hello ,
my vibrant cant booting if i remove my ex sdcard even i odin rom with out its the same
can any one help plz
Sounds like you have moved a critical system file to the external card. Are you able to boot with a different external card?
If not then you probably moved a critical system file (using a utility like titanium backup?) on the external card.
no i cant boot if i insert another sd but if i odin with it its fine
I stand by my earlier statement then. You probably have moved a critical startup file to the external SD card. You can boot with the card cause the file system can access it. You can't boot with a different card cause that file is not on the card. You can ODIN because the hardware on your phone is working properly.
The way I see it you have two solutions:
1) ODIN to stock (or whatever other firmware you use)
2) Figure out which file you moved from the internal SD card and move it back to its original place.
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I stand by my earlier statement then. You probably have moved a critical startup file to the external SD card. You can boot with the card cause the file system can access it. You can't boot with a different card cause that file is not on the card. You can ODIN because the hardware on your phone is working properly.
The way I see it you have two solutions:
1) ODIN to stock (or whatever other firmware you use)
2) Figure out which file you moved from the internal SD card and move it back to its original place.
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i use odin to stock without ex sdcard but nothing happen my phone stuck at vibrant i try JI6 and JFD it is same problem i try to odin with my ex sdcard its boot with black screen what the next step
petagorth_84 said:
i use odin to stock without ex sdcard but nothing happen my phone stuck at vibrant i try JI6 and JFD it is same problem i try to odin with my ex sdcard its boot with black screen what the next step
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Sounds like something went wrong when you used ODIN.
You may want to try to download AIO vibrant. It has a step by step, virtually foolproof to get you back up and running.
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So I had a restore point on my TMo Stock rom created using the Clockworkmod recovery. I tried to update to Axura 2.1 from 2.0.5 today and the update messed up halfway. I'm going to take a wild guess it's my horrible mac book pro's wrong doing, faulty download (I'm a mac hater, it's a company issue device). Anyway, my phone is basically stuck at recovery and I have to wait till I head home to use the USB Cable and redownload the rom.
So my questions:
1. Is there no way to access the external SD Card? So I thought of copying a new download of the rom to the external SD, but all I can access is the internal SD card contents when installing zip from sd card. I tried to mount ext-sd (or sd-ext?) and it fails.
2. I tried restoring to the restore I created when I had my stock rom. It seems to go through it but then it just goes back to the recovery after reboot?
3. When I go home, how do I copy the files to the internal SD Card? For some reason, I don't think it's as easy as pluggin the usb cable to the phone while in Recovery mode?
Help would be appreciated.
Hi everyone,
In my overzealous attempts to reformat an old 4gb external SD card through CW Recovery, I managed to reformat my internal SD card (I was using the Clockwork Recovery version 2.5). I thought that "format sd card" would reformat my external memory card and not leave me without a usable phone, but I guess I misunderstood.
I spent at least five hours going through all of the ODIN tutorials and trying them out, and found that using Eugene's 2.2 with 2E recovery ROM actually allows me to boot up (hooray! ), while the stock rom from this thread simply forces a bootloop on my poor phone, with occasional freezes. Even using AIO's "Flash to Stock" from Eugene's 2.2 doesn't work.
Further searching has lead to the thread about partitioning using parted, which has been hard for me to use effectively (I made a new partition, but I couldn't get it to mount properly).
I was really excited to come across this tutorial, but it didn't solve my problem. After getting through all of the steps, at step 5, ODIN3 versions 1.0, 1.7, and 1.81 (I tried all 3 on 3 different walk-throughs of the tutorial) never were actually capable of repartitioning the sdcard properly. Every time after the first time of using "parted" to reduce the card to a single partition, I found that that lone partition was always the only one there (15.5 gb /SYSTEM Fat32). No changes had been made to the sd card's partitions.
I don't know if it helps any, but the ROM I was running before I reformatted the card was Bi-Winning 3.0, and Voodoo had not been disabled at the time of the reformat, which may be why I can't flash new ROMs through the recovery as well.
As near as I can tell, ODIN can't actually return my vibrant's partitions to factory settings, so is there a way for me to do that manually? I think that would solve my problem.
Thanks,
-NewbieCube
My guide (you linked to) clearly states its not for this intent... if you read it, you would also see I linked to Eugenes froyo that does not brick. If you did it, THEN you did my guide ODIN to JFD, you are on a fully functional stock 2.1 JFD build.
If your intent was to just format the external sd, go to menu settings, sd card/phone storage, unmount the external and format it.
Right, I know that. In fact I read all through your thread and tried to flash to Eugene's first, and then to JFD, but JFD does not boot properly. It just gives me a black, unresponsive screen. I'll definitely go back through once more and try that again, though, as you clearly know what you're talking about.
I basically formatted the wrong storage (internal sd vs external sd), and would like to get that internal back to stock, so you are right that Eugenes -> JFD should work. I'll report back with results.
^ yeah, exactly... that should work with no issues. let me know if it does not.
Oddly enough, that didn't work for me either. Since my phone still can boot into Eugene's (albeit with 0.00B available to apps), I know this should work, just from reading through your guide. So once more, here's what I did:
1. Download mode -> ODIN 1.70: Flash Eugene_2E_JK2_Froyo.tar.md5, and s1_odin_20100512.pit (from Eugene) Re-Partition NOT checked (Eugene's thread says not to)
2. Boot up into Unbrickable Froyo, with no application space remaining Mount sdcard and move Update.zip (s15274n's) into the root folder without issue.
3. Download mode -> ODIN 1.70: Flash s1_odin_20100512.pit, and T959UVJFD.tar (s15274n's) with Re-Partition checked
4. Boots once automatically into recovery, saying something about a failed MBR checksum and failure to clear userdata
5. Bootloops that never get past the VIBRANT logo screen
6. Boot into recovery and try deleting user data and cache data manually and to reinstall packages, but bootloops continue.
I really don't know what I'm doing wrong here...
UPDATE:
I even used Heimdall on another computer and got the same result, so it isn't ODIN. Why is reformatting the internal SD card to stock so difficult to do?
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I FIGURED IT OUT!!! ...by random chance
For my problem, it was indeed the voodoo lagfix that was messing things up, and this post:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=888084
helped me out tremendously.
I'm trying to get files (my photos mostly) off the internal storage of my Vibrant. I don't care about getting the Vibrant working again, just getting my files off it. I can get into recovery mode, but mounting usb storage *does not work*, even tried unplugging and replugging the phone but no dice. I can install zips from the sd card (though it takes 5x longer than normal) but any ROM I install, stock, cyanogen, slim, etc. won't actually finish booting.
Because USB mounting doesn't work, I'd like to use CWM to copy all the files on the internal storage to the sd card. Then I can put the sd in another computer and get the files off. In CWM I can do a backup to sd, but that doesn't backup photos, just the rom. Is there a way to generally copy files from internal to the sd using CWM?
Also, the entire time I'm in recovery mode my PC makes the sound for a usb device being connected and then disconnected, assume that has something to do with the Vibrant being generally busted.
In summary:
Trying to recover files from vibrant phone storage
Can't boot any regular ROM
Can get into CWM recovery
USB mount in CWM recovery *does not work*
Can install zip from sd card
Can backup to sd card
Have a spare working vibrant for charging battery
Any ideas?
Okay I'll see if I can help any. First of all, can you successfully use Odin to return to stock firmware? Have you even attempted using Odin?
Can try using recuva or there is another one too but the XDA search is missing right now. Moped_Ryder usually recommends that one that I can't remember right now, but once the search button is back, I'll let you know what it is. Works like a charm. Droid recover or Droid Files, ahh I can't think of it but there is a solution on here somewhere.
Try a program called Android Commander.
Ive transferred files in CWM with it all the time.
Agreed with android commander. It has always worked for me. There are other solutions too with these new kernels these days. You can download Devil kernel or subzero via PC(They both include new file manager in recovery).Put it on your external card, flash, reboot back into recovery. Mount your internal and external cards from mounts and storage menu. Go to file manager and copy/paste away.
I tried to install revolt jb rom , did the wipes but it didn't install properly
The screen buttons wouldn't work, so I went into recovery and totried install my back up off my internal memory but it wouldn't find it ? Lucky I had wanam rom on the Sd card I istalled that.,
when I've checked it looks like all my files are there on the internal memory but it won't recognize then,this is the same in recovery. Any ideas how to access my internal memory again?
I've tried searching but am away from my computer so it's not easy.
Very difficult to understand your post .
kemeys ???
You say
Off my internal memory but it wouldn't find it ?>>>>
You say
did the wipes
Logic says you wiped the backup or part of it .
Root with the exact same recovery you used .
jje
All the file are still on my phone , it just won't find them, I managed to locate then with root browser lite , but recovery can't find them.
Typing this on my phone, so you'll have to excuse the typos.
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update
I've just plugged my phone into the computer, it looks like all my files are still on the internal memory card, but they've been put into a folder lablled 0, just got to figure out how to access that folder on the phone or better still on the recovery. No problem find it on the phone now, just can't access it from recovery.
If i can get into the folder in recovery I should be able to restore my back up, I tried to copy and paste the back up into the clockworkmod backup folder, it copied, but failed the MD5 test when trying to restore.
Update: copied the cwm back up to the external sd card and it worked, so I'm back where I started from, just got to sort out my files and delete any duplicates.
Okay, this is quite a long story, so I apologise in advance.
I decided to update my Galaxy S2 today to a newer ROM (SuperNexus 2) with the latest version of Android. I was coming from a CM9 build. I went through the usual process of backing up data and performing a full NANDROID backup via CWM Recovery, booted the phone again and transferred the backups to my PC via USB. These files transferred fine.
I then downloaded the zip files for the new ROM and proceeded to copy them to the internal storage of my phone. The copy dialog in Windows said that it was "discovering items" and stayed like this until I turned off USB transfer mode on the phone and removed it (ie. the files failed to copy) This happened a number of times and I didn't get anywhere. I have plenty of space free on the SD card, but just to make sure I started the phone in CWM again and formatted the SD card, and since I was going to do it anyway, the data and cache partitions too. When I booted the phone again, the files still wouldn't copy. I managed to copy a text file to the phone which was about 32kb but anything larger just seemed to fail.
I then went back into CWM and decided to partition the SD card, as I thought that it may have been corrupted somehow and needed to rebuild the filesystem. This however, caused even more problems as trying to format the SD card (In CWM) now just reported "Error, can not mount E:/sdcard".
Feeling fairly frustrated, I decided to download the Stock ICS ROM for the Galaxy S2 and install it via Odin, thinking that the problem was probably with CWM. The install went fine, but upon reboot the phone just stayed on the boot animation, no matter how long I left it. To make sure the install went smoothly I decided to try and reinstall the Stock ROM via Odin again, but now Odin didnt seem to get past the "Initializing.." stage.
So all in all, I now have a phone which wont boot into Android, cant copy anything to internal storage, and Odin wont seem to connect to.
I am convinced this is a software issue and therefore fixable. But maybe the internal storage was not working correctly in the first place. I have installed many ROMs before and never had such issues.
Anyone know anything about this or how I could potentially fix it? Thanks so much in advance!
Benji1992 said:
Okay, this is quite a long story, so I apologise in advance.
I decided to update my Galaxy S2 today to a newer ROM (SuperNexus 2) with the latest version of Android. I was coming from a CM9 build. I went through the usual process of backing up data and performing a full NANDROID backup via CWM Recovery, booted the phone again and transferred the backups to my PC via USB. These files transferred fine.
I then downloaded the zip files for the new ROM and proceeded to copy them to the internal storage of my phone. The copy dialog in Windows said that it was "discovering items" and stayed like this until I turned off USB transfer mode on the phone and removed it (ie. the files failed to copy) This happened a number of times and I didn't get anywhere. I have plenty of space free on the SD card, but just to make sure I started the phone in CWM again and formatted the SD card, and since I was going to do it anyway, the data and cache partitions too. When I booted the phone again, the files still wouldn't copy. I managed to copy a text file to the phone which was about 32kb but anything larger just seemed to fail.
I then went back into CWM and decided to partition the SD card, as I thought that it may have been corrupted somehow and needed to rebuild the filesystem. This however, caused even more problems as trying to format the SD card (In CWM) now just reported "Error, can not mount E:/sdcard".
Feeling fairly frustrated, I decided to download the Stock ICS ROM for the Galaxy S2 and install it via Odin, thinking that the problem was probably with CWM. The install went fine, but upon reboot the phone just stayed on the boot animation, no matter how long I left it. To make sure the install went smoothly I decided to try and reinstall the Stock ROM via Odin again, but now Odin didnt seem to get past the "Initializing.." stage.
So all in all, I now have a phone which wont boot into Android, cant copy anything to internal storage, and Odin wont seem to connect to.
I am convinced this is a software issue and therefore fixable. But maybe the internal storage was not working correctly in the first place. I have installed many ROMs before and never had such issues.
Anyone know anything about this or how I could potentially fix it? Thanks so much in advance!
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I9100?
Can get to DL mode?
Can get to recovery?
Get an older Odin version and flash siyah just to see if it can be flashed again.
If you can get to recovery, Nuke Script is the way to go.
It sounds to me that maybe your memory is corrupt...
Not just yet, smells like soft brick.
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