[Q] Non-booting Vibrant from gingerbread bootloader

[certwick]

Hello, total noob here; expected going from stock froyo to eating a nice ICS rom--Oh boy was I wrong. Current problem is towards the bottom of this post.

Rooting the phone was easy enough, but had to use magic getting Clockwork Recovery to work. I had to flash a "2e recovery menu", whatever that mean (versus the 3e version that originally came on the phone). Unfortunately I mistakenly deleted user/cache data before flashing CWM and did no nandroid backup.

A that point I could install passion v5 using CWM, and ended up in a bootloop, where the original booting image appears, flickered to the ICS bootimage, then back again. At this point I decided I should try going back to stock.

This is the image I tried putting on my phone, using odin3: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1036193
My phone could only boot into recovery, with an error along the lings of "dbdata: not mounting".

In my infinite noobness, I tried putting this gingerbread bootloader on my phone: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1117990
Now it doesn't boot at all.

The following recovery guide doesn't help
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=848737

After spending the last couple day working on this problem, I made this account and would like to see some community input on finding a solution.

 

[deziguy420]

OK seems like u did get Gingerbread bootloader installed correctly...if that's a case then the keys have changed in order to get to the download mode and recovery mode...so try this

1) pull the battery out
2) plug ur usb wire to ur pc and ur phone
3) hold volume up+
4) insert the battery in

if that don't work then repeat the steps mentioned above only this time on step two press volume down not volume up....good luck

if you get it successfully done...and u r ready to flash ICS make sure u flash it twice if it goes in a bootloop according to the developer that's what he said...u can pm me if u need help...good luck..

---------- Post added at 04:04 AM ---------- Previous post was at 04:00 AM ----------

OK seems like u did get Gingerbread bootloader installed correctly...if that's a case then the keys have changed in order to get to the download mode and recovery mode...so try this

**note whenever you need to use ODIN always take out ur sim card and sdcard...
1) pull the battery out
2) plug ur usb wire to ur pc and ur phone
3) hold volume up+
4) insert the battery in...
THIS SHOULD GET YOU IN DOWNLOAD MODE

if that don't work then repeat the steps mentioned above only this time on step two press volume down not volume up....good luck

if you get it successfully done...and u r ready to flash ICS make sure u flash it twice if it goes in a bootloop according to the developer that's what he said...u can pm me if u need help...good luck..

 

[certwick]

Sorry, but I should have mentioned that I tried the no-boot steps with the gingerbread key mappings, to no avail.

I would have stopped at passion rebooting constantly and use Odin3 again, but guess what? It couldn't enter recovery or download mode.

Anyways, do you have anything to say when your steps fail?
Do you recommend I try making a 301K jig to force download mode?

E: Not to say you're wrong, I'm just confident that I tried all possible button combinations.

EE: Just re-read the 301K jig guide again and noticed that my phone doesn't display anything; the jig will not work. Welp

Final Edit: My local store offered a replacement for my broken phone. No need to continue discussion in this thread.