** [GUIDE] FIX AND RESCUE YOUR VIBRICK + ODIN SUPPORT! N00b Friendly **

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    Fixing so-called "Bricks"/Odin Errors
    This guide is open to contribution/editing/correcting :D
    I DO REALIZE THAT MOST OF THESE LINKS ARE BROKEN, PLEASE SCAN THE THREAD TO FIND UPDATED LINK. I'M NOT VERY ACTIVE ANYMORE, SORRY!
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    BOOT CYCLE
    This is where you get the annoying Samsung Screen/Galaxy S screen.

    DOWNLOAD REQUIRED (CREDITS TO Woodrube):
    JFD ODIN Images from Samsung (PDA)
    Stock JFD Image

    512 PIT File (PIT Extract first!)
    Stock 512Pit

    ODIN
    Odin3_v1.0.exe.zip

    1. Get into Download Mode (WITH THE PHONE PLUGGED IN) by following the steps below
    *Turn off the phone until you get to the charging battery screen (keep in mind, your phone is currently PLUGGED IN)
    *Press volume up and down, and power all at once.
    *As soon as the screen turns black, release your power button.


    2. Unplug phone from USB

    3. Open Odin (in Administrator if you're running W7 or Vista), try one of the ones I attached to this post, at least one of them is bound to work, some don't work for me, but works for others, some doesn't work for others, but works for me, whatever floats your boat :)

    4. Load in the files into Odin that you have downloaded from above :D Just load in the files corresponding to the text field.

    DO NOT CHECK REPARTITION.

    5. Plug in your phone with the DL mode :)

    6. Click start and wait for the magic :)



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    NO-BOOT PHONES
    This is where your phone does NOT turn on, no combo of buttons works and power button does nothing.
    DO THIS ONLY WHEN YOU PLUG IN YOUR PHONE AND NOTHING SHOWS UP ON THE SCREEN!!! If else, follow the steps from above.

    This method is basically same as above, EXCEPT the way you get into Download Mode as your phone is HARD BROKEN.

    1. Download all the files required in the "
    BOOT CYCLE" section of this post.

    2. Remove everything from your phone (SD card, sim, battery).

    3. Plug your phone into your computer WITHOUT the battery, as you have already taken it out in the last step.

    4. Press and HOLD vol. up and vol. down.

    5. As you are HOLDING these buttons, reattach your battery.

    6. You should be in Download Mode.

    7. Unplug phone from USB

    8. Follow steps 4-8 from the
    "BOOT CYCLE" section.


    Troubleshooting:
    -Odin stuck at some random process?
    *Switch to another odin
    *Make sure you did NOT check repartition, if you did, just repeat all the steps over again, except for the downloading parts, obviously.

    -Phone not responsive?
    *Try "
    NO-BOOT PHONES"section of this guide

    -Phone stuck at Galaxy S logo screen?
    *Put it in to DL mode, and run Odin again, it's just a bad install.

    -All three ODIN is nonfunctional, stuck or giving "FAILED" errors?
    *DO NOT CLOSE ODIN ONCE IT HAS FAILED!
    *Unplug your phone
    *Replug in your phone, get it into DL mode

    * Unplug once it is in DL mode
    *Replug and ODIN should recognize your phone
    *Leave all the settings the same, then click "Start" again.


    -Cannot get into download mode using the method I listed? Use the method(s) below:
    Soldering Method
    More methods coming soon


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    I know how much of a pain posting in the Q/A section can be and the wait time is pretty bad, so if you need help regarding UNBRICKING and ONLY UNBRICKING feel free to post in here.

    Hope you enjoy, this is my first guide, please don't flame. Any comments or suggestion is suggest, or if you have your own method I'll also post it :D

    POST YOUR RESULTS! :D
    -Steven
    The only forums this guide should be posted on is XDA, DZ, and PHANDROID under the username DRAIKZ and EXPLOSIVE. If it helped you, feel free to donate a coke or two! :)
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    i was on cm 10, then my phone stopped turning on, so i followed these steps to get the phone back to stock android, and it still wont turn completely on. i think my boot loader may be messed up? i have no idea.

    when i press the power button, first thing i see is "Samsung galaxy gt -I9000" then a screen that says "Vibrant" then screen turns black and nothing happens. i know its strange that it says gt - i9000 but thats what it used to be with the cm 10 roms.

    i get to the download screen by holding volume up + power button. i can not get to recovery which used to be volume down + power button.

    please help!

    You need to flash the "Stock Bootloader" then flash stock "JFD" with Odin.... make sure "Re-partition"" IS checked

    Bootloader - View attachment vibrant_froyo.tar.zip] - unzip and flash with Odin per directions for Bootloader.

    JFD - LINK - make sure "Re-partition"" IS checked
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    Does anyone have any mirrors? None of the links seem to be working for me

    Sent from my MB865 using xda premium

    These might work - http://androidspin.com/2010/08/09/how-to-restore-or-recover-your-samsung-vibrant/
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    Google helped to find another source of the file with the dead link.

    http://www.multiupload.com/IFSJECTS3L
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    Unbricked my phone! (slight modification of procedure)

    Thanks for the wonderful post. It didn't work at once, but with many trial-and-error I got it back. Here's my story:

    My Vibrant was bricked on the process of ROM Manger / clockwork recovery incident where I was trying to go back to a backup point. At first, I could go at least to the recovery menu, but after I failed odin3 once, it wouldn't even go to download mode, and started showing phone-!-computer symbol.

    According to this guide, and many other guides for unbricking, I could enter download mode by removing battery and plugging in to USB, and plugging the battery back while pressing vol up and down. However, every time I tried to flash back the pin+pda file via odin (versions 1.0, 1.3, 1.57, 1.7), it would fail (fail 1/success 0).

    I was in despair, but I found a way around it finally. The key is to NOT UNPLUG THE USB CABLE AFTER MAKING IT DOWNLOAD mode, and directly start odin. Then it worked like a charm, and I am back to stock.

    Final configuration:
    1. Driver: Samsung_USB_driver_for_Mobile_Phones_x86.exe 18,948kb (19402320 bytes)
    2. OS: Windows XP
    3. Odin 3 v1.7
    4. PIT and PDA files from this post

    Hope this helps somebody.