hey guys i flashed back to stock 2.1 from miui as i was having issues on miui as i think my initial flash was poor. I reflashed 2.1 but my internal sd card files remain. I thought odin wiped all things and repartitioned. how can i wipe completely?
xtracrispy69 said:
hey guys i flashed back to stock 2.1 from miui as i was having issues on miui as i think my initial flash was poor. I reflashed 2.1 but my internal sd card files remain. I thought odin wiped all things and repartitioned. how can i wipe completely?
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Odin doesn't do either of those things unless you tell it to. But you need to use odin one click and master clear for a wiped phone. This will delete everything so back up your stuff or run the master clear without your sim/external sd in the phone.
If you used a .pit with it then you're file system has been repartitioned, it doesn't wipe the sdcard as that has nothing to do with the system, it where you keep your stuff.
That would like swapping an engine in a car and also taking everything out of the trunk.
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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?
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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.
kakalaky said:
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.
I am currently running eclair 2.1 with the jh7 update rooted with OCLF and I need to know when to wipe data and cache with CWrecovery and also when to factory reset. My goal is to have a clean switch to Cog 2.2.5 without having to use Odin back to stock. So please tell me when to do these things to have a clean install. Like before or after i install the new rom??
You have to use Odin to flash to stock first or something may end up corrupted during the Cog flash. I would back up all files from your internal SD to your PC first and remove your SIM and external SD card . I believe that a Master Clear wipes everything but a factory reset leaves everything on your internal intact. Things have less chance of corruption and run smoother when done this way.
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Hi Guys,
I've been looking in the forum but the info I find is form March and not really helpfull.
I flashed stock 2.3.5 XXJVT with Semaphore kernel.
I am having some programs crashing and I think the reason is a failed full wipe.
If I go to CWM and do wipe cache...etc, I boot my phone and although the apps are gone, all my internal junk is still there!
How can I completly wipe the SGS?
Thanks!
what internal junks are you referring to? Those apps that came with the ROM will not be removed by full wiping.
you could have a bad flash, try to flash again with the PIT and re partition.
I'm also on stock JVT and Semaphore, my SGS is working flawlessly.
If you're referring to files leftover on your sd card, simply format it.
Thanks guys, will try both options.
By the way, which PIT file should I use?
Hi all.
I am currently running ripper rom v13 with CWM and I wish to COMPLETELY wipe the contents of my Samsung Galaxy S3 LTE back to bare minimum without damaging partitions that are delicate.
I have tried performing a factory reset under SETTINGS. This left files/folders/photographs when browsing the phone.
I have performed a wipe via CWM, deleted data, system, davlik and cache partitions. This left files and folders as above.
After wiping the phone via the two methods above, I flashed ripper rom v13 rom and after booting I ran through the setup options (choose wireless etc), yet I still have folders remaining relating to OLD apps that I have removed or no longer need.
How can this be?
I have discovered there is a MegaWipe zip but this is not compatible with the 19305T - are there alternatives that I have missed?
Is this something to do with the internal SD card? Have I not wiped this? HELP!
CWM recovery mounts and storage .
Format sd card system cache data and preload .
Boot to download mode flash stock rom .
jje
Hi there,
Thanks for the reply. If I boot to download mode and flash stock rom, how do I do this? I've never performed this before. Do I have to flash stock rom? Can't I pick the ripper rom v13 again if I place it in ext sd card?
Sorry for so many questions!
There is a Mod called "Make Lite Rom" in the Update Me>Add/Remove Applications app that comes with the Ripper ROM. Not too sure if you want this.
Alternatively, there are other ROMs which are stock Android Based (I have tried Sentinel for a few hours).
JJEgan said:
CWM recovery mounts and storage .
Format sd card system cache data and preload .
Boot to download mode flash stock rom .
jje
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Hi JJE,
I did as you said, I flashed the stock ROM using Odin and then went through the procedure of installing CWM and rooting.
I am now back into the Telstra stock ROM and all works fine, yet there are still remains of old apps in the phone??? I can see a friendcaster folder
and GO folders...yet before I flashed the stock ROM I did a full wipe.
I downloaded the stock ROM from Sammobile - Could it be that I need a full wipe ROM instead?
Any ideas?
Thanks!