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I'll make it short and sweet:
I'm using the clockwork rom manager.
I chose to wipe, then backup existing ROM, before it installs the new one
It is NOT frozen, repeat: NOT frozen. I can press the call end button, and it will take away the text, and only show the background image (box with an arrow and an android with a progress bar), and if I press it again it dims the background and brings the text back.
This is what it says on my screen right now:
Waiting for SD Card to mount (20
s)
SD Card Mounted...
Preparing to install ROM...
SD Card space free: 1815MB
Backing up boot...
Backing up recovery...
Backing up system...
Backing up data...
dalvik-cache
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And it's been on this screen for really 20-30 minutes now, I would pull the battery, but... I am so freaking scared of bricking it I wanted to get some feedback before I do.
come on... 16 views and no "sure" or "NOOO!!!"
I'm not trying to bug people here, but I'm trying to save myself from bricking my phone!
Pulled it.
My phone was getting way too warm for my liking.
It turned on just fine.
Wow that crazy!
now that you remind me i need to make a nand backup and try out the new Clockwork Recovery, But yea the only way to brick the phone is if it was actually writing something to the phone which it looked like it wasn't, and you pulled the battery.
I've been stuck in a weird place for some time with my phone. After I installed clockwork mod, backed up, installed some flavour of FroYo, and made the mistake of trying to flash back my old back up without properly wiping things have been getting weird. I can use ODIN to flash fresh ROMs, but I always get a bunch of FCs at startup, and most apps don't work. I tried to do all kinds of tricks to completely wipe the internal SD, but there is always some remnants of old fun hanging about causing cascading errors and FCs. No matter what I try to do, MyBackupPro and Rommanager is always present, but not working.
How I can completely rid myself of anything not stock ROM?
I've finally gotten back to root ADB, after a long and hard battle. I believe this may hold the key to salvation for my Vibrant.
Any and all suggestions are much appreciated!
Things I've already tried:
EUGENE373_SamsungS_Froyo_PDA -> Stock 2.1 T959UVJFD
EUGENE373_SamsungS_Froyo_PDA -> battery pull -> Stock 2.1 T959UVJFD
Stock 2.1 T959UVJFD -> EUGENE373_SamsungS_Froyo_PDA
Bionix1.9.zip - would not install due to some error I can't recall right now. Will update.
Factory wipe - from Settings menu
Wipe in Clockworkmod menu
Wipe all in adb shell
The weird *2767*3855#* factory wipe
UPDATE:
Strangest thing happened: I flashed an old ROM back onto the phone with Odin 1.52, then the Updated Stock 2.1 also via Odin the usual FC-ing was still there. Then I rebooted into recovery, reinstalled the Clockworkmod recovery menu, installed the root-update.zip in order to have root shell access. Then I pushed VibrantDeodexed1_2.zip and Vibrantfroyo_R3.zip on to the sd card. I tried to apply the VibrantDeodexed1_2.zip, but it aborted due to some catalog not present. However, I did notice that the installation erased /system and deleted some files, and I had the notion to try and install the VibrantFroyo_R3.zip. The installation succeeded, and Lo and Behold!
the phone has returned to the land of the living! Wohoo!!
I do not fully understand how this can be, but there is no Force Closing of programs any longer. What a relief!
Thanks to everybody who contributed ideas!
If you're having problems, back up whatever data you want to keep to your computer. Go download eugenes 2.2 that doesn't brick. Flash that, do a battery pull once it's done (don't reboot). Then go get a stock eclair file, flash that with odin and check repartition. This solved every problem I had from flashing way too many roms.
Yea, when in doubt I thank the deities for Eugene and flash his "Froyo that doesn't brick" followed by the stock JFD firmware.
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brnagndan said:
If you're having problems, back up whatever data you want to keep to your computer. Go download eugenes 2.2 that doesn't brick. Flash that, do a battery pull once it's done (don't reboot). Then go get a stock eclair file, flash that with odin and check repartition. This solved every problem I had from flashing way too many roms.
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Sorry to say, that trying this solved nothing. Just the same as before.
ullrotta said:
Sorry to say, that trying this solved nothing. Just the same as before.
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You clicked the "repartition" option? That should format your internal sd...
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You clicked the "repartition" option? That should format your internal sd...
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Yeah, that's the weird part.. It doesn't really delete anything. Files are still there, and so are the un-wanted system files, too.
Does anyone know if I can manually partition the sdcard?
Had a similar issue, and couldn't fully erase my files. Figured out how to completely erase everything, before you proceed, backup your files and be ready to Odin. In rom manager, enable advanced mode in settings, then use the flash alternate recovery option. That set my current cwm version to 2.5.1.2, now when I reboot to cwm i have a menu that says something similar to "sd and storage" and within that menu are options to completely format all of the internal storage. Be careful in there, you can delete everything, incl the sd ext, but I think this is what you are looking for.
Edited - I rebooted and checked the menus, mounts and storage in cwm is what you are looking for after flashing the alternate recovery, I can confirm this removes remnants that an Odin repartition or factory format still leaves behind, let me reiterate, backup your personal files, cause this does remove everything
After formatting, Odin away
Sent from my T959 running Bionix1.91 with Jacs OC/UV and Voodoo
same thing happened to me >.> I just formatted the SD card on the phone. then flashed whatever rom I wanted.
Br1cK'd said:
Had a similar issue, and couldn't fully erase my files. Figured out how to completely erase everything, before you proceed, backup your files and be ready to Odin. In rom manager, enable advanced mode in settings, then use the flash alternate recovery option. That set my current cwm version to 2.5.1.2, now when I reboot to cwm i have a menu that says something similar to "sd and storage" and within that menu are options to completely format all of the internal storage. Be careful in there, you can delete everything, incl the sd ext, but I think this is what you are looking for.
Edited - I rebooted and checked the menus, mounts and storage in cwm is what you are looking for after flashing the alternate recovery, I can confirm this removes remnants that an Odin repartition or factory format still leaves behind, let me reiterate, backup your personal files, cause this does remove everything
After formatting, Odin away
Sent from my T959 running Bionix1.91 with Jacs OC/UV and Voodoo
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When I boot into recovery, I always have to reinstall packages to get to the CWM recovery menu. I tried to clear everything from the mounts and storage submenu; I cleared system, cache and data, then flashed stock eclair. STILL the same applications and files sit on the internal SD.
When performing the wiping, all looks normal. It does take a little time, and the system reports that all is going according to plan, yet no files are deleted.
What can possibly make the phone act this way? Are there no super secret samsung-technician codes that allow me to completely wipe clean the face of the sdcard?
When you get into the storage and mounts menu, I would format everything given what you're experiencing. Format boot, data, system, cache, and sdcard. Dont format the sd ext, thats the physical card. After formatting all of those your phone should be an odin ready blank slate, mine was. Hope this helps.
Sent from my T959 running Bionix1.9 with Jacs OC/UV and Voodoo
this has to be one of the most useful threads. just last night i was messing with rom manager and enabled advanced settings, BEEFORE reading this thread. I've done so much monkeying, but didn't keep a journal or log, so ive got **** from so many hacks and tweaks (mods and themes)...
thanks, im gonna wipe this ****er clean.
Good Info..but moved to Q&A
Br1cK'd said:
When you get into the storage and mounts menu, I would format everything given what you're experiencing. Format boot, data, system, cache, and sdcard. Dont format the sd ext, thats the physical card. After formatting all of those your phone should be an odin ready blank slate, mine was. Hope this helps.
Sent from my T959 running Bionix1.9 with Jacs OC/UV and Voodoo
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This is exactly what I tried yesterday. I'll try it again a few times to see if I can find a way.
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This is exactly what I tried yesterday. I'll try it again a few times to see if I can find a way.
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I was hoping that would help you friend, that process wiped mine clean of all remnants. Good luck in getting her back into a functional state.
After reading som more, contacting Samsung Service, I've decided to send the phone in for service. [sigh]
I've learnt a lot about ADB, pushing and pulling files, rooting, unrooting, swapping ROMS and whatnot. Still, the phone is stuck in that weird place where I cannot delete files.
Hopefully the service team can fix this poor, misguided phone
Hey guys I have been trolling this forum for some very useful information, and it has helped me quite a bit, but on this one I am stuck. Every time I try and delete something on this phone (Samsung Vibrant) it just comes back. This was not my phone before, I am just trying to put it back to stock.
I have flashed the phone 3 times using odin, including using the re-partition option.
When I hook the phone up to the pc, and load update.zip into the root folder, and reboot into recovery mode, it says cannot find sd card/update.zip. Even when I go in and manually delete apps if I reboot the phone, they all just come back.
Am I missing something? part of me wants to say its something easy.. but I have searched and searched about this and found nothing. Is there a mod out there that does this? -Thanks
*edit* Oh, and it seems like any time I think I might get close, I get the little android and the triange w/ the exclamation point.
Bueller?
How are you deleting? What are you deleting? Why are you using odin to delete apps? Not enough info to help you.
Hi, I am just trying to totally wipe the phone back to stock, hence odin. I dont care about info being lost. But like I said.. if I go in and manage applications, and remove them manually, I restart the phone and like magic they are all back.. I am quite confused. I hook the phone up to the pc, open the phone and manually delete pics and songs that way.. unplug the phone from the pc, and its like i never did anything.
jorsh03 said:
Hi, I am just trying to totally wipe the phone back to stock, hence odin. I dont care about info being lost. But like I said.. if I go in and manage applications, and remove them manually, I restart the phone and like magic they are all back.. I am quite confused. I hook the phone up to the pc, open the phone and manually delete pics and songs that way.. unplug the phone from the pc, and its like i never did anything.
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If you want to wipe the best thing to do is flash Eugene's Froyo that does not brick. That will get rid of EVERYTHING. From there flash JFD. That will give you the clean start you want.
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If you want to wipe the best thing to do is flash Eugene's Froyo that does not brick. That will get rid of EVERYTHING. From there flash JFD. That will give you the clean start you want.
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Yeah, that is the problem. I already did that, and the stuff is still there. I did it 3 times. I flashed it with the 512 pit, did a re-partition and the JFD. Then went back and even updated it to the JI6 firmware, and loaded it with the stock kernel.
I'll help you out before you needlessly flash roms over and over and over.
Before you say, "WTF!!!! That doesn't answer my question" please read to the end.
1. As I understand your problem, you want to wide everything from your INTERNAL SD Card.
2. as such, The steps are as follows:
3. Go to settings.
4. Go to "SD Card and phone storage"
5. "Unmount phone storage"
6. "Format phone storage"
This is assuming that you are ALREADY on stock Rom.
If not, flash the stock first, then wipe your internal SD.
Remove your External SD and SIM card. *(Not required), but i'm paranoid, and this always helps me feel better on the off chance that something does happen while i'm wiping the internal SD.
GL
That was first thing I tried to do, sorry I didnt post that in OP. I tried to unmount and format using the in phone software. I have tried a hard reset using the button combinations on the phone. I have also done a factory format using the service code. All to no avail.
Thanks for the input.. believe me, if I could have avoided the time and hassle of reading about odin I would have. Odin was a last resort.
I dont know if this is helpful or not but after I format the internal sd.
Total Space: 13.18 GB
Free Space 12.31 GB
I am really beginning to think that the internal SD is broken/corrupted or something. As I said in the OP when I boot into recovery, it says it cannot find sdcard/update.zip. Furthermore, if I mount the usb as mass storage, and go into the folders and delete pictures/whatnot. Even if I unplug the phone from the computer, its as if I never did anything. The pictures will all still be there as if nothing happened. If I go in and manage apps, and remove them all one by one, then reboot the phone all the apps are there. These are all reasons why I think the internal storage is messed up.
I was/am quite confused. This is why I requested ideas from people smarter than me.. i.e you guys . Thanks for all the input this far, my OP was a little lacking I suppose.
Did you ever get problem resolved?
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@jorsh :
I had the same problem with u. Can't delete few old files that stored in the internal SD. Also, I can't use update.zip in the recovery mode. It says "cannot find sdcard/update.zip.
My phone also can't play MP3 file or 3GP file that transfered from other phone / PC.
Anyone can help us ?
How are you deleting the files?
What are you running?
the update.zip, are you guys talking about rooting, or clockwork recovery?
Sorry, thanksgiving was preventing me from following the thread. The problem is still unresolved. I was trying the update.zip in recovery mode, as far as I know there is no clockwork on the phone. I thought the update.zip was just a recovery image that the phone used as a basis for restoring the phone.
s15274n said:
How are you deleting the files?
What are you running?
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I have tried deleting files a few different ways.
Odin, directly via pc with usb mount, and using the software on the phone itself, and tried using factory formats/resets hard and soft.
What do you mean by what am I running?
i just buy a used vibrant. There are some photos & files in the internal memory. I can erase it with file manager, but when I restart the phone, those photos & files appear again.
Same thing with with the gmail account. This gmail account is sign up by previous user. I can't remove this account.
I already try using "factory reset", but it's useless. Those photos & gmail account still in my phone.
I'm running in 2.1 T959UVJI2
about the update.zip, I'm using for rooting. I can't root the phone too. I'm using the file "SGH-959 Root Update.zip" then rename it to "update.zip"
I put this update.zip that the root folder of my internal SD. Bad thing is, this file is gone when I restart my phone (turn off then turn on). So, when I goes to recovery mode, it always said : cannot find sd card/update.zip
anybody can help me ? pleaseeee. So frustated >.<
Yeah that sounds pretty much exactly like my problems.
Perhaps people are having a hard time helping because we cant determine what you are trying to do....
first, yes, there is a clockwork recovery... download rom manager from the market.
there are going to be folders on the internal memory you can not remove because the OS puts them there.
could you please say exactly what you want to do???
I am just trying to delete everything and basically restore the phone back to factory. But it seems like the normal ways of doing that are not working.
Use ODIN to go to stock ji6 or jk2. I have a guide in my signature
Once you reboot mount the internal memory and format it. Settings > sd card and phone storage
s15274n said:
Use ODIN to go to stock ji6 or jk2. I have a guide in my signature
Once you reboot mount the internal memory and format it. Settings > sd card and phone storage
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ok ok.... I'll try at weekend. I'm out of town in few days. Thx for the info.
please report back, want to make sure all is well
Hi everyone,
My first post so please be gentle!
I'm running rooted stock JI6 with RyanZa OCLF.
Everything has been running fine (for many months!), then yesterday I noticed a red triangle in the notification area of my phone and when I opened the tray it said something like "internal SD card corrupted". I thought it was a bit odd but just power cycled the phone thinking it would clear it. No such luck! I would get past the T-Mobile Vibrant logo screen, then see the flashing 'S' screen for a while, then black screen. Left for 20+mins and nothing changed. If you touch any of the touch keys, the back light comes on (and locally disappears when you touch each button) but that's it!
I rebooted into recovery and tried clearing cache data and rebooting, no luck. I also installed the Android SDK and using ADB from the terminal while at recovery console. The only command that returns anything is "adb devices" and I get
List of devices attached
T95900****** recovery
(not sure if the number masked by *s is individual )
I've tried "adb -d shell", "adb -d shell ls", "adb -d mount /sd-card" nothing... many other adb commands, nothing.
My next steps to recover the phone are to:
1 - clear user data and reboot... and if that doesn't work
2 - use ODIN to reflash stock JI6 and re-synch apps / data from Google (then probably venture into 3rd party ROMs using clockwork / ODIN)
The BIG problem I have though and where I could really use some help, is to find a way to pull my pics / vids off the phone *before* I reflash. Does anybody know if there's a way this can be done? Is there a way to reflash part of the image and keep my pics / vids intact then back them up before a full reflash?
Oh one thing I forgot to mention - during my uneducated 'debug' I tried to boot using a micro-SD card from another phone, and my phone corrupted that SD card too!
Any ideas??
Thanks in advance for any help!
Im not sure abt anyone else but even if I ODIN back to stock (pics & videos are still there) reflash any new rom (pics & videos are still there)
I ve never had anything wiped unless I go in thru my pc and delete items from the phone
jmcghee1973 said:
Im not sure abt anyone else but even if I ODIN back to stock (pics & videos are still there) reflash any new rom (pics & videos are still there)
I ve never had anything wiped unless I go in thru my pc and delete items from the phone
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+1 on this or you could try android commander.
Thanks a lot guys! Do you know if "clear user data" from recovery console will delete pics / vids? If not, I might try this first.
wont affect it...
OK i tried flashing via ODIN back to JI6 (without repartition). Same thing... then tried flashing back to STOCK via ODIN with repartition and when it comes back up there's some error about failure to wipe data (in red). Downloading Eugene's T-Mo 2.2 now to give that a try... at least ADB is working at recovery console now, but the phone just sits and resets over and over when i reboot normally. Any ideas?
Go to settings sd card & phone storage and un mount the memory you want to wipe and format.
Sd card is the external card & phone storage is the internal card. That will wipe everything.
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Am I missing something? I can't get the phone to boot. Settings where?
for the JFD.tar your using the 512.pit file with it right? Now for some reason if I ODIN with the JI6.tar I have to do it with just it..no .pit file, no re-partition. It gives me an error in (2e)recovery if I use a .pit file with it.
Yeah i tried reflashing 'original.tar' (JFD) using ODIN with the 512.pit file and 're-partition' selected. I also tried reflashing JI6 using ODIN with the 512.pit file and 're-partition' unselected. Neither work.
UPDATE - I tried flashing Eugene's unofficial T-Mo 2.2 image using ODIN (with / without re-partition). When recover console comes back up there are a few errors related to memory access issues but when I clear user and cache data and reboot, the phone comes all the way up. On the surface all looks OK but then I notice (via settings / file explorer program etc) that the phone has no internal storage capacity or external SD card capacity! I'm beginning to suspect (one of) the Hummingbird's eMMC/NAND flash controllers. The only puzzling thing is that access to some onboard eMMC/NAND flash is clearly working otherwise it would be impossible to flash / boot into the OS at all. Any ideas? Does Vibrant have a separate on-board eMMC for the OS and then an additional on-board eMMC for 'internal storage' (I don't think so!) Is there some kind of configuration / mounting problem at startup?
Just tried reflashing just the JI6 tar file (in PDA) without the PIT file and it does the same thing. No errors in recovery console but same old black screen as when I started.
One other quick question - where can I find Eugene's Froyo that doesn't brick the phone image? I keep following threads to find it but they all seem to lead nowhere...
http://eb-productions.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=samsungsgs&action=display&thread=8
If all else fails and you end up flashing anyways, you can always try using Recuva after mounting the sd card to your computer and getting deleted files back.
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@joe98200: Yeah I did that last night. Not much on the ext SD card TBH (apart from Avatar), my files were all on the internal flash and there's not much I can do about that if the phone doesn't see it.
@jmcghee1973: Thanks! I'll give this a try and if this fails too, it's going back to the shop! http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=8698655&postcount=150
Here's my sad story. New to Android. I have a US YP-G1, which had been rooted using SuperOneClick. I installed Steve's Kernel (US version) to get the Voodoo sound. I used Odin3 v1.85. That worked fine. I installed Voodoo control, rebooted; everything still works, sounds great.
Then I decide to explore Clockworkmod recovery. I booted into recovery, ran the the CWM backup option (which I guess is Nandroid backup). It backs up boot/cache/data/datadata/system to what I think is /sdcard. I then reboot out of CWM.
That's it. I'm stuck in a infinite boot loop where I see the swirling pattern and the glowing Samsung logo for a few seconds before it reboots and repeats it again.
I tried CWM USB "mount USB storage". PC can see the sdcard. But the only thing there is the CWM backup directory with all the backup contents and two other folders: .android_secure and external_sd, both of which are empty. That seems kind of unexpected since I thought I should see the internal SD card contents and expected more directories when mounted to PC. Also expected external_sd directory to show the contents of my 32GB SD card, but nothing shows when mounted like that. PC showed about 5.5GB free on the mount.
I also tried CWM recovery restore from the backup I made. This seemingly restored all files from the backup, but after reboot I'm still in the boot loop.
After searching on the web and finding some guides, I've also tried cleaning out the Dalvik cache, and the "wipe data/factory reset" CWM options. Still have the boot loop.
Does anyone have another suggestion for how to get out of the boot loop?
TIA.
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Here's my sad story. New to Android. I have a US YP-G1, which had been rooted using SuperOneClick. I installed Steve's Kernel (US version) to get the Voodoo sound. I used Odin3 v1.85. That worked fine. I installed Voodoo control, rebooted; everything still works, sounds great.
Then I decide to explore Clockworkmod recovery. I booted into recovery, ran the the CWM backup option (which I guess is Nandroid backup). It backs up boot/cache/data/datadata/system to what I think is /sdcard. I then reboot out of CWM.
That's it. I'm stuck in a infinite boot loop where I see the swirling pattern and the glowing Samsung logo for a few seconds before it reboots and repeats it again.
I tried CWM USB "mount USB storage". PC can see the sdcard. But the only thing there is the CWM backup directory with all the backup contents and two other folders: .android_secure and external_sd, both of which are empty. That seems kind of unexpected since I thought I should see the internal SD card contents and expected more directories when mounted to PC. Also expected external_sd directory to show the contents of my 32GB SD card, but nothing shows when mounted like that. PC showed about 5.5GB free on the mount.
I also tried CWM recovery restore from the backup I made. This seemingly restored all files from the backup, but after reboot I'm still in the boot loop.
After searching on the web and finding some guides, I've also tried cleaning out the Dalvik cache, and the "wipe data/factory reset" CWM options. Still have the boot loop.
Does anyone have another suggestion for how to get out of the boot loop?
TIA.
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I had a similar problem of getting stuck in a boot loop, but I thought it was because I had cleared the dalvik cache. Nandroid backups work flawlessly for me, btw. Anyway, I got my device fixed by reflashing with this stock ROM with ODIN: http://www.filefactory.com/file/c0dd...s2.3.5.tar.md5
After you flash it, it will still be boot loop so go into stock recovery (with 3 button combo) and choose "wipe data/factory reset" and then "wipe cache". Then I rebooted, and I was no longer in boot loop!
You can reflash SteveS kernel after if you want.
Hope this works for you!
Hi Klin,
Thanks for the help. I'm having trouble D/L the ROM from the link you provided. FileFactory says its a bad requst. Can you check that please?
I also tried the sequence you suggested but using the ROM I found from another thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1412875
I also did the steps you provided using the standard recovery and this got me out of the boot loop. Thanks a bunch for your help!!!
I'll now load SteveS kernel again and see if the backup I made is of any use. If not, then at least I know how to get back to a complete factory reset as you've shown.
logo20heli said:
Hi Klin,
Thanks for the help. I'm having trouble D/L the ROM from the link you provided. FileFactory says its a bad requst. Can you check that please?
I also tried the sequence you suggested but using the ROM I found from another thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1412875
I also did the steps you provided using the standard recovery and this got me out of the boot loop. Thanks a bunch for your help!!!
I'll now load SteveS kernel again and see if the backup I made is of any use. If not, then at least I know how to get back to a complete factory reset as you've shown.
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No problem. Glad you got it working again.
And of course, no need to click the thanks button, I really don't care much about my thanks meter...
Thanks button clicked!
I tried restoring from the CWM Nandroid restore. After restore, it booted fine, but my apps are missing, including Google Market. Actually, the icons are there, but clicking on them tells me that the "application is not installed on the system". Also, other settings are missing as well like my email accounts and wifi connections/passwords. But app icon layout is correct, and clearly it remembered some of my settings. I got the impression this was supposed to do a "full restore".
I tried "reset permissions", but this didn't fix it. Any clues?
logo20heli said:
Thanks button clicked!
I tried restoring from the CWM Nandroid restore. After restore, it booted fine, but my apps are missing, including Google Market. Actually, the icons are there, but clicking on them tells me that the "application is not installed on the system". Also, other settings are missing as well like my email accounts and wifi connections/passwords. But app icon layout is correct, and clearly it remembered some of my settings. I got the impression this was supposed to do a "full restore".
I tried "reset permissions", but this didn't fix it. Any clues?
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Maybe your nandroid backup wasn't created correctly? Because for me my nandroid backup restored all my settings and apps. Did you have any apps installed on the SD card instead of device? Maybe that might be the problem, but I'm not sure.
I've had exactly the same experience, but with UK version. I had Steves rom and kernel flashed, all looking nice so did a nandroid backup with cwm. No bootloops but everything was gone. Icons were on screen but applications not installed. In the end I did factory reset and reflashed Steves rom. All good but am avoiding cwm!
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Thanks button clicked!
I tried restoring from the CWM Nandroid restore. After restore, it booted fine, but my apps are missing, including Google Market. Actually, the icons are there, but clicking on them tells me that the "application is not installed on the system". Also, other settings are missing as well like my email accounts and wifi connections/passwords. But app icon layout is correct, and clearly it remembered some of my settings. I got the impression this was supposed to do a "full restore".
I tried "reset permissions", but this didn't fix it. Any clues?
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My guess: Steve's CWM implementation is broken and is not backing up/restoring /dbdata (Looking at his recovery.fstab, this SHOULD be working, but maybe his fstab is broken.)
I've seen the same sort of behavior when trying to get CWM working on the 5.0 - I fixed it on mine by fixing /dbdata backup/restore (which is treated as /datadata by CWM)
Can you post a list of files in your backup including sizes?
Hi Entropy,
Thanks for your help. Here is the list of files from my backup:
Code:
01/12/2012 12:00 AM 48,375,360 .android_secure.img
01/11/2012 11:57 PM 7,864,320 boot.img
01/12/2012 12:00 AM 6,633,792 cache.img
01/11/2012 11:59 PM 2,112 data.img
01/11/2012 11:59 PM 13,742,784 datadata.img
01/12/2012 12:00 AM 222 nandroid.md5
01/11/2012 11:59 PM 294,997,824 system.img
Perhaps dbdata is missing as you suspect. But there is a datadata.
CWM treats dbdata as datadata (just a different naming convention) - so it is getting backed up.
Maybe it didn't get restored properly? dunno...
Wait... data.img is only 2112 bytes? Something is WRONG there... That should be the largest image after /system
I just checked my nandroid backup files and data.img was 386.80MB...
Try making another backup and see if it has the same problem...maybe it didn't create correctly.
I've just got done restoring the stock kernel and ROM and loading up all my apps manually again. It took a while to do this. So at the moment I don't have SteveS kernel loaded and hence no CWM recovery. I think I'll wait a while to see how things go before trying the kernel again, at least for the CWM recovery part of it. And I also loaded Titanium backup to help me restore from this kind of problem in the future.
Since keithabi also reported something similar, I guess this isn't an isolated issue. It sounded like he too just made a backup and ran into problems; in other words he wasn't trying to restore from a backup, just create the backup. Creating a backup shouldn't kill your machine.
To confirm, yes I just made a backup and everything was gone....
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To confirm, yes I just made a backup and everything was gone....
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That is WEIRD. Just making a backup shouldn't do something like that...
I agree. I've done loads of backups with SGS II and HTC Desire, never seen anything like that happen before. I'm sure it'll get sorted. Other than that I'm finding Steves rom great with voodoo. Many thanks.....
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sooo...... please help me out here. i have the same problem as OP. except i have stressed my device trying to find a stock rom for galaxy player 4.0 us version so much, that is has now fully bricked. it wont power on. i am not an entire noob to flashing custom roms. however i dont understand alot of it either. some one who is kind please point me in the right direction at least.