So I've been using my P3110 (Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 7.0) for about 8 months now, I've never done a thing wrong, was the first device I rooted on and installed ROM's on etc.
Today whilst I was a little bit drunk I decided to give PhilZ Touch Recovery a try.
Then I made an oops.
I formatted /system /sdcard.
If I go to turn off the recovery it says "Root access is missing. Root Device?" If I select "No" it just turns off. If I select "Yes - Root Device (/system/xbin/su)" it turns off then restarts Recovery Mode.
I cannot turn on my device as I formatted the system.
I cannot mount /sdcard or /ext-sd either.
If I plug in my device and try to root with Odin of course nothing comes up to say that anything is connected on Odin.
Is there anything I can do or am I screwed? This'll sure teach me to play with my device whilst intoxicated.
Never mind, sorted it. For some reason it wouldn't mount my SD Card, so I placed my other SD Card in and tried mounting and it worked.
Apologies for wasting your time and making myself look like a fool!
Alright post number 3.
Now after installing CM I reboot and get stuck on the "Samsung GALAXY Tab 2 7.0" screen.
Help is much appreciated.
Update number 4!
After staring at the initial boot animation as said above for about 20 minutes. I removed my SD Card and finally CM logo appeared.
This isn't coincidence, I tried it multiple times. The only way my Tab will start up is if I don't have my SD Card in...
Any ideas what might be causing this problem?
Update 5!
All fixed, I had no idea what was up. So I just treat my device as if I just got it out of the box. Rooted with Odin (after spending 30 minutes finding the right drivers to install so Odin would work), CWM recovery, install CM10.1.1 ROM and all is good in the world.
Sorry to anyone who reads this. I can ramble...
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I hadn't touched my tab for a couple weeks since I only really use it in my car as a GPS and Entertainment center but when I grabbed it to charge it up, it was completed drained. No problem here since this has happened before and I'd just charge it up. So I boot it after the full recharge and it's stuck on the Samsung Galaxy Tab logo. After a little while I check it again and I'm like, "Crap, it's bricked. I'll need to reset it with Odin."
I proceed with Odin and nothing. It's still bricked. I do a factory reset and this is where I notice my big problem. When I do a factory reset or reboot I get
E:Can't open /data/log/recovery.txt
E:copy_kernel_file :: Can't open /data/log/recovery_kernel_log.txt
I tried reflashing the kernel, pit and firmware and I'm getting nowhere. What gives?
try removing the SD card and see if it boots up.
DigitalMD said:
try removing the SD card and see if it boots up.
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Still no go but this did give me an idea. I just tried a simple reboot from recovery WITHOUT the SD card and got the error:
E:Failed to mount /sdcard
E: is the SDcard so I will create the directory with the files I mentioned above. I found the files on a different thread regarding a Samsung Galaxy phone. This may work.
I'm also going to try another flash without the SD installed to see if I have any luck there.
Thanks.
Issue is fixed
I decided to reflash while the SD card was removed and it got passed the initial splash screen. It was stuck at some wierd lock screen asking for a password. I went into recovery to do a wipe and factory reset and that brought the tablet back to life on reboot.
All is good again.
I have a Samsung Galaxy tab 2 GT-P5110 which I had successfully installed CM12 onto. I decided to set up work email which insisted that I encrypt the device. I believe that the process completed successfully.
At that point I decided that I would like to flash the device with CM12.1. Restarted the process (Factory reset, Wipe Cache, Wipe dalvik cache) and flash the new CM12.1 zip file from external SD card.
I cannot now get to the recovery mode and the device doesn't always boot into anything recogniseable. The screen goes black and blacker! I have manaed to get to the CM logo and then a screen asking me for the PIN for the encryption. The next screen tells me that the PIN is right but the data is corrupt. It gives me the option to "RESET TABLET" but that really doesn't do anything and won't let me in to the recovery menu.
I can get into the Download mode and connect Heimdall up to it.
Is there anything that anyone can point me at that will help me to unbrick it?
I hope I've passed on enough information to help. It seems to me I need to somehow re-format the internal SD but I can't get to any menu that will allow me to do that.
Any thoughts anyone?
Ta
Fixed It
I seem to have fixed it. I flashed the CWM Recovery rather than the recovery that I had been trying to use and I got control of the device back. Not sure why that made a difference but this time the Android Robot came on screen with the 3D polygon rotating inside it and it seems to be running correctly now and updated to Android 5.1 ... Magic!
Hi All.
So I'm not new to rooting / ROMs (nor am I an expert, as you'll see), but somehow have totally screwed up my tab. I've now honestly done so many things to try to recover, that I couldn't begin to summarize how I got into this mess, but I'll try.
Model is GT-P5113. Most recent working ROM was SlimLP 5.1
I went to flash CM12.1 (using CWM) and God only knows what happened. After it flashed, I tried to reboot and it would only go to CWM recovery. If I chose to reboot device, it would only shutdown, not reboot (This was actually one of the issues I was having with SlimLP as well, so I don't think the flashing had anything to do with that???)
After many attempts at reinstalling CM and SlimLP (I used the same Zip that had worked previously with SlimLP, and the flashing would say installed) it would still only boot to recovery. I finally said, screw it, I'll just start completely over
So attempted to go back to stock 4.2.2 using Odin3.09. Got the stock ROM off SamMobile site. ODIN seemed to flash,but again when it would go to reboot, it would just power down and a charging battery would show up. So I would unplug from the computer, push power button. When it powered up, it would say Installing system update, then after the status bar moved a bit, it would say Error and shut down. When I restart, it very briefly says installing system update, then show the dead android with a red triangle and No Command, and it would boot to the stock android system recovery (I assume CWM was taken off in the process). In yellow, under the stock recovery it says
# MANUAL MODE #
-- Appling Multi-CSC...
Applied the CSC-code : XAR
Successfully applied multi-CSC.
I've tried installing the other ROMs again, this time with TWRP, but only for it to boot to recovery after the Samsung Tab 10. 1 logo.
I have no clue where to go from here. No clue if I'm still rooted (doubt it). At this point I don't care. I just want a functioning tab. I've spent hours searching, but nothing works. I'm open to any / all ideas.
Thanks
Aw, show me a little love, bros. Someone' gotta know something. I'm not above begging / pleading.
I can give more info, less info, post somewere else. Just let me know,and help me resuscitate my tab.
thanks again!
Hi, I'm new to the forum, I am kinda scared so I'll try to be careful.
I have a Samsung Galaxy Trend Lite GT-S7390 (I know it's not a great device, but it's what I have), I had installed in it a CM11 rom which worked pretty well, except for not playing videos. In a Facebook group for users of that phone I saw a modded version that worked several video bugs for that rom, so I downloaded it along with the GApps, copied them into the SD Card and went into recovery (TWRP).
When I tried to factory reset, I had the next issue: "Unable to mount /sdcard" (which is the internal memory, I think). I tried to mount it on my PC and format it (I'm not really sure what mounting is, I'm sorry), but I wasn't successful.
Anyway, I rebooted the device, and it asked me if I wanted to re-install SU because I wasn't root (which I was). First time I said yes, and it rebooted into recovery (even when i selected power off). Then I tried powering it off again by recovery, and it rebooted into recovery again. I took off the battery, and now it just shows the model number and it stays in a black screen.
I really don't know what I did wrong, and I am very afraid of having bricked my phone. If anyone has any comments or suggestions I would really appreciate it. Thank you very much!
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Hi, I'm new to the forum, I am kinda scared so I'll try to be careful.
I have a Samsung Galaxy Trend Lite GT-S7390 (I know it's not a great device, but it's what I have), I had installed in it a CM11 rom which worked pretty well, except for not playing videos. In a Facebook group for users of that phone I saw a modded version that worked several video bugs for that rom, so I downloaded it along with the GApps, copied them into the SD Card and went into recovery (TWRP).
When I tried to factory reset, I had the next issue: "Unable to mount /sdcard" (which is the internal memory, I think). I tried to mount it on my PC and format it (I'm not really sure what mounting is, I'm sorry), but I wasn't successful.
Anyway, I rebooted the device, and it asked me if I wanted to re-install SU because I wasn't root (which I was). First time I said yes, and it rebooted into recovery (even when i selected power off). Then I tried powering it off again by recovery, and it rebooted into recovery again. I took off the battery, and now it just shows the model number and it stays in a black screen.
I really don't know what I did wrong, and I am very afraid of having bricked my phone. If anyone has any comments or suggestions I would really appreciate it. Thank you very much!
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Hey,
Try restoring back to stock ROM from the following link http://forum.xda-developers.com/general/help/4-2-2-stock-rom-samsung-galaxy-trend-t3185066.
Cheers.
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Hey,
Try restoring back to stock ROM from the following link http://forum.xda-developers.com/general/help/4-2-2-stock-rom-samsung-galaxy-trend-t3185066.
Cheers.
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There, I was able to go to Download mode, reinstall the Recovery and flash the ROM. I think I got it from here, thank you very much!
Hi! So, my father's old Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 10.1 P5110 (bought 5 years ago) has gotten into a bootloop. It's an odd case. Basically, it's like the device is completely read-only.
To describe the symptoms:
It boots into the OS, but after 30 seconds or so it suddenly restarts. The device cannot be turned off (it just reboots and reboots and reboots...), so it empties the battery if left unplugged.
I can enter download mode and recovery mode, where the device is stable.
The device is not rooted.
I tried to flash it with TWRP recovery (it worked on my mother's tablet; exact same model, but no problem like this), but the recovery mode is always unchanged. I've flashed with Odin 1.8*, Odin 3.0*, and latest Heimdall; it always completes, but nothing changes. I've learned about having to boot to recovery after flashing due to a script replacing custom recovery, but even when I go directly to recovery mode, it's the same old stock recovery.
I decided to try another approach, by uninstalling apps during those short 30 second intervals of functioning OS; I got to uninstall one app (AVG anti-virus software), but after the reboot, the app was installed again.
I tried to go into recovery mode to do "wipe data/factory reset" and "wipe cache partition", but even that did nothing! Everything is where it was.
I can use ADB in recovery mode, so I tried to see if I could do some damage there, but the tablet is unrooted, and no rooting works either. (Tried rooting with Odin and "apply update from external storage" in stock recovery.) Couldn't find a writable directory to upload a su executable into either.
Just now I finished a 90 minute flashing of some Chilean stock firmware -- although I'm Swedish -- to see if that made things "rewritable", but guess what? All the old apps and files and settings were still there, in Swedish.
At this point I'm starting to suspect that I could hit it with a sledgehammer and it would just return to normal after a minute.
My father is not poor (just a bit cheap!), so buying a new tablet isn't a big deal, but I'm ostensibly a computer engineer...ing student, so it feels like a surrender to leave it unsolved. What might be the problem? Can memory in these devices become read-only due to some hardware fault?
Risky suggestions are welcome. If it's bricked, that's no problem.
EDIT: Whoops! My father ordered a new tablet; I was still going to experiment on the old one, maybe get it working again, but it seems that he went and tried the sledgehammer mode on it. But what happened is still an open question.