Hello, as my device keeps on hanging apparently without any reason, I want to try to full wipe system, data, cache partitions.
I thought to do it with dd filling them with zeros, before format them again and reinstall a stock ROM. With something like
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/target_partition bs=1M
Is there a way to do it with ADB while the the device is in recovery mode?
Do I risk to brick the phone?
A flash with odin will format system data cache. Makes it like new.
andrewwright said:
A flash with odin will format system data cache. Makes it like new.
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Hi Andrew, thank you for your answer.
I flashed it several time with Odin at first to 4.1.2, then back even to GB but it keeps on hanging.
That is why I thought about some kind of "deeper" wipe
Hanging as in ?
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Hanging as in ?
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In a totally random shape.
After some use, it freezes. I can't reproduce it. It just freeze while I am doing something on the phone. Once it freezed while I was pressing the back button and the short vibration bound to the pressure went into a loop, keeping on vibrating.
Every time it freezes I have to force reboot by holding power button.
At first I thought it was some bug of the latest ROM based on Cyanogen I had installed. But even reverting back to Sammie's JB then even GB did not resolve.
I also removed the 32GB external sd, thinking maybe to a bug related, but it did not solve.
By the way, while trying to solve the issue flashing a different ROM, I always did a clean install, with a full wipe/factory reset from recovery first.
So I am actually clueless
By example, I have just finished now to flash it with odin to latest Samsung JB. It applied nicely. At the first boot it froze in the prcess of initial settings, where it asks for owner name and surname. No external sd inside. Frozen and starts to get hot even.
Stock is poo. Go to custom and in recovery cwm flash this before you install the rom. May help may not. Its worth a try
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Stock is poo. Go to custom and in recovery cwm flash this before you install the rom. May help may not. Its worth a try
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I tried it, from Philz CWM recovery.
Then tried to install a custom ROM from external SD card, but I had to try several time before having a successful install. Also often it froze even when in Philz CWM recovery.
After several times now I have latest Sentinel ROM (on CM 10.1) but it's not stable. Still random freezes (with overheating) and reboots.
I'm starting to think something is "broken" at a hardware level...
Go with aokp milestone 2 custom rom. If still freeze there then maybe your right. Milestone is solid rom with none to very little problems. Do the super wipe before install. Cm is unstable maybe your problem.
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Go with aokp milestone 2 custom rom. If still freeze there then maybe your right. Milestone is solid rom with none to very little problems. Do the super wipe before install. Cm is unstable maybe your problem.
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nothing...
I tried the ROM you suggested. It freezes too.
So I restarted in recovery, wiped data, cache, system with dd filling with zeros. Then wiped with SuperWipe script. Flashed again AOKP.
It still freezes (sometimes self reboot).
And neither from dmesg or adb logcat I can figure out what could possibly be wrong
Could be bad emmc
From what you're describing that most ROMs are not stable, sounds like you could have bad emmc. Some samsung devices such as s2 and s3 are plagued with bad emmc. But that's just my two cents. Bad emmc usually means service center repair.
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From what you're describing that most ROMs are not stable, sounds like you could have bad emmc. Some samsung devices such as s2 and s3 are plagued with bad emmc. But that's just my two cents. Bad emmc usually means service center repair.
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My device is affected by the eMMC brickbug. However I never bricked it. (the problem was with 4.0.4).
However it's all the afternoon that I am running from recovery thist tool
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1667886
to check all partitions, and it never went wrong. Also, writing zeros with dd from adb shell was always succesfull.
I suspect that the problem is not the emmc but something else. Maybe the RAM is corruptedin some locations
At this point, being the device 2 years old, and out of warranty since the end of may, I don't know if it is worth the price of the repair :-/
Upgrade Time
blade75 said:
My device is affected by the eMMC brickbug. However I never bricked it. (the problem was with 4.0.4).
However it's all the afternoon that I am running from recovery thist tool
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1667886
to check all partitions, and it never went wrong. Also, writing zeros with dd from adb shell was always succesfull.
I suspect that the problem is not the emmc but something else. Maybe the RAM is corruptedin some locations
At this point, being the device 2 years old, and out of warranty since the end of may, I don't know if it is worth the price of the repair :-/
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If you've exhausted all options, Maybe its that time for an upgrade?
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OK so let me start off with, great site. I have read a ton of information.
First: Siyah 4.3.3 (Latest) Kernel which now has been put to AJK v1.48s
ROM; SHOstock3 v2.5.9
PreMod Settings: SGS2 AT&T SGH-i777. Started with GB > AT&T OTA (KIES) 4.0.3 > AT&T OTA WIFI 4.0.4 (caused huge freaking headaches with battery, charging, turn off the phone loop, battery draining, etc.)
Issues:
Original Issue posted in this thread (viewing Single Post) http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=39350619&postcount=18
Creepy offered something to try. That never worked as all I was able to do was download mode or stare at the Samsung Galaxy S2 Splash Screen. Well, I took to his download repository and other links and used his One-Click Recovery to stock GB Rom to make part of my phone usable, using this link here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=18859438&postcount=199
While it is Gingerbread at least my phone is usable. I want to try his STOCK ICS method but that mentions the eMMC super-brick bug.
So this is what I have tried so far. I have tried installing Siyah 4.3.3 nomswap for my kernel using Mobil-Odin Lite. That works but it never reboots or actually says finished. What it does do is stay at the wicked purple splash with the yin yang symbol. I left it like that last night until I woke up this morning and it never changed. So I rebooted the phone and the Kernel is on there. I reboot into recovery so that I can install SHOstock3 v2.5.9. That goes off flawlessly except here the last few times it won't reboot when I go to the GO BACK. It sticks and doesn't do anything. Rebooting shows the SHOstock3 Engine Boot Animation. Once it stops it goes to ask me for the encryption password. Well I put in my password (was the same one to the unlock screen) and it reboots and you see the nifty Samsung animation logo and then goes to the Samsung Galaxy S2 Animation Logo and then just stays there. It really pisses me off.
So after all that I finally put a new Kernel on there,AJK 1,48s. Pretty cool it loads up and then reboots. Well AJK shows up after the light-blue bar fills up and then goes black and the 4 touch sensitive row keys are lit up for a bit before going dark but the phone is still on. So I rebooted to recovery (CWM now with the Kernel) fixed tweaks, went to advanced and saw all sorts of options. Tried clearing caches for ROM 2 and restarting,no effect. I removed ROM 2 and went through reboot and nothing. Restored ROM 2 and nothing. Re installed SHOstock3 v2.5.9. Did the same thing after install and not backing out when I hit GO BACK. Rebooted, same scenario that happened before with requiring password. Entering password does the same thing with a reboot and then staying on Samsung Splash Screen. If I Don't enter the password and reboot,same thing happens. So after being irritated and pissed off I ran Creepy's One-Click Fix again and paid attention to the phone and noticed it mentioned not being able to access the AT&T section or partition or something like that. So while part of my phone works under normal circumstances I want to figure out how to remove that encryption part of the phone and get full access (even though full memory and space are shown under Windows 7 and the files on the phone). The password I put on there isn't taking and I don't know if using PC methods for removing encryption (which could take awhile I know) needs to be employed (and if so which methods) or if that part is just screwed and I can't put on any other kernels or custom ROMs. Perhaps tell me where I messed up. Should I try swapping the ROMs from Advanced setting in CWM Recovery? Can I try a different ROM (kernel didn't seem to help)? I have done several factory resets dalvik cache wipes cache wipes formats,etc. and it is still there. I can say that before the whole encryption debacle (even though I was encrypted I did get in my phone after encrypting it) my pin unlock for my SIM wouldn't work and I actually SIM locked my phone. Had to go to AT&T and get a new SIM and was up and running. I put a 4 digit pin lock for the SIM (it let me do it) and when I went to unlock it after a reboot, it wanted an 8 pin for the PUK and wouldn't take what I put. I tried to change the PIN but to no avail. Once that happened I guess it snowballed. Any help is appreciated. I have searched and tried some things that looked to match my issue but none have totally helped. I do have ADB set up on my wife's laptop which I use to restore my phone to GB Stock ROM. I haven't been able to reboot the phone into Bootloader to do any fastboot commands as when I tried to do it the commands just sent the phone into normal reboot (though adb reboot recovery does boot to recovery). I Haven't tried booting to the bootloader using the new Kernel though so I will wait for confirmation or additional information before I try. Thanks guys.
Eagle
Couple of comments. Siyah 4.3.3 (and ajk) kernels are for 4.x ICS and JB so that explains why your stock Gingerbread system would not flash after you installed it. If you flash back to stock Gingerbread again, and then flash a custom kernel, use a kernel that is compatible with Gingerbread if you want to boot the system.
After doing a little research, it seems that a wipe data/factory reset will not clear the encryption, but a format data will. This information is not from a Samsung forum; it's from the Droid DNA forum. I'm thinking that the same thing may apply to the I777. See the thread here.
It might be worth a try anyway. Flash stock plus root Gingerbread, install mobile odin or mobile odin lite, and use it to flash Siyah 2.6.14. Boot into recovery and go to the Mounts and Storage section. There you can format data, (and all the other partitions, separately.)
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Couple of comments. Siyah 4.3.3 (and ajk) kernels are for 4.x ICS and JB so that explains why your stock Gingerbread system would not flash after you installed it. If you flash back to stock Gingerbread again, and then flash a custom kernel, use a kernel that is compatible with Gingerbread if you want to boot the system.
After doing a little research, it seems that a wipe data/factory reset will not clear the encryption, but a format data will. This information is not from a Samsung forum; it's from the Droid DNA forum. I'm thinking that the same thing may apply to the I777. See the thread here.
It might be worth a try anyway. Flash stock plus root Gingerbread, install mobile odin or mobile odin lite, and use it to flash Siyah 2.6.14. Boot into recovery and go to the Mounts and Storage section. There you can format data, (and all the other partitions, separately.)
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Thank you so much creepy. I will give that a try later and see how it goes. I hope the information I gave actually gives enough info. I know folks usually want enough. Ill post back my findings.
Eagle
quick follow up and what I tried
creepyncrawly said:
Couple of comments. Siyah 4.3.3 (and ajk) kernels are for 4.x ICS and JB so that explains why your stock Gingerbread system would not flash after you installed it. If you flash back to stock Gingerbread again, and then flash a custom kernel, use a kernel that is compatible with Gingerbread if you want to boot the system.
After doing a little research, it seems that a wipe data/factory reset will not clear the encryption, but a format data will. This information is not from a Samsung forum; it's from the Droid DNA forum. I'm thinking that the same thing may apply to the I777. See the thread here.
It might be worth a try anyway. Flash stock plus root Gingerbread, install mobile odin or mobile odin lite, and use it to flash Siyah 2.6.14. Boot into recovery and go to the Mounts and Storage section. There you can format data, (and all the other partitions, separately.)
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Hey Creepy, I have a quick follow up and want to tell you what I have tried.
So I had already used Kies to move to AT&T v 4.0.4 ICS on my phone when I read your post. Rather than flashback again to GB I went ahead and put Siyah 4.3.3 on my phone. Went great, rebooted and installed quick and everything. Well I rebooted into recovery and went to mounts and storage and formatted the data and all that there and even formatted the secondrom data and all that. Did it a couple times to make sure everything was clean and good to go. Even put AJKs kernel on there after I ran the cleanrom script and it went flawlessly. I did factory resets and wipes and all that and installed SHOstock3 v2.5.9 and started up great. Well it got past the animation and the damn Password for encryption popped up. Well I put the wrong password in and it rebooted without the SAMSUNG screen and went through the boot ani and back to the password for encryption screen. I put the right password in, it reboots and you see the Samsung logo flash quickly and then it sticks on the Samsung Galaxy S2 Splash screen. I don't know what is holding it up from going forward unless when I messed up the first go around and it deleted everything if it didn't take out the bootload command or what have you. So I don't know if this idea will work but I am going to flashback to GB and put the siyah version on there that you linked and see if that will work.
One tihng, when Iencrypted the device the first go round, I onlydid the used data and area not the whole thing. Is this affecting it somehow? Any other ideas to try? I figured a full data format would remove the encryption but it never pops up saying all encryption will be removed. What I need is access to that area of the phone if I could just mount it on the computer. Is it possible after formatting the data, or before, that I should mount internal USB, DATA, etc and try another format/wipe or at least mount them to see if they can be used? Thanks for the help. For anyone else viewing this post (which actually is a lot) any help or ideas are appreciated. I am thinking I may need to format everything and get ahold of Samsung to see if they will reset my phone for me. I just wonder if the PIN lock on my SIM card that got locked when it wouldn't take my PIN didn't mess something up as well.
Eagle
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Hey Creepy, I have a quick follow up and want to tell you what I have tried.
So I had already used Kies to move to AT&T v 4.0.4 ICS on my phone when I read your post. Rather than flashback again to GB I went ahead and put Siyah 4.3.3 on my phone. Went great, rebooted and installed quick and everything. Well I rebooted into recovery and went to mounts and storage and formatted the data and all that there and even formatted the secondrom data and all that. Did it a couple times to make sure everything was clean and good to go. Even put AJKs kernel on there after I ran the cleanrom script and it went flawlessly. I did factory resets and wipes and all that and installed SHOstock3 v2.5.9 and started up great. Well it got past the animation and the damn Password for encryption popped up. Well I put the wrong password in and it rebooted without the SAMSUNG screen and went through the boot ani and back to the password for encryption screen. I put the right password in, it reboots and you see the Samsung logo flash quickly and then it sticks on the Samsung Galaxy S2 Splash screen. I don't know what is holding it up from going forward unless when I messed up the first go around and it deleted everything if it didn't take out the bootload command or what have you. So I don't know if this idea will work but I am going to flashback to GB and put the siyah version on there that you linked and see if that will work.
One tihng, when Iencrypted the device the first go round, I onlydid the used data and area not the whole thing. Is this affecting it somehow? Any other ideas to try? I figured a full data format would remove the encryption but it never pops up saying all encryption will be removed. What I need is access to that area of the phone if I could just mount it on the computer. Is it possible after formatting the data, or before, that I should mount internal USB, DATA, etc and try another format/wipe or at least mount them to see if they can be used? Thanks for the help. For anyone else viewing this post (which actually is a lot) any help or ideas are appreciated. I am thinking I may need to format everything and get ahold of Samsung to see if they will reset my phone for me. I just wonder if the PIN lock on my SIM card that got locked when it wouldn't take my PIN didn't mess something up as well.
Eagle
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Should I try TWRP instead of CWM and if so where should I grab it from?
Status Update
So this is what I have tried so far as of this moment.
I reflashed using your Stock + Root Gingerbread ROM.
Wiped DATA and everything in recovery menu several times.
Used Kernel Wipe and ROM Nuke for extra cleaning power.
Reinstalled the Kernel AJK and SHOstock3 ROM
Haven't installed any themes though I had Johns Blue and Villians Poison Base Theme (I believe that is what it is) on there when this all went down. Should I put them back on there?
Password still pops up. So what it looks like is that unless I stick with the unencrypted portion of the phone, I am screwed with any custom ROMs as the correct password has the phone restart and then stick at the Samsung Galaxy S2 Splash Screen. Apparently I still cannot access that area of the phones memory to wipe it at all no matter what I do. I need to access it somehow. Really driving me crazy and thinking I may need to talk with AT&T(as Samsung told me to earlier this morning lol) and see what they can do.
One thing I do notice is when I use your stock root program it actually removes the encryption or decrypts the section of the phone for the stock ROM to go on the phone which is cool.
Eagle
Any other things to try from anyone is greatly appreciated.
Been away all day. Sorry, I can't offer any other suggestions, but I have no experience with encryption. As you said, what you need to know is where the encryption is stored in memory so you can wipe or format that and restore it to original. If you can get to the right person, probably not level 1 tech support, then maybe you can find out. Somebody somewhere knows the answer to this.
would restoring my original EFS before this whole process help or is the encryption section totally blocked off?
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would restoring my original EFS before this whole process help or is the encryption section totally blocked off?
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I have no idea whether the encryption is stored there. What kind of efs backup did you take?
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Been away all day. Sorry, I can't offer any other suggestions, but I have no experience with encryption. As you said, what you need to know is where the encryption is stored in memory so you can wipe or format that and restore it to original. If you can get to the right person, probably not level 1 tech support, then maybe you can find out. Somebody somewhere knows the answer to this.
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Thx bro. yeah I need to run some forensic tools and see if I can mount the whole phone system on my PC and run the tools.
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I have no idea whether the encryption is stored there. What kind of efs backup did you take?
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a full efs backup. I made two or three actuakky using advanced efs, nitrality, and recovery.
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a full efs backup. I made two or three actuakky using advanced efs, nitrality, and recovery.
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A little research indicates that there is quite a bit of stuff stored in efs besides carrier specific data. So maybe encryption could be in there. Of those tools, nitrality for sure and maybe advanced efs should be able to restore the entire efs partition. If you are comfortable with the risk - a damaged efs would render the phone useless - then you might try this to see if it clears up the encryption issue. BTW, you should learn how to back up the efs partition yourself using terminal and linux commands.
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A little research indicates that there is quite a bit of stuff stored in efs besides carrier specific data. So maybe encryption could be in there. Of those tools, nitrality for sure and maybe advanced efs should be able to restore the entire efs partition. If you are comfortable with the risk - a damaged efs would render the phone useless - then you might try this to see if it clears up the encryption issue. BTW, you should learn how to back up the efs partition yourself using terminal and linux commands.
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Yeah I should have used ADB to do that from the get go. I should have used the wife's laptop like I started to instead of my WIN 8 machine has it seems to be finicky with Android SDK (the portion at least needed to run ADB). Linux commands really aren't much different than terminal and I have done both. I was actually trying to get fastboot commands to work but my bootloader wasn't cooperating and for the life of me I couldn't find how to unlock it. I may try restoring that EFS. If nothing else I would love to be able to format that EFS and replace it with my original copy though as you said a damaged EFS may actually cause issues (who knows if it is damaged). I do know that I am fixing to chat with AT&T support. I hope I don't have to drive down to Hoover, AL to the repair facility. I would rather them send me a phone and send this one back. I am on stock 4.0.4 ICS from AT&T and any root that may be on there (though I doubt there is now) I can remove and what not
Thanks for the advice and insight Creepy. I know you tried like hell to get me an answer but in doing research on here with other problems I found out some useful information going forward my friend.
Eagle
Well, looks like I will be getting a special early upgrade and the wife will as well. I will be keeping this phone, however, to mess with this and see if I cannot get this problem fixed. Thanks Creepy so much. I appreciate your research and help more than you know. If possible I would love to keep this thread open for a while just in case I figure this out and fix the issue. It may take me a week or so but I will get back to messing with it again.
A side note. You don't need the whole sdk to get adb. You can download just the files you need from my signature.
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Hey guys, had a Note for a little while now and was running stock AT&T GB. I tried upgrading to ICS a couple of times using other threads in this forum, but I'd keep getting stuck in a boot loop and had to revert back to stock AT&T GB to recover my device per Da_G's method here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1506330, and it worked fine.
However, I recently tried one more time to upgrade to ICS, failed and reverted back to stock AT&T GB per Da_G's method, and while my phone turns on, it has become sluggish to the point of being absolutely unusable. Screen touches work fine in some cases, and then take forever to register in the same spot later. The on screen keyboard cannot be invoked - it almost always hangs the phone. And the phone randomly reboots.
I did forget to wipe cache and dalvik cache the last time around while doing the install, and that probably caused this problem. But sine then I've wiped both caches and retried flashing, and also reinstalled a stock AT&T radio in case that was the problem, and also reset the flash counter per braway's methode here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1569206, but to no avail...
My Note is pretty much useless at this time, so any light you guys can shed or any other tack you can suggest is going to help me immensely!
Thanks for the help!
Sid.
Wiping caches is not enough. You need to to a full data wipe/factory reset. At this point why not just flash your phone with Odin.
http://www.samsdroid.com/2012/07/i717uclf6-android-404-usa-at-stock-rom.html
This will fully wipe your phone and install the UCLF6 ICS ROM with matching radio.
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Wiping caches is not enough. You need to to a full data wipe/factory reset. At this point why not just flash your phone with Odin.
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Sorry, I didn't mention - I DID do a factory wipe/data reset and I've been flashing the stock GB ROM via ODIN itself. But thanks for the link to the ICS ROM - I'll try installing this and report back.
Okay, I downloaded the UCLF6 ROM from the samsdroid site (took like 3 hours to download!), performed several factory data resets, cache wipes and dalvik cache wipes on my phone, and then flashed the ICS ROM via Odin. Odin showed "Passed", but the phone rebooted into recovery with a message "failed to mount /system" and "failed to mount /data". I then hit "reboot system now" and am stuck at boot loop. Booted back into recovery, got the same message about not being able to mount system and data. Hit "reboot system" again and back to boot loop...
What the heck am I doing wrong???
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You do have an ATT i717 and not a canadian version? But I think your phone has other issues.
It is an AT&T SGH-i717. I've used it for 6 months now and it worked fine - it just never let me upgrade it to anything beyond GB... and now it is unusable even with GB.
Do you think it might be a hardware issue? Although, how could flashing and reflashing ROMs impact the hardware?
If the odin flashing did not straighten things out then I have to believe that there are other issues.
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It is an AT&T SGH-i717. I've used it for 6 months now and it worked fine - it just never let me upgrade it to anything beyond GB... and now it is unusable even with GB.
Do you think it might be a hardware issue? Although, how could flashing and reflashing ROMs impact the hardware?
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Did you try to flash ICS with Samsung Kies? If that doesn't work, your phone may have developed a hardware problem.
i have had the same issues as well, i am unsure if its me or what but everytime i have tried to flash a tmobile rom on my note which should work it slows down to a crawl i cannot even go through the setup process. I have tried via odin and through cwm touch. the next thing i flashed was t879uvlg3 modem and i was wondering if that was the issue and if so what modem should i flash that way i dont have to use kies for recovery cause man..........thats slow. I even made a nandroid backup and it was slow as well so if anyone has had this issue or any ideas please help me
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Did you try to flash ICS with Samsung Kies? If that doesn't work, your phone may have developed a hardware problem.
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My problem is that the phone does not stay on long enough for Kies to detect it - it keeps rebooting on GB. Well, guess it's cooked! Thanks for the help!
Hey y'all.
So many threads ago I posted up on how to root a SGS2 I900P, which in the end I did no problems. The ONLY problem I encounted where I'd flash a different ROM and wanted to restore back to my factory loaded Orange UK rom, which when I restored it with no problems it just went through the 'boot loop' phase. I read up that this is caused due to a faulty emmc 'bricking bug' and luckily it was only "soft bricked".
Cut the long story short I managed to re-flash the Orange (UK) carrier firmware (after many USB cable changes and port swaps and fails) via Odin and retain my previously installed apps and so on and had to re-root. Is there a method or some sort of fix for the emmc bug issue for future wipes/restores ?
Something new I learnt in all that process too,
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Hey y'all.
So many threads ago I posted up on how to root a SGS2 I900P, which in the end I did no problems. The ONLY problem I encounted where I'd flash a different ROM and wanted to restore back to my factory loaded Orange UK rom, which when I restored it with no problems it just went through the 'boot loop' phase. I read up that this is caused due to a faulty emmc 'bricking bug' and luckily it was only "soft bricked".
Cut the long story short I managed to re-flash the Orange (UK) carrier firmware (after many USB cable changes and port swaps and fails) via Odin and retain my previously installed apps and so on and had to re-root. Is there a method or some sort of fix for the emmc bug issue for future wipes/restores ?
Something new I learnt in all that process too,
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To avoid brickbug is by flashing JB 4.1.2. (good alternative!)
But if you really like ICS then i suggest you move back to 4.0.3. There is no avoiding brickbug on 4.0.4.
If you have rooted it, you can check with 'Brickbug check' app on google play, to see if you have sane (or insane) chip (brickbug or not), cause most custom kernels and roms have found a solution to this bug, and use it on their roms/kernels. Which means on those you can safely wipe and restore etc.. (but check brickbug app first on google play)
Yep. Don't wipe a rooted phone running 4.0.4. And if you're really paranoid, don't even wipe a non-rooted phone running 4.0.4 (Entropy mentioned at least one case he knew of where someone borked their phone doing a wipe on a phone running 4.0.4 via stock Android recovery, tho it seems to be very rare).
The TL;DR is don't run rooted stock 4.0.4 if you mess with your phone in any way.
I know that's not a fix, but that's because there isn't one. Some chips aren't susceptible to the bug; there's an app floating around here somewhere/Google Play where you can check which chip you have (seems to be more that are susceptible).
Your 1st paragraph is a load of crap.Bootloop has nothing to do with "brickbug".More like by you not running kernel cleaning script,or not factory resetting before/after flashing a new rom.
As mentioned by others,just dont have 4.0.4 running on your phone.So you are still left with over 100 custom/stock roms to choose from........lol
Was the backup of JB? Or ICS? OP doesn't say. If it was JB, I'd be willing to bet that the bootloop was due to an attempt to restore the stock rom, but without restoring preload.
Sent from a galaxy far, far away
Hopper8 said:
Was the backup of JB? Or ICS? OP doesn't say. If it was JB, I'd be willing to bet that the bootloop was due to an attempt to restore the stock rom, but without restoring preload.
Sent from a galaxy far, far away
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Im not sure Hopper.I am leaning towards the restore would be "cancelled" due to not being complete,rather than it succeeding leading to bootloop.
But hes not said.
And he cant get "factory" rom with a restore as it didnt come with cwm lol.
Sorry to clear things up.. I updated it to 4.1.2 via Kies many months ago. I used PhilZ method to root, no problem. Few months down the line since then I put LiquidSmooth 2.4 (few days ago) then restored a backup from PhilZ recovery and put 4.1.2 and everything back on no problem. Then restarted the phone and it when into a boot loop of the Orange and Samsung logo.
I'm not stupid as I've rooted my own SGS3 and Samsung Galaxy ACEs etc, Just forgotten to put that info in lol and yes I always use the Factory Reset to install a new rom.
And yes when I managed to get it restored from this so called boot loop (by putting 4.1.2 Orange UK firmeware back on via Odin) the EMMC brick bug is present as i've checked via an app via Google Play. My overall goal is to eliminate this problem or temp fix so I can put different roms on and if I don't like them recovery back to the latest restore without issues.
Are we on the same line now ?
And as we've said, you can't eliminate the problem. You can avoid the problem by not running 4.0.4 stock roms. It's really quite simple, but like a lot of people here you're trying to make it complex when there's no need to.
help me out here please
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And as we've said, you can't eliminate the problem. You can avoid the problem by not running 4.0.4 stock roms. It's really quite simple, but like a lot of people here you're trying to make it complex when there's no need to.
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ok its a long story so i better get started... my friend had his phone rooted and installed a jelly bean version of Paranoid android and he wanted to put kitkat on it, he downloaded the cm11 latest nightly and told me to flash it i proceed to flash the phone but it failed and showed me "error status 7" so the phone couldnt get neither into the previous pa nor in the cm11... after some research and messing with the META INF stuff to sol the status 7 thing i found out that the problem was that he wasnt using a kitkat compatible recovery... i installled it and finally got to flash cm11.. that didnt came out as you may thought the phone showed it had -15246384352 % of battery made a freking glitch when the sreen rotated and it wouldnt recognize either of the sd cards (internal memory or external sd card) so i couldnt flash it again, wipe data/cache wouldnt solve the problem either... i turn into our ol friend odin and flashed stock JB wich worked perfectly except that i had the same issue with the memories... used philz to root the phone again, the try to format /system /data /emmc to check if that was the problem annnnd ta da the phone wont boot :silly: odin keeps failing to flash stock again and i dont jknow what to do....
sorry for the long post but i guess that you might need alll the info you could get for helping me...
thanks a lot
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ok its a long story so i better get started... my friend had his phone rooted and installed a jelly bean version of Paranoid android and he wanted to put kitkat on it, he downloaded the cm11 latest nightly and told me to flash it i proceed to flash the phone but it failed and showed me "error status 7" so the phone couldnt get neither into the previous pa nor in the cm11... after some research and messing with the META INF stuff to sol the status 7 thing i found out that the problem was that he wasnt using a kitkat compatible recovery... i installled it and finally got to flash cm11.. that didnt came out as you may thought the phone showed it had -15246384352 % of battery made a freking glitch when the sreen rotated and it wouldnt recognize either of the sd cards (internal memory or external sd card) so i couldnt flash it again, wipe data/cache wouldnt solve the problem either... i turn into our ol friend odin and flashed stock JB wich worked perfectly except that i had the same issue with the memories... used philz to root the phone again, the try to format /system /data /emmc to check if that was the problem annnnd ta da the phone wont boot :silly: odin keeps failing to flash stock again and i dont jknow what to do....
sorry for the long post but i guess that you might need alll the info you could get for helping me...
thanks a lot
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Here is my situation.
I had 4.1.2 JB. Installed CM11 M8 and CWM_6.0.4.7(coming previously from Siyah) at the end of July. In the beginning of October my phone just shut down. That happened before on the same and previous rom so I wasn't worried. I turned it on and phone was in bootloop. That was strange because the last time that happened I installed Chainfire. So bootloop without any cause..that was strange. I tried making a backup before flashing the ROM. But I got an error. I can't remember but I can dig it somewhere if you want it. I tried then flashing recovery(bad idea) and Odin again reported an error. When I restarted phone I noticed that my Recovery mode was gone. Just gone and with no solution on how to restore it. I tried numerous methods OMAP drivers, heimdall, .pit file method but nothing. So I brought my sgs2 to the store where I bought it and they concluded that it was bad eMMC chip.
Now, your problem reminds me of mine because Odin wouldn't want to flash anything without an error(well, not exactly anything, I managed to flash some partition using Heimdall but it was not sufficient) but it doesn't have to be.
What version of cwm were you using?
Hey guys, I have a weird issues with my external SD card.
After I upgraded from Shostock to ShoStock 3 4.0, my phone stopped automatically mounting my SD card at book. I have to wait for boot and rush to my setting so I can hit "Mount SD" every single time my phone starts so that way the apps that depend on the externalSD won't get screwed up.
It's getting really annoying, and I've scoured the internet for answers, but I haven't found anything yet. Most people are looking for ways to swap their internal/external cards or mount it to their computer when they plug it in to their USB.
I already tried wiping it and reformatting it; didn't help.
Any ideas on how to solve this issue and get it to automatically mount at boot? I can add/modify scripts if that's what it takes.
Thanks in advance!
It sounds like a bad flash. Did you wipe everything before you upgraded SHOstock3 to 4.0? I'm guessing that a clean reinstall of the firmware and kernel would solve the issue.
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It sounds like a bad flash. Did you wipe everything before you upgraded SHOstock3 to 4.0? I'm guessing that a clean reinstall of the firmware and kernel would solve the issue.
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Yeah, I did a clean wipe and reset before flashing SHOstock3. It actually originally started happening when I upgraded from the old SHOstock to SHOstock3, but it seems like no one else had this issue.
Do you think it would help if I just reflashed without wiping? I already did a clean wipe and reset before flashing.
randomjoe404 said:
Do you think it would help if I just reflashed without wiping? I already did a clean wipe and reset before flashing.
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If the problem is due to a bad flash, doing a dirty re-flash (without wiping) will not fix the problem. I'm not certain that a bad flash is the issue, but troubleshooting methods would say to flash back to stock and see if the problem persists. You would have to do a full wipe and clean install of stock to be sure. I'm suggesting that you try re-flashing SHOstock3 first, and then if that doesn't correct the problem, try flashing back to stock.
Edit: But I think you are saying that the problem has already persisted through a clean re-installation of the firmware? Then the problem must be something else than a bad flash. Still, flashing stock would be the next troubleshooting step.
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If the problem is due to a bad flash, doing a dirty re-flash (without wiping) will not fix the problem. I'm not certain that a bad flash is the issue, but troubleshooting methods would say to flash back to stock and see if the problem persists. You would have to do a full wipe and clean install of stock to be sure. I'm suggesting that you try re-flashing SHOstock3 first, and then if that doesn't correct the problem, try flashing back to stock.
Edit: But I think you are saying that the problem has already persisted through a clean re-installation of the firmware? Then the problem must be something else than a bad flash. Still, flashing stock would be the next troubleshooting step.
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Unfortunately due to my work I can't afford to miss another day/night without my phone for a while
I was hoping there would be some script or modification I could make to force it to mount the externalSD at boot. But I guess it's already supposed to do that?
Maybe my fstab or whatever is bad?
randomjoe404 said:
Unfortunately due to my work I can't afford to miss another day/night without my phone for a while
I was hoping there would be some script or modification I could make to force it to mount the externalSD at boot. But I guess it's already supposed to do that?
Maybe my fstab or whatever is bad?
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I don't really know the hardware, or even the internals of the firmware, well enough to answer. I guess you'll have to keep mounting it manually until you have time to do some trouble shooting. You don't have to reboot that often though, do you? I sometimes go weeks between reboots.
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I don't really know the hardware, or even the internals of the firmware, well enough to answer. I guess you'll have to keep mounting it manually until you have time to do some trouble shooting. You don't have to reboot that often though, do you? I sometimes go weeks between reboots.
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I have to reboot every day, which really sucks.
I've looked all over for answers on this. I hope I didn't miss something, but here is my issue:
After being fed up with Touchwiz, I tried flashing AOSP ROMs instead. Ever since then, every AOSP ROM I flash will freeze during boot (usually it freezes after 15-20 seconds), I'll see a glitched image for 10 seconds, and then reboot. This bootloop has happened with AICP, Resurrection Remix, and a few others. I'm about to try CyanogenMod, but I assume that will fail as well since the others were mostly based off CM. I always wipe data, cache, and dalvik before flashing (sometimes system too, and now internal storage to try to fix this issue).
Can anyone figure this out?
I have very limited access to a PC and my Mac refuses to recognize this phone in download mode, so Odin isn't readily available and Heimdall has been no good so far.
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EDIT: Apparently EVERYTHING is bootlooping this phone. I flashed other Touchwiz-based ROM's and those aren't working. Finally I returned to stock firmware using Kies, and I'm STILL stuck in an endless loop.
I NEED HELP. SERIOUSLY.
This is probably a bad idea, but I'm headed to T-Mobile to try and get help. I can't afford to wait.
t3st4m3nt said:
This is probably a bad idea, but I'm headed to T-Mobile to try and get help. I can't afford to wait.
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in twrp you need to format data partion and wipe internal storage cache,data, and davilk cache
then use kies for emergency restore
malbert16442 said:
in twrp you need to format data partion and wipe internal storage cache,data, and davilk cache
then use kies for emergency restore
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Honestly, I feel like I should've just stuck with your ROMs
I've done all of the above, and I do so every time I flash a ROM. I tried re-flashing after wiping system, no good. And the restore from Kies failed to fix the issue.
Kies removed twrp, so I was able to take it to a Samsung Center at Best Buy without the device drawing suspicion of having been rooted (they ignore Knox at this one), and they failed to solve the issue with a home reset. Right now they have no idea what is happening, and neither do I.