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[Q] SCH-I800 Stuck at VZW logo on bootuploop

Hey all I am new to this site and hope you can help. I recently acquired a friends Tab 7.7. Its model number is SCH-1800. Curently it can hold a charge and boot into what I have learned is recovery and download mode. I am new to all this flashing stuff so sorry if I sound stupid but I will try to explain what I have done so far.
I tried doing a factory reset in recovery mode. I get an error about the cache can not be loaded.
I tried clearing the cache and tells me it can not load from memory.
I tried to flash using Heimdall. It gives me error -12, can not access the device.
It would be amazing if anyone can help me get this working. IT was working one night and then the next day it was not. TIA.

SHC-I800 is not a Tab 7.7.
It happens that you are in the right forum, the original 7" tab forum.
not to discourage you, but it sounds like the internal memory going bad (the cache cannot be formatted)
Heimdall error isn't related to that though. Make sure you stop Kies, and reinstall the heimdal/zadig driver.
If it is bad internal memory, the workaround may be to use external SD only.

priyana said:
SHC-I800 is not a Tab 7.7.
It happens that you are in the right forum, the original 7" tab forum.
not to discourage you, but it sounds like the internal memory going bad (the cache cannot be formatted)
Heimdall error isn't related to that though. Make sure you stop Kies, and reinstall the heimdal/zadig driver.
If it is bad internal memory, the workaround may be to use external SD only.
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Thank you so much for the quick reply. I managed to get hemidall to connect and flashed using some files on another forum. I got a confirmation on my PC that ithe flash was successful. However the same boot loop occurs. In Restore mode when trying to do a factory reset I get the error:
e:Can't mount /dev/block/mmcblk0p2
(No such file or directory)
E:install_application_for_customer:Can't mount DATA:

Noobstomper said:
Thank you so much for the quick reply. I managed to get hemidall to connect and flashed using some files on another forum. I got a confirmation on my PC that ithe flash was successful. However the same boot loop occurs. In Restore mode when trying to do a factory reset I get the error:
e:Can't mount /dev/block/mmcblk0p2
(No such file or directory)
E:install_application_for_customer:Can't mount DATA:
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did u ever get a solution. im having the same issue

I'm on the same boat. Can anybody generous to give some hint. How to fix this using heimdall or odin?
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Priyana, how to do the workaround using External SD, if i got bad internal memory? hope you can guide, already stuck for few days due to this bad internal memory.

There is a thread for external memory.
I am not knowledgeable enough on that. Just know that it exist.
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[Q] Data Recovery from Internal Storage.

Hello there!
Due to some unprecedented events, I lost all the data from my internal storage and am now stumped. I do not have a clue as to how to recover my lost data. All I want to recover are some photos and a few backup files that I had. Has anyone successfully recovered data from the internal storage? If so, could you please guide me?
Thank you!

There's a couple apps mentioned in this thread.... But generally recovery of deleted files doesn't seem to work out a lot of times I'm afraid.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/moto-x/moto-x-qa/pictures-deleted-reboot-t2823458

Ive had great results from this portable version of recuva, it can be ran from a usb drive. Not sure if it will detectvand scan your phone but its worth a shot.. mount it mtp and let me know please. https://www.piriform.com/recuva/features/portable-version

I had wiped the "userdata" using fastboot thinking it would only erase the app data files and not the internal memory. :/ I haven't overwritten the memory yet; looking for ways to recover. @doitinthedirt Will try that application you recommended, although I haven't had any success with the other apps I tried.
Well, it didn't detect my phone. However, it did a fine job showing me deleted files from my USB.

ron_gangte said:
I had wiped the "userdata" using fastboot thinking it would only erase the app data files and not the internal memory. :/ I haven't overwritten the memory yet; looking for ways to recover. @doitinthedirt Will try that application you recommended, although I haven't had any success with the other apps I tried.
Well, it didn't detect my phone. However, it did a fine job showing me deleted files from my USB.
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I have the same problem! I deleted a video file, and it´s so important. I´d tried some tools, but none can access to the internal memory of my Moto X... Some suggestion!!!????

Always transfer anything important to Drive, Dropbox or the pc or something regularly. Phones are not the best storage places for important things. Way to much can happen to a phone.
Just some advice. ?

KJ said:
Always transfer anything important to Drive, Dropbox or the pc or something regularly. Phones are not the best storage places for important things. Way to much can happen to a phone.
Just some advice. ?
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I do it!, Use dropbox, but this video is too big, and it hasn´t time to upload...Please help!!!

If those apps don't work, you're out of luck unfortunately.

googled moto X data recovery this popped up don't know anything about it but looks promising
http://www.card-data-recovery.com/phone/moto-x-data-recovery.html
the first one I sent you Recuva worked awesome for recovering photos from my moms RAZR M data card pulled the data card out pluged it into a USB port and it found a lot of her photos that were already deleted.. that portable version works awesome you can use it on any computer run it from a thumb drive so you're not rewriting anything on the computer and you can recover the files to the thumb drive

Apps Failing to Update Due to "Insufficient Storage Space"

Hey all,
I have a 32 gig Verizon Developer Edition Moto X with an unlocked bootloader. I am currently running the stock ROM but this issue has persisted across multiple ROMs. Dropbox and Google Translate will not update, giving a "Insufficient Storage Available" error message. I have over 3 gigs available on my internal storage and went through and un-installed a bunch of apps I don't use, to the point of uninstalling twice as many megs-worth of apps as what DB and GTrans require. What the hell could be causing this?
I tried uninstalling Dropbox to see if I could get it re-installed without issue, but now it just flat out won't install due to supposed storage space issues. Has anyone else experienced this? Googling the issue doesn't return any results, but I can't be the only person experiencing this can I?
Thanks.

I_EAT_BABIES said:
Hey all,
I have a 32 gig Verizon Developer Edition Moto X with an unlocked bootloader. I am currently running the stock ROM but this issue has persisted across multiple ROMs. Dropbox and Google Translate will not update, giving a "Insufficient Storage Available" error message. I have over 3 gigs available on my internal storage and went through and un-installed a bunch of apps I don't use, to the point of uninstalling twice as many megs-worth of apps as what DB and GTrans require. What the hell could be causing this?
I tried uninstalling Dropbox to see if I could get it re-installed without issue, but now it just flat out won't install due to supposed storage space issues. Has anyone else experienced this? Googling the issue doesn't return any results, but I can't be the only person experiencing this can I?
Thanks.
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What recovery are you using? I recomend Philz. If you find no better solution. Backup all partitions then test the restore. Just restore what you just backed up. Then wipe data & data media. Then restore again.
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aviwdoowks said:
What recovery are you using? I recomend Philz. If you find no better solution. Backup all partitions then test the restore. Just restore what you just backed up. Then wipe data & data media. Then restore again.
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Oh
You will need to save your SD contents to whatever. OTG, android file xfer, windows. Then restore that too.
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Do the SD backup first!
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With Philz you can include data/media in your custom backup. In which case save/mount to OTG!

aviwdoowks said:
What recovery are you using? I recomend Philz. If you find no better solution. Backup all partitions then test the restore. Just restore what you just backed up. Then wipe data & data media. Then restore again.
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Oh
You will need to save your SD contents to whatever. OTG, android file xfer, windows. Then restore that too.
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Do the SD backup first!
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With Philz you can include data/media in your custom backup. In which case save/mount to OTG!
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OK I am beyond confused by all the edits haha. Could you consolidate your advice a bit?
Currently I am using TWRP. Thanks for the help.

I_EAT_BABIES said:
OK I am beyond confused by all the edits haha. Could you consolidate your advice a bit?
Currently I am using TWRP. Thanks for the help.
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Try backing up your SD contents first. Then flash Philz (.zip) from your twrp. You can flash them as needed, back & forth, just reboot recovery.
Philz will do twrp format backup too.
Make a full backup with Philz as custom as you like. Test out your backup. Just restore what you backed up.
You then want to format data & data media.
Then restore.
You could make a Philz custom bu that includes SD (data/media) too but put it on otg. It will self mount when the OTG cable in present.

aviwdoowks said:
Try backing up your SD contents first. Then flash Philz (.zip) from your twrp. You can flash them as needed, back & forth, just reboot recovery.
Philz will do twrp format backup too.
Make a full backup with Philz as custom as you like. Test out your backup. Just restore what you backed up.
You then want to format data & data media.
Then restore.
You could make a Philz custom bu that includes SD (data/media) too but put it on otg. It will self mount when the OTG cable in present.
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i'm super confused at the level of effort you're explaining based on the problem at hand. The error is two-fold; you have stale files from old/failed installs and/or you're out of memory.
Keep in mind that Android uses your available space for RAM, so if you have memory intensive applications, there's a possibility of running in to this issue.
Easiest of course is to delete your videos/pics - they take the most amount of space.
Also check this tutorial:
http://www.digitalreborn.com/fix-error-insufficient-storage-google-play-error/

[Q] Internal Storage Missing 4GB

I am missing roughly 3 to 4GB of space on my internal storage. Long story short -- flashed cm11.0_golden.nova.20141127.ODIN_TWRP the first couple of tries it failed mainly due to me not knowing how to enter into recovery mode. After about 4 or 5 tries I figured it out and all was well. Then I notice a large chunk of my internal storage is missing. I enter recovery mode and format all internal storage. I gain a few hundred MB. I cannot see those missing GB of space at all. My best guess is that those first few unsuccessful attempts at flashing the rom are still there in the internal storage taking the space I am missing. Is there any way to repartition the internal storage? I have used all of the methods available to me with TWRP and have had no success in gaining that storage back. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

davesunday said:
I am missing roughly 3 to 4GB of space on my internal storage. Long story short -- flashed cm11.0_golden.nova.20141127.ODIN_TWRP the first couple of tries it failed mainly due to me not knowing how to enter into recovery mode. After about 4 or 5 tries I figured it out and all was well. Then I notice a large chunk of my internal storage is missing. I enter recovery mode and format all internal storage. I gain a few hundred MB. I cannot see those missing GB of space at all. My best guess is that those first few unsuccessful attempts at flashing the rom are still there in the internal storage taking the space I am missing. Is there any way to repartition the internal storage? I have used all of the methods available to me with TWRP and have had no success in gaining that storage back. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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Guessing you have S3 mini soo i have same "issue" it's actually the phone itself takes around 3-4 GB i have usable 4.64 gb and i have 8GB model.

So is this just the normal amount of space taken up by the system? And yes mine is an 8GB model also.

Yes guys it's normal if you have 4GB.
4GB for system and 4GB for user

When i look at how much storage total it lists 4.72GB. For available space it shows 4.27GB. Will the 4GB taken up by the system not be shown? I just figured that it would list close to 8GB total with X amount taken by system. Im pretty sure this is how it was before I flashed the phone.

davesunday said:
When i look at how much storage total it lists 4.72GB. For available space it shows 4.27GB. Will the 4GB taken up by the system not be shown? I just figured that it would list close to 8GB total with X amount taken by system. Im pretty sure this is how it was before I flashed the phone.
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Could it be the missing 4GB is the partition of the system? I am using stock ROM also can only access about 4GB for saving files and apps. Maybe the CM11 itself using 4GB for OS process and pre-installed/bloatware apps? Just my guest.
You can try to reach the missing space using 3rd party apps such as XDA File Manager. BUT, I wont dare to do anything to the 'hidden files', as I know it could damage your system. That's why they made it invisible to normal/average user (like me). Unless you know what and which files to be played with.
{PARDON MY ENGLISH}

Naimlaaa said:
Could it be the missing 4GB is the partition of the system? I am using stock ROM also can only access about 4GB for saving files and apps. Maybe the CM11 itself using 4GB for OS process and pre-installed/bloatware apps? Just my guest.
You can try to reach the missing space using 3rd party apps such as XDA File Manager. BUT, I wont dare to do anything to the 'hidden files', as I know it could damage your system. That's why they made it invisible to normal/average user (like me). Unless you know what and which files to be played with.
{PARDON MY ENGLISH}
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But, what's the actual space occupied by the system files? We could try to resize "system partition" to gain some gb on "data partition"?

fabiocaruso said:
But, what's the actual space occupied by the system files? We could try to resize "system partition" to gain some gb on "data partition"?
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I'm also interested in repartitioning it, I successfully made it for a Galaxy S2 and my Note N7000... I used a specific pit file flashed with Odin... is there any pit file for GT-I8190 8 Gb? Thanks in advance!

fabiocaruso said:
But, what's the actual space occupied by the system files? We could try to resize "system partition" to gain some gb on "data partition"?
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Im not sure about CM11, but with Slimrom is about 1.23GB. You can see this using Titanium Backup in the overview.
gt-i8190n using SlimKat(Android-Andi) marinated F_Kernel(Fred8861)
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tomnic said:
I'm also interested in repartitioning it, I successfully made it for a Galaxy S2 and my Note N7000... I used a specific pit file flashed with Odin... is there any pit file for GT-I8190 8 Gb? Thanks in advance!
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Hi there. Can you tell me more about partition setting/tweaking. I think i've screwed some of it while playing with terminal command.
gt-i8190n using SlimKat(Android-Andi) marinated F_Kernel(Fred8861)

Other files space

Dears
I have a question about other files in storage. I received this phone from my brother. It was formatted from the recovery (data wiped). I installed my account and all is right except for an equipped space of more than 1GB in other files. I remember when my brother was using the phone, other files was 0 Kb. I have no backup stored to the cloud or whatsoever. I did several factory reset with no luck. It pisses me off that 1 GB is being used without any reason keeping in mind it's only 25 GB out of the box storage for 32 GB rom.
Any ideas how to get rid of the other files.?

mohawahba said:
Dears I have a question about other files in storage. I received this phone from my brother. It was formatted from the recovery (data wiped). I installed my account and all is right except for an equipped space of more than 1GB in other files. I remember when my brother was using the phone, other files was 0 Kb. I have no backup stored to the cloud or whatsoever. I did several factory reset with no luck. It pisses me off that 1 GB is being used without any reason keeping in mind it's only 25 GB out of the box storage for 32 GB rom. Any ideas how to get rid of the other files.?
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On my MIUI 9.5 "other files" consist of:
- dalvik cache (not the app cache)
- hidden twrp backup files
- archive files like zip, tgz, etc.
The definition of "other files" may depend on MIUI version and perhaps your brother was using a different one, hence 0kb for him and 1GB for you, while there was no real difference.
To find exact storage use you need an app like https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.diskusage
However it will reveal many more details if you root your phone.
Incidentally, my Dalvik cache is 0.9GB and one can not get rid of it as it is an essential part of Android OS.

k23m said:
On my MIUI 9.5 "other files" consist of:
- dalvik cache (not the app cache)
- hidden twrp backup files
- archive files like zip, tgz, etc.
The definition of "other files" may depend on MIUI version and perhaps your brother was using a different one, hence 0kb for him and 1GB for you, while there was no real difference.
To find exact storage use you need an app like https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.diskusage
However it will reveal many more details if you root your phone.
Incidentally, my Dalvik cache is 0.9GB and one can not get rid of it as it is an essential part of Android OS.
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Thanks a lot