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Hey guys I need your help
I've been using cm7 for a couple of weeks now. I havnt had problems until today.
I flashed build 32 over and for some reason it wasn't booting up. It was on the splash screen for a while (it usually does that and when I take battery out and restart it boots) so then I took the battery out. Next thing I know is that my phone is stuck on the mytouch screen... I went to recovery and when it booted into cwm 3. I got a error saying it couldn't open system/recovery/log or something like that... it still went to cwm and I checked the mounts and it said /system and /data wasn't mounted. I clicked it to mount and it gave me an error saying it couldn't ... therefore it wouldn't let me install cm7 or do a wipe... is there anything I can do to fix this? It seems to be that the nand. Is corrupted or something...
I think, based on your description, that pulling the battery at the particular instant caused the secondary problem.
A "factory reset" reformats /data and /cache. But not /system. You can do that manually from the mounts and storage menu, then either restore a nandroid backup or install cm7 and gapps.
HTC Glacier running CM7 #33
Hmm I font think its just two directories... I think my whole internal storage is messed up. I tried using the reformat option from cwm but no luck
Time to discover what you might be able to accomplish with Fastboot and a USB cable.
HTC Glacier running CM7 #33
I think a lot of people are having problems with clockwork 3 in the nexus forums, and more specifically with it screwing up partitions. I was luck just to lose my ext position on my sd...
Reformat and reflash seems to be the easiest fix...
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i dont know how to repartition the phone storage :/
i tried doing it off cwm and it wouldn't let me... is there anyway to do this through adb? i think adb is working...
Reformat the whole card, and then try to repartition. This will write your data, so back up first...
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how do i do that? o_o through cwm? i tried formating everything including system data cache... and i dont know how to repartition through cwm. cwm is the only thing i can get to right now :/
Sorry, looks like the only option in clockwork is to partition. Can you not do it from your pc?
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yeah it gives me error when i try to do :
fastboot erase system -w :/ is there anything else?
guys... ((((( am i totally effed up? i couldn't find anything i could do.. no matter what i did, the /system and /data would NOT mount... so i cant format it
I have never tried this, but you might consider it.
In this thread is a method to return your phone to stock -- it uses the bootloader's ability to repartition and reformat everything somewhat automatically, using a file called PD15IMG.ZIP from the SD card's root folder.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=11011692&highlight=pd15img.zip#post11011692
There's a link in the thread to the .zip file -- look to post signatures. Put the file on an SD card (with another phone, or camera, or Micro-SD to SD adapter, etc.) and boot into the bootloader with that file on the SD card.
I do not know if you can rename the .zip it to update.zip and force it to flash with Fastboot's update command, because the PD15IMG.ZIP is a specific thing this phone's bootloader looks for. As stated, I have never tried this, and do not recommend this. It might work, or, it might cause more damage. Putting the file on an SD card without Fastboot will be safer.
You could try to boot your phone into fastboot,
and then type
fastboot erase -w system
Your phone wont boot after that, but you should be able to flash a new rom from clockwork.
ive tried both the pd15img.zip method. it says "partition update fail"
and i also tried the "fastboot erase system -w" and it did not work.. it says that it can't be done. i also tried to format /system through adb and cwm, and both says it can't because it must be mounted before
From your description, it seems to me that the internal flash memory has a damaged partition table -- easy enough to repair if this were a hard drive you could remove and take to a linux system somewhere. But it's a phone, and a bit of flash memory that can't be removed.
Flashboot has an "erase <partition>" command. I don't know what it does, since it's not well documented. Does it reformat an existing partition? Or does it remove the partition from the partition table? There is no commensurate "create <partition>" command, so perhaps it recreates an empty partition. But I tend to doubt it.
I would think such work might be done from an engineering bootloader or engineering recovery system -- one available to HTC service technicians, for example.
Since you're not getting a great deal of help in the MT4G subforum, you might post your question in the top level Questions and Answers forum.
Sorry I'm not much help with this.
One last thought. The bootloader itself has a Factory Reset. That might do it. Might not. But like chicken soup, it probably couldn't hurt. Boot into the bootloader (volume down while powering up), select BOOTLOADER with the volume control and then the power button, then select FACTORY RESET. Perhaps it will do something positive.
eh.. i couldnt do anything. i tried all options. its like impossible to reformat or repartition the drive..
i actually called up insurance and they'll be sending me a new mytouch 4g..
we have just told them that it doesnt go past the mytouch screen.. would they figure out that it is rooted? i mean.. choosing recovery from the bootloader menu takes it right into cwm lol
Just flash the stock recovery back via fastboot...
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ive tried
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ive tried
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you are sending the fastboot commands while in the bootloader right? I would imagine you are but I just want to make sure.
Hi Everyone,
I recently just flashed my stock Rogers 2.2 phone with Serendipity 5.12 and noticed something odd. None of my files in in /mnt/sdcard or on my external SD Card were deleted. I followed these steps:
Rooted
Backed up with Titanium backup
Transferred my .zip file to the root of my phone (I don't know I did it at this step as it should have been erased....)
Flashed back to stock AT&T JH6 using ODIN3 (as my phone is a 1010 build)
Master reset (said completed successfully)
Rooted again (messed up on this as I said my phone was below 2.0 firmware, had to re-root again [without derooting] saying my phone was above 2.0 firmware)
Installed Rom Manager and booted into Clockwork Recovery Mode
Selected my .zip from my sdcard (I did this manually vs renaming it update.zip)
It booted up into Serendipity fine and and I said yes to the lag fix conversion
Then I went back to re-install apps I noticed Titanium Backup was showing me my old backup which I transferred onto my external SD. Then I used "My Files" to see that I had my previous Dropbox, Kongregate, roms, and all my other old folders from stock on the /mnt/sdcard still! I thought these would have been erased surely with the Flash and Master Clear. Now I am curious how "pure" my flash" is, and that maybe I should try this all again. Anyone experience this before and can let me know why this happened? Or let me know that this is normal?
Thanks!
none of the files should be deleted unless you did a master clear....
Ah, well I did very strange! Anyone have any advice on what I should do next? Retry the whole process, or do a master clear from serendipity?
I don't understand what the problem is. What do you mean how "pure" your flash is? Are you worried that you have a mix of two roms loaded at the same time or something?
If that's the case, I assure you that you don't. The actual partitions that hold the OS are formatted before the new firmware is installed, including your data partition. The internal and external sd cards are never formatted because they have absolutely nothing to do with the firmware.
Oh well I guess by "pure" I meant that some of the old files (installers, folders left by programs) may affect the stability and speed on the new ROM. However, you are right the files used by the OS are on the root of the SD card (i.e. / ). I guess I'll leave it for now... Very strange that master clear didn't wipe out everything!
EDIT: Great now my SIM card is not being recognized although it was recognized upon first boot of the phone...
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Oh well I guess by "pure" I meant that some of the old files (installers, folders left by programs) may affect the stability and speed on the new ROM. However, you are right the files used by the OS are on the root of the SD card (i.e. / ). I guess I'll leave it for now... Very strange that master clear didn't wipe out everything!
EDIT: Great now my SIM card is not being recognized although it was recognized upon first boot of the phone...
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So much for alleged purity. Leave the CWM update on the sdcard as update.zip and simply copy the ROM zip to your sdcard and install it. All that flashing to stock, master clearing and renaming is silly.
As to why the master clear didn't work, did you do it with the phone fully booted up, debugging on and touchwiz running?
opcow said:
So much for alleged purity. Leave the CWM update on the sdcard as update.zip and simply copy the ROM zip to your sdcard and install it. All that flashing to stock, master clearing and renaming is silly.
As to why the master clear didn't work, did you do it with the phone fully booted up, debugging on and touchwiz running?
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Oh so that is what that update.zip on my sdcard was, CWM. I deleted it... oops! I should just be able to install ROM Manager again and get that update.zip back right?
As for the master clear. I was fully booted, debugging was on, but I don't know if I had Zeam or Touchwiz running... Probably Zeam I guess! Makes sense thanks!
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Oh so that is what that update.zip on my sdcard was, CWM. I deleted it... oops! I should just be able to install ROM Manager again and get that update.zip back right?
As for the master clear. I was fully booted, debugging was on, but I don't know if I had Zeam or Touchwiz running... Probably Zeam I guess! Makes sense thanks!
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Instead of installing Rom Manager, just add this to the root of your sdcard. This is the update.zip that Rom Manager puts on your phone. Hope this helps.
modest_mandroid said:
The actual partitions that hold the OS are formatted before the new firmware is installed, including your data partition.
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Code:
format SYSTEM:
format CACHE:
format DATADATA:
format DATA:
delete_recursive SDCARD:.android_secure
delete_recursive SDCARD:Voodoo
delete_recursive SDCARD:Android
delete_recursive DBDATA:
format CACHE:
format DATADATA:
delete_recursive DBDATA:
I think that's sufficient.
I did this my first flash and didnt realize that the files were still there until I was about to reflash a new ROM on it.
You have to master clear the phone; if you use that awesome program that flashes you back (forgot the name) it has an option to do this for you.
FLAC Vest said:
I did this my first flash and didnt realize that the files were still there until I was about to reflash a new ROM on it.
You have to master clear the phone; if you use that awesome program that flashes you back (forgot the name) it has an option to do this for you.
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I think you're talking about Odin one-click that flashes your firmware back to I897UCJF6 and clears your phone. You can find it on the XDA forums here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=731989
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Code:
format SYSTEM:
format CACHE:
format DATADATA:
format DATA:
delete_recursive SDCARD:.android_secure
delete_recursive SDCARD:Voodoo
delete_recursive SDCARD:Android
delete_recursive DBDATA:
format CACHE:
format DATADATA:
delete_recursive DBDATA:
I think that's sufficient.
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Yeah, I just tried to distill it into words that someone new to rom flashing could digest. Speaking of that though, any clue why the Galaxy S line stores databases in /dbdata whereas just about every other Android phone uses /data/data/ ?
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I think you're talking about Odin one-click that flashes your firmware back to I897UCJF6 and clears your phone. You can find it on the XDA forums here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=731989
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That's exactly what I was talking about, thanks for the clarification. I have all of the files to root and restore in a folder on my comp; so easy once you get the hang of it.
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Hi, I want to install a new ROM, and is the first time I'm trying.
I've followed the steps correctly, and when I press the 3 button and it opens the Samsung recovery, I hit reinstall packages and it loads the orange cwm recovery.
Now this is where the problem begins.
I need to wipe data/factory reset, but when I hit it the phone freezes. (If I wipe on the phone it works, and on the samsung recovery it also works.)
If, on cwm recovery I wipe cache it works, partitioning on cwm recovery also works.
First this is what happened:
-- Wiping data...
Formatting /data...
Formatting /cache...
Formatting /sd-ext...
E:format_volume: make:extf4fs failed on /dev/block/mmcblk0p2
Formatting /sdcard/.android_secure...
I partitioned on Rom manager and this happened:
-- Wiping data...
Formatting /data...
Formatting /cache...
E:format_volume failed to unmount "/cache"
Formatting /sd-ext...
Formatting /sdcard/.android_secure...
I partitioned again on cwm recovery and this happened:
- Wiping data...
Formatting /data...
Formatting /cache...
Formatting /sd-ext...
Formatting /sdcard/.android_secure...
It always freezes on "Formatting /sdcard/.android_secure..."
In all three cases.
I don't understand why, and my question is that after it freezes if I turn off the phone (by pressing the turn off button which works), and hit reinstall packages again, and clean cache and delvik cache and load the ROM, if it will work.
I don't know what more can I do..
Why are you partitioning your SD card so many times?
Because it wasn't working correctly?
btw, if I format the sd card, the partition will still remain, right?
lipico said:
Because it wasn't working correctly?
btw, if I format the sd card, the partition will still remain, right?
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Since CWM isn't partitioning correctly, try partitioning on your computer. This guide is helpful -> link. The ext partition should be 1024 MB (=1 GB) or 2048 MB (=2 GB) depending on how much space you want for apps. Swap should be 0 MB. The rest should be FAT32 for your storage. I personally only have two partitions, my FAT32 one and my EXT one, I don't have a SWAP partition.
Format should just erase the SD card, not the partitions, though I might be wrong.
I partition on the computer which didn't worked then I partitioned on the app rom manager but the maximum ext was 512 mb..so I went to partition on cwm recovery when booting..and put 2048 for ext and 0 for swap as you told me..
But if I delete the data on samsung recovery, and then boot CWM recovery, and wipe cache and the dalvik cache there, it's might work right?
thanks a lot.
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lipico said:
I partition on the computer which didn't worked then I partitioned on the app rom manager but the maximum ext was 512 mb..so I went to partition on cwm recovery when booting..and put 2048 for ext and 0 for swap as you told me..
But if I delete the data on samsung recovery, and then boot CWM recovery, and wipe cache and the dalvik cache there, it's might work right?
thanks a lot.
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When you say partition on computer didn't work, what do you mean? It didn't partition your SD card? Or it didn't solve the problems of the wipe freeze? I think you need to stop trying to partition it using so many different tools, erase all the partitions and start over on a computer. It should work, and if it doesn't then it might be a SD card issue.
Edit: Hmm, yeah that should work technically! I've asked on the ROM thread, lets see what they say.
When I partitioned on the computer the ext partition wasn't working right..the software didn't even recognise it..but I think that now it is rightly done..
Maybe tomorrow I'll try to wipe data on the samsung recovery, then I'll reinstall packages and on cwm I'll wipe cache and dalvik and then try to install the rom..maybe it will work..I hope so!
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lipico said:
When I partitioned on the computer the ext partition wasn't working right..the software didn't even recognise it..but I think that now it is rightly done..
Maybe tomorrow I'll try to wipe data on the samsung recovery, then I'll reinstall packages and on cwm I'll wipe cache and dalvik and then try to install the rom..maybe it will work..I hope so!
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Ext is a Linux file system and Windows won't recognise it. I'd recommend a fresh partition (delete all partitions and then add in your FAT32 partition and EXT2/3/4 partition, making sure both are Primary partitions).
I actually partitioned both of mine as Fat32 and it works great
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I think that now it is formated correctly. But the problem still remains.
I think I'll try to wipe the data on samsung recovery, and then complete on cwm recovery.
EDIT: so, I was wiping data and like always it friezed, so, I turned it off, and he turned on on samsung recovery, I pressed reinstall packages, and on cwm deleted cache and dalvik. Installed the rom, and it worked. The rom is functioning, and the problem I had with the "message not processed due to insufficient funds" disappeared. I think the rom is working right, but it doesn't vibrate when I receive sms, and the leds doesn't work either. Don't know if it's like that, I'll see on the rom thread.
Thanks a lot.
lipico said:
I think that now it is formated correctly. But the problem still remains.
I think I'll try to wipe the data on samsung recovery, and then complete on cwm recovery.
EDIT: so, I was wiping data and like always it friezed, so, I turned it off, and he turned on on samsung recovery, I pressed reinstall packages, and on cwm deleted cache and dalvik. Installed the rom, and it worked. The rom is functioning, and the problem I had with the "message not processed due to insufficient funds" disappeared. I think the rom is working right, but it doesn't vibrate when I receive sms, and the leds doesn't work either. Don't know if it's like that, I'll see on the rom thread.
Thanks a lot.
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Glad you finally got it working I would highly recommend doing a reinstall using the new voodoo red CWM recovery after wiping all the data, etc ... just to make sure all of its completely wiped (reinstalling different ROMs sometimes leaves old data on different partitions and takes up space). You should also re-partition SD card just to be safe. But of course this is all optional, just my two cents
You need to play around with different settings. Like under Sound you'll have the Vibrate option set to Only on Silent, Always On, etc. On the SMS setting itself, you can set different ringtones, etc under setting. LED only works on Missed Calls and Charging atm. The only thing that doesn't work (for me anyway) is on some forms, like SMS To field, when you type a name it doesn't come up till you select it. This is a theme issue faced by everyone and there are no fixes atm. Did you install LEAN GOV or the full one? If you installed LEAN, mine didn't come with Google Search installed, download the apk from the internet and install. Using the Link2SD app (which I recommend for saving space) you can Press+Hold the Google Search app from your applications list and convert it into a Systems App. This lets you use the search button on keyboard and search widget as well! I also recommend ADW Launcher which you can install from the Play Store.
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Another app I would highly recommend installing ASAP is Titanium Backup. It'll save current versions of apps and data for you to as a backup to your sd card. It's really come in handy a number of times as I've tried new roms or switched back to an older version if an app comes out with a bad update.
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eMJaaay said:
Glad you finally got it working I would highly recommend doing a reinstall using the new voodoo red CWM recovery after wiping all the data, etc ... just to make sure all of its completely wiped (reinstalling different ROMs sometimes leaves old data on different partitions and takes up space). You should also re-partition SD card just to be safe. But of course this is all optional, just my two cents
You need to play around with different settings. Like under Sound you'll have the Vibrate option set to Only on Silent, Always On, etc. On the SMS setting itself, you can set different ringtones, etc under setting. LED only works on Missed Calls and Charging atm. The only thing that doesn't work (for me anyway) is on some forms, like SMS To field, when you type a name it doesn't come up till you select it. This is a theme issue faced by everyone and there are no fixes atm. Did you install LEAN GOV or the full one? If you installed LEAN, mine didn't come with Google Search installed, download the apk from the internet and install. Using the Link2SD app (which I recommend for saving space) you can Press+Hold the Google Search app from your applications list and convert it into a Systems App. This lets you use the search button on keyboard and search widget as well! I also recommend ADW Launcher which you can install from the Play Store.
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Yes, I went on Sound and I put it on Vibrate Always. It doesn't work. The only way for me to know it I received an sms is on the top on the notifications. No even the messaging icon says that I have a sms. But that's ok. When I type a name to send a message the name doesn't came up either. That's a bit bad, by I can handle it! I installed the LEAN GOV-PERFORMANCE.
I'll see the rest that you talked about!
I installed adw launcher, but I don't know were it went. On the settings the "theme settings" doesn't work, and it says to force close.
Please help to solve my friend's problem:
"There are 4 system in the phone with BMM, the main system is MB ICS
Last week when I used the phone, once there is not responding, didn't want to start any application - I restart the phone.
While the phone was booting to BMM startup under the green robot the title was: cache img for system 1 cant be found, and created a virtual cache.
The system started as if I did a FULL RESET, but I didn't! After It there was a system message: unable to receive message,free up some space.
Starting calls, receiving, browsing only working (if I set the base things), but I can not be install any other application, I just only have the factory ICS apps. Unable to write a message, - free up some space - the system refers.
In the storage: Total space: 0.00 B which contained: 54Mb.
- I tried to "reinstall" the MB ICS factory rom 3 times with RSDLite, but nothing changes. It seemed to install, and everything work fine, but after the reboot there was no change.
- I tried to install ME ICS factory rom, ME JB rom with RSD, but in the 6. step: "flash failure" error stops. After this point I have MB ICS with root permissions, superuser and BMM - everything just like previously, only the sytem is wiped.
- I tried to restore my earlier backup, but there is no change.
- I tried to flash/install another "custom rom" but no change.
- Tried to format system, format cache, format data, format everything, but nothing changed.
- I tried many times, factory reset, nothing changes.
After every restart it seems if I do a full reset. I can not create a system, and I can not delete with BMM.In BMM with Aroma in "DF" setup there is 450 MB space in my phone"
If you have any solution, please tell us to solve this nerve-racking problem.
_ghiottone said:
Please help to solve my friend's problem:
"There are 4 system in the phone with BMM, the main system is MB ICS
Last week when I used the phone, once there is not responding, didn't want to start any application - I restart the phone.
While the phone was booting to BMM startup under the green robot the title was: cache img for system 1 cant be found, and created a virtual cache.
The system started as if I did a FULL RESET, but I didn't! After It there was a system message: unable to receive message,free up some space.
Starting calls, receiving, browsing only working (if I set the base things), but I can not be install any other application, I just only have the factory ICS apps. Unable to write a message, - free up some space - the system refers.
In the storage: Total space: 0.00 B which contained: 54Mb.
- I tried to "reinstall" the MB ICS factory rom 3 times with RSDLite, but nothing changes. It seemed to install, and everything work fine, but after the reboot there was no change.
- I tried to install ME ICS factory rom, ME JB rom with RSD, but in the 6. step: "flash failure" error stops. After this point I have MB ICS with root permissions, superuser and BMM - everything just like previously, only the sytem is wiped.
- I tried to restore my earlier backup, but there is no change.
- I tried to flash/install another "custom rom" but no change.
- Tried to format system, format cache, format data, format everything, but nothing changed.
- I tried many times, factory reset, nothing changes.
After every restart it seems if I do a full reset. I can not create a system, and I can not delete with BMM.In BMM with Aroma in "DF" setup there is 450 MB space in my phone"
If you have any solution, please tell us to solve this nerve-racking problem.
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Hope you solve this. This needs a happy ending.
_ghiottone said:
Please help to solve my friend's problem:
"There are 4 system in the phone with BMM, the main system is MB ICS
Last week when I used the phone, once there is not responding, didn't want to start any application - I restart the phone.
While the phone was booting to BMM startup under the green robot the title was: cache img for system 1 cant be found, and created a virtual cache.
The system started as if I did a FULL RESET, but I didn't! After It there was a system message: unable to receive message,free up some space.
Starting calls, receiving, browsing only working (if I set the base things), but I can not be install any other application, I just only have the factory ICS apps. Unable to write a message, - free up some space - the system refers.
In the storage: Total space: 0.00 B which contained: 54Mb.
- I tried to "reinstall" the MB ICS factory rom 3 times with RSDLite, but nothing changes. It seemed to install, and everything work fine, but after the reboot there was no change.
- I tried to install ME ICS factory rom, ME JB rom with RSD, but in the 6. step: "flash failure" error stops. After this point I have MB ICS with root permissions, superuser and BMM - everything just like previously, only the sytem is wiped.
- I tried to restore my earlier backup, but there is no change.
- I tried to flash/install another "custom rom" but no change.
- Tried to format system, format cache, format data, format everything, but nothing changed.
- I tried many times, factory reset, nothing changes.
After every restart it seems if I do a full reset. I can not create a system, and I can not delete with BMM.In BMM with Aroma in "DF" setup there is 450 MB space in my phone"
If you have any solution, please tell us to solve this nerve-racking problem.
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Wow. This is why my friends don't let me mod their phones. They have all kinds of questions that they ask me but they don't let me touch their phones. I guess they've seen me soft brick mine too many times and they think their phones will end up like this or something. So, your friend is much more trusting than mine are. Lol.
If it were me, I would uninstall and then reinstall all the Motorola drivers on the PC. Then re-download RSD lite, the FXZ, and everything else that is needed and try again. If that didn't work, I'd try a different PC and/or USB cable. After that, I wouldn't know what else to do. :what:
If I had a dollar for every time I said that, I'd be making money in a very weird way.
1BadWolf said:
Wow. This is why my friends don't let me mod their phones. They have all kinds of questions that they ask me but they don't let me touch their phones. I guess they've seen me soft brick mine too many times and they think their phones will end up like this or something. So, your friend is much more trusting than mine are. Lol.
If it were me, I would uninstall and then reinstall all the Motorola drivers on the PC. Then re-download RSD lite, the FXZ, and everything else that is needed and try again. If that didn't work, I'd try a different PC and/or USB cable. After that, I wouldn't know what else to do. :what:
If I had a dollar for every time I said that, I'd be making money in a very weird way.
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That he succeeded by himself. I "play" only with my phone He can not even start a topic in XDA, yet. But he read the topic.
@_ghiottone: I think the flash memory has problem, it cannot do the saving jobs, just only read data
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@_ghiottone: I think the flash memory has problem, it cannot do the saving jobs, just only read data
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Do you mean the internal storage? Cause if you're talking SD Card, there's a lot of fakes. The fakes have fake messages of storage then reboot & all is gone or corrupt.
Yes, the internal storage of the phone.
Because if you forget to create cache.img partition for a custom ROM in BMM, still boot ok, but when you restart, the phone is reseted to factory
Back to your problem, I think you cannot receive sms because it cannot save data to the cache partition
Any idea from devs to brighten us?
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Yes, the internal storage of the phone.
Because if you forget to create cache.img partition for a custom ROM in BMM, still boot ok, but when you restart, the phone is reseted to factory
Back to your problem, I think you cannot receive sms because it cannot save data to the cache partition
Any idea from devs to brighten us?
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I've considered that too, but that doesn't explain why the FXZ doesn't seem to work. I'm stumped so I've been keeping my eye on this thread just in case someone comes up with a solution.
If I had a dollar for every time I said that, I'd be making money in a very weird way.
The problem isn't solved. The owner of the phone sent the device to the service-repair shop, but the service lost his phone. The shop paid a solatium.
My wife's Galaxy S3 suddenly decided it didn't want to boot past the Galaxy SIII logo (which includes the blue Cyanogen mascot at the bottom)
I was going to attempt to re-flash Cyanogenmod 10.2, but for some reason TWRP prompted me for a password upon going into recovery. Hitting Cancel here allows me into TWRP. I flashed the latest version on TWRP, and still I am prompted by that password.
I then found that I was unable to wipe Dalvik Cache, and then found that I'm unable to mount /data.
Well that's not good. I assume that I'll have to use Odin to go back to stock and re-partition? Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Sounds like your /data is encrypted. When you're prompted for a password, that's to decrypt the /data partition (it's probably the PIN she uses to unlock the phone). Hitting cancel simply leaves /data unencrypted and unmounted. If you hit mount within TWRP, you'll probably see a "Decrypt Data" button. Try using the PIN and see if that works.
Joe
erc. said:
My wife's Galaxy S3 suddenly decided it didn't want to boot past the Galaxy SIII logo (which includes the blue Cyanogen mascot at the bottom)
I was going to attempt to re-flash Cyanogenmod 10.2, but for some reason TWRP prompted me for a password upon going into recovery. Hitting Cancel here allows me into TWRP. I flashed the latest version on TWRP, and still I am prompted by that password.
I then found that I was unable to wipe Dalvik Cache, and then found that I'm unable to mount /data.
Well that's not good. I assume that I'll have to use Odin to go back to stock and re-partition? Any suggestions would be appreciated.
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Sounds like your /data is encrypted. When you're prompted for a password, that's to decrypt the /data partition (it's probably the PIN she uses to unlock the phone). Hitting cancel simply leaves /data unencrypted and unmounted. If you hit mount within TWRP, you'll probably see a "Decrypt Data" button. Try using the PIN and see if that works.
Joe
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Yes, I think you're right about the encryption. How does /data become encrypted? She doesn't recall encrypting it through settings, of course. Her usual pin doesn't work to allow access either. If I can't figure out the password to decrypt /data, what's next?
Within CM, the ability to encrypt /data is selected within settings. It will ask you to set a pin or passphrase, have more than 80% battery and will reset to encrypt (you'll see a green wireframe android icon and an encryption progress meter). This is all a conscious decision, so someone must have gone in there to set it, if that's the reason why it's asking for a password. You can set a different password for encryption, but you would have to do this from the command line, which doesn't sound likely here.
If encryption was interrupted, it's possible the drive isn't encrypted, but TWRP thinks it is (the key data is stored at the end of the partition). I'm paraphrasing, but if that bit is set, it will always think the partition is encrypted. The only way to wipe that is to completely wipe the /data partition, which you probably don't want to do unless you've got good backups (and nandroid will not backup /data/media, so be careful with that option).
Do you know if the phone had adb debugging enabled? You could try running logcat while it boots to see what the issue is. I had something similar happen to mine (hanging at the CM icon at boot) when I upped from the October CM10.2 nightlies to the M1 release and ended up using ODIN to return to stock - it's a good thing I had backups!
You can get a shell while in recovery to poke around. You can try mounting from the command line there (the /data partition will be listed in the /etc/recovery.fstab file).
If all else fails, and you have good backups, you could try wiping /data from within TWRP, but keep in mind that all pictures, texts, music, etc will go with it! I would only do this as a last, last resort.
I've seen several threads lately about issues with the partition layout in recent flashing (esp. with the MF1 update). I've reverted back to stock as a precaution, myself.
Joe
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Yes, I think you're right about the encryption. How does /data become encrypted? Her usual pin doesn't work. If I can't figure out the password to decrypt /data, what's next?
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Within CM, the ability to encrypt /data is selected within settings. It will ask you to set a pin or passphrase, have more than 80% battery and will reset to encrypt (you'll see a green wireframe android icon and an encryption progress meter). This is all a conscious decision, so someone must have gone in there to set it, if that's the reason why it's asking for a password. You can set a different password for encryption, but you would have to do this from the command line, which doesn't sound likely here.
If encryption was interrupted, it's possible the drive isn't encrypted, but TWRP thinks it is (the key data is stored at the end of the partition). I'm paraphrasing, but if that bit is set, it will always think the partition is encrypted. The only way to wipe that is to completely wipe the /data partition, which you probably don't want to do unless you've got good backups (and nandroid will not backup /data/media, so be careful with that option).
Do you know if the phone had adb debugging enabled? You could try running logcat while it boots to see what the issue is. I had something similar happen to mine (hanging at the CM icon at boot) when I upped from the October CM10.2 nightlies to the M1 release and ended up using ODIN to return to stock - it's a good thing I had backups!
You can get a shell while in recovery to poke around. You can try mounting from the command line there (the /data partition will be listed in the /etc/recovery.fstab file).
If all else fails, and you have good backups, you could try wiping /data from within TWRP, but keep in mind that all pictures, texts, music, etc will go with it! I would only do this as a last, last resort.
I've seen several threads lately about issues with the partition layout in recent flashing (esp. with the MF1 update). I've reverted back to stock as a precaution, myself.
Joe
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Hey Joe, I appreciate you taking the time to answer the questions. I did edit my earlier response while you were responding, but to go into slightly more detail, her phone was just sitting on the arm of the couch, when she realized that it was off (it had been on just prior to that). She assumed the battery had died, but when I charged it to 100% and tried to boot it, that's when we found out that it wouldn't boot.
Anyway, wiping data isn't an issue. I have all of her photos and videos backed up, and most of her important stuff is stored in Google Drive. Unfortunately, trying to wipe data actually throws an error. Can you wipe /data if you can't even mount it?
EDIT: When I try to format data in TWRP, I get errors saying "E: Failed to decrypt data", and then it stops at "Updating partition details..."
Possibly a coincidence, She was previously using CM10.2 nightlies and just recently went to the M1 release.
So if we can't mount or wipe /data from recovery, I assume the next step is to go back to stock with Odin? And if that's the case, can you point me in the right direction? I am downloading Official VRBMF1 4.1.2 right now. Do I need a PIT file or something to fix the partitions?
Thanks again
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I'd say going back to stock with ODIN will definitely get things back on track. You might need a PIT file to re-partition the device. You'll want to make sure it's the PIT for your model of phone (Verizon 16GB GS3, for example). Google turned up this:
http://teamuscellular.com/Forum/topic/3882-pit-files-for-all-us-variants-of-sgsiii/
I'm the SCH-I535 16GB so I used that one.
One other caveat - be sure you're running ODIN from a real PC - I was using a Virtual Machine and that caused issues.
Joe
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Hey Joe, I appreciate you taking the time to answer the questions. I did edit my earlier response while you were responding, but to go into slightly more detail, her phone was just sitting on the arm of the couch, when she realized that it was off (it had been on just prior to that). She assumed the battery had died, but when I charged it to 100% and tried to boot it, that's when we found out that it wouldn't boot.
Anyway, wiping data isn't an issue. I have all of her photos and videos backed up, and most of her important stuff is stored in Google Drive. Unfortunately, trying to wipe data actually throws an error. Can you wipe /data if you can't even mount it?
EDIT: When I try to format data in TWRP, I get errors saying "E: Failed to decrypt data", and then it stops at "Updating partition details..."
Possibly a coincidence, She was previously using CM10.2 nightlies and just recently went to the M1 release.
So if we can't mount or wipe /data from recovery, I assume the next step is to go back to stock with Odin? And if that's the case, can you point me in the right direction? I am downloading Official VRBMF1 4.1.2 right now. Do I need a PIT file or something to fix the partitions?
Thanks again
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Hrm..
I'd say going back to stock with ODIN will definitely get things back on track. You might need a PIT file to re-partition the device. You'll want to make sure it's the PIT for your model of phone (Verizon 16GB GS3, for example). Google turned up this:
http://teamuscellular.com/Forum/topic/3882-pit-files-for-all-us-variants-of-sgsiii/
I'm the SCH-I535 16GB so I used that one.
One other caveat - be sure you're running ODIN from a real PC - I was using a Virtual Machine and that caused issues.
Joe
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Well, I wish I could come back with more insightful information, but through a bunch of poking and prodding in recovery, I was able to eventually format /data without having to use Odin. Thanks for the link, though. I'm saving the PIT file (same as yours), because who knows when it'll be needed.
This is actually the second time this phone has been stuck at the Galaxy SIII logo screen (with Cid, before the boot animation) in the past couple weeks. Both times were with the Cyanogenmod 10.2 M1 release. I think I might try RC1 to see if it behaves any better, but if not, it's back to stock she goes. If my wife didn't find TouchWiz so hideous, I'd likely go skip trying RC1 and go straight to stock and wait patiently for the 4.3 OTA.