I did something stupid and installed rom manager, it corrupted my recovery. I restored to stock rom i found online using odin but it says you need to wipe factory settings to make it boot. The recovery is now the stock one but it displays error messages and when I choosed a command it does nothing. What should I do?
EDIT: I flashed another stock rom this time i could boot into the phone. Some of my apps went missing and superuser went missing. It was a little weird. The recovery still shows errors and no command. It says
"can't access to '/system/csc/VAU/system". I don't think I can root it again and install a custom rom. I dont know what is the right thing to do now. I just want to root it and install a rom
EDIT2: I installed another recovery called Amon-RA recovery and I still get errors. I am thinking maybe the recovery partition is corrupted. I get these errors.
E: Can't mount CACHE:recovery/command
E: Can't mount /dev/block/stl14
(invalid argument)
E: Can't mount CACHE:recovery/log
E: Can't open CACHE:recovery/log
E: Can't mount /dev/block/stl14
(invalid argument)
turntaker said:
I did something stupid and installed rom manager, it corrupted my recovery. I restored to stock rom i found online using odin but it says you need to wipe factory settings to make it boot. The recovery is now the stock one but it displays error messages and when I choosed a command it does nothing. What should I do?
EDIT: I flashed another stock rom this time i could boot into the phone. Some of my apps went missing and superuser went missing. It was a little weird. The recovery still shows errors and no command. It says
"can't access to '/system/csc/VAU/system". I don't think I can root it again and install a custom rom. I dont know what is the right thing to do now. I just want to root it and install a rom
EDIT2: I installed another recovery called Amon-RA recovery and I still get errors. I am thinking maybe the recovery partition is corrupted. I get these errors.
could you please download below files and install with odin.also you need samsung usb driver
S5670XWKTI_S5670DBTKT1_DBT
Odin_GT-S5670 (odin 4.38)
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I downloaded it and flashed it..AND I REALIZED THAT I WAS STUPID....
YOU DONT PRESS THE POWER BUTTON TO SELECT YOU PRESS HOME BUTTON.... LOL
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So I flashed CM7 to my phone a while back. It worked. Fantastic.
There were some drawbacks to having a pre-nightly rom so I wanted out. I looked at the dev forums and saw the instructions to flash the full stock rom to the phone. A genuine factory reset. I followed the instructions, hoping it would work (and before anyone asks, yes, I did turn off the lagfix in voodoo).
Odin continually fails to flash the stock rom onto my phone and now I can only get to the bootloader on my phone. I can't mount USB storage, I can't get anything onto my phone to flash with CWM, and I now have a phone I cannot use until I get this fixed.
Obviously I did something wrong, but I'm having trouble retracing my steps to find out what that wrong move was. If anyone knows what I did wrong just by reading this, awesome, please help me out.
Also, when I try to mount usb storage from CWM, I get an error saying
E:Unable to open ums lunfile (No such file or directory)
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and on loading the bootloader I get
ClockworkMod Recovery v4.0.1.0
E:Can't mount /cache/recovery/command
E:Can't mount /cache/recovery/log
E:Can't open /cache/recovery/log
E:Can't mount /cache/recovery/last_log
E:Can't open /cache/recovery/last_log
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Don't know if you're still having an issue, but flash ec10 or ee19 through Odin, and make sure to check re-partition. You can either stay there or go to the gingerbread based EH09, which is the official firmware. Before you flash that in Odin, uncheck re-partition. It might say that it failed. If it does, disconnect the phone, put the battery back in and power it up. If it works, and it should, you're golden. Hope this helped
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I had the same scenario w/ my Showcase. I did everything "correctly", and I never could get GB to load back on there after loading CM7.1. I tried multiple versions of 2.2 through Odin, I constantly got FC's. Then I tried reloading GB, I got stuck in boot loop. I had to send it in to Samsung... under warranty.
I have had my Nexus S 4g rooted for sometime and have flashed many roms, so I'm not a complete nooby... but for some reason I'm stumped right now.
I woke up this morning to my phone in the TWRP recovery thing and I just tried to restart my phone but it wouldn't boot up so I figured I would just restore to a previous ROM and all of my backups were just gone. This is the error I have: error opening /sdcard/TWRP/BACKUPS/randomcharacters
But that was way at the bottom, above it I see all these notifications saying that nothing is mounting... so I go and wipe all my stuff to try to re-install the ROM I already had because it had been working very nice and it was just gone. Couldn't find it at all so I figure ok... let's just mount it and put the ROM on my phone... but when I try that my computer tells me that I need to insert a disk into the removable disc.
So right now I really have no clue what to do and I can't use the one click stock since I can't get to my phone to turn on USB debugging.
Any help?
Sorry if this has been answered elsewhere but I was unable to find anything similar.
And I have tried unrooting using this site:
nexusshacks. com/nexus-s-4g-hacks/how-to-unroot-nexus-s-4g/
However, it doesn't work after "fastboot flash system system.img"
And when I go look at the log thing in TWRP I get this:
*Verifying filesystems...
*Verifying partition sizes...
E: Unable to mount /system
(x20 with different things!)
E:failed to mount /sdcard (No such file or directory)
Gah! Have no idea how this happened!!
getliketie said:
And when I go look at the log thing in TWRP I get this:
*Verifying filesystems...
*Verifying partition sizes...
E: Unable to mount /system
(x20 with different things!)
E:failed to mount /sdcard (No such file or directory)
Gah! Have no idea how this happened!!
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Can you go into fastboot? I would try to fastboot flash recovery, flash CWM and start from there. If it still wouldn't work i would presume that either your NAND went bad or that somehow the partitions got screwed... I do remember something similar happening to me on my wife's SGS and the solution was a Odin flash of a stock ROM to restore the partitions.
DeuXGod said:
Can you go into fastboot? I would try to fastboot flash recovery, flash CWM and start from there. If it still wouldn't work i would presume that either your NAND went bad or that somehow the partitions got screwed... I do remember something similar happening to me on my wife's SGS and the solution was a Odin flash of a stock ROM to restore the partitions.
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I can go into fastboot! That is the mode I'm in.
I am currently trying to unroot my device using the unroot guide from nexusshacks. com but I get a forever hang time when it is writing my system.
So I just flashed CWM but I am no sure what to do from here! I tried mounting sd card and usb but neither worked. However, I did see an option to format my sd card. Should I do that directly from CWM? And in the advanced menu I see an option to partition my sd card.
At this point I just want to have my phone back in working condition.
You can try to format the SD card, but i think it won't work... If it doesn't work try to search for Odin and the files to restore to stock ROM, maybe it can fix the partitions... The SD card partition option in CWM i never used, so i'm not sure what it does in this case.
So I tried the Odin and I'm still stuck in the writing system stage... I have no idea what to do at this point.
getliketie said:
So I tried the Odin and I'm still stuck in the writing system stage... I have no idea what to do at this point.
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Seems your NAND reach its end. There's allot of topics regarding that problem with the Nexus S and every single one of them ended up with the OP sending the phone to Samsung or getting a new phone...
So not eaxctly sure how this happened.
...currently on TWRP 2.2.1.4, and was trying to update bootloader and recovery.
Somehow in the process of trying to fix it, everything got wiped (yey)
On TWRP, under mount, I can only select Mount System
Then when I try to do anything, i get this:
E: failed to mount /data (no such file or directory)
also
E: tw_format: failed to locate device "/dev/block/mmcblk0p2"
E: Unable to mount '/data' (tw_mount)
E: Unable to mount '/cache' (tw_mount)
Any suggestions are greatly appreciated
You need to give us more info!
What bootloader and rom were you on?
What bootloader and recovery are you on now?
What and how did you try to flash?
C.patrick said:
...currently on TWRP 2.2.1.4
....
E: Unable to mount '/data' (tw_mount)
E: Unable to mount '/cache' (tw_mount)
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Your TWRP is too old and incompatible with your current bootloader. Can you still get to the bootloader menu? DO NOT "WIPE DATA" FROM THE BOOTLOADER MENU. Then use fastboot from a PC to install a more recent TWRP.
berndblb said:
You need to give us more info!
What bootloader and rom were you on?
What bootloader and recovery are you on now?
What and how did you try to flash?
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Yessir.
Bootloader, not sure. I forgot what part in time I bricked it (months ago). Is there any way to tell via TWRP?
Recovery: TWRP 2.2.1.4
I believe it was CM 10.1. I was attempting to update the bootloader in order to install the new ROM. this was without updating recovery, which is where I think this problem originates.
Thanks!
_that said:
Your TWRP is too old and incompatible with your current bootloader. Can you still get to the bootloader menu? DO NOT "WIPE DATA" FROM THE BOOTLOADER MENU. Then use fastboot from a PC to install a more recent TWRP.
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Power+Volume right? The device will vibrate once, but screen will remain off. Just power boots into the ASUS screen with unlock message, then TWRP 2.2.1.4. No matter what combination or timeing I try I cant get it into the bootloader. (gone right)
I have tried clicking all the possible buttons in TWRP in my desperate attempts to fix.
Will not mount a system.
Nvflash? nope. Dont have the og backup.
Any ideas on what else to try?
Thanks!
C.patrick said:
Power+Volume right? The device will vibrate once, but screen will remain off. Just power boots into the ASUS screen with unlock message, then TWRP 2.2.1.4. No matter what combination or timeing I try I cant get it into the bootloader. (gone right)
I have tried clicking all the possible buttons in TWRP in my desperate attempts to fix.
Will not mount a system.
Nvflash? nope. Dont have the og backup.
Any ideas on what else to try?
Thanks!
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Read this and see if buster's method can get you fastboot access.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2399698
Good luck!
Got no error when flashing, but got stuck on a loop when try to reboot the phone
Hello,
I have a big problem,
i have flashed yesterday a new rom with the ADB- Sideload after that still the Gapps.
Now i reboot them and in the Display of TWRP show that no firmware is installed.
I have still reboot the Smartphone and they works but it hasn't any google apps (wtf).
Now i want go back into the Recovery and then was an error:
"unknown command
support API 3
E: failed to mount /cache (invalid argument)
E: cant mount /cache /recovery (last_locale)
in a loop every 5 Seconds"
and now i can't go to the Recovery and into the Bootloader.
I don't know what to do.
PS: sorry for my bad englisch
What do you mean you can't go into bootloader?? No matter how bricked a device is, you should still be able to boot into the fastboot menu.
By the way, which ROM did you flash? If that was a custom ROM, did you flash gapps right after the ROM?
Hello!
I have problem with my phone, i cannot access recovery mode, only bootloader and download mode. The only way i can access twrp is by booting it in fastboot, so i can't erase data from fastboot because of "S-ON".
Tried some things earlier like changing file system, but only message ive got was "/data/cache etc failed to mount (invalid argument" "unable to mount storage" so i don't really know what to do.
Obviously i need some help
Sorry for my english tho ;p
I would forgot, i rooted it and installed custom rom about week ago, till yesterday it was running fine.