Hey guys... Im a noob in over my head here so any help is appreciated. I apologize for my poor terminology and lack of brevity but any sort of help would be greatly greatly appreciated.
Phone: T-Mobile SGH-T999
ROM: AOKP JB-Build 3 to Milestone.
If im forgetting anything let me know. The best way to explain my problem is take you through the progression of what happened.
1. Decided I wanted AOKP Rom on my S3. Carefully followed instructions and installed JB Build 3 (latest at time) using clockworkmod.
2. Before installing created a backup in cwm.
3. Flash went through perfectly except noticed a duplicate of all media on my sd card. Two of every song (one copy of which would not play) and two of every video and pic (one copy of which would only be a blank thumbnail and image). SD card space also doubled in size.
4. Out of boredom on a business trip, I started deleting all my duplicate videos and images by the thumbnail screen. I was careful to only delete these blank duplicates.
5.Got home the next day and noticed an AOKP JB milestone release was out, decided to update. Performed the update.
6. Started playing with phone but realized my gallery had been cut down from a thousand so photos and videos to a few hundred. Strangely there was still two of every song.
7. Decided to seach the SD card through the PC but observed every folder it contained had two copies. Removed it, played around a little more, mounted it to the PC again and now there were three copies of each. My photo album however was now empty.
8. Started freaking about the lost photos, downloaded several file managers, threw the SD in an old phone... all pics and vids were gone. Music surprisingly in tact and now with only one copy.
9. Desperately needing these pics (have three european vacations and more importantly sentimental stuff (not nudes), I decided to just upload the backup I created.
10. Rebooted into recovery mode, followed cwm necessary steps to restore to my backup but was left with an error message "CHECKING MD5 SUMS... MD5 MISMATCH!
Now I researched the MD5 mismatch but every solution I found was way over my head. I guess long story short, im looking for two things.
What the hell did I do that caused this???
and more importantly
Will the restore give me all my media back and how do I get around the MD5 missmatch (in your most dumbed down explanation)???
If backup was successfully completed md5 mismatch error wouldn't occur most of the time ! Do you have the cwm log with you ? Did any errors poped up while creating backup or did it just show backup complete ? Anyhow Google md5 mismatch fixer and it should help you !
Am not sure of what exactly caused that duplication menace but i happened to have a similar problem on s2 and i had to format everything and re flash to stock and then back to Rom to fix it !
nikufellow said:
If backup was successfully completed md5 mismatch error wouldn't occur most of the time ! Do you have the cwm log with you ? Did any errors poped up while creating backup or did it just show backup complete ? Anyhow Google md5 mismatch fixer and it should help you !
Am not sure of what exactly caused that duplication menace but i happened to have a similar problem on s2 and i had to format everything and re flash to stock and then back to Rom to fix it !
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I received notification that the backup was successful when I created it.
I also googled the problem but all the threads I found, were tough to follow based on my knowledge. Thats why I was hoping someone could put it into layman's terms on here. I know its a little needy but its worth a shot.
moboost4u said:
I received notification that the backup was successful when I created it.
I also googled the problem but all the threads I found, were tough to follow based on my knowledge. Thats why I was hoping someone could put it into layman's terms on here. I know its a little needy but its worth a shot.
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Md5 mismatch fixer is a simple tool try it don't give up
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I've used this backup before, at least 5 times so I know it's good. But this last time it failed due to the above error, after trying to install Jaime's JB rom (I don't know if that is relevant). I found several ways to fix the error here and elsewhere, but no need as I had a backup from yesterday that still worked. Right now I'm just looking for someone to explain to me what the error means and why it happened to this particular backup given that I didn't rename or change anything? This way I don't repeat the error. Thanks in advance.
Essentially what you need to do is redownload the rom. But this time make sure you have a very strong internet connection. If your downloading on your phone get right next to the router. When your MD5 sums don't match it is because there is an error in the download process and some of the rom files have been corrupted. If you have a strong internet connection it helps ensure all the files are downloaded properly. Hope this helps....
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I didn't get this error whilst installing a rom though, it was trying to restore a backup. But I guess the principle holds true, somehow my backup got corrupted.
I'll download the rom again (this will be try number 6) and see if getting closer to the router will helpe, thanks.
I get that error when I have too much on the internal sd card. I think the limit is 4gigs. So anything you have in /system/media like movies and music move to external sd card before you make a backup.
So my current state of the internal sd card can affect a known good backup?
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Probably not. Dumb suggestion. But that's one reason that error happens, but that keeps the backup from completing. Sorry.
Are you using Rom Manager or CWM?
I make most of my backups in CWM and copy to my computer. I'm trying to think of what I did between the last time I used that backup successfully... Only thing I can think of is the 6 failed attempts to install the JB rom. Now I'm kindof worried about making attempt #7 because I only have the 1 working backup... If that gets corrupted I'll be soft-bricked with no way to install a rom.
LittleRedDot said:
I make most of my backups in CWM and copy to my computer. I'm trying to think of what I did between the last time I used that backup successfully... Only thing I can think of is the 6 failed attempts to install the JB rom. Now I'm kindof worried about making attempt #7 because I only have the 1 working backup... If that gets corrupted I'll be soft-bricked with no way to install a rom.
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I have noticed that if I copy a backup to my computer (64-bit, Win 7) and then copy back to my Note, I will get an MD5 mismatch message if I then try to restore from the backup. It may be due to the way that Win 7 file explorer indexes the file - or some other arcane windows thing. In any case I no longer transfer nandroid backps.
Ok I'm gonna stop obsessing over this and chalk it up to bad luck. Actually, since I rooted my first device this is the first time I've had anything go wrong, so I guess it was my turn. Thanks for all the help!
Hello all, greetings from your friendly neighborhood newb! In following the edicts set forth by the XDA PTB, I was attempting to solve on my own a minor problem with my gallery when I encountered a much more serious problem that seems to be getting progressively worse with every action I take. I don't dare try anything else on my own. I've tried Google searches with "xda i777..." in front to no avail. I apologize if the answer if it there and I just haven't found it. Thanks in advance to anyone who helps me.
I'm on AOKP/N.E.A.K./UCPLC5
A few days ago, I noticed the gallery icon on my home screen wasn't working, but I was still able to access the gallery through appsorganizer, which is the primary way I access apps, so I wasn't concerned. Then I couldn't play downloaded videos, etc. Long story short, my phone won't play downloaded, streaming, or previously recorded videos in the gallery, browser, skyfire, YouTube, it third-party apps. So I
-switched launchers to test gallery (icon on desktop was there, but said "app not found.")
-reflashed gapps.zip
-factory reset/wipe cache then flash gapps.zip
-restore nandroid backup, soft bricked phone
-tried to restore more recent backups, found one that worked on the third try (got a couple "error while restoring /system")
-gallery opened, videos played, pics weren't there ("no external storage found")
-restored most recent nandroid to make sure pics weren't gone (in retrospect, plugging it into the computer or using a file manager would have been better method)
-tried to restore previous nandroid, and got
Checking MD5 sums...
Erasing boot image before restore...
Restoring boot image...
System.img not found. Skipping restore of /system
Data.img not found. Skipping restore of /data.
Android_secure not found. Skipping restore of /sdcard/android_secure.
Cache.img not found. Skipping restore of /cache
-restored latest nandroid, and started searching the heck out of Google until the worrywart part of my brain demanded that I post on xda RIGHT THIS SECOND!! (The same portion of my brain keeps whispering "super bug.")
It may or may not be worth noting that I was on UCKK7 before I flashed AOKP.
Thank you to anyone who helps me. I've grown rather fond of my i777 over the past few weeks and I really hope it isn't too badly damaged.
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pendragonia said:
Hello all, greetings from your friendly neighborhood newb! In following the edicts set forth by the XDA PTB, I was attempting to solve on my own a minor problem with my gallery when I encountered a much more serious problem that seems to be getting progressively worse with every action I take. I don't dare try anything else on my own. I've tried Google searches with "xda i777..." in front to no avail. I apologize if the answer if it there and I just haven't found it. Thanks in advance to anyone who helps me.
I'm on AOKP/N.E.A.K./UCPLC5
A few days ago, I noticed the gallery icon on my home screen wasn't working, but I was still able to access the gallery through appsorganizer, which is the primary way I access apps, so I wasn't concerned. Then I couldn't play downloaded videos, etc. Long story short, my phone won't play downloaded, streaming, or previously recorded videos in the gallery, browser, skyfire, YouTube, it third-party apps. So I
-switched launchers to test gallery (icon on desktop was there, but said "app not found.")
-reflashed gapps.zip
-factory reset/wipe cache then flash gapps.zip
-restore nandroid backup, soft bricked phone
-tried to restore more recent backups, found one that worked on the third try (got a couple "error while restoring /system")
-gallery opened, videos played, pics weren't there ("no external storage found")
-restored most recent nandroid to make sure pics weren't gone (in retrospect, plugging it into the computer or using a file manager would have been better method)
-tried to restore previous nandroid, and got
Checking MD5 sums...
Erasing boot image before restore...
Restoring boot image...
System.img not found. Skipping restore of /system
Data.img not found. Skipping restore of /data.
Android_secure not found. Skipping restore of /sdcard/android_secure.
Cache.img not found. Skipping restore of /cache
-restored latest nandroid, and started searching the heck out of Google until the worrywart part of my brain demanded that I post on xda RIGHT THIS SECOND!! (The same portion of my brain keeps whispering "super bug.")
It may or may not be worth noting that I was on UCKK7 before I flashed AOKP.
Thank you to anyone who helps me. I've grown rather fond of my i777 over the past few weeks and I really hope it isn't too badly damaged.
Sent from my SGH-I777 using Tapatalk 2
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dont think you can restore a GB nandroid from ICS. flash back to GB, then try your nandroid.
Or possibly the file got messed up?
MotoMudder77 said:
dont think you can restore a GB nandroid from ICS. flash back to GB, then try your nandroid.
Or possibly the file got messed up?
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I'm pretty sure you can, but I also applaud this guy for the amount of detail he put in his post. Even though I don't have an answer for him he did everything he should have before posting.
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Nick281051 said:
I'm pretty sure you can, but I also applaud this guy for the amount of detail he put in his post. Even though I don't have an answer for him he did everything he should have before posting.
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yea I wasnt sure on that one. but would make sense as different kernals, different recovery.
Always best to use the same recovery/kernal to restore, as you did the backup with.
Nick you beat me to it. This guy wins the award for best "help me" thread ever!
Good luck bro! You came to the right place.
Clay
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MotoMudder77 said:
yea I wasnt sure on that one. but would make sense as different kernals, different recovery.
Always best to use the same recovery/kernal to restore, as you did the backup with.
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Hmm...I have tried several different kernels, all were ICS-based. I wouldn't even know which one to flash for which nandroid. I'll keep that in mind for future reference though.
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pendragonia said:
Hmm...I have tried several different kernels, all were ICS-based. I wouldn't even know which one to flash for which nandroid. I'll keep that in mind for future reference though.
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for future reference? you give up?
If your nandroid is from a GB kernel, then flash a GB kernel, just need the kernel, boot into recovery and attempt to restore.
Thats what I would do to narrow down the backup being messed up.
I believe this may be a problem with touch recovery nandroids versus non touch. I remember reading about that somewhere, anyone confirm?
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I am a noob and I am not a developer or even really great at programming or PC's in general.
I've managed to mess up my phone and have been looking all over the web for how to fix it and I am at a loss.
I decided to register and ask for help. Please be patient and understanding if I ask a lot of questions or don't understand things you accept as basic, understood or common. I looked through existing threads for help and couldn't find the answer I needed. Many thanks in advance for the help. Readers digest of the issue below.
Samsung Galaxy S 4G. T-Mobile. T959V5B5-Custom.
I tried the non-mandatory firmware update from T-mobile and it wrecked the functionality of my phone. I tried to go back with a couple new Rom versions and think I more or less ended up with three roms installed on my internal storage which has given me basically no space which was never an issue for me before. I have used a disk viewer to verify there is unmounted data that is taking up space but I can't figure out how to get to it through the phone or my pc to delete it. I assume if I do this that the empty space will be absorbed and fix the internal storage issue.
Again, thank you for taking the time to read and respond. I love my phone and just want it working right again.
JBMFT said:
I am a noob and I am not a developer or even really great at programming or PC's in general.
I've managed to mess up my phone and have been looking all over the web for how to fix it and I am at a loss.
I decided to register and ask for help. Please be patient and understanding if I ask a lot of questions or don't understand things you accept as basic, understood or common. I looked through existing threads for help and couldn't find the answer I needed. Many thanks in advance for the help. Readers digest of the issue below.
Samsung Galaxy S 4G. T-Mobile. T959V5B5-Custom.
I tried the non-mandatory firmware update from T-mobile and it wrecked the functionality of my phone. I tried to go back with a couple new Rom versions and think I more or less ended up with three roms installed on my internal storage which has given me basically no space which was never an issue for me before. I have used a disk viewer to verify there is unmounted data that is taking up space but I can't figure out how to get to it through the phone or my pc to delete it. I assume if I do this that the empty space will be absorbed and fix the internal storage issue.
Again, thank you for taking the time to read and respond. I love my phone and just want it working right again.
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The course of action I would recommend at this point is using a tool called Odin to re-flash the stock ROM to your phone. I would recommend taking a look at this guide for the step-by-step procedure on how to do this. Let me know if you still have questions .
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The course of action I would recommend at this point is using a tool called Odin to re-flash the stock ROM to your phone. I would recommend taking a look at this guide for the step-by-step procedure on how to do this. Let me know if you still have questions .
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Hey! Big thanks for the reply. Here come the questions...
I used Odin to put the other OS versions on the phone so I am familiar with the software though its been several months. I also still have the ROM that I flashed to phone. I am curious though that if it didn't wipe the previous partitions last time, what would keep it from doing the same thing this time and really messing me up? Or did I click or not click something in Odin or use the wrong option and doing it differently this time would fix the problem?
I located the files on the phone and have verified they are not mounted and looked at their size using DiskInfo. They are located at "/dev/block". Do you know what this is or why they are there? I can delete them using ES File Explorer with SuperUser. Is it ok to delete these and would I get the benefit of increased storage by doing so? I played around with moving them to the SD card and didn't see an increase in my internal storage but was afraid that a reboot after doing to might be bad.
Can you tell I am a little gun shy?
Here are the names of the files, the set starting with t starts at 0 and goes to 12 and the other 1 to 12.
tsfr0-tfsr12
bml1-bml12
Thanks again!
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Hey! Big thanks for the reply. Here come the questions...
I used Odin to put the other OS versions on the phone so I am familiar with the software though its been several months. I also still have the ROM that I flashed to phone. I am curious though that if it didn't wipe the previous partitions last time, what would keep it from doing the same thing this time and really messing me up? Or did I click or not click something in Odin or use the wrong option and doing it differently this time would fix the problem?
I located the files on the phone and have verified they are not mounted and looked at their size using DiskInfo. They are located at "/dev/block". Do you know what this is or why they are there? I can delete them using ES File Explorer with SuperUser. Is it ok to delete these and would I get the benefit of increased storage by doing so? I played around with moving them to the SD card and didn't see an increase in my internal storage but was afraid that a reboot after doing to might be bad.
Can you tell I am a little gun shy?
Here are the names of the files, the set starting with t starts at 0 and goes to 12 and the other 1 to 12.
tsfr0-tfsr12
bml1-bml12
Thanks again!
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Using Odin to re-flash the stock ROM will automatically setup the right configuration for. Do Not delete the files in /dev/block these are critical to the phones operation and part of the phones normal partitioning and operation as previously stated deleting these will cause a lot of problems if you delete them. If you really want to free up some internal storage space I would recommend deleting the carrier pre-installed bloatware, before you delete any bloatware makesure to backup the apps you deleted with Titanium Backup or a similar backup or flash Clockworkmod Recovery or Team Win Recovery Project and make a Nandroid Backup which is a complete backup of your phone. And don't worry about being gun shy we are all beginners at some point the only real way to become an expert if practice, practice, practice .
So I am working on the Heimdall One-Click.
Handshaking with loke, got no response. FML.
Help.
Edited: Apparently a low battery is not your friend...
after a little reading around on the net I tried a different one and BAM.
Back to stock. We'll see how this goes.
Being rooted with superuser had me spoiled...so much bloatware.
Hello,
Ive recently been having a really annoying flaw with my system, i'm still unable to identify if my phone has caught some form of a virus or if theres something thats changed and not allowing my phone to function correctly.
Please be patient as i have a bit to explain in order to give you guys the full picture of my problem so that it can hopefully be fixed.
Ok so initially everything was working fine and there was no problems. I personally believe but i may be wrong the problem started when i downloaded ttorrent pro apk via a google link and inadvertently provided the installed app with much more access to my phone that was required. Having realized that the app was incorrect i immediately removed it from my phone using titanium backup. i also removed all data and cache at the same time.
So i took some photos whilst on my cousins stag in Barcelona a short time ago and the images were taken whilst i was on 4.2.1, but once i came home and collaborated my photo's and videos with a couple from the stag (they were using the s4) the images became corrupt. I had a full backup of these images on my Mac and they are all ok and can be viewed with no difficulty. The problem arises when i put the folder back onto my android device. Since i have tried a few method to fix this issue but to no avail. All virus check on both the phone and the folder of photos on my mac came back all clear.
The photo's are stored on my External SD Card which is brand new and seems to work fine. This Ex SD Card is not the same as the one i used on the stag(it broke and i purchased a new one since). I often found sometimes that the folder names were changing aswell in the External SD Card, for example i would import 7 folders which all contained images. after a short while, 3 of them would corrupt and the folder name would change to eg. ulbum. With the u being the u from utorrent.
The thing is the images are there to be seen in my files on the android but with no thumbnail and the images do not load. But some of the images in the same folder to seem to work. Ive tried using alternative galleries to see if this fixes the issue but it didnt seem to work. It really frustrating as ive tried so many method and got so many people involved.
Please provide me with some further suggestions because i cant seem to find anyone with the exact same problem.
Thank You in advance
Factory reset, format your SD card (with SD tool) and try again - without transferring anything from your PC. If everything works at that point then probably a virus or SD corruption.
If still the same then flash a fresh stock ROM with Odin, don't use the SD initally to prove the hardware isn't faulty.
Also check your phone bill, warez has a habit of dialling premium rate lines in China for days on end. Never install anything to found on google, if you can't find it on XDA then it probably isn't legit.
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Factory reset, format your SD card (with SD tool) and try again - without transferring anything from your PC. If everything works at that point then probably a virus or SD corruption.
If still the same then flash a fresh stock ROM with Odin, don't use the SD initally to prove the hardware isn't faulty.
Also check your phone bill, warez has a habit of dialling premium rate lines in China for days on end. Never install anything to found on google, if you can't find it on XDA then it probably isn't legit.
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Thank You for your quick response. I've done a factory since the problem, flashing back an omega rom on my device. The problem still continued. The photo's can be viewed fine on my Mac...it seems to happen when i move them over to my phone as shown in the pictures in the top post.
I've run a scan on the images on my Mac and it came back all clear. Originally this whole corruption was apparent with one main folder which was of a stag do last month. Since my most recent attempt a further folder is no longer working. This was a album taken over a year ago on my iphone. The videos however from my album last month have started worked :S
This is all abit strange as ive taken a set of photos with the camera app and they dont seem to become corrupt. But ive put the images on a friends SD Card and put that in my phone and it seems to happen to that album aswell. Is there a further internal root which may have become infected and making this happen by targeting certain pic's/albums in my gallery.
My friend is adamant the photo's have become corrupt but they work perfectly on my MAC.
Ive formatted this SD Card on atleast 10 different occassions aswell.
If your phone was rooted then yes, system partition can be changed by virus. Flash a stock ROM with Odin and format the SD.
chetm89 said:
Thank You for your quick response. I've done a factory since the problem, flashing back an omega rom on my device. The problem still continued. The photo's can be viewed fine on my Mac...it seems to happen when i move them over to my phone as shown in the pictures in the top post.
I've run a scan on the images on my Mac and it came back all clear. Originally this whole corruption was apparent with one main folder which was of a stag do last month. Since my most recent attempt a further folder is no longer working. This was a album taken over a year ago on my iphone. The videos however from my album last month have started worked :S
This is all abit strange as ive taken a set of photos with the camera app and they dont seem to become corrupt. But ive put the images on a friends SD Card and put that in my phone and it seems to happen to that album aswell. Is there a further internal root which may have become infected and making this happen by targeting certain pic's/albums in my gallery.
My friend is adamant the photo's have become corrupt but they work perfectly on my MAC.
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I agree with your friend. Your pictures must be corrupted or the filesystem on your external SDCard is corrupted too.
Try to copy all your files into a safe place (your Mac HDD) and verify that all files are done.
After, format this ExtSDCard (with the phone for example) et refill the SDCard. Check if I solve the problem.
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If your phone was rooted then yes, system partition can be changed by virus. Flash a stock ROM with Odin and format the SD.
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Ok i may need to give this i try, once ive flashed the stock rom back on can i then flash back the omega rom that i was using or shall i stick with the stock rom to test it out??
Hi, I'm in desperate need of help, please.
I'm using SGS2. Several months ago my device suddenly started acting weird, thumbnails in gallery didn't load, apps didn't refresh (instagram, facebook etc.)... Rebooting would help but only for a certain amount of time, until it suddenly started to happen again. I realised the internal SD card simply becomes read-only randomly, but I didn't know why. I made peace with it since I'm not a big smartphone user.
Anyhow, today I went through my phone files and saw that several cache folders were oddly big, so I deleted a ****load of files, and then(!!) that one folder would not delete... So I clicked it and saw a bunch of gibberish files that do not want to get deleted.
I tried SD Maid app, but the thing is, once I browse to that specific corrupt folder the SD card goes crazy and becomes read-only, so basically at that moment I realised that folder is what's making the phone act like this.
Connecting it to PC and deleting doesn't work either. Renaming the files doesn't work. Copy/paste does work but is useless. Factory reset/installing new ROM/kernel/whatever doesn't work either. The files will still be there, I've tried.
Anything, please?
yellowjellow said:
Hi, I'm in desperate need of help, please.
I'm using SGS2. Several months ago my device suddenly started acting weird, thumbnails in gallery didn't load, apps didn't refresh (instagram, facebook etc.)... Rebooting would help but only for a certain amount of time, until it suddenly started to happen again. I realised the internal SD card simply becomes read-only randomly, but I didn't know why. I made peace with it since I'm not a big smartphone user.
Anyhow, today I went through my phone files and saw that several cache folders were oddly big, so I deleted a ****load of files, and then(!!) that one folder would not delete... So I clicked it and saw a bunch of gibberish files that do not want to get deleted.
I tried SD Maid app, but the thing is, once I browse to that specific corrupt folder the SD card goes crazy and becomes read-only, so basically at that moment I realised that folder is what's making the phone act like this.
Connecting it to PC and deleting doesn't work either. Renaming the files doesn't work. Copy/paste does work but is useless. Factory reset/installing new ROM/kernel/whatever doesn't work either. The files will still be there, I've tried.
Anything, please?
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What rom were you using when the errors started happening?
What have you tried as far as flashing roms/kernels/custom recoveries?
I'm using Omega v24 XWLSW (4.1.2). What I did was factory reset and every single format option in that CWM recovery screen. I then flashed that same ROM again but fresh.
I don't think this has anything to do with ROM/kernels etc. This is simply a bunch of corrupt files in Device\sdcard\Android. I've tried googling with no success. I need a way to forcibly delete that folder with all those files inside. Any directions on how format?
yellowjellow said:
I'm using Omega v24 XWLSW (4.1.2). What I did was factory reset and every single format option in that CWM recovery screen. I then flashed that same ROM again but fresh.
I don't think this has anything to do with ROM/kernels etc. This is simply a bunch of corrupt files in Device\sdcard\Android. I've tried googling with no success. I need a way to forcibly delete that folder with all those files inside. Any directions on how format?
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The first thing I would try is to reinstall a stock samsung rom. This sometimes is the only way to fully reset your phone back to original condition. Sammobile.com is the website I have used. You would have to root again but....
Also check out this thread -
http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s2/help/qa-friendly-qa-thread-t1648351
There are some similarities with possible corrupt partitions another guy has(the last few pages of thread), that they are trouble-shooting. You might find some answers there.
yellowjellow said:
I'm using Omega v24 XWLSW (4.1.2). What I did was factory reset and every single format option in that CWM recovery screen. I then flashed that same ROM again but fresh.
I don't think this has anything to do with ROM/kernels etc. This is simply a bunch of corrupt files in Device\sdcard\Android. I've tried googling with no success. I need a way to forcibly delete that folder with all those files inside. Any directions on how format?
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Hey mate.
If you haven't fixed the problem i recommend performing a checkdisk.
To perform a checkdisk you need to:
1. Connect your phone through USB via mass storage mode.
2. The computer should prompt you to perform a checkdisk automatically, in that case just accept and let the computer perform it. If it doesn't prompt automatically you need to do it manully by right-clicking the correct partition on the computer, click properties and then on the 'Tools' bar. Now mine is in Swedish, i don't know how it is in english but press the button on the first alternative. (i.e the button with 'Control' and the administrator logo).
After pressing, just let it be (it will take quite a while) and when finished.. tell me if it worked or not.
Good luck!
Hey, I tried chkdsk and defrag just in case, the files are still there, although some of them are now gone. My phone doesn't go crazy anymore though, which is nice. Maybe I'll just let the corrupt files be there in peace, they won the war XD And as long as my phone works properly I don't really care about them.
Thanks everyone!