're running an at&t model , you shouldn't have to do the second step. Be sure to remove the battery and reinsert at least once on any from flash to be sure its not booting correctly before going to another step. Also be sure drivers are correctly installed through kies or kies mini. I find this is easiest with Odin because it clearly shows you in bright yellow that the download connection has been established.. many times i' very had to reinstall the kies drivers, I don't know why.. but try this , and like I say once you see yellow in Odin in phone download mode, you know you're set. Once again, like this kies/gtg/try booting/if no boot/pull battery try boot again/ if still no boot Odin lb3 stock and then flash a recovery kernel to regain cwm..
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ive been trying the odin lb3 from gtg and it gets stuck on dbdata.rfs instead.. im kinda flipping out...

Issues installing stock rom and stucking on stock recovery.

I'm really worried about this, I've tried to install SGH-I997-UCKE3-STOCK-One-Click and Stock_SGH_I997_UCLB3_Repartition-One-Click several times, sometimes I got the factoryfs upload failed error or the dbdatafs upload failed error in a given percentage (about 60% and 78%... sometimes at 100%), all in the Heimdall .jar file, which in other Infuses I've worked with I install them several times, so believe me I've tried this a lot of times and never fails me, this is my first time with this issue and I really need someone to help me here since this Infuse is not mine and it's starting to freak me out
After two or three tries, it goes well and install the stock rom perfectly, BUT, no matter wich one I install, Froyo or Gingerbread, it always stuck in stock recovery, I tried to wipe everything and restart... and then after the Samsung logo I get the stock recovery. I've see a bootloop several times, but this it's kinda different since after the Samsung logo the phone restarts and get the Samsung logo again... but being stuck in the stock recovery, well, this is the first time I see this.
The phone still have Download Mode, but I'm telling you, it gets those upload errors I described up here. I get the phone rooted and with Gingerbread 2.3.6, but my friend wanted me to reset everything and get it to stock Froyo or Gingerbread.
Can anyone help me with this?
Please.. thanks in advance.

Have you tried odin to see if it behaves the same?
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andros11 said:
Have you tried odin to see if it behaves the same?
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I have Odin v1.8 and it wont detect the phone
Heimdall does... but I have the issues explained.
Any ideas?

alainalemany said:
I'm really worried about this, I've tried to install SGH-I997-UCKE3-STOCK-One-Click and Stock_SGH_I997_UCLB3_Repartition-One-Click several times, sometimes I got the factoryfs upload failed error or the dbdatafs upload failed error in a given percentage (about 60% and 78%... sometimes at 100%), all in the Heimdall .jar file, which in other Infuses I've worked with I install them several times, so believe me I've tried this a lot of times and never fails me, this is my first time with this issue and I really need someone to help me here since this Infuse is not mine and it's starting to freak me out
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the last part of the heimdall uclb3 op: change usb cord, usb port or pc.
clean your usb port

qkster said:
the last part of the heimdall uclb3 op: change usb cord, usb port or pc.
clean your usb port
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Buddy thank you so much... the thing is, difficult or not, I get to install the ROM... the next is to get stuck in stock recovery.
How about that part?
Thanks again.

alainalemany said:
Buddy thank you so much... the thing is, difficult or not, I get to install the ROM... the next is to get stuck in stock recovery.
How about that part?
Thanks again.
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after you successfully flash the stock rom, go to post #2 to flash the recovery kernel.
If you want to, before you flash recovery kernel, delete the voodoo folder in your sdcard.
The recovery kernel will convert your files system into voodoo ext4 from stock rfs

alainalemany said:
I'm really worried about this, I've tried to install SGH-I997-UCKE3-STOCK-One-Click and Stock_SGH_I997_UCLB3_Repartition-One-Click several times, sometimes I got the factoryfs upload failed error or the dbdatafs upload failed error in a given percentage (about 60% and 78%... sometimes at 100%), all in the Heimdall .jar file, which in other Infuses I've worked with I install them several times, so believe me I've tried this a lot of times and never fails me, this is my first time with this issue and I really need someone to help me here since this Infuse is not mine and it's starting to freak me out
After two or three tries, it goes well and install the stock rom perfectly, BUT, no matter wich one I install, Froyo or Gingerbread, it always stuck in stock recovery, I tried to wipe everything and restart... and then after the Samsung logo I get the stock recovery. I've see a bootloop several times, but this it's kinda different since after the Samsung logo the phone restarts and get the Samsung logo again... but being stuck in the stock recovery, well, this is the first time I see this.
The phone still have Download Mode, but I'm telling you, it gets those upload errors I described up here. I get the phone rooted and with Gingerbread 2.3.6, but my friend wanted me to reset everything and get it to stock Froyo or Gingerbread.
Can anyone help me with this?
Please.. thanks in advance.
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HI, I've had the same situation what i did to resolve it was that after flashing the rom (STOCK gingerbread) I've checked and flashed the bootloader and the phote started up normally.
Hope this will help.

Follow qkster's directions and you should be good!
Be careful if you decide to flash the bootloaders since a bad flash of those will hardbrick the phone.
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