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Samsung Galaxy S I9000 - Ics 4.0.3 - Stopped Booting

Started by bombarie, Aug 09 2012 05:15 PM

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#1 bombarie

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Posted 09 August 2012 - 05:15 PM

Hi,

I installed a Cyanogenmod ICS 4.0.3. build 17 firmware on my Samsung Galaxy S I9000 almost 5 months ago from this tutorial: http://bit.ly/S4RIQE. That's been a fantastic experience from the start and I'm not sure if my current problem is even related to that firmware update.

I have to admit that lately the phone has been rebooting every couple of days, or Android's been freezing and I had to remove the battery. It wasn't too bad of a problem really, but this morning all of a sudden the device has become totally unusable. Help! :-/

The issue that's started since today is that my phone won't boot anymore. It seems to reboot somewhere during the boot process. There's only two screens that will be shown, before it reboots. When I remove the battery, put it back in and attach the charger, I will only see two charging screens. While charging, the device will also reboot after a while.

I can get into download-mode (volume-down + ok-button + power-key) but can't get into recovery mode (volume-up + ok-button + power-key).

Any ideas would be appreciated, thanks!

Greetings,
Adriaan

Here's some pictures of the screens:


booting: screen 1 -> screen 2
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charging: screen 1 -> screen 2
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#2 popfan

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Posted 10 August 2012 - 12:36 PM

If you can get to download mode then you can use odin to flash a baseline rom, then recover all the way back.  It is just a soft brick

#3 bombarie

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Posted 11 August 2012 - 10:05 PM

*phew* well indeed I was able to get it all up and running again. I flashed a baseline rom as you said and found my way back to ICS. One surprise along the way was that from the same tutorial I had followed (and had happy results from) a few months ago, the step of using Odin to root the device wasn't working, it kept getting stuck at 'zImage' during the process! That was a XXJVU firmware. After some snooping around I found this page on XDA-Developers which gave me a more confident feeling going towards a XXJW4 firmware. Did that. It worked. And now I'm back to ICS again, yay! Thanks for the help popfan.

View Postpopfan, on 10 August 2012 - 12:36 PM, said:

If you can get to download mode then you can use odin to flash a baseline rom, then recover all the way back.  It is just a soft brick

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