Root Stock TMO [T959UVJFD] Flashing

[Killing Hours]

I take absolutely no credit for this.

After jacking up my vibrant... I needed to flash back to "out of the box" status. After hunting around a bit I came across this and SUCCESSFULLY flashed my phone back.

I'm passing this on for the people who are new to flashing with this particular phone and don't know where to start etc.

[ROM] OFFICIAL T-Mo Vibrant JFD ODIN/Nandroid Backup Images 7/29/10 (Tested/Working) - xda-developers

(US T-Mobile version of the Galaxy S) Firmware that can be flashed through Odin to restore all partitions to the way your phone was shipped to you.

WARNING!!! THIS WILL WIPE ANY DATA ON YOUR DEVICE, IT WILL REPLACE YOUR BASEBAND, KERNEL, RECOVERY AND OS.

JFD ODIN Images from Samsung (PDA)
www.justanotherdev.slackdev.com/T959UVJFD.tar
MD5:632730f6b637f53e5b10e5cbc8b966a7

512 PIT File (PIT Extract first!)
www.justanotherdev.slackdev.com/s1_odin_20100512.rar
MD5:b5628c8e183fdd8f4c703321ca40e33a

ODIN
www.justanotherdev.slackdev.com/Odin3.rar

ALL 3 Files plues the root update.zip
http://tinyurl.com/2bc5b6r
thx to KopyKatKiller

INSTRUCTIONS!

1.Your Device must be in DOWNLOAD mode to use ODIN.

2.Get your phone into Download mode by holding vol down and power.

3.THEN connect your phone to the USB. (some folks have had luck doing it in reverse..connecting the USB then Power and vol down)

4.Open Odin and load each file with it's corresponding field..PIT,PDA,CSC etc. (In this case we just use the PDA and PIT)

5.Don't check anything else, the other two boxes should be checked by default (Auto Reboot and Reset Time)

6.Hit "start"! be patient!

NOTE: COM3 worked fine for me. COM should not matter as long as you are using the correct drivers.

Finally we get some U.S love from samsung firmwares.

For those looking the Nandroid method it is in the post below but only recovers ,system, data, cache and datadata. Not your kernel/recovery or BASEBAND/RADIO (Modem.bin)

Thx to all helping work on the Vibrant. Especially Youneek, Scepterr, MS_Guru, Wes Garner, rhcp0112345, and anyone I may have forgot.

A couple of things I noticed while flashing mine.

First... getting to download mode was giving me crap at first. Then i found this tip on page 21 @ post 206:

are you stuck on the phone and pc screen? if so its not bricked just hold both volume buttons and power let the vibrant screen come on then go back off and on the second time before vibrant pops back up release the power button and still hold the volume buttons and you should be back into download mode where you can redo this

This worked for me.

Also, after getting everything setup right and working.... I noticed that Odin didn't seem to be doing anything... to which I found this reply on page 20 @ post 198:

First, put the phone in download mode.
Second, open Odin, and select the files you need.
Third, plug in the USB cable, and you should see Odin light up telling you that you're connected to some COM port.
Fourth, click start.

Once you get the sequence down its easy. As soon as you click start you'll see progress bars moving and information telling you stuff is going on. If you don't see anything at all after a minute or two, start over from step 1.

This also worked for me. My phone didn't flash until the second time around. I also restarted my pc and made sure to be using the files provided in the first post for good measure. (Odin, the .tar & pit)

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As for the "NAN" backup.... I'm not that advanced yet and don't pretend to know anything about it. Hopefully this will help other people who have messed up get back on track.

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Edit*

Mods, not sure if this is the correct or best section for this... but I figured if the phone is that messed up... it's probably due to actually messing around with the root files etc and deserves to be here in this sub forum.

 

[adm1jtg]

This past post saved me. I had ended up with the phone and pc screen and couldn't get out of it. Had I not found this post I would have had to swap the phone.

GREAT WORK and thank you so much. I now have figured out how to use odin and nandroid backups, how to root the phone and how to remove bloat all from these forums.

You guys are great

 

[Killing Hours]

glad to hear it!! You're the whole reason I re-posted this here and hunted down the tips so they could all be on one post here.

I was sweating bullets a few times during this whole adventure in learningville but all in all it wasn't bad at all once I had somewhere to start. I had removed gtalk from the phone not knowing it was tied to the market was my reason for going through this, but it's great knowledge to know because I will def. be messing around with this pup. ;-)

 

[BossDj]

i could use some help, i'm at the point i'm ready to flash a stock rom via ODIN, i have download mode, all my files, and what i thought were the right drivers installed, however, my pc won't recognize my phone in dl mode, and therefore odin sees nothing. my pc sees the phone, but doesn't have the right drivers apparently to start it. any tips on the right drivers to load would be greatly appreciated.

 

[djquick]

i could use some help, i'm at the point i'm ready to flash a stock rom via ODIN, i have download mode, all my files, and what i thought were the right drivers installed, however, my pc won't recognize my phone in dl mode, and therefore odin sees nothing. my pc sees the phone, but doesn't have the right drivers apparently to start it. any tips on the right drivers to load would be greatly appreciated.

Let me Google that for you:

[Drivers] MS Windows x86 and x64 USB Drivers for Samsung Galaxy S - xda-developers

 

[BossDj]

yeah thanks quick, i saw your post in another thread, in fact had a laugh over the "let me google that for you" link and bookmarked it, like it. problem is, those are the exact drivers i have downloaded....

and have uninstalled, removed all traces of, rebooted, reinstalled, rebooted again just to be safe, and still windows will not start my device in dl mode. feeling stuck

 

[BossDj]

crisis averted, pending....

so i found a thread late last night on xda where a few were posting that the drivers djquick so lovingly posted for me (while pointing and laughing no doubt) (joking quick, i'd be doing the same thing) have a known problem with starting the device in dl mode on a Win7 system. Exactly my environment.

So this morning at work, on my XP box, loaded the drivers, booted to dl mode, and there she is, ODIN seeing her on Com3, and stock flash is running.

(crosses fingers)

 

[BossDj]

fingers uncrossed, crisis averted, my thanks to all that gave up their hard earned helpful info on all these threads

 

[djquick]

Glad to be of assistance

 

[Android Amateur]

This thread helped me get back to Stock. I rooted my phone and got trigger happy and deleted pretty much ALL the bloatware off my phone. I later found that was a big mistake when I installed a lag fix from a guy on YouTube. I got the stock firmware flashed back to my Vibrant and it's back to normal now! THANK GOD! I would have NEVER heard the end of it from my wife.

THANK YOU!

 

[djquick]

I would have NEVER heard the end of it from my wife.

THANK YOU!

LMAO, I know the feeling

 

[aeok18109]

Will this bring back avatar. I deleted it by accident.

 

[w_bovine]

Will this bring back avatar. I deleted it by accident.

Avatar is stored on the external SD card. If you accidentally deleted it, I'm afraid you're out of luck. As for me, I deleted on purpose.

 

[aeok18109]

Thank you for clearing that up.

 

[pacothebandit]

soooi have followed all the steps when i hit start. it said any <ID:0/006> File analysis..

and then nothing happens.


Uh oh...is it because im on a Win 7 computer?

 

[pacothebandit]

UGH still not working for me. is there anyone that can help me out??

 

[BossDj]

I couldn't flash on a win7 machine, worked like a charm on xp.

 

[pacothebandit]

I couldn't flash on a win7 machine, worked like a charm on xp.

My XP so far can not find the drivers, do i have to download them?

 

[SamsungVibrant]

Avatar is stored on the external SD card. If you accidentally deleted it, I'm afraid you're out of luck. As for me, I deleted on purpose.

But you also probably backed up a copy, right?

 

[pacothebandit]

I couldn't flash on a win7 machine, worked like a charm on xp.

Ok so now the drivers are installed on my XP machine. When i use ODIN is shows Com 14 and Com 3 I load my files proper and again...nothing is happening

 

[djquick]

I flashed my Behold II's and my Vibrants on Windows 7 ultimate without a hitch.

 

[pacothebandit]

I flashed my Behold II's and my Vibrants on Windows 7 ultimate without a hitch.

Well now im really screwed. In my frustration i was holding the volume buttons and power and now i see a Phone ! computer icon. and I cannot get out of it.....someone tell me what to do cause i am out of options.

 

[pacothebandit]

hehe warranty exchange on the way...

 

[bcook75]

I have finally crawled my way to the point that ODIN appears to recognize my Vibrant, on COM4. After I select the PIT and TAR and click Start, it pretty quickly gets to the "<ID:0/004> File Analysis..." step, but I don't see any progress bars or other indications that anything is actually going on. This is my 3rd or 4th attempt to install the stock flash. How long should I expect the File Analysis step to take before some other activity becomes apparent? I have waited up to about 10 minutes so far before closing ODIN and starting over.

 

[umiar]

<ID:0/013> Added!!
<ID:0/013> Odin v.3 engine (ID:13)..
<ID:0/013> File analysis..
<ID:0/013> Get PIT for mapping..
<ID:0/013> Firmware update start..
<ID:0/013> cache.rfs
It freeze here befeore 30 min. what should i do now?