[fix/answer]**black screen of death**

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After going through this myself and having to have a friend help me find my way through the endless post and threads of various bricks and fixes I thought I would centralize or pin-point this exact brick.

Hopefully this will help others and keep the clutter down in the General and Q&A threads.

What you will need:
ODIN (To Flash)
SDK (up and running for ADB)
Samsung Kies (For the drivers)
*Follow the directions for each thread to the T*
eugene's "FROYO that doesn't brick" (Flash this via ODIN first)
JAC's "Stock ROM" (Flash this via ODIN second)

All these resources can be found in the ROM bible:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=771111

So Please take the time go through getting yourself out of this brick if you took the time to get yourself into it . Besides the its better to know then to make someone else pay for it. Knowledge is power

I tried all this last week (using this method) and still had the dead screen after start-up. Tried 6 times and finally just went back to t-mobile for a warrantee replacement. I'm not sure I did anything wrong (well-versed in ODIN, adb, etc.).

Just a lil input--still have no idea why Bionix 1.3/voodoo died on my phone and caused this, or why the above method didn't work.

????

+1 im stuck to... rom... same attempts... same issue

Update: 9/27/10

had the same issue but fixed it... used odin with the stock but it didn't work... tryin every restore in the book... except the Froyo version... low and behold Eugenes Froyo did the trick... it allowed me to install it and then go back to the rom of my choice... in recovery I repeatly got the error with trying to wipe data... after boot the phone would get stuck on a blank screen with the soft key lit... but (ROM) Froyo ~~~That does not Brick! Downgrading Is Fine --eugene373 did the trick... I'm not a noob but I almost called tmo, to do an exchange... Bionix 1.3 is the only rom I have ever had this problem with... It happened when I attempted to change roms via clockwork...

Are you getting confirmation from ODIN, with a PASS? When you flash the euro GS ROM are you letting it fully boot before moving on to the stock ROM?

Originally Posted by TheSneakerWhore

I tried all this last week (using this method) and still had the dead screen after start-up. Tried 6 times and finally just went back to t-mobile for a warrantee replacement. I'm not sure I did anything wrong (well-versed in ODIN, adb, etc.).

Just a lil input--still have no idea why Bionix 1.3/voodoo died on my phone and caused this, or why the above method didn't work.

????

I stopped the step of adding Eugene's rom and then Flashed vibrant9...

everytime i flash my phone with ODIN, i get the black screen of death, AND it gives me the message: "E: Can't mount /dev/block/mmcblk0p1 (invalid argument) E:copy_dbdata_media:Can't mount SDCARD:"

Am i screwed?

I tried flashing with eugine's froyo rom, but it still doesnt work

Are you booting up every rom? Does odin give you a pass? Are you in download mode? When does it give you that message?

Originally Posted by All~G1

Are you booting up every rom? Does odin give you a pass? Are you in download mode? When does it give you that message?

yes, yes, yes, and it says "E: Can't mount /dev/block/mmcblk0p1 (invalid argument) E:copy_dbdata_media:Can't mount SDCARD:" when it goes into recovery mode

after odin does its business, the black screen of death comes up after the galaxy s thing; so in response i go to the recovery menu, i try to clear the data, and that's when it gives that message: "E: Can't mount /dev/block/mmcblk0p1 (invalid argument) E:copy_dbdata_media:Can't mount SDCARD:"

Originally Posted by theonly1withkfc

yes, yes, yes, and it says "E: Can't mount /dev/block/mmcblk0p1 (invalid argument) E:copy_dbdata_media:Can't mount SDCARD:" when it goes into recovery mode

after odin does its business, the black screen of death comes up after the galaxy s thing; so in response i go to the recovery menu, i try to clear the data, and that's when it gives that message: "E: Can't mount /dev/block/mmcblk0p1 (invalid argument) E:copy_dbdata_media:Can't mount SDCARD:"

Look for a ODIN repartition thread. I haven't gone through this myself but I'm pretty sure that's what's needed.

AMAZING

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I greatly appreciate this post ive been dealing with this black screen for the day trying everything and this worked. even though tmobile is sending me a new phone next week i am so happy to have this phone back and working. Thank you once again.