Hi,
I have some problems with my i9300 running newest nightly of CM11.
A few days ago my phone started to reboot without any reason. This kept on going 15-20 times. It had me insert my PIN, then during start-up the phone just rebooted.
After rebooting 15-20 times, it now runs for some hours when I only do standby and phoning.
I thought, maybe it's a problem with the Rom and I should just do a clean install. I have used the CM updater for quite a while updating the nightlies, so maybe it's not the worst idea installing a CM11 on a "fresh" system.
Okay, I fired up Titanium backup to backup my apps.. but Titanium could not find my license. Okay, I thought maybe it was a problem with Titanium, so I tried Helium. Helium also didn't find my license key. So, I think there is something wrong with the license handling. Nevertheless, I backuped up all my apps except two apps. Whenever Helium tried to back them up, the phone rebooted.
After backing up I booted into CWM recovery to do a factory reset / full wipe. But when I select factory reset, it says "Formatting /DATA", stays for 1-2 seconds and then the phone reboots. Have tried it some times, but nothing helps. I can't do a factory reset.
I used eMMC brickbug check, this went fine and reported no errors.
When I go to Settings/Storage, the phone reboots. When I go to Settings/Apps, the phone reboots. When I try to uninstall one of the two faulty apps (I think there is some more going wrong than just these two apps) using another uninstaller, the phone reboots.
I don't know what else I can do or where the error is. Any help would be greatly appreciated. tia!
Bjoern
Unplanned shut down (instant reboot) can corrupt partitions. This can also be a symptom of nand damage.
Try flashing a full stock firmware with Odin, if that fails then use the rescue firmware and pit -search in general forum.
Factory reset after flash and before first boot.
Yeah, it worked. Thanks a lot.
Flashed stock rom with Odin, then it was possible to do a factory reset. Afterwards just flashed CWM recover and CM11 and restored my backup..
Have lost some data because not all apps could be backed up, but nevertheless, it seems to work like out of the box
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So here is my issue, I have recieved my repair vibrant back from samsung, due to bricking the phone, they replaced the motherboard, sent it back with 2.2 on it.
I have downgraded, rooted , and gingerbreaded it. But here is the question now none of my old roms work at all. I consistently get all type of force close;TWlauncher has stopped, LogsProvider, android.process media all says stopped unexpectedly, I have tried multiple roms still no success. Any suggestions.
Download a new rom, go into recovery, factory data reset, go to mounts and storage, wipe system, flash the new rom, reboot and don't touch your phone for fifteen minutes, reboot. Also try going into recovery, advanced, and fix permissions.
You noted "none of my old ROMs"
How about you just ODIN back to JFD, take my update.zip (B in the noob guide), and download a new ROM.
Check the MD5....
Flash, reboot, wait 10 minutes, reboot, enjoy.
You may be restoring system apps also, which would be a no-no if you are.
Hey guys,
Not exactly what to make of this which is why I'm posting. Here's the run down. Started off running Scamble_v01.3[CM6.1.3] for quite some time with everything just fine. About 2 weeks back, decided it was finally time to step it up to a Gingerbread ROM, and went with Wolfbreak's. For the first week, everything ran perfectly fine. This past week, I started to have issues with it rebooting every time I would run an app. Finally, this morning, it rebooted, and then just as it would get to the lock screen, it would say formatting SD card and then reboot. It would continue to do this repeatedly. I tried reinstalling in xRecovery (mind you I did Factory Reset (Full wipe), Wipe Cache Partition, & Wipe Dalvik Cache as well).
With high hopes, I restarted it. Unfortunately, this didn't change anything. I took my microSD card out and put Wolfbreak's updated ROM on it which just came out in hopes that maybe the file was corrupted somehow, just to find that when I tried to install it through xRecovery it, gave me an error that it couldn't because the SD card was busy. Stated in his ROM even, it says that you need to backup the ROM just for this very reason, however the only backup I had was of Scamble_v01.3[CM6.1.3] since I found it pointless to try and back up a messed up ROM.
Not knowing what else to try, and knowing that that was the last stable state my x10 was in, I restored that. Once again, it did nothing as far as the boot loop. I've gotten to the point where I have used FlashTool to flash the Generic Gingerbread ROM which just as all the others, gets to the first screen (which asks me to choose a language) and then reboots.
I'm completely stuck here and can't think of what I may be missing here. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
downwardzspiral said:
Hey guys,
Not exactly what to make of this which is why I'm posting. Here's the run down. Started off running Scamble_v01.3[CM6.1.3] for quite some time with everything just fine. About 2 weeks back, decided it was finally time to step it up to a Gingerbread ROM, and went with Wolfbreak's. For the first week, everything ran perfectly fine. This past week, I started to have issues with it rebooting every time I would run an app. Finally, this morning, it rebooted, and then just as it would get to the lock screen, it would say formatting SD card and then reboot. It would continue to do this repeatedly. I tried reinstalling in xRecovery (mind you I did Factory Reset (Full wipe), Wipe Cache Partition, & Wipe Dalvik Cache as well).
With high hopes, I restarted it. Unfortunately, this didn't change anything. I took my microSD card out and put Wolfbreak's updated ROM on it which just came out in hopes that maybe the file was corrupted somehow, just to find that when I tried to install it through xRecovery it, gave me an error that it couldn't because the SD card was busy. Stated in his ROM even, it says that you need to backup the ROM just for this very reason, however the only backup I had was of Scamble_v01.3[CM6.1.3] since I found it pointless to try and back up a messed up ROM.
Not knowing what else to try, and knowing that that was the last stable state my x10 was in, I restored that. Once again, it did nothing as far as the boot loop. I've gotten to the point where I have used FlashTool to flash the Generic Gingerbread ROM which just as all the others, gets to the first screen (which asks me to choose a language) and then reboots.
I'm completely stuck here and can't think of what I may be missing here. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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Maybe give flashtool a go, just flash one of the stock firmwares.
Already tried that. As stated before, it gets to the first screen which prompts me to chose a language, and then immediately reboots
I decided to try out one of the ICS ROMs today, so I did a nandroid to take a snapshot of my normal ROM setup. Normal procedure, right?
Cut to a few hours later when I try to restore my phone to its normal state using CWM. nandroid verifies the MD5 and successfully restores my phone to its pre-ICS state, but when I boot up, all my apps are gone. I get the grey Android package icon with "SD" superimposed on it for almost all my apps (including Market). When I try to launch one, an error pops up telling me the app is not installed. This persisted even when I wiped everything and re-restored from my backup. The strange thing is I have no removable SD card installed, so the apps couldn't have been moved as far as I know.
So, does anyone know what's going on here? Is this just a faulty backup or should I just cut my losses and start fresh?
Do a FULL WIPE. And try again. Report back
Done. I did a factory reset, wiped cache, and system. Didn't workâshould I go the Odin route next?
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Do a FULL WIPE. And try again. Report back
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Install official Samsung stock firmware then root and CWM recovery your nandroid .
jje
Try Appextractor from market. It allows you to extract apps (and more) from a nandroid backup.
Sent from my GT-I9100
Thanks for the suggestions, everybody. I managed to get things working again by Odin-ing back to stock and reflashing CWM recovery 4.0.1.4. Worked like a charm, apps included.
Hi Guys,
I think the internal memory of my wifes phone is dead. Her phone all of the sudden turned off, then it was stuck in a bootloop. I tried to play back a nandroid backup but I always got an error message that the data partition was not being wiped... I used Odin then to flash back to stock and do a repartitioning of the phone. Odin works fine, then the phone reboots trying to apply the new rom, but it stops, telling me that the data partition again could not be formatted.
Is the nand-flash broken or is there a way to make it work? I can only use the download mode now, or use the regular 2e recovery... any tips are highly appreciated.
With the influx if new inexperienced vibe users I must ask, does your device have a stock front facing camera?
Paranoid, sitting in a deep sweat...
Lol,
no it does not, it is really the Vibrant T959 not the V not anything else. I am used to flash custom roms. It happened before, even playing Nandroid backups back, most of the time I had to do it twice, since data partition could not be mounted... 2nd try always worked and that was only for this specific phone. I simply guess the flash memory is corrupt...
We've seen some of this.. what rom was she on that fc'd and what rewrite odin files are you flashing? Are you familiar with the encryption Bug?
She was using the Passion Rom, v13.1 with Touchkernel 8.2 and the data.fix.
The phone had this problem like 3 times already. It simply shuts down, when you turn it back on, bootloop. Only thing that helped was playing a nandroid backup back. When doing this, nandroid already had problems mounting the data partition, so I had to flash it twice to go through.
This time, the 3rd time, the phone told me about a failed data encryption... this time, no nandroid backup is working, due to failing data partition.
When I Odin back to Elcair, I use the PIT file that comes with the AIO Toolbox and the Elcair Rom for Odin. I set the phone into download mode, Odin gets a connection to my phone. Then i select the PIT and PDA files, enable re-partition,autoreboot and F.reset time. I flash, everything works fine, Odin is done, the phone reboots, but then I get the red error message telling me that formatting the data partition did not work.
I did read about that ICS bug and about the workaround, but this kinda only works if you still have a working phone? Or did I get something wrong?
Yep. Sounds like EU bug. You'll find lots of info on that and things to try to get around it.
I'd go to Google and type in: XDA Samsung Vibrant encryption Unsuccessful and see what it brings up.
Happy trails and good luck!
Not sure if it is EU, sounds similar. Hers the work around guide
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=24418319
Paranoid, sitting in a deep sweat...
Hey guys, last night my s3 ran out of battery while I was sleeping. I woke up to charge it and turn it on although it's just stuck on boot loop now. Any ideas? I don't really want to have to restore it through clockwork recovery if I can avoid it.. any ideas?
Running CyanogenMod 10
Recovery and wipe caches .
jje
Thanks for your reply. Wiping the cache hasn't seemed to have done anything, any more suggestions?
well, try formatting system and reflashing
Thank you, just need to re root, re flash and restore from backup now.
I'm having a similar issue. Last night my S3 ran out of battery and it went off. I tried to power it on again, and it started to show the boot logo. But it went off again because there was no battery. I changed the battery and now I have a bootloop. I made a backup, and then I started trying solutions. The only one that works is wiping data/factory reset. And then, if I restore ONLY the data partition from the backup the boot loop comes back. So whatever it is, is on the data partition. But how to diagnose it or solve it? I don't wanna lose my apps or their configuration!!
Any help??
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I'm having a similar issue. Last night my S3 ran out of battery and it went off. I tried to power it on again, and it started to show the boot logo. But it went off again because there was no battery. I changed the battery and now I have a bootloop. I made a backup, and then I started trying solutions. The only one that works is wiping data/factory reset. And then, if I restore ONLY the data partition from the backup the boot loop comes back. So whatever it is, is on the data partition. But how to diagnose it or solve it? I don't wanna lose my apps or their configuration!!
Any help??
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Well done for searching but this thread is from last year so a better option would of been to start a new one and linked to this one in your post saying what you have done.
If the phone turns off do to a empty battery there's a chance it can corrupt files. This is what this sounds like, no option to clean install.
Thanks for the info, I ended up using a backup.