So I waited to register to this site till I ran into a road block. I have read and searched and search but to no avail have I come up with a answer. So I come to you fellow Samsung Infuse 4G owners for help. I have successfully rooted my phone with super one click, ran clockwork recovery and installed zeuss's build 6 and my phone runs great. Now here is my issue. My friend liked the way my phone was so he went and got a used one then handed it over to me to do the cool stuff. So I set the phone back to factory deleting everything including user data.... I now have installed the new version of one click and this new phone and it says it works and installed but when I run clockwork the superuser never pops up. Now I have checked The settings and its not the issue. I have since factory reset the phone again deleting user data and superuser was still on the phone. I've tried to remove it like 50 times to no avail until today when it finally went away after I tried again the unroot on superoneclick but after restart and I try to reinstall it, it says its already rooted, so I make it reroot and I still havve Tue same issue. I have tried to clear data and reinstall the packages via the Samsung recovery but it says there is a missing path on the internal SD. So now I'm stuck... its been like this back and forth for 3 days. So I ask for a bit of help as my first post. BTW I'm Dustin I'm 27 and I live in Washington state and I love my swet zeuses builded phone. Thanks in advance
Did you push the cwm recovery file to system/bin and fix the permissions
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Go to this post read thoroughly and you will want to download the third link from the top to give you a factory reset gb with too and recovery http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=25177681
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Dry with root and clockwork mod
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ThePinky said:
So I waited to register to this site till I ran into a road block. I have read and searched and search but to no avail have I come up with a answer. So I come to you fellow Samsung Infuse 4G owners for help. I have successfully rooted my phone with super one click, ran clockwork recovery and installed zeuss's build 6 and my phone runs great. Now here is my issue. My friend liked the way my phone was so he went and got a used one then handed it over to me to do the cool stuff. So I set the phone back to factory deleting everything including user data.... I now have installed the new version of one click and this new phone and it says it works and installed but when I run clockwork the superuser never pops up. Now I have checked The settings and its not the issue. I have since factory reset the phone again deleting user data and superuser was still on the phone. I've tried to remove it like 50 times to no avail until today when it finally went away after I tried again the unroot on superoneclick but after restart and I try to reinstall it, it says its already rooted, so I make it reroot and I still havve Tue same issue. I have tried to clear data and reinstall the packages via the Samsung recovery but it says there is a missing path on the internal SD. So now I'm stuck... its been like this back and forth for 3 days. So I ask for a bit of help as my first post. BTW I'm Dustin I'm 27 and I live in Washington state and I love my swet zeuses builded phone. Thanks in advance
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What can also do is....run these files in cwm install like a ROM no wipes, do this one 1st and install 2nd back to back:
http://db.tt/NUVg4mjr
Then install this one 2nd:
http://db.tt/fOv83rRY
{U.S.M.C.} "Fraternal Brotherhood of the Highest Order"
Odin it to the stock rooted with cwm 2.3.6 and install from from recovery there. What I do
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thanks all for the help, working on it right now
So a little follow up..... first I wanna say thanks again for the help things worked out well. Had some issues with the recovery but he doesn't need it but its rooted so I did some fine tuning and he loves it. Atleast I know I can get good help here from other techies like myself. Cheers
-Pinky-
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This thread is now irrelevant as Jellybean is available for the device.
The old post can be found below:
As of right now be sure that you all are extemely cautious when trying to flash any type of ICS package (be it firmware, a ROM, or any type of system running it). Our tablet may have an issue with ICS as many other galaxy devices have. A bug currently exists that corrupts the mounting of the data partition on the device which *MAY* lead to a permanent hard bricking of your device.
This is currently a very RARE issue, however, those who are not well educated in Android development and that do not know how to 100% reset their tablet should refrain from flashing any type of ICS ROM or ODIN package.
If you have already flashed an ICS ODIN package or are running CM9 safely and have been for a good amount of time, then my guess is that this issue will not effect you, BUT it may strike you at any given time!
For those of you who insist on upgrading to ICS, *PLEASE* backup your entire ROM and make sure that you have the stock HC ODIN package. Although it probably won't help having them if you are hard bricked.
A quote from an effected user:
ringnutz said:
I also had the can't mount data problem, I tried for 3 days to get it to work. I ended up sending it back to Samsung after reverting everything to stock. I was on cm9 though and one night it just started bootlooping while i was asleep. I.e. it would fully boot then restart after 5 seconds or so. So I tried reverting to stock and trying again, which is when I got the can't mount data issue. I literally tried every combination of wiping, recovery, Odin/heimdall, and the only thing that would get past the Samsung logo was cm9, which would just stick at the boot animation forever. I got tired of messing with it and thought it could have been a hardware problem, so I sent it back under warranty
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A quote from an effected user:
daviddavid123 said:
i installed cm9 and ics 4 then my tab hard bricked and internal memory damaged
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krbabb said:
I dont have posting privleges in the developer forums but i thought i would let you know whats up with my tab.
Rooted it, got cwm on it and flashed cm9. Worked for about a week without issue then started the bootlooping issues. I couldnt even wipe the data in recovery.
Used odin to go back to stock HC according to your instructions. Then i thought it bricked cause it just got stuck on the default screen showing galaxy tab. Tried installing HC a few more times but it never booted.
Tried one more time but now with the stock ics. Still nothing so i gave up.
Only thing is i couldnt power off. I planned to let the battery die. So it just sat on the default gakaxy tab screen and about 30 minutes later it showed the samsung boot animation.
I let it sit for another half hour with samsung pulsing. Nothing. So i reboot into recovery (stock) which i couldnt even get to before now, wipe everything like 5 times then reboot the device.
Booted up and works like a charm. I thought this thing wad gone.
Not sure if the stock ics tar file did the trick but let everyone know that mine came back to life. It possible other devices could be bricked but maybe there is a chance for some people.
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If you have flashed ICS and you have bricked your device I am sorry. I know there are a few people out there who have....
To conclude, everybody please be careful about tinkering with your device. I know ICS has great speed enhancements and all, but as of right now your box of ice cream sandwiches may or may not be poisoned.
For the daredevils:
CM9 [View thread]
Guide to flashing ICS [View thread]
EDIT: Our case is not the same as the other galaxies.... Ours effects the data partition while theirs effects their emmc... I'm assuming ours may be a bug with the firmware installation / recovery as it was with theirs however I'm not sure why it is effecting users on CM9....
EDIT 2: We should all be cautious and NOT wipe at all using Samsung's ICS Recovery. I was chatting with aorth and he suggested that that may be the cause of the issue. His recovery (or the one I posted in my guide) are safe to wipe on.
EDIT 3: I guess we also have reports of the emmc being corrupted as well...
Just don't wipe data/factory reset using recovery ICS (RECOVERY 3e). Use recovery 5.5.0.4 or 6.0.x.x......only you wipe for up new rom, everything will be OK.
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Yeah, i experienced this type of total brick. I flashed p6200 ics firmware with mobile odin and than did factory reset in ics recovery mode. I think this was the reason of hard brick. After some time tablet did shut down and didn't turn on. Service fixed the problem, they said that main board died.
Ignore this post.
StrumerJohn said:
That's not the case I afraid...
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I really don't think it was a problem with upgrading. I had been on cm9 for over a month, then I woke up one morning and it was bootlooping. I got all the can't mount data errors afterwards, so it's either a hardware problem or cm9 is somehow magically corrupting the /data partition. I hadn't even installed anything recently
EDIT: Samsung just sent me the email that the repair is finished, they replaced the main board, so it definitely was a hardware problem.
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This issue was brought up a couple months ago by aorth, I think its in his CM9 thread or in one of the rooting or CWM threads. I don't think it is an issue that will be going away any time soon as Samsung isn't in any hurry to fix it, that is if they even can or want to.
Using stock ICS for almost 3 weeks now.
I was backing up and restoring all of the partitions via CWM 6.0.1.0 two times.
Nothing weird happening for the moment.
I use the ics wipe/factory reset and I don't have any problem, I have 6210 .
Well, aorth entioned sth like this before, here his post:
aorth said:
Maybe you guys have heard, but some early ICS ROMs for Galaxy Note and other similar Galaxy S II variants have triggered hard bricks due to faulty MMC firmware handling erase commands improperly. I never bothered to read up about the issue until now, but it looks like we should also be careful.
Chainfire just released a tool to print out whether your device has a known-bad firmware revision, Got BrickBug?. As you can see, my device has firmware revision 0x19. This revision has been known to cause hard bricks on other devices using Samsung ICS ROMs.
CM9 is safe (Entropy512 haxx0red the kernel), but we should be careful.
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I got this bad firmware revision too, but iam still safe after 2 months
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Bad2hold said:
Well, aorth entioned sth like this before, here his post:
I got this bad firmware revision too, but iam still safe after 2 months
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I'm not sure if I had the bad one, but mine worked fine for months too. Then out of the blue it bootlooped and when I tried to fix it by reverting to stock, I got the error. Hopefully when it comes back it will have a different firmware revision (if that's what the problem was)
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I flashed my tab with 'P6200OXALQ1_P6200XXLQ1_P6200XXLQ1' on 19th July - so far nothing has happened.... and it is working much faster than the 3.2 Honeycomb it came with.:fingers-crossed: Using Stock kernel/recovery... only rooted using temporary touch recovery.
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I flashed my tab with 'P6200OXALQ1_P6200XXLQ1_P6200XXLQ1' on 19th July - so far nothing has happened.... and it is working much faster than the 3.2 Honeycomb it came with.:fingers-crossed: Using Stock kernel/recovery... only rooted using temporary touch recovery.
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If you flashed it using Mobile Odin that's normal because it uses its own recovery.
Ok, so what's the verdict? This bug sounds very scary.
Given that I'm running a stock ICS flashed via ODIN, should I be running:
-Stock recovery
-CWM
-Something else
to avoid bricking while factory reset?
I also use mobile Odin to flash ics and no problem. So, could you say that with Mobile Odin are safe from this problem?
Just read this http://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/xj2hd/i777_superbrick/, seems some of the things said could be relevant for us.
I have a galaxy note and Entropy who is dealing directly with samsung on this issue has a thread over on the galaxy note page. Lots of information over there.
I use the free emmc bug check app by vinagre https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.vinagre.android.emmc_check&hl=en to check my samsung devices on ics. Not entirely sure that the same case applies for the note and the tab plus though but it does give me peace of mind.
Just to err on the side of caution, I always odin flash back to gingerbread to wipe cache and other stuff before upgrading. This seems to have worked for me so far. *fingers crossed*
Check out that app above, its free and have a read of entropy's thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1698977 but beware they don't take kindly to noob questions. I just mainly read entropy's updates and replies and ignore most of the rest of the stuff there.
Is there any chance to bring my tab to life has the repair center hasen't repaired mine
hi,
i have flashed the stock ICS, the Austrian version using ODIN3. i have been running it since july 18th.
so far i dont see any problem with my tab..
just to say, i have flashed the firmware atleast 3 times, just as an exercise. and have factory reset it after ICS flash atleast like 5 times now.
everything so far works fine. i use the stock recovery for factory reset.
after the 1st flash, i had root.. then thought of unrooting, so flashed the firmware 2 more times.
and in between the flashes, i have factory reset a lot of times.
so far, the bootloop problem which i used to have when on HC, is not there. hopefully, it wont occur in ICS.
hope, this helps developers.
Zarvox said:
Is there any chance to bring my tab to life has the repair center hasen't repaired mine
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Use pit file (tab 7.7) in topic of hg42 - galaxy note this forum.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1667886
Or use this method:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1661590
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giangp1 said:
Use pit file (tab 7.7) in topic of hg42 - galaxy note this forum.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1667886
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Thanks with manual method described in this thread I've confirmation that my data partition became corrupted.
Yes it is alive !!!
I've deleted mmcblk0p9 (DATAFS on my P6210) and recreate one with smaller size (3 GB) than normal (15.2 GB).
When the tablet boot I realise I've 1.68 GB of storage
Now I may increase the size of data but previous tries told me if data reach 5 GB in size the creation of partition fail.
My main question is are there currently any working methods to root my phone from 4.1.1
BackStory:
I rooted my phone about 4 months ago successfully. about a month ago i started getting update notifications from VZW to update to 4.1.1 Which would have been great since i was looking forward to jellybean.
Unfortunately their update kept failing. so i decided this morning to use Synergy and just run a custom rom. Followed all the instructions and everything went very smoothly while playing around with my new rom i decided to reboot to test the speed of the boot time. upon reboot im greeted by the VZW soft brick screen.
So i then followed the instructions listed here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1840030
To restore my phone to factory default. which was fine i don't really mind losing my data nothing that isn't backed up on Google.
I decided to fully update the phone and then try to re-install the synergy rom but i cant seem to find any detailed threads on the subject.. Help?
Reciprocate said:
My main question is are there currently any working methods to root my phone from 4.1.1
BackStory:
I rooted my phone about 4 months ago successfully. about a month ago i started getting update notifications from VZW to update to 4.1.1 Which would have been great since i was looking forward to jellybean.
Unfortunately their update kept failing. so i decided this morning to use Synergy and just run a custom rom. Followed all the instructions and everything went very smoothly while playing around with my new rom i decided to reboot to test the speed of the boot time. upon reboot im greeted by the VZW soft brick screen.
So i then followed the instructions listed here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1840030
To restore my phone to factory default. which was fine i don't really mind losing my data nothing that isn't backed up on Google.
I decided to fully update the phone and then try to re-install the synergy rom but i cant seem to find any detailed threads on the subject.. Help?
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2046439
Reciprocate said:
My main question is are there currently any working methods to root my phone from 4.1.1
BackStory:
I rooted my phone about 4 months ago successfully. about a month ago i started getting update notifications from VZW to update to 4.1.1 Which would have been great since i was looking forward to jellybean.
Unfortunately their update kept failing. so i decided this morning to use Synergy and just run a custom rom. Followed all the instructions and everything went very smoothly while playing around with my new rom i decided to reboot to test the speed of the boot time. upon reboot im greeted by the VZW soft brick screen.
So i then followed the instructions listed here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1840030
To restore my phone to factory default. which was fine i don't really mind losing my data nothing that isn't backed up on Google.
I decided to fully update the phone and then try to re-install the synergy rom but i cant seem to find any detailed threads on the subject.. Help?
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hey guy my question is did u unlock ur bootloader before rebooting also remember if u can manually boot into cwm u can redo the rom its either the up volume or down plus multi function button and power button at same time to go right to cwm
wingtytn said:
hey guy my question is did u unlock ur bootloader before rebooting also remember if u can manually boot into cwm u can redo the rom its either the up volume or down plus multi function button and power button at same time to go right to cwm
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I think i actually locked it after i finished the install. And then restarted, do softbricks occur when you re-lock your bootloader?
Also another question..is there any way to check the /system /data partitions from inside the phone (terminal app maybe?) are correctly set to r/w over r/o (i don't like unplanned installs )
Soft bricks always occur on a locked bootloader. There are file managers that can do that like solid explorer.
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Soft bricks always occur on a locked boot loader. There are file managers that can do that like solid explorer.
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Ah dully noted in the future the boot loader will be left unlocked! and thanks for the app recommendation i downloaded it and checked all my permissions I'm slightly less terrified to restart my phone now
thanks for all you help
Does anyone know how to prevent a software update on a rooted Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 7.0? *
My tablet auto updated to the new Jelly Bean about 3 wks ago and I hated it. *I have since restored my wonderful tablet back to the ICS 4.0 it came with and rooted it. *But 2 days ago it auto downloaded the software update again and will only allow me to postpone the update rather than completely refuse it.
I do not want to have to go through the whole process again. *Does anyone know how I can prevent the update from happening? *TY!
Freeze updater.apk with titanium backup.
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Big thank you!
MultipleMonomials said:
Freeze updater.apk with titanium backup.
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Hooray - it seems to have worked! I wasn't able to find the specific file name you mentioned, but I did freeze 2 "system update" files and that has removed the update notification from my notify list and also doesn't open the update postponed window any longer from the about/software update settings either. Thank you so much, MultipleMonomials, ty, ty!
Still having problems...
Well, it seems I spoke too soon regarding my last post. All seemed to work well after freezing two "system update" files using ROM Toolbox Pro. However, after shutting my tablet down that night and turning it back on in the morning, I have since been locked up at the Samsung logo screen. I've spent the past few days trying to research my options, did the fix permissions, reset to factory default, tried restoring backups (which I didn't have), all that stuff, and I am having no luck whatsoever.
I can boot into CWM6 Recovery mode and also boot into download mode, but otherwise, I cannot get it to load past the Samsung logo and I'm officially stumped now.
Can anyone offer some suggestions as to what I should try next?
Flash a stock-based ROM without wiping data. Make a backup first.
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It worked...
MultipleMonomials said:
Flash a stock-based ROM without wiping data. Make a backup first.
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I'm back up and running and with the ICS that I wanted. I'm one happy camper! :victory:
Hey guys,
Hoping someone here might be able to help me get rid of the bane of my existence right now. I've been reading all over and using various methods other people seem to have had success with but nothing is working for me.
I have a Samsung Galaxy Victory 4G from Virgin Mobile. I'm also responsible for 2 others that are having the same issue.
A while back I had rooted all our devices and put TWRP on them but have total stock rom.
A few weeks ago we all started getting this system update prompt that lets you install now or later. If we tried to install it with TWRP it just boots into TWRP. So I put the stock recovery back on and took the prompt and let it reboot. It begins installing but halfway through I get a red yield sign and it stops and reboots the phone. If we go this route the prompt usually doesn't show up again for days.
So I went and tried custom recovery and custom rom next. Didn't get the update on the custom rom until the next morning when I woke up. Went and got a perfect custom recovery/rom package for the phone and went total stock. Same issue as before where it gets halfway through and fails.
I've tried navigating to the root/cache folder as another thread suggested and renaming the update stored there but the update has never shown up in that directory.
Basically now, periodically this prompt continues to pop up, sometimes very frequently on the foreground of whatever you're doing on the phone and constantly reminds/annoys the hell out of us.
I'd take a screenshot but it hasn't reappeared in 2 days since I last took the update and it failed.
Appreciate any help from anyone!
Your phone needs to be stock for the update to work. No custom recovery, no root, no ROM. Flash back the official stock firmware and the update should work.
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bweN diorD said:
Your phone needs to be stock for the update to work. No custom recovery, no root, no ROM. Flash back the official stock firmware and the update should work.
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I had not thought to try going stock with no root. That is the only thing I haven't tried. Will report back. Thank you