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Iknow This has been stated else where
but bc of the weirdness this phone encounters when flashing
rom after rom after rom
i am going to post this in one easy file .. This Is for Stubborn Phones
I AM NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR NOT FOLLOWING DIRECTIONS OR THE CABLE COMING UNPLUGGED OR THE BATTERY DYING>> OR IF YOUR PHONE BREAKS..THIS WORKED FOR ME AND RESOLVED MANY FC ISSUES
Odin With 3e and clockwork recoveries
http://www.mediafire.com/?vmidzhiaijdyydw
http://dev-host.org/Xit
First Backup everything in nandroid
Now format Both sd cards under mounts and storage
(either in clock work or under settings in android OS
except save these folders
dcim
download
tapatalk
media
and any other folder you care about
When This is complete
extract the odin.zip
and in the folder i included two recoveries.. (i just found and compiled i am not responsible )
1. so open up odin as an administrator
2. put your phone into download mode
3. open the pda slot in odin and select stock recovery.tar
4.make sure your phone shows in the com slot ..start the flash
5.when done. launch your phone into recovery mode
(unplug cable and hold power and all three buttons..
when you see samsung screen continue to hold both volumes and release power)
6.When in 3 e recovery do a factory data reset (home button is enter)
7. now close and reopen odin
8.pull the battery on your phone and put it back into download mode
9.in the pda slot this time select clockwork recovery.tar
10.make sure your phone is in the com slot and hit flash
11. now reboot into clockwork also doing a factory data reset
12.clearing cache partition
13.go to advanced and clear dalvik cache
14. lastly go under mounts and storage and format system
15. now install any rom of choice .. your phone should be clean
res.....10char
Great thanx sir!!
I vote this be pinned. Very useful info!
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I still for the life of me can not figure out why people are having to do this. As habbit I do steps 11-15 every time I flash a rom and have no issues at all.
I do thank you guys for putting it out there ...definitely helps those that do run into the issue
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something definitely is weird with the clock work
i beleive even though its the same almost everything
some miscommunication happens with the skyrocket
it wont fix permissions right
and you run into issues where dalvik cache wont clear
or simply put it wont fully clear a partition thats been flash over and over and overand has become corrupt
never had clockwork act like this
i just ran it on my atrix and it took seriously 2 minutes when i chose fix permissions
and on our sky rocket. no matter what ,, its always instant
Vote to pinned this post! amazing post very helpful.
pinnd agreed
just did it worked flawless
I agree this should be pinned.
I just followed these instructions after having a ton of weird FC's (google services framework, market, etc) even though I hadn't made any changes to a stable setup.
Now everything's running smoothly and haven't seen an FC.
Does the odin have bootloaders?
Will this method trigger flash counter?
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voldomart13 said:
Does the odin have bootloaders?
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No its not one click
And all your doing is flashing recovery not even touching system or boot
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will not trigger flash counter
Just recovery
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seanzscreams said:
something definitely is weird with the clock work
i beleive even though its the same almost everything
some miscommunication happens with the skyrocket
it wont fix permissions right
and you run into issues where dalvik cache wont clear
or simply put it wont fully clear a partition thats been flash over and over and overand has become corrupt
never had clockwork act like this
i just ran it on my atrix and it took seriously 2 minutes when i chose fix permissions
and on our sky rocket. no matter what ,, its always instant
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I have noticed that if you are running a t-mobile rom the fix permissions takes signifigantly longer...just an fyi
Awesome instructions and helped me in fixing some weird issues I had with my phone.
BTW, if you using OSX or Linux (as I do), you can do this with windows running inside vmware if you use the SGS Drivers from Softpedia.
I used this one 1.4.8 sgs drivers
So it's necessary to format the external sd too? Our would just internal be sufficient?
I did this last night, just the internal SD card. Took my 16GB microsd out when I did it. The ROM runs nearly perfect now
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im having problems formatting...
keeps saying
"error mounting sd card"
"skipping format"
i try to mount it and it tells me "error mounting sdcard"
what do i do
Format on a computer. Or skip it and wait till your in android then format
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you can format while you are using the phone?
and what do u mean wait until im in android?
also i only have the choice to format "/sdcard" no choice between internal or external
I've had the opportunity to play with CWM on a Hercules phone the last couple days and it reminds me how much I like being able to fix permissions and navigate the internal SD card, etc. Things you can't do with CWM for Skyrocket.
Anyone know if this is being worked on at all?
We have a fully functional CWM...
Tapped through cyberspace through the use of a mobile device connected to hexagonal cells
Our fix permissions doesn't work at all, lol. And I didn't even know CWM can navigate through the internal SD... As far as I know, no... We have CWM, yes, but not all of its functions work properly.
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You can navigate thru internal sd if you choose install zip from internal, or is that not what you mean?
Are you sure fix permissions doesn't work?
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We use the T-Mobile CWM. And it cannot format internal SD card or properly fix permissions. Probably a few other things I can't think of right now.
CZ Eddie said:
We use the T-Mobile CWM. And it cannot format internal SD card or properly fix permissions. Probably a few other things I can't think of right now.
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For some (I guess depending on the ROM) it does fix permissions, for others it doesn't. ROM manager is the same way. For me, ROM manager errored out on the stock (rooted) ROM when trying to fix permissions, but CWM did it fine.
CWM says it's fixing permissions but it doesn't. It's something that should take a few minutes to do. Not a few seconds.
CZ Eddie said:
CWM says it's fixing permissions but it doesn't. It's something that should take a few minutes to do. Not a few seconds.
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When I was on the stock ROM, it did take a while, not just a few seconds. Things don't always work the same way for everyone with this phone. Your experience may not have been the same as mine.
I'm assuming Fix Permissions is working
it takes about 5 minutes and there's a whole lot of scrolling text going on. Something is happening...
I've never had that problem with multiple roms, including TPC, Sky ics and others. Sounds like u only have a partial flash, try reflashing completely though odin
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it takes about 5 minutes and there's a whole lot of scrolling text going on. Something is happening...
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Sounds like it's definitely working for you.
But it doesn't work for a lot of people.
I've flashed multiple CWM's including the Odin version. It's never worked on me, but I never paid attention to which one I've tried it on.
Then there is still the issue with it not working properly with internal SD card.
you may want to check for update on cwm.
fix permission did not work b4 but does now.
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I've already posted a thread on this awhile ago, with no luck to finding a solution! Randomly my apps get uninstalled without me doing so. I don't relize its even fond till I to use the app and its not there. Has anyone ever heard of this happening and how to fix it. Or a setting that could be causing this issue. Been happening for awhile now.
Any help would be appreciated and thanked
I have never heard of this happening before.
Question, is it just recent apps you may have installed? Do apps you install go missing after a reboot?
Have you done anything... "interesting" to your phone? (rooting and recovery are interesting, just in case you need a metric)
The only times I have seen something like this is when apps automatically get installed on sd card. after a reboot, they weren't moved correctly so they "magically disappear". Check if they are on sd, card
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You can also try going to recovery and fix permissions and then reboot
I've never heard of such an issue of applications automatically uninstalling themselves. So, you download an app from the Play Store, then reboot, and its gone? You should try a factory reset / returning back to stock, thats what I'd do.
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By any chance are you using link2sd?
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I've had this happen to me too. I couldn't find the app icon and when I tried to reinstall it asked me if I would like to replace existing application. As someone said before it can be an app2sd issue.
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I personally have never had that happen with my Blaze. Every app I've ever loaded on there stays.
I know this might be somewhat of a longshot but if you're saving your apps to your microSD card you might want to either check out the card to see if its corrupted. That might be the problem.
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This has happened to me, too. Just yesterday I noticed my facebook app was nowhere to be found.
I am using the latest dknight rom with Go Launcher. Other than the Go Launcher, I have not tweaked anything else, nor have I moved any apps to the SD card.
trevor7428 said:
I've already posted a thread on this awhile ago, with no luck to finding a solution! Randomly my apps get uninstalled without me doing so. I don't relize its even fond till I to use the app and its not there. Has anyone ever heard of this happening and how to fix it. Or a setting that could be causing this issue. Been happening for awhile now.
Any help would be appreciated and thanked
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This issue is mainly happening on app on SD or flash memory...a restart just bring back all apps to live
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I know that problem, too. But this's happened in the past. What've I do ?
Odin stock ROM, reboot. Odin Recovery, reboot.
After that, unmount USB Storage in Setting. Try to format USB storage ( do it 3 times ) and mount again
Power off. Go to recovery, do exactly everythings in erikmm's thread. Reboot and the issue are solved
If this problem happen again because App install in SD Card. Try to unmount SDcard and factory reset
You guys have "strange" Galaxy S Blaze 4G.
BIBUBO BCJ said:
I know that problem, too. But this's happened in the past. What've I do ?
Odin stock ROM, reboot. Odin Recovery, reboot.
After that, unmount USB Storage in Setting. Try to format USB storage ( do it 3 times ) and mount again
Power off. Go to recovery, do exactly everythings in erikmm's thread. Reboot and the issue are solved
If this problem happen again because App install in SD Card. Try to unmount SDcard and factory reset
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Hi. May i ask you if your problem soumds like mine? Where ur apps are? in the phone memory or on sd? I install some application via the play store and after a while, an hour sometimes even a day those app will disappear by themselves , and i'm not talking about the icon but the full app, and in the meantime a warning came out from the navigation bar saying "the app xxx has been removed" because if your problem looks like mine the solution may be the same. Note that one of mine apps has been saved on the sd. In case your problem looks like mine can u please tell me the step you've made in the most easy way. I have to translate ur information in italian language and i want to be sure to understand the whole procedure.
Thx. P.s. which is the erikmm tread u r referring to? May u please copy and paste it for me?
Alright so for some reason my internal card loads, but apps like my music player and photo gallery don't see files. But when I go into my file manager, everything shows. I'm running on CM9 nightlies 8/08 to be exact. I deleted the apps that I updated today and manually cleared out the caches, and the problem still persists. I don't get why everything shows on the file manager. I JUST WANT MY MUSIC PLEASE HELP ME
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I should also note that I can play my music from the file manager. Just nothing shows up in stock player or music player pro
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Same here, exact problem. Just started today, I got it back but out of nowhere, poof, gone again.
I wonder if it has anything to do with them shutting off Flash support today?
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I'm gonna flash some cm10 roms since I haven't yet..Might as well use this as an excuse. I'll let you know if it persists over.
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And it persists over to cm10. Something had to happen today for this to happen to both of us on the same day.
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I took a picture and added some music files from my tablet, and they all show up. But nothing that has been on there will show up. THIS IS SO WEIRD.
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It will be there until you restart then it will be gone again. This is not good. back up your files to your computer asap. I'm guessing our internal cards are about to give up.
Yeah I backed up my pictures already.
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There has to be a bad file somewhere on the SD card. It keeps restarted the scan in Storage as I'm watching it every time it hits Misc.
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I formatted my internal (by mistake) and its showing pictures I just transferred from my external to internal.
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so you see the text "scanning media card" or something like that when you first boot? All I see now is "Preparing Media Card". My stuff is back now after clearing data in "media storage" in the app manager and then running the Rescan Media ROOT.apk but I'm sure it will vanish again like last time.
Just try formatting internal if it happens again. It sucked moving all my music back over but nothing has disappeared
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I just read on Rootz that it was a ROM Manager mess up and it's been corrected...
"ROM Manager had an update that messed up a .nomedia file which has now been updated again to fix that. Perhaps that is the cause of your gallery issues?"
"Thanks! That was it. I actually had to remove updates to that app, and reinstall the latest to fix it. Great call."
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=30320286&postcount=2
This fixed it for me. I manually deleted the .nomedia file with a root explorer program, make sure hidden files are viewable if you do this.
Additionally, I had to clear data in Media Storage under settings -> application -> All
Reboot to Recovery and wipe cache partition then reboot phone and everything should be back.
Make sure you update to the latest version of Rom Manager prior to all this.
I'm running SkyICS by Seanzscreams and just ran into the nomedia problem today, so its not an isolated issue CM10
I have a SCH-R530U US Cellular GS3 running on JB 4.2.2 with AOKP's mr1 build 5.
Kernel: 3.0.67-aokp-00038-g5a02406
I'm bored of this ROM and want to try Liquid Smooth for the features and hopeful battery life extension. I have been trying to get my phone back to stock EVERYTHING every couple weeks for the last few months now, and have not found any stock rom/kernel files that do anything other then brick my device into a hard boot loop. I have a NANDROID backup, so all is not lost, but I'm just so sick of not being able to find ONE file that will give me stock kernel and stock ROM so I can try a new ROM with new features and speed. I would flash LS over the AOKP build, I just haven't found any info on whether or not the ROM is compatible with my kernel, or if that's even an factor and Iv freaked out too many times over thinking my phone was F$*!ed to be that ballsy in trying something without having exact instructions or some sort of literature/video. So Id rather be safe then sorry and start completely fresh.
Also to get rid of all the non-sense i have on my phone from flashing tons of files to get rid of AOKP, and not knowing how to delete them.
The other issue. My SD card isn't recognized by anything. I cant move apps to my SD card with any app out there, the file is emulated and what i think happened was somehow, I ended up with two SD card files, and they have mixed files in them. So being as newb as I am, idk what files i need to keep in order for proper functioning of my phone and which I can delete, so i can move apps to the SD card and pictures and all that stuff to free up space on my phone. Im more then willing to delete everything on the card, but that wont fix my unorganized internal file clusterf$!*#.
Iv seriously being looking for months, downloaded ADB toolkit to try and get stock back that way, but just another boot loop.
TL;DR
1. Need stock ROM/kernel files for my version that will actually work and not bootloop me.
2. Can any ROM be flashed over any kernel, or are there restrictions with specific ones?
3. How can I fix my SD card problem (not recognizable by any App2SD app; literally none -says my SD card is emulated), with messed up internal files?
PLEASE HELP!!!!
Through your recovery do a full wipe (system, data, cache, dalvik) Sounds like you want to wipe your internsl sd too? Depending on where you keep your info you can wipe your internal SD but it's not necessary.
When you flash a ROM it will come with it's own kernel so you don't have to worry if a ROM is compatible with your kernel. Just make sure you flash a ROM that is compatible with US Cellular.
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Thank you for your reply, honestly.
I vaguely remember doing a full wipe (system, cache, delvik, and data) and it not fixing the issue. But, I will try again. I'm more concerned about my SD card issue and all the messed up files. Will wiping all this fix that? Using ES explorer, I have about six /0 files... Idk if you know much about that, but from what I've learned, within that ONE /0 file, there should be storage for my SD card (data/media) and of course, there's nothing there. So, do you think or do you know that doing a full system wipe will remedy the problems? No tone intended, not trying to be a jerk, simple curious for the future.
Just format the SD card. Wipe everything off if your comfortable with losing the info. You can save important stuff top your CPU if necessary.
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Won't formatting the SD card just erase everything anyway? This would fix my "corrupt" file issue though, correct? The multiple files and unoraginzation?
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Yes formatting it will completely wipe it.
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And that's something I can do through my recovery, yes?
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I'm using TWRP and it can be done though recovery.. wipe > advanced > check sd card
Just backup anything you want to save
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Will responded with results later tonight. This stuff always scares me... Gatta risk it for the biscuit though.
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