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Can't mount cache. Will not boot.

I have P6120, using garyd9's GT-P6210 kernel (p6210_Kernel_20120123.zip)
Everything was working fine, had no problems until this morning. Woke up and discovered my tab had restarted, and was stuck at the boot screen. Tried to reboot, same thing. Went into CWM to restore, and received an error saying it could not mount /cache and /efs.
Tried:
-reinstalling firmware from zip
-restoring through Kies (could not get it connect)
-restoring using Odin (was able to restore stock firmware/bootloader, but encounter same problem when trying to boot/load recovery.
Any ideas?
http ://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a155/aj4761/20120222_144305.jpg
(remove space after http since I'm a noobie)

have you tried factory rest in recovery?
I'd hit it a few times.
garyd would prob be the best to help here.

chrisrotolo said:
have you tried factory rest in recovery?
I'd hit it a few times.
garyd would prob be the best to help here.
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Yea tried that, just get "format_volume: make_ext4f4fs failed on /dev/block/mmcblk..." when it tries to format /data and /cache.

shiftit said:
Yea tried that, just get "format_volume: make_ext4f4fs failed on /dev/block/mmcblk..." when it tries to format /data and /cache.
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Try manually mounting cache and data first
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ringnutz said:
Try manually mounting cache and data first
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Not sure how to do that. I'll post back when I figure it out.

Mine did the same thing and I ended up having to return it. It would odin just fine but fail to boot and couldn't manually mount data or cache. I had a few sod's but no real issues with it until then.

Same here for me. I tried everything but nothing worked. I had to send it to Samsung to get it fixed.

shiftit said:
Not sure how to do that. I'll post back when I figure it out.
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In clockwork, go to mounts and storage
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ringnutz said:
In clockwork, go to mounts and storage
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Ah. I don't have CWM on it anymore. I restored the stock rom with Odin and haven't been able to change it back.

shiftit said:
Ah. I don't have CWM on it anymore. I restored the stock rom with Odin and haven't been able to change it back.
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Put the CWM zip on you external SD card and install it through stock recovery.
My 6210 did the same thing.
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You'll need to Odin. If it happens again, you might have bad flash memory in the tab.
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Same thing happened to me.
My GT7 Plus have rebooted randomly. One day, it was stuck at boot screen (Galaxy Tab 7.0 Plus Logo).
I tried to reset, factory reset, delete everything, odin, re-install original rom, etc...
Nothing worked. So, call to Samsung and send it to repair center or whatever.
Took me one and half week to get back my GT Plus. It works fine, but still reboot randomly.

Probably need a full firmware with pit to fix.

I already tried odin, restored with stock rom. Ended up exchanging it. Thanks for the suggestions everyone.

[Q] Phone Keeps On Reseting (Factory Reset) After Every Reboot?

I recently Flashed Kyrillios 9.0 and 9.6 and everytime I restart my Galaxy 3 it always Factory Resets, ie all the apps I had before are gone and all my desktop widgets are gone. Even worser is that it automatically turns on the 3G Internet connection which means I get charged £1 for no reason.
Also I wiped the Cache by accident after I flash 9.6 because I Flashed it separately (I flashed 9.0 first and i used it for a month then I decided to flash 9.6) so will I have to wipe the Dalvaik Cache aswell?

Try a clean flash of a stock rom. If it still happens then only solution is changing the motherboard. Look here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1324452
Edit: do you have 0.0kb memory bug?
Cheers
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Try to flash a different kernel, and clear cache and wipe data in the Recovery.

bscraze said:
Try a clean flash of a stock rom. If it still happens then only solution is changing the motherboard. Look here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1324452
Edit: do you have 0.0kb memory bug?
Cheers
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I have the problem of 0.0kb! (total memory reads 0.0kb), but i can't flash back to stock rom by odin or heimdall, the only way to flash roms is by CWM, but there are no CWM stock roms out there...

lastingfreedom said:
I have the problem of 0.0kb! (total memory reads 0.0kb), but i can't flash back to stock rom by odin or heimdall, the only way to flash roms is by CWM, but there are no CWM stock roms out there...
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Do a wipe data and factory reset
If problem still persists, reflash the desired Rom and then wipe data and factory reset
Y can't u flash via odin
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Arjav23 said:
Do a wipe data and factory reset
If problem still persists, reflash the desired Rom and then wipe data and factory reset
Y can't u flash via odin
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I've wiped data and done a factory reset for many times, still not working:crying:
Y can't u flash via odin<<I think maybe because the internal storage is 0.0kb therefore there's nothing to flash?? (or maybe I have to learn more about odin)

lastingfreedom said:
I've wiped data and done a factory reset for many times, still not working:crying:
Y can't u flash via odin<<I think maybe because the internal storage is 0.0kb therefore there's nothing to flash?? (or maybe I have to learn more about odin)
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U can obviously flash via odin in any case
Try it
And immediately wipe data and factory reset when phone boots into recovery the very first time
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Arjav23 said:
U can obviously flash via odin in any case
Try it
And immediately wipe data and factory reset when phone boots into recovery the very first time
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2081813
The 'friend' mentioned in this post is actually me (I sign up in XDA right after he post the problem for me)
by the way, here is how I flash with odin, trying to solve my problem, is there any mistakes?:
1. Put in altas 2.2 in the PIT section
2. Put in the .tar I want to flash in the PDA section
3. Press start
The phone didn't get into recovery, it just rebooted normally

lastingfreedom said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2081813
The 'friend' mentioned in this post is actually me (I sign up in XDA right after he post the problem for me)
by the way, here is how I flash with odin, trying to solve my problem, is there any mistakes?:
1. Put in altas 2.2 in the PIT section
2. Put in the .tar I want to flash in the PDA section
3. Press start
The phone didn't get into recovery, it just rebooted normally
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No
I don't know which odin version u r using
Download purukisadhybrid by shwetanklal
Extract it
Fire up doin
In ops select the. Ops shwetanklal has provided
Select flash as one package
On lower right see u will see a button of one package
Select the. Tar pckg (any. Tar pckg )
Go into download mode
As soon as the yellow coloured port comes up click start
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Arjav23 said:
No
I don't know which odin version u r using
Download purukisadhybrid by shwetanklal
Extract it
Fire up doin
In ops select the. Ops shwetanklal has provided
Select flash as one package
On lower right see u will see a button of one package
Select the. Tar pckg (any. Tar pckg )
Go into download mode
As soon as the yellow coloured port comes up click start
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I am doing what you are saying
I did that with odin 1.3, in the message box, it says: (after pressing the start button)
<ID:0/012>file analysis
<ID:0/012>setupconnection
<ID:0/012>Complete(write) operation failed
<OSM> All threads completed (succeed 0/failed 1)
Then I do it with odin 3, nothing different
package used is eh03 (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1349895)

lastingfreedom said:
I am doing what you are saying
I did that with odin 1.3, in the message box, it says: (after pressing the start button)
<ID:0/012>file analysis
<ID:0/012>setupconnection
<ID:0/012>Complete(write) operation failed
<OSM> All threads completed (succeed 0/failed 1)
Then I do it with odin 3, nothing different
package used is eh03 (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1349895)
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That thread is for s3 not galaxy 3
Just dwnld pkhybrid 2.0
It will surely wrk
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Arjav23 said:
That thread is for s3 not galaxy 3
Just dwnld pkhybrid 2.0
It will surely wrk
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can you provide a link for pkhybrid 2.0? I can't find it...
Also, I got the stock rom from http://www.samsdroid.com/2011/09/samsung-galaxy-apollo-i5800-stock-rom.html, I tried this one as well and it is still not working, I also tried zerofill.tar, and nothing changed...

lastingfreedom said:
can you provide a link for pkhybrid 2.0? I can't find it...
Also, I got the stock rom from http://www.samsdroid.com/2011/09/samsung-galaxy-apollo-i5800-stock-rom.html, I tried this one as well and it is still not working, I also tried zerofill.tar, and nothing changed...
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2030506
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Arjav23 said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2030506
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I used the file in v2.3 update, I flashed it by CWM, but it didn't work, the phone stuck at the boot animation, or I am not sure whether it got into a bootloop or not
Also, I got the 0.0kb bug after I flashed from a CM7 based rom to this rom (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1527336), can this information help?

lastingfreedom said:
I used the file in v2.3 update, I flashed it by CWM, but it didn't work, the phone stuck at the boot animation, or I am not sure whether it got into a bootloop or not
Also, I got the 0.0kb bug after I flashed from a CM7 based rom to this rom (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1527336), can this information help?
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First flash 2.0 via Odin and then 2.3 via cwm
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Arjav23 said:
First flash 2.0 via Odin and then 2.3 via cwm
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Problem solved, thank you!

[Q] Need some help on flashing

Hey guys i need some help
i am using galaxy fit with gingerbread 2.3.4 kernel xxkpg. I tried to install one rom through recovery mode, since im new to this flashing thing i thought i did it properly but when i rebooted after installationg my screen went black with words "android" in middle it wont boot stuck there then i tried again noticed i got this msg when i tried to format
e: format_volume: rfs format failed on/ dev/st113
formating/ cache...
e:format_volume:rfs format failed on/ dev/st114
Data Wipe complete
this is the rom i tried to install [ROM][CM7.2]CoolFit By Adwait|Beauty+Fast+Stable+Battery
I am not sure what to do next. did i brick my phone ?

thanks
found it guys. now updated to gingerbread 2.3.7 cynogenmod 7.2. now my phone back to normal :cyclops:

okay -_-
where did you go wrong anyway?

Harryhades said:
okay -_-
where did you go wrong anyway?
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I didnt install cwm recovery properly thats y it showed error when i tried to format. once i installed it using odin then everything went fine, found a ginger bread 2.3.7 cyanogenmod 7.2 from another site installed that it worked perfectly got all my data back even my old home screen wall paper now i found the problem, think im gonna experiment with few roms
cheers mate thanks

try to flashing again with gingerbread 2.3.6

i got the error
i just installed cwn recovery using odin..and got the same error as you experienced..can you tell me how to get over it?
best wishes

irfanbakri said:
i just installed cwn recovery using odin..and got the same error as you experienced..can you tell me how to get over it?
best wishes
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Have you wiped data?
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irfanbakri said:
i just installed cwn recovery using odin..and got the same error as you experienced..can you tell me how to get over it?
best wishes
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To remove any sort of further errors, I think you should reinstall stock firmware and then try CWM again.
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solved!
Galaxy_Rohit said:
To remove any sort of further errors, I think you should reinstall stock firmware and then try CWM again.
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a.cid said:
Have you wiped data?
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it is simple i think..
1)just boot into recovery..
2) enter mount and storage option
3 and format all the options..
/cache
/data
/system
/sd-ext
4) reboot recovery..and...
done!..flash new rom as you wish..

[Q] Bootloop after StockRom flashing

Heyo everyone
I'm coming from cm10.1 and now i wanted to go back to stock.
so I've downloaded I9105PXXAMC2 from samfirmware.com
unfortunately after flashing via odin i got bootloop
i've tried to wipe from android recovery but then there's only a red triangle
is there any solution?
it's almost impossible for me to download another firmware because my internet speed sucks so massive

Gh3ttoKiLL4 said:
Heyo everyone
I'm coming from cm10.1 and now i wanted to go back to stock.
so I've downloaded I9105PXXAMC2 from samfirmware.com
unfortunately after flashing via odin i got bootloop
i've tried to wipe from android recovery but then there's only a red triangle
is there any solution?
it's almost impossible for me to download another firmware because my internet speed sucks so massive
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Install CWM with odin and wipe your data cache and dalvik cache from there then it will boot up fine

safariking said:
Install CWM with odin and wipe your data cache and dalvik cache from there then it will boot up fine
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I think installing clockworkmod for wiping isn't an option. The op flashed stock Rom probably because he wants his warranty back
Installing clockworkmod again would void it again. If the stock Rom you downloaded is the one you had before rooting, then try flashing it again. If it's not, then download your originally out of box stock Rom and flash it with Odin.
Like...the same baseband version as the one you had before any modification of your system
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Brian_SGW_CM9 said:
I think installing clockworkmod for wiping isn't an option. The op flashed stock Rom probably because he wants his warranty back
Installing clockworkmod again would void it again. If the stock Rom you downloaded is the one you had before rooting, then try flashing it again. If it's not, then download your originally out of box stock Rom and flash it with Odin.
Like...the same baseband version as the one you had before any modification of your system
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You need to wipe it otherwise it won't boot up and if you had cm10.1 you must wipe your internal sd card to
if you install cyanogenmod and you odin back to stock rom the stock rom will simply not boot if no wipe was done!!!

safariking said:
You need to wipe it otherwise it won't boot up and if you had cm10.1 you must wipe your internal sd card to
if you install cyanogenmod and you odin back to stock rom the stock rom will simply not boot if no wipe was done!!!
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I thought flashing through Odin already wipes..
So if I want to Odin back. With the clockworkmod, I first wipe, then flash stock. Right?
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No
odin back first and after that install cwm and wipe!
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safariking said:
No
odin back first and after that install cwm and wipe!
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Can You please be more specific? I'm trying to install stock rom, and it's intering loop on boot. Trying to instal CWM via Odin - no success.

Did you wipe before flashing via Odin?
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Brian_SGW_CM9 said:
Did you wipe before flashing via Odin?
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That's a question too... How to do wipe, if all I have is official bootloader, with debugging OFF, and loop / stuck on SUMSUNG logo?
(I don't care of any kind of warranty, just want to boot up this brick with ANY ROM!)

borsiknet said:
That's a question too... How to do wipe, if all I have is official bootloader, with debugging OFF, and loop / stuck on SUMSUNG logo?
(I don't care of any kind of warranty, just want to boot up this brick with ANY ROM!)
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Can you reach download mode?
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Brian_SGW_CM9 said:
Can you reach download mode?
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Yes, I'm trying all original firmware from sammobile, that appropriate to this model. Sometimes it geting custom BIN, and bootloader taking it back to samsung official.

borsiknet said:
Yes, I'm trying all original firmware from sammobile, that appropriate to this model. Sometimes it geting custom BIN, and bootloader taking it back to samsung official.
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Yep, that's the only way
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Brian_SGW_CM9 said:
Yep, that's the only way
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Maybe any way to know origin of the phone by S/N to which country he belong?

borsiknet said:
Maybe any way to know origin of the phone by S/N to which country he belong?
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Find your country's name on sammobile. I mean of the firmware page of sammobile
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Brian_SGW_CM9 said:
Find your country's name on sammobile. I mean of the firmware page of sammobile
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There are no my contry ROM. I stucked with bootloops and debug options OFF. What to do???! It's driving me crazy...

After almost two weeks of seeking for solutions all over internet, the problem was solved. First of all there are no way to root without debuging off via odin o any other tool. All what you have, is just to look for your original firmware of the phone, and it supposed to be four file package.
Looks like:
FULL_CSC_I9105PXXAMC2_I9105POXAAMC1_I9105PXXAMC1_DBT.tar.md5
FULL_MODEM_I9105PXXAMC2_I9105POXAAMC1_I9105PXXAMC1_DBT.tar.md5
FULL_PDA_I9105PXXAMC2_I9105POXAAMC1_I9105PXXAMC1_DBT.tar.md5
s2ve.pit
In this case it was german phone so files end with DBT.
CSC - as CSC
MODEM - as CP or PHONE
PDA - as AP or PDA
and pit file for re-partition.
The name of whole package is GT-I9105P-DBT-I9105PXXAMC2_Service-Firmware.zip
For those asking for delete dalvik/cache/factory reset, the solution is - RE-PARTITION!
I used also option Nand Erase All, just to be sure I delete everything.
All other operations goes as usual in Odin.
I can't post links here, bat me mercy on those looking for solution for days and weeks long.
So here is link that I found on some forum that leading to (thanx Goshhhh!!!) to Google docs, so download was just 5 min. long.
Here is German (DBT) package, and some other usefull links. Use G. translator to understand.
h t t p : / / galaxysclub.ru/obzor-osnovnyh-funkcij-obsuzhdenie-i-reshenie-problem/2111-pomogite-s-i9105-proshivki-dlya-i9105 . html
Just remove spaces, where needed. This is a Russian forum. Respect and thousand thanx to Сергей, author of usefull post with links provided, once again THANX a lot, Sergej!

borsiknet said:
After almost two weeks of seeking for solutions all over internet, the problem was solved. First of all there are no way to root without debuging off via odin o any other tool. All what you have, is just to look for your original firmware of the phone, and it supposed to be four file package.
Looks like:
FULL_CSC_I9105PXXAMC2_I9105POXAAMC1_I9105PXXAMC1_DBT.tar.md5
FULL_MODEM_I9105PXXAMC2_I9105POXAAMC1_I9105PXXAMC1_DBT.tar.md5
FULL_PDA_I9105PXXAMC2_I9105POXAAMC1_I9105PXXAMC1_DBT.tar.md5
s2ve.pit
In this case it was german phone so files end with DBT.
CSC - as CSC
MODEM - as CP or PHONE
PDA - as AP or PDA
and pit file for re-partition.
The name of whole package is GT-I9105P-DBT-I9105PXXAMC2_Service-Firmware.zip
For those asking for delete dalvik/cache/factory reset, the solution is - RE-PARTITION!
I used also option Nand Erase All, just to be sure I delete everything.
All other operations goes as usual in Odin.
I can't post links here, bat me mercy on those looking for solution for days and weeks long.
So here is link that I found on some forum that leading to (thanx Goshhhh!!!) to Google docs, so download was just 5 min. long.
Here is German (DBT) package, and some other usefull links. Use G. translator to understand.
h t t p : / / galaxysclub.ru/obzor-osnovnyh-funkcij-obsuzhdenie-i-reshenie-problem/2111-pomogite-s-i9105-proshivki-dlya-i9105 . html
Just remove spaces, where needed. This is a Russian forum. Respect and thousand thanx to Сергей, author of usefull post with links provided, once again THANX a lot, Sergej!
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If anyone have problem with bootloop when flash original rom, solution is simple. Just go to recovery. Samsung has stock recovery. Wipe data/factory reset and reboot phone. Thats all . PS to go to recovery turn off phone. Wait 3 seconds. hold home buton, volume up and power buton in same tame.

jaskof1 said:
If anyone have problem with bootloop when flash original rom, solution is simple. Just go to recovery. Samsung has stock recovery. Wipe data/factory reset and reboot phone. Thats all . PS to go to recovery turn off phone. Wait 3 seconds. hold home buton, volume up and power buton in same tame.
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That was a problem, loops after flashing with Odin.

jaskof1 said:
If anyone have problem with bootloop when flash original rom, solution is simple. Just go to recovery. Samsung has stock recovery. Wipe data/factory reset and reboot phone. Thats all . PS to go to recovery turn off phone. Wait 3 seconds. hold home buton, volume up and power buton in same tame.
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Well this worked for me just fine

Boot into cwm
Go tot mounts and storage
Format everything (no ext sdcard
Flash firmware with Odin andere cwm would be deleted

[Q] I9003 would not get past 'Samsung boot logo'

Hello mates, I have a I9003 which would not get past the 'Samsung' boot logo. I already tried flashing a stock ROM from sammobile.com but still the problem persists.
Tried PIT+BOOTLOADER+MODEM+PHONE+CSC,
MODEM+PHONE+CSC,
PIT+PDA (ONE FILE PACKAGE)
ONLY PDA (ONE FILE PACKAGE)
Nothing works, it is still stuck. I cannot wipe data/factory reset since I can't access stock recovery. Though going to download mode is not a problem.
Any fix for this? Or should I flash another stock ROM?

Try without sim card and flash cf root after full ddlf.
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I have made some progress, I think. While after flashing CF-Root for DDLF2 after clean installing it, I've waited for the phone to boot.
Now, it booted to the same Samsung I9003 boot animation, but after a while, I think it booted into recovery and started to wipe/install, though I'm not sure because the texts were going fast.
One thing I remembered was something with unable to mount /data among others. I saw other yellow texts, and also red texts, which seems to be errors (since I've used a CWM with other phones a couple of times).
After that, it got stuck to like a loading icon, like what you see when a video is buffering in Youtube, then reboots after a while to a stuck Samsung I9003 boot animation again.
Please help me mates, would be highly appreciated.

Without sim and external sdcard try to go to recovery and wipe user data and then boot.
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sam_777 said:
Without sim and external sdcard try to go to recovery and wipe user data and then boot.
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The thing is, I cannot boot to recovery mode with the 3 button combo. Only download mode mate.
Is there anything that I could flash in Odin that would reboot the phone to recovery mode?

jephimax said:
The thing is, I cannot boot to recovery mode with the 3 button combo. Only download mode mate.
Is there anything that I could flash in Odin that would reboot the phone to recovery mode?
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Try flashing BCK CF-root universal. I think there was a beta 15rc7 version somewhere in the BAM kernel thread. It does include a recovery.
Only for GB ROMs, not Kitkat/JB ones.

Hetalk said:
Try flashing BCK CF-root universal. I think there was a beta 15rc7 version somewhere in the BAM kernel thread. It does include a recovery.
Only for GB ROMs, not Kitkat/JB ones.
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I actually did that earlier, but the thing is as I've said is that I cannot boot to recovery with the 3-button combo. What I was hoping for is a file or kernel or anything that would automatically reboot the phone to 'recovery mode' after flashing it through Odin.

jephimax said:
I actually did that earlier, but the thing is as I've said is that I cannot boot to recovery with the 3-button combo. What I was hoping for is a file or kernel or anything that would automatically reboot the phone to 'recovery mode' after flashing it through Odin.
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Ummm. Not sure if I've seen that done before.
Sorry man.

Try adb reboot recovery. Not sure about it.
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Hetalk said:
Ummm. Not sure if I've seen that done before.
Sorry man.
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Well, that worked after flashing a stock ROM with .pit on I9100, though I don't know about the I9003
sam_777 said:
Try adb reboot recovery. Not sure about it.
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ADB would not work with a phone stuck phone. Recovery I think is my only change.

sam_777 said:
Try adb reboot recovery. Not sure about it.
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ADB wont work from download mode.
I'm sure you've tried this before, but can you try flashing complete ddlf2 package from here.
This has never failed me, yet. It's my fallback if everything else doesn't work.
All the best

Hetalk said:
ADB wont work from download mode.
I'm sure you've tried this before, but can you try flashing complete ddlf2 package from here.
This has never failed me, yet. It's my fallback if everything else doesn't work.
All the best
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I'll try in a bit after DLing the package. Should I flash this several times to work? Should I flash once with PIT and BL, then just CSC, PHONE, and MODEM?

jephimax said:
I'll try in a bit after DLing the package. Should I flash this several times to work? Should I flash once with PIT and BL, then just CSC, PHONE, and MODEM?
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Flash all 5 at the same time. See the snapshot shown in that thread.
Also, try a different odin version (i think 1.85 worked best for me) if it fails.

Hetalk said:
Flash all 5 at the same time. See the snapshot shown in that thread.
Also, try a different odin version (i think 1.85 worked best for me) if it fails.
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Flashed it and it actually booted to recovery mode. I'll list some of the errors that arose:
E:/format_volume:rfs format failed on /dev/block/mmcblk0p3
Data wipe failed
Also tried the 'apply update from sdcard', and shows:
E:/failed to mount /sdcard (File exists)
E:/failed to mount /sdcard (Invalid argument)
Now I'll try to flash CWM to it and hopefully boots to recovery again and flash a custom ROM :fingers-crossed:

Well, I think another progress has been made, after flashing the DDLF2 firmware again, I waited for about 7 minutes and it got past the Samsung I9003 boot logo, and it goes to the Samsung boot animation, and after that, stuck at a boot loop.

Check it
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2727679
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sam_777 said:
Check it
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2727679
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So maybe the internal mmc is corrupted. I'm not sure one to follow but definitely not the one with the wonder go program since how can I enable USB debugging if it won't even boot. Should I try to flash DDLF2 with inserting a microSD card? Or should I remove the internal mmc, which I've read in another thread was kind of successful but a little hazardous.

Try to flash froyo 2.2 with pit. Logic is to reformat the structure of the memory.
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Try to flash froyo 2.2 with pit. Logic is to reformat the structure of the memory.
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I really appreciate the help mate. Would you refer me to a link for the 2.2 stock ROMs? As I only find GB firmwares, mostly old stock ROM links are down.

May find here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2742279
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