Last night, I decided to try out the Trinity kernel. I downloaded and flashed, and everything went without error. After that, I pushed a custom boot animation over ADB. The first one didn't work, and after the splash screen disappeared it was simply a black screen, but then I pushed one I downloaded from XDA and it was fine.
Now, though, I want to make a nandroid, but CWM is running into some issues. I started the ROM manager app, entered a name for the nandroid as usual, and hit OK, but when it rebooted into nandroid, it gave me an error saying "Error mounting /system" and rebooted back into CM7. That's odd, I thought, I never had any problems like that before. So I rebooted into CWM myself by holding down power+vol down and tried making a nandroid there. No luck. Then I went to mounts and storage and tried to manually mount /system. CWM gave me the error again.
I'm not really sure what's causing this. I thought it might be because now I'm using an ext4 filesystem because of Trinity (right? haha I'm new to kernels and such) and CWM might not support reading it, but if that's the case, I think I would not be the first to have this issue. Yet I searched, on that thread, on Google, on XDA general search, and didn't see anything. I also doubt it's the boot animation.
My last nandroid was yesterday. The only changes to the system I remember right now is that I flashed CM7 nightly 101, then flashed Trinity, rebooted, and flashed the boot animation mentioned. I installed apps since then but none of them had root so I doubt that's it. I would reflash CM7 to overwrite Trinity, but I read on the Trinity thread that if I did that without restoring an old CM7 kernel nandroid first, I'd be stuck in a bootloop because of ext4...?
So, what should I do? I don't want to make anything worse than it already is by tinkering with this myself, I no longer have a current nandroid, that's why I'm asking XDA. Does anyone have an idea why this might be happening? I'm sorry if a thread like this already exists or if this is in the wrong forum (if so mods please move it), this is my first time posting and my search skills could suck (although I looked in all the places I could think of)
Thanks for your help! My G2x is running CM7 nightly 101. Both the nvflashed CWM in recovery and the CWM started by the rom manager app are version 3.0.2.7.
I got the same problem as you bro right after flashing trinity
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ritthyhang said:
I got the same problem as you bro right after flashing trinity
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Good, so I'm not the only one! I thought that was too odd to be true.
Here's what I've done. I reflashed cm7 nightly 101 to get my CM kernel back and rebooted. Sure enough, bootloop. Or it never got past the splash screen to the CM7 android skateboard boot animation. I went back in recovery, though, and was able to mount /system. Odd. So I flashed trinity again and tried mounting /system again and no go. So this definitely has something to do with Trinity... I restored my nandroid, reflashed 101,and that's where I am now. Tomorrow, I will make an up-to-date nandroid and do some tinkering to try to figure out what's going on. Maybe it has something to do with the boot animation, maybe not, exactly what's going on is what I am going to try to figure out if no dev shows up here.
Could you give me a few details about your case? Were you coming from cm7 too? Did you do any boot animation tinkering like me?
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Okay so I was eaglesblood 1.6 and flashed trinity the other day. Before trinity I was on miui and made plenty of nandroid backup. So today and 1.7 got released so before update I try to backup then behold Our Problem. So after I confirm that I can flash 1.7 over 1.6 I decided to take that risk and flashed anyways. On 1.7 the Superuser was updated I notice, so I decided to make a backup and it Work. So I think the problem was had to do with the outdated Superuser. I think I might be wrong that's just my experience.
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Okay so I was eaglesblood 1.6 and flashed trinity the other day. Before trinity I was on miui and made plenty of nandroid backup. So today and 1.7 got released so before update I try to backup then behold Our Problem. So after I confirm that I can flash 1.7 over 1.6 I decided to take that risk and flashed anyways. On 1.7 the Superuser was updated I notice, so I decided to make a backup and it Work. So I think the problem was had to do with the outdated Superuser. I think I might be wrong that's just my experience.
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Hmm. So to clarify: You were running MIUI, then you flashed eb followed by trinity. Then, eb 1.7 was released and you went to nandroid, but you couldn't mount /system, so you took the risk and upgraded anyways. The new be came with a new version of superuser, and you were able to make nandroids once again. Is this correct?
One very important question if it is. Did you flash trinity again after flashing the eb 1.7 update?
Also, could I ask what version of superuser came in this update? I am using version 2.3.6.3, which is the latest according to Superuser check for updates, but ROM Manager lists a 3.0 beta version and I'm wondering if you're using that. To check, open Superuser, go to the settings tab, and scroll all the way down. It's the second to last option for me. It's unlikely that superuser is making the difference, since it works as a part of Android and our problem is in recovery, before Android loads, but I can see how it might be possible. If you're using the 3.0 beta, I will flash to that and see if it fixes.
I will look into this some more tomorrow, specifically right now I want to know what filesystem eb's kernel recommends.
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G2X here same problem.
I think they key here is MIUI. I tried to load MIUI image and it didnt go well. I formatted and CWR to restore and its been giving me issues same cant mount system errors.
Right now I downloaded CM7 and installed it from scratch and I can use the phone but it wont backup my ROMs anymore.
Have you guys found anything new ?
lithivm said:
I think they key here is MIUI. I tried to load MIUI image and it didnt go well. I formatted and CWR to restore and its been giving me issues same cant mount system errors.
Right now I downloaded CM7 and installed it from scratch and I can use the phone but it wont backup my ROMs anymore.
Have you guys found anything new ?
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Update cwm to latest recovery 5.0.2.0 i believe.
fcisco13 said:
Update cwm to latest recovery 5.0.2.0 i believe.
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+1 cwmr 5.0.2 is the first to officially support ext4 partitions
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lithivm said:
I think they key here is MIUI. I tried to load MIUI image and it didnt go well. I formatted and CWR to restore and its been giving me issues same cant mount system errors.
Right now I downloaded CM7 and installed it from scratch and I can use the phone but it wont backup my ROMs anymore.
Have you guys found anything new ?
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I just stopped using Trinity and went back to the stock CM kernel. I don't think it's just miui, I never used that. But...
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Update cwm to latest recovery 5.0.2.0 i believe.
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+1 cwmr 5.0.2 is the first to officially support ext4 partitions
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YESS! Looks good. I did hear about that. Looks like it's time to give Trinity another try
Error mount/system!
I can't restore my stock rom,i've tried to fully wipe but got:
-- Wiping data...
Formatting /data...
Error mounting /data!
Skipping format...
Formatting /cache...
Formatting /sd-ext...
Formatting /sdcard/.android_secure...
Data wipe complete.
and cant restore
Checking MD5 sums...
Erasing boot before restore...
Restoring boot image...
Restoring system...
Error mounting /system!
Skipping format
Can't mount /system!
and cm7 doesnt boot,now im just stuck in ClockworkMod Recovery v4.0.0.5
is there any ways to flash stock rom in clockworkmod??
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I can't restore my stock rom,i've tried to fully wipe but got:
-- Wiping data...
Formatting /data...
Error mounting /data!
Skipping format...
Formatting /cache...
Formatting /sd-ext...
Formatting /sdcard/.android_secure...
Data wipe complete.
and cant restore
Checking MD5 sums...
Erasing boot before restore...
Restoring boot image...
Restoring system...
Error mounting /system!
Skipping format
Can't mount /system!
and cm7 doesnt boot,now im just stuck in ClockworkMod Recovery v4.0.0.5
is there any ways to flash stock rom in clockworkmod??
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Update your recovery, both, fake and nvflash.
i was also having the can't load system issue. upgrading to latest clockwork mod via rom manager to v5.0.2.0 resolved the issue and i was able to take a backup of my current system.
jblah said:
i was also having the can't load system issue. upgrading to latest clockwork mod via rom manager to v5.0.2.0 resolved the issue and i was able to take a backup of my current system.
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Where do I find the latest clockwork mod and how do I install it? I currently have a soft bricked phone, and I can't seem to get it unbricked. I tried using the pit files with the stock rom, the dbdata stuff and everything else. What happened was the the system was in ICS, but something happened and I couldn't load into CWM 4 and the system wouldn't boot. So to fix, I used odin to install the stock rom (v2.3.3), but the stock rom came with CWM 3.0, so now I'm at 3.0 and can't mount the file system and it's not booting. I'm assuming that if I upgraded the CWM back to a newer version, I'll be able to restore the system and gain access to the file system again.
reboot problem
i jus flashed ext4 converter for kernel update every think went fine but i couldnt mount system coz it was showing error i neglected dat nd flashed every thing was done nd when i rebooted it gt stuck in d samsung galaxy y logo...plzzz help meee wat to do..plzzz help
Abizer98 said:
i jus flashed ext4 converter for kernel update every think went fine but i couldnt mount system coz it was showing error i neglected dat nd flashed every thing was done nd when i rebooted it gt stuck in d samsung galaxy y logo...plzzz help meee wat to do..plzzz help
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I'd ask in the samung galaxy forums bud.
"my mind draws lots of blanks actually"
Solution
asn_86 said:
I can't restore my stock rom,i've tried to fully wipe but got:
-- Wiping data...
Formatting /data...
Error mounting /data!
Skipping format...
Formatting /cache...
Formatting /sd-ext...
Formatting /sdcard/.android_secure...
Data wipe complete.
and cant restore
Checking MD5 sums...
Erasing boot before restore...
Restoring boot image...
Restoring system...
Error mounting /system!
Skipping format
Can't mount /system!
and cm7 doesnt boot,now im just stuck in ClockworkMod Recovery v4.0.0.5
is there any ways to flash stock rom in clockworkmod??
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actually yes. the /system folder is corrupt and it need to be formatted. so all you need to do is format / system then it will work as it should
hope that helps
Hello everyone,
I installed custom ROM for the first time on my Galaxy fit , flashed with CM9 ICS for FIT with CWM 5.0.2.
Installed CWM by Odin.
It worked fine. Then I tried Creed v4 ROM and wiped cache and data from CWM.
The ROM was giving problems so I wanted to revert back to CM9 so flashed again with CM9 but this time
when I tried to wipe data , it freezed on formatting data.
I tried to revert to stock Rom with Odin and this is now happening with the Stock 2.3.4 ROM too.
CWM cannot wipe data , Is my partition corrupted?
I cannot wipe data partition and All Roms freeze on Boot animation.
Pls help , I am tired of flashing again and again...
Is there any other way to do this.
I am using Stock XWKQ2 for 5670 on samsdroid.com
not every stock from writes the data partition try a Odin flashable rom which writes /data partition may resolve the problem
dheeraj (dhlalit11) said:
not every stock from writes the data partition try a Odin flashable rom which writes /data partition may resolve the problem
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Thanks for the reply ,
I have used two stock roms for the phone and flash them from Odin.
S5670XWKQ2.tar
I'll use DDKT2 and come back.
Is there any way to repair the data partition?
single tar will not work use the four package file but still its not 100% sure to help
dheeraj (dhlalit11) said:
single tar will not work use the four package file but still its not 100% sure to help
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Thanks dheeraj,
it worked
Used a european ROM multiple packages and its working now.
glad to read that
My current rom has decided to not boot, so I want to go back to stock rom however when i flash it with Odin it hangs at system.img but no errors come up from odin or my phone? Iv let it run for an hour but no change. Any ideas?
Thanks.
Lordnoodle said:
My current rom has decided to not boot, so I want to go back to stock rom however when i flash it with Odin it hangs at system.img but no errors come up from odin or my phone? Iv let it run for an hour but no change. Any ideas?
Thanks.
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maybe u should try to flash any custom (maybe cm7) rom, after flashing while restart you may find recovery menu....format system (not memory card) and wipe dalvik cache in advance opting....maybe this will help u...
you can find custom rom for g3 in here.......<<<<<<<<<<<http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1234591>>>>>>>>>>>
I was using parandroid 2.53 then ı wanted to update to 2.54 but I could not do.So ı wanted to go back stock rom as DDLF2..I flashed this rom with odin therefore phone didnt open just play animayion of samsung..I knew I shuld wipe dat and wipe cache..I wiped the phone but still cant open..when formating there is a fail as 'E:format_volume: rfs format failed on dev/block/stl10' I think my problem abaout this but I dont know what ı should do..please help me what should I do??(I tried XXLE4 but nothing chanced)
Better flash from kpe+pit and then DDLF2.
That problem probably because of your current phone partition is ext4, and you are trying to flash rfs partition inside.
PS. flash with pit file, your data will be gone.
alex88510 said:
Better flash from kpe+pit and then DDLF2.
That problem probably because of your current phone partition is ext4, and you are trying to flash rfs partition inside.
PS. flash with pit file, your data will be gone.
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dude thanks a lot..now there is no problem its working
At first i flashed slimbean, all working great until i notice that the imei/baseband just broke, so after some research it seems that i need to get back to stock and backup efs with a handy script...
...so, first i tried using heimdall and flashing this, got red cwm, but it didn't worked at all (logs errors, can't mount data/cache, etc), also got bootloops on the At&t bootanimation. Surprisingly i could flash cm9, and the blue (5.x) recovery kinda worked, only logs errors, but then i just got stuck on the samsung/cyanogen logo, again, flashed slim bean, just to make sure it wasn't bricked, it worked fine as the first time but the imei/baseband still broken...
aparently i'm stuck on jb... i read somewhere that /data and /cache in jb uses a diferent filesystem (iirc ext4) from gb (ext3?), so that might explain why i couldn't get back to gb after wiping data/cache and using heimdall, apparently i need to format data/cache back to previous filesystem used in gb...
my question is, what was the older filesystem used on gb and how can i format the required partitions to that fs?
- Thanks in advance
EDIT: This solved my issue, apparently the jscott30's odin package didn't had all the required parts to fully get back to stock... or maybe i just did something wrong... Thanks anyway... Mods can close this