This happened to two of my friends recently. While normal use their i9000m froze and became unresponsive.
For one of them, after a battery pull it rebooted and stayed on a black screen. After a couple more pulls it booted into the homescreen, all his apps and data were missing. Internal SD shows as not mounted. He put in a different 4gb into the external slot and the phone formatted it (no longer works on windows now), but still doesnt show up on the settings page.
He has limited voice/text, but data and the android market doesnt work. None of his apps are there (I guess since the internal SD isnt mounting).
Any ideas on how to fix this? He was/is running JG9 with no lagfix
Dead corrupted internal memory.. needs to go to repair. No way out, I'm in the same boat...
Try a factory reset from the recovery mode screen. You will lose all your data but it might work. It worked for me. Good luck.
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Try a factory reset from the recovery mode screen. You will lose all your data but it might work. It worked for me. Good luck.
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Reset didnt help I guess its a complete hardware failure
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I'd like to start of saying I've read almost every thread regarding this and I understand that there's a good chance that my internal SD is permanently blown up I'd just like to establish some things here that may put me in a different boat.
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I just want to be clear ...
So I last night I flashed JPK, PDA/MODEM/CSC with 512pit installed latest oneclick lag fix 2.1.1, SGS tools and other basic apps. Was running perfect all night except that RAM seemed to be eaten up easily.
Then this morning Advanced Task Killer Froyo Beta started acting up. So I tried a reboot and then I got this black screen issue.
Tried reflashing JPK again. Just successfully flashed JH2 but still the black screen.
Recovery/Download mode work. With 2.2 recovery mode I was getting SDCARD connect errors on screen, but since JH2 I don't see them. Tried wiping cache partition, and factory reset. Still black screen. I've tried without external SD and SIM and just recently with external SD.
In this JH2 recovery mode "update media, finished" and Apllying MultiCSC works properly too. When in recovery mode, Kies tries to recognize it, but boot/blackscreen I get nothing.
Is there anything else I can try? I have read through this whole thread, but it's a lot to read and understand. Anything with ADB? When in recovery mode ADB shell returns a device not found
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Currently it's back on JPK for the time being and using ADB I can finally get it to recognize there is a device, but it says it's offline. What does this mean? Does this mean that it wasn't in debug mode when it crashed? Or something else? At this point does this help me at all. At one point I did get internal and external drives to show up in my computer, but I couldn't acess them. As if they weren't mounted. Actually, that's how it's behaving now.
Can anyone think of anything else for me to TRY at least? I don't want to give up just yet. I realize all signs point to bricked but I just want to try a few more things.
Any tips are appreciated.
Thank you very much
I can't get the thing to turn on or connect to a computer to unroot it. Two questions:
Will they be able to tell it has been rooted given that the phone will not turn on nor charge?
Is there a way to unroot it / maybe wipe the internal sd?
Any thoughts? Thank-you in advance.
Edit: my apologies to the mods for putting this in the wrong category.
If you can get into download mode (volume down + home + power) then you can try to flash on a stock Bell rom with Odin. Even if it fails to boot after you flash (which it probably will given you have fried SD), it will at least wipe whatever you have on there and you'll have a broken stock ROM instead of broken rooted/custom ROM
Other than that I wouldn't worry about it, from what I've heard they've been good about replacing these phones.
Thanks! Actually it does the same thing booting into download mode as it does when I try to charge it or turn it on. It shows the download mode screen for about 4 seconds, turns off and then does it again continuously until I stop holding the buttons.
The exact same infinite loop happens when i try to charge it, except with the little charging screen. This thing is royally ****ed. Pardon my french.
You can transfert an update.zip on the external SD then on the internal SD and reinstall with recovery mode.
Cheers, though I don't think I can boot into recovery mode, nor do I have a method of transferring from the external sd to the internal.
According to chambo622, it's my internal sd that is fried. That leads me to believe that the Bell tech's are not going to have much luck reading that and finding Titanium Backup or something on there to indicate my guilt.
Feel free to correct me on that.
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Cheers, though I don't think I can boot into recovery mode, nor do I have a method of transferring from the external sd to the internal.
According to chambo622, it's my internal sd that is fried. That leads me to believe that the Bell tech's are not going to have much luck reading that and finding Titanium Backup or something on there to indicate my guilt.
Feel free to correct me on that.
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Yeah that's almost certainly the problem. I have two Galaxy S I9000M in the house (one is my dad's). I've flashed mine tons of times...his was just flashed once, and about two weeks later, showed similar systems. I was able to get into download mode and flash stock Eclair but it wouldn't boot no matter what I did to it, was bootlooping, displaying errors, etc. Bad internal SD's are a known problem with SGS and I don't think they will able to tell if you were rooted (or care much, really)
so was at work when my pocket vibrated...pulled phone out it turned itself off..so i try to turn back on... no luck wont boot past white HTC screen.... so i pull battery and boot to recovery... phones boots to recovery but will not let me factory reset or erase or format anything...before i go erasing things on the card wondering if anyone has dealt with this before and has any ideas or opinions.. was runnin aospcmod3/1 data2ext ext2 on a 16gb class2 sd card. thanks for anyone who replies in advance.
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so was at work when my pocket vibrated...pulled phone out it turned itself off..so i try to turn back on... no luck wont boot past white HTC screen.... so i pull battery and boot to recovery... phones boots to recovery but will not let me factory reset or erase or format anything...before i go erasing things on the card wondering if anyone has dealt with this before and has any ideas or opinions.. was runnin aospcmod3/1 data2ext ext2 on a 16gb class2 sd card. thanks for anyone who replies in advance.
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I never did the data2ext but can you reboot without it? That's really weird if your recovery doesn't function properly (i.e. no wipes). Can you use nand restore to a non-data2ext backup?
All my nands freeze at restoring system
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Try reflashing your recovery
Yea its Me again with the
Modified Hero
Tried to flash new recovery using advanced same effect used 2.1,2.7,&3 all same issue can't wipe or flash any roms or nands .......so. I put 2gb from my camera and am back up and running. My computer won't even recognize the card anymore
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Tried to flash new recovery using advanced same effect used 2.1,2.7,&3 all same issue can't wipe or flash any roms or nands .......so. I put 2gb from my camera and am back up and running. My computer won't even recognize the card anymore
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sorry to hear that, but at least your phone works again.
sent from my hero, which no longer sucks ass.
Yea me to but a like duce said at least your up and running again. Check out Amazon for a new sd I paid a whopping 25 bucks for mine plus they have some good deals.
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Well it finally died. I got the infamous SD card failure message. For the past few days It was getting slower and slower and I was getting odd Force Closes everywhere. Then the red exclamation mark and a message about the SD card.
The very weird thing is that the failure was about the EXTERNAL SD card. Cannot find mount point... cannot read... Not the ususal INTERNAL SD card message.
Sure enough, if I try to read the Transcend 16Gb MicroSD on my pc or laptop, it appears completely fried. (Cr*p, that's were my backup was!).
But the phone wont boot on wihout the external card! Why? All I can get to is the Download mode. No boot and no recovery.
I'm in Montreal so it appears easy to get it fixed... but should I try flashing it first?
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Well it finally died. I got the infamous SD card failure message. For the past few days It was getting slower and slower and I was getting odd Force Closes everywhere. Then the red exclamation mark and a message about the SD card.
The very weird thing is that the failure was about the EXTERNAL SD card. Cannot find mount point... cannot read... Not the ususal INTERNAL SD card message.
Sure enough, if I try to read the Transcend 16Gb MicroSD on my pc or laptop, it appears completely fried. (Cr*p, that's were my backup was!).
But the phone wont boot on wihout the external card! Why? All I can get to is the Download mode. No boot and no recovery.
I'm in Montreal so it appears easy to get it fixed... but should I try flashing it first?
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Sound you have some data corruption (or suffering the Bell BUG http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=883820)
First try to retreive the data from your external Sdcard with your PC, using the tool "testdisk 6.11". Maybe you'll be lucky enough to retreive all your data with it (repairing your FAT).
If the repair is a succes, then backup the data on your PC and do a low format of the ext sdcard to start clean.
When it's done, try to clean everything on your phone (if you can boot it in recovery), clean the Dalvik, clean the cache, do a factory reset, disable all extra tweaks (if you use a custome kernel already: lagfix etc).
If all process is ok, now you ready to flash a stock and clean rom with the usual tools (no external or sim card in it during the flash and first boot).
Report back when it's done.
GL.
TestDisk is now hard at work. Thanks for that. There's hope for the data!
Phone wont go into recovery. I had 3BR but it's not working now.
Download mode is all I have. I could theoretically try reflashing with ODIN. Repartitioning might not be a bad option considering the state the phone is in. Should I try?
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TestDisk is now hard at work. Thanks for that. There's hope for the data!
Phone wont go into recovery. I had 3BR but it's not working now.
Download mode is all I have. I could theoretically try reflashing with ODIN. Repartitioning might not be a bad option considering the state the phone is in. Should I try?
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Yes you can try that, but be sure to flash a stock rom first (go for a 2.1).
GL .
All data recovered thanks to TestDisk!!!
As for the phone...
It flashes with Odin no problem. (used JH2, which is what I had on there anyway)
But still wont boot. The problem appears to be in the boot partition.
Should I try "Phone Bootloader Update"? (I'm a bit afraid of that because I might lose my 3BR fix)
What does "Phone EFS Clear" do?
Additional symtom: Cant recharge it either (no problem I have external charger so I can always have a full batt for this process). It starts to display the battery charge graphic and then just boot cycles.
davidke said:
All data recovered thanks to TestDisk!!!
As for the phone...
It flashes with Odin no problem. (used JH2, which is what I had on there anyway)
But still wont boot. The problem appears to be in the boot partition.
Should I try "Phone Bootloader Update"? (I'm a bit afraid of that because I might lose my 3BR fix)
What does "Phone EFS Clear" do?
Additional symtom: Cant recharge it either (no problem I have external charger so I can always have a full batt for this process). It starts to display the battery charge graphic and then just boot cycles.
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Good news for your data!
No doubt if you do a bootloader update with a stock one, you'll lose the 3BCombo (or maybe flash a stock bootloader with the 3BC enabled, not sure if it exist btw??). Try to reflash the 3BC fix only first and see how it work.
Anything that involve EFS is a: DO NOT TOUCH IT =), hope you did a backup of it btw (your EMEI is stored in that folder: No EMEI = No network).
Waiting your feedback.
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No doubt if you do a bootloader update with a stock one, you'll lose the 3BCombo (or maybe flash a stock bootloader with the 3BC enabled, not sure if it exist btw??). Try to reflash the 3BC fix only first and see how it work.
Waiting your feedback.
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Tried a couple of things...
A) Updated bootloader with 3BR fix only: No change, Galaxy-S logo then Off.
B) Flashed JL2 (bootloader not checked): Slight change, now it boot cycles.
C) Flashed JL2 + bootloader: Slight change, now it just hangs and the Galaxy-S logo (waited 60 minutes, phone was getting pretty hot so I stopped it).
At all steps I can get back to Download mode but not recovery.
At this point I assume it's hopeless?
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Tried a couple of things...
A) Updated bootloader with 3BR fix only: No change, Galaxy-S logo then Off.
B) Flashed JL2 (bootloader not checked): Slight change, now it boot cycles.
C) Flashed JL2 + bootloader: Slight change, now it just hangs and the Galaxy-S logo (waited 60 minutes, phone was getting pretty hot so I stopped it).
At all steps I can get back to Download mode but not recovery.
At this point I assume it's hopeless?
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Not sure but really sound like a defect internal SD/or more.
Last hope?: repartition + pit 512 + bootloader and Stock 2.1
That killed it for good. Now it's a paperweight!
No nothing. It's like the on#off button was unplugged!
Oh well. It's really nice to have gotten back the data.
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That killed it for good. Now it's a paperweight!
No nothing. It's like the on#off button was unplugged!
Oh well. It's really nice to have gotten back the data.
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Well that's a bad news, maybe pulling out the battery during one or two hours will help to revive it.
Otherwise if it's really the internal sd issue you might check that thread about internal SD bug (if not done yet) http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=902724 and RMA it.
Don't worry they'll change it with a brand new one. Ring samsung directly if you can.
No worries. I am five minutes away from the service center. Mobo replaced for tomorrow morning they said.
Had I come in before 3PM they left we with the impression they would have changed it while I wait!
Having followed all these threads, I was well aware of the issue long before it actually happened to me. The only thing that surprised me was that it broke the fat table on my external SD.
I was holding back because of the instabilities; with a better unit in hand I'll pop in a fancy rom.
External SD card causes reboot loop
I think I have a similar problem as yours. Just yesterday when I did a restart on my SGS, it suddenly went haywire. The boot loop was continuing for almost 30 mins until it suddenly became stable and reboot as normal.
However, something didn't work out right. I can't view all my pics and videos from gallery, and even my mp3s are not detected inside the music player.
But the very same files are still readable from My Files when I manually dig into these folders.
Same thing happened again just now when I was on my way to work in the subway. I finally had the sense to remove my external sd card and voila, my phone reboots smoothly without a hiccup.
So the question here is, is it that my external sd card is failing or is it that the phone's external sd card reader is failing.
Could anyone with the similar problem share with me their findings?
Hi i have a bell galaxy s i just flash ugkc1 firmware but when the phone boots i get force close message for almost every app.
i think the internal sd might be corrupted tried to format it but all files are still there
any idea ??
thank you
your SD card usually nothing to do with application force close, those files which you see after formatting on SD card should be there so do not worry about them.
if you want to find the reason explain about your previous rom and kernel. did you do a factory reset or wipe before and after rom installation?
Here is two simalar topics. I also have that problem and cannot solve it yet.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1076101
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1069867
When i looked in internet i found sth similar for HTC, but devs corrected it. They parted some files from working devices and pushed it to system with adb.
http://forum.cyanogenmod.com/topic/6433-solved-messed-up-partitions-on-internal-storage/
Maybe sth like that will also solve our problem but we need help.
If you find any sollution please infrom us. Maybe it will be useful for us too.
Regards
thanks for your replies
all this strated when i updated to 2.3 with kies using spooffw upgrade went fine but phone didn't boot it was stuck on the first boot screen,
so i flashed back to 2.2 and here i am ..
Did you try booting twice or did you jump the gun flashing back? My phone appeared to be stuck during the first boot screen on the first time starting 2.3.3.
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Did you try booting twice or did you jump the gun flashing back? My phone appeared to be stuck during the first boot screen on the first time starting 2.3.3.
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i tried booting twice it ddn't work recovry mode didn't work either
now im back on froyo i still can use the phone but only as a phone all apps fail to start and i get force close message
flashed my phote to 2.3 (jvk) ans i installed speed mod... still the same
im pretty sure its an internal sd failure. is there any way to fix this ? i bought my phone some guy on kijiji so i don't think i have any warranty..
thank you
biscuit26 said:
flashed my phote to 2.3 (jvk) ans i installed speed mod... still the same
im pretty sure its an internal sd failure. is there any way to fix this ? i bought my phone some guy on kijiji so i don't think i have any warranty..
thank you
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I doubt it is an SD problem. Go to recovery, clear cache and dalvik and fix permissions. If the problem persists to a factory reset and reinstall your apps from the market.
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thanks again for tryin to help i already tried this but didnt work
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flashed back to stock 2.2.. now i get ''blank internal sd'' on the notification bar. phone doesn't seem to detect internal sd card is this a hardware or software problem ?
thanks
now i flashed sppedmode kernel phone seems to be running a little better ( less force closes messages) but i still can't delete files or format my sd card
any idea ?
I tried to flash darky 9.2 (odin version). Then i reach with ADB to the internal when it is in CWM. I pushed there some custom roms and flashed with CWM. But it did not help either.
isn't there any way to fix a corrupted sd card ?