[q] galaxy s soft bricked pls help - Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

I have the galaxy s i9000m from bell. I was running 2.2 froyo and I decided to install Voodoo lagfix. It ran fine and I decided to install 2.3 gingerbread. After install it loaded but started lagging a lot, so i restarted it. Then it froze on the galaxy sign so i did a factory reset from recovery but it still does the same. If i go into recovery it gives me an error E:Can't mount /dev/block/stl10 and internal sd not mounted or something. Tried reflashing with odin but no luck.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1134975
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[Q] help please with 2e recovery error

Hi guys,
just to preface I have read through the readme's and done searches but I can't seem to find a fix for my problem.
Was originally on JH2 and flashed via ODIN to JM8 successfully with the intent of getting to JPM. When trying to flash JPM it freezes about halfway and fails, however reflashing JM8 via download mode/odin works again. I also noticed that somewhere along the line i've screwed up my recovery mode somehow getting the errors:
multicsc:can not access to /system/csc/OPS/system
and
can't mount /dev/block/stl11 (invalid argument)
what do these errors mean...and how can I fix them?
Currently JM8 works, but I can't use recovery to wipe data/factory reset or wipe cache partition.
I've tried flashing without the re-partition but to no avail.
I feel as if fixing this can get me onto froyo.
Sorry but i'm a bit of a noob at this, got this far through extensive reading.
If not specifically answering my question could you at least please direct me to the right sources/threads which can help with my dilemma?
cheers
Try clockwork mod. With that factoryreset should be possible
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worst time for this to happen, keep getting the android market download unsuccessful problem so can't download ROM manager. Any other way to get the apps onto my phone without the market?
ALso, how is this lkely to fix my recovery mode issue when it seems the current 3button recovery mode is already screwed up?
U should flash a kernel that includes cwm. Like 'superoptimized jp6-jpm kernel' that should enable recovery again.
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i9000m inaccessible. Internal SD?

I have an i9000m with 2.1 and voodoo. I decided to upgrade to the JK3 firmware today when this happened. I backed up data, did a factory reset, removed the sim and flashed JK3 through Odin. Booted up fine, but when I try to run any app it force-closed.
So i powered down and tried to flash back to JH2. Got into Download Mode and flashed it, upon reboot i got this error
E:Cant mount /dev/block/mmcblk0p1
(no such file or directory}
e:copy_dbdata_media:Cant mount SDCARD:
copy default media content failed
Tried a flash to JG8 and still the same thing. If I make it boot it goes to the Galaxy S animation and just hangs. The touch sensitive buttons light up, nothing on the screen.
I can still get into Download mode, but recovery mode gives me this
update media, please wait
E:Cant mount /dev/block/mmcblk0p1
(IO Error)
e:copy_dbdata_media:Cant mount SDCARD:
copy default media content failed
Advice? Internal SD dead?
ap27 said:
I have an i9000m with 2.1 and voodoo. I decided to upgrade to the JK3 firmware today when this happened. I backed up data, did a factory reset, removed the sim and flashed JK3 through Odin. Booted up fine, but when I try to run any app it force-closed.
So i powered down and tried to flash back to JH2. Got into Download Mode and flashed it, upon reboot i got this error
E:Cant mount /dev/block/mmcblk0p1
(no such file or directory}
e:copy_dbdata_media:Cant mount SDCARD:
copy default media content failed
Tried a flash to JG8 and still the same thing. If I make it boot it goes to the Galaxy S animation and just hangs. The touch sensitive buttons light up, nothing on the screen.
I can still get into Download mode, but recovery mode gives me this
update media, please wait
E:Cant mount /dev/block/mmcblk0p1
(IO Error)
e:copy_dbdata_media:Cant mount SDCARD:
copy default media content failed
Advice? Internal SD dead?
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Hi. First question is... Did you disable the voodo lagfix before you flashed? This is a MUST when flashing and you diddnt mention it in your post.
The bad news is I believe that your internal SD card is toast and it will need to be sent in for repair. Sorry to be the bearrer of bad news...
Thanks for the reply!
Yea I disabled voodoo but I forgot to unroot it. I'm not sure if thats necessary.
I was beginning to think so. I'll take it back then
well the next best thing to try is to flash back to a stock ROM like JH2 and see if you are able to revive the internal SD
if not, then it's a visit to a Bell Store for repairs
Tried both JH2 and JG8, no revival so far.
Repairs it is i guess.
Btw, your sig exactly describes my SGS before I tried flashing JK3 on it, well besides the fact that i used voodoo! I guess I'd advise you to not flash it right now
I don't understand why so many seem to have issues with JK3. I find it to be a great ROM that has better performance than JH2. Many seem to have issues right after flashing JK3 so I'm thinking it has something to do with with how it's being flashed.
I haven't had any issues flashing and I don't know if it's because of the process I use or what. I've been using Odin 1.7 and never re-partition.
This is how I do it:
- unroot phone
- remove external SD and SIM
- wipe/factory reset
- flash with Odin, no pit, only 'auto reboot' checked
- fully boot up phone then shut down
- wipe/factory reset again
- insert external SD and SIM
- set the phone back up like i would a new device
I like to have my phone completely back to stock before flashing another ROM, especially if it's an upgrade from a previous ROM. I haven't had any problems from flashing but maybe I've just been lucky
dm-digital said:
I don't understand why so many seem to have issues with JK3. I find it to be a great ROM that has better performance than JH2. Many seem to have issues right after flashing JK3 so I'm thinking it has something to do with with how it's being flashed.
I haven't had any issues flashing and I don't know if it's because of the process I use or what. I've been using Odin 1.7 and never re-partition.
This is how I do it:
- unroot phone
- remove external SD and SIM
- wipe/factory reset
- flash with Odin, no pit, only 'auto reboot' checked
- fully boot up phone then shut down
- wipe/factory reset again
- insert external SD and SIM
- set the phone back up like i would a new device
I like to have my phone completely back to stock before flashing another ROM, especially if it's an upgrade from a previous ROM. I haven't had any problems from flashing but maybe I've just been lucky
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Hey...looks like you use the I9000m version. I have some questions-
1.Have you tried flashing back to stock from darky's ROM or any other ROM?
2.If yes could you tell me if it's the above procedure you used or anything more?
3.Also, did you unroot your phone when on CF Root? How did you do it? (oneclick?)

[Q] HELP ! CM7 install

When installing cm7 1.0 rc on i9000, ive been trying for a week now to get this right. Tried to install cm7 from froyo stock, no luck. Tried installing GB 2.3.4 stock and tried again.
When installing in cmr it says install complete and then the phone reboots into cm7, now installation guides say the phone should boot into cmr and then you can install Gapps or whatever. This is not the case though.
Also i asked for advice in XDA regarding another issue and was advised to run a nightly version of cm7. This i dont understand.
Also when i try and restore to GB 2.3.4 stock in cmr, it says resore sucessfull/complete, then the phone reboots and gets no further than the Samsung Galaxy S startup screen, the phone then reboots into cmr and i get E: errors such as cant mount cache, or cant find cache/mount/log, then the phone has to be re-flashed back to stock GB 2.3.4.
1. there is no suck thing as rc10...
2.you can`t restore old gb rom...you need to flash through odin using repartition and then restore, because cm7 is mtd
Its cm7 1.0 rc sorry
can you please point me to a link that shows how to do this this is my first samsung phone and these thing are different to me thanks in advance
this is what he has been trying http://tips4tech.net/2011/04/how-to...cm7-on-galaxy-s-review-tutorial-and-download/
any help would be greatly appreciated

[Q] Unable to mount /sdcard ??

Hi
I have a a galaxy s i9000 with cyanogen mod on it. about a week ago it became laggy. I upgraded it to the latest cyanogen rom (gingerbread 2.3.5) and it got even even worse. every now and then it restarts itself if the wifi was on. so I decided to flash the stock 2.3.5 I did and everything went smoothly but it always get stuck in the tutorial because it couldnt load the keypad. I flashed it again and boom, it doesnt work at all now. all I get is unable to mount /sdcard I tried flashing it again but nothing changed. looked around I found people with similer problems but none fixed !
help please?
Make sure you wipe all data, cache, etc. before you flash again.
If you have clockworkmod recovery, this is quite easy...just erase/wipe everything you can find in the options.
I didn't have the same problem, but have had problems with ROMs not wanting to flash, and this worked. All depends on the type of ROM being flashed, wipe/non-wipe, etc.
Search the forums for ezbase 4.0.. flash that with ezodin... saves me everytime
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I did try to swipe/erase everything
I can't, it gives me the same error unable to mount /sdcard
I flashed EZbase 4.0 still the same problem.
Thanks alot though
Any ideas ??

[Q] failed to mount /sdcard error

hi guys
this is my first post on this kickass site and i hope that someone can help me with this rather strange error :victory:
as the subject of topic says , i get this error whenever i boot my friends sgs into recovery as normal booting goes on loop forever.
this is the error i get in the recovery of stock I9000XXJVU:
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--Copying media files...
E:failed to mount /sdcard (file exists)
E:copy_dbdata_media:can't mount /sdcard
your storage not prepared yet,please use UI menu for format and reboot actions
media files copy failed
# MANUAL MODE #
-- Applying Multi-CSC...
Installing Multi-CSC
Can't access to '/system/csc/TRA/system/'.
Successfully applied multi-CSC
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
what happened is this:
my friend had a sgs and i wanted to flash it with cyanogenmod 10 (android 4.1)
the stock firmware was 2.2 iirc.
i just rooted the stock and flashed the 4.1
it went ok but i saw the mounting error back then sometime that i rebooted the device with 4.1 on it but didn't get that error all the time and it would boot just fine.
then the error popuped more and more.
so i decided to flash stock 2.3.6 ,rooting it and finaly go back to 4.1.
after i flashed the device using I9000XXJVU it goes on loop.
recovery and downloading mode works.but the recovery give me that error i said above.
i guess a hardware issue but i don't know for sure
i'm lost here :silly:
help me plz
Thanks in advance
Hi flash this http://db.tt/T8ZpfTPa in pda section in odin
Then see & follow my last post in this thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1993937
Donovan662 said:
Hi flash this http://db.tt/T8ZpfTPa in pda section in odin
Then see & follow my last post in this thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1993937
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thanks for the reply.
i did what you said and its still in loop and same error in recover.
why my internal sdcard isn't mountable?can it be hardware failure?
Same errors?
Donovan662 said:
Same errors?
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yep same error as before.
after flashing is done and it want to install the package,it get stock and give me that mounting error.
i just want to know if this problem is software or hardware
I also had this problem. Was on stock JVT with semaphore, partitions converted to ext4.
I decided to reboot my phone for no particular reason (was working reat) and when i powered it on kept boot looping without really getting past the samsung gt-i9000 white letters / black background screen.
CWM recovery said it was unable to mount any partition. External SD mounted fine, just nothing from the internel sd. No system, data, whatever. Got me thinking i may had my internal sd malfunctioning.
I just flashed it with odin and my stock branded operator rom (2.3.3) and done nothing more. No repartition. Working great. Was probably some ext4 error.
Before that i had been using cyanogen stable. Started giving FC like mad, so i flashed that stock JVT. On hindsight it may only had been the data partition that had run out of free space but i had no way of knowing when it happened and needed my phone running.
Reflashing got mine running again. Maybe try with Heimdall if odin's not working for you? Be sure to get a complete rom, with bootloaders and such. I'd suggest your operator's stock one. That way you can also send it back to samsung if it still doesn't work.
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Found this post somewhere in the xda forum, it helped many people having the same problem as yours, hope it helps you !!!!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1841250
See problem 11 exact same problem described
thanks for the help guys
i tried everything that came to my mine and used this topic for my errors but still get errors
problem 11 and 12 are the ones i get flashing different roms
even tried a Rescue kit from here but no go...
why this is happening to me?
the failed to mount as i have come to understand is internal SD card failure you will have to give external SD card a try
Check this thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2059098&page=2
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