Well usually I'm pretty well rounded out of getting myself out of holes I dig but this time, not so much.
I've been chilling on a 1.5 soullife build and I don't really care about Android 1.6 but I really liked the whole Tool Android Screencast and so I went ahead and attempted to flash 1.6
Failure at line 42, I figure I need a different spl so whatever I am constructive and wipe some extensions and such, same problem.
Alright whatever Nandroid back to my backup I made two seconds ago, boots up fine, problem loading widget. And all my apps are scripts and not working/found.
I've seen this before so ok, recovery fix permissions, fix everything whatever.
Doing this brough me back from only 7MB of internal space to 26
The only real kicker is I don't have a partition now I believe, but in my market downloads says all my apps are installed but none are in the app drawer, can't be found in manage applications, etc etc etc.
I'm in a real mess right now and I don't really know what to do, I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling some apps but I get an error over not having sufficient space.
It's getting late and I'm grumpy, hopefully I'll have some good replied and help when I check in the morning, thanks to everyone is anyone can help me out and goodnight.
Everything on my sd card got deleted too, this is absolutely terrible, especially because I was aiming to backup my sdcard yesterday and didn't. ahah ****!!!
What SPL were you on? Did you try downloading the update again? Which 1.6 ROM was it?
If you have Amon RA's recovery you could wipe, format your entire card and try installing a 1.6 ROM again.
You need to completely repartition your SD card.
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I updated my phone to Android 1.6 (It only just appeared today for me) and now the stock google browser, as well as two ones I downloaded won't work at all.
The stock google one freezes then crashes, the other two reset my phone.
I'm not going to Cyanogen until I can afford a 8Gb/16Gb SDCard, unless its easy to put my swap, etc stuff on the new SD Card. What can I do to fix it?
So no root? Try to clear the data and cache for the browser first. If that doesn't work, it's probably time to wipe.
u dont need a large mem stick for cyanogen mod. I mean it will make it faster and all but its not required. I suggest u wipe as in do a Factory reset and see if that helps. I would do a nandroid backup first just to save all ur apps and seetings.
It's more that I'd rather have the SD Card at the size I want in the first place rather than having to partition this one, etc, then partition a new one later on and hope it works without screwing my phone up as happened to a friend of mine.
Seems to have fixed itself, although I can't download apps off Marketplace, I can live with that.
One thing though, I have a build number of "DRD20" and when I go to flash the DREAMING.NBH file (I tried a while back) I got a "Not Allow" error, what do I do if I try to flash it again?
banging my head against the wall here..
i'll start with specs
g1 latest CM,dangerSPL and latest amonRA
pqi 4gb C6 microSD 512ext3 and the rest fat
ok i've had the card for about 18months, used it in my old nokia and mainly just kept tunes and pics on it then. I have had in in my G1 for a few months now and after i got my n00bness out of the way apps2sd had been grand for me..over the weekend i decided to check out android 2.01 on it and while the carhome is cool and so on.......i wanted the CM speed and stability back so i wiped/factory rest,cleared dalvik,flashed defanged base then cm4.2.12.2 and all was well......then after i got my main apps in (ended up wiping my ext) i had a issu with "astro file manager", it installed but wasnt showing up, so i rebooted and fixed_permissions and basically all my apps where gone.. shings got wierd so i just wiped all and reflashed again.. similar deal here.. astro wouldnt take so watever.. got linda file manager instead, went to update Gmaps and it failed so i rebooted and again all my apps are gone and widget ("beautifull widgets") could not be loaded. have tried fix permissions and clearing dalvic with no luck..... and i have ran into "not enough space to install" in the past when i still have 300+MB free on sd.
sorry for the looooonnnngggg post but didnt want to leave anything out here.... does it sound like my sd is dieing???
P.S when the above happens nothing saved on the fat partition is missing or corrupt so i'm not sure WTF the deal is here lol
Thanx in advance
Hi,
I'm trying to make room on my phone cause it's complaining a lot, that it needs more space
Tried to use " Move to SDcard" in the manage applications, abut the phone reboots itself, and ofcourse the app hasn't moved anywhere.
What shall I do?
no one has an answer for that???????
Same thing has been happening to me. It's frustrating to have to delete apps because I'm out of space. I can't wait until CM with A2SD drops.
I used to get reboots whenever trying to move to SD. I couldn't figure out a fix so I backed up with Titanium and wiped and restored. :-/ Probably not what you wanted to hear.
if youre rooted get the RoDrIgUeZsTyLe or leofroyo rom.
Apps2sd via an ext partition works well on FRF83
you can wait for CM6 or do it yourself now.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=704101
a2sd from Darktremor/tkirton
Thanks for all the replies try tto wipe this evening, and see what will happen.
So I wiped and re-installed the Froyo, it solved the problem...
I recently updated my cappy from Phoenix rising to Continuum following all instructions in the first couple posts except for flashing back to stock. "Including enabling lagfix"
Everything seemed to be running perfect. Rebooted a couple times to see how it behaved, plugged it in and turned in for the night. Seemed to be fine in the morning while I surfed the web, played games, etc. I ended up losing data service (a constant problem I get with custom ROMs that I've never been able to shake) so I rebooted, which normally solves the problem.
Instead, this time appears that all the apps installed in the internal SD card are missing... Weird but whatever. Titanium time and troubleshoot after school. Well, titanium says that there's no backups. Slight panic. Then I think about all my 3 stars from the angry bird series... MAJOR PANIC!
I can access my phone just fine via root explorer but my TiBU folder is empty, I have no games on my SD cards but a lot of other stuff is there including my dropbox and download folders as well as my ROM .zips. It's almost as if random stuff was removed.
Reboot into recovery to fix permissions and delete caches, etc. While I there I checked my backups (Nandroid?) and my lastest one (the one I did prior to flashing) was missing! Even more panicked!
Checked my phone... No luck. So I think that maybe I'll try some sort of undelete program when I get home. Plug the phone into compy and the mount cards options doesn't appear... Reboot to recovery and reflash ROM. No luck. Try to update back to TiBU pro and I notice a new problem. I can't install anything from the market, they just don't download. Tried to install .apks I have stored locally, no luck.
At this point I just want a working phone, screw dem birds, I can always redo all the levels and put music back on. Goto reformat SD cards. The format external is greyed out. Trying to reformat the internal one goes through the motions but there's no update in the available storage.
Flash to Firefly since I had a copy of it on the internal SD. Same issues listed above but with a pretty new interface.
So... Anyone have a suggestion aside from go back in time and buy titanium media sync or for me to suck less? I'm pretty much out of ideas
my first captivate was deleting files on the internal sd (mostly my music folder), returned for exchange. no problems since. hardware issues are fixed by the hardware manufactures!
And if you have other problems NO MATTER what rom you use, then its probably not the rom...
Oops! Sorry, I meant to stress that in the original post: I by no means hold any ROM responsible for the shenanigans my phone is currently experiencing, I originally omitted mentioning any names but decided to include them so I could be as explicit as possible in describing the issues and the steps I took.
Update 1: Attempted Odin3.
Since I'm apparently mentally handicapped, I clicked on "Master clear" instead of "Start". Yellow android guy has been digging a hole on my phone's screen for the last 10-15 minutes with no change.
Don't think that it's suppose to take this long and worried that whatever the SD card issue is may be affecting the master clear but currently too scared to unplug the phone.
Currently chain smoking nervously
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Update 2: Revenge of the unborking
Unplugged phone and removed battery since master clear was clearly not working
Powered it back up and Odin -> Flash to stock
Stock working but unable to load SD cards
Rebooted a couple times -> problem solved
Mounted SD as USB card
Recurva -> Recovered TiBU folder.
Rooted phone
Reinstalled Clockwork mod
Reflashed Firefly
Installing stuff from the market is still a bit wonky with a custom ROM which is odd since I could install stuff with a stock rom but at least things are progressing
That's cool you got your stuff back. Now make a copy of it on your computer!! Now its just a call to att to get it replaced cause it's a hardware issue for sure.
Oh I'm sure you figured this out but master clear doesn't do anything in download mode, that works when the phone is actually booted.
master clear works booted with debugging on!
Yep, looks like installing stuff from either the market or from the SD card is hit or miss depending on time of day, prevailing winds, or the phase of the moon. Got some stuff installed but now nothing will go on the phone.
Going to complain to Samsung directly to see where what that gets me. Bought the phone used after my last android bit the dust while I was still on contract. Ended up getting a cappy since you could unlock it manually and was unaware that you were stuck on edge service. Wish me luck!
Boot into recovery
Onix Speed Features
LAGFIX options
Enable lagfix: Convert Data to Ext4
Convert SYSTEM to Ext4 /RFS
YES
Go back twice
Reboot System Now
EXT4: Convert to EXT4 (wait for the conversion to complete)
After reboot choose YES (for the rest of partitions to be converted)
Wait for the welcome screen and from the power menu reboot to Recovery
ONIX Speed features
ROOT / install superuser
Simple: Install busybox
Scrool to Yes - apply root to device and select it
Go back twice
Reboot system now
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I think that I may have borked up my phone when doing this. I used the onix recovery to set everything back to rfs to no avail. I am still unable to install any apps or format the SD cards. Any advice? Currently on hold with Samsung support but apparently I am having a hard time convincing them that Hawaii is part of the United States and that we do in fact have UPS on this island.
Hi all
My Galaxy S went nuts. Something is very wrong with it. I will try to provide as much details as possible.
Today i was using it as usual, sending messages on facebook, reading email... and suddenly my mail client freaked out and force-closed. This has never happened before (i use K9 mail), so i just restarted it, only to see that there is no more messages in inbox. Trying to "load more" got force close again.
So i thought, OK, **** happens - clear data, uninstall, reinstall. However, when i cleared the data something weird begun to happen. Apps started force closing one by one.
OK, i thought, **** happens - rebooting the phone should help. Only that it didn't help - apps still force closed.
OK, i thought, **** happens - clear data of every app, uninstall and reinstall. I got backups anyway. So i cleared all the data, uninstalled all i had and rebooted. However, apps still force closed, and when i went to app manager - surprise surprise! - all the apps i uninstalled a cluple of minutes ago were still there.
Now this was already kinda freaky, but OK, **** happens - i rebooted into clockwork (i have voodoo lagfix) and wiped the hell out of my phone. Rebooted - but the apps i uninstalled were still there, even after full wipe! Now i escapes me how exactly ANY app (let alone all apps) could survive wipe to factory defaults.
Just to be sure that i'm not dreaming, i rebooted to clockwork once again, wiped everything two times and restored a backup from a month ago. The apps were still there.
I am going to try disabling lagfix as a last resort, but for now i am out of ideas, as this is clearly way out of line with what could be considered normal.
Now to the details of what i have installed - froyo, voodoo lagfix, superuser, busybox blablabla, some common apps like skype, facebook, astro, poweramp player, launcher pro, k9 mail, newsrob, blogaway, easyprofiles, pansi sms, mapdroyd, google shopper, qr droid. That's pretty much it. I have one of the custom battery icon mods that could be found here on boards.
Any ideas about what is wrong and how to make it right?
I cant help you with all the poltergeist sh*t on your phone but if it were mine id copy stuff to pc then full wipe and reflash.
regards
id recommend to flash Eclair 2.1 with partition check than to Froyo so that ud have a "clean" rom to play with
cheers
Problems never walk alone - i would, but my laptop has died a week ago...
However, i think i found the cause - looks like for some reason, some of the partitions (including, apparently, internal sd card and data partition) mount as read only. This could explain all that is happening. Is there a way to correcr this without reflashing?
Burillo said:
Problems never walk alone - i would, but my laptop has died a week ago...
However, i think i found the cause - looks like for some reason, some of the partitions (including, apparently, internal sd card and data partition) mount as read only. This could explain all that is happening. Is there a way to correcr this without reflashing?
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go into recovery and fix permissions , if that doesnt work then as said before
I have tried all possible solutions - from restoring from backups i made earlier, and down to flashing back to different ROMs - namely JPM, JPC, JM8. With repartitioning and without repartitioning.
Moreover, when i mount the SD card on the PC - i can delete files (well, it looks that way) but then when i reboot and mount again - everything is back to the state it was before.
Now i can't even boot my phone. Sometimes it can't mount stl10, sometimes it can't mount stl11. I went through all the solutions that were mentioned in the threads related to these errors. Also, when i format all the partitions (with voodoo's clockwork) it says everything went OK - i "can" reformat everything including internal SD card, repartition it etc. but then it goes back to what it was, and phone doesn't boot any ROM.
Any ideas? Can this be a hardware problem?
EDIT:
i tried to flash latest stock gingerbread ROM, and after installing a clockwork from here it boots but still doesn't work - starts force closing, can't load anything.
Formatting partitions with clockwork does not induce any errors, nor there are any errors mentioned at boot. however, even unmounting, formatting and mounting internal SD card doesn't affect it.
after flashing stock rom it says it cannot mount /data partition
EDIT 2: still no luck. i can't do anything with SD card. maybe there is some hardcore way with adb that i can try? like manually fscking up partitions so that i force reformat or something like that?
i have been tinkering with my phone and now i am certain that the root of the problem is that the internal SD card went into read-only mode - and it doesn't get fixed with any sort of permission fixing, repartitioning or flashing ROMs. i've searched some more on this topic (now that i know what the problem is) and found that on one was ever able to successfully fix this problem. i just hope that the samsung guys fix it for free because it doesn't look like a user problem...
thankssssss
Samsung accepted it on warranty, and they agreed it is a hardware problem.
What is alarming is that this is not the first time (as i said i found a bunch of threads with similar problems), and apparently it can also happen on galaxy tab (i seem to remember stumling upon a similar thread in tab section, and IIRC galaxy tab has hardware similar to SGS). This means that it can easily happen again.
So whoever is reading this thread - save yourself some time, don't bother fiddling around with odin and go straight to samsung customer service, they'll fix it for free provided you bought your phone less than 2 years prior.
.... okay nvm