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Hey guys, I'm another newbie who F'ed up their phone here to ask for help lol. I tried to do a restore using the system recovery and it froze, I did a batter pull and soft bricked it I guess. I tried doing a sbf, and I couldn't figure it out but my phone just randomly restarted and it seemed like the sbf worked. So I just tried to restore the data only in advanced recovery and I think it is frozen again. Can anyone please explain how to do a proper restore from the bootstrap recovery? Thanks,
CominWitDaSauce said:
Hey guys, I'm another newbie who F'ed up their phone here to ask for help lol. I tried to do a restore using the system recovery and it froze, I did a batter pull and soft bricked it I guess. I tried doing a sbf, and I couldn't figure it out but my phone just randomly restarted and it seemed like the sbf worked. So I just tried to restore the data only in advanced recovery and I think it is frozen again. Can anyone please explain how to do a proper restore from the bootstrap recovery? Thanks,
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At The Recovery Screen It's Backup & Restore>External SD Card Or Internal SD Card(Wherever You Saved To)>Restore>(Yourfilename). Example: 2011-07-26.23.36.03/
MikeJ92YJ said:
At The Recovery Screen It's Backup & Restore>External SD Card Or Internal SD Card(Wherever You Saved To)>Restore>(Yourfilename). Example: 2011-07-26.23.36.03/
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That's exactly what I did and now it says
Checking MD5 sums...
Restoring Data...
6860ba6
And the progress bar is just not moving and has not even started to fill in.
Am I just impatient? How long should it take, I gave it 15 minutes before I pulled the battery last time, should I wait longer this time?
Plz help
Sounds Like You Got A Corrupted Backup There. I Would Try Another One Or SBF And Start Over. (It Sucks I Know I've Done It A Dozen Times.)
MikeJ92YJ said:
Sounds Like You Got A Corrupted Backup There. I Would Try Another One Or SBF And Start Over. (It Sucks I Know I've Done It A Dozen Times.)
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Alright, thanks.
Are You Running A ROM?
MikeJ92YJ said:
Are You Running A ROM?
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Yes, Affinty.
I'm Working On Uploading The Affinity ROM As A Nandroid File For You To Simply Put On Your SD Card /clockworkmod And Restore Using Mine. Wipe Data/Cache.
Or You've Already Begun The Process Of SBF'ing?
MikeJ92YJ said:
I'm Working On Uploading The Affinity ROM As A Nandroid File For You To Simply Put On Your SD Card /clockworkmod And Restore Using Mine. Wipe Data/Cache.
Or You've Already Begun The Process Of SBF'ing?
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No, that would be great, thank you!
I'm Uploading The Zip Now. Unzip The File Place Into Your clockworkmod/backup Folder. Perform A Restore Like Normal Before Rebooting Wipe Data/Cache To Be Sure Things Load Smoothly.
Perfect thanks!
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Ok, do I just did a back up through nandroid to see if I could find a problem, and towards the end, it said something like,
Did not find sdcard-ext
Skipping backup of sdcard-ext
Our something like that, I'm thinking thats a problem, but I have an external sd card.
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It Says About 15 More Minutes Until Done.
Couple Key Things Here Is That This Is Fully Deodexed. I Switched The vold.fstab File To Switch SD Card. Stock Messaging App Has Been Replaced With CM6's Latest. I'm Pretty Sure All Authentication Services Have Been Deleted.
CominWitDaSauce said:
Ok, do I just did a back up through nandroid to see if I could find a problem, and towards the end, it said something like,
Did not find sdcard-ext
Skipping backup of sdcard-ext
Our something like that, I'm thinking thats a problem, but I have an external sd card.
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I Know What You're Talking About But I Can't Think Off The Top Of My Head. Something Tells Me That Has To Do With MD5 Sums.
MikeJ92YJ said:
It Says About 15 More Minutes Until Done.
Couple Key Things Here Is That This Is Fully Deodexed. I Switched The vold.fstab File To Switch SD Card. Stock Messaging App Has Been Replaced With CM6's Latest. I'm Pretty Sure All Authentication Services Have Been Deleted.
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I was going to deodex but it seemed too complicated and I didn't know what it did exactly. Do you have super charger script? I know nothing about cm6, but I'll try it, thanks again, your helping me out a lot.
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CominWitDaSauce said:
I was going to deodex but it seemed too complicated and I didn't know what it did exactly. Do you have super charger script? I know nothing about cm6, but I'll try it, thanks again, your helping me out a lot.
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Yup Super Is In It, You'll Have To Rerun Yours Again Anyways. Speaking Of Scripts I Also Applied The 3G Turbo. The New GPS, Host, And Profile Files Are Also In This.
Here's The Link To Download It.
https://rapidshare.com/files/1324042949/Affinity_ROM.rar
THIS IS NOT MY ROM, THIS IS ONLY MY NANDROID BACKUP.
Wow, I Have Too Much Going On That I Failed To Realize All You Need To Do Is Reinstall The Affinity ROM. If It Doesn't Boot Successfully Then Do A Factory Reset.
I might be confused but it looks like I have to pay to download this?
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CominWitDaSauce said:
I might be confused but it looks like I have to pay to download this?
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Well You Could Pay And Buy A Membership Totally Up To You
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You Could Click The "Free Download" At The Bottom Right.
Hey can anyone. Give me stock Rom. For some reason internal 16gig space isn't mounted. I looked every where can't find anything for gn i717. Anyone help pls
1mile said:
Hey can anyone. Give me stock Rom. For some reason internal 16gig space isn't mounted. I looked every where can't find anything for gn i717. Anyone help pls
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i DON'T THINK THERE IS SUCH A THING YET.
If you just got it from Rogers, I would return it.
1mile said:
Hey can anyone. Give me stock Rom. For some reason internal 16gig space isn't mounted. I looked every where can't find anything for gn i717. Anyone help pls
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Go to Settings / Storage and make sure SD is mounted.
Your post makes absolutly no sense.
Well I bought it off someone. The problem is. storage I can't mount internal sd. If I try to open external sd it doesn't pick up. When I try to open camera message says I need to mount sd. I tried doing that in setting but nothing happens. I thought if there is way to reflash it I could mount it.
Might be something wrong with your phone, have you tried doing a factory reset?
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endine said:
Might be something wrong with your phone, have you tried doing a factory reset?
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Ya I tried that didn't work. the phones works fine but i cant download music to phone or use camera. Does this version have root access yet.
endine said:
Might be something wrong with your phone, have you tried doing a factory reset?
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+1 on on the factory reset.
1mile said:
Ya I tried that didn't work. the phones works fine but i cant download music to phone or use camera. Does this version have root access yet.
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No haven't seen anything in regards to root access.
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i did a factory reset as we speak. and still the same thing. thanks guys for all your help. I guess for now I have to wait till root access comes at least
Basically, I went to flash AOKP and a a fluxi kernel update today since I hadn't updated in a week and when I went to choose the file from the internal SD card, I'm getting the message: "E:Can't find /emmc/"
I have no clue how this would happen at all nor how to fix and I don't have an external SD card. Anyone know anything about this or how to fix it?
Sorry, I can't help
But I am in the same boat....
Try reflashing the orginal firmware and bootloader. It worked for me on my mytouch 4g.
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have you tried selecting install from sdcard instead of specifying the internal?
depends on what kernel you are on as to what the sdcard mapping is.....
johnnyham89 said:
Try reflashing the orginal firmware and bootloader. It worked for me on my mytouch 4g.
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Yup he is rite revert back to stock with odin and check the repartion box not sure how u had it happen to u but I had to do the same when. I messed up formatting my emmc from my PC but this will fix it u have to reroot and all that happy fun stuff but at least it should get u back up and running
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johnnyham89 said:
Try reflashing the orginal firmware and bootloader. It worked for me on my mytouch 4g.
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Pirateghost said:
have you tried selecting install from sdcard instead of specifying the internal?
depends on what kernel you are on as to what the sdcard mapping is.....
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oddspec said:
Yup he is rite revert back to stock with odin and check the repartion box not sure how u had it happen to u but I had to do the same when. I messed up formatting my emmc from my PC but this will fix it u have to reroot and all that happy fun stuff but at least it should get u back up and running
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Thanks for all the support guys. Looks like I should have stayed up a little later.
I'm downloading the stock stuff now and I'll see how that goes.
@pirateghost- I can get the ROM on and flash through the sdcard, but the external card won't mount through CWM. It's also having different issues once I am running the ROM (Gallery not showing images, but showing music... weird stuff). I'm not totally effed, but I would like to have my access back.
That's if I understand your suggestion.
Thanks again guys.
oddspec said:
Yup he is rite revert back to stock with odin and check the repartion box not sure how u had it happen to u but I had to do the same when. I messed up formatting my emmc from my PC but this will fix it u have to reroot and all that happy fun stuff but at least it should get u back up and running
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I'm back to stock, but I cannot get odin to run when I have repartition checked...
I either get the red square that says "fail" or it hangs on 'SetupConnection'
I'm trying the one-click method creepyncrawly posted here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1313659
update: Nope- still can't mount the \emmc\ partition.
Thanks again guys.
jamieaxall said:
I'm back to stock, but I cannot get odin to run when I have repartition checked...
I either get the red square that says "fail" or it hangs on 'SetupConnection'
I'm trying the one-click method creepyncrawly posted here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1313659
update: Nope- still can't mount the \emmc\ partition.
Thanks again guys.
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Ugg sounds like it mite be corrupt if odin won't partion it sorry I'm at a loss here
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Pretty sure a pit file is needed for repartitioning
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Pirateghost said:
Pretty sure a pit file is needed for repartitioning
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Well, I found one in creepyncrawly's signature but I'm hesitant to use it...
(If I did use it though, would I throw it in the .tar file and change the .ini file for odin?)
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I'm not sure all hope is lost.
I think that I just have a limited understanding of the situation...
So I'm back to the stock ROM and the gallery app picks up the photos on my sd card. Not only that, but esfile explorer says that there is a /sdcard/external_sd/ path and allows me access to it. Plays music and all that stuff. Pretty cool, huh?
So at that point (last time and the time before that) I was tempted to root, which I did using zedomax/odin. All went fine, but that's when I lost access to the external card. Again.
Weird.
jamieaxall said:
Well, I found one in creepyncrawly's signature but I'm hesitant to use it...
(If I did use it though, would I throw it in the .tar file and change the .ini file for odin?)
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I'm not sure all hope is lost.
I think that I just have a limited understanding of the situation...
So I'm back to the stock ROM and the gallery app picks up the photos on my sd card. Not only that, but esfile explorer says that there is a /sdcard/external_sd/ path and allows me access to it. Plays music and all that stuff. Pretty cool, huh?
So at that point (last time and the time before that) I was tempted to root, which I did using zedomax/odin. All went fine, but that's when I lost access to the external card. Again.
Weird.
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Damn man, you havent searched this forum at all have you?
zedomax's **** is not liked around here. no wonder you had issues. wanna post here and ask questions here, dont use **** from other sites. Tho that should be a no brainer to most.
You were already answered about the kernal thing, we have two kernals that switch sdcard locations.
This time, follow the guides here, and read. all IS answered
MotoMudder77 said:
Damn man, you havent searched this forum at all have you?
zedomax's **** is not liked around here. no wonder you had issues. wanna post here and ask questions here, dont use **** from other sites. Tho that should be a no brainer to most.
You were already answered about the kernal thing, we have two kernals that switch sdcard locations.
This time, follow the guides here, and read. all IS answered
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K. Thanks.
MotoMudder77 said:
Damn man, you havent searched this forum at all have you?
zedomax's **** is not liked around here. no wonder you had issues. wanna post here and ask questions here, dont use **** from other sites. Tho that should be a no brainer to most.
You were already answered about the kernal thing, we have two kernals that switch sdcard locations.
This time, follow the guides here, and read. all IS answered
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Damn man, why are you upset over this? Clearly someone new is in need, why turn them away with hostility? Why not point them in the right direction?
I don't see the point of being abrasive in situations like this, what gain is there to be had?
hi ,
i try to flash a new rom from the phone turned out that was not the correct zip file i downloaded. now i wiped cache and system and when i try to system boot it says no os so i cannot boot again. basically i'm stuck in twrp. can somebody please help. how should i flash new rom ?
Did you not make a backup?
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Not sure if this is what you need,a member here much smarter than I told me this about my E970 when it was unplugged before the backup was made.
In the end these phones are basically unbrickable, so you can always get into download mode (Vol up + Vol down +usb cable +power) and use LGNPST to restore back to stock. LGNPST info can be found on irc
I do not know what irc is but there ya go,google away and hope it works .
I don't completely understand what I'm doing when I'm doing things to my phone. All I know is that some pretty great people with a much better understanding of the inner workings of phones tell me to do this or that. On that note, why are people so quick to say their phone is bricked when they still have a phone that will boot into something? Anyway...
What if you try removing the sd card, use another phone or an adapter for a pc, to download a rom to it. Put it back in your phone boot into recovery and flash it.
Or use that LGPNST, or whatever you call it, method...
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Murasakiii said:
Did you not make a backup?
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i guess not.
TangoXray said:
I don't completely understand what I'm doing when I'm doing things to my phone. All I know is that some pretty great people with a much better understanding of the inner workings of phones tell me to do this or that. On that note, why are people so quick to say their phone is bricked when they still have a phone that will boot into something? Anyway...
What if you try removing the sd card, use another phone or an adapter for a pc, to download a rom to it. Put it back in your phone boot into recovery and flash it.
Or use that LGPNST, or whatever you call it, method...
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hi thanks for the reply,
i did took out the sd card and put att stock rom from xda forum but somehow i cannnot flash it from external sd card . when i try to install it keeps up opening the file instead of asking to flash or install. and i'm not sure what LGPNST means . does it work with mac ?
Bababooey said:
Not sure if this is what you need,a member here much smarter than I told me this about my E970 when it was unplugged before the backup was made.
In the end these phones are basically unbrickable, so you can always get into download mode (Vol up + Vol down +usb cable +power) and use LGNPST to restore back to stock. LGNPST info can be found on irc
I do not know what irc is but there ya go,google away and hope it works .
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i tried this but all it says is download mode do not plug the phone. please help
kishanyonzan said:
hi thanks for the reply,
i did took out the sd card and put att stock rom from xda forum but somehow i cannnot flash it from external sd card . when i try to install it keeps up opening the file instead of asking to flash or install. and i'm not sure what LGPNST means . does it work with mac ?
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There should be two choices, flash from internal and flash from external. Did you choose the correct one?
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robstunner said:
There should be two choices, flash from internal and flash from external. Did you choose the correct one?
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yes, i choose the rgt now cuz i can see the attstock which is name of the folder. researching a litlle bit i dont think we can flash it from the
sd card but can from adb sdk whatever. but i cannot seem to figure out head or tail even if i read the steps .
kishanyonzan said:
yes, i choose the rgt now cuz i can see the attstock which is name of the folder. researching a litlle bit i dont think we can flash it from the
sd card but can from adb sdk whatever. but i cannot seem to figure out head or tail even if i read the steps .
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If you are in TWRP you could use the file manager under advanced to try and move the .zip to internal memory. Then see if you can flash.
But I always flash from external and never have issues.
You may have a corrupt .zip, maybe try downloading it again and then try again.
I had an issue where my SD card wasn't Fat32 so TWRP wouldn't put anything on the SD or boot anything off the SD. I can't remember if I could browse the folders with TWRP's file manager or not though. That's not much help I know, but might be worth looking into. You can try formatting your SD as Fat32, loading the stock ROM on it, then see if TWRP will flash it.
bleached45 said:
If you are in TWRP you could use the file manager under advanced to try and move the .zip to internal memory. Then see if you can flash.
But I always flash from external and never have issues.
You may have a corrupt .zip, maybe try downloading it again and then try again.
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That was my next question, what zip, exactly, are you using?
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Go there, ask for help using lgnpst.
TangoXray said:
That was my next question, what zip, exactly, are you using?
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i;m not really sure . I downloaded from xda lg android development .
bleached45 said:
If you are in TWRP you could use the file manager under advanced to try and move the .zip to internal memory. Then see if you can flash.
But I always flash from external and never have issues.
You may have a corrupt .zip, maybe try downloading it again and then try again.
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I tried it but it says unable to mount usbotg . thank you for you reply
. any suggestion what should i do next.
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kishanyonzan said:
I tried it but it says unable to mount usbotg . thank you for you reply
. any suggestion what should i do next.
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That error will always happen. You can safely ignore it.
Wait so if you can get to TWRP why not just push the zip you need using ADB?
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i can send the files to external card but can anyone suggest me the installer.zip file so that i can flash the rom . i cannot seem to the flash the file even if i have in the internal storage?
Thank you all you guys XDA FAMILY for helping me . I finally fixed my phone installing the stock Rom through LGPNST .
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If I were to go about repartitioning the flash, what should I/would I need to do to preserve current partition layout, making sure I can easily restore to "normal". Obviously backup all the partitions, what else though?
one-zero-two-four said:
If I were to go about repartitioning the flash, what should I/would I need to do to preserve current partition layout, making sure I can easily restore to "normal". Obviously backup all the partitions, what else though?
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I might be wrong but from what I read in other threads, repartitioning the SIII is not as easy as for instance the HTC Desire and might brick your device with a high probability. maybe someone with more experience could answer your question though.
Nvr do re partition in odin. just tick f reset time and auto reboot ONLY unless the instructions asked u to do else.
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JellyYogurt said:
Nvr do re partition in odin. just tick f reset time and auto reboot ONLY unless the instructions asked u to do else.
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No, I think you misunderstand.
A. I wouldn't use Odin, I'd use Heimdall
B. I INTEND to repartition my device as part of a project I'm working on.
You are working outside the known universe for S3 users, I've heard of no-one else attempting repartition.
EMMC chip in this device appears to be very fragile, best of luck with your experiment.
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You are working outside the known universe for S3 users, I've heard of no-one else attempting repartition.
EMMC chip in this device appears to be very fragile, best of luck with your experiment.
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Fragile; how so? I can accomplish what I want with loop files but I'd rather use partitions.
one-zero-two-four said:
Fragile; how so? I can accomplish what I want with loop files but I'd rather use partitions.
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Try reading the hundreds of threads where people are left with a hard brick and odin can't even flash a pit, the title of insane bug for the emmc chip says it all. Also many posts by users of cache 'improving' software, again left with a hard brick after resizing a partition.
If you can change/restore the partition structure, without replacing the emmc chip, you'll be one up on everyone else.