Recently I tried installing CM11 (jelly bean) on my Atrix 4g. It did not go through successfully as I was getting the symlinks error with code 7.
Prior to installing this ROM, I had taken two backups, unfortunately both on the Internal SD drive.
When I try to restore using Android Recovery, I get an error in recovering system - after some time. However, at the end of the restore I am able to boot the phone and am able to make and receive calls. I can't seem to get the WiFi to work anymore. The system shows that I am on
System Version 4.5.141.MB860.ATT.en.US
Android version is 2.3.6
I suspect that the internal SD card does not have enough space to restore completely, thus causing these issues. Is there a way to delete an extra backup? I am not able to connect the phone to USB and get to the SD card. The phone says that the SD card is not there, however, Android Recovery is showing me the two backups. However, Android Recovery is not giving me an option to delete the extra backup to create space.
Please let me know my options.
Thanks
Please help
dindoliya said:
Recently I tried installing CM11 (jelly bean) on my Atrix 4g. It did not go through successfully as I was getting the symlinks error with code 7.
Prior to installing this ROM, I had taken two backups, unfortunately both on the Internal SD drive.
When I try to restore using Android Recovery, I get an error in recovering system - after some time. However, at the end of the restore I am able to boot the phone and am able to make and receive calls. I can't seem to get the WiFi to work anymore. The system shows that I am on
System Version 4.5.141.MB860.ATT.en.US
Android version is 2.3.6
I suspect that the internal SD card does not have enough space to restore completely, thus causing these issues. Is there a way to delete an extra backup? I am not able to connect the phone to USB and get to the SD card. The phone says that the SD card is not there, however, Android Recovery is showing me the two backups. However, Android Recovery is not giving me an option to delete the extra backup to create space.
Please let me know my options.
Thanks
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Can someone please guide me? All I want is to install any stable ROM on my Atrix 4g. But described above, I am having issues in flashing.
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I have successfully configured my phone to install apps on the sd-card before. But because of some problems, I have to do a restore, and my latest back up file was before I partitioned my card and do the conversion stuffs. Now, I noticed that my free phone storage is filling up fast when installing apps. But using Ap2sd, I can see that the phone can detect my partition(304mb free out of 457mb to be exact). Do I have to re-run the conversion of extensions again? I'm pretty hesitant to do so until someone confirms that its needed since I did a nand restore.
Another thing - my sd card keeps on going to R/O privilege. I have to always use Root Explorer to change its permission state. Is this a common bug or what? Thanks
It's probably a corrupted a2sd script. Try another version of it and make sure that it is supported by your ROM.
it's true it will work, you will see
Hi all,
My sister-in-law hooked up her phone to her laptop and then Kies responded there was an update. I know for a fact that she was on 2.3.6 and the suggested update was the ICS one.
The phone booted in download mode and then got stuck on 12%, then she turned to me.
I'm pretty familiair with Android phones and I rooted and installed custom ROMs on quite a lot of phones. But, it was always with a full backup and I always made sure the phone numbers were on the SIM card as an extra precaution.
Now, this phone is NOT rooted, just stock 2.3.6 on it, she made no backups of any kind and there's no external SD card in it so the photo's are on the internal memory.
So, what I need first, if possible, is access to the internal memory. Normally, I can mount the memory in clockworkmod recovery, but this phone is not rooted so no CWM. Can I flash a kernel to get CWM? And if yes, which one?
Secondly, is there any way to backup the phone numbers? If I flash a new ROM I will loose al numbers, right?
Hope someone can help, she's quite desperate! (me too actually)
one part of information I forgot to give;
when I pull out the battery and reboot the phone after putting it back, I just get the phone/warning sign/pc logo and the text "firmware upgrade encountered an Issue. Please select recovery mode in Kies ans try again"
When I do that, Kies sees the phone, starts downloading a recovery image of some sort and stay on 100% for a few minutes and then closes without any error message.
Numbers are stored in Google account, and Internal memory is not formatted if you do a factory reset. I could recommend you to move your question to this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1648351&page=148
drraptor said:
Numbers are stored in Google account, and Internal memory is not formatted if you do a factory reset. I could recommend you to move your question to this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1648351&page=148
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Hi, I just flashed a stock ROM of the same version with Odin.
Phone is ok again, nothing is lost.
Camera was set on storing photos in internal memory, I changed it.
All contacts were already stored on the SIM card so no sync to Gmail
vinz3nt said:
Hi, I just flashed a stock ROM of the same version with Odin.
Phone is ok again, nothing is lost.
Camera was set on storing photos in internal memory, I changed it.
All contacts were already stored on the SIM card so no sync to Gmail
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So internal memory wasn't wiped ?
Just backup and flash a Stock ICS using Odin
Hi all,
I bought a Proscan PTL7035-PL (preloaded with Android ICS 4.04) last Christmas. I rooted with a great success and have it running a full-fledged Google Play store. The only drawback is that all apps go to the internal sd which has only 2gb of storage space. I tried a couple of ways swapping the internal and external sds. None of them has worked. Then I followed one from http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1991583. Basically by modifying the mount point of the internal flash and external sd as described in the file vold.fstab , the hope was to make the system use the big sd storage for apps and data storage etc.
Here is where my nightmare began. After reboot, my tablet stuck at the android logo and the booting never finished. I kind of know that my mounting points messed things up. The fix can be as easy as just restore the backup copy of vold.fstab which I have on the tablet. The problems are that:
1) There is no way to access the system folder of the android device now as the device itself cannot finish booting; and it can't communicate with a PC via USB.
2) Even if I can force it boot into the Android System Recovery 3e, it is not much a help as it needs a certified ROM or backup copy to recover. The official ROM is not out yet and I don't have a backup copy.
It looks like my device has been soft bricked. So how to pull it out?
Anyone ever solve this?
Android2013_ said:
Hi all,
I bought a Proscan PTL7035-PL (preloaded with Android ICS 4.04) last Christmas. I rooted with a great success and have it running a full-fledged Google Play store. The only drawback is that all apps go to the internal sd which has only 2gb of storage space. I tried a couple of ways swapping the internal and external sds. None of them has worked. Then I followed one from http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1991583. Basically by modifying the mount point of the internal flash and external sd as described in the file vold.fstab , the hope was to make the system use the big sd storage for apps and data storage etc.
Here is where my nightmare began. After reboot, my tablet stuck at the android logo and the booting never finished. I kind of know that my mounting points messed things up. The fix can be as easy as just restore the backup copy of vold.fstab which I have on the tablet. The problems are that:
1) There is no way to access the system folder of the android device now as the device itself cannot finish booting; and it can't communicate with a PC via USB.
2) Even if I can force it boot into the Android System Recovery 3e, it is not much a help as it needs a certified ROM or backup copy to recover. The official ROM is not out yet and I don't have a backup copy.
It looks like my device has been soft bricked. So how to pull it out?
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Long story short, similar issue. Has Rooted my 9 year olds Tablet, (Same as Op), and actually had it running great. Well, I was installing Gapps, via root explorer, and my Son was talking, and I forgot to Mount the System Folder that I was Replacing with the gapps one, R/W - it stayed R/O and never got replaced.
Thus the other 2 folders I changed to R/W are stuck that way. I think it was the entire Root Folder, and One more. I can elaborate.
Is there a way to fix this, as the tablet will not boot properly. (Hangs on Splash Screen), then if I attempt recovery, it gets stuck at the Android with the Red Triangle coming out of his belly, but no Menu Choices.
Anyone?
Okay, this is quite a long story, so I apologise in advance.
I decided to update my Galaxy S2 today to a newer ROM (SuperNexus 2) with the latest version of Android. I was coming from a CM9 build. I went through the usual process of backing up data and performing a full NANDROID backup via CWM Recovery, booted the phone again and transferred the backups to my PC via USB. These files transferred fine.
I then downloaded the zip files for the new ROM and proceeded to copy them to the internal storage of my phone. The copy dialog in Windows said that it was "discovering items" and stayed like this until I turned off USB transfer mode on the phone and removed it (ie. the files failed to copy) This happened a number of times and I didn't get anywhere. I have plenty of space free on the SD card, but just to make sure I started the phone in CWM again and formatted the SD card, and since I was going to do it anyway, the data and cache partitions too. When I booted the phone again, the files still wouldn't copy. I managed to copy a text file to the phone which was about 32kb but anything larger just seemed to fail.
I then went back into CWM and decided to partition the SD card, as I thought that it may have been corrupted somehow and needed to rebuild the filesystem. This however, caused even more problems as trying to format the SD card (In CWM) now just reported "Error, can not mount E:/sdcard".
Feeling fairly frustrated, I decided to download the Stock ICS ROM for the Galaxy S2 and install it via Odin, thinking that the problem was probably with CWM. The install went fine, but upon reboot the phone just stayed on the boot animation, no matter how long I left it. To make sure the install went smoothly I decided to try and reinstall the Stock ROM via Odin again, but now Odin didnt seem to get past the "Initializing.." stage.
So all in all, I now have a phone which wont boot into Android, cant copy anything to internal storage, and Odin wont seem to connect to.
I am convinced this is a software issue and therefore fixable. But maybe the internal storage was not working correctly in the first place. I have installed many ROMs before and never had such issues.
Anyone know anything about this or how I could potentially fix it? Thanks so much in advance!
Benji1992 said:
Okay, this is quite a long story, so I apologise in advance.
I decided to update my Galaxy S2 today to a newer ROM (SuperNexus 2) with the latest version of Android. I was coming from a CM9 build. I went through the usual process of backing up data and performing a full NANDROID backup via CWM Recovery, booted the phone again and transferred the backups to my PC via USB. These files transferred fine.
I then downloaded the zip files for the new ROM and proceeded to copy them to the internal storage of my phone. The copy dialog in Windows said that it was "discovering items" and stayed like this until I turned off USB transfer mode on the phone and removed it (ie. the files failed to copy) This happened a number of times and I didn't get anywhere. I have plenty of space free on the SD card, but just to make sure I started the phone in CWM again and formatted the SD card, and since I was going to do it anyway, the data and cache partitions too. When I booted the phone again, the files still wouldn't copy. I managed to copy a text file to the phone which was about 32kb but anything larger just seemed to fail.
I then went back into CWM and decided to partition the SD card, as I thought that it may have been corrupted somehow and needed to rebuild the filesystem. This however, caused even more problems as trying to format the SD card (In CWM) now just reported "Error, can not mount E:/sdcard".
Feeling fairly frustrated, I decided to download the Stock ICS ROM for the Galaxy S2 and install it via Odin, thinking that the problem was probably with CWM. The install went fine, but upon reboot the phone just stayed on the boot animation, no matter how long I left it. To make sure the install went smoothly I decided to try and reinstall the Stock ROM via Odin again, but now Odin didnt seem to get past the "Initializing.." stage.
So all in all, I now have a phone which wont boot into Android, cant copy anything to internal storage, and Odin wont seem to connect to.
I am convinced this is a software issue and therefore fixable. But maybe the internal storage was not working correctly in the first place. I have installed many ROMs before and never had such issues.
Anyone know anything about this or how I could potentially fix it? Thanks so much in advance!
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I9100?
Can get to DL mode?
Can get to recovery?
Get an older Odin version and flash siyah just to see if it can be flashed again.
If you can get to recovery, Nuke Script is the way to go.
It sounds to me that maybe your memory is corrupt...
Not just yet, smells like soft brick.
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Hi there,
First of all, I know that part of this mess was my fault. I had been using CM 10.1 on my Galaxy S2 for quite a while (since 2013, IIRC), but yesterday I decided to upgrade it to CM 12.1. The "CM Updater" app was not working so I decided to just download the .zip file, reboot into recovery mode and flash things from there. I managed to enter the recovery mode, but when I tried to flash the new CM I noticed I couldn't see the .zip file on my internal SDCard... Hmm, this was because my phone was encrypted (including my internal SDCard, of course). So I went back to my browser and did more research. I found a guy saying that, if your phone was encrypted, you could flash your device using the sideload mechanism *or* an external SDCard. Since I have an external SDCard, I chose this option.
Well, it doesn't much to figure out that things went bad. The main partition was overwritten during the installation and I've lost all encryption. However, that's not the worst part: I've also lost access to my internal SDCard! Now I cannot even make Android ask for its password. I really don't know what to do here. I've lost access to photos and videos from years ago. If I am correct, the upgrade process *did not* touch the internal SDCard at all; so my data is still there. Am I right? Do you guys think it's still possible to access it? I spent several hours trying to figure this out without success, so I decided to post my question here before I give up and reformat the internal SDCard.
Thank you in advance!
I am curious, how you manged to encrypt sdcard0 at all.
Never figured out how to do this on CM.
Nevertheless, I guess, Terminal/ADB might be the only option to decrypt and mount that partition. Unfortunately I don't know the commands on Android (on Linux it's cryptsetup).