So last night I installed TWRP and flashed a stock rom for my neighbor's phone because it had a bootloop. I made it start again and gave it back to him.
Today, he brought it back saying it had these errors popping up all the time, and that he couldn't use the phone. When I took it, I noticed that it had a constant error saying "the Launcher process has stopped", or something to that extent.
The answer everyone on the web said, was to install Nova Launcher, however, I couldn't even get to the Play Store because of the error popping up all the time, so I decided to reflash the same stock firmware that I had flashed yesterday, in order to buy enough time to get to the store and download Nova Launcher before all the errors came back.
However, this time before attemtpting to flash the phone, I did a complete wipe of user data, since I suspected it may have been what started the errors on the first place.
The thing is that after I wiped the phone, I got some errors while trying to reflash the firmware, errors such as "E: unable to mount /system", the same with /data, /cache and /storage.
Since I was already deep in the mud, I searched for some answers to my problem, and made the mistake of following a peculiar solution: go to wipe, then advanced wipe options, and change the file system from ext4, to ext2 or 3, and then BACK to ext4. People were claiming that it worked and they didn't get the "unable to mount" errors again.
In my case, it didn't seem to work, and now my system and data partitions don't appear to be in the ext4 format, therefore I can't install the stock firmware back into the phone.
Can anyone help me? I hope I explained my case correctly, and I really hope this isn't as scary as it looks.
Please help me
I thought this place was full of experts... please, someone give me a hand!
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I have exactly the same problem. Did you find any solution?
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I'm like the ultimate newby. Bought new G-Tablet off E-Bay. Owner volunteered to put new OS on it, I took him up on offer. We decided on Vegan 5.1.
So I got my machine Sat, and started playing. Today I picked it up and it cycles between the Birds and the "Powered by G-Tabdevs" screen.
I know how to get to the ClorkworkMod Recovery screen.
Any ideas?
Tom
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I'm like the ultimate newby. Bought new G-Tablet off E-Bay. Owner volunteered to put new OS on it, I took him up on offer. We decided on Vegan 5.1.
So I got my machine Sat, and started playing. Today I picked it up and it cycles between the Birds and the "Powered by G-Tabdevs" screen.
I know how to get to the ClorkworkMod Recovery screen.
Any ideas?
Tom
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Boot into recovery and wipe data & cache.
If that doesn't work, you may want to read up on the install directions for vegan 5.1. It's a simple process and re-flashing might fix it.
Wiped cache - no difference
When I do factory reset I get a couple of messages that don't seem right
E:Can't mount /dev/block/mmcblk3p2
(Invalid argument)
Error mounting /data/!
Skipping format
Formatting SDEXT
No Apps2sd partition found. Skipping format of /sd.ext
Does a re-flash still seem like the way to go based on that?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=896395
Ignore the title....this is your fix
First of all you'll need to ensure that you have Clockwork Mod .8 installed as pointed out on Roebeet's thread (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=842004) under caveats and issues. I had good luck running the fix that roebeet list here as well. (http://droidpirate.com/category/ablets/viewsonic-gtablet/)
Your best bet is to continue reading up on the development forum and you will get up to speed really quick. I am very technically savy, but tablets are a whole new animal. Once you understand them it isn't that difficult.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=865245
Sometimes it helps to retrace your steps. Do what thebadfrog says and then start at the top of this link and end where it stops. Good luck.
OK, I did badfrogs trick and I'm in. Just have to set up my stuff again. I promise to check out rtreiders links.
I certainly appreciate the assistance.
Does this sound like operator error like me not unmounting when attached vis USB?
Tom
nope....it happens to everyone eventually. Somehow the partitioning gets corrupted
Ok Ill try to make this as clear as I can. I don't know what I'm doing and thought I would mess around with my Samsung Mesmerize for USCC.
USCC released the gingerbread update for my phone. So I went on their site and downloaded the installer and installed it on my phone. Before I was on froyo and was rooted with the vodoo lagfix. I did NOT disable or unroot before I did it.
Gingerbread update went fine and phone was working properly. I wanted to use my titanium backup to restore all of my apps but it said I wasnt rooted. I figured all I had to do was use superonelickroot and be back to square one. Problem is it wouldnt work.
This is where I really screwed up. I browsed around and found that I need to root it different because gingerbread is different and wont work with superoneclickroot.
I found a link to upgrade the samsung galaxy 19000 by using odin and replace some files.
This is where I really screwed up. I flashed my rom and installed the .tar file not realizing that it wasnt for my phone........
SIGH>..........
Phone wouldnt go past samsung screen which was all discolored and weird.
After panicing for awhile I figured I need to use odin again and flash an original rom back. So I found an original USCC froyo 2.2 rom and reflashed it to my phone.
Now my phone at least loads but I'm having a slew of problems. My internal memory storage is at 0 so I cant install anything. I also keep getting force close loop from twlauncher. I got that to go away by removing all of the widgets on my phone.
I have NO clue what the hell I'm doing and I'm afraid I screw this phone up.
I've tried hard resetting and when I do it, it says all sorts of failures and crap in red in the boot screen. It will reload eventually and the phone otherwise seems to be fine.
The problem is I can install like 2 apps and that's it before it says there in insufficient memory.
All I want to do is get my phone working like normal again.
What did I do wrong, other then the obvious installing the wrong rom for my phone?
I thought by reflashing with an original rom things would be back to normal, apparently not.
I would appreciate any help or info.
I'm not a complete noob but will need some laymen terms.
Thanks !
Maybe you repartitioned your phone when flashing the i9000 ROM (.PIT file?).
So now the partitions are wrong/too small as you don't have an i9000, which means you will have to repartition it to fit your device.
I don't have any knowledge about your device, so this is just an educated guess.
anyone have any suggestions on what I might have done wrong?
I would really like to be able to install apps back on my phone again
I have no idea why my phone is saying there is no system memory
Any ideas?
Update:
I restarted my phone just to see what happens and it reloaded like normal except it didn't save alot of my setting I changed.
So the phone is truly acting like it has no system memory. My wallpaper was back to the original one that comes with the phone and other settings were turned back to the original settings.
What will happen if I "clear cache partition" from the boot menu?
Will this help my problem at all?
Does anyone have any suggestions, I know someone out there knows whats wrong.
PLEASE HELP !!!
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Update:
Ok, It also lost the one app that I was able to install, friendcasterpro.
So my phone is acting like it has no internal memory.
Why is this happening and how do I fix it?
THANKS !!!!
If your phone has it's own subforum, try posting there. You'll be more likely to get responses from people that have your device and know how to troubleshoot it.
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Did you wipe data and cache when you reflashed?
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I did do a hard reset after reflashing the rom and the 0 internal memory problem is still there.
I also went into the boot screen and wiped the cache partition and it didn't help either.
I'm not sure if that answers your question, but that's what ive done so far.
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I did do a hard reset after reflashing the rom and the 0 internal memory problem is still there.
I also went into the boot screen and wiped the cache partition and it didn't help either.
I'm not sure if that answers your question, but that's what ive done so far.
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As i have already stated in my previous post, it has mostlikely something to do with the partitions/filesystem.
Wiping cache does nothing but delete the contents of the cache folder.
Doing a hardreset does nothing but delete all user apps and preferences.
Both action don't have any effect on file systems or partitions.
Hmm maybe the problem is that you didn't remove the lagfix first, but the phone was working properly after the update and before you flashed the wrong rom right? Maybe you should try uninstalling the lagfix, you'll need to flash CWM first and then flash the uninstall script. Not sure if that's the problem though, but it don't hurt to try. I've read about the no memory problem before, being caused by flashing without removing the lagfix first.
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@ Dark3n - "So now the partitions are wrong/too small as you don't have an i9000, which means you will have to repartition it to fit your device."
How do I re partition it to fit my device if that is the problem?
@ MaBlo - After I installed the gingerbread update (I also did a hard reset) and the phone was working fine. It wasn't rooted any more and all apps were removed like normal. I could install things and I had no problems. The 0 system memory problem happened after I flashed the wrong Rom and install the original rom back on the phone.
The phone wouldn't boot at all when the phone was on the wrong rom. Thats why I used odin and put an original rom back on the phone. This is when I got it to reboot like normal but now it says I have 0 system memory. I can't install almost anything and if I reboot my phone it loses any settings changes or apps that I did manage to get installed?
Someone has to know why this is happening, anyone?
I'm going re-flash an original rom back again but this time I'm going to re-partition and see if that helps.
Ill post back with my results
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Ok after reflash with original rom and .pit file and repartition it loads the Samsung screen then goes back to the boot screen with this message after I try to hard reset:
E: Can’t mount /dev/block/mmcblk0p1
(invalid argument)
E: Can’t mount /dev/block/mmcblk0p1
(invalid argument)
E:install_application_for_customer:Can’t mount D
ATA:
Your storage not prepared yet. Please use UI me nu for format and reboot action.
I then click reboot now and it loads up like normal except I still get the dailybriefing force close, twlauncher force close, and my system still has 0 memory ???????
What in gods name did I do to this phone????
SOMEONE has to know how to fix it????
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Ok I tried using the USCC samsung gingerbread updater to see if maybe that would fix it. After it did its flash the phone was now stuck in a boot loop. It would never go into the phone, it would just keep loading, get stuck then reload and so on and so on.
I finally pulled the battery and went into the boot menu. I now get this error message.
E:failed to mount /data/fota (no such file or directory)
#manual mode#
When I try to wipe the data this is my message I get.
--Wiping data.....
Formatting /data...
E:format_volume: rfs format failed on /dev/block/mmcblk0p1
Formatting /dbdata....
Formatting /cache....
Data wipe complete.
E: failed to mount /preinstall (no such file or directory)
E: install_application_for_customer:Can't mount /preinstall
your storage not prepared yet, please use UI me nu for format and reboot actions.
Now its still stuck in a boot loop and I cannot get my phone to work at all anymore.
Looks like I'm officially screwed unless someone knows what I did wrong and could help me fix it.........
SIGH.......
Maybe this will help you?
http://rootzwiki.com/showthread.php?5361-what-if-I-didn-t-Disable-Lagfix
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I currently have an Evo 4g but have worked on some friends Samsung's so take what I say as just a possibility...
In Odin there is a check box that says re-partition, by default it is not checked. I would recommend finding the original version of the software that came on your phone and use Odin to flash it back on with the box checked. Once that is done start over from scratch.
A trick I have found with TI backup is to restore all apps but not the data. I ran into some issues going from Froyo to GB on mine when I restored data but in general just updating the apps and setting up the accounts again manually seemed to be a much better option for me.
Hello!
I did search some topic with bootloop problems, and the thread with my ROM itself, but haven't find any solution.
I was trying to install custom rom and end up with a bootloop. Still can go to recovery/download mode.
I was following instruction from this thread: https://forum.xda-developers.com/ga...-android-nougat-7-0-beta-3-zpkk-odex-t3507499
I have SM-G930F Flat. Enable OEM activated, when system (6.1.1?) was going on. Unfortunately I lost my backup. ;(
When flashing TWRP, probably didnt uncheck restart options, but didnt remember what happened next. I think I just flashed it once more to be sure. Then POWER+DOWN, POWER+MENU+UP got me to nice menu of recovery.
But when I tried to install _no-verity-opt-encrypt-2.2.zip_ file (or even create backup or wipe data), my phone tells me that it couldn't mount /data (couples of times, actually).
Ignored it and proceed with wiping and installing of no-verity and ROM itself (with another wipings among resets). Ended up with bootloop for more like 15 mins and clearly something is wrong here.
I tried to check to install newest modem and csc in aroma installer, but it didnt help.
What am I doing wrong here?
Thanks in advance!
Tom
Weird thing. Glitch has gone. After trying to install with new modem&csc (and it didnt work), turned phone down for ~1h. Now error with mounting /data is gone. Installed everything and new ROM is working nice. Interesting thing, will try to close this thread.
Well, yes, really I was just desperate. I've been trying to solve an issue with my phone for the last two days. I had Nexus OS 9.0 installed, all perfect, recovery is good, and everything.
I decided that I'd had enough of Nexus, it crashes a lot, sometimes it reboots blah blah.
I decided to change to XtreStoLite, a stable and light Marshmallow version. I downloaded it, I passed it to my phone, went to TWRP, flashed it ... But the Edge version ...
Long story short, my x axis touch was all ****ed up, you touched right, it touched left. I tried reinstalling NexusOS, but nothing, it just kept happening, I guessed it must have ****ed with the kernel or something, so I decided I was going to download the Stock ROM of the S6 (5.1.1) and try a fix I had seen that has worked a lot for others that was going into de dial pad and dialing "*#2663*#" and a couple of buttons and that was it, problem fixed.
I did, but when I went to flash it with Odin, I encountered a hundred problems more, first it didn't detect my phone, then I had errors. Nand write fail. Sboot.bin fail, and well, all of that.
So, I was tired, angry and decided to check the "Nand erase" checkbox that in some page I read might work, but instead it ****ed all up.
Now I'm sitting here watching my phone reboot and reboot again. It enters to the TWRP Recovery, but a console pops up and says thing like:
"Could not mount /data and unable to find crypto footer. Failed to mount /data (Invalid Argument" and things like these repeating once and again.
So, is there any way out of this? I mean, I can still go into Download mode, but for some reason can't flash any ROM. (I'm downloading another one right now for tomorrow morning, so we'll see). This is my daily carrier and I need it. I don't have the money to buy a new one right now, I know, I'm tremendously stupid and should've thought about doing this I didn't know what were.
Thank you in advance for the responses, and you can go ahead and curse at me a little for being an idiot.
Edit: Just discovered that I can go into the Recovery mode, but I tried to "factory reset" to see what would happen and a lot of "Failed to mount 'data' (Invalid Argument)". So, take that into account. Can't transfer anything to the phone though. Already tried.
Edit 2: I was able to install XtreStoLite, but the touch problem is still there. If anyone knows what the freak the "Sboot.bin" fail is and how to fix it, I would glady aprecciate it. I don't like the reversed touch screen that much. Thanks again.
Sboot.bin fail is most of the time a older bootloader youre trying to flash. Flash the newest update to your phone
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Sboot.bin fail is most of the time a older bootloader youre trying to flash. Flash the newest update to your phone
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Yeap. That worked. I downloaded the 7.0 Update. Now we shall see if I can fix the touch problem, I hope so.
Will update if I do. In this thread.
Edit: Yeap. It worked, seems like the code only works on Stock Android. For anyone who could be having this problem, this is the solution.
Hi all,
I recently took the plunge into the Android world of things and loved it. Everything was going according to plan, until I decided to try out the DSU loader and load a GSI package. Based on everything I read it shouldn't had cause any issues, but unfortunately it did. Once I rebooted the phone I received the dreaded "Your Device is Corrupted and Cannot Be Trusted" message. Unfortunately it all went down hill for me from there. A couple of things I know now and shouldn't have done without knowing more information was performing a "Format and Download" option on the phone. Had no idea I was going to loose other partitions that is not created by the flashing of the Rom.
I was able to get the Manufacturer Rom and flash it back to the device. Everything appeared to be working fine until I noticed that I was not getting any data for the battery management option. Another thing I noticed is that now my battery is rapidly loosing it's charge. Could this be related to the Cache Partition not being present? Is there anyway to get the Cache Partition back or recreate it by rooting the device? Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
-Glitch