Hi all, new here. I would appreciate any responses/ideas.
I have an Samsung Galaxy Rush. Here's what happened:
After playing Netflix for a while the sdcard would get full, so I would go into root and delete the cache(as instructed by someone else). One night I fell asleep, woke up the next morning, and decided to just wipe the entire sdcard. Booting into recovery I did just that. Plugged to compuer, ran Odin, pushed the stock tar.. all went well, but then the phone would not boot up. It will only go into recovery.
So I tried this again, except I wiped everything. Cache, dalvik cache, everything(i'm noob, pls don't hate ). Same result.
I should mention that in recovery, I can mount cache, mount this, mount that, but mounting the sdcard won't happen. It just blinks the screen.
I'm thinking either the sdcard is fried. Or it's one of these things I'm not familiar with (boot loop? soft brick?)
Thanks for taking the time to read.
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I followed the following steps a friend sent to me to root my phone.
"1. Go into clockwork recovery and go into "mounts and storage" and do system, data and cache FORMAT. Then do the data, cache and dalvik wipes."
Now my phone will not boot up past the Samsung screen where it seems to freeze every time i turn it on. Can someone guide me on getting back powered on? If not, would a Sprint store take a look at it if its not booting up?
Please assist Asap guys, I appreciate it!!
No boot after format
jmad34 said:
I followed the following steps a friend sent to me to root my phone.
"1. Go into clockwork recovery and go into "mounts and storage" and do system, data and cache FORMAT. Then do the data, cache and dalvik wipes."
Now my phone will not boot up past the Samsung screen where it seems to freeze every time i turn it on. Can someone guide me on getting back powered on? If not, would a Sprint store take a look at it if its not booting up?
Please assist Asap guys, I appreciate it!!
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I see you still have no reactions about this, but did you found a solution yet?
I did the same and no startup anymore. so we must never format anymore uh
If you know something please sent me a message, also when you got to repair it at the shop
i know nothing about the epic in particular, but i know this about systems. you wiped the /system partition of the internal flash storage. the system partition holds, well, the system. android itself. you completely erased it. its like taking your pc, erasing the entire hard drive, and complaining that it wont turn on past the BIOS.
so, you could use the tool that sprint and samsung provide to go back to a completely stock system, including loosing clockwork recovery, or you could flash a custom rom, because a custom rom is a system, and it would fill the /system partition back up with usable data. hope this helps you understand android in general a little better.
EDIT: oops, i hit the button twice. sorry for the double post then.
I flashed a new ROM late last night and I was really tired. It flashed as normal and everything worked so I went to sleep. I woke up and the phone wouldn't boot so I just went into recovery and re flashed. After re flashing I selected reboot and it booted up just fine but there was a weird robot voice while it was starting up and I couldn't really understand it so I read up about it but I'm not sure what I should do now.
I went into recovery to check mounts and it looked like this:
- unmount cache
- unmount data
- unmount sdcard
- unmount system
I read that it should be the opposite after a flash. What does this mean? Should I continue using the phone as is or do I need to fix anything?
Any help would be great. Thank you!
Robot voice is normal. Kinda freaked me out as well., but I left it alone to do it's thing.
Hey there,
So before I came here I searched far and wide for a solution to my problem. Somehow, in the dead of night I accidentily formatted my SD card while wiping the phone at the same time. As such, I have have no recovery to fall back on. I resigned to installing a ROM from scratch as I can't figure out where else to go from here. So I installed CWM through Odin> Wipe data/reset>Wipe cache> Mount USB> Copied update-cm-9-20120608-MADTEAM-galaxy5-signed.zip>Installed Gapps> Wipe cache> Reboot> Endless boot loop of doom.
I've tried several roms including CleanROM and a couple others, some wouldn't install but everyone that did install correctly would cause the same boot loop.
So is my phone junked or what? I can't even seem to find the manual code for recovery/reboot on the GTI5500M, the only info I can find is how to power it up in downloading mode.
Am I missing something? Just about pulling my hair out at this point.
Greene
Ok so I have been trying to install blackbean 8 for my tf300 running 4.2.1 using twrp 2.5. I could never get it past the first boot screen. I have read everywhere for days and tried everything. I wipe data, system, cache, and dalvik cache everytime to no avail. It does the same thing everytime even with cm 10.1. I finally read something about formatting data and i thought i would give it a try (which I am now so badly regretting) because i have a nandroid backup on my microsd. So I tried it and it did the same thing! So i tried to restore the backup from my external sd but nothing shows up!!! It recognizes it and tells me how much space I have left but there are no files on it.... The part that confuses me is I plug the microsd onto my computer and all the files are on it! Am I bricked? I have no idea what to do right now so any help would be greatly appretiated!
EDIT: Ok so i got it to recognize my micro sd by trying a different one but it says i have nothing in my recovery file. Why would that be?
EDIT2 So i got cm 10.1 sideloaded using adb but it still wont boot! Am i missing something? I would really like to understand.
I hadn't touched my tab for a couple weeks since I only really use it in my car as a GPS and Entertainment center but when I grabbed it to charge it up, it was completed drained. No problem here since this has happened before and I'd just charge it up. So I boot it after the full recharge and it's stuck on the Samsung Galaxy Tab logo. After a little while I check it again and I'm like, "Crap, it's bricked. I'll need to reset it with Odin."
I proceed with Odin and nothing. It's still bricked. I do a factory reset and this is where I notice my big problem. When I do a factory reset or reboot I get
E:Can't open /data/log/recovery.txt
E:copy_kernel_file :: Can't open /data/log/recovery_kernel_log.txt
I tried reflashing the kernel, pit and firmware and I'm getting nowhere. What gives?
try removing the SD card and see if it boots up.
DigitalMD said:
try removing the SD card and see if it boots up.
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Still no go but this did give me an idea. I just tried a simple reboot from recovery WITHOUT the SD card and got the error:
E:Failed to mount /sdcard
E: is the SDcard so I will create the directory with the files I mentioned above. I found the files on a different thread regarding a Samsung Galaxy phone. This may work.
I'm also going to try another flash without the SD installed to see if I have any luck there.
Thanks.
Issue is fixed
I decided to reflash while the SD card was removed and it got passed the initial splash screen. It was stuck at some wierd lock screen asking for a password. I went into recovery to do a wipe and factory reset and that brought the tablet back to life on reboot.
All is good again.