[Q]Vibrant stucked on boot after flashing with stock 2.1

[kew1701]

Hi,
i bought this mobile on ebay cheap,it has cracked digitizer.I flashed it with stock 2.1 and tried official fw but it stucks on vibrant screen.It goes in download with no problem.Does anybody have europe fw files for odin3,pda csc and phone,also pit?Thanks people,forum rules!

flash files are from xda forum,vibant subforum,vibrant is t mobile usa,i'm from Europe

Just found that has a marked water label red on phone and battery:-(
I have put galaxy s fw on it,latest with froyo 2.2,and stucks again,now it's working bottom four buttons.
Could someone help?I have dissasembled phone and cleaned contacts...

pic where it stucks

 

[TheKeymaker]

Wouldn't recommend flashing US Vibrant to EU fw. Tried it myself yesterday, and after a lot of trouble I got it to boot. However, the home and back-key now work as one, needless to say it's very irritating (multitasking doesn't work for example). I'm flashing back to US fw as soon as I get home.

 

[kew1701]

Tried with 5 different firmwares,3 were from I9000 and nothing,it just stucks on vibrant sign.Does anybody know how to change bootloader or something cuz this is driving me crazy.I know phohe hardware is ok...anybody?

 

[Gad13]

Why don't you try to flash in stock TMO USA firmware. Search for T959UVJFD and s1_odin_20100512.pit
If it works then just SIM unlock it and use it that way until you find something better.
At least the phone will be usable.

 

[kew1701]

Why don't you try to flash in stock TMO USA firmware. Search for T959UVJFD and s1_odin_20100512.pit
If it works then just SIM unlock it and use it that way until you find something better.
At least the phone will be usable.

Tried that,i flashed with T959UVJFD and s1_odin_20100512.pit,but phone doesn't goes any further than vibrant sign.Is there a way to change bootloader?

edit:same thing is with captivate rom,it goes till at&t picture with white background and stay's that....i'm going for smokes,can't take it anymore

 

[Gad13]

The phone has 2 boot loaders.
The first one is the PBL. Some people call it primary. Samsung call it primitive. This is ok on your phone because you are able to see vibrant screen.
Second one is SBL /Second boot loader/. You can flash it using odin. All you need is to add the proper sbl.bin file to the T959UVJFD.tar file. I doubt you need to flash the SBL on your phone. The fact you can use odin to flash the device means your PBL and SBL are ok.

On your first post you mention something about water damage. You may have a real hardware problem.

 

[kew1701]

I'm aware that i could have a real hardware problem,but i wanna go through all to confirm this is 100%.I can see that T959UVJFD has no sbl.bin in odin.Does somebody have maybe this file to share?
Thanks Gad13 for information!

edit:Just opened all pda's i have flashed,noone has no sbl.bin

 

[Gad13]

Keep in mind this is a very dangerous operation. Don't blame me if your phone become worse.
Here is my SBL. It is TMO USA.
Unzip sbl.bin and add it to the tar file. I usually use AllZip and drag and drop.
MD5 file is for you to verify the bin file.

One more time. Do you really want to try this?

 

[kew1701]

Yes,i'm aware i flashed it but now i cannot go in download mode...is there a way of some jtag approach to this unit?

 

[Gad13]

Sorry to hear that.

There is a JTAG thread going on
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=756988

What do you see on the screen?

 

[theXeffect]

Restart ur phone plugs ur usb on as soon as ur computer makes a sound use adb to reboot into ur recovery

Hope this help


Sent from my SGH-T959 using XDA App

 

[kew1701]

Phone does not starts,i mean it does not gives anything on the screen.i'm waiting for jtag approach to phone...