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[Q] Help! Corrupted internal SD Card and can't find a way to wipe

First, some background:
I've had the S for 2 months now and about a month ago I applied JG5/Modaco r2 and Mimocam lag fix. All was well, 1800+ benchmark figures and no lag at all. That was until a few days ago....
As I was reading on the device, a number of errors started to pop up, force closes, etc. It stopped responding completely so I took the battery out and rebooted. Straight away I was hit with multiple force close and 'process stopped unexpectedly' messages. Basically, it was an unusable brick.
When I took the SD card out the errors were different so, figuring it was related to the Mimocam fix, I decided to undo it. I removed the symlink to the sd card and copied everything to the local data directory.
That didn't work, so I did a hard reset. Which also didn't work. Worse than that, I now can't get the phone to connect in any way to the PC so can't reflash and I can't access any settings on the phone because the error messages keep appearing and obscuring the screen.
Last thing I tried was repartitioning the SD card to see if the ext3 partition was corrupt and that hasn't helped either.
Which is where I am now. What I really want to do is wipe the internal SD and effect a total factory reset but I can't think of any way to do it. I can't access the phone through adb (device not found), Kies (keeps trying to connect but never does) and I can't do it through the phone. I also can't send it back because it has 'flashed rom' written all over it, especially when a root request pops up in the background.
I'm all out of ideas, short of trying to degauss it somehow.
Help! Please!

You cant get it into download mode ?

Kilack said:
You cant get it into download mode ?
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Or recovery mode: format sd card, clear cache etc ?

Turn the phone off, hold Home + Vol -, then press Power.
I don't see how you can get error messages there...

Doesn't work, I can't get it in to recovery mode. Neither vol up or down work using the 3 button hold. I've tried repeatedly and it just boots as normal, although the animation doesn't display while it boots but it does play the audio.

So I take it I'm f***ed then?

bumping this up and subscribing. I hope you find a solution soon, man.

if you know what your firmware was, get it from samsung-firmwares, get odin, and flash your phone. maybe that will solve your problem.
Keep in mind that I wont be responsible if your phone gets bricked if you mess up the procedure (however the chances of it being bricked is very less if you follow the instructions properly).
search the forum for flashing via odin.

emclondon said:
if you know what your firmware was, get it from samsung-firmwares, get odin, and flash your phone. maybe that will solve your problem.
Keep in mind that I wont be responsible if your phone gets bricked if you mess up the procedure (however the chances of it being bricked is very less if you follow the instructions properly).
search the forum for flashing via odin.
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He said he cant get it into download mode so would be quite hard to flash with odin then...

No, I've tried over and over and d/l mode doesn't work. The phone just reboots.

LeeJS said:
No, I've tried over and over and d/l mode doesn't work. The phone just reboots.
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Try the Vol + Recovery mode. The timing is a bit tricky.
On my phone, if I keep Vol+, Home and Power button held down, the phone goes into a reboot loop (it keeps showing the logo, blank, logo, blank). After the logo appears the 2nd time, wait 1 second then release the Power button. Then it goes into the Recovery mode.
If you can't get it to work, try it without the USB/power plugged in as well.

Tried settings/sd card and phone storage/unmount internal sd/format? Or u could do settings/security/factory reset
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I can't really try that because, as I said, I can't get past any of the error messages that pop up on the phone.
Have had to bite the bullet and take it in to T-mo for a repair and hope they don't notice
Will find out in 28 days.

I had a similar problem with JPC. After a while both the internal and external sd cards crapped out. After pulling the external sd and many tries I was able to boot into recovery mode where it says something like E: cant mount etc.
After pulling the ext sd card I was able to get into download mode and downgrade to JM7 with odin. After formatting with odin. It took two tries.
I still don't have access or storage on both the int and ext sd. I have roughly 2gb storage on the internal non-sd memory of the phone (i am not sure what it is but its enough to run android and I can make calls).
I can't install apps use the camera or anything that uses either of the sd cards for storage.
I did try a new sd card that was installed on the phone when it was stock FW but it doesnt work either.
I have a thread posted about it.

LeeJS said:
First, some background:
I've had the S for 2 months now and about a month ago I applied JG5/Modaco r2 and Mimocam lag fix. All was well, 1800+ benchmark figures and no lag at all. That was until a few days ago....
As I was reading on the device, a number of errors started to pop up, force closes, etc. It stopped responding completely so I took the battery out and rebooted. Straight away I was hit with multiple force close and 'process stopped unexpectedly' messages. Basically, it was an unusable brick.
When I took the SD card out the errors were different so, figuring it was related to the Mimocam fix, I decided to undo it. I removed the symlink to the sd card and copied everything to the local data directory.
That didn't work, so I did a hard reset. Which also didn't work. Worse than that, I now can't get the phone to connect in any way to the PC so can't reflash and I can't access any settings on the phone because the error messages keep appearing and obscuring the screen.
Last thing I tried was repartitioning the SD card to see if the ext3 partition was corrupt and that hasn't helped either.
Which is where I am now. What I really want to do is wipe the internal SD and effect a total factory reset but I can't think of any way to do it. I can't access the phone through adb (device not found), Kies (keeps trying to connect but never does) and I can't do it through the phone. I also can't send it back because it has 'flashed rom' written all over it, especially when a root request pops up in the background.
I'm all out of ideas, short of trying to degauss it somehow.
Help! Please!
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am wondering, did your phone ever work with the three button mode to enter download/recovery ? or did you always flash using "adb reboot recovery" ?

solipsism said:
I had a similar problem with JPC. After a while both the internal and external sd cards crapped out. After pulling the external sd and many tries I was able to boot into recovery mode where it says something like E: cant mount etc.
After pulling the ext sd card I was able to get into download mode and downgrade to JM7 with odin. After formatting with odin. It took two tries.
I still don't have access or storage on both the int and ext sd. I have roughly 2gb storage on the internal non-sd memory of the phone (i am not sure what it is but its enough to run android and I can make calls).
I can't install apps use the camera or anything that uses either of the sd cards for storage.
I did try a new sd card that was installed on the phone when it was stock FW but it doesnt work either.
I have a thread posted about it.
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Did you ever find a solution to this problem?

mkurzum said:
Did you ever find a solution to this problem?
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It is posted in several threads in all of the 19000 forums that there is no fix for this. Your only option is to send it in for repair.

mkurzum said:
Did you ever find a solution to this problem?
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it would be nice if there was a way.
I agree with Electroz.
there is a new software out by Samsung
new PC Studio, it comes with a feature to "Emergency Restore"
you can try that, and see if that does anything to the internal SD
links are on the SGS wiki, click my link

AllGamer said:
it would be nice if there was a way.
I agree with Electroz.
there is a new software out by Samsung
new PC Studio, it comes with a feature to "Emergency Restore"
you can try that, and see if that does anything to the internal SD
links are on the SGS wiki, click my link
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I'll give it a shot, downloading now.
I'm not sure where to send my phone in, I called samsung, they sent me to bell, but I bought my phone from best buy and I'm with fido...

It sees both drives, but that's about it, when I try to click on them it just says "insert the disk into drive ..."
There has to be a way to format the internal card with a third party application. I'm gonna keep looking.

[Q] Bricked, with Oddities

I went to install Phiremod v4 from the EXT4 CWR. It did something funky and wiped out my internal memory (dont know if its just boot or what.)
Oddly, before I was also using NF on a SD, but now it will not work either. I tried other SD cards, and other rom to boot from, with no luck.
When I power up, it is a blank screen. Oddly enough, when I power up using N+power, windows recognizes it as new hardware for a few seconds, but then fails.
Anything else I can do?
I can probably return it, since it seems there is nothing on the emmc, but want to tinker with it for a while.

Steelfan555 said:
I went to install Phiremod v4 from the EXT4 CWR. It did something funky and wiped out my internal memory (dont know if its just boot or what.)
Oddly, before I was also using NF on a SD, but now it will not work either. I tried other SD cards, and other rom to boot from, with no luck.
When I power up, it is a blank screen. Oddly enough, when I power up using N+power, windows recognizes it as new hardware for a few seconds, but then fails.
Anything else I can do?
I can probably return it, since it seems there is nothing on the emmc, but want to tinker with it for a while.
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Have you run through this yet?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=949699

I did try to, but it wont even boot from an SD card.
Trying again wont hurt, though.

Hold down the power button non-stop for over a minute straight. Then plug it in and hold it down again.
A few trys of this (mainly while plugged in) has always gotten me out of non boot. My computer shows the same things, even though my drivers installed.
Sent from one of those missing Droids

altimax98 said:
Hold down the power button non-stop for over a minute straight. Then plug it in and hold it down again.
A few trys of this (mainly while plugged in) has always gotten me out of non boot. My computer shows the same things, even though my drivers installed.
Sent from one of those missing Droids
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i tried this, all i get is my computer makes a sound like: duh-duh-duh very quiclky, byt nothing else happens...
My Nook will not turn on...
I'll bring it back to B&N and tell them the power button isnt working..
i've only had it for 3 days

When I dd'ed clockwork and then looked at it in GParted, it said nothing was there. But when I put it in my nook, it at least tried to boot this time. Then I tried NF again, but this time it wont fit on my SD for some reason.

Your sd image gets reduced due to the partition of clockwork. You can boot into the clockwork sd card, remove the card, (your nook will still be on and in clockwork) format the card via your computer, put the image you are going to flash, then insert the card back into the nook and flash your zip.
Edit: also make sure you're using the right booyabl we sd for your rom of choice. Nookie froyo requires ext3 format whereas cm7 needs ext4 format.
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Usually at that sound my nook powered on...sorry bro
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Odd, it got out of the Black screen for about a day, but I had trouble booting an sd card.
Now it is a permanent black screen (the screen is off, not just the color)

I was in the same boat as the OP the other day. Odds are there is nothing wrong with the device. Its almost next to impossible t obrick a Nook. Speaking for myself for whatever reason my bootable sdcard was hosed. I went and grabbed a buddies 1Gb card to test and after I redownloaded and burned a 1Gb bootable sdcard IMG all was good to go again. that said if you have a spare sdcard ( any size ) I'd downlaod the current 3.0.1.0 IMG and burn it to the sdcard. Once done toss the card in the device and power it on and it should boot directly into CWR off the sdcard. If it does power down and then move a ROM over to the sdcard and frie it up again so you can reflash it
Edit: Most current bootable sdcard IMG file can be grabbed from here Post#4
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=987326

Ok, I will have to pick up a new mSD card sometime.

Nook might really be dead - HELP!

I am helping a friend with his Nook, and i've run out of options for fixing it. I have gone through every help thread here, tried things I've found on other forums; no love. I'm hoping someone can review the situation and maybe point me in another direction.
I don't have the exact history on this Nook. I believe that when it was last working it had an early ICS (full-o-bugs) ROM installed on the eMMC. It's definitely been rooted/rom'd/cwm'd in its life.
Here's the status:
--The battery is working and will charge to "green" status. Leaving it unplugged for a few days then plugging it back in will result in "orange" charging back to "green".
--There is no visible indication that the Nook is turning on. Holding the power button for a few seconds up till a few minutes never engages the screen backlight, or any other sign of startup. Same goes for holding "N" with power, holding either/both volume buttons with power.
--If I plug the Nook into a PC, the PC's device manager shows a device connecting (OM??? or something) for maybe one second, then drops off immediately. Unplugging/plugging after that will result in no connection attempt. However, if I unplug, then hold the power button for around 10 seconds, then plug back it, it will attempt the brief connection again. Same goes for just holding the power button down while it is connected, after around 10 seconds you'll see it connect and immediately drop.
--The above situation occurs with the SD card removed, or with a "boot imaged" SD card installed. I'm using a 2GB card that has been setup using Win32 Diskmaker and the ISO downloaded from the Help thread here. I believe it has CWM 3.0.2.8 on it.
--Have opened the back cover and disconnected the battery for as long as a day, no effect.
My assessment here is that the device is still functional, but it is unable to boot. Or whatever it is booting to is immediately locking it up. I really appreciate any guidance here; I hope I can help my friend get his Nook running as beautifully as my Phiremodded one is!

bluevolume said:
My assessment here is that the device is still functional, but it is unable to boot. Or whatever it is booting to is immediately locking it up. I really appreciate any guidance here; I hope I can help my friend get his Nook running as beautifully as my Phiremodded one is!
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The first step I think I'd take here is to create a working bootable SD card with CM7 on.
Follow the verygreen method and use the latest CM7 from the MiRaGe thread.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1000957
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1344873
Use win32diskimager to create the original SD card from the verygreen img file and use a real USB card reader not a slot on a PC. Using other methods can result in cards that won't boot.
You can do all these steps on your Nook without endangering or changing its contents because all this is doing is creating a bootable SD card with CM7 on that you can check on your Nook.
Once you have that working just put the Sd card in your friend's Nook and it should just work.
Having proved that you can then choose what to do next. E.g. You could repeat the process but create an SD card that will load a ROM to the internal emmc memory using the Eyeballer method. If you do that DON'T put it in your Nook as it will change yours.

If I read this carefully enough...you are booting to a black screen, right? In many cases the nook is working but the back light isn't coming on, sometimes because of an erased partition. If you still have an intact ROM partition in the emmc, then you can do the 8x failed reboot, and it will return to out-of-the-box stock.
It can be a little tricky w/o a screen, but hold down the power, n, and both volume keys for 8-10 seconds. The nook will turn off and restart (I believe it restarts, if not do it manually, this is from the top of my head) as soon as it starts booting (1-2 secs) do it again for a total of 8 times. If you let it run too long the process will have to be repeated, so if it doesn't work the first time, try the entire process again.
If it works, it will restore the read-only-memory partition that holds the b&n factory firmware. To be safe, login to the b&n registration, go into settings and do a factory wipe from within the settings. Then you can restore a backup or start over.
If this doesn't work, then you may have wiped your ROM partition, which requires a little more aanced work. Post if it doesn't work and I may be able to help if neither the bootable sdcard or reset methods fix it.

Update: I tried the 8 failed boots thing and wasn't able to get any response from the Nook. It's kinda difficult to know if you're doing it right though when nothing ever lights up on the Nook.
I tested the SD card on my Nook (the functional one), and it does work. The bootloader had the little skull and crossbones guys, and then it loaded up CWM.

bluevolume said:
Update: I tried the 8 failed boots thing and wasn't able to get any response from the Nook. It's kinda difficult to know if you're doing it right though when nothing ever lights up on the Nook.
I tested the SD card on my Nook (the functional one), and it does work. The bootloader had the little skull and crossbones guys, and then it loaded up CWM.
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So the SD card from your friend's Nook which doesn't do anything in his machine will bring up CWM in yours?
I think this could mean one of two things. The SD card may be booting through to a CWM install on your emmc and therefore when used in his machine with a screwed up emmc then it doesn't work. Or there is some dependency on the emmc which is also allowing it to work in your machine but not his. I'm not sure what these dependencies are but I could see that if it was a full OS like CM7 then it may need a working emmc ROM partition at least, but CWM I thought was pretty much independent when run from the SD.
I still think your best initial bet is to prepare a new SD card on your machine with even a basic eyeballer CWM boot. Prove it works on your machine and then try it on your friend's. That at least proves that it is functioning hardware wise and booting as normal of the SD.

Well
You could take it to B&N even though the warranty was voided

[Q] Internal storage and ext sd wont read.

Ok first off I have read through a lot of different forums from here and different websites. Could not find a solution.
MY cappy was rooted and I was running cm9 on it for a while working great.. decided to give cm 10.1 a try. Well it worked for about 2 1/2 months. doing the updates that came out every day. Then the other I was playing a game on it. I stoped the game unplugged the phone from the wall charger went outside to smoke and went to check the phone. It was a black screen where it was semi light up though.
I of course tried hitting the power about 15 times no response. So I took out the battery and put it back in. It rebooted into recovery. So I hit reboot phone. Went back into recovery. Went in cleared cache and dalvik cache rebooted. Went back into recovery, so from there I went to install zip from sd card. there was nothing on sd card.
I then put it into download mode and using odin I brought it back to stock 2.3.4 after odin had suceeded it installed everything on phone. But it came with error no internal storage found. It booted fully. So then I tried heimdall one click it then did the same thing I cleared cache and did a factory reset. IT rebooted fully.
It only works when I have my ext. SD card in the phone though. If i pull my ext sd card out it will go into a boot loop. IF i put my ext sd card into another phone and back to my cappy Itll stay in boot loop. I have formatted sd card put it back into the phone and rebooted. and same thing. bootloop. So I then have to go through the process again to get it semi running. It wont read ext or internal sd card when phone is fully on.
So is there any way to get it to read internal storage again? Or even ext. I dont understand why it will run with the ext.
Any help will be appreciated Thank you.

No one has any answers to this?

bubba1993 said:
No one has any answers to this?
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Your issue is kinda odd, the only thing I can think of is the EU bug but that's on ICS and you said you were on JB. Either way, could be worth looking into, there's a thread for it in here.

BWolf56 said:
Your issue is kinda odd, the only thing I can think of is the EU bug but that's on ICS and you said you were on JB. Either way, could be worth looking into, there's a thread for it in here.
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Well I was on cm 9 then went to cm 10.1 4.2 I have no clue I looked into the EU bug tried to fix it no luck. I can put the sd card on it and flash the stock rom and kernel and it will run just without it reading internal or external sd card

the external sd card has probably got your .androidsecure hidden folder on it, possibly more. if your phone had the eu bug, then CM10 recognizes that and switches the mounts.
if you boot the phone, go into terminal emulator, type su, then type mount, and post the output, it would probably give us a clue.

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the external sd card has probably got your .androidsecure hidden folder on it, possibly more. if your phone had the eu bug, then CM10 recognizes that and switches the mounts.
if you boot the phone, go into terminal emulator, type su, then type mount, and post the output, it would probably give us a clue.
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No the android secure was on the phone, The external sd card was never in my phone but I was trying different things and if i format my sd card put it in the cappy then do the flash. It will work but as soon as I turn the phone off and put the sd card in another phone, It has no files. but when I put it in my laptop it says there is only 5 gb on it but it is an 8gb memory card. Then I have to format twice to get my full memory from it on another phone.

[Q] Newbie- Need Help with Droid 3

Hello. I am new on this forum and I am looking for help. I am by no means any type of programmer, so please be kind, and if you can help me great. Right now I can use some help.
I have owned a Droid 3 since July 2011. I have never done any type of stuff correlated to the operating system on the phone. The phone has worked great, up until this past Saturday (09/28/2013). In the afternoon, the phone literally went from working fine, to only being on the "Motorola Dual Core Technology" Screen, and nothing else.
I have searched across a number of forums and ran across others who have experienced this issue as well. I have talked to Verizon idiots in the store as well as their tech support with no success.
I have read about starting the phone up with the X key and the Power Button, to get the Android Logo on screen and then to the Android Recovery where you can Reboot the phone, Clear the Cache Partition, etc. I have done all of these Multiple times... I have not done a factory reset as of yet.
At this point, I am eligible for an upgrade from Verizon anyway... BUT- I still have a ton of photos and videos that are on the internal memory of the phone. The few pictures that I had on my SD card, I have since moved those over to my computer. The SD card is currently empty.
Is there anyway that I can get a copy of the Operating System to load up onto the SD card, and choose the Reboot from SD card on the Android Screen to get my phone to start up so that I can get my pictures and videos off of it? Before Saturday I was able to plug my phone into the computer and the phone was recognized as a device...now the driver is not even recognized by the computer.
In my own opinion, it sounds like something in the Operating System of the phone got corrupted. As I mentioned, I am far from being a computer programmer, so any type of "Deep" computer language; it is over my head... this is why I am asking if there is a copy of the Operating System or Kernel,etc. that I can load onto the SD card, and then put the SD Card into the phone and go the Android Menu to Boot from the SD card, to see if I can get the phone to actually start up....
My apologies if I have not used any correct terminology but hopefully someone here can help me. At this point, I don't even want to use this phone anymore and I am ready to move onto another Droid devce. I just want to know if there is someway that I can get my pictures and videos off of the phone before doing the dreaded last resort of a factory reset. I have 2 years of my life in pictures on that phone... some of which may or may not be backed up on Verizon's servers....
Any help would kindly and greatly be appreciated.

Look, if you do a factory reset or "wipe data" from the recovery you'll lose just the apps, the settings and everything "OS related". Personal data will be untouched at 99%, i can affirm this because i wiped about a million times and always with personal data stored into the internal storage... if you're not fine with this you could try an SBF (a reinstallation of the stock OS, to be short) without wiping (i don't even know if it's possible or SAFE, but in theory you can try) and maybe it could fix the os problem you have... and if it doesn't go well, you could still wipe it!
I'll search the method to reflash the 5.6.890 update, and i'll post the link!
EDIT: Here's the link, be careful! http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1686911