update 2: It appears that GApps is the root cause. Flashing any CM-based ROM does not cause any problem until GApps is flashed. Any ideas?
update 1: going to try to use stock kernel to extract my internal sd data first, followed by a total wipe later.
SGS3 died on me yesterday after flashing AOKP nightly update (15-06-2013 version). Been trying to get it back up with various other ROMs to no effect.
Additional symptom seem to be that the internal SD-card is mostly blanked out when accessing from inside ROM, but all files present in recovery.
Mostly it shuts down a few minutes after booting up and everytime there's a write access on the internal memory. External SD-card is mostly invisible too.
Formatted every single partition possible except sd-card from within CWM recovery and re-flashed everything from kernel to ROM (mostly AOKP and CM10.1 though)
Any thoughts/ideas?
In regards to your data, see the 4.2 sdcard link in my signature.
Restarts? No idea at this stage
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In regards to your data, see the 4.2 sdcard link in my signature.
Restarts? No idea at this stage
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Your post is strangely sig-less. Mind just copy-pasting it for me? I really can't see it.
Oh its there alright. Perhaps you're not using a browser.
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Hi,
I'm new and though I've watched the noob video I hope I'm in the right place, if not please dont get angry ><.
2 days ago I've flashed into stock rom for my SG3 (GT-i9300) back from my RGUI v5 Build number: MIUI-2.8.3 IMM76D / Kernal version: 3.0.38-Siyah-s3-v1.3.9c
Ask me why? because I've had some issues trying to install official MIUI v4 from the international website and always I get error: "Status 7" with a dead android inside. (Again, Why ? because I as hoping it would make my SG3 even smoother... more responsive)
So I though perhaps flashing it from a stock rom might work, so I used Odin and everything went fine, again ofcourse I got the error and went back to CWM to restore the backup i've made before flashing anything, I dont really mind about the error right now, I've seen similar posts about it and I shall continue investigating it, What's more important is on the next phrase.
Today I found out that all my photos were deleted, after restoring my RGUI v5 rom 2 days ago ofcourse....
I'm not sure how could the situation get any better though I remember previously flashing rom's that the SD card never being touched and I guess I was wrong.
What I wanted to ask is, I just got more CWM backup files on my external SD, does anyone knows if CWM backup restores user data aswell or should I just give up ?
Helpfull tips of how to restore it could be usefull (Oh lord, please spare me I beg you, I'll pray more).
Thanks in advance.
I've flashed hundreds of times on S1, S2 and now S3 and never lost any data or photos that are on either the internal or external sd cards.
Not sure but could it be that you somehow hit format sd card in cwm by accident?
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Have you searched your internal and external storage? Maybe they were only stored on a different location so that the stock Gallery cannot find them?
Storages are either completely wiped or not wiped - but you don't only loose one particular folder
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I've flashed hundreds of times on S1, S2 and now S3 and never lost any data or photos that are on either the internal or external sd cards.
Not sure but could it be that you somehow hit format sd card in cwm by accident?
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Yeah, me too up untill now, i even verified via usb cable if I can browser into DCIM folder to see perhaps if its there but it not.
The General storage says 10 out of 11 free space...
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Have you searched your internal and external storage? Maybe they were only stored on a different location so that the stock Gallery cannot find them?
Storages are either completely wiped or not wiped - but you don't only loose one particular folder
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I tried to install 3rd party Gallery program which scans my SD's for photos and it could nothing.... Its probably not there.
I think all is lost unless one of my backups contains them.
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I tried to install 3rd party Gallery program which scans my SD's for photos and it could nothing.... Its probably not there.
I think all is lost unless one of my backups contains them.
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Unfortunately cwm backups do not backup stuff on the sd card like photos. Looks like you've lost them man.
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Unfortunately cwm backups do not backup stuff on the sd card like photos. Looks like you've lost them man.
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In a more optimistic view there are worse things, and although its quite hard to swollow all I've got left to do is say thanks to every one for trying...
Thanks.
Sorry, but this is a "Well Duh..." moment.... Flashing any stock rom through ODIN will always wipe the data partition on the internal sd card. You need to backup the internal stuff onto your PC. Only a stock firmware that has been modded will allow a non-wipe flash and you usually need to be rooted as it is no longer a stock rom.
You should be able to restore a nandroid backup of a stock rom too without wiping the internal sd card as this is only putting the system data back onto your phone...
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Sorry, but this is a "Well Duh..." moment.... Flashing any stock rom through ODIN will always wipe the data partition on the internal sd card. You need to backup the internal stuff onto your PC. Only a stock firmware that has been modded will allow a non-wipe flash and you usually need to be rooted as it is no longer a stock rom.
You should be able to restore a nandroid backup of a stock rom too without wiping the internal sd card as this is only putting the system data back onto your phone...
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What is that nandroid backup your talkibg about? I'm not familiar with it, though i understand that there's still no way out.
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What is that nandroid backup your talkibg about? I'm not familiar with it, though i understand that there's still no way out.
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Backup made with CWM recovery = Nandroid .
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Try this
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=fahrbot.apps.undelete
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Try this
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=fahrbot.apps.undelete
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It almost looked like a life saver case but it seems to target the external SD card only.
I can't seem to find a setting to switch into internal SD...
I just returned my phone to stock using ODIN and Entropy's method. I was previously running SHOStock3v.1.3.5 and was having problems creating a viable backup via CWM; not sure why, I've backed up many times before. What changed recently is that I set the default backup format to "TAR" from "DUP" as mentioned here. After that, my backups went from around 17MB to 1.6GB. At some point, possibly even with that first backup, the process would hang while generating the .md5. I left it for about 1.5 hours one time and still it wouldn't finish; I got around this by holding the power button to reboot. I reset the default format back to "DUP" and my backup size went back to about 17MB, but still wouldn't finish generating the .md5. All of these backups seemed to be causing System Media Storage some severe heartburn, filling up the internal memory. Deleting the backups solved this issue, but I was left with a phone that I could not backup.
Finally, this morning I (regrettably) used ROM Manager to try backing up, not having seen the numerous posts about never using ROM Manager. So my phone became a brick, stuck in a bootloop at the Samsung logo. So now I'm at the point where I've returned the phone to stock w/root as mentioned above. I've also reflashed recovery-clockwork-5.0.2.3-galaxys2att.tar via ODIN. BUT, when I try to flash a new ROM I get an error message saying "E:Can't mount /emmc/".
I've looked at some similar threads like this one and this one, but they don't seem to contain the answers I need. I am about to attempt to wipe the sdcard using the dialer code *2767*3855# found in this post. Before I do that I want to verify that there isn't something less drastic that I could try first. Anybody know what's going on?
Eh sounds like you may have gotten the emmc brick.
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Eh sounds like you may have gotten the emmc brick.
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Yuck. I did some research on that and it sounds mostly like what I've got (I have the ICS kernel - version 2.6.35.7). The difference between my situation and the one in a post I found is that my phone boots and acts normal, for the most part. I ran GotBrickbug? v1.2 and it verified that my eMMC chip is known to have the bug. I found a discussion thread for the Epic 4G on the subject which points to this fix, but it seems to be for those whose phones are really bricked... mine is not, do you have any suggestions on what I might try?
Well, the problem that caused it was in Samsung kernel source for ICS. Flash a custom kernel known not to have it and see what you get afterwards. Also, DO NOT do any memory wipes while on the stock kernel because then you will for sure get the bug, that's what causes it.
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I resolved my issue, though it wasn't what I thought out was. For some reason when I selected "Choose zip from internal sdcard", CWM was trying to access the external sdcard, which I had pulled. The opposite was true as well. If my external card was in its slot I would have realized the switch around right away. My phone its back in business, I now have SHOstock3 installed and it's running just fine. Thanks for the help, really glad my emmc wasn't mangled!
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Hmm, not sure why it would try and read from external. Anyway, glad you got it up and running again!
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Hmm, not sure why it would try and read from external. Anyway, glad you got it up and running again!
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Because he didn't coat the one that said internal
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If it happens again flash the latest siyah kernel. I've had that happen to me many times and I like cried the first time because I thought I destroyed my phone and would have to use my halfway broken captivate again haha siyah is my lifesaver
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Thanks. Yeah, I downloaded Ktoonsez NEAK kernel, but decided to flash a jelly bean rom/kernel instead. After I flashed I was able to data wipe and factory reset and reflash for a clean install.
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Thanks!!!
Just downloaded and will give it a test drive!!!
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I resolved my issue, though it wasn't what I thought out was. For some reason when I selected "Choose zip from internal sdcard", CWM was trying to access the external sdcard, which I had pulled. The opposite was true as well. If my external card was in its slot I would have realized the switch around right away. My phone its back in business, I now have SHOstock3 installed and it's running just fine. Thanks for the help, really glad my emmc wasn't mangled!
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Same to my Phone
So if want to solve this problem, you must have one external SD card which conten Zip file. Right?
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Same to my Phone
So if want to solve this problem, you must have one external SD card which conten Zip file. Right?
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Not necessarily. You can put the zip file on the internal card, then you have to choose external card from within CWM. You may have to have an external card installed for that option to show up though. Or, if you put the zip on the external card, then you choose internal in CWM.
I flashed Beans build 11 with pbj kernel. In that I picked the option to swap internal and external sd cards. Now I cant change wallpapers and some of my apps are telling me "sd card required for this application"
I would prefer to just fix this rather than re-flashing the rom again without the sd card swap.
I have been searching the forums for hours and can normally find a way to resolve any issue, but not this time.
Any help would be great.
Thanks
Just wipe caches and flash. Takes a couple minutes.
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Flash the rom again?
Any other solution?
pcandroid said:
Flash the rom again?
Any other solution?
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Yes flash the ROM with only wiping caches. You won't have to set everything up again and it should get rid of the swap
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:good:back to normal.
Is it possible to swap your sd without these kind of issues?
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:good:back to normal.
Is it possible to swap your sd without these kind of issues?
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I assume so because I've never seen them mentioned, but I don't use swap. Did you clean flash the ROM the first time?
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Yeah clean flash coming from beans 10.
So I have searched and searched and cannot get a definitive answer. I am currently using CWM as my recovery. I go to flash a new ROM and wipe like I used to. ONLY thing is that wiping doesn't actually wipe. What I mean is things in the down load folder or random folders not on my sd card are still there. This would all get wiped before but ive had this problem since getting the S4. Ive had some root problems before so I had to unroot and reroot so everything was wiped. Now I have been running smoothly without needed to odin back to stock.
What am I doing wrong or what could be the problem. I want to wipe the whole device except external sd card. In CWM I usually select the factory reset wipe, partition, and dalvik. Should I be doing something different?
TIA
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So I have searched and searched and cannot get a definitive answer. I am currently using CWM as my recovery. I go to flash a new ROM and wipe like I used to. ONLY thing is that wiping doesn't actually wipe. What I mean is things in the down load folder or random folders not on my sd card are still there. This would all get wiped before but ive had this problem since getting the S4. Ive had some root problems before so I had to unroot and reroot so everything was wiped. Now I have been running smoothly without needed to odin back to stock.
What am I doing wrong or what could be the problem. I want to wipe the whole device except external sd card. In CWM I usually select the factory reset wipe, partition, and dalvik. Should I be doing something different?
TIA
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Probably need to hit the data partition as well. Never had a problem with cwm myself.
Hit thanks if I helped you out. Doing a little bit of reading goes a long way. Sent via tapatalk.
Your download folder shouldn't get wiped on a factory data reset.
What partition are you choosing? Sorry i didn't use cwm, and i lost custom recovery with a warranty replacement, but sounds like you are maybe not choosing your internal.
Also why do you need the sd card wiped? As long as your app data isn't carrying over you should be fine switching roms.
Also twrp worked for this so really you could just switch.
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Oh also i know some recoveries have called internal cards external for technicality, so maybe take it your sd card and wipe everything possible then replace it.
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Your download folder shouldn't get wiped on a factory data reset.
What partition are you choosing? Sorry i didn't use cwm, and i lost custom recovery with a warranty replacement, but sounds like you are maybe not choosing your internal.
Also why do you need the sd card wiped? As long as your app data isn't carrying over you should be fine switching roms.
Also twrp worked for this so really you could just switch.
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Oh also i know some recoveries have called internal cards external for technicality, so maybe take it your sd card and wipe everything possible then replace it.
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I had some very bad experiences with TWRP on this device. Never on any other device. I prefer TWRP. I should try the taking out the sd card and wiping everything. Thanks I just odin'd back to stock and rooted. I was getting memory notifocations and random stuff. I am going to try TWRP I know its been updated since I had the problems.
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Memory notifications are common in this device, many times inaccurate on touchwiz. They're more about the allocated space for apps and not internal total. Next time check your storage tab in settings, of you're not out of free space on the sd card but still get warnings then wiping that partition won't help.
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I was getting low. It had been a while since rooting so I had loads of unwanted folders (temp stuff) and stuff from other roms. I was down to 1.3GB.The notifications are fine except certain apps or games were starting to not work properly. I literally had to scroll through about 4 pages of folders in my sdcard0 folder. Now that ive rerooted I have about a page and a half. I now have 8.78GB free space.
Edit: after rerooting I wasnt able to get TWRP. In Goomanager I kept getting "no recoveries were found for your device". So I am still on CWM.
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Same thing happened to me on my old gnex loading kitkat, think goo.im was having problems. I ended up loading cwm too as it was flashable.
Understand what you mean some rom makers have locked folders. I never had much of a problem but I didn't switch off hyperdrive much.
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Same thing happened to me on my old gnex loading kitkat, think goo.im was having problems. I ended up loading cwm too as it was flashable.
Understand what you mean some rom makers have locked folders. I never had much of a problem but I didn't switch off hyperdrive much.
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Yeah I always get tempted with AOSP ROMs so I flash them and then can't use it for one thing or another (camera, network speeds, etc.) And revert to Hyperdrive.
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I just installed Slimbean for the S3 i9300 (based on 4.3 android) coming from Ultima rom 15. The Rom is fantastic but I cannot see any of my files which were stored on my internal sd card. This means no access to backups! I can however see the folders and zip files from CWM. Also, when I check storage from settings, it is showing only 5.14 GB out of total 25.57.
So, I am sure the files are all there but not visible anywhere. Tried ES and Astro Explorer and searched all over.
I had done a complete wipe - cache, dalvik cache, format system and format data as suggested on the rom page.
Searched all over the net for a solution but no luck!
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I just installed Slimbean for the S3 i9300 (based on 4.3 android) coming from Ultima rom 15. The Rom is fantastic but I cannot see any of my files which were stored on my internal sd card. This means no access to backups! I can however see the folders and zip files from CWM. Also, when I check storage from settings, it is showing only 5.14 GB out of total 25.57.
So, I am sure the files are all there but not visible anywhere. Tried ES and Astro Explorer and searched all over.
I had done a complete wipe - cache, dalvik cache, format system and format data as suggested on the rom page.
Searched all over the net for a solution but no luck!
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Sorry its a rom issue that its not giving access to the storage card, wait for some new build that arrive in ROM thread, if still the problem presists with some new builds than probably you might have to change the ROM..
Thanks Suyash1629…:good:
I dug a bit deeper and searched in different angles to come across this post:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2506982
It turns out that if you are "upgrading" to 4.3+ then you have to format your internal sd card. This can be easily missed as we normally flash roms without having to do that.
And not sure if it is related but after installing the slimbean 4.3 it seemed I lost root. SuperSu was asking to update binaries (?).
After all that I just reinstalled ultima rom - after which my internal sd card is again accessible and root is back. Will do more research before moving to 4.3.
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Thanks Suyash1629…:good:
I dug a bit deeper and searched in different angles to come across this post:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2506982
It turns out that if you are "upgrading" to 4.3+ then you have to format your internal sd card. This can be easily missed as we normally flash roms without having to do that.
And not sure if it is related but after installing the slimbean 4.3 it seemed I lost root. SuperSu was asking to update binaries (?).
After all that I just reinstalled ultima rom - after which my internal sd card is again accessible and root is back. Will do more research before moving to 4.3.
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I did not have a single issue with moving to 4.3. Did a mega wipe and installed the he rom (also slim) anything worked. Did you do a full wipe and manual system format as said in the instructions?
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I did not have a single issue with moving to 4.3. Did a mega wipe and installed the he rom (also slim) anything worked. Did you do a full wipe and manual system format as said in the instructions?
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I did all the wipes from what I remember including formatting system and data. Only left out formatting the sd card - did you do this as well?
Doesn't the new rom also get deleted then?
As from 4.2 onwards, the file system directories got changed. Whatever file system on 4.1 will be neglected in the storage count in system. It is different from 4.1 and below. There is a forum link tat will teach u how to solve this. forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2274218
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I did all the wipes from what I remember including formatting system and data. Only left out formatting the sd card - did you do this as well?
Doesn't the new rom also get deleted then?
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Usually I do a mega wipe before every major rom version which will delete anything but the external SD on which I got the rom zip and flash it right after mega wipe.
As said before, also the folder structure got changed in the new Android versions which you might know already (sdcard0 etc).
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Usually I do a mega wipe before every major rom version which will delete anything but the external SD on which I got the rom zip and flash it right after mega wipe.
As said before, also the folder structure got changed in the new Android versions which you might know already (sdcard0 etc).
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Yep it did. Starting from 4.2 onwards. The folder directories will be different. So just follow the link i gave previously. I did tat when i flashed a 4.3 rom and it worked.
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