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Nexus S storage corrupt

Hi, I'm having a lot of issue with my Nexus S so I want to reflash with full 2.3.3 image... The thing is when I mount the phone and copy the file, after I reboot the Nexus S to go in recovery... The update.zip is not there. I tried to create a folder and put some files on it... When I unmount the phone and remount it ... everything is gone except "LOST.DIR | .android_secure | Android | DCIM. The rest is gone .... Looks like the phone memory is corrupt ...
Looks like everytime the phone use the memory everything begins to crash (force close of all application) and even the phone just freeze and I need to remove the battery.
Is there any way I can save my phone? Probably a bad flash or something cause this issue (I flashed to gingerbread 2.3.3 from the file found on this forum)
If anyone is able to help.... it will be appreciate.
Thanks.

Here's something to add:
Looks like the whole storage is read-only (at some point) I'm changing some settings and after a reboot it's not kept ... backgroung is default, google account is not configured .... Even tried to factory-default again and it gives me a unable to format /system or /data I don't remember the whole line ... I was kinda stuck in the custom recovery where you can flash from /sdcard/update.zip ... I look at the mount with "adb shell" and it looks OK.
I can provide adb logcat if needed ... But any help will be appreciate ...
Thanks!

Put the phone in download mode then reflash using Odin after it boots go into settings and wipe your SD and then do a hard reset. That should fix any problems.
Sent from my Nexus S

if you have CW recovery installed, you can use it to fix the permissions issues

Hi,
I tried the odin flash and no good... now I installed the CW recovery and tried the fix permissions... looks like it's hang... is this procedure long?? I'll leave the phone like this...
Tried to wipe to factory default and reflash... same issue has before, update.zip is not staying on the usb storage... Is there another way to fix this issue...
Thanks for your help, appreciate!
Sent from my Nexus One

Ok, fix permissions done, still not working... tried to factory default... No good.... Any ideas?
Sent from my Nexus One

SpOuK-3- said:
Here's something to add:
Looks like the whole storage is read-only (at some point) I'm changing some settings and after a reboot it's not kept ... backgroung is default, google account is not configured .... Even tried to factory-default again and it gives me a unable to format /system or /data I don't remember the whole line ... I was kinda stuck in the custom recovery where you can flash from /sdcard/update.zip ... I look at the mount with "adb shell" and it looks OK.
I can provide adb logcat if needed ... But any help will be appreciate ...
Thanks!
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I have the exact same issue... were you able to fix it?

in the worse case scenario, in CWR advanced menu you can format the internal SD card

I'm very interested to hear how you get on with this, sounds like the infamous freezing problem that the Nexus S seems to suffer from.
Please let us know how you get on and if the suggestion above to format the internal SD with cwm works.

xspyda said:
I'm very interested to hear how you get on with this, sounds like the infamous freezing problem that the Nexus S seems to suffer from.
Please let us know how you get on and if the suggestion above to format the internal SD with cwm works.
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Tried it... it doesn't work ... SpOuK-3- said he sent his phone to samsung

legojj said:
Tried it... it doesn't work ... SpOuK-3- said he sent his phone to samsung
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Bugger! I was hoping there would be another way. Out of interest, had either of you recently performed an update either ota or manual?

try fastboot oem lock and then fastboot oem unlock.
unlocking the bootloader will wipe and format ur sd card

deeren said:
try fastboot oem lock and then fastboot oem unlock.
unlocking the bootloader will wipe and format ur sd card
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Yea i have tried that, no success.
And yes I did a nightly update (build 39)

legojj - as above had you recently performed an update when you ran into this problem?

xspyda said:
legojj - as above had you recently performed an update when you ran into this problem?
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Yes, i went from cyanogens nightly build 38 to nightly build 39.

legojj said:
Yes, i went from cyanogens nightly build 38 to nightly build 39.
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I figured that would be the case (though not necessarily cyanogenmod related). This seems to be the common factor with all Nexus S phones suffering from the freezing issue - the problem always starts pretty soon after an update.

xspyda said:
I figured that would be the case (though not necessarily cyanogenmod related). This seems to be the common factor with all Nexus S phones suffering from the freezing issue - the problem always starts pretty soon after an update.
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Do you know if there is any way of fixing it, cause I have even used odin and still nothing. Do you know what the re partition check box in odin does?

As far as I can tell there is no way to fix it, not for us users. Not even sure Samsung fix the issue, seems they just give replacements which is quite worrying.
I started a thread about the freezing issue to gather info and hopefully to find a pattern / solution to the problem. Apart from establishing that the problem seems to occur after an update in.every case, so far no dice.
I'd be delighted to hear of a fix as I feel like I'm waiting for a time bomb to go off with my Nexus S!

Ok... so after doing some reserch i decided to use adb shell to delete the sdcard partition and remake it inorder to hopefully find the error. Everytime i tried deleteing the partition, nothing happened. So i tried resizing it and then i got the error that saying
" /.../clockworkmod/backup/.../data.img is corrupt run scandisk or chkdisk. "
Two things that dont exisist or i dont know how to use on adb shell. Anyways, it seems the corrupt file was created by my clockworkmod before i updated to the new cyanogen.

That's interesting although from my own research I'm not convinced cwm is the cause of the freezing issue as there are many reports of people running into problems without having ever flashed a custom rom or recovery.
I'm glad you're trying to get to the bottom of this though, it wiuld be great for us to be able to find a solution.
I refuse to believe the only sulolution is to replace the phone - can't see this being anything but software related.
Please keep us posted.

[Q] Wiping Data wont wipe data.

So I am going to type out my story so that nothing is missed. I really wanna fix my phone.
*I started out a regular user. Saw TWEAKED 3.0BETA and give it a try. When the final release came out I put it on no problem.
*YESTERDAY My phone tried to update facebook, got an error like "wrong file size" or something stupid, it crashed and I could care less.
*THIS MORNING I wake up and I had a text message from my GF with a picture attached, I couldn't see the picture like normal and downloading it downloaded a blank file!
*SO, I decided to BOOT into CWM and erase everything. Wipe Data. Wipe Cache. Wipe Delvik. Then proceeded to put in Tweaked 3.1 which came out not to long ago.
*After doing so, the phone would boot into where it normally would, but then the "first start wizard" would crash and force close, along with every other process on the phone looping their crashes over and over etc.
*SO, this time I tried using ODIN to flash back to 4D. Set it up just like IMNUTS post said to, including the PIT file, did it, and booted up. SAME THING. Every process would crash including the new user wizard.
After letting it crash loop for while it finally got silent enough for me to skip the wizard and see whats on the phone. ALL MY OLD APPS ARE STILL THERE. Pandora, and all my other apps, still installed, and apparently, CRASHING upon its boot use or whatever.
What do I need to do. Ive tried to ODIN flash every stock version of the charge rom and my apps are still there. Still kicking.
Worst part is months ago my mother (who I share the family plan with) had to cancel the warranty because we are all low on cash, and even worse I lost my job 2 weeks ago so I can't get a new phone.
HELP!!!! Thanks in advance!

namcost said:
So I am going to type out my story so that nothing is missed. I really wanna fix my phone.
*I started out a regular user. Saw TWEAKED 3.0BETA and give it a try. When the final release came out I put it on no problem.
*YESTERDAY My phone tried to update facebook, got an error like "wrong file size" or something stupid, it crashed and I could care less.
*THIS MORNING I wake up and I had a text message from my GF with a picture attached, I couldn't see the picture like normal and downloading it downloaded a blank file!
*SO, I decided to BOOT into CWM and erase everything. Wipe Data. Wipe Cache. Wipe Delvik. Then proceeded to put in Tweaked 3.1 which came out not to long ago.
*After doing so, the phone would boot into where it normally would, but then the "first start wizard" would crash and force close, along with every other process on the phone looping their crashes over and over etc.
*SO, this time I tried using ODIN to flash back to 4D. Set it up just like IMNUTS post said to, including the PIT file, did it, and booted up. SAME THING. Every process would crash including the new user wizard.
After letting it crash loop for while it finally got silent enough for me to skip the wizard and see whats on the phone. ALL MY OLD APPS ARE STILL THERE. Pandora, and all my other apps, still installed, and apparently, CRASHING upon its boot use or whatever.
What do I need to do. Ive tried to ODIN flash every stock version of the charge rom and my apps are still there. Still kicking.
Worst part is months ago my mother (who I share the family plan with) had to cancel the warranty because we are all low on cash, and even worse I lost my job 2 weeks ago so I can't get a new phone.
HELP!!!! Thanks in advance!
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have you tried mounting /data & /system before you did a full format?
also you should try to re-partition when you ODIN back... that FORCES
a partition format and then re-installs the OS

je2854 said:
have you tried mounting /data & /system before you did a full format?
also you should try to re-partition when you ODIN back... that FORCES
a partition format and then re-installs the OS
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mounting /data & /system would change it to say "unmount?"
but as far as odin goes, I checked the box that said re-partition. I followed IMNUTS post down to the letter, all my apps are still there.

namcost said:
mounting /data & /system would change it to say "unmount?"
but as far as odin goes, I checked the box that said re-partition. I followed IMNUTS post down to the letter, all my apps are still there.
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yes, make sure it says "unmount" after you choose those options...
CWM for the charge sometimes has troubles and need a little help
get going. did you have a *.pit when you selected re-partition? it
wont do anything unless you have a *.pit file...
I know it's not good to hotlink so I will give you the page link as well
as the link itself (as there are TONS of choices)
Charge ODIN + PIT
Cell Phone ODIN Page

je2854 said:
yes, make sure it says "unmount" after you choose those options...
CWM for the charge sometimes has troubles and need a little help
get going. did you have a *.pit when you selected re-partition? it
wont do anything unless you have a *.pit file...
I know it's not good to hotlink so I will give you the page link as well
as the link itself (as there are TONS of choices)
Charge ODIN + PIT
Cell Phone ODIN Page
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yeah i got the pit file, its actually link in the xda forums "http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1111486"
so when in CWM, make both data and system say "unmount" then go back in the menu and erase data? im just making sure better safe then sorry.

namcost said:
yeah i got the pit file, its actually link in the xda forums "http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1111486"
so when in CWM, make both data and system say "unmount" then go back in the menu and erase data? im just making sure better safe then sorry.
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yes. I know on the EVO you needed to format a couple of times to make sure that CWM actually formatted correctly.
So you might wanna try that. also did you try going to
Privacy -> Factory data restore option?
mind you I think you do need the stock recovery option to do that but I know that works well.
Just ODIN a stock recovery.. it shouldn't touch any custom items you might have.

je2854 said:
yes. I know on the EVO you needed to format a couple of times to make sure that CWM actually formatted correctly.
So you might wanna try that. also did you try going to
Privacy -> Factory data restore option?
mind you I think you do need the stock recovery option to do that but I know that works well.
Just ODIN a stock recovery.. it shouldn't touch any custom items you might have.
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I can't get into the phone, it wont get past the setup wizard. all the applications force close over and over and over again. i did however use the factory recovery mode to wipe and that did nothing either....
I just set it to "unmount" on both the data and system and now im wiping. I remember when I first started with this after wiping once with CWM the next few times wouldn't take long at all because there was nothing to wipe....

so i did as you said with the data and system, wiped it, and nothing, damn crap still there.
it literally wont erase it

namcost said:
so i did as you said with the data and system, wiped it, and nothing, damn crap still there.
it literally wont erase it
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can you find a "clean" stock ROM and flash it and then wipe data through CWM and then go into the OS and wipe?
let me see if i cannot come up with something to wipe for you

je2854 said:
can you find a "clean" stock ROM and flash it and then wipe data through CWM and then go into the OS and wipe?
let me see if i cannot come up with something to wipe for you
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ive pretty much done that, using IMNUTS quide, i flashed via odin EP4D or whatever the name is with the charge.pit file and reset data and all data still there.....

namcost said:
ive pretty much done that, using IMNUTS quide, i flashed via odin EP4D or whatever the name is with the charge.pit file and reset data and all data still there.....
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you MUST install an OS after you use this or you will boot loop into recovery.
this purges everything in the phone. (Non-recursively deletes)
I haven't tried this on mine as I am beta testing... but what can it hurt for yours?

je2854 said:
you MUST install an OS after you use this or you will boot loop into recovery.
this purges everything in the phone. (Non-recursively deletes)
I haven't tried this on mine as I am beta testing... but what can it hurt for yours?
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can you guide me with steps?
i use odin with that file? then right after odin a rom?

namcost said:
can you guide me with steps?
i use odin with that file? then right after odin a rom?
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Flash that in CWM (I assume it's a CWM zip? Didn't bother to check) and flash Tweaked 3.1 full CWM afterwards. Have both on the card ready to go.
Edit: oops I meant 3.2 not 1
Edit 2: nope, definitely meant 1. What am I doing this morning?
Sent from my SCH-I510 using xda premium

have that CWM zip and another installation ready to go on the root of the SDCard.
flash the wiper and then install the OS
doesn't matter what ROM you have...

Did that zip work?

je2854 said:
Did that zip work?
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haven't tried yet. i was given samsung pst so im trying that atm. afterwards as a last resort ill use what you mentioned.

okay, so i did it. put on cwm, both tweaked 3.1 rom and that wipe all file on the sd card. booted it up. ran the wipe file. then ran tweaked. booted up, and it stuck at the samsung logo. then i figured it was wiped, so i went and hooked it up for odin and put EP4D on it again so i can get fresh, and as soon as i got in all my apps were there, and everything was crashing one process after another.
i think the phone is borked and non recoverable.

Did you happen to mount the /system and /data first as previously mentioned?
That should have forcefully removed everything. Also on a normal basis (if not using a PIT) it won't erase /data ... it never has for me anyways.
How much time does it give you when you get the FC's until it happens again (the FC) can you try
To manually uninstall? ( Applications -> Manage Applications and then deleting then one by one? Or take titanium backup and run a batch to delete the applications in one go....
I'm sorry, I'm just trying to figure this out and help you the best way possible.
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Also have you tried a non rooted ODIN? With a PIT?

baseband unknown :((

So i must have messed up my phone while using the all in one root unlocker and so on. Im not sure what i did, but i finally got my phone to boot, and now i get no service. Im on tmobile and it says i have no sim card. When i go into about phone it shows baseband unknown.
I really have no idea what to do. Ive never been stuck in this situation. Maybe someone more experienced can point me in the right direction?
any help would be appreciated!

aamzalag said:
So i must have messed up my phone while using the all in one root unlocker and so on. Im not sure what i did, but i finally got my phone to boot, and now i get no service. Im on tmobile and it says i have no sim card. When i go into about phone it shows baseband unknown.
I really have no idea what to do. Ive never been stuck in this situation. Maybe someone more experienced can point me in the right direction?
any help would be appreciated!
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so furthermore, it looks like i have no data partition anymore, i can go on my chromebrowser on the phone and browse the web but when i try to install anything it says no sdcard. I also cant move anything to the phone via windows, it just freezes even tho i can see the phone and go into the internal storage.
Im really screwed here. Ive also used the fastboot files to flash back to google stock, but for some reason continue to find everything borked.
HELP PLZ!!! ahah

Also, finding that i cant mount any partition, cache, data, anything liek that. It seems like my partitions have been messed up . Not sure how to resolve that

Well it looks like your the first one to brick the nexus 5. If your imei is missing your screwed.
P.S.A DON'T USE TOOLKITS
Sent from my NEXUS 5

Might be helpful to others to explain exactly what you did to your phone.

lafester said:
Might be helpful to others to explain exactly what you did to your phone.
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He used a tool kit. Who knows what it did to his phone
Sent from my NEXUS 5

I realize that maybe using the toolkit may not have been a good choice but considering im already here. Constructive advice might be a little more helpful... I know that with my old verizon GS3 if i lost my imei/ similar info, i could nv flash myself and get it back in certain cases. Does a similar thing not exist for the nexus 5? Id imagine that a truly unlocked device like this one should have a method to get back from anything?

aamzalag said:
I realize that maybe using the toolkit may not have been a good choice but considering im already here. Constructive advice might be a little more helpful... I know that with my old verizon GS3 if i lost my imei/ similar info, i could nv flash myself and get it back in certain cases. Does a similar thing not exist for the nexus 5? Id imagine that a truly unlocked device like this one should have a method to get back from anything?
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If you've flashed the stick images and it hasn't fixed it then you might be out of luck. With the n4 there is a thread on how to restore the phone with LG nv flash in download mode. I don't think the tools or files are available yet for the n5 tho
Sent from my NEXUS 5

i dont know what i did, but i restored the factory image one more time, then booted to stock recovery and wiped all partitions. The phone booted and my imei and baseband are back. Working 100% now. Gonna sit out the rooting and so on for now. time to relax for a bit

So you can't fastboot flash anything? Can you fast boot flash twrp recovery from the android SDK on a PC?
Sent from my Nexus 7

aamzalag said:
i dont know what i did, but i restored the factory image one more time, then booted to stock recovery and wiped all partitions. The phone booted and my imei and baseband are back. Working 100% now. Gonna sit out the rooting and so on for now. time to relax for a bit
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That's how I fixed my N4. I flashed the factory images 3 times.

Glad it's working finally
Sent from my Nexus 7

Ya, fastboot continued to work, and iw as able to flash the factory images.At first those werent fixing anything. the final time i flashed it right before it worked again, i let the phone sit and run the boot screen for about 30 minutes before i went to stock recovery and wiped. Then it booted perfectly.
The previous times i had flashed twrp and wiped which i believe was the cause in the first place.
Thanks all its working perfect now. The device is amazing,!

aamzalag said:
The previous times i had flashed twrp and wiped which i believe was the cause in the first place.,!
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Sames just happened to me, but I didnt use a toolkit, i did it all manually.
Quick flash of the factory image sorted it. :victory:
UPDATE: Flashed TWRP again....All ok this time.

You guys unlocked the bootloader first right?
Sent from my SGH-I747

This has just happened to me. I have installed the stock images 2 times now.
Is there anything you guys did differently to make it work?

My N5 decided to wipe the baseband and IMEI when I went to wipe the cache through recovery. Tried to reflash factory images 5 times and each time, when the phone boots up, hangouts, camera and gallery apps force close and I still have no network signal or IMEI/baseband.
Worst bit is all I did was wipe the cache partition, done that a million times and never had this problem
Anyone know what i can do?
I've relocked the bootloader for now but I can't call Google because my only phone is the Nexus 5 so that's out of the question.
Edit:
Managed to fix it by using a slightly different set of fastboot commands.
Here's what I did:
adb reboot bootloader
fastboot flash bootloader bootloader-hammerhead-HHZ11d.img
fastboot reboot-bootloader
fastboot flash radio radio-hammerhead-M8974A-1.0.25.0.17.img
fastboot reboot-bootloader
fastboot -w update image-hammerhead-krt16m.zip
fastboot reboot-bootloader
That worked for me

WRAITH07 said:
My N5 decided to wipe the baseband and IMEI when I went to wipe the cache through recovery. Tried to reflash factory images 5 times and each time, when the phone boots up, hangouts, camera and gallery apps force close and I still have no network signal or IMEI/baseband.
Worst bit is all I did was wipe the cache partition, done that a million times and never had this problem
Anyone know what i can do?
I've relocked the bootloader for now but I can't call Google because my only phone is the Nexus 5 so that's out of the question.
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After you flash the factory image, boot into recovery and do a factory reset.

You mentioned a cache wipe. Was this in CWM or TWRP? My N5 hung trying to do a cache wipe in CWM. After rebooting the sdcard was inaccessible. The solution was to flash TWRP from fastboot, and do an advanced wipe of only the cache, and give it TIME. Like 5-10 minutes. After another reboot I had the sdcard and radio back, but some write permission issues. One more reboot and everything was ok again.
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cmstlist said:
You mentioned a cache wipe. Was this in CWM or TWRP? My N5 hung trying to do a cache wipe in CWM. After rebooting the sdcard was inaccessible. The solution was to flash TWRP from fastboot, and do an advanced wipe of only the cache, and give it TIME. Like 5-10 minutes. After another reboot I had the sdcard and radio back, but some write permission issues. One more reboot and everything was ok again.
Sent from my Nexus 5 using Tapatalk
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I had this issue while wiping cache in TWRP 2.6.3.0
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Locked out after switching to ART

Yesterday I've tried to give ART another shot over Dalvik but since the necessary reboot my phone refuses to admit me beyond the screen lock PIN. The contents of the phone aren't backed up (save for contacts and emails) so a factory reset is out of the question. I've been pulling up an a allnighter trying to get it somehow to connect to adb so I can pull a backup from there, but to no avail so far. It's the latest en.GB rom (4.4.4), 3G 16GB version
I did attempt to clear the cache from the recovery menu, it didn't work. Not even safe mode made the trick.

Nognir said:
Yesterday I've tried to give ART another shot over Dalvik but since the necessary reboot my phone refuses to admit me beyond the screen lock PIN. The contents of the phone aren't backed up (save for contacts and emails) so a factory reset is out of the question. I've been pulling up an a allnighter trying to get it somehow to connect to adb so I can pull a backup from there, but to no avail so far. It's the latest en.GB rom (4.4.4), 3G 16GB version
I did attempt to clear the cache from the recovery menu, it didn't work. Not even safe mode made the trick.
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I don't get it. Your device doesn't accept the phone PIN after you've switched to ART or what?
Just fyi, you'd better provide as much info as possible about the phone.Is it rooted, what recovery do you have....

liveroy said:
I don't get it. Your device doesn't accept the phone PIN after you've switched to ART or what?
Just fyi, you'd better provide as much info as possible about the phone.Is it rooted, what recovery do you have....
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Yes, exactly that - the screen lock PIN, not the sim lock PIN. And no, it's not rooted or modded in any way, I would have mentioned that

Nognir said:
Yes, exactly that - the screen lock PIN, not the sim lock PIN. And no, it's not rooted or modded in any way, I would have mentioned that
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That's bad, hmmm
You got one option, but not quite sure if its gonna work or not (probably it will...).Flash the stock system partition only and erase cache via fastboot.That will eventually revert to Dalvik and wont wipe the data partiton.
Or maybe first try to erase the cache via fastboot and see if something changes.

liveroy said:
That's bad, hmmm
You got one option, but not quite sure if its gonna work or not (probably it will...).Flash the stock system partition only and erase cache via fastboot.That will eventually revert to Dalvik and wont wipe the data partiton.
Or maybe first try to erase the cache via fastboot and see if something changes.
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I'm giving that a shot and reporting back soon - downloading the firmware atm and charging the device
Edit: erasing the cache on its own didn't help
Edit 2:Sideloading failed, it aborted while verifying update package. Perhaps this only works for unlocked bootloader?

Nognir said:
I'm giving that a shot and reporting back soon - downloading the firmware atm and charging the device
Edit: erasing the cache on its own didn't help
Edit 2:Sideloading failed, it aborted while verifying update package. Perhaps this only works for unlocked bootloader?
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No, the images are signed with the proper signature that is valid for the bootloader.Did you use 4.4.4 image or 4.4.2?

liveroy said:
No, the images are signed with the proper signature that is valid for the bootloader.Did you use 4.4.4 image or 4.4.2?
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UK retail 4.4.4, same version as the one I've been using

bummer
Maybe try the full flashing procedure, except the erase userdata. Although this might end up in a bootloop.
If that doesn't help, let's hope someone else pops up with a fresh idea...
By the way, post some screenshots of the errors you get, might help.

liveroy said:
bummer
Maybe try the full flashing procedure, except the erase userdata. Although this might end up in a bootloop.
If that doesn't help, let's hope someone else pops up with a fresh idea...
By the way, post some screenshots of the errors you get, might help.
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I just tried what you said above - the full flashing save for the userdata wipe. Still, absolutely no change. But I missed mentioning above that I get a com.android.systemui error right after I enter the screen PIN, in either normal mode or safe mode. Then I get to see the launcher for half a second and I'm prompted to enter the screen PIN again.
Edit: I noticed somewhere saying (not in XDA) that if you let the phone completely discharge it somehow switches back to dalvik - I'll place my last bet on that

Need Help

I had just downloaded the latest firmware to upgrade to lolipop, I did a titanium backup, then a nandroid with TWRP.
Upon reboot I can only get to the default recover screen (The one with the android on the skateboard). I can boot into TWRP and have tried clearing cache and delvik cache, and now doing a factory reset but I'm still having the problem. sometimes when rebooting from TWRP the phone boots to the lock screen (or to setup screen after factory reset), then a few seconds later reboots back to the screen with the android on the skateboard.
I haven't even started installing the new firmware, all I did was backup with TWRP and it seems to have semi bricked the phone.
I also tried restoring the backup and I get an error "E:\ No Partition selected for restore."

Justintoxicated said:
I had just downloaded the latest firmware to upgrade to lolipop, I did a titanium backup, then a nandroid with TWRP.
Upon reboot I can only get to the default recover screen (The one with the android on the skateboard). I can boot into TWRP and have tried clearing cache and delvik cache, and now doing a factory reset but I'm still having the problem. sometimes when rebooting from TWRP the phone boots to the lock screen (or to setup screen after factory reset), then a few seconds later reboots back to the screen with the android on the skateboard.
I haven't even started installing the new firmware, all I did was backup with TWRP and it seems to have semi bricked the phone.
I also tried restoring the backup and I get an error "E:\ No Partition selected for restore."
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You flashed twrp either by twrp manager or allowed flashify to download the image for you. Try flashing the firmware zip I posted in tigerstowns thread that has twrp in it. If that doesn't work you will need to ruu and then install twrp and restore. Do not use twrp manager.

dottat said:
You flashed twrp either by twrp manager or allowed flashify to download the image for you. Try flashing the firmware zip I posted in tigerstowns thread that has twrp in it. If that doesn't work you will need to ruu and then install twrp and restore. Do not use twrp manager.
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I beleive I flashed twrp origionally from fastboot, that was months ago though when we got the 4.4.4 update.
Do you mean I need to flash that zip from fastboot?
I'm worried about trying to flash firmware with the phone in a strange state. I'm almost thinking that something went bad inside the phone, but not convinced yet. It has been doing strange things lately, constant searching for location, pausing itself durring playback of music, and some random restarts. I haven't been messing it it so it seems strange to all of a sudden have these issues after many months.

Justintoxicated said:
I beleive I flashed twrp origionally from fastboot, that was months ago though when we got the 4.4.4 update.
Do you mean I need to flash that zip from fastboot?
I'm worried about trying to flash firmware with the phone in a strange state. I'm almost thinking that something went bad inside the phone, but not convinced yet. It has been doing strange things lately, constant searching for location, pausing itself durring playback of music, and some random restarts. I haven't been messing it it so it seems strange to all of a sudden have these issues after many months.
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Nah man. Just reflash the firmware zip that contains twrp and report back. The older twrp are not safe to use on the newer firmware. I have a pda thread stickied in the general section that explains. Phone is likely fine.

dottat said:
Nah man. Just reflash the firmware zip that contains twrp and report back. The older twrp are not safe to use on the newer firmware. I have a pda thread stickied in the general section that explains. Phone is likely fine.
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Ok, yea, I flashed the new firmware (with twrp) using fastboot , I'm still stuck on the same screen though. I did not install lolipop because I need to get the phone to USB mode to copy it over, which I cannot do because it will not start up.

Justintoxicated said:
Ok, yea, I flashed the new firmware (with twrp) using fastboot , I'm still stuck on the same screen though.
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Ok...so follow me...if you flashed what you thought was cache on the new firmware but using an older twrp you wiped system instead.
Do you have your stuff backed up?

dottat said:
Ok...so follow me...if you flashed what you thought was cache on the new firmware but using an older twrp you wiped system instead.
Do you have your stuff backed up?
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I don't know, I made a nandroid to my external memory card and immediately after that I was no longer able to start up... I tried to restore the nandroid and I cannot. So I would say no I am probably not backed up. I do still have RDKN rom on the memory card for 4.4.3, should I try to re-install that?
TWRP is now version 2.8.5.0, so apparently it updated correctly (I think before it was 2.8.1)

Justintoxicated said:
I don't know, I made a nandroid to my external memory card and immediately after that I was no longer able to start up... I tried to restore the nandroid and I cannot. So I would say no I am probably not backed up. I do still have RDKN rom on the memory card for 4.4.3, should I try to re-install that?
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No. Your best bet to get your stuff back would be to downgrade firmware back to 4.4.4 and reflash the latest twrp img only and then restore your nand.

dottat said:
No. Your best bet to get your stuff back would be to downgrade firmware back to 4.4.4 and reflash the latest twrp img only and then restore your nand.
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Ok my internet is not working on my laptop at work (only of the PC I'm on and no way to transfer files without my phone), so I guess I will try to do this when I get home. At this point I don't even care about my data, I wanted to save my text conversations but other than that everything I need should be saved in my titanium backup.

Justintoxicated said:
Ok my internet is not working on my laptop at work, so I guess I will try to do this when I get home. At this point I don't even care about my data, I wanted to save my text conversations but other than that everything I need should be saved in my titanium backup.
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And that's what I figured. So flash 4.4.4. Flash latest twrp. Restore nand from ext sd. Boot up. Install this app.
https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=95916177934537937
Run it and link to your Google account and make it perform a backup.
It will do your apps/email accounts/texts/even home screen layout. And it will do it once a day for you automatically or on demand whenever.
Once you get a good backup on this app you can simply flash the new ruu and use this app to restore.

dottat said:
And that's what I figured. So flash 4.4.4. Flash latest twrp. Restore nand from ext sd. Boot up. Install this app.
https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=95916177934537937
Run it and link to your Google account and make it perform a backup.
It will do your apps/email accounts/texts/even home screen layout. And it will do it once a day for you automatically or on demand whenever.
Once you get a good backup on this app you can simply flash the new ruu and use this app to restore.
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Update, restarted the computer and I was able to restore the old firmware. I re-installed the old rom afterwards (not my nandroid) and I am unable to get into the OS. Well technically I get prompted to select a language, after which the phone reboots back to the S-off androids with skateboards bootloader. Does this mean my phone is toast?

Hey guys, should I S-on the phone load the stock bootloader and try to return it? It is over a year old so I think I will need to use my insurance ($100). What is the best way to go about doing this?
Also when I get my replacement phone will there still be a way to S-off?
Thanks,
- Jusitn

The problem appears to be something wrong with my micro SD card! I removed the micro SD card and I can boot up fine. I guess I need to find another way to copy the rom to the micro SD install the rom then remove the micro SD card.
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Oh this is worse than paying $100 for a new phone. It appears that creating a backup instead of creating a backup, actually corrupted my memory card. Now all the photos are backed up to the cloud but it will take me hours and hours to get all my apps back to the way they were. Some Security camera settings, Rifle target hand load development all gone. Audio book place holders, all notes taken etc. Nothing life or death but those security cameras will take me forever to figure out. I know I know, why not create a backup right? Well that's what I was trying to do!

So I was able to get back some data using some recovery software, unfortunately I was not able to retrieve the nandroid or the titanium backup files. Pictures were backed up to the could and music licenses and other hting I can add back on from the PC. Very time consuming though.
Anyways, what should I do now? Should I just reformat the SD card and continue to use it or should I assume that this happened because the card is bad and replace it with something else?

Justintoxicated said:
So I was able to get back some data using some recovery software, unfortunately I was not able to retrieve the nandroid or the titanium backup files. Pictures were backed up to the could and music licenses and other hting I can add back on from the PC. Very time consuming though.
Anyways, what should I do now? Should I just reformat the SD card and continue to use it or should I assume that this happened because the card is bad and replace it with something else?
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I don't know what file system you're using but assuming it's one that windows can read, connect it to a PC and run chkdsk on it. If you don't know how to do that from a command prompt, right click on the drive in windows explorer and choose properties. Then tools and then click on the check now button under Error-checking. A small window will open. A line that says automatically fix file system errors will be checked by default. In your case, I'd suggest also checking the line that says "scan for and attempt recovery of bad sectors". It'll take a while for it to complete with that line checked so be patient. If you're lucky, it might just fix your problem. No promises but it's worth a try.
When it's done you can look in your event viewer to see what it found, if anything. If it finds bad sectors, I wouldn't trust the card. It can be used but there's no guarantee that more problems won't pop up. Maybe, maybe not.
To get to your event viewer, in Win 7 (not sure about Windows 8) click start and in the search box type event.vwr. I'm not sure what category you have to look under in there but perhaps under Winlogon. That's where you'll find it if it requires a reboot to check the card but that's not likely so I'm not sure.

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I don't know what file system you're using but assuming it's one that windows can read, connect it to a PC and run chkdsk on it. If you don't know how to do that from a command prompt, right click on the drive in windows explorer and choose properties. Then tools and then click on the check now button under Error-checking. A small window will open. A line that says automatically fix file system errors will be checked by default. In your case, I'd suggest also checking the line that says "scan for and attempt recovery of bad sectors". It'll take a while for it to complete with that line checked so be patient. If you're lucky, it might just fix your problem. No promises but it's worth a try.
When it's done you can look in your event viewer to see what it found, if anything. If it finds bad sectors, I wouldn't trust the card. It can be used but there's no guarantee that more problems won't pop up. Maybe, maybe not.
To get to your event viewer, in Win 7 (not sure about Windows 8) click start and in the search box type event.vwr. I'm not sure what category you have to look under in there but perhaps under Winlogon. That's where you'll find it if it requires a reboot to check the card but that's not likely so I'm not sure.
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exFat for the card, and yes I am on windows 7. I tried to run a check as it was detected as having problems when I plugged the card into my laptop. Then it said I needed to dismount the drive and I said ok. Then it would just hang up. I reformatted the card and then ran the checkdisk again and it tells me that there are no problems now. I guess the card is ok and the issue was caused by TWRP? Not very cool when creating a back delete all your titanium backups and your nandroid that you were trying to create. Unfortunately I have to start from scratch on everything now. I even tried restoring to an older nandroid from May that was saved on my computer but that failed as well. for different reasons.

Justintoxicated said:
exFat for the card, and yes I am on windows 7. I tried to run a check as it was detected as having problems when I plugged the card into my laptop. Then it said I needed to dismount the drive and I said ok. Then it would just hang up. I reformatted the card and then ran the checkdisk again and it tells me that there are no problems now. I guess the card is ok and the issue was caused by TWRP? Not very cool when creating a back delete all your titanium backups and your nandroid that you were trying to create. Unfortunately I have to start from scratch on everything now. I even tried restoring to an older nandroid from May that was saved on my computer but that failed as well. for different reasons.
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What reason did the restore fail for? And don't ever s-on unless you have let me have a crack at a phone. Not one thing you have said so far makes me think its phone. Unfortunately I have ended up with corrupt exfat discs before too. Sucks.

dottat said:
What reason did the restore fail for? And don't ever s-on unless you have let me have a crack at a phone. Not one thing you have said so far makes me think its phone. Unfortunately I have ended up with corrupt exfat discs before too. Sucks.
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I don't remember, probably missing a file or something.