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[REQUEST] Guide on how to downgrade to lower firmware versions via Gold Card

Here's the thing: I have read the thread on how to downgrade ChaCha to a lower firmware version ( http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1320392 ) but that guide seems to be outdated or just not clear enough for my newbie brain to understand.
- I already have a Gold Card. I created one via following other sources and it's a Kingston 4 GB microSD HC that I used to make it. Samsung's 2 GB micro SD HC wouldn't do it for me.
I have a problem with my ChaCha. For some reason, BusyBox seemed to have screwed up with the kernels or even the drivers of my ChaCha or some part of the system because even no matter how many times I reset to factory settings, I come up with a ChaCha that cannot obtain IP address from WiFi, cannot download or install apps from Android Market, and the anomaly during the beginning before I even resetted to factory settings is that Google Services Framework kept force closing, Search button wouldn't respond, Link2SD wouldn't recognize my secondary partition at my microSD HC, and Market was missing. So damn.
I have no Nandroid backup of a previously working state. My device is an HTC ChaCha Asia WWE version, bootloader unlocked with version 1.10.0000, CWM is flashed and working and is also rooted. S-ON.
I managed to get hold of Alex C.'s Nandroid backup of his ChaCha back in December, version 1.52 or 1.54? Anyway... Mine previously was 1.57.707.02. I am sure it is not a hardware issue because when I use Alex's Nandroid backup, I am able to use the WiFi but lose shell root for some reason.
So please... A clear guide on how to use the gold card to flash previous ROM versions please because RUUs just won't work for me and I am S-ON. Otherwise, I see no other way but to buy the XTC Clip, wait for a few months, and then use it to flash the original Asia WWE 1.57 RUU.
Anybody please?

Update: So I managed to obtain shell root via SuperOneClick 2.3.3. Downloaded it from shortfuse.org
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Mkay, so.. For the RUU, you need to simply run it then tick the 'I understand the caution indicated above...' box, and click next.
At this point do not go any further.
Navigate to C:\Users\<yourUserName>\AppData\Local\Temp
C:\Users is for Windows 7
C:\Documents and Settings\ should be for Windows XP.
You should see one or two folders like this:
{719CE201-7B12-4A13-9AF6-8F359FE69C7B}
Go into the one with dotnetinstaller.exe in it.
Open up the next folder.
Copy rom.zip into another folder (outside of temp).
At this point just Cancel and quit out of the ROM Update Utility.
You can put this rom.zip on the SD card and flash it from CWM.

Alex C. said:
Mkay, so.. For the RUU, you need to simply run it then tick the 'I understand the caution indicated above...' box, and click next.
At this point do not go any further.
Navigate to C:\Users\<yourUserName>\AppData\Local\Temp
C:\Users is for Windows 7
C:\Documents and Settings\ should be for Windows XP.
You should see one or two folders like this:
{719CE201-7B12-4A13-9AF6-8F359FE69C7B}
Go into the one with dotnetinstaller.exe in it.
Open up the next folder.
Copy rom.zip into another folder (outside of temp).
At this point just Cancel and quit out of the ROM Update Utility.
You can put this rom.zip on the SD card and flash it from CWM.
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Thanks. Did this before and CWM said it could not open the package. I'm going to try this with my Gold Card and hope to God it works. Right now, I'm doing fairly well with the Nandroid backup you made and uploaded back on December. So my software is 1.54. Apps are working correctly and Android Market has been upgraded to Google Play. Link2SD is working as well and SuperOneClick rooted the whole thing for me.
I'm going to make Nandroid backup and try installing rom.zip via my Gold Card.
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Update:
Tried but got this.
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htc one s back deleted system folder

hi all, i'm sorry for to be so noob, but i haven't no friends to ask and i can't find nothing like my problem on this forum, maybe i don't search well.
i'm so noob that i've rooted my htc one s successfully but after i've have installed one app called "LCD density" thats broke my startup file; i wasn't happy more and i've formatted my system folder with clockrecovery.
Now i've a phone that make a beatyfull ligth white and nothing all.
i've downloaded this file ir2-1.78.401.2-DUO-ville.zip(it is right?) and i'd rather to flash it into my phone but i' don't know how with adb or fastboot for the fact that i've no acces to my sdcard.
Thanks to all people who reply me and sorry for my bad english.

Can you get to the clockworkmod and is your device s-off? Put the rom you want to flash in your sd card with a reader or an old smart phone,boot up to the cwm,wipe data-cache and dalvik cache from advanced. Then choose the .zip and flash it.
Cheers
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emre.yv said:
Can you get to the clockworkmod and is your device s-off? Put the rom you want to flash in your sd card with a reader or an old smart phone,boot up to the cwm,wipe data-cache and dalvik cache from advanced. Then choose the .zip and flash it.
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Not sure if serious or trolling ...
The One series doesn't have SD-Card support, which is one of the main reasons I excluded them from my wish-list of next phone.

caustick said:
hi all, i'm sorry for to be so noob, but i haven't no friends to ask and i can't find nothing like my problem on this forum, maybe i don't search well.
i'm so noob that i've rooted my htc one s successfully but after i've have installed one app called "LCD density" thats broke my startup file; i wasn't happy more and i've formatted my system folder with clockrecovery.
Now i've a phone that make a beatyfull ligth white and nothing all.
i've downloaded this file ir2-1.78.401.2-DUO-ville.zip(it is right?) and i'd rather to flash it into my phone but i' don't know how with adb or fastboot for the fact that i've no acces to my sdcard.
Thanks to all people who reply me and sorry for my bad english.
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It's not very clear if you really deleted /system folder..."LCD Density" just changed build.prop file
If so ..?! do you have a backup on internal sd-card have you ever used Recovery Mode to make a backup on internal sd-card ? then easy to restore
if I know dpi is set in /system/build.prop
Code:
ro.sf.lcd_density=256
I think this is true for your phone but the easy way to solve your problem is to perform a factory reset. This will wipe your data on the phone and reset the phone to factory settings
Turn off your phone
Press Volume Down and Power buttons
Release all buttons when the screen of Android appears
Select Wipe data / Factory reset or Clear dataUse Volume Up and Volume Down to go up and down. Use Power or Home button to selectAfter that select Fastboot and Reboot​​​
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Dont you guys have a thread? Post this there
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joefrog1996 said:
Dont you guys have a thread? Post this there
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when you search for a particular thread/ phone Google is your friend
i.e. use Google with this search string and see the first link:
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site:xda-developers.com HTC One S

[Fix] EMMC brick bug issue on P6200/P6210 16gb? Give this a go!!!

For those who have been living under a rock, problematic leaked builds of ICS were released for several different Samsung devices a few months ago. Users of those Devices for instance soon discovered that their devices were being ffected by what came to be known as the MMC_CAP_ERASE bug. Shortly after this*occurred, XDA Senior Member hg42 came up with a way to revive downed devices.
Now thanks to some more ingeniuty on his part, hg42 has also developed a companion application known as Partition Scanner to assist in this process.*The application features:
emmc_scan_all_partitions_once.zip
emmc_scan_all_partitions_infinitely.zip
these allow fast scanning of all blocks of all emmc partitions in 1MiB steps.
The main purpose is to access each emmc block to find any bricked block in the partitions after repartitioning.
The “infinitely” variant runs checks infinitely, which may help to find emmc brick effects which only occur sporadically (if such effect really exists). Run this as long as you want. Reboot to finish.
If this freezes the last partition shown may have a bricked block inside.
emmc_find_brick_start.zip
emmc_find_brick_end.zip
these scan the whole emmc device.
emmc_find_brick_start starts scanning from the beginning of the device upward.
emmc_find_brick_end searches the end of the device and then scans downward.
If this runs up to the end or down to zero (showing a message with “completed –> OK”), no bricked block was found.
If it freezes, the block shown last with “…” at end of line is the first bricked block in that direction.
The line before with “-> ok” is the first usable block before/after the brick.
The application has received excellent reviews, so if you’re one of those people currently facing an EMMC issue, or you had the issue previously and gave up on your device, head on over to the companion thread and give this a go.
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Original xda news: http://www.xda-developers.com/android/partition-scanner-helps-your-emmc-bricked-devices/
Original thread by hg42: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1667886
He even provides PITs for our devices, so get a bit into Linux, and fix it by yourself, You can't make it worse I guess..
Anything more to say? Hang onto it, unbrick it and kick Samsungs ass once again!!
Greetings from Australia!
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Bad2hold said:
Original xda news: http://www.xda-developers.com/android/partition-scanner-helps-your-emmc-bricked-devices/
Original thread by hg42: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1667886
He even provides PITs for our devices, so get a bit into Linux, and fix it by yourself, You can't make it worse I guess..
Anything more to say? Hang onto it, unbrick it and kick Samsungs ass once again!!
Greetings from Australia!
Sent from my GT-P6200 using xda app-developers app
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@Bad2hold - have you tried this yourself as I am desperate for help in unbricking my device that Samsung refuse to repair as it is the P-6200L (non-UK model).
I can't use ADB as my pc won't recognise the Tab, have tried flashing the .pit file and firmware but no joy, can't use the partition scanner as I can't get it to scan the internal memory (it scans the external SD card instead).
I can install CWM recovery and also get to stock recovery but the Tab will not go past the white Galaxy Tab logo.
Any help is highly appreciated

There is good chance you can recover. try multiple factory resets. flash earlirst odin package, preferrably with a boot.bin, after flash, and stuck on logo, boot to recovery and factory reset. try wiping a few more times if it is still stuck. i usually have to do this when going back to stock. one time i had to wipe from custom recovery, and a combonation of other things..
If you have recovery, youre lucky.
If you give up, you can for JTAG, normally for hard bricks. mobiltechvideos.com saved me from hardbrick.
Id play around a bit before I send to JTAG.
best of luck..

chrisrotolo said:
There is good chance you can recover. try multiple factory resets. flash earlirst odin package, preferrably with a boot.bin, after flash, and stuck on logo, boot to recovery and factory reset. try wiping a few more times if it is still stuck. i usually have to do this when going back to stock. one time i had to wipe from custom recovery, and a combonation of other things..
If you have recovery, youre lucky.
If you give up, you can for JTAG, normally for hard bricks. mobiltechvideos.com saved me from hardbrick.
Id play around a bit before I send to JTAG.
best of luck..
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Thanks for the advice mate.
Am going to flash it with the honeycomb firmware it came with from Sammobile and try a few factory resets to see if that works.
If not have found a place in the UK that will JTAG it for £38 if all else fails...:good:
UPDATE: Honeycomb doesn't let me access recovery so no way to wipe from there. Recovery is available on an ICS rom but am reluctant wipe in stock recovery as that's how I go in this mess to begin with :crying:

I currently cant help, as iam travelling without a pc... but this guy who developed this scanner, has pit files available for our device. So there is a good chance to get help from him. And iam sure, with some hours off every week, where u get bored, u can actually fix it by yourself as u already figured out that much... i would love to help, its a challange you know? maybe iam gonna buy a laptop... =p
Update: just curious, is it scanning without a external sd inserted? Because internal and sd are swapped in cwm recovery since 3 versions too...
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@Bad2hold - Thanks for the reply, have tried flashing the .pit file but no joy.
Can't get the scanner to scan internal card as it's loaded on my external sd and can't push it to the internal which then means I can't remove the external sd.
Have tried flashing various honeycomb and ICS firmwares with a combination of .pit files, the process flashed fine without errors but still no boot past the white Samsung writing
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Just one question:
do I use it if my device got bricked (fortunately it s not the case), or do I use it to remove the brick bug risk from my device?
Thanks for your answer...

unclefab said:
Just one question:
do I use it if my device got bricked (fortunately it s not the case), or do I use it to remove the brick bug risk from my device?
Thanks for your answer...
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I think we cannot remove the brickbug on stock ICS...that pit file just for solving hardbrick issue...
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U can actually remove the brick bug issue, this is, what this post is about.
Basically, you just have to find the bad blocks in your sd partition.
After you found them, all is left, is to repartition your sd around the bricked blocks, which you have to delete from your partition.
He mentions several methods to use adb and other tools, helping to do this.
And i really recommend reading a bit through his first post, found the same problem after a minute:
I also had the following problem:
I couldn't format my internal sdcard with the cm9 recovery. I think it's too big for the mkfs.vfat tool of current cm9. So I installed another recovery, formatted the internal sd (I thought).
This erased all my current backups and downloads, because in reality it was my external sd. Fortunately I had a backup of the external sdcard from before rescuing my phone.
So, you may want to create a backup of your external sdcard first.
Then double check which is your internal sdcard (the UMS partition) and which is your external sdcard.
Or you could remove the external sd completely. But think about when to remove it, because you might need it for some files (e.g. to use the emmc partition scanner).
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Of course, if u r not familiar with linux, u probably wont fix it in an hour.
But you can learn a lot within an hour. First of all, figure out how to connect your device to adb. (Which is still possible, if you didnt smash your tab against the wall or so...) After that, it should be lot easier to follow his instructions.(not just because u have adb working, but because you know what he is actually talking about.)
And he is really willing to help, so figure out as much as possible after connected to adb and just ask in his post if you get stuck.
Dont forget: if its not a issue by malfunctioning/broken hardware, then you actually can fix everything with your pc, you just need to know how.. so dont give up!!!
here his post again: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1667886
And @kersey: what pit file did u flash? The pits he provides are to repartition your SD AFTER you located the bricked blocks. But you cant know, if you cant get his scanner running..? You have to format data partition in recovery after flashing one of those, because of missing file system.
Note: Never flash a stock ICS after you fixed it. It will brick your device again. But u r safe with cm9 and others.
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Good news all, after much trial and error and more flashing than your average pervert I have revived my tablet from the dead with a big thank you to hg42 for his scanner and extra advice.
Thanks to all those who helped in this post too :good:

Dude, if you dont mind, what exactly have you done to revive your tab?
Not exactly, just a quick guide to avoid the most common mistakes.
Thanx!
Sent from my GT-P6200 using xda app-developers app

Bad2hold said:
Dude, if you dont mind, what exactly have you done to revive your tab?
Not exactly, just a quick guide to avoid the most common mistakes.
Thanx!
Sent from my GT-P6200 using xda app-developers app
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It was pretty simple to revive it with hg42's help.
The first thing you need to do is ensure you have CWM recovery, as the scanning tools only work with that.
Download hg42 emmc partition scanner from the link on the first page of this topic and copy to all 5 zip files to your external sd card. You will also need to download hg42's patched .pit file for your model of tab.
Boot into CWM recovery and flash emmc_find_brick_start.zip. This will scan you tab and will freeze on a bad block. Make a note of the number it freezes on.
Now flash the emmc_find_brick_end.zip file and once again make a note of the number the tab freezes on.
You now need to select the patched .pit file that falls within the range of brick start and brick end. e.g. my brick_start was 1074 and brick_end was 2147 so the patched .pit file I flashed with Odin was "P6200_tabplus--patched--brick-between-281-and-2160-MB--FACTORYFS-moved-by-1792-MiB"
I once again entered CWM recovery and did a scan using emmc_scan_all_partitions_once.zip. Which verified there were no errors.
I then booted up the Tab and hey presto it was alive again.
Feeling brave I then flashed the latest Austrian 4.0.4 firmware followed by permanent CWM recovery making sure that I can never do a factory reset using stock recovery which cause the brick to begin with.
Hope the above makes sense to those who need it, I'm sure as you go through the processes above it will.
I'd also like to encourage anyone who uses hg42's emmc tools to offer a donation as without him I would have had a very expensive paperweight or would have had to pay to get it JTAG'd

Happy Boy
Hi all
While trying to root and install custom rom I bricked my friends phone. I have been going crazy trying everything I could to get this brick back to life.
ITS ALIVE AGAIN!!!!!!!!
Thank you kersey for your post on how you got your Tab back.
This is what I did.
I installed the 5 files on the SD card.
120824-151927-emmc_find_brick_end
120824-151927-emmc_find_brick_start
120824-151927-emmc_scan_all_partitions_infinitely
120824-151927-emmc_scan_all_partitions_once
120824-220105-emmc_scan_write
I put the phone into recovery mode and ran 120824-151927-emmc_find_brick_start.
The program started scanning the memory and first froze on 2188.
I got back into recovery and ran 120824-151927-emmc_find_brick_end
once again the program started counting down and froze about 3189.
For this phone the correct pit files were in " pits-N7000_16GB "
I unzipped pits-N7000_16GB and looked for the nearest pit file , which was
N7000_16GB_Q1_20110914--patched--brick-between-1174-and-3321-MB--DATAFS-moved-by-2048-MiB.pit
I then put the phone back into download mode and using Odin flashed the patched pit file above.
Disconnecting the phone from computer I went back into recovery and ran120824-151927-emmc_scan_all_partitions_once
For the first time I was able to do a full scan without the program freezing.
Next step was installing Abyss Kernel 4.2. I then did the regular data wipe/cache wipe/dalvik wipe.
And finally I installed Rocketrom 11.
The phone rebooted and then came back to life.
I checked the internal memory and it was down to 9gb, but who cares as long as its ALIVE AGAIN !!!!
hg42 you sir are an absolute legend. Donation coming your way.
This method definitely works . Just be patient. I hope This helps others aswell

EDIT:
Is there any not so hard way to install the original rom with the pit i need? cm10 works, but i dont like it so much.
p6201dbtlpc_p6201xxlpc_p6201xxlp3_home.tar i would like to use
but i only know to flash this in odin, becouse it is no zip, i have no clue how to flash it in cwm
thanks for an answer!
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Your post should be on first post added =)
And in http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1807002 !
Thanks for it!
kersey said:
It was pretty simple to revive it with hg42's help.
The first thing you need to do is ensure you have CWM recovery, as the scanning tools only work with that.
Download hg42 emmc partition scanner from the link on the first page of this topic and copy to all 5 zip files to your external sd card. You will also need to download hg42's patched .pit file for your model of tab.
Boot into CWM recovery and flash emmc_find_brick_start.zip. This will scan you tab and will freeze on a bad block. Make a note of the number it freezes on.
Now flash the emmc_find_brick_end.zip file and once again make a note of the number the tab freezes on.
You now need to select the patched .pit file that falls within the range of brick start and brick end. e.g. my brick_start was 1074 and brick_end was 2147 so the patched .pit file I flashed with Odin was "P6200_tabplus--patched--brick-between-281-and-2160-MB--FACTORYFS-moved-by-1792-MiB"
I once again entered CWM recovery and did a scan using emmc_scan_all_partitions_once.zip. Which verified there were no errors.
I then booted up the Tab and hey presto it was alive again.
Feeling brave I then flashed the latest Austrian 4.0.4 firmware followed by permanent CWM recovery making sure that I can never do a factory reset using stock recovery which cause the brick to begin with.
Hope the above makes sense to those who need it, I'm sure as you go through the processes above it will.
I'd also like to encourage anyone who uses hg42's emmc tools to offer a donation as without him I would have had a very expensive paperweight or would have had to pay to get it JTAG'd
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ICS update and emmc bug
Hi; not sure if right forum, but here goes ,
I updated my tab plus to ics 4.0.4 using alpn and xlpn file from sammobile using odin from pc,
tab was never rooted only used a launcher
so my question is after i have installed ics and will not root or use cwm ,will i still have to worry about the emmc bug and if yes
is it best just to go back to honeycomb
btw all is running well on ics just worried about bricking
thank you in advance

doaft said:
Hi; not sure if right forum, but here goes ,
I updated my tab plus to ics 4.0.4 using alpn and xlpn file from sammobile using odin from pc,
tab was never rooted only used a launcher
so my question is after i have installed ics and will not root or use cwm ,will i still have to worry about the emmc bug and if yes
is it best just to go back to honeycomb
btw all is running well on ics just worried about bricking
thank you in advance
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If you chose to do a factory restore via stock recovery, which is what you have due to not being rooted and not having CWM installed there is a very big chance you may brick your device. I speak from experience!!!
If you are that worried I would flash back to honeycomb rather than risking having an expensive paperweight
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A little of my own experience with superbrick
Bad2hold said:
Dude, if you dont mind, what exactly have you done to revive your tab?
Not exactly, just a quick guide to avoid the most common mistakes.
Thanx!
Sent from my GT-P6200 using xda app-developers app
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You guys can follow this guide I wrote for the Galaxy Tab 7.7 (which also suffers from mmc_cap_erase) : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1862294
Just replace the partition numbers with the ones parted shows you.
The problem is, either way you followed, after being revived your tab will :
- rebrick everytime you flash anything
- Have less than 1gb of internal storage
- Hang everytime you want to download an app or whatever
To fix the last 2 problems, you need to make an ext2sd script to swap your internal-sd and external-sd.
To do so, go to /dev/block/vold : you'll see two files named with numbers (i.e : 22:48 179:48), note the name of those 2 files (one of them is your external-sd mount point)
Then replace the "xxx:xx" in the following script with the name of the first file :
Code:
mount -t vfat -o umask=0000 /dev/block/vold/xxx:xx /storage/sdcard0
mount -o bind /data/media /storage/sdcard1
Save this script in a file called ext2sd1.sh and use Script Manager to run it "as root" and "at boot", now reboot and go to settings/storage : if the first file was your extsd mount point your internal and external storage should now be swapped (i.e : if you have a 64gb external sdcard the settings will show : internal storage : 64gb, and you can actually install 64gb of apps).
If it didn't work, replace the xxx:xx in the script with the name of the second file, then it should work.
Good luck guys, this superbrick is a damn pain in the ass, we can thank sammy for it

P6200
Hello man... I saw your post ''Good news all, after much trial and error and more flashing than your average pervert I have revived my tablet from the dead with a big thank you to hg42 for his scanner and extra advice.
Thanks to all those who helped in this post too'' ... I have the same problem with my P6200. Please give me that scanner to fix it or tell me how to put my tablet back On... Thanks

Androguide.fr said:
You guys can follow this guide I wrote for the Galaxy Tab 7.7 (which also suffers from mmc_cap_erase) : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1862294
Just replace the partition numbers with the ones parted shows you.
The problem is, either way you followed, after being revived your tab will :
- rebrick everytime you flash anything
- Have less than 1gb of internal storage
- Hang everytime you want to download an app or whatever
To fix the last 2 problems, you need to make an ext2sd script to swap your internal-sd and external-sd.
To do so, go to /dev/block/vold : you'll see two files named with numbers (i.e : 22:48 179:48), note the name of those 2 files (one of them is your external-sd mount point)
Then replace the "xxx:xx" in the following script with the name of the first file :
Code:
mount -t vfat -o umask=0000 /dev/block/vold/xxx:xx /storage/sdcard0
mount -o bind /data/media /storage/sdcard1
Save this script in a file called ext2sd1.sh and use Script Manager to run it "as root" and "at boot", now reboot and go to settings/storage : if the first file was your extsd mount point your internal and external storage should now be swapped (i.e : if you have a 64gb external sdcard the settings will show : internal storage : 64gb, and you can actually install 64gb of apps).
If it didn't work, replace the xxx:xx in the script with the name of the second file, then it should work.
Good luck guys, this superbrick is a damn pain in the ass, we can thank sammy for it
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hey dude it's my first post in xda
i've succeded to unbrick my device but my internal memory is shrink a lot into 700+ mb but i don't understand how to use the script so
can u explain step by step ?

one can help me ??
hai everybody.... i'm from indonesia.., my friend just give me samsung galaxy tab 7 plus... ( GT-P6200 ) without any boxes, last day i try to get ICS update from kies , but the application won't update my firmware , so i try the alternative direction.
i try another application - Odin3-v1.85 and download the firmware..., but the fact is after few second running it self , the prosess can't continues get fail after
Note : i;m using : P6200OXALQ1_P6200XXLQ1_P6200XXLQ1_HOME.tar.md5 firmware
<ID:0/017> Firmware update start..
<ID:0/017> cache.img
<ID:0/017> NAND Write Start!!
<ID:0/017> factoryfs.img
<ID:0/017> hidden.img
<ID:0/017> recovery.img
<ID:0/017> Sbl.bin
<ID:0/017>
<ID:0/017> Complete(Write) operation failed. >>> FAIL...
anyone can help me .... please

[Q] Hard Bricked Sidekick 4G?

I have a Sidekick 4G. I wanted to install a new custom ROM because how crappy the stock ROM is. Anyways, I rooted my phone which went fine. Downloaded the CWM and everything was fine there. Also, took the Recovery.zip and Update.zip from this site. Extracted the Recovery File and copied it over to my SD Card. The custom ROM I attempted to install was the Glorious Overdose V2 uploaded by ayoteddy. Telling from all the work he's done, I'm pretty sure it wasn't corrupted or anything like that. After I had downloaded the zip file, I copied it into my SD Card without extracting it. So then I went to my phone. I put the phone is Recovery Mode which was fine. Went to Reinstall Package (Blue) and it went to an orange menu assuming that it was right. Then, I clicked Install ZIP from SD Card. The ROM had installed succesfully and I went back to reboot the phone. Upon rebooting, I had heard an automated voice (female) that said "Convert data partition, system is unavailable. Convert system partition." My Sidekick has been stuck on that for the day. It won't get anywhere past the screen where it says "Sidekick 4G" as it powers up. Is my phone hard bricked? I'm a bit new to all of this Custom ROM with Android thing. If bricked, any suggestions to help restore it? But until then, my phone is pretty much useless.

Bulletpr00f431 said:
I have a Sidekick 4G. I wanted to install a new custom ROM because how crappy the stock ROM is. Anyways, I rooted my phone which went fine. Downloaded the CWM and everything was fine there. Also, took the Recovery.zip and Update.zip from this site. Extracted the Recovery File and copied it over to my SD Card. The custom ROM I attempted to install was the Glorious Overdose V2 uploaded by ayoteddy. Telling from all the work he's done, I'm pretty sure it wasn't corrupted or anything like that. After I had downloaded the zip file, I copied it into my SD Card without extracting it. So then I went to my phone. I put the phone is Recovery Mode which was fine. Went to Reinstall Package (Blue) and it went to an orange menu assuming that it was right. Then, I clicked Install ZIP from SD Card. The ROM had installed succesfully and I went back to reboot the phone. Upon rebooting, I had heard an automated voice (female) that said "Convert data partition, system is unavailable. Convert system partition." My Sidekick has been stuck on that for the day. It won't get anywhere past the screen where it says "Sidekick 4G" as it powers up. Is my phone hard bricked? I'm a bit new to all of this Custom ROM with Android thing. If bricked, any suggestions to help restore it? But until then, my phone is pretty much useless.
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Common the first time go to my threads or the sticky in development an fine the kg2 odin put phone in download mode (2 ways adb or button power an track pad) adb is more reliable but takes longer getting use to it...
Anyways put phone in download mode open the odin an press start (may need drivers) keep trying won't work 1st time ussually..
After that phone is stock root it again, go to recovery an reinstall packages> wipe everything in every menu> go to mount make sure system is unmounted sd card is un mounted an the very top one it un mounted (2 one should be mounted "data" I believe o.o) > install zip > reboot after completed > should now work (the voice will come back on an say its working) don't use it for 5-10 mins after that time have fun c:
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immorality said:
Common the first time go to my threads or the sticky in development an fine the kg2 odin put phone in download mode (2 ways adb or button power an track pad) adb is more reliable but takes longer getting use to it...
Anyways put phone in download mode open the odin an press start (may need drivers) keep trying won't work 1st time ussually..
After that phone is stock root it again, go to recovery an reinstall packages> wipe everything in every menu> go to mount make sure system is unmounted sd card is un mounted an the very top one it un mounted (2 one should be mounted "data" I believe o.o) > install zip > reboot after completed > should now work (the voice will come back on an say its working) don't use it for 5-10 mins after that time have fun c:
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If you need any other info please don't be shy ask on the fourms an everyone still here will try to help c:
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In ODIN, I pressed start. But, there was a dialogue box that said "No Binary Is Selected!'. Am I missing drivers? Or is this where I just need to keep trying?

possibly, im sure immorality will have a better answer as i dont use odin rather hiemdall
instruction here is odin ends up failing you
but immorality has proven very capable and am sure will get you through it!

demkantor said:
possibly, im sure immorality will have a better answer as i dont use odin rather hiemdall
instruction here is odin ends up failing you
but immorality has proven very capable and am sure will get you through it!
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Ohh I feel admired ahah
Yes I odin through one cick as I'm not a dev an only had the phone for 8 months
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immorality said:
Ohh I feel admired ahah
Yes I odin through one cick as I'm not a dev an only had the phone for 8 months
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I'm still a bit confused on this. What should I do after I have my phone in download mode and ODIN opened up? Just continue to hit Start even if it says "No Binary Is Selected!"?

Bulletpr00f431 said:
I'm still a bit confused on this. What should I do after I have my phone in download mode and ODIN opened up? Just continue to hit Start even if it says "No Binary Is Selected!"?
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Make sure it is not "kd1" odin
Kg2 one click odin just press start
If it doesn't work turn the bootloaders on
Keep trying if it doesn't work then you can pull the battery its not recommended but it works for me
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You skipped checking your mounts man xD you don't usually need to worry about it after you get the voodoo recovery, but it is always helpful to check first.
You want to see this in your mounts and storage option in orange recovery:
Cache: mounted
Data: unmounted
Sdcard: unmounted
System: mounted
Then you can continue on and pick the zip you would like to flash. And also, you need the pit file for sk4g and the respective tar file for kg2.
Hope this is helpful
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Zydrate_blue said:
You skipped checking your mounts man xD you don't usually need to worry about it after you get the voodoo recovery, but it is always helpful to check first.
You want to see this in your mounts and storage option in orange recovery:
Cache: mounted
Data: unmounted
Sdcard: unmounted
System: mounted
Then you can continue on and pick the zip you would like to flash. And also, you need the pit file for sk4g and the respective tar file for kg2.
Hope this is helpful
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Like I've been advising the odin one click only needs the sidekick mount which will download if you don't have it.
Also I believe you mounts are wrong
Cache unmounted
Data mounted
Sd card unmounted
System unmounted
Or atleast that's what mine looks like when I install a rom
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immorality said:
Like I've been advising the odin one click only needs the sidekick mount which will download if you don't have it.
Also I believe you mounts are wrong
Cache unmounted
Data mounted
Sd card unmounted
System unmounted
Or atleast that's what mine looks like when I install a rom
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Yeah you're right actually, I knew what I was saying, however the way I typed it wasn't the way it looks, it was what they should be set to. The way that you typed them is what it should look like. That was a duh moment for me. Sorry bout that
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[Q] cannot unlock screen on HTC Explorer

Hi, HTC Explorer: cannot pull the ring from the bottom of the screen to unlock it, I have a new HTC One but I cannot transfer the data as I cannot select HTC Transfer on the Explorer to transfer my data.
The phone was never connected to HTC Sync and the data on it is not backed up, there is an 8gb memory card in it but I'm not sure what is on it.
I have opened the phone up and reseated the screen connector and checked all other connectors, still no joy.
When I power it up it takes ages to boot up to the normal screen.
When the device is on the red light at the top right hand side of the screen is constantly on.
I also have to charge the battery on another HTC phone (Desire S) which the battery fits into - the Explorer takes forever to charge the battery.
I cannot connect it to my PC to Sync it as I would need to accept the connection.
I have diverted the phone to another handset and the Divert indication is visible on the top of the screen, so the phone seems to doing some of its function correctly but not all.
Also the touchscreen buttons at the bottom are not lighting up, so they may not be working either, the cable is properly connected.
please help, I only need to get the HTC Transfer turned on and I'll be able to transfer to the new phone.
I have tried the digitiser touch screen on anoter HTC device and it does respond, would its driver be the problem?

This is what I can think of for now> You need recovery, ESPECIALLY yannou's, for that you'll need to unlock the bootloader (in my sign is link to a tutorial), after installing recovery you can make a backup using volume and power buttons, after that you can use this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2044414 and from backup to get your stuff. You'll also need a card reader, firstly to get recovery on the sd card, secondly to get your backup from it.
And are you sure you didn't get your phone into some kind of liquid thingy, because proximity (red light thingy) sensor shouldn't flash like that

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This is what I can think of for now> You need recovery, ESPECIALLY yannou's, for that you'll need to unlock the bootloader (in my sign is link to a tutorial), after installing recovery you can make a backup using volume and power buttons, after that you can use this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2044414 and from backup to get your stuff. You'll also need a card reader, firstly to get recovery on the sd card, secondly to get your backup from it.
And are you sure you didn't get your phone into some kind of liquid thingy, because proximity (red light thingy) sensor shouldn't flash like that
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Thanks so much, but I cannot find yannou's recovery file and I don't know how to do the process, is there a dummies guide on how to carry out the recovery and the rest of the actions that I need to take?
I really appreciate your reply,

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1415223 In this tutorial is yannous recovery, you need this till step 3.
But if I was you, I would wait a little bit(at least one more day) maybe somebody will get here with better solution. Also I'm not 100% sure that this will work... so it's better to wait a bit.

Thanks
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1415223 In this tutorial is yannous recovery, you need this till step 3.
But if I was you, I would wait a little bit(at least one more day) maybe somebody will get here with better solution. Also I'm not 100% sure that this will work... so it's better to wait a bit.
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Thanks so much, I really appreciate the help.:good:

question
when I am in the Unlock bootloader screen on the device it says the selecting 'yes' will delete all personal files yet jaggyjags tutorial says that it won't, which is correct as the reason that I am doing tihs is to recover the contacts etc from the device?
I am amazed that I have gotten this far, thanks for the help:good:

It shouldn't delete anything! That's why I recommended this.
I just figure out something wright now, If you used stock 2.3.5, Your Contacts should be here(if explicitly havne't stop that manually) www.google.com/contacts/‎ give it a try

didn't have them in Google
I am now at step 3 of the recovery process in the tutorial i have saved the A310E recovery.zip into the android folder on the c drive but when i run recovery.bat with the phone in fastboot and connected to the PC by usb i just get
sending 'recovery' (4728 KB).
OKAY [ 0.864s]
writing 'recovery'...
FAILED (remote: battery low)
finished. total time: 0.873s
what am I doing wrong?
ps: I really appreciate the help

I don't know how correct is that, but it's obvious that it is stating that battery is low, charge it a bit, or if it's battery from desire, put back battery from explorer. Or just try again
Everything looks as it should be.

another question
when I try to 'Place this Superuser.zip file somewhere in the microSD first' it says I can't because it is write protected, should I use another sd card or will in need to use the sd card that has always been in the phone?

What happened with recovery?
Screw the superuser.

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I got the superuser loaded and I have now completed a backup on the sd card.
how do I get the data off and how do I put it on the new phone?
Thanks so much

Now you can get your backup from you sd card, at the moment I don't remember what was the name of the backups, it should some zip file larger than 100mb just get that file on the other phone and use this app http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2044414 , if your second phone is not rooted, I'll check out some other description on how to get those contacts
To get to your sd card, from recovery you can get to' mounts and storage menu' and press 'mount usb storage' it won't do nothing on the phone buu now you can brows your sd via pc
"Easyest" way to extract your contacts without root is this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1370349

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I haven't set the new phone up yet so what do I do, I don't want to mess with the new phone as it would void the warranty,
can I set it up as a completely new phone and then transfer the content from the old phones backup?

Well for exactly this what you want to do...... Only thing that I can figure out at the moment is to find somebody with rooted phone, give him the backup to extract contacts from there, and then export them to file. This is not the easyest way, but it's the only way that I can get wright now.

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is there any PC programme that I can load the backup contents onto and then sync to my new phone?

No, or I don't know for one, the way is either this> http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1370349
Either to find somebody with rooted phone, then he can easily (with android manager) extract the contacts in a simple .vcf file, which later you can just load on your new phone, another is to root your new phone and make this by your self, but you stated that you want to keep your warranty(which is really normal thing) so that option is unacceptable. So you are! Find somebody with rooted phone.
Fellas!!! Somebody reading this? Give us some idea, because my ideas came to an end, surely here is somebody that knows more than me in this things, don't be shy, maybe I'm missing something somewhere.

I know 1 software which I used to have specifically for backing up contacts, sms, music n all files.
it is known as "wonder share mobile go for android"
http://www.wondershare.com/android-manager/
install it in pc and it connect ur fone..it will start reading ur mobile

@prabhat228 Damn man, where were you 2 days ago (no hard feelings intended, or something like that, saying it like that on the fun said). @connoga - Just mentioning you to check the thread

haha, thanks a ton mate
btw if u liked that software and anytime you need the full version, jst let me know. I will upload it.