Non-booting Vibrant SGH-T959 with working download mode - how to recover?
Hi All, this is my first post here. I'm fairly new at this, having only recently flashed my Nexus 4 with CyanogenMod.
My brother gave me his old vibrant to setup for our mom, and it was working ok with the stock Android 2.1. I started to transfer some data out of it (old pictures, etc) and the thing crashed and got stuck on a bootloop. This is before I ever attempted anything flashing related.
I tried various procedures that I found here and elsewhere to flash the phone, using both Heimdall and Odin and ran into various issues with each. One of the problems that I had is that a lot of the downloads linked from articles (like ROMs and other files) are gone since it's been a few years since they were posted. I scrounged pretty hard for a few days and was able to get bits and pieces here and there, but no success yet. These were not the only issues either. I had problems with both Heimdall and Odin doing the actual flashing. Various errors with handshaking and flashing in both, from what I recall (this was actually a couple of weeks ago).
In fact, I ended up making things even a little worse. The phone used to show the large battery gauge screen when it was plugged in and powered off, but now I got it to where it just shows the phone---!---PC screen. However, I can still get it to download mode so I'm thinking that not all hope is lost!
Anyway, to make a long story short I hope that someone here could perhaps point me to a reliable article that would help me go from the current state to a working phone, or provide any other pointers or files that may help me resolve this.
Thank you in advance, I appreciate any help you can provide. I would just hate to throw this phone away if there's any way it can be saved. It just feels wasteful, regardless of it being old and cheap.
My brother gave me his old vibrant to setup for our mom, and it was working ok with the stock Android 2.1. I started to transfer some data out of it (old pictures, etc) and the thing crashed and got stuck on a bootloop. This is before I ever attempted anything flashing related.
I tried various procedures that I found here and elsewhere to flash the phone, using both Heimdall and Odin and ran into various issues with each. One of the problems that I had is that a lot of the downloads linked from articles (like ROMs and other files) are gone since it's been a few years since they were posted. I scrounged pretty hard for a few days and was able to get bits and pieces here and there, but no success yet. These were not the only issues either. I had problems with both Heimdall and Odin doing the actual flashing. Various errors with handshaking and flashing in both, from what I recall (this was actually a couple of weeks ago).
In fact, I ended up making things even a little worse. The phone used to show the large battery gauge screen when it was plugged in and powered off, but now I got it to where it just shows the phone---!---PC screen. However, I can still get it to download mode so I'm thinking that not all hope is lost!
Anyway, to make a long story short I hope that someone here could perhaps point me to a reliable article that would help me go from the current state to a working phone, or provide any other pointers or files that may help me resolve this.
Thank you in advance, I appreciate any help you can provide. I would just hate to throw this phone away if there's any way it can be saved. It just feels wasteful, regardless of it being old and cheap.
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posted by kjnb @ September 14, 2016
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