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strange question: from me anyway

I am not used to samsung with being mainly HTC influenced, but.... How do I put this galaxy S back to exactly the way it came, its got 2e recovery and I have flashed everything thats available on the forum. The problem I have now is no roms I install will let me use the market, In the logcat when i try and install something its getting an error saying
Code:
D/DownloadManager( 3155): download aborted - not enough free space in internal storage
D/vending (18371): [33] AssetDownloader$DownloadManagerBroadcastReceiver.handleIntent(): Couldn't find pathname for Intent Intent { act=android.intent.action.DOWNLOAD_COMPLETED dat=content://downloads/download/5
app storage 1.75gb free
steps to resolve:
re flash pit 512 with GT-I9000_I9000XWJM8_I9000XXJM4_CODE-MODEM with repartition ticked, unsuccessful download in market
any ideas before i buy a nexus? lol cheers

I am having the same issue, multiple ROMs. this is following doing a JIG ODIN recovery and flashing a few roms. Also, when in CWR I can't mount sd-ext. SD card seems to be okay, no warnings about corruption or anything like that, can browse and load files to it. I'm wondering if I have partitioned something incorrectly or if I need to flash a .pit in ODIN?

the_colinater said:
I am having the same issue, multiple ROMs. this is following doing a JIG ODIN recovery and flashing a few roms. Also, when in CWR I can't mount sd-ext. SD card seems to be okay, no warnings about corruption or anything like that, can browse and load files to it. I'm wondering if I have partitioned something incorrectly or if I need to flash a .pit in ODIN?
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does it show E:INFO WRONGError mounting SDEXT:! when trying to mount in cwm?

Yes that's exactly what it says. I can't format sd-ext either, gives E: INFO is WRONGError mounting /sd-ext/!
EDIT: Resolved the issue by flashing my stock firmware (Bell i9000M I9000UGJH2), 512 pit, odin 1.3, re-partition. Will be staying at stock for the time being due concerns about the SD card and the need for me to remove my ghetto download mode JIG from my living room. Oh, and ocean waves LWP is the bomb, would kill for it on FROYO.

Need help rebuilding emmc

Ok fellas, my nook color has been out of commission for over 2 months. I can boot from sd but not from internal emmc.
Sam has been helpin me but it has been difficult due to him being in a different part of the world. From what i've been told my emmc is corrupt and my partitions need to be rebuilt or formatted.
I have tried the different fixes here and still i am stuck on the N screen.
I am trying to return my NC to stock form.
I will let Sam chime in also. I know there are a lot of talents on this forum and pretty sure this can be fixed.
Thanks everyone..
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Hi,
As Wendell said, I've tried helping him with his corrupt emmc.
The problem is:
The emmc semms to be corrupt, or at least some sectors of it. Wendell cannot return it, because it boots to CWR. That's the strange part, though the disk seems totally corrupt, it still seems to be able to boot. I guess some sectors and still working. But I don't know of any way to find out which..
This is what I know so far:
The internal emmc generally returns I/O error when trying to use fdisk or parted.
But, somehow, depending on the bs and count, I can dd /dev/zero to it.
Even after having dd zeros to it, it still seems to boot to internal CWR. So, the dd isn't working. Still don't know why, or how to remedy to it.
If someone could give us a clue or two here, it would be very much appreciated. I must admit I'm really no HDD expert..
Thanks!!
Sam

http://nookdevs.com/Flash_back_to_clean_stock_ROM
Have you guys tried this? Or has an internal EMMC rom been flashed?

Any idea how the partition became corrupt? Did you dual-boot?

Partition became corrupt after flashing a couple of the very first OC kernels. Not sure if thats what caused it but wouldn't boot past N screen. Since then i have been trying to fix it by doing the several fixes to no avail and possibly damaging the emmc even more.
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fprice02 said:
http://nookdevs.com/Flash_back_to_clean_stock_ROM
Have you guys tried this? Or has an internal EMMC rom been flashed?
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Please correct if I'm wrong but i think i need the stock recovery for this method. Unfortunately, the stock was replaced with CWR and now i cannot even get rid of CWR off the internal. If I could do it again, I would not place CWR on internal but rather run it off sd. I installed CWR via rom manager because the sd method was not yet available.

Try option number 3 in the thread I made in the general forum. the clockworkmod recover + stuck at " " screen. Flashing cwm via rom manager can cause corrupted /boot partition
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Woot , thanks for your response.
I have tried those methods to no avail. I can currently boot into CWR via 'home+N' but here is the crazy part, I cannot use the zip that sam made to remove CWR from emmc or even try to update to 3.0.1.0 via the CWR zip. My CWR on the emmc will not budge at all.
Sam, has even tried to erase my emmc totally from being able to boot to CWR just so I can get it looked at by B&N but CWR will not budge.

Excuse my ignorance, but will linux run off the sd card on the nook?
What about using something like GParted? Perhaps the USB bootable image on the sd card might work?

I know you are all trying to help. But please keep in mind that there aren't any obvious answers here. The emmc is corrupt. You can't flash anything to it.. and as I already stated, parted won't work either, it returns I/o error.
The only strange thing is that the nook still boots.. I can't understand that as the emmc lacks any partition table.
We need someone with hdd repairing experience. None of the answers found on existant threads will help Wendell..
Thank you.
Sam
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samuelhalff said:
The only strange thing is that the nook still boots.. I can't understand that as the emmc lacks any partition table.
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The boot may be from real hardware/non-eemc rom.
I know you said it's a emmc error - but have you tried to flash back to stock using CWM off of the SD with thecubed's MonsterRoot pack?

Yes
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I'm sure you have tried this... but just in case...
Can you fdisk the partitions... then dd image img files to it?
I don't know if you will have any way of saving mmcblk0p2 and 3 to save your device specific information.

I believe sam has already tried
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Here is what i would try.
First thing, get a cwm sd card setup that is bootable and has a decent amount of space so you can backup your emmc. The cwm sd card will allow us to adb in, but not worry about having any emmc partitions mounted (booting to a full android image would want at least the mmcblk0p2 partition mounted).
Make sure you have adb setup and working, so you can adb in once you've booted into cwm from the sd card. Make sure you know how to use adb pull and adb push to get files onto and off of the device easily.
Boot from the card, adb shell into the device. make sure when you are doing dd commands you are pulling from and writing to image files in a directory on the sd card, not on the emmc. you probably shouldn't even have any emmc partitions mounted at all.
Note: dd and bzip2 are both on the cwm 3.0.10 ramdisk, dunno about the earlier versions
I'd make a backup image of your emmc just in case things go from bad to worse:
Code:
dd if=/dev/mmcblk0 | bzip2 -9 > backup.img.bz2
This will take a while.
Now you'll need a MBR from someone with a stock partition table (i'm dual booting so mine probably won't work, otherwise i'd make one for you). Any volunteers?
Code:
dd if=/dev/mmcblk0 of=mbr.img bs=512 count=1
Once you have this file, just dump the image onto your emmc.
Code:
dd if=mbr.img of=/dev/mmcblk0
once you have a working partition table, you should be on your way to using the standard recovery techniques peppered throughout the forums.
btw, this won't fix any corruption in the extended partition table, that would take a little more effort (i'd have to read up on where/how that info is saved). Also obviously if it's a hardware problem rather than just corrupted data you have more problems than this will fix.
p.s. cwm loading witch a corrupt partiton table isn't that weird imho. the bootloader has barely over 400 bytes to load up the boot file and hand things off, it's probably not taking a close look at the partition map when it does this.

I know am probably being a stupid noob...have you tried the 8 failed boots?
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wendellc said:
Woot , thanks for your response.
I have tried those methods to no avail. I can currently boot into CWR via 'home+N' but here is the crazy part, I cannot use the zip that sam made to remove CWR from emmc or even try to update to 3.0.1.0 via the CWR zip. My CWR on the emmc will not budge at all.
Sam, has even tried to erase my emmc totally from being able to boot to CWR just so I can get it looked at by B&N but CWR will not budge.
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Again..probably being a noob...are the file permissions set as ro? Mayhaps you need to change permissions?
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Lol.
Thanks for all your input.
DD and fdisk return i/o error. DD only works if I use i.e 1M as BS.
It seems there isn't any partition table on the emmc.
I guess some sectors are dead. The idea would be to identify which ones and erase them.
Although simply being able to remove the bootloader would allow Wendell to bring it back to the shop..
Maybe someone has a clue as to how to delete completely the first X sectors of emmc..?
Thanks.
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samuelhalff said:
Lol.
Thanks for all your input.
DD and fdisk return i/o error. DD only works if I use i.e 1M as BS.
It seems there isn't any partition table on the emmc.
I guess some sectors are dead. The idea would be to identify which ones and erase them.
Although simply being able to remove the bootloader would allow Wendell to bring it back to the shop..
Maybe someone has a clue as to how to delete completely the first X sectors of emmc..?
Thanks.
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Did you read my post? It is exactly telling you how to replace the first sector of the emmc. you can source it from /dev/zero with a bs=512 and a count=1 if you really wanna wipe the bootloader, but better would be just getting it working yeah? all our nooks have the same partition map (unless we are dual booting) and that map is stored on the first sector. My instruction tell how to pull the first sector with dd, and how to push it back on. notice i'm accessing the mmc directly? not the partitions? so unless his hardware is bad (or the extended partition is corrupt too) then my instructions will work. He just needs a copy of the first sector of a working nook. I'd put mine up but i'm not sure it would work, i have two extra partitions from stock. It probably wouldn't matter, but i'm not 100% sure on that, so i'd rather it be someone else that makes the image from a nook with a stock partition map (the contents of the partitions can be whatever, as long as they are all in the same place as stock).

Hi,
Thanks. Yes, I read your post. dd, for some reason, only works if I set bs to at least 1M. I don't have the NC, but maybe Wendell could confirm that.
Wendell: go to "adb shell" and type [dd if=/dev/zero of="/dev/block/mmcblk0" bs=512 count=1] without the [].
Please confirm that this returns an I/O error.
But for some reason, using 1M or greater as bs works, but the bootloader still isn't erased.. it still boots to CWR..
I'm pretty sure all the I/O error i've had mean that there's a hardware failure.. But that's my opinion, nothing more..
Thanks.

i9000 Bootloop/Internal SD Corruption/Semi-Brick

I have an international i9000 that seems to be pretty solidly soft-bricked. I've recently moved back to Canada from the Middle East and was trying to enable to 850 band so I could use it with Bell. I was under the impression that the Bell SGS and the international SGS were basically the same hardware so I flashed (ODIN) a PDA/PHONE/CSC designed for the i9000m. At the time I was on the teamhacksung ICS.
Now, regardless of what I do I always end up in basically the same spot. After my most recent flash through Heimdall, following the first reboot I end up in 3e recovery with the following errors...
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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
E:format_volume: rfs format failed on /dev/block/mmcblk0p2
Data wipe failed
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I've been at this for 2 days and tried pretty much everything. Flashed through Odin and Heimdall as well as from recovery off an external SD. I tried 1-click de-brick. I tried to re-partition through ADB. I get various messages in ADB depending on what I'm doing. Sometimes it's I/O errors and sometimes it says "unrecognized disk label".
I can get to recovery and download so it seems like it should be solvable. My impression is that the partition table or structure on the internal SD card has been corrupted.
Sorry if there is already a thread for this with a simple answer, I've been through a ton and couldn't find anything that worked for me. Any suggestions would be appreciated. I'm not an expert in shell but I can follow instructions. Happy to try anything at this point.
Thanks

Exactly the same issue here, so I'll just wait for a solution here.

I think I saw this problems before. Have u backed up all your data? If yes then do this 3 ways below. If you haven't backed up yet, try to do Nandroid backup from recovery mode and restore it later.
Now try this:
1. On recovery mode: wipe data/factory reset, wipe cache, in advance-wipe Dalvik cache.
2. Remove your external sd card ( put it back later if everything's fine ).
3: Set the USB debugging ON, settings-applications-development.
Hope this helps. If it does, please consider 'THANKS' button

At this point it doesn't boot into Android. It was looping for a while but now the boot animation will start, then the screen will go black and the back/options LEDs at the bottom come on. Anything on the phone is long gone after multiple wipes/flashes/etc. I'm not worried about that.
I'm pretty sure it's a problem with the partition on the internal SD. Does anyone know how to reset/repair the partition table and rebuild the partitions from ADB? Why doesn't that happen automatically when I flash from Odin/Heimdall? Isn't that the point of the "partition" toggle?
Or, could I try to convert the file system as if I were moving from a stock ROM to something like CM7 (ie...RFS to EXT4)? Would that recreate the partitions and fix this?
Thanks

Have you tried to flash a stock samsung firmware for your phone (i9000) and re partition using a 512 pit file via Odin? Have a read of the following thread below to get the latest Stock firmware for (i9000).
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1102881

Yep, I've tried several of these across froyo/gingerbread and always end up with an unmountable internal SD card. Just for fun I went and picked another one basically at random (JV6 2.3.3) and it flashed as normal and dumped me at recovery with the mounting sd card/storage not prepared error.
Are there really no takers on this? I keep reading that these are un-brickable if they still start up.

This might be worth a try, failing that you might have to take the phone to a Samsung repair agent.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=984140

i read about this problem before on darkyrom i think there was a way to bypass corrupt internal sd and use external one go check there its worth a try

Fallen04 said:
This might be worth a try, failing that you might have to take the phone to a Samsung repair agent.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=984140
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Kiaora mate, it's a good thread to try to . Just another thread I found that may help the idea as well:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1442684&highlight=md5+sums
Hope this helps

Hi!
I had the same problem with my i9000. I have moved /data to external SD card and everything is working now (on ICS).
I have created a manual for solving this issue. Please click "helped" and/or ads, if this helped at least a bit.
www youtube com/watch?v=zdMhYYdMB08
Best regards

fteller said:
Hi!
I had the same problem with my i9000. I have moved /data to external SD card and everything is working now (on ICS).
I have created a manual for solving this issue. Please click "helped" and/or ads, if this helped at least a bit.
www youtube com/watch?v=zdMhYYdMB08
Best regards
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I've the same problem and I've tried everything. Not I'm sure that the internal memory is broken, so I want to use the external sd as internal memory. I'm following your manual but I can't get it to work. I tell you what I've done:
1) I've formated the external sdcard with two partitions: one of 6 GB in vfat format and the other of 8GB in reiserfs. It seems to be ok.
2) I've tried to flash with odin the JVU 2.3.6 version. Here I've some questions: Shall I check re-partition? And apply the PIT file? I've tried all combinations but I still doesn't use the external memory and I get the mmcblk0p2 error...
Any help?

Here I have posted how I have solved my problem of corrupt internal memory. Look at it and I hope someone will help.

This guide install rom to SD Card, but still have question, how to repair internal memory? i`l boot`ed rom from SD Card, but cant see internal memory, use camera, etc. who need internal memory...
Maybe are any app to fix internal memory, when android boot`ed?

In most cases I have met (including Galaxy Tab P1000 and GT-i9003) with internal memory failure or corrupted memory, the only solution is to replace the chip. If you've booted your terminal and can not use the camera or see the internal storage, you have to modify the file vold.fstab according to your android version.

[Q] SD Card and Data and Datadata blocked for changes, no flash possible

Hello all,
I've got a GT-I9000, which have a ugly situation:
- on starting some apps generally break down with errormessage (Maps, Mail.web.de and others
- any change in the system are not persistent (passwords are lost, new Apps can not be installed, Apps can not deleted)
- Changes on internal SDCard are also completely not persistent (nor Deletion or copy files on the storrage, nor formatation)
- complete wipe are also not persistent, but after a new start the smartphone makes a initialisation-Setup (asking for settings Google account and so on), but other settings are still there (background pic and so on)
- Wipe did not work over settings and also not over the CWM recovery
- Flashing did not work for the system. Tryed one file versions, and three file versions with and without 512.pit and repart. But odin (1.85) told everything was fine while flashing
- Kernel and recovery-flashing works without a problem.
- used actual drivers, Kies not running in system (shutdown via taskmanager)
- Downloadmode, recovery works. Access via usb is possible in running system and over CWM, but changes are nor persistent (so it is not possible to flash via CWM, because I can not store data on the SDCard, and I ve actual no external SDCard..
So after searching a lot of forum enrys I can see, that there are some other guys which have the same prolem, but I found no working solution. I think that there are the following possebillities:
- the NAND is brocken in some areas
- the partitions/partition-tables are not working right
- maybe the MFT is brocken...
- motherboard defect
- negative energy from space or aliens lives in the phone
So I'm interested in you thougths, and your ideas. I ve no problem to use Linuxs or windows tools, and it would be absolutley great if someone can told me that there is a posebility to recover the phone (other way of check the ram, partitioning in other ways and so on)
What do you think,
Best regards
Solar Plexus
PS: sorryfor my mistakes and my english, but the used keyboard is poor, and my english is not good

SolarPlexus said:
So I'm interested in you thougths, and your ideas. I ve no problem to use Linuxs or windows tools, and it would be absolutley great if someone can told me that there is a posebility to recover the phone (other way of check the ram, partitioning in other ways and so on)
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IF its a hardware problem, you need to use a box or JTAG solution to identify the problem, so just try exhausting Software solution, till you are sure its a hardware issue.
visit My Android Collections downgrade your phone to the earliest version, Eclair ( but your combo keys will not work) so you need to flash the fix or try froyo or try the i9000 rescue kit with heimdall or recovery tools to flash
or.
get an 8 gig EXT SD card, partition it as a 2 gig and 6 gig in rfs /vfat format, try flashing the ROM with speedmod kernel for i9000

Thanks at first for your Informations!
xsenman said:
IF its a hardware problem, you need to use a box or JTAG solution to identify the problem, so just try exhausting Software solution, till you are sure its a hardware issue.
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So I'll retry at first the Software-way. But nevertheless I'm thinking about to buy also a JIG, because it seems that I flash more and more, and then it will be a good idea to have a emergency-tool to reach the download-screen. I've read sometimes that this stickers clean also the counter and triangle stuff, but I'm ot sure if this will also work for my new S3? (sorry, is a little of topic)...
xsenman said:
visit My Android Collections downgrade your phone to the earliest version, Eclair ( but your combo keys will not work) so you need to flash the fix or try froyo or try the i9000 rescue kit with heimdall or recovery tools to flash
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OK, I'll try the downgrade and also the rescue-kit at weekend. We will see...
xsenman said:
get an 8 gig EXT SD card, partition it as a 2 gig and 6 gig in rfs /vfat format, try flashing the ROM with speedmod kernel for i9000
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Here I'm a little puzzled. If I understand it right I have to format the SD-Card with two partitions, and then I flash the Rom on it?? I've never heard that this is possible. If yes, Odin recognize this automatically? Or does this only mean, that the I9000 have then a external Storrage which may improve the flash-process for CWM?
Thanks, and Best regards,
SolarPlexus

SolarPlexus said:
Here I'm a little puzzled. If I understand it right I have to format the SD-Card with two partitions, and then I flash the Rom on it?? I've never heard that this is possible. If yes, Odin recognize this automatically? Or does this only mean, that the I9000 have then a external Storrage which may improve the flash-process for CWM?
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Nope, what I am looking at is, its possible your problems could be due to internal SD card corruption ( hence trying to isolate it using your External SD card to perform as its internal SD card) , as such by using the external SD card, with speedmod kernel, which is capable of reading that as your Internal SD card. In other words its like switching the cards and flashing the ROM. Read this
BTW this will work when Internal SD card totally corrupted and I am not sure it will work in partial corruption ( as you indicate) but worth giving it a try.
also look at this
yup, usb jig will work for S3 too, and triangle away works only for s2 and up, and S does not have a flash counter.

OK, sounds as we have maybe a way... SDCard switch is something what comes not in my mind, so now I have a little hope
So as I can do that only later in the weekend, I'll post my tests later.
Thanks
SP

Hello,
the external SD-Card could do the trick. I've startet in that way, format the ext-sd-card in two partitions (one reiserfs and one Vfat) and flash the modified firmware which was found in your link. Now I can start the Smartphone. but I have no acces to the SD-Card, but I can see, that the problem seems to be the internal SD-Card.
So now I'll try to use a custom-rom (maybe slim 4.1.2) and try to modify it in that way which was described in your link. If I will succseed, I'll maybe upload the package, or try to store it in the slimrom-area or whatever
By the way:
with speedmod kernel, which is capable of reading that as your Internal SD card
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I did not find a option in the speedmodkernel for switching the internal and external SD-Card (K17). But I've try to find that while I have no ext-SD-Card in the phone, so maybe the option was hidden...
Thanks up to now, and best regards,
SP

There is no switch in speedmod kernels but it is designed to read both rfs and ext2/4 formats and partitions as such it will automatically read the available partitions as its internal SD card. And its best to use ICS or Jbean custom ROMs, when Internal SD card is unavailable due to any reason.
good luck on trials and do upload whatever here or on a new thread that may help others solve such issues.

boot problem after flashing

i have this error after flashing with odin,i tried flashing db data but is not working,any ideeas?i have posted the image

try CWM recovery

ciprian77 said:
i have this error after flashing with odin,i tried flashing db data but is not working,any ideeas?i have posted the image
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You might need to try a different recovery (like CWM or TWRP) or you will have to repartition your phone using a pit file in ODIN

I have exact same problem as you... I tried repartition with pit, darkys Resurrection rom db data but nothing seems to work. Have you resolved the issue? When I flash darkys rom I get rfs problem but I can't figure out how to add cache.rfs to Odin, any thoughts on that??

ozyk100 said:
I have exact same problem as you... I tried repartition with pit, darkys Resurrection rom db data but nothing seems to work. Have you resolved the issue? When I flash darkys rom I get rfs problem but I can't figure out how to add cache.rfs to Odin, any thoughts on that??
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You sure you repartitioned properly? (Including format of internal sd card?) Did you use the pit file?

gsstudios said:
You sure you repartitioned properly? (Including format of internal sd card?) Did you use the pit file?
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Used pit file 512 that came with the rom, folowed instuctions to the letter but no matter what I do or how many times I flash rom or standalone dbdata file error remains the same!

ozyk100 said:
Used pit file 512 that came with the rom, folowed instuctions to the letter but no matter what I do or how many times I flash rom or standalone dbdata file error remains the same!
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But did you format your internal storage? You should flash froyo as what you said in the other thread.

Woke up one day to a boot loop, don't know how to format storage since it can't mount sdcard and there's no way for windows to recognize it in this state! Do you believe that Froyo will somehow solve this problem?
How do you suggest I format storage?
Thanks for your help

ozyk100 said:
Woke up one day to a boot loop, don't know how to format storage since it can't mount sdcard and there's no way for windows to recognize it in this state! Do you believe that Froyo will somehow solve this problem?
How do you suggest I format storage?
Thanks for your help
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If you had custom recovery, it would be quite simple. But since you are on stock, this is quite different then. When plugging in your phone into the computer after flashing a pit file via odin, you can't access the internal sd card, that's ok, because you need to format it via custom recovery or via computer. When plugged into a computer (keep your phone on recovery mode), the computer should ask if you want to format the sd card, select yes and format it. Then the sd card should be accessible again. Not sure if this is the same case on i9000 but should be similar. Even if recovery can't find the internal sd card after using pit file, the pc should still be able to detect it. I don't know why windows can't detect your phone's sd card. If you could flash a custom recovery via ODIN, it could bring you a step closer to finding the solution to your problem.
Did you use the rescue kits from this thread?: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=29331775#post29331775
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ozyk100 said:
I have exact same problem as you... I tried repartition with pit, darkys Resurrection rom db data but nothing seems to work. Have you resolved the issue? When I flash darkys rom I get rfs problem but I can't figure out how to add cache.rfs to Odin, any thoughts on that??
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I'll help you with cache.rfs. Use the attached file in ODIN and select it for PDA. Don't know if it's too late but it's here anyway.

gsstudios said:
If you had custom recovery, it would be quite simple. But since you are on stock, this is quite different then. When plugging in your phone into the computer after flashing a pit file via odin, you can't access the internal sd card, that's ok, because you need to format it via custom recovery or via computer. When plugged into a computer (keep your phone on recovery mode), the computer should ask if you want to format the sd card, select yes and format it. Then the sd card should be accessible again. Not sure if this is the same case on i9000 but should be similar. Even if recovery can't find the internal sd card after using pit file, the pc should still be able to detect it. I don't know why windows can't detect your phone's sd card. If you could flash a custom recovery via ODIN, it could bring you a step closer to finding the solution to your problem.
Did you use the rescue kits from this thread?: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=29331775#post29331775
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I'll help you with cache.rfs. Use the attached file in ODIN and select it for PDA. Don't know if it's too late but it's here anyway.
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I finally flashed Froyo and got the option to format SD card in the recovery but it looks like my storage is corrupted (posted photo). From what I can understand from some research, it seems that emmc has two partitions and one of them got corrupted.
I read somewhere that I can convert microSD so that the phone will recognize it as primary storage but that requires some serious "magic" with ADB and is beyond my capabilities and probably not worth the effort.
I used this phone for work (my phone is LG G2) and I`m seriously suprised that it`s lasted for this long!
Thanks everyone again for their help!