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Hi guys, i'm in desperate need of your help. i think my precious o3d might have been screwed.
first let me tell you what i did. as you know the internal sd card of o3d is 5gb or so and it fills up very quickly. this internal sd card is mounted as /sdcard. i have a class 10 16gb micro sd card and when i insert it, its automatically mounted as /sdcard/_ExternalSD. The applications or games, especially the ones that have external data folders which are like 1gb in size insists to be installed on /sdcard. You can't move those data folders to _ExternalSD, because then the apps doesn't work.
Then i came across this topic:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1189701
As you can see that was exactly what i needed. I had CWM 5.0.2.0 installed so i downloaded the first .zip then copied all of the files and folders excluding the _ExternalSD folder to the external sd card then rebooted into recovery. From there i flashed the zip and rebooted again. phone booted up and all was ok and it worked. now the phone sees the external sd card as the internal one and the internal sd card was mounted as /sdcard/_ExternalSD. I then formatted the internal sd card from the settings menu because i already copied all of the stuff there to the external card. It worked fine and the internal card is formatted. After that i decided to get a nandroid backup so i opened the rom toolbox program. From the menus i selected the backup option, gave it a name, clicked ok. the phone rebooted into cwm recovery screen but nothing happened. then i noticed something was not right because there was some error lines under the cwm menus saying "E:can't mount CACHE:recovery/command" etc. Then i selected the reboot phone option but the phone rebooted right back into the CWM recovery again!! At that point i knew that i was @#?^ed.
Anyways i researched a lot and came across this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1156549
i did exactly what he said and it worked, i mean it flashed nicely. then i rebooted the phone but it booted into the recovery again!!! But this time the CWM recovery was gone and i believe this is the stock recovery screen. I can browse the menu of it and make selections but the phone boots into the recovery every time it reboots.
The recovery screen looks like this:
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7010/6654644033_b616bc0635_z.jpg
Then i flashed the phone to the latest official firmware V21A_00, it flashed nicely but it still boots right into the recovery everytime.
Then i installed the Android SDK and tried to push the original vold.fstab file to the system using the adb command line tool but it doesn't see the phone. I think adb works only when the system boots up normally, not in the recovery mode.
I don't know if there's a way to install the CWM from the stock recovery somehow. If you know how, please tell. The CWM has more options.
I don't know what else i can do. It started to look ridiculous. If there are any experts cool enough to help please do so. I'll be waiting. Thank you...
Edit:
I also tried this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=1244490
I starts just fine but get's stuck on the "RESET" command, after a while it gives "DOWNLOAD FAIL!" error. I think the phone is supposed to restart automatically but it doesn't. Manually resetting the phone doesn't work either.
I'm about to pull my hair out...
Edit 2:
I also posted on the official LG Mobile forum here:
http://www.lgforum.com/forum/boards...d-goes-into-recovery-mode-every-time-it-boots
Fingers crossed
Quite a post!
From all your post there is no mention that you formated and did a factory reset after 21a flash.
Can you please try that if you haven't?
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thank you for the reply!
i tried all 4 wipe options on the recovery screen then rebooted. it's the same, i'm back at the good old recovery again
Did you try with the external sd card out?
This is strange, usually a kdz flash coupled with a format fixes the problem.
Some how it still can't find the internal SD card.
I don't have further recommendations. Sorry
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yes i tried with the external sd card out. it didn't work..
vpamir said:
yes i tried with the external sd card out. it didn't work..
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Hopefully someone else on this forum can suggest a way for you to unbrick.
your problem is although you have reset your phone, somehow it can't find a partition to boot from.
or
somehow the KDZ flashing is not totally successful.
good luck
If only there could be a way to be able to use the adb command from the Android SDK then i might be able to restore the vold.fstab file to its original, if the problem is that at all. Maybe then it'll work. To be able to flash the CWM Recovery again somehow might be a good thing too because it has more options like flashing .zip format roms but i have no idea how. Does anyone know if the stock recovery can flash some specifically named file to the system, does it have that kind of functionality? I'm desperate, please share your thoughts.
.............anyone?
I am sorry to say that but there is no solution for this problem yet. I have done the exact thing that you do and tried every single solution with no luck. The only way is to send it to lg repair service. My solution was to replace the mainboard.
Dostum gecmis olsun malesef tek cozum yolu anakarti degistirmek. Uzaman sayilirim android konusunda bosuna ugrasmayasin diye soyluyorum. LG servisi bile anca anakarti degistirerek cozum sunabildi. Temel problem internal karti formatlamis olman. Partititon table'i bozuyor bu islem malesef ve bu yuzden hicbir yontem ise yaramiyor.
Gecmis olsun tekrar...
so you say that the main problem was to format the internal sd card? well if formatting the internal sd card bricks the phone then why the hell is there an option to format it in the settings menu?
well if you didn't apply the swap fix, it wouldn't be a problem to format. When you swap the sd cards and format, it is the problem.
crime_of_heart said:
well if you didn't apply the swap fix, it wouldn't be a problem to format. When you swap the sd cards and format, it is the problem.
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so you did exactly the same thing as me right? i mean you applied the swap fix then formatted the internal sd?
replacing the motherboard to fix this seems to be a bit nonsense to me to be honest. what does the partition table have anything to do with the motherboard?
if only there would be a .kdz format custom rom which factory resets the internal sd card during the flash process and maybe fixes the bootloader somehow, that might be the solution.
yes i did the same and the only solution was to replace the motherboard. we need a sowftware that can reach to the emmc in low-level. like omap flasher. but we also need the correct drivers which doesn't exist yet.
crime_of_heart said:
yes i did the same and the only solution was to replace the motherboard. we need a software that can reach to the emmc in low-level. like omap flasher. but we also need the correct drivers which doesn't exist yet.
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i don't know what the emmc is, i need to do research on that. but i still think that replacing the motherboard won't solve this issue because it seems non relevant to me. i messed up with the vold.fstab file. but after that it worked fine. i mean the internal and external cards swapped just fine. only after i decided to make a nandroid backup using rom toolbox all hell broke loose. i plan to wait a couple of days before turning the phone to LG service. i believe someone will come up with an idea.
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Well, there´s a new recovery for the O3D, v5.0.2.7 (I got it with ROM Manager).
It fixes 2 bugs of the previous (5.0.2.0) version: now the USB mass storage option in the mounts menu works (mount external SDCARD), and we can use ADB while in recovery. That way we can fix stuff in the phone filesystem while in recovery: we can now use ADB shell, or ADB push to replace files.
The problem is that I don´t know how to flash it to the phone while in the stock recovery. If someone can guide me on creating a signed ZIP containing this new recovery, flashable in the stock recovery, I would be glad to do that and post it here. I think these phones of you guys can be fixed using this method!
Marcovecchio said:
Well, there´s a new recovery for the O3D, v5.0.2.7 (I got it with ROM Manager).
It fixes 2 bugs of the previous (5.0.2.0) version: now the USB mass storage option in the mounts menu works (mount external SDCARD), and we can use ADB while in recovery. That way we can fix stuff in the phone filesystem while in recovery: we can now use ADB shell, or ADB push to replace files.
The problem is that I don´t know how to flash it to the phone while in the stock recovery. If someone can guide me on creating a signed ZIP containing this new recovery, flashable in the stock recovery, I would be glad to do that and post it here. I think these phones of you guys can be fixed using this method!
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Great news! But now i need to find a way to install the new CWM. Just as you said i believe what i need is to find or make a .kdz update which includes this new CWM.
What do you think?
I know this is possible, at least for the Galaxy Ace: I have a ZIP file for this device with a custom recovery image, flashable in stock recovery!
To make one for the Optimus 3D, I need to know the following:
- How can I obtain the .IMG of the new recovery? I have found some temp files in clockworkmod folder in my sdcard. The creation date of one of them matches the exact moment I upgraded my recovery, and the file size also matches a recovery image: 5.54MB. Is it the recovery image? Can I just rename it to recovery.img? How can I extract it to ensure it´s ok?
- After I get the recovery image, I can use the Galaxy Ace ZIP as the base to build the O3D zip file. Any help on what do I have to change to make it work correctly?
I also tried this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1244490
I starts just fine but get's stuck on the "RESET" command, after a while it gives "DOWNLOAD FAIL!" error. I think the phone is supposed to restart automatically but it doesn't. Manually resetting the phone doesn't work either.
I'm about to pull my hair out...
Edit: I'm 99% sure that this isn't a hardware related problem. And LG's software not being able to turn the phone to stock is totally [email protected]#$%!
On some "unbrick your optimus 3d" threads i came across this image:
http://attachments.xda-developers.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=667470&d=1311752328
i tried all methods around here but not once i came across a screen like it. weird...
well i give up guys. so much technical [email protected] going on and no one seems to understand this device enough. i'll turn it to the LG Repair Service today. Thank you everyone for your help...
Hi
How can i swap sdcard and extsdcard for i9105p.
I alrady tried tuterials for other phones on i9105p but it breaks the phone and it needs to flash stock 4.2.2 rom again (and root again).
Thanks in advance.
(Actually one friend of mine is working on issue and i'm just asking for him. But if someone put tuterial here i'll root and give it a try later )
vahid8910 said:
Hi
How can i swap sdcard and extsdcard for i9105p.
I alrady tried tuterials for other phones on i9105p but it breaks the phone and it needs to flash stock 4.2.2 rom again (and root again).
Thanks in advance.
(Actually one friend of mine is working on issue and i'm just asking for him. But if someone put tuterial here i'll root and give it a try later )
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of course you break your phone with other phone's instructions
go to setting. storage. format sd card. then this format your external sd card.
go to setting. backup and reset. choose factory data reset and then your phone will be fresh with internal wiped. but also every setting on your phone wiped off
hit thanks if i helped u
Brian_SGW_CM9 said:
of course you break your phone with other phone's instructions
go to setting. storage. format sd card. then this format your external sd card.
go to setting. backup and reset. choose factory data reset and then your phone will be fresh with internal wiped. but also every setting on your phone wiped off
hit thanks if i helped u
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Of course you didn't help because he didn't ask how to wipe. He asked how to swap internal memory and sdcard. I'm also looking for script or any-thing else that can do this.
I don't think you understood what I tried to say my freind.
By swap I meant replace extsdcard by sdcard so you can have more storage to install APS for example use a 32 gig micro SD as phone's SDcard partition.
It has to do something with vold.fstab file.
Like this tutorial
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1991583
And when I change it the phone won't boot and wiping partitions doesn't work cuz change was made by root access.
Does anyone have an idea how to restore original vold.fstab file without flashing ROM?cuz phone needs to be booted to restore it, but unfortunately it doesn't.
vahid8910 said:
Does anyone have an idea how to restore original vold.fstab file without flashing ROM?cuz phone needs to be booted to restore it, but unfortunately it doesn't.
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I you have backup of original file, download aroma filemanager http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1646108 go to cwm and install it. It will open file manager in recovery where you can restore original vold.fstab.
maelfilk said:
I you have backup of original file, download aroma filemanager http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1646108 go to cwm and install it. It will open file manager in recovery where you can restore original vold.fstab.
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Thank you
does it need root access?
For example Can I paste moded vold.fstab through this file manager on a nonrooted device then if it doesn't work try another one or just restore original vold.fstab and forget about it?
Cuz I do like mod my phone but I believe root is not an answer cuz I read somewhere it have some procceses before android boots which is not cool.
vahid8910 said:
Thank you
does it need root access?
For example Can I paste moded vold.fstab through this file manager on a nonrooted device then if it doesn't work try another one or just restore original vold.fstab and forget about it?
Cuz I do like mod my phone but I believe root is not an answer cuz I read somewhere it have some procceses before android boots which is not cool.
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I think it should work without root, all you need is cwm recovery.
I would say it needs root access and it doesn't, how?
although you can make changes on a non-rooted device but ROM itself undoes your changes so it have no use for modifying system files like vold.fstab.
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I think it should work without root, all you need is cwm recovery.
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that file manager doesn't show etc folder containing as well as lots of other files.
Is it same on your phone?
vahid8910 said:
that file manager doesn't show etc folder containing as well as lots of other files.
Is it same on your phone?
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Currently i don't have cwm recovery, but on my previous phone i succesfully used it (it was rooted).
maelfilk said:
Of course you didn't help because he didn't ask how to wipe. He asked how to swap internal memory and sdcard. I'm also looking for script or any-thing else that can do this.
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dude i was just trying to help you don't really needa be so mean
i actually call that partition from extsdcard and make the system to detect that partition as one part of the internal storage
i once found a script like that but i lost the link
Hi ,I am using Note 3 N9005 . I have rooted phone with lean kernel and Philz CWM based recovery.I was trying to clear some space on internal SD and deleted the storage folder fro the device. After deletindg this folder ,all the other folders in the same hirarchy also got deleted. Now I am able to boot into recovery restore backup using CWM bbut cannot flash any custom ROM .Is there any solution for this . After restoring the backup I tried factory reset ut still I cant flash ROM though I can flash another kernel and TWRP and other CWM based recoveries. I am stuck on to the rom that I dont want.
During flashing ROM I get an error cannot read update package /sdcard/media/0/rom.zip.
Please help if anybody came across such situation and was able to sole the problem
anshulsingh said:
Hi ,I am using Note 3 N9005 . I have rooted phone with lean kernel and Philz CWM based recovery.I was trying to clear some space on internal SD and deleted the storage folder fro the device. After deletindg this folder ,all the other folders in the same hirarchy also got deleted. Now I am able to boot into recovery restore backup using CWM bbut cannot flash any custom ROM .Is there any solution for this . After restoring the backup I tried factory reset ut still I cant flash ROM though I can flash another kernel and TWRP and other CWM based recoveries. I am stuck on to the rom that I dont want.
During flashing ROM I get an error cannot read update package /sdcard/media/0/rom.zip.
Please help if anybody came across such situation and was able to sole the problem
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My 2 cents, at least you could try to reflash with Odin a standard samsung rom for your note 3 in order to bring back all necessary files, then go further with a custom rom again.
Good luck
baudbox said:
My 2 cents, at least you could try to reflash with Odin a standard samsung rom for your note 3 in order to bring back all necessary files, then go further with a custom rom again.
Good luck
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Tried that too. Some how the folder structure has changed which is not allowing me to flash a new rom. Moreover I am not able to copy zip file to phone memory though I am able to copy the complete folder containing the zip file.This has been a new problem .
anshulsingh said:
Tried that too. Some how the folder structure has changed which is not allowing me to flash a new rom. Moreover I am not able to copy zip file to phone memory though I am able to copy the complete folder containing the zip file.This has been a new problem .
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Repair your filesystem via recovery or try flashing a ROM in a micro SD card.
Sent from my Nexus 7
EverDawn4 said:
Repair your filesystem via recovery or try flashing a ROM in a micro SD card.
Sent from my Nexus 7
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How do I do that .Do I need to format all the partitions ie data, system..... There is no option to repair file system.
anshulsingh said:
How do I do that .Do I need to format all the partitions ie data, system..... There is no option to repair file system.
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Try reparing all your partitions.
Sent from my Nexus 7
anshulsingh said:
How do I do that .Do I need to format all the partitions ie data, system..... There is no option to repair file system.
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Repair file system in my custom recovery is found inside Advanced Wipe
, please I need help. After I have rooted myc2305 android i swap the internal storage and the external. after editing the vold.fstab, I've restarted the device. And it just got stuck at the boot logo. I am new here at xda and i don't know how to do a nandroid backup before editing the vold.fstab file. i've tried methods like pulling the vold.fstab using adb, Please Help...
hi all
4 years ago i installed jaggyrom on my htc pico and also made cwm recovery. Now im thinking of giving it to one of my housememebers, but i need to revert to stock rom. I found the recovery.img and other files but i just cant remember how to restore it. I know it was easy and quick but no luck.
I tried it like this:
put the clockowork files into sdcard
go into recovery mode (power + vol down)
delete factory, cache, delvik...
And the problem is i dont know how to install it, it doesnt appear in instal zip from sdcard. I realy have no idea how to restore to old stock- do i need to partition the sd card? also these are the files on my old usb for recovery, under clockwork/backup/(date)
recovery.img, boot.img, nandroid.md5, system.jaffs2.img, cache,jaffs2.img, data.jaffs2.img, android.secure.vfat.tar.
I know it was easy restoring it 4 years ago, but im just missing something and i cant find or remember it
Guys pleeaase help
aztec111 said:
hi all
4 years ago i installed jaggyrom on my htc pico and also made cwm recovery. Now im thinking of giving it to one of my housememebers, but i need to revert to stock rom. I found the recovery.img and other files but i just cant remember how to restore it. I know it was easy and quick but no luck.
I tried it like this:
put the clockowork files into sdcard
go into recovery mode (power + vol down)
delete factory, cache, delvik...
And the problem is i dont know how to install it, it doesnt appear in instal zip from sdcard. I realy have no idea how to restore to old stock- do i need to partition the sd card? also these are the files on my old usb for recovery, under clockwork/backup/(date)
recovery.img, boot.img, nandroid.md5, system.jaffs2.img, cache,jaffs2.img, data.jaffs2.img, android.secure.vfat.tar.
I know it was easy restoring it 4 years ago, but im just missing something and i cant find or remember it
Guys pleeaase help
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Firstly flash yannou90 cwm recovery. Then make a full wipe and do not make any sd-ext partittions. If you have a backup copy this backup to sdcard like this sdcard/clockworkmod/backup/date. Then select backup and restore. Then select restore. Then select your backup. Wait and make a reboot. Hope this helps.