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Guys need some help here,
I have a vibrant and there has been times that I have flashed a 2.2 froyo rom to repair the data partition on my internal sd card from a bad flash when a lag fix is applied.
I talked a friend into getting a captivate because he loved my vibrant so much. I had him running a stock rom, with unhelpful lax fix kernel and everything ewas gravy for two days until today. he said he got a sd card error, and the phone wont boot past the galaxy s logo, I tried one click odin from this forum, now the phone wont boot past the att logo, because it fails to wipe the data partition.
Can we use the vibrant fix for the captivate? I could try to lash that froyo thru odin and see if it helps, the phone doesnt need to boot up, I just need to flash and wipe the internal sd tru odin. any suggestions
Thanks in advance
Devin5277 said:
Guys need some help here,
I have a vibrant and there has been times that I have flashed a 2.2 froyo rom to repair the data partition on my internal sd card from a bad flash when a lag fix is applied.
I talked a friend into getting a captivate because he loved my vibrant so much. I had him running a stock rom, with unhelpful lax fix kernel and everything ewas gravy for two days until today. he said he got a sd card error, and the phone wont boot past the galaxy s logo, I tried one click odin from this forum, now the phone wont boot past the att logo, because it fails to wipe the data partition.
Can we use the vibrant fix for the captivate? I could try to lash that froyo thru odin and see if it helps, the phone doesnt need to boot up, I just need to flash and wipe the internal sd tru odin. any suggestions
Thanks in advance
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Have you tried flashing in the plain voodoo kernel (atinms thread is around here somewhere) to see if you can get the thing to boot at least?
I have already tried to odin to stock, which didnt work and I knew that. The problem is I cant disable the lag fix, because the phone wont boot all the way up.
What we did in the vibrant forums was to flash a 2.2 thru odin. ( it automatically wipes internal sd and formats it back to original state.) then flash stock reroot and we are all happy again.
Is there anything like this for the captivate?
Unless i am missing something, which I could very well be flashing a kernel wont help the data partition problem will it?
what if you took the stock firmware from samfirmware.com and did a normal odin flash with the repartition selected?
I'm a noob but that seemed like a logical thing to try.
Devin5277 said:
I have already tried to odin to stock, which didnt work and I knew that. The problem is I cant disable the lag fix, because the phone wont boot all the way up.
What we did in the vibrant forums was to flash a 2.2 thru odin. ( it automatically wipes internal sd and formats it back to original state.) then flash stock reroot and we are all happy again.
Is there anything like this for the captivate?
Unless i am missing something, which I could very well be flashing a kernel wont help the data partition problem will it?
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That doesn't really answer my question... I asked if you had tried booting it again with a plain voodoo kernel. Obviously the full flash didn't work for some reason, and now your internal SD isn't being detected... which is strange. You could conceivably try flashing pretty much anything you've used on the vibrant though to see if that helps.
Did you do the Master Clear before flashing with Odin?
nooomoto said:
Did you do the Master Clear before flashing with Odin?
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no, my phone wont boot up to do a master clear. After doing some research it seems that the internal sd card got currupted. when I tried to clear data it failed on me, and gave me a cant mount data error in stock recovery
Devin5277 said:
no, my phone wont boot up to do a master clear. After doing some research it seems that the internal sd card got currupted. when I tried to clear data it failed on me, and gave me a cant mount data error in stock recovery
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you can master clear with the one click odin. Its the big button to the right of start that says master clear
xetrev said:
you can master clear with the one click odin. Its the big button to the right of start that says master clear
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I tried 3 times, It just hangs. I think the internal sd got unmounted somehow.
xetrev said:
you can master clear with the one click odin. Its the big button to the right of start that says master clear
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You have to have the phone booted and in USB Debug mode for the odin master clear to work, this person can't get the phone to boot. Is there another way to put the phone in USB Debug mode when it will not boot?
So repartition doesn't work?
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I'm having the same issue
h t t p:/ /forum.xda-developers. com/showthread.php?p=8340023#post8340023
I did try flashing in a voodoo complient kernal (although not atinm's) but it still won't boot...
Isn't there an i9000 2.2 rom that can be flashed to captivate?
Try the jpk tomorrow on the i9000 forum. I was able to go back from it to 2.1.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=790637
You may be able to just grab the 803 pit from samfirmware and then put it all back with the 512 when your done *shrug*
yadda yadda yadda not responsible for your phone blah blah blah
Sherpa
I did some experimenting on my friends captivate, only because he was going to take it back anyway . It was stuck in the bootloop because of the ota software update, then had a failed to mount error.
If you dont have a failed to mount error, your internal sd is not corrupted, it just needs to be repartitioned.
The way I was able to get my internal sd repartitioned, so I COULD flash back to original 2.1 stock was to odin flash a 2.2 rom, then odin the stock. So if you can find one that is ok for the captivate try it.
now let me make myself clear, you dont have to have the 2.2 reboot fully, you just need it to repartition the internal SD. As a matter of fact, the one in the vibrant forums doesnt even boot all the way at all, its just a tool for us to get back to 21. original firmware.
so try it out.
1. odin flash the 2.2 rom let odin do its business,
2. get back into downloader mode and odin flash back to stock.
it worked for me on my vibrant. I hope it can work for others.
flashed xxjpk and back to stock. Still get mount errors.
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flashed xxjpk and back to stock. Still get mount errors.
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http://forum.cyanogenmod.com/topic/6433-solved-messed-up-partitions-on-internal-storage/
this might shed some light on the failed to mount error. Its definately an SD card issue.
@devin5277 will the parted linked to in the post you linked to work with the captivate? If its just a generic linux partitioning tool thats run through adb i think it should.
parted works fine on the captivate. In my case it didn't help though. Rooted then tried ffdisk and parted. Both give I/O read errors on /dev/block/mmcblk0. Looks like the internal sdcard no longer works.
I have found that with some phones using ODIN to flash Froyo and then back to the stock 2.1 it will not repartition the internal. We need to find out how to repartition the internal memory back to stock. I believe whats going on is that because ODIN will not repartition the internal some of the data from Froyo is causing problems with 2.1. Thus causing bootloops, market place errors and not registering the modem or baseband says unavailable.Also not reading sim cards.
Reserved for a fix.
my phone was acting up so flash it with Eugene's Froyo that never brick then flash it back to stock 2.1, took me long time to find out a way using adb to reboot my system.. i tried doing the re=partition but it took a long time.. and there's no indicator that it is being partition.. so i just flash with stock 2.1 without re-partitioning the SD and it works like a charm.. after stock was installed.. i flash it again with bionix1.3..
Tried that didnt work. Also when you repartition it deletes all data on internal, I can check it to repartition and it will flash whatever rom im installing but doesnt repartition.
I also was able to re partition by flashing the Froyo that does not brick, then a ODIN flash of the stock 2.1 with the re partition box checked in ODIN. This worked great for me! Please view my post below for the fix info and the credits to who came up with it.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=788238&highlight=voodoo+brick
Did that too didnt work. As the OP states ODIN will not repartition my internal at all, I have tried everything in the forums. Lets put it like this I have been reading and trying everything that I have found for the last 2 weeks, nothing has worked. I will try every method posted in here and see which one fixes my phone.
Hmmm that's odd. Well hopefully you get it working.
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Hmmm that's odd. Well hopefully you get it working.
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Just tried the method you posted, still goes into a bootloop and wont read my sim. Also did not wipe my data or repartition my internal. Anymore Ideas are very welcome will try them all.
KellyLewis3985 said:
Just tried the method you posted, still goes into a bootloop and wont read my sim. Also did not wipe my data or repartition my internal. Anymore Ideas are very welcome will try them all.
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Are you still able to get to clockwork recovery? You could just format sdcard in that. Then use odin without repartition.
T-Mobile Vibrant T959
ROM: Eugene373's Vibrant9
Kernel: Jac's ExtremeMod UV/OC
Lagfix: Voodoo beta4
Yes I have tried that and formatting all partitions in the partitions menu, didnt work either.
Please don't think I am assuming you did something wrong but you did use the Froyo that Eugene put out a while back right? the "Froyo that does not brick"? I just want to make sure you had tried that one. Im sure you have but just want to make sure because I flashed another Froyo out there and it messed up my internal memory and my phone was not recognized when I tried to mount it. Thank God it was still recognized in Odin.
I will explain what happened. I used the other froyo first, of course like an idiot. Well I didnt like it and just got the phone didnt read up like I should have and used a nandroid of Vibrant9, thats where it started it bricked right there. So I used odin to flash the froyo that doesnt brick, repartitioned and then did the flash back to stock and got nothing but a boot loop. Well I found a way to get around the boot loop and use the phone but market place and my signal suffer severly. Every since then the phone hasnt been the same its been depressed bc I havnt found a way to fix it yet.
Hello,
firstly, i am very sory for posting this two times as i already posted this in this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=882822&page=4
Please do not flame me.. i'm only doing this because i'm getting desparate, and maybe it could, to some extent, help some of you to at least make your phone usable as a dumbphone.
I have a problem with my internal SD.. it's very complicated how it came to all this so i'm going to give you a short version..
I've had the phone for over a month now using darkys roms (with voodoo enabled) and then my cat peed on the phone which resulted in me opening it up and cleaning it with alcohol as it went into a restart loop. the phone then booted into recovery but i couldn't mount the sd card.. i then used the JPU 2.2.1 firmware and instaled it with odin. and it worked.. i could access everithyng normaly, but then:
I tryed to do a wipe version of darkys 8.0 and the phone froze when installing.. afterwards i tried to install a stock 2.2.1 JPU firmware and it kept restarting, then i tried the 2.1 again and after the boot animation it booted into a black screen with buttons working (LED).. after some research i installed 2.2.1 again and used speedMod 256 Hz with odin.. now it boots normaly to the system but the internal sd can't be mounted any way so i cant install any apps or use the camera, etc.. it's strange, cause i can't even mount the external SD not in the system and not in recovery (clockwork or e3) (it seems the ext SD is recognised only as a subfolder of the internal SD.. it sucks) so i can't format it.. i still have some hope because the phone boots every time i flash speedmod over 2.2.1 firmware and works as "normal", even if i restart (except some settings not being saved like my google account info..
I guess i hope there is some way to make the phone recognize the external SD card as it's default with some custom kernel, that is why i posted in this thread..
My phone is Europe I9000 non carrier version..
If someone can help me i will be extreemely grateful!
Thanks
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=845708
if you have missed the post .
I tryed to do a wipe version of darkys 8.0
I would try a install of stock Eclair and nothing else first .
jje
I was out today, minding my own business.
In the middle, my phone just shut off. Restarting it, it would not boot past the kernel boot screen, not even into CWM. When I got home, I oneclicked it to stock in an attempt to return to my nandroid CM7 from right before the full-9 package was released. I encountered an issue.
CWM3 said "Error: Can't mount /sdcard". Booted the phone up in JF6, and the storage menu shows both my External and internals reading with total and available space as "Unavailable", and both the mount and format options on both are greyed out. Internal phone storage is normal, however, and reads 1.73GB.
Don't ask me to flash Froyo or something. Standard 2e recovery does not allow me to use a ROM Manager flashable CWM2, thus I cannot flash Froyo or CM7's package. CM7's initial kernel returns the "Can't mount /sdcard" error, so that's also inadequate.
So, anyone have any idea what I'm dealing with here? How would I be able to go about fixing it? If it helps, my IMEI number and all that jazz is still present.
EDIT: I just realised a perplexing quality. The phone will ONLY boot with an external SD in it... Doesn't matter if I remove it after, it just needs an external in it to boot. Once the phone boots, it's dead weight. Funny, as I always flash without it in there...
EDIT2: Found some info from Supercurio on the Bell Vibrant while searching, I wonder if this is relevant...
supercurio said:
On #project-voodoo IRC I helped a user who had issues with his SDcard on a Bell I9000M
Turns out that his internal SD MoviNAND chip was dead!
The system automatically used his external SD as a backup for /data, as the "mmcblk1" device become "mmcblk0".
The internal SD was so dead that the Linux Kernel didn't detected any existence of it anymore.
The symptom that the phone was working (using the external SD) but he couldn't mount his SD card anywhere.
Eventually he had a replacement from Bell in a few days.
What killed the sdcard ? An old Ext2 lagfix when creating the giant 1GB+ loop files.
But it wasn't the lagfix fault. It just acted as accelerator.
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But I've never used that lagfix. I've been on Speedmod then CM7 the entire time.
Maybe flash a kernel with CWM in it, such as speedmod with Odin though I'm clueless as to what happened to your phone. I guess do this, flash a new ROM go from there... Sorry this is my only idea.
emcnelly said:
Maybe flash a kernel with CWM in it, such as speedmod with Odin though I'm clueless as to what happened to your phone. I guess do this, flash a new ROM go from there... Sorry this is my only idea.
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Already said, CWM returns "Can't mount /sdcard" in CM7's CWM3 from the initial kernel... I can't flash Froyo, so Speedmod is out of the question.
Thread moved.
I'd try flashing a full odin stock rom and a .pit with it with repartition checked. I heard someone else with this sort of problem, he used odin one click but still got the same thing, flashed stock gb with a .pit and it worked.
studacris said:
I'd try flashing a full odin stock rom and a .pit with it with repartition checked. I heard someone else with this sort of problem, he used odin one click but still got the same thing, flashed stock gb with a .pit and it worked.
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Did not work; tried flashing JH7, KB1 and JF6, all 3 do not boot past the kernel screen. Only OCD JF6 gets the phone in a working way. I found some other threads, but it's looking worse and worse by the second.
ATT is probably getting a call tomorrow...
Same happened to me, I managed to get JI6 working somewhat. Flash the one click ODIN JI6, wait till bootanimation ends, ROM will not boot up completely so go back into download mode, then flashed speedmod with three button ODIN, let boot up complete then go into recovery and delete user data, wipe cache and dalvik cache.
Still don't have an mnt/sdcard but at least I can make a phone call.
Also, I lost data connection so I had to manually enter APN in settings, wireless and networks, mobile networks, Access point names and create a new APN, I just googled AT&T APN for the values.
Hope it works out as I'm probably going to contact AT&T as well.
I had that happen kinda with "cognadian bacon" it fried my sd card and I flashed odin one click then master cleared in odin. After that I booted up and got my format option back ..... If that doesn't work you could probably hook it to computer (windows) and go under device management and format from there but don't know if will support fat32.. Just a suggestion though.... That what I did for my external sd when it wouldn't recognize it
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hey guys
my sister was attempting to flash a jelly bean rom on her galaxy note which was running a stock ICS rom at the time and it froze during the process it froze.
it now shows a yellow triangle and refuses to boot.
i attempted booting into recovery and flashing a new rom.
i tried to do a full wipe first, but the phone freezes. i booted into recovery mode again and cleared the cache. however when i tried to wipe the davlik cache, i got an error message but it proceeded anyway.
when i try to go ahead and flash the new rom it fails.
i suspect the internal memory is corrupt. what should I do?
swagarr10 said:
hey guys
my sister was attempting to flash a jelly bean rom on her galaxy note which was running a stock ICS rom at the time and it froze during the process it froze.
it now shows a yellow triangle and refuses to boot.
i attempted booting into recovery and flashing a new rom.
i tried to do a full wipe first, but the phone freezes. i booted into recovery mode again and cleared the cache. however when i tried to wipe the davlik cache, i got an error message but it proceeded anyway.
when i try to go ahead and flash the new rom it fails.
i suspect the internal memory is corrupt. what should I do?
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You have bricked the phone. Read about the emmc brick bug and wiping the phone on stock ICS.
XxPixX said:
You have bricked the phone. Read about the emmc brick bug and wiping the phone on stock ICS.
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Thanks. Any links?
Have a look at these:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1633938
and more of the same:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1633943
You might be able to repartition the device with Odin, you will have to wait for a more experienced member of XDA though, I don't know all the steps to repartition the device andI wouldn't like to get your Note in worse condition. But even after repartitioning you will only be able to run slim ROM's - such as slim bean.
XxPixX said:
Have a look at these:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1633938
and more of the same:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1633943
You might be able to repartition the device with Odin, you will have to wait for a more experienced member of XDA though, I don't know all the steps to repartition the device andI wouldn't like to get your Note in worse condition. But even after repartitioning you will only be able to run slim ROM's - such as slim bean.
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Thanks for the help. I'll try repartitioning. I don't know how so I'll google it. But even stock roms wouldn't run? and what's a slim rom?
Basically a very lightweight ROM. Slim Bean is only about 95MB + 25MB for the google apps which you have to flash too.
Here is a link to the ROM:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2060391
You might also be able to run slim versions of TouchWiz (that is the what you get from Samsung). SlimWizz is about 187MB but that will probably be too much.
That may be a softbrick "only". Are you able to get into Download mode? (Volume Down + Home + Power button) If so, you'll be able to flash an official ROM with PC Odin.
Out of curiosity, what procedure did you follow to flash your Jelly Bean ROM? Directly from the stock ICS recovery?
Kortxero said:
That may be a softbrick "only". Are you able to get into Download mode? (Volume Down + Home + Power button) If so, you'll be able to flash an official ROM with PC Odin.
Out of curiosity, what procedure did you follow to flash your Jelly Bean ROM? Directly from the stock ICS recovery?
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sorry for the late reply. i do not know how my sister tried to flash the jelly bean rom. there have been some interesting developments. i obtained a kernel which has enabled me to boot into recovery mode. the problem now is that the note recognises my internal sd as an external sd and vice versa! any help?
swagarr10 said:
sorry for the late reply. i do not know how my sister tried to flash the jelly bean rom. there have been some interesting developments. i obtained a kernel which has enabled me to boot into recovery mode. the problem now is that the note recognises my internal sd as an external sd and vice versa! any help?
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I guess you have flashed the Speedmod kernel/recovery. Then internal (emmc) and external (micro SDcard) are swapped (that's "normal"). So formatting emmc will format the external SD card and formatting external sd-card will format the internal storage. You just need to be aware of this (if you fear you might lose your data in your SD card, simply remove it from the phone before wiping).
Do a full wipe and then follow the procedure detailed in the thread of the ROM you want to flash. Or if you don't know what to do, just get into Download mode as I explained above and flash an official TouchWiz ROM through Odin PC (you can check Dr Ketan's thread here: everything is nicely detailed. Don't forget to hit the Thanks button on his first post as he's really helpful with people).
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I guess you have flashed the Speedmod kernel/recovery. Then internal (emmc) and external (micro SDcard) are swapped (that's "normal"). So formatting emmc will format the external SD card and formatting external sd-card will format the internal storage. You just need to be aware of this (if you fear you might lose your data in your SD card, simply remove it from the phone before wiping).
Do a full wipe and then follow the procedure detailed in the thread of the ROM you want to flash. Or if you don't know what to do, just get into Download mode as I explained above and flash an official TouchWiz ROM through Odin PC (you can check Dr Ketan's thread here: everything is nicely detailed. Don't forget to hit the Thanks button on his first post as he's really helpful with people).
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i'm still unable to flash a rom. it freezes at factoryfs.img. i'm using odin btw. when i try exploring the internal(to my phone, external) sd card, it says : 'can't mount emmc'
i'm guessing the internal memory is still corrupt?
swagarr10 said:
i'm still unable to flash a rom. it freezes at factoryfs.img. i'm using odin btw. when i try exploring the internal(to my phone, external) sd card, it says : 'can't mount emmc'
i'm guessing the internal memory is still corrupt?
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That sucks. It seems you've been a victim of the emmc_CAP_ERASE bug. It's a shame you don't remember how you came to this. Anyway, one of the best solutions in this situation is to send your Note to the service center. The problem here is you have that yellow triangle which will void your warranty (if you still have one). Unless someone has a better idea, I think you have 3 possibilities:
1) Use the PIT file method. That will partition your internal storage card. Don't hesitate to ask questions in the thread if you need. You'll find people to help you.
2) Use a JIG USB key to remove the triangle before sending your device to the service center for repair. You'll find one for a few euros on eBay.
3) Try the JTAG.
To be honest, I haven't tried any of these methods as I've always been careful when flashing stuff. Good luck!
swagarr10 said:
i'm still unable to flash a rom. it freezes at factoryfs.img. i'm using odin btw. when i try exploring the internal(to my phone, external) sd card, it says : 'can't mount emmc'
i'm guessing the internal memory is still corrupt?
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try to read this link:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1667886
i have managed to work around with this thread.. i had a soft bricked too..
Note: after using the pit files and succeeded, do not try to re-partition again specially when you already had 4.1.2
trust me.. youll end up in a hard brick..
jaycm1130 said:
try to read this link:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1667886
i have managed to work around with this thread.. i had a soft bricked too..
Note: after using the pit files and succeeded, do not try to re-partition again specially when you already had 4.1.2
trust me.. youll end up in a hard brick..
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I tried this and it worked! I repartitioned the internal memory and flashed a custom rom. I'm now running Cyanogenmod 10.1.
HOWEVER, the phone freezes randomly and sometimes would even be unable to boot into recovery mode so i have to start the whole process again. Any thoughts
swagarr10 said:
i'm still unable to flash a rom. it freezes at factoryfs.img. i'm using odin btw. when i try exploring the internal(to my phone, external) sd card, it says : 'can't mount emmc'
i'm guessing the internal memory is still corrupt?
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Well it did happens to me before. But after some reading and proper ways on wiping and flashing it works.. :good: