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I Need Some Help

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.

Loosing Google Apps (Maps) After Nandroid Backup/Restore With CyanogenMod

I looked around a bit and couldn't really figure this out for sure so sorry if this has already been discussed.
I have been running CM 4.2.13 for a while now. I wanted to try out a 2.1 AOSP ROM so I downloaded a couple to my SD card. Also, I had yet to go up to DangerSPL so I also did this before installing a 2.1 ROM.
I am running RA-dream-v1.5.2 recovery. I did a Nandroid + ext backup before doing anything. After I backed everything up, including my SD card, I wiped everything. Wiped data/factory reset, dalvik cache, sd+ext. Not all was likely necessary but I saw no harm. I then modified my partitions a bit to increase my swap to 96.
I then installed a couple of the 2.1 AOSP roms and played with them for a day or so and I wanted to go back to my old CM 4.2.13 ROM that I had backed up.
Went into recovery, did a data wipe and dalvik cache wipe and then I went to do a nandroid restore to the last backup I have before I wiped and I got a error that told me to do the nandroid restore manually from the console... OK... thats fine. So i fumbled with that and figured out how to do it and it worked. I successfully did the restore and booted into CM 4.2.13... only to find that Google Maps was gone. I didn't look thoroughly to see if any other Google apps were missing because it occurred to me of the new requirement of installing the HTC recovery rom before flashing CM so that it extracts the Google apps (I have come to think this wouldn't mater at all in my case, noob i know) so I downloaded that and did another wipe and flashed that ROM then did the nandroid restore of the same backup and that is where I am now.
I still don't have Google Maps but now that I look through, I do have Market, YouTube, Gmail, Voice, etc. but no Maps... I also noticed that I lost a few other random apps like Wireless Tether and Work Email (both installed via outside sources, ie not with the market).
I think it would also be good to note that I was running Apps2sd so I am assuming that all of my apps should of been on the ext portion of my sd which was included in my nandroid backup. It just seems weird that I would lose just those apps. I wouldn't care that much if it was just Wireless Tether and Work Email as I can get those back fairly easily but what would I do for the Maps? I guess I could find a way of manually putting it on there but I don't want to do that if I don't have to.
I know I could also just re-flash CM from scratch but I am also trying to avoid that if possible.
Any ideas?
Thanks
BoogyMann

Installing a new ROM Borked my Caps SD cards?

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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Click to collapse
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.

[Q] Galaxy S went nuts

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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Click to collapse
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

[Q] db_data partition is repeatedly corrupting about every 10-15 days.

I have an issue that I will throw out there. I seem to get an issue about every 10-15 days where my db_data partition will become corrupt which will eventually (and usually immediately) result in FC's for all non system apk's.
After having it happen multiple times on Darky 9.4/9.5 I've just gone back to a stock rom and it still happened (with speedmod kernel - now trying with just the stock kernel with fugumod root).
This time I am trying to install programs in waves starting with those that I think do not do that much with root status (except Ti backup for obvious reasons).
My thought is that maybe JuiceDefender or Cache Cleaner or a Memory killer app is doing some damage every now and again (likely not cache cleaner as that is more recent than the issues).
It also might be a hardware issue though I think it would have gotten unusable by now if it was a failing internal SD.
Any thoughts, similar experiences out there? Or any way to fix it with out formatting it?

No one? Sorry this is just to blantantly move it back to the front page.