Hello guys,
To start my story in the beginning when the 4.4.2 was first leaked for the n8000 I flashed it. I have a n8010. I tried to get back to the stock 8010 4.4.2 when it came out (with the heimdall method). But my bootloader is still 8000. After that I did stupid things that shouldn't been done. I tried to flash back the 8010 bootloader and re-partition the whole system but I failed. I totally bricked my device (i couldn't flash or do anything with it). I decided to take back to the service. They couldn't repair it, they just did some kind of factory mode on it so it is usable but it is on 4.0.4 without lockscreen. Now I cannot root it, and if I boot into the recovery it says: E: failed to mount /efs (Invalid argument). I have a pit backup but its from the time when I tried the heimdall method. Is it possible to re-partition with the help of that pit file and somehow repair the efs problem? I would like to use 4.4.2 on it but I dare not to flash anything on it, i don't want to make things worse.
I would be grateful if somebody can help me.
(Sorry for my english i'm from Hungary)
kataik95 said:
Hello guys,
To start my story in the beginning when the 4.4.2 was first leaked for the n8000 I flashed it. I have a n8010. I tried to get back to the stock 8010 4.4.2 when it came out (with the heimdall method). But my bootloader is still 8000. After that I did stupid things that shouldn't been done. I tried to flash back the 8010 bootloader and re-partition the whole system but I failed. I totally bricked my device (i couldn't flash or do anything with it). I decided to take back to the service. They couldn't repair it, they just did some kind of factory mode on it so it is usable but it is on 4.0.4 without lockscreen. Now if I cannot root it, and if I boot into the recovery it says: E: failed to mount /efs (Invalid argument). I have a pit backup but its from the time when I tried the heimdall method. Is it possible to re-partition with the help of that pit file and somehow repair the efs problem? I would like to use 4.4.2 on it but I dare not to flash anything on it, i don't want to make things worse.
I would be grateful if somebody can help me.
(Sorry for my english i'm from Hungary)
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did they Get the Boot-loader back to the 8010? If So you may be able to Just update using Kies on your Computer or Flashing a STOCK Samsung Firmware.i have 8013 And only remember reading the above from other Threads..
erica_renee said:
did they Get the Boot-loader back to the 8010? If So you may be able to Just update using Kies on your Computer or Flashing a STOCK Samsung Firmware.i have 8013 And only remember reading the above from other Threads..
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Nope it's still on n8000 bl. And I cant connect it to kies. It is in some kind of factory mode.
n8000 lost efs and ime
after flashing the [4.4.2] Gnabo Rom V7 [AIR COMMAND - NOTE 2014 APPS ] ROM with clean flash and it worked great for few days the note awake one day in a loop restart...I wipe all again and here started the drama... I lost the EFS folder and I am without a back up for it....I tried to downgrade the bootloader to flash a stock icescream sandwich sam rom maybe that restore the original efs but what I got a factory test screen with no EFS or IME please help and for anyone read this please consider that the above ROM could have a bug .... I am not the only one who got that problem pls backup your EFS folder and consider the risk for bricking your note.
SAM service answer/solution for repair it was to change the board (80% of the device price) = go buy a used one or a brand new from a cheap country....
appreciate any help
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hello, let me explain what i did and maybe theres a solution one you pros can help with.....
gt6210
So one day i decided to root and eventually backup everything. So i went directly to this guide but didn't install the pernament cwm thru odin like the guide said.
I decided i didnt need root, and rather not have it on my tab and not knowing how to remove i decide just to flash back to stock HC the update
to ICS thru kies like i did before. so it just sat there in a endless boot loop for 30 mins going thru the samsung animation. so i figured i would
wipe cache and do a factory reset.
Now its locked at the samsung logo, flashed back to stock HC, same thing stuck, only download mode available wont go into recovery,
flash to leaked ICS that was in the guide above still stuck but i got the recovery 3e screen.
So i figured i just bricked it thru the EMMC bug when i reset/wiped thru the stock recovery.....
i went to this EMMC fix guide and from the recovery 3e i ran cwm.zip that was in the
root guide and ran emmc_find_brick_start.zip it scanned and never stopped just came back to cwm screen.
what next? ive been flashing different pit file, going back to hc and ics etc.........
i dont want to sound like a tool, although i feel like one ATM i really need my tablet. I'm on dialysis right now waiting
for a kidney transplant and i spend a lot of time at the hospital surfing on this thing and i can't afford to buy a new one
since i'm disability.
any ideas/suggestions? throw them on here, ill try anything.
forgot to mention on the recovery 3e sceen at the bottom it says
installing package
E:failed to mount /system (invalid arguement)
E:main :: can't mount /systemE:failed to mount /system (invalid arguement)
what does this mean?
sinuuar said:
forgot to mention on the recovery 3e sceen at the bottom it says
installing package
E:failed to mount /system (invalid arguement)
E:main :: can't mount /systemE:failed to mount /system (invalid arguement)
what does this mean?
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If you still have CWM as your recovery, then your attempts to flash stock ROM with ODIN failed.
Did you get an error?
What happens when you try to flash stock ROMs?
Have you tried Flashing the Stock ICS Rom with Odin?
sinuuar said:
hello, let me explain what i did and maybe theres a solution one you pros can help with.....
gt6210
So one day i decided to root and eventually backup everything. So i went directly to this guide but didn't install the pernament cwm thru odin like the guide said.
I decided i didnt need root, and rather not have it on my tab and not knowing how to remove i decide just to flash back to stock HC the update
to ICS thru kies like i did before. so it just sat there in a endless boot loop for 30 mins going thru the samsung animation. so i figured i would
wipe cache and do a factory reset.
Now its locked at the samsung logo, flashed back to stock HC, same thing stuck, only download mode available wont go into recovery,
flash to leaked ICS that was in the guide above still stuck but i got the recovery 3e screen.
So i figured i just bricked it thru the EMMC bug when i reset/wiped thru the stock recovery.....
i went to this EMMC fix guide and from the recovery 3e i ran cwm.zip that was in the
root guide and ran emmc_find_brick_start.zip it scanned and never stopped just came back to cwm screen.
what next? ive been flashing different pit file, going back to hc and ics etc.........
i dont want to sound like a tool, although i feel like one ATM i really need my tablet. I'm on dialysis right now waiting
for a kidney transplant and i spend a lot of time at the hospital surfing on this thing and i can't afford to buy a new one
since i'm disability.
any ideas/suggestions? throw them on here, ill try anything.
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Ur tab hardbrick and if u pro, then u can solve it using EMMC BRICK BUG GUIDE from ur post..like mine, im having that problem before..so what i do, i take my tab to service centre, and they change my MOTHERBOARD bcoz my MB faulty....lucky mine still under warranty..but u need to bluffing to them, not to tell them u root ur tab...
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After this, put this advice in ur mind...IF U ON ICS, DO NOT WIPE DATA OR CLEAR CACHE USING 3eRECOVERY OR TEMPORARY RECOVERY...but u safe if u using permenant CWM...chill
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sinuuar said:
hello, let me explain what i did and maybe theres a solution one you pros can help with.....
gt6210
So one day i decided to root and eventually backup everything. So i went directly to this guide but didn't install the pernament cwm thru odin like the guide said.
I decided i didnt need root, and rather not have it on my tab and not knowing how to remove i decide just to flash back to stock HC the update
to ICS thru kies like i did before. so it just sat there in a endless boot loop for 30 mins going thru the samsung animation. so i figured i would
wipe cache and do a factory reset.
Now its locked at the samsung logo, flashed back to stock HC, same thing stuck, only download mode available wont go into recovery,
flash to leaked ICS that was in the guide above still stuck but i got the recovery 3e screen.
So i figured i just bricked it thru the EMMC bug when i reset/wiped thru the stock recovery.....
i went to this EMMC fix guide and from the recovery 3e i ran cwm.zip that was in the
root guide and ran emmc_find_brick_start.zip it scanned and never stopped just came back to cwm screen.
what next? ive been flashing different pit file, going back to hc and ics etc.........
i dont want to sound like a tool, although i feel like one ATM i really need my tablet. I'm on dialysis right now waiting
for a kidney transplant and i spend a lot of time at the hospital surfing on this thing and i can't afford to buy a new one
since i'm disability.
any ideas/suggestions? throw them on here, ill try anything.
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you made your life harder than it should have, to unroot, just install SuperSU, and use its "Full Unroot" function. Don't forget to uninstall Superuser. Note that for next time.
Have you tried flashing to any ICS stock rom through Odin/Heimdall? If you did, which one did you use? If not, you could try flashing this one from this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1777303 first and see how it goes.
the iniaouse
sorry i had to edit my links, not enough post count to enable outside links.....
i tried to odin stock hc from the gt6210 root guide and on reboot i got errors, see the HC pic attachment
couldn't get the stock recovery, so i flashed cwm 6.0.1.9 and no matter how many
tries or button pushes i couldn't get in the recovery screen (battery symbol flicker for a sec)
Am i flashing incorrectly? i load up the files under PDA.
i then tried flashing GT_P6210_ICS_Latest_Leak_Odin_Package.zip from the same root guide.
and got more errors see "ics reboot"attachment
i popped the cwm.zip file (temporary CWM as described in the root guide)
cwm temp pic
i ran the 120824-151927-emmc_find_brick_start.zip thru this twice and it finished its
scan and came back to the menu.
i found a another version on cwm that can be installed by sdcard
now only then under ics and this version of cwm can i use the vol+ and power to get into recovery.
ran the brick start file here as well same thing ran thru then came back to the menu.
i'm rereading the EMMC guide again since i don't feel out of wack like the last couple of days
****update, i figure i'd flash ics and cwm 6.0.1.9 again and it finally let me get into the menu, now running the EMMC start
if you can successfully flash stock ICS (just flash it and NOT the CWM first) and it boots. , Then you don't have EMMC bug issues. Otherwise it would fail.
DigitalMD said:
if you can successfully flash stock ICS (just flash it and NOT the CWM first) and it boots. , Then you don't have EMMC bug issues. Otherwise it would fail.
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If I use Odin to flash stock HC or ICS it always says successful, on reboot that's when I get errors like in the attachment in my last post. eMMC files (start and end) they scan everything then says completed. It never froze at all.
If its not the bug what is it that gives those errors? Those stock files are from the gt6210 root guide and have used before.
So am I not flash correctly on Odin?
sinuuar said:
If I use Odin to flash stock HC or ICS it always says successful, on reboot that's when I get errors like in the attachment in my last post. eMMC files (start and end) they scan everything then says completed. It never froze at all.
If its not the bug what is it that gives those errors? Those stock files are from the gt6210 root guide and have used before.
So am I not flash correctly on Odin?
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I still don;t understand what error you are getting.?
If you flash the stock rom in odin and nothing else, what happens?
IF you flash only the stock rom in ODIN and you still see what you show on the pictures when it boots, you have a corrupt update file on your SD card. Remove the SD card
First let me say that I'm kinda new to android flashing and I'm learning, so please be understanding.
A few days ago I got in my hands an i9003 and decided to root and unlock it, I thought I had made an /efs backup, but, as a matter of fact this backup turned out to be empty, as apparently I didn't backup with root permision. A day later decided to install CM11 and I followed this tutorial: bit.ly/J5d5UL When I tried to install the ROM it rebooted and it got stuck in recovery mode. I read extensively over what to do, so I decided to flash back to stock (UBKB1, as I'm from Argentina and this is the Latin american Froyo stock). I've had no luck with this: it is now stuck with the glowing Samsung logo right after the boot animation. I've read that the CF-Root used in the tutorial, amit.bagaria one, it's intended to work with Gingerbread, and I had Froyo installed when I started the tutorial, ¿can this be the cause of everything? ¿Is there something I can do? I've also read to flash to KPE first and then on to others, but I'm worried that, as I don't have my /efs backup, I could lose my 3g and/or IMEI.
Thanks in advance, and also I apologize any grammar errors I could have as English isn't my native language.
sjvega said:
First let me say that I'm kinda new to android flashing and I'm learning, so please be understanding.
A few days ago I got in my hands an i9003 and decided to root and unlock it, I thought I had made an /efs backup, but, as a matter of fact this backup turned out to be empty, as apparently I didn't backup with root permision. A day later decided to install CM11 and I followed this tutorial: bit.ly/J5d5UL When I tried to install the ROM it rebooted and it got stuck in recovery mode. I read extensively over what to do, so I decided to flash back to stock (UBKB1, as I'm from Argentina and this is the Latin american Froyo stock). I've had no luck with this: it is now stuck with the glowing Samsung logo right after the boot animation. I've read that the CF-Root used in the tutorial, amit.bagaria one, it's intended to work with Gingerbread, and I had Froyo installed when I started the tutorial, ¿can this be the cause of everything? ¿Is there something I can do? I've also read to flash to KPE first and then on to others, but I'm worried that, as I don't have my /efs backup, I could lose my 3g and/or IMEI.
Thanks in advance, and also I apologize any grammar errors I could have as English isn't my native language.
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sometimes while installing rom the phone automatically reboots into recovery.. but tht is normal.. then u have to again flash the rom ... but for now .. try clearing dalvik cache in recovery mode... and reboot .. if tht doesnt work then using odin flash back to kpe .. here is a video link http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2crS2rZgUQc&desktop_uri=/watch?v=2crS2rZgUQc and u can loose ur internal data so backup...
hit thanks if i helped
Thanks for the reply.
Sorry I didn't specify further, when it was booting continuously into recovery I tried to install the ROM, but it threw an error (#7 if I recall correctly) and then it kept looping into recovery.
I'll try to flash CWM now (as I don't have it flashed after flashing stock) and do the wipes.
EDIT: I've flashed CWM for the firm I had installed, wiped everything, reflashed and it still doesn't work, I'd like to avoid KPE until I'm sure I can recover the /efs folder as I don't want lo lose connectivity of any sort. Update: during wiping CWM said it can't mount /datadata
Thanks anyway
Last Update:I've got a KPE for my region so I've flashed it, I've also flashed amit.bagaria's universal CWM, it kept looping, so I tried to install the rom, unsuccessfully, it reboots on a different version of CWM, and if I try to install it again it says:
Installing update...
"assert failed: run_program("/tmp/updater.sh")==0
E:Error in /storage/sdcard1/cm-11-20131209-UNOFFICIAL-galaxysl.zip
(Status 7)
Installation aborted
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sjvega said:
Thanks for the reply.
Sorry I didn't specify further, when it was booting continuously into recovery I tried to install the ROM, but it threw an error (#7 if I recall correctly) and then it kept looping into recovery.
I'll try to flash CWM now (as I don't have it flashed after flashing stock) and do the wipes.
EDIT: I've flashed CWM for the firm I had installed, wiped everything, reflashed and it still doesn't work, I'd like to avoid KPE until I'm sure I can recover the /efs folder as I don't want lo lose connectivity of any sort. Update: during wiping CWM said it can't mount /datadata
Thanks anyway
Last Update:I've got a KPE for my region so I've flashed it, I've also flashed amit.bagaria's universal CWM, it kept looping, so I tried to install the rom, unsuccessfully, it reboots on a different version of CWM, and if I try to install it again it says:
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leave amit bagaria zip aside... flash this on kpe using odin link:- http://www.mediafire.com/download/vh701fh312la2v9/ZHKPE-CFROOT-25-05-2012.tar . after odin detects your device. go to PDA option and select this zip file from your computer and flash.. this will root your device and add a cwm recovery. and let me know what happened.. and even iam not a professional. but i were u i would have tried all possible ways.. have fun.. we ill get a way out of it..
hit thanx if i helped
Excuse me but, ¿PIT? ¿isn't it PDA? Also, that CWM isn't for the firm of the region I have, ¿wouldn't I have problems flashing that one?
I've been reading that it could be that the internal memory is corrupted, ¿is there a way to check this?
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I've been reading that it could be that the internal memory is corrupted, ¿is there a way to check this?
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sorry bro ! its pda .. i havent used odin for months so.... and iam not sure region would cause any problem ! it will be better to consult a professional.... and even ill read about it and post if i get something..
Ok, so I kept reading about it and it doesn't seem to be a corrupted memory, there are some errors that should appear and they don't.
I've been recomended to flash to XXKB3 as it doesn't modify the IMEI file, and then if that doesn't work flash XXKPE; I'm having a hard time finding it though, as all hotfile links are dead.
Ok! I've flashed XXKP3 and finally it booted. I'll see to take other problems I might have somewhere else.
Hello,
I made a terrible misstake while trying to figure out how to flash a custom rom to this device, I followed a video online where a guy flashed some sprint firmware to his device and it allowed him to write to the protected partitions on the device.
Now obviously once I realised I had flashed the wrong firmware I knew I had screwed up my phone, (I was unable to take a backup because it wouldn't let me write to the SD card or any partition at all)
I flashed the firmware from a USB OTG cable but did not have a big enough USB for the backup.
Now at this stage the device was stuck inside a bootloop on the HTC screen, I attempted to flash Cyanogenmod 11 but because of the protected partitions I can't do this.
I've tried to find RUU for this English HTC one mini but when I try and flash the RUU I'm getting errors that are not documented.
I was able to flash Cyanogenmod via ADB but I just get stuck on the Cyanogenmod boot screen due to the corrupt firmware I guess.
Is anyone able to provide me with a way that I can reflash the firmware and Rom back to stock? Obviously I cannot do this via recovery because of the protected partitions, I wish I could make these writable!! I love this phone so much and now it's just a brick.
Kind regards
Kyle.
Hi long story short. I flashed a custom rom on device. I wanted to return to stock rom but in the process my hard drive went out on my laptop (all my backups were on there). I had to d/ld stock rom Tab 3 sm-t217s flashed it using oden. Started to flash twrp to re-root got pit mounting error in oden. Did a little research here online found magic pit. Used same model tab to create pit file with magic pit. I loaded the pit file in oden along with twrp but i just want to be sure about this. Tab works fine just can't flash anything to it appreciate any and all help
Been working to fix this problem but haven't found a solution yet. Originally I installed negalite wonderom. I did a backup with titanium backup and also did a nandroid backup image. I wanted to go back on to stock but when I tried to recover the stock rom it wouldn't go back it just restored the negalite rom. So I go to retrieve my backups and my laptop wouldn't boot. So I used my desktop to find and d/ld stock rom and flashed it and now im herebut during this process I've also discovered that my galaxy tab 3 Sm-t217s won't go into recovery it gives me an error msg. I'm stumped the pit that i got from my wife's tab wouldn't flash Oden got stuck at do not remove target and every tool that i tried gave me an error because the tab needs root permission. Tab works fine just want to figure this out and fix it if at all possible. It's consuming a lot of my time and patience. Thanks in advance for any and all help
hello everyone
i have this typical probleme with my samsung galxy s advance
it got stuck on boot logo
i want to reset it but it wont enter te recovery mode
after that
i passed JB ROM and GB ROM with Odin
and i didn't solve the probleme
so my question is : is it a firmware issue or a hardaware one
and if there is a solution to this probleme can u redirect me to the link please
thank you all
still waiting for you gays
flash rom with pit for ur device
I DID so with both GB and JB
But still the same nothing happend
redaboy said:
I DID so with both GB and JB
But still the same nothing happend
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So did you flash JB forcing repartition by PIT file as suggested by edi194 and still no results? neither recovery?
Did odin give you any kind of message in the flashing process?
If everything pass then I can't get why recovery seems to be corrupted, it can be an hardware failure, probably related to internal emmc.
You can try flashing only stock kernel again (not whole rom) trying a different version.
Another option you probably can still have a try is flashing over jb a custom kernel with odin, I would suggest cocore (https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2140597 ), first of all creating the correct odin img file following the method indicated by a2n over here: https://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=76414423&postcount=8449
Maybe this way we can hope to restore the broken recovery and then go on