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Hi Guys, hope someone can help. Ive been trawling the forums for days with no luck. I have a UK GT-I9300 on 4.1.2 rooted and with custom recovery. I installed cyanagen 10.1 but failed to wipe data / cache afterwards and now get stuck at galaxy flash screen everytime it boots. I can get to custom recovery and download screens, ive tried re-partitoning with pit file but the rom always get stuck at nand write stage. it appears that the phone is now "read only". this is really doing my head in so if any one can help i'd be really grateful.
cant mount /cache/recovery/command
cant mount /cache/recovery/log
cant open /cache/recovery/log
cant mount /cache/recovery/last_log
cant open /cache/recovery/last_log
not sure if this has anything to do with it.
Pit repartition Read \Only stuck at Nand al reads as a buggered nand and needs replacement motherboard .
jje
JJEgan said:
Pit repartition Read \Only stuck at Nand al reads as a buggered nand and needs replacement motherboard .
jje
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feared as much, thanks for the quick response, of the service centre I go! Any idea how much this is gonna cost me?
Hi, I'm new to these forums and need some help!
I just rooted my Samsung Galaxy S3 i9300 yesterday using the Odin ver 1.85 tool and it was working perfectly all day. I was doing a little research as to how you can use custom ROMs and so I decided to give it a try.
I downloaded the ROM Manager application and flashed the ClockworkMod Recovery that comes with it before attempting to flash a ROM. I then proceeded to download the CyogenMod ver. 9.1.0 that comes with ROM Manager as well. I made sure to make a backup of my current ROM on both my internal and external SD cards and then went ahead and flashed the Cyogen ROM using the application. I also chose to wipe the data/factory reset before confirming.
After the process was done, the phone rebooted with the Cyogen logo and it was all working fine for the first 2 minutes. Then all of a sudden while going through the new ROM's screens, my phone rebooted showing the "Samsung GALAXY S III GT-I9300" message and with a little red "!" mark on the top left. It stays like that all the time. I tried turning the power off and taking out the battery but it always goes back to that screen immediately after.
I'm able to go into the ClockworkMod recovery by holding the volume up+power+home buttons but I see the following lines below:
ClockworkMod Recovery v6.0.3.2
E: Can't mount /cache/recovery/command
E: Can't mount /cache/recovery/log
E: Can't open /cache/recovery/log
E: Can't mount /cache/recovery/last_log
E: Can't open /cache/recovery/last_log
I've tried wiping the cache, wipe data/factory reset, and wiping the dalvik cache options but it doesn't seem to work. I also tried flashing the ROM again from the SD card, but when I try to do it, it says "E: Can't mount /sdcard/". Same thing with my external SD card.
When I plug the phone to my computer, it doesn't seem to detect my device either. Is my phone bricked and will I have to get a new one if this is the case?
I tried to do some searching and this thread seems to be similar to what I'm facing but not quite as the methods suggested by the users are unknown to me: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1500947
I appreciate any help I can get!
Zernell said:
Hi, I'm new to these forums and need some help!
I just rooted my Samsung Galaxy S3 i9300 yesterday using the Odin ver 1.85 tool and it was working perfectly all day. I was doing a little research as to how you can use custom ROMs and so I decided to give it a try.
I downloaded the ROM Manager application and flashed the ClockworkMod Recovery that comes with it before attempting to flash a ROM. I then proceeded to download the CyogenMod ver. 9.1.0 that comes with ROM Manager as well. I made sure to make a backup of my current ROM on both my internal and external SD cards and then went ahead and flashed the Cyogen ROM using the application. I also chose to wipe the data/factory reset before confirming.
After the process was done, the phone rebooted with the Cyogen logo and it was all working fine for the first 2 minutes. Then all of a sudden while going through the new ROM's screens, my phone rebooted showing the "Samsung GALAXY S III GT-I9300" message and with a little red "!" mark on the top left. It stays like that all the time. I tried turning the power off and taking out the battery but it always goes back to that screen immediately after.
I'm able to go into the ClockworkMod recovery by holding the volume up+power+home buttons but I see the following lines below:
ClockworkMod Recovery v6.0.3.2
E: Can't mount /cache/recovery/command
E: Can't mount /cache/recovery/log
E: Can't open /cache/recovery/log
E: Can't mount /cache/recovery/last_log
E: Can't open /cache/recovery/last_log
I've tried wiping the cache, wipe data/factory reset, and wiping the dalvik cache options but it doesn't seem to work. I also tried flashing the ROM again from the SD card, but when I try to do it, it says "E: Can't mount /sdcard/". Same thing with my external SD card.
When I plug the phone to my computer, it doesn't seem to detect my device either. Is my phone bricked and will I have to get a new one if this is the case?
I tried to do some searching and this thread seems to be similar to what I'm facing but not quite as the methods suggested by the users are unknown to me: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1500947
I appreciate any help I can get!
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put your phone to download mode and flash rom with odin.
That should fix it.
austibor said:
put your phone to download mode and flash rom with odin.
That should fix it.
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How can he do that?
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rootSU said:
How can he do that?
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power off the phone than hold power + menu + down key till you get to download mode.
than connect USB to pc run odin and flash a rom of your choice.
austibor said:
power off the phone than hold power + menu + down key till you get to download mode.
than connect USB to pc run odin and flash a rom of your choice.
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Thanks this post should be a sticky .
jje
Thanks for the responses!
I tried to flash the i9300 firmware using Odin as suggested but it failed during the process (attached screen shot). I tried doing this 2 or 3 times but I always got the FAIL message. Is there anything else I can try doing before giving up on my phone? Maybe I flashed the wrong file?
Zernell said:
Thanks for the responses!
I tried to flash the i9300 firmware using Odin as suggested but it failed during the process (attached screen shot). I tried doing this 2 or 3 times but I always got the FAIL message. Is there anything else I can try doing before giving up on my phone? Maybe I flashed the wrong file?
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Hmm not an expert here but can you try to check the "Re-Partition" checkbox
take your sdcard out, it should not matter but just in case
austibor said:
Hmm not an expert here but can you try to check the "Re-Partition" checkbox
take your sdcard out, it should not matter but just in case
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If you're not an expert, please don't make suggestions.
Re-partition bricks the s3. I understand its semi bricked now but there is no return from re-partition.
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Zernell said:
Thanks for the responses!
I tried to flash the i9300 firmware using Odin as suggested but it failed during the process (attached screen shot). I tried doing this 2 or 3 times but I always got the FAIL message. Is there anything else I can try doing before giving up on my phone? Maybe I flashed the wrong file?
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You're system partition looks broken. What info does it say on the screen in download mode
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rootSU said:
You're system partition looks broken. What info does it say on the screen in download mode
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When I enter download mode on the top left it says:
Odin Mode
Product Name: GT-I9300
Custom Binary Download: Yes (1 counts)
Current Binary: Custom
System Status: Custom
austibor said:
Hmm not an expert here but can you try to check the "Re-Partition" checkbox
take your sdcard out, it should not matter but just in case
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Expert sir you are a positive danger .
jje
Zernell said:
When I enter download mode on the top left it says:
Odin Mode
Product Name: GT-I9300
Custom Binary Download: Yes (1 counts)
Current Binary: Custom
System Status: Custom
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OK we can rule out SDS at least....
The firmware you have tried to flash is the leak. Try the official firmware from http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1646610
It might help, not sure
mikep99 said:
The firmware you have tried to flash is the leak. Try the official firmware from http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1646610
It might help, not sure
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Sorry if this is a dumb question, but how do I know which firmware out of the ones from the list on that thread should I use? Does it matter?
Zernell said:
Sorry if this is a dumb question, but how do I know which firmware out of the ones from the list on that thread should I use? Does it matter?
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Doesnt matter - try EME2 that's in the first post.
You will probably end up with an ODIN fail again but its worth trying...
mikep99 said:
The firmware you have tried to flash is the leak. Try the official firmware from http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1646610
It might help, not sure
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As expected, it failed even after using the suggested firmware. Does this mean the phone is completely bricked now and nothing can be done?
Did you fix your phone?
Maybe you should consider this?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1840030
austibor said:
Did you fix your phone?
Maybe you should consider this?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1840030
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Great advice only trouble its a totally different phone you are linking to .
jje
JJEgan said:
Great advice only trouble its a totally different phone you are linking to .
jje
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Yeap you are right, I should have stated that!
The article states that you should user root66 and Linked boot chains for your device.
This sounds like it might help with OP problem.
He for sure has wrong kernel ... that is similar enough to work but screw is mounting point. Try change kernel with odin ... then flash with odin twrp or philz recovery and flash a proper rom
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I have the same problem and still searching the forums for an answer.
does your problem solved? does this flashing and kerneling and odining worked? because I think the internal memory in baked!!
I have a couple more questions.
1.) I have the brick bug, right?
2.) Flashing a safe kernel and then restoring the backup won't help either I presume?
3.) Would flashing the PIT file from this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=26428986&postcount=1 solve my problem?
thx in advance
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Hi everyone
first of all, this is my first post so if i posted in the wrong section i am sorry
now here's my problem:
i have a Galaxy S2 (GT-I9100) with rooted stock ICS 4.0.4. I wanted to restore a backup which I created using the Nandroid Backup app on the same day. So i went into recovery mode, flashed a temporary CWM (from this thread http://http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2327472) then restored the backup from my SD card. if i remember correctly, if the restoration of the backup was succesful the phone should stay in CWM. In my case the screen went black for a few seconds then it looked like it would boot. However it just got stuck showing the Samsung logo with model number, so Samsung Galaxy S II GT-I9100.
I can still enter recovery and download mode. I did a factory reset, wiped cache partition and even re-flashed the stock ROM using odin but to no avail. After flashing the ROM, it didn't work so i did a factory reset again. It still got stuck on the logo so i went into recovery again. In recovery mode it says "E: failed to mount /sytsem (invalid arguement)". i could solve that problem by reflashing the ROM though.
does anybody know what caused this and even more imortantly, how to solve my issue?
On a side note, could be relevant, my phone just froze all of a sudden some times in the past months. i had to reboot my phone everytime it froze
Thx in advance
EDIT: ok, i've re-flashed the ROM again with odin. at first there is the green droid and the blue loading bar right below, but after a few seconds the screen goes black again and it tries to boot and gets stuck. I pulled battery, reinserted it and went into recovery, wiped cache. when i select "reboot" from the menu it says "E: failed to mount /sytsem (invalid arguement)"
Edit2: after flashing the ROM i get this "E: failed to mount /data (invalid arguement)" when rebooting over recovery. I've found a thread where it says i need to flash the dbdata.rfs.tar using odin. i will try that now
Edit3: when i try to flash the file i get a "NAND write start" "fail" error. I've been to a store that will take care of my problem.
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-shadow.walker- said:
Hi everyone
first of all, this is my first post so if i posted in the wrong section i am sorry
now here's my problem:
i have a Galaxy S2 (GT-I9100) with rooted stock ICS 4.0.4. I wanted to restore a backup which I created using the Nandroid Backup app on the same day. So i went into recovery mode, flashed a temporary CWM (from this thread http://http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2327472) then restored the backup from my SD card. if i remember correctly, if the restoration of the backup was succesful the phone should stay in CWM. In my case the screen went black for a few seconds then it looked like it would boot. However it just got stuck showing the Samsung logo with model number, so Samsung Galaxy S II GT-I9100.
I can still enter recovery and download mode. I did a factory reset, wiped cache partition and even re-flashed the stock ROM using odin but to no avail. After flashing the ROM, it didn't work so i did a factory reset again. It still got stuck on the logo so i went into recovery again. In recovery mode it says "E: failed to mount /sytsem (invalid arguement)". i could solve that problem by reflashing the ROM though.
does anybody know what caused this and even more imortantly, how to solve my issue?
On a side note, could be relevant, my phone just froze all of a sudden some times in the past months. i had to reboot my phone everytime it froze
Thx in advance
EDIT: ok, i've re-flashed the ROM again with odin. at first there is the green droid and the blue loading bar right below, but after a few seconds the screen goes black again and it tries to boot and gets stuck. I pulled battery, reinserted it and went into recovery, wiped cache. when i select "reboot" from the menu it says "E: failed to mount /sytsem (invalid arguement)"
Edit2: after flashing the ROM i get this "E: failed to mount /data (invalid arguement)" when rebooting over recovery. I've found a thread where it says i need to flash the dbdata.rfs.tar using odin. i will try that now
Edit3: when i try to flash the file i get a "NAND write start" "fail" error. I've been to a store that will take care of my problem.
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hey buddy .. just wana know .. all u have done .. I mean to flash CWM ,, backup ,, restore and any stuff ... u performed all of these things using stock kernel .. ???
c0olmad said:
hey buddy .. just wana know .. all u have done .. I mean to flash CWM ,, backup ,, restore and any stuff ... u performed all of these things using stock kernel .. ???
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yeah, stock ICS kernel and ROM
-shadow.walker- said:
yeah, stock ICS kernel and ROM
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buddy it is advised to not to perform any thing like .. restore .. flashing etc etc .. as stock kernel is not safe to perform these operations .. whats the progress of ur fone now .. ???
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yeah, stock ICS kernel and ROM
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Like c0olmad said, there is a brick bug in ICS. It would be alot better and safer to flash stock jellybean 4.1.2 link below.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1544487
Unsure of why your still on ics but below is a link to get a safe kernal where brick bug has been fixed. Make sure you get the kernal for your build.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1877270
c0olmad said:
buddy it is advised to not to perform any thing like .. restore .. flashing etc etc .. as stock kernel is not safe to perform these operations .. whats the progress of ur fone now .. ???
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I've been to the store today. He said my case is a bit complicated and he will call me when it' finished.
stonedpsycho said:
Like c0olmad said, there is a brick bug in ICS. It would be alot better and safer to flash stock jellybean 4.1.2 link below.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1544487
Unsure of why your still on ics but below is a link to get a safe kernal where brick bug has been fixed. Make sure you get the kernal for your build.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1877270
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TBH, I was aware that there was a brick bug but I thought i wouldn't be affected :silly:
And I was happy with ICS so I didn't upgrade. Also there is an app that currently only works on 4.0 or lower, so I didn't bother with upgrading.
the technicians of the store weren't able to repair it. i guess i have the brickbug :crying:
Hello everyone, i am facing a great wall of desperation, i woke up today to find my mobile stuck on samsung logo, and i noticed it's not responding, i booted to my CWM recovery and it kept generating these errors :
E:can't mount /cache/recovery/command
E: can't mount /cache/recovery/log
E: open /cache/recovery/log
E:can't mount /cache/recovery/last_log
E: can't open /cache/recovery/last_install
E: can't mount /cache/recovery/last_install
i tried wiping data but keeps generating same errors to the internal SD card with a unique error : E:format_volume: make_extf4fs failed on /dev/block/mmcblk0p8 .
i looked for a custom recovery file that i can install using ODIN but they're all in .img form not .tar.md5 so i didn't know what to do with them, phone doesn't recognize .img to install directly from sd card.:crying:
i tried using odin to install custom recovery tar.md5 file but didn't fix anything,
i tried installing this rom ( http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s3/development/rom-archidroid-v2-4-6-power-hands-t2354859 ) using the ( mount external sd card ) and transfering rom zip file and installing it via CWM recovery interface, the installation was succesful but still can't boot due to the mentioned errors .
i tried using ABD thingie but for somereason it just won't recognize my phone, while odin does, i tried installing and reinstalling samsung usb driver and ABD drivers but still didn't help,
my original ROM was CM 11.2 nightly.
please help i am desperate, i searched everywhere but there's always something that falls between my steps .
i am more than happy to get assistance via skype etc.
i managed to download and flash my phone with stock 4.3, but i am still facing same problem, stuck at samsung logo and same errors in CWM recovery .
Same problem
i think we might have the same problem.
samdroid posted a possible solution in my thread maybe try that?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s3/help/samsung-i9300-wont-pass-boot-t2809239
Sporedd66 said:
i think we might have the same problem.
samdroid posted a possible solution in my thread maybe try that?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s3/help/samsung-i9300-wont-pass-boot-t2809239
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but i can't find a thread or forum section dedicated to cm 11 !
update: i was able to access ABD command line, i tested 3 CWM recovery .img files and all 3 of them reported as (bad) by my phone .
Could be bad eMMC. If you want to be sure try flash the rescue firmware from this thread (with pit) http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=30087735&postcount=6
If it's still not working it's a hardware fault.
DrFredPhD said:
Could be bad eMMC. If you want to be sure try flash the rescue firmware from this thread (with pit) http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=30087735&postcount=6
If it's still not working it's a hardware fault.
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thank you for the suggestion, i am downloading it as we speak, i sure hope it's not physical brick, i really can't afford buying new phone atm....
DrFredPhD said:
Could be bad eMMC. If you want to be sure try flash the rescue firmware from this thread (with pit) http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=30087735&postcount=6
If it's still not working it's a hardware fault.
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after multiple tries, it didn't work, the installation won't even initialize, it keeps saying FAIL
please anyone...help !!!!
If you're still in warranty send it in for repair. Sometimes eMMC will fail and download mode will say custom even if phone has never been flashed so they might repair it for you.
DrFredPhD said:
If you're still in warranty send it in for repair. Sometimes eMMC will fail and download mode will say custom even if phone has never been flashed so they might repair it for you.
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it's been long since off warranty, if there's a fix it has to be something i can do myself, sending it for repair is out of the question .
Rom
simlol12 said:
please anyone...help !!!!
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Meanwhile download CFAutoroot and make the recovery of stoock and see if there is recovery. After you find MK6 Factory with BL,AP,CSC,Modem, separated and with odin 3.9 to install and i hope that you have data backup because this eliminates everything. If this succeeds you should do restore the folders EFS. I hope that you can help if you have any problems finding the material send me a private message that I see if I can upload them to mega .
Hey guys, I got a Galaxy Ace from my friend (he got a new phone and this one wasn't working, so he gave it to me), and now I'm trying to fix it. But seems like this little guy will be hard to fix.
You turn it up, the logo screen show up and the boot animation starts. Shortly after, the animation will hang and will start over. I've tried booting it in recovery mode and wiping data/cache, but I get two messages when I reboot:
E:failed to mount /data (Invalid argument)
E:copy_log_files_to_data :: can't mount /dataRebooting
Any idea about how should I try fixing it?
Edit: recorded a small video, so you can have a general idea of it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsDRL4QkL9c
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Hey guys, I got a Galaxy Ace from my friend (he got a new phone and this one wasn't working, so he gave it to me), and now I'm trying to fix it. But seems like this little guy will be hard to fix.
You turn it up, the logo screen show up and the boot animation starts. Shortly after, the animation will hang and will start over. I've tried booting it in recovery mode and wiping data/cache, but I get two messages when I reboot:
E:failed to mount /data (Invalid argument)
E:copy_log_files_to_data :: can't mount /dataRebooting
Any idea about how should I try fixing it?
Edit: recorded a small video, so you can have a general idea of it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsDRL4QkL9c
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Flash stock via Odin.
Hitesh2626 said:
Flash stock via Odin.
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With or without a .pit file?
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With or without a .pit file?
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Yours choice
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Yours choice
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Ah, I hope it helps!
Will try it later!
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Downloaded the ROM from SamMobile and tried to flash. Odin aborts the installation few seconds after starting :s
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My sister's phone had the same problem. I had used Odin successfully for my phone before, using this guide. But the same did not work for my sister's phone.
She had never rooted her phone or tweaked it in any way but suddenly one day it started bootlooping. I tried MANY guides, wiped everything, and tried a custom ROM but /data wouldn't mount. Even Odin aborted installation. I left it as a lost cause for 2 months.
Today I completely uninstalled and reinstalled Kies, installed the USB drivers and tried this guide, and used "Open Austrailia". I used Odin with pit. Somehow it worked!
Re-partition was ticked and I used the bootloader as well. Just follow the video, even if it's not your country's firmware.
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My sister's phone had the same problem. I had used Odin successfully for my phone before, using this guide. But the same did not work for my sister's phone.
She had never rooted her phone or tweaked it in any way but suddenly one day it started bootlooping. I tried MANY guides, wiped everything, and tried a custom ROM but /data wouldn't mount. Even Odin aborted installation. I left it as a lost cause for 2 months.
Today I completely uninstalled and reinstalled Kies, installed the USB drivers and tried this guide, and used "Open Austrailia". I used Odin with pit. Somehow it worked!
Re-partition was ticked and I used the bootloader as well. Just follow the video, even if it's not your country's firmware.
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I've tried your suggestion, and it worked perfectly!
After flashing the Open Australia firmware, I've download the brazilian one, repacked and flashed. Now it's all back to the normal!
Thank you very much
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Boot loop
My GT-S5830i is stuck in the boot loop.
When booted into Android system recovery, it fails to wipe data/factory reset with
E:format_volume:rfs format failed on /dev/stI11
It won't boot into download mode.
Can it be fixed with an update via sdcard ?
Failing that, does anybody want it for spares !!!
5830i stuck at logo
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