[Guide] SD Partition for Encryption Unsuccessful (ICS Bug) - Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

THIS GUIDE IS ONLY FOR ICS USERS WHO HAVE ENCOUNTERED THE ENCRYPTION UNSUCCESSFUL SCREEN ON THEIR PHONE. If you have no idea what the ENCRYPTION UNSUCCESSFUL screen is disregard this guide.
First and foremost I would like to thank and give credit to 'cgugino' for his guide over at the Captivate forums. Thanks to tabthelab and Woodrube for their helpful advice and guidence.
cgugino's guide (captivate)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1447303
This is a similar guide if not identical to his guide for "fixing" the Encryption Unsuccessful bug that occurs in certain ICS roms (DocMasters V5 confirmed). Not sure about other ICS roms.Here is a screenshot of the "Encryption Unsuccessful" screen that will eventually appear on your ICS rom.
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If you have already selected reset phone well don't panic just proceed. It will not make a difference regardless.
Note: If you still have access to CWM not stock recovery proceed to step 6 and create your new partition. But REMEMBER TO BACK UP YOUR SD CARD AS IT WILL BE WIPED COMPLETELY. Do this by going under 'mounts and storage' > 'mount /emmc' or 'mount usb storage' in CWM
DO THIS GUIDE ONLY IF YOU HAVE ALREADY FLASHED BACK TO STOCK JFD THROUGH ODIN OR IF YOU NO LONGER HAVE ACCESS TO CWM. OTHERWISE READ THE NOTE ABOVE
WITH THAT BEING SAID THIS GUIDE DOES NOT FIX THE BUG. IT IS A WORKAROUND TO CREATE A PARTITION ON YOUR SD CARD TO BE ABLE TO USE YOUR "BRICKED" PHONE AGAIN
So lets begin:
Tools/Files Needed
-ADB (Android Debugging Bridge) and Android SDK must be set up on your PC.
Here is a guide that shows how to setup ADB and SDK with the necessary drivers:
http://theunlockr.com/2009/10/06/how-to-set-up-adb-usb-drivers-for-android-devices/
-You need the latest ODIN 1.7 or whatever the latest version is along with the .pit file found here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=848737
-Download this froyo .tar and extract it to the same directory where you have odin.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=833024&page=49
-Download CWM from here:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/stockodinjfd/files/update.zip/download
-Download any ICS rom Yes an ICS rom. You will use later to flash in CWM.
-You need a microSD card 8gb or larger which you will use to create the partition.
Thats it I think.
Here are the steps:
1. Enter download mode. Remove your battery/Then insert your battery/ hold both Volume Up and Down rocker and plug in your usb cable. You should now see the yellow android dude and it should say "Downloading".
2. Open odin and select the .pit file along with the froyo .tar file you've downloaded from above. Make sure "Re-Partition" is checked under options in odin. Click start and patiently wait for the process to be completed. DO NOT UNPLUG YOUR PHONE YET
Once odin finishes wait till the phone boots up with the new froyo rom youve just flashed.
3. Once your phone boots up and is setup copy CWM update.zip to the root of your external SD card. Do this by selecting the "mount usb storage" option in the notification bar.
Or
You can also copy the update.zip using a sd card adapter (only if your pc has an sd card reader).
You can use another phone or device which has a micro sd card slot. Just insert the sd card and plug in that phone via usb and copy update.zip.
You can also use adb to copy the update.zip.
adb remount
adb push update.zip /mnt/emmc
You must have the update.zip in the "platform-tools" folder in the android-sdk before executing the commands above.
4. BACKUP YOUR EXTERNAL SD CARD WHILE YOU CAN. IT WILL BE ERASED WHEN CREATING THE NEW PARTITION
5. Unplug your phone. Enter recovery mode using the 3 button combo or through adb using the following command: adb reboot recovery
Hit reinstall packages in recovery if CWM is not set yet. It will eventually install just keep clicking reinstall packages.
6. Once your are in CWM create the partition by going to 'advanced' > 'Partition SD Card' > Choose your data partition size 2gb is fine > Swap size 0M > You will get an error but just ignore it.
WAIT WAIT and WAIT it will take more than 5mins to create the partition. Just be patient it will eventually finish.
7. Connect your phone and while still in CWM mount your "USB Storage" under 'mounts and storage' > 'Mount USB Storage'. Then copy your ICS rom along with the update.zip (just incase) to flash. Don't flash update.zip though just keep it on your sd for future use.
8. Now while still in CWM umount your USB Storage. Go Back and select Wipe data factory rest / clear cache. Then install the ICS rom you've downloaded and flash it. (I used ICS Passion v13) Again be patient and wait till it finishes flashing and ignore any errors.
9. Once it has finished flashing it will eventually reboot. Or select 'reboot system now' in CWM if it already hasn't. Now this part you will have to be extremely patient. It may take up to 10mins or more to boot up. Once finished just set up your system using the setup wizard on your phone if there is one.
10. Check to see if your new partition has been successfully created by going to: Settings/Storage. You may see that your new partition is still 'unavailable' or it may say something like 00 for available storage. Don't worry just proceed to the next step.
11. Now to see if your partition is mounted properly. (Most likely not)Open the camera app and check to see if you get a message saying "Insert an SD card before using the camera." or something along those lines. If you get this message proceed to the following step. If not well you are lucky And you are now finished.
12. Now get ready to use adb so make sure adb debugging is enabled in Settings/Developer Options/ Android debugging [checked]
Open a command prompt on your pc in directory in which you installed your android sdk package. It should be something like this
C:\android-sdk\platform-tools
While in the platform-tools folder click on a blank space and Hold the SHIFT key + RIGHT CLICK > and select 'Open Command Window Here'. Now a command window should show up. If it doesnt show up well you didnt set up the SDK package properly go back to the guide which i suggested and make sure you have it set up properly or else you will not be able to issue commands.
13. With the command window open and your phone plugged in. Enter these commands to swap your external sdcard with your internal storage. This is the part where you will now use your new partition as your primary storage or internal storage.
Type in the following code into the command window or copy and paste it (easier) Remember to press the enter key after every command:
1) adb devices "This is to check if your device is properly attached"
2) adb remount "This is to check if your device is properly mounted"
3) adb pull /system/etc/vold.fstab "This will copy the vold.fstab file to the platform-tools folder on your PC."
3a) Now open the vold.fstab file you've just copied to your PC located in platform-tools. Right click vold.fstab and open it with notepad for editing.
Or you can also use a root explorer type of app on your phone
to edit the vold.fstab file. This might be the easier option. Just
remember to reboot your phone after editing the file.
3b) With the vold.fstab file open in notepad edit the following lines:
(They should be at the very end of the file and look something like this)
Line 1:
internal sdcarddev_mount sdcard /mnt/sdcard 1 /devices/platform/s3c-sdhci.0/mmc_host/mmc0#
Replace both instances of sdcard with emmc
Line 2:
external sdcarddev_mount emmc /mnt/emmc auto /devices/platform/s3c-sdhci.2/mmc_host/mmc2
Replace both instances of emmc with sdcard
Now that you have finished editing vold.fstab save the file close it and proceed to the next step.
3c) Now copy the edited vold.fstab file to your new partition by using the following commands:
adb remount "Followed by"
adb push vold.fstab /system/etc/vold.fstab "The file should now be overwritten."
REBOOT YOUR PHONE IF YOU DON'T GET ANY ERRORS WHEN EXECUTING THE COMMAND ABOVE.
(READ BELOW "IN RED" BEFORE REBOOTING IF YOU GET AN ERROR IN THE COMMAND WINDOW)
YOU ARE NOW FINISHED. AND SHOULD BE ABLE TO USE YOUR PHONE AGAIN WITH THE NEW PARTITION MOUNTED PROPERLY
IF YOU GET AN ERROR IN THE COMMAND WINDOW saying permission denied or something enter the following commands.
adb push vold.fstab /emmc/vold.fstab
adb shell
su
mount -o remount rw /system
cp /emmc/vold.fstab /system/etc/vold.fstab
chmod 644 /system/etc/vold.fstab
mount -o remount ro /system
exit
exit
adb reboot "This command will reboot your device so don't panic."
Once you have entered the commands above. Your phone will reboot. And the new vold.fstab file will be programmed to mount your new partition as your primary storage. And you should be finished by now. Now to test it open the camera app once again and see if you get any error messages. If so repeat step(s) 13. Otherwise You should now see that you have 1.88gb internal storage for apps etc and about 13 gb for the user (Assuming you have a 16gb) It should look something like this:
(Continued)
YOUR ARE NOW FINISHED AND SHOULD BE ABLE TO USE YOUR PHONE ONCE AGAIN. DOWNLOAD AN APP FROM THE MARKET TO SEE IF EVERYTHING WENT WELL. ALSO MOUNT YOUR PHONE TO YOUR PC TO SEE IF THE NEW PARTITION IS BEING RECOGNIZED.
Notes:
-Those of you who are new to ADB remember to hit enter after every command. dont just copy and paste all of them and expect them to work.
-You must perform step(s) 13 everytime after flashing a new rom. Reason for this is because the new vold.fstab file in the new rom will overwrite the old one you have edited in step 13. So keep that in mind.
-I have only tried this with the latest build of ICS Passion v13. It may work for other ICS roms aswell but i cannot confirm. I have tried it with a froyo rom but was unable to successfully mount the new partition. As for GB roms well you are going to have to try that your self. All you have to do is edit the vold.fstab file (Step 13) they should be identical if not similar.
-You can also edit the vold.fstab file using "Root explorer" app on your phone if you have it.
-Remember you no longer have access to your old internal memory since it is gone and I don't know what happened to it. SO SAY GOODBYE TO YOUR OLD INTERNAL STORAGE.
-Do not remove your SD CARD while your phone is on. It contains all of your system files and will probably make your phone blow up if you do so.
-If you haven't already flashed back to stock 2.1 and still have access to CWM you can skip to step 6 and create the partition from there. But remember to BACKUP YOUR SD CARD because it will be wiped.
I haven't tried this method but i assume it will work the same. Give it a try and let me know what happens
Good Luck and feel free to ask me any questions. I will be more than happy to assist you if you need any help.

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I just read comment about the bug and your thread pops up. Great work!
Just for clarification, does this mean you must rely on the SD indefinitely to utilize the phone?

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ast32 said:
I just read comment about the bug and your thread pops up. Great work!
Just for clarification, does this mean you must rely on the SD indefinitely to utilize the phone?
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Yes... Once you've completed this guide your EXTERNAL SD CARD will then act as the INTERNAL SD CARD that was previously there prior to the bug. So in other words your sdcard will be your primary storage for the OS and other things such as music photos apps etc.

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Merio90 said:
-Do not remove your SD CARD while your phone is on. It contains all of your system files and will probably make your phone blow up if you do so.
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This also means that if you ever want to swap out any SD card, you will have to repartition your new one to fit exactly the same "smaller" partition and also find some program that will be able to pull your data from your 2g partition, save it to your desktop and then copy it over to your new partition on your new card. Or you may have to reflash whatever ROM you are wanting/restoring from scratch. You are new essentially SDcard branded to your phone.
My old phone had 2.1 with no upgrade EVER from the manufacturer. So me and a few others began building/kanging 2.2 and with 2.2's ability of app2sd we had to figure out a way to do that for it to work. Long story short, with a few init hijacks at boot and some ADB we were able to get apps to install directly to a partition that we created on our SD cards. Went from 170mb internal to "you pick the size" partition on the external. I still have that phone and do some dev-ing on it and have brought a 2.1 all the way to CM9.
If anyone needs help with the partitioning, just ask. Also, 2gb is the standard but 2gb is a ton of space. Figure that your biggest app is going to be around 20-30mb executable. 1gb is 1024mb, you can do the math but it is also your call.

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Problemo
So, this guide is great, but one of the initial problems was connecting to my SD card, when I plug in via usb my computer doesn't even recognize I plugged in. How am I to get the "update.zip" and the CFW on to it? also, when I use Clockwork, I can't seem to make my partition work... I've done it many many times, but nothing. it's almost like it doesn't even work... I just have the standard 2gb micro SD, so I make a partition of 1024mb. But it doesn't seem to work.

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tabthelab said:
So, this guide is great, but one of the initial problems was connecting to my SD card, when I plug in via usb my computer doesn't even recognize I plugged in. How am I to get the "update.zip" and the CFW on to it? also, when I use Clockwork, I can't seem to make my partition work... I've done it many many times, but nothing. it's almost like it doesn't even work... I just have the standard 2gb micro SD, so I make a partition of 1024mb. But it doesn't seem to work.
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Try using the sd card adapter that came with your phone to copy the update.zip. That's if your computer has an sd card slot. Or simply use another phone to copy it by inserting the sd into that phone and plugging in the usb cable.
Right when you finish flashing the 2.2 .tar it should mount properly to your pc. Just select usb storage from the notification bar.
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using XDA

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Merio90 said:
Try using the sd card adapter that came with your phone to copy the update.zip. That's if your computer has an sd card slot. Or simply use another phone to copy it by inserting the sd into that phone and plugging in the usb cable.
Right when you finish flashing the 2.2 .tar it should mount properly to your pc. Just select usb storage from the notification bar.
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using XDA
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I'm getting the same problem as him. and when i flash the 2.2 tar, it goes straight to stock recovery. it doesn't boot up android. even in cwm, my phone instantly "partitions" the sd card. and it only has a 1024mb option. no 2gb. And when you press mount usb, it does nothing at all. my computer shows two devices that haven't been mounted. Any ideas? i've been trying to fix this phone for almost a week straight and nothing works....
EDIT:I have no idea what just happened but i rebooted a few times and its starting to boot up.

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Yep.
Exactly the same thing. I do have another phone that I can do all of that on, but it matters not it I can't even recognize the SD card to partition. I think it could (which doesn't really makes sense to me) be the fact we're using the standard 2gb one, I should go get a bit of a bigger one.
Either way, if it works or not, I can just give it to my fiance to use on her phone :\
I will keep tinkering though, and I'll of course post my results, if I have any.
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I just used my ladys phone to partition my sd card. ICS Passion makes me so angry, so instead of partitioning the SD CARD, it partitioned her internal memory, yay. phone is all clean. ffs.

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Okay, so I figured out how to fix the problem with the partitioning. If you are able to install a zip file from recovery, install the ICS Passion kernel with CWM 5.x.x.x http://dl.dropbox.com/u/33572867/ICS_Passion_v13_cleanup.zip
You might have to rename it to update.zip but I think it should work for everyone. From there reboot recovery into the new kernel CWM. Now when you try to partition the sd card, it should take a long time and it should work.

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tabthelab said:
Exactly the same thing. I do have another phone that I can do all of that on, but it matters not it I can't even recognize the SD card to partition. I think it could (which doesn't really makes sense to me) be the fact we're using the standard 2gb one, I should go get a bit of a bigger one.
Either way, if it works or not, I can just give it to my fiance to use on her phone :\
I will keep tinkering though, and I'll of course post my results, if I have any.
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I just used my ladys phone to partition my sd card. ICS Passion makes me so angry, so instead of partitioning the SD CARD, it partitioned her internal memory, yay. phone is all clean. ffs.
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Your mistake sorry. The only reason why I suggested using another phone was to simply copy CWM while having the already partitioned sd card in your lady's phone. Now i don't why you decided to create the partition on your lady's phone a second time...this was obviously going to wipe the internal memory since it is still intact.

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Try this
For those of you having trouble copying CWM to the sd card try the following commands. You can execute these commands through stock recovery or with the phone already set up and going. Just remember you must have usb debugging enabled on your phone.
check to see if the phone is mounted: adb devices
now copy CWM to your sdcard: adb push update.zip /emmc/update.zip Just make sure that CWM is named
update.zip
To be honest the easiest way to copy CWM to your sd card is to use another phone or device which has a microsd card slot. Or if your computer happens to have sdcard slot simply use an sdcard adapter and copy CWM.

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maybe it's not meant to be
So, I've done nearly everything I can even think of. I got the ICS installed but I keep getting the "power reset" or "unknown upload mode" now. I swear.... haha.

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did you get the sd card partitioned? if so, odin back to froyo eugenes rom, install cwm, factory reset, wipe cache, and reinstall the passion 13 rom. I had the same problem and i think thats what i did to fix it.

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alright. I see. Let me try that.
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did you have "re-partition" checked though??

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yes i did.

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Nirmalspeed said:
did you get the sd card partitioned? if so, odin back to froyo eugenes rom, install cwm, factory reset, wipe cache, and reinstall the passion 13 rom. I had the same problem and i think thats what i did to fix it.
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@Nirmalspeed...Did you successfully partition the sdcard? I'm just wondering if your were able to successfully complete the guide. How did you manage to copy CWM to your sdcard? By any chance did you try anything different?

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trying something now, I might have fudged up for a very obvious reason...

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Merio90 said:
@Nirmalspeed...Did you successfully partition the sdcard? I'm just wondering if your were able to successfully complete the guide. How did you manage to copy CWM to your sdcard? By any chance did you try anything different?
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what i did was that i flashed the ICS Kiss kernel that i linked on page one of this thread. And from there i was able to partition the sd card no problem. After i partitioned it, i had to redo everything from step 1 except i skip the partitioning. If i don't redo those steps, the rom gives me an error for some reason.

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I'm getting a boot load!?!?! XX XX X fingers and toes crossed.