So my Galaxy S II I9100M was updating, and I, unknowingly wiped data/factory reset'd my phone with the Siyah 3.1.1 kernel (which I now know has problems)
So this turned bad, because it got stuck there for a long time. No problem, this happens sometimes? No.
I reset the phone, try to re-install the Resurrection ROM but my emmc will no longer show up. Factory reset is a nogo again, but I have another rom on my extsd, which does install, but doesn't boot.
I go into odin, download mode etc, flash xxlph onto the phone, but here's the kicker:
the odin flash gets stuck at data.img
yadayadayada lots of different rom flashes later, none go past data.img
I can flash kernels, get into recovery mode with non-stock kernels, and get into download mode, but the /data partition doesn't format. I even tried a specific kernel for recovery, rogue recovery, and that can't format it either.
Neither can it find the cache partition for logs.
formatting the /data from mounts and storage gives the error "format_volume: make_extf4fs failed on /dev/block/mmcblk1p10"
I saw somewhere (galaxy player 5 forums) that one can use adb to reset the partition sizes, but I have no table either. But I could find one. But I still don't know how to.
Anyone have any ideas and/or alternatives?
Love you all
pejmany said:
So my Galaxy S II I9100M was updating, and I, unknowingly wiped data/factory reset'd my phone with the Siyah 3.1.1 kernel (which I now know has problems)
So this turned bad, because it got stuck there for a long time. No problem, this happens sometimes? No.
I reset the phone, try to re-install the Resurrection ROM but my emmc will no longer show up. Factory reset is a nogo again, but I have another rom on my extsd, which does install, but doesn't boot.
I go into odin, download mode etc, flash xxlph onto the phone, but here's the kicker:
the odin flash gets stuck at data.img
yadayadayada lots of different rom flashes later, none go past data.img
I can flash kernels, get into recovery mode with non-stock kernels, and get into download mode, but the /data partition doesn't format. I even tried a specific kernel for recovery, rogue recovery, and that can't format it either.
Neither can it find the cache partition for logs.
formatting the /data from mounts and storage gives the error "format_volume: make_extf4fs failed on /dev/block/mmcblk1p10"
I saw somewhere (galaxy player 5 forums) that one can use adb to reset the partition sizes, but I have no table either. But I could find one. But I still don't know how to.
Anyone have any ideas and/or alternatives?
Love you all
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Discussion here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1615058
From the sound of it the only way to recover from this is with a JTAG, any other info about it is likely in that thread.
Thank you very much. Thread can be closed
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Hey XDA, I was hoping you could help me out here. I just don't know what to do anymore. So, here goes.
I decided to flash the Terrasilent kernal. All went well during installation. When I booted back into the stock rom after flashing my kernal, I saw that some system apps (gmail and market) were not installed. The icons were there, but they said they weren't installed. Also, all photos, videos, ect were gone. I already had them backed up, so no big deal. So, to try to fix it, I went into Odin and tried to reflash my stock rom through there. Everything worked fine, all was well. That's when I discovered my file system was messed up. Pretty much, it only displays /sdcard/Android, as well as /sdcard/DCIM/, /sdcard/LOST.DIR/ and /sdcard/external_sd/. So, I went ahead and attempted to reflash my kernal (custom kernal, terrasilent if you want to know.) to see if it would fix my ****. **** was not fixed, to say the least. And when Odin said it failed, I flipped out and did the stupidest thing imaginable; I unplugged my USB cable. So, I went and tried to boot up, and got the picture you get when you can't go into recovery, boot up or even download more. A cell phone connecting to a pc picture. So, then I tried following some guides on XDA to fix it, reflashed some stuff, and got close to fixing it. I reflashed my partition table and then tried to flash my terrasilent kernal once more, and it booted up into recovery with no issue. Btw, the kernal installs CWM recovery. But when I tried to reflash my stock rom, it didn't boot up. It said in Odin that it succeded, but in the recovery (which changed back to stock android recovery, I am not sure why) and I got a bunch of errors saying I'm missing all sorts of files. Like, E:failed to mount /cache (invalid argument) or E:copy_kernal_file :: Can't open /cache/recovery/recovery_kernal.log. XDA, please help me. I need this fixed, I can't afford to buy another phone, I'm broke. Help me.
DarkMuffin Inc said:
Hey XDA, I was hoping you could help me out here. I just don't know what to do anymore. So, here goes.
I decided to flash the Terrasilent kernal. All went well during installation. When I booted back into the stock rom after flashing my kernal, I saw that some system apps (gmail and market) were not installed. The icons were there, but they said they weren't installed. Also, all photos, videos, ect were gone. I already had them backed up, so no big deal. So, to try to fix it, I went into Odin and tried to reflash my stock rom through there. Everything worked fine, all was well. That's when I discovered my file system was messed up. Pretty much, it only displays /sdcard/Android, as well as /sdcard/DCIM/, /sdcard/LOST.DIR/ and /sdcard/external_sd/. So, I went ahead and attempted to reflash my kernal (custom kernal, terrasilent if you want to know.) to see if it would fix my ****. **** was not fixed, to say the least. And when Odin said it failed, I flipped out and did the stupidest thing imaginable; I unplugged my USB cable. So, I went and tried to boot up, and got the picture you get when you can't go into recovery, boot up or even download more. A cell phone connecting to a pc picture. So, then I tried following some guides on XDA to fix it, reflashed some stuff, and got close to fixing it. I reflashed my partition table and then tried to flash my terrasilent kernal once more, and it booted up into recovery with no issue. Btw, the kernal installs CWM recovery. But when I tried to reflash my stock rom, it didn't boot up. It said in Odin that it succeded, but in the recovery (which changed back to stock android recovery, I am not sure why) and I got a bunch of errors saying I'm missing all sorts of files. Like, E:failed to mount /cache (invalid argument) or E:copy_kernal_file :: Can't open /cache/recovery/recovery_kernal.log. XDA, please help me. I need this fixed, I can't afford to buy another phone, I'm broke. Help me.
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I believe what you need to go is go into the android recovery by holding volume up + power. Once you get in there Wipe data/factory reset, and Wipe cache Partition because I believe it's bootlooping.
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I believe what you need to go is go into the android recovery by holding volume up + power. Once you get in there Wipe data/factory reset, and Wipe cache Partition because I believe it's bootlooping.
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It didn't work. What do I do now? I tried to flash the Terrasilent kernel over it (which came with CWM) and it gave me the CWM recovery and kernel, but still nothing works. I tried reflashing the rom too but I can't get it to boot, just download mode and recovery loads now.
DarkMuffin Inc said:
It didn't work. What do I do now? I tried to flash the Terrasilent kernel over it (which came with CWM) and it gave me the CWM recovery and kernel, but still nothing works. I tried reflashing the rom too but I can't get it to boot, just download mode and recovery loads now.
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Well good thing is you're not hardbricked. Have you followed all these steps in this order?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=28849870
Do you have the 4.0 stock rom? (Don't use the one I linked since it's for the 5.0). Also did you try wiping the dalvick?
obscuresword said:
Well good thing is you're not hardbricked. Have you followed all these steps in this order?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=28849870
Do you have the 4.0 stock rom? (Don't use the one I linked since it's for the 5.0). Also did you try wiping the dalvick?
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Yes, I followed all those steps perfectly. I have reflashed my stock rom multiple times before. And I have wiped dalvick cache when I was able to get into my CWM recovery a few times to no avail. My pc recognized the device just fine until today. I just flashed my .pit file and the terrasilent kernel through heimdall, and now my device isn't being read through Odin OR Heimdall. It is recognized by my pc but not by those programs. And yes I am in download mode. I also tried flashing back to stock before but the recovery just gave me a bunch of red text errors.
DarkMuffin Inc said:
Yes, I followed all those steps perfectly. I have reflashed my stock rom multiple times before. And I have wiped dalvick cache when I was able to get into my CWM recovery a few times to no avail. My pc recognized the device just fine until today. I just flashed my .pit file and the terrasilent kernel through heimdall, and now my device isn't being read through Odin OR Heimdall. It is recognized by my pc but not by those programs. And yes I am in download mode. I also tried flashing back to stock before but the recovery just gave me a bunch of red text errors.
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I can't really see the photo, can you type out the error codes lol.
Hi,
My battery ran flat on my I9100 International GS2 I plugged it in and turned it on, it started to boot and then shut down. I left it to charge to 100% and now when I turn on I get bootloop around the Samsung logo. I suspect it's corrupted my bootloader and/or device partitions.
I'm running Stock+Root XXLSJ with Philz CWM 3.00 recovery (based on CWM 6.0.1.5)
When I boot into CWM - I get message: "E:Can't open /cache/recovery/last.log"
When I try to mount /cache it fails with similar message. (I also cannot mount /data. The others are OK)
When I try to wipe cache partition it fails to format it (hangs for about 10 mins saying "formatting", and then reboots my phone)
When I try to factory reset it fails to format /data (hangs for about 10 mins saying "formatting", and then reboots my phone)
So I suspect my /data and /cache are corrupt and need to be recreated.
How can I recreate these partitions?
I thought reflashing CWM might stick them back if they are missing - I tried a couple of different versions. No luck. Same errors.
I thought I'd take the opportunity to upgrade to CM10.1 RC2 - But I can't flash ROM in CWM - it fails with "Installation aborted (Status 7)"
I think I need to flash via ODIN and click the "Re-Partition" option unfortunately CM ROMS can't be flashed in with ODIN! Arrrgh!
So I think I need to flash another stock ROM via ODIN with re-partition option, then flash CM via CWM. It's a bit of a pain, do you think this should work (is that what repartition option does) or is there some other easier/better way?
Thanks
-KENT
As you've already tried dirty flashing (without wipe) your kernel (which rarely works, but worth a shot anyways), yeah, back to stock via Odin & restore backup or reflash rom/kernel & start again if you don't have recent backup.
Will this work ? It should. One bit of advice tho, I noticed you're planning to repartition.
Don't.
At least not in the first instance. Do a normal Odin flash of stock & see how that goes before you go down the repartition route. Doing that when not necessary seems to cause more bricked phones than every other cause put together.
Hi all
Dad's I9300 (international) started making problems booting up a week ago (sometimes it did and sometimes it didn't for a few hours). Begged him to bring it in for me to backup. Of course he didn't and today the device refused to boot permanently. It simply gets stuck on the logo screen.
When boot into recovery I got lots of E: failed to mount /cache. After wiping the cache and rebooting into recovery I now get only E: failed to mount /system (see attached image).
Download mode also seems to be working.
Device is 4.1.2 with stock ROM and stock recovery.
The main concern here is to recover all personal data. After that, I don't care if the device gets bricked. I searched the web and came up with two possible solutions:
1) Reflashing the same stock ROM I flashed a while ago (hoping that what I have stored on my PC is what is actually flashed on the device.....), and not wiping the data. As I understand, flashing a stock ROM without wiping data shouldn't cause the device not to boot.
2) Flash PhilZ Touch 6 Recovery using Odin and use Aroma file browsing to copy internal memory files (pics, mp3, WhatsApp data, etc.) to an external SD and then start messing around with the phone. (as described here)
What's my best option here? It sounds to me that the second one is better, but I'm not familiar with flashing a recovery and possible consequences.
Can someone kindly advise? I'll greatly appreciate any word of wisdom...
Solved.
My GT-I9300 failed to restart after the battery went flat and had to be recharged.
I have it rooted with CWM and had Foxhound running on it.
on boot I get to the Samsung Galaxy screen and it freezes.
CWM works fine and I can reinstall custom Roms and the AROMA installer runs fine with everything seeming to go well.
But it still freezes every time.
Tried reinstalling stock rom using Odin and it didnt work.
used Odin to install PIT and have tried the Restore_Bootloader_XXBLFB and again it didn't work. ( http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s3/help/solved-pit-bricked-dead-problem-gt-t2535367 )
Can anyone point me in the right direction to find a solution?
Full wipe, including preload and internal sd before flashing. If efs partition is corrupt then it won't boot past loader.
More info
I have tried deleting everything and reinstalling it all but it still wont pass the boot screen.
CWM cannot mount /data /system or /preload
Try the rescue firmware, thread in general forum, otherwise the emmc is blown.
Given up on it now. Ive put it on ebay.
Hey all,
I've got a N7105 (Galaxy Note II LTE) running CM12.1 and TWRP which I was planning to change shortly as it's old and the USB port has issues (charges but doesn't pass data; luckily it has a microsd slot). As it happens, the other day I left it discharge fully and turning it back on left it stuck at Samsung logo (not boot animation, the splash screen before it) forever.
I am: not a noob, I've rooted and flashed plenty of devices before.
I tried: removing battery for a while, charging fully, removing microsd and sim, clearing Cache and Dalvik. Nothing works.
I can: get into ODIN mode (but it's useless as USB data is not working); get into TWRP recovery; explore the Data partition in TWRP
I cannot: mount the System partition in TWRP, not even manually. It just does not let me select it, and gives an error whenever it needs to access it (e.g. if I try to backup it is says Error: unable to mount System)
I want: if possible to solve the issue without formatting Data. I had a TB backup but kinda old, so I got a Nandroid of Data and Boot out from TWRP and I suppose I could then recover stuff extracting from Nandroid through TB, but I've never done it and would rather be able to get a fresh TB backup and move on from there.
A few questions I have: any idea on why I am not able to mount System in TWRP? Could it help to reflash Boot or System, and if so how do I go to do that considering what I have is the whole CM rom package? (I remember being able to fastboot flash single partitions on Nexus devices but that's because the stock rom comes packaged in separate images).
Any input would be greatly appreciated!
Lazer Bear said:
Hey all,
I've got a N7105 (Galaxy Note II LTE) running CM12.1 and TWRP which I was planning to change shortly as it's old and the USB port has issues (charges but doesn't pass data; luckily it has a microsd slot). As it happens, the other day I left it discharge fully and turning it back on left it stuck at Samsung logo (not boot animation, the splash screen before it) forever.
I am: not a noob, I've rooted and flashed plenty of devices before.
I tried: removing battery for a while, charging fully, removing microsd and sim, clearing Cache and Dalvik. Nothing works.
I can: get into ODIN mode (but it's useless as USB data is not working); get into TWRP recovery; explore the Data partition in TWRP
I cannot: mount the System partition in TWRP, not even manually. It just does not let me select it, and gives an error whenever it needs to access it (e.g. if I try to backup it is says Error: unable to mount System)
I want: if possible to solve the issue without formatting Data. I had a TB backup but kinda old, so I got a Nandroid of Data and Boot out from TWRP and I suppose I could then recover stuff extracting from Nandroid through TB, but I've never done it and would rather be able to get a fresh TB backup and move on from there.
A few questions I have: any idea on why I am not able to mount System in TWRP? Could it help to reflash Boot or System, and if so how do I go to do that considering what I have is the whole CM rom package? (I remember being able to fastboot flash single partitions on Nexus devices but that's because the stock rom comes packaged in separate images).
Any input would be greatly appreciated!
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The note 2 has this issue that makes it unable to be recognized by PC, so this isn't your phone problem, the only way to solve it is replacing the usb socket in your phone, anyway i can recommend dirty flashing your rom first, just flash the rom in recovery and wipe cache and Dalvik cache only then reboot.
If that didn't work, I'm afraid you might have to...... clear data ?
MigoMujahid said:
The note 2 has this issue that makes it unable to be recognized by PC, so this isn't your phone problem, the only way to solve it is replacing the usb socket in your phone, anyway i can recommend dirty flashing your rom first, just flash the rom in recovery and wipe cache and Dalvik cache only then reboot.
If that didn't work, I'm afraid you might have to...... clear data
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Thanks for the input, I was thinking something along those lines but I wasn't totally sure, I always avoided dirty flashing as I heard of people having issues. Happily, it worked! Weirdest think I saw in a while, it gave me a bunch of errors with System partition (unable to mount, unmount, find), then it gave a "proceeding to patch system partition unconditionally", then it completed. The whole thing took less than 20secs so I do not think it even actually flashed the ROM. Now I am just getting some Play Services error, likely need to reinstall gapps, but phone boots just fine!