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Fussy GT-S5830

Hello all. I'm having trouble with a galaxy ace, in that it seems very fussy about which ROMs it will run. Bought it about 6mo ago from Optus Australia on prepaid and unlocked it to use on another network. I tried at the time to upload a custom ROM, but failed and ended up having to re-load it with Odin 4.38 and the only images I could then find, which are these:
APBOOT_S5830XXKPH_CL260130_REV03_user_low_true.tar.md5
CODE_S5830XXKPH_CL260130_REV03_user_low_true.tar.md5
CSC_S5830XXKPH_CL260130_REV03_user_low_true.tar.md5
MODEM_S5830XXKPH_CL260130_REV03.tar.md5
Just recently the device has been unstable so I looked around and found the stable CM 7.2 ROM recently released (cm-7.2.0-cooper.zip) so I grabbed that, installed CWM 5.0.2.6, ran a backup and tried to install it. Device only got as far as the black boot screen with the word Android in uppercase doublespaced and hung.
Booted back into CWM and tried to restore, got the MD5 checksum error. Fixed the nandroid.md5 and tried again, and the device then hung at the initial boot screen for the stock rom (says Samsing Galaxy Ace GT-S5830 or similar).
Back to Odin. Found a recent version (4.42) and a one package ROM, S5830XWKT7_S5830OPPKS6_S5830XWKT3_HOME.tar.md5 and loaded this to the handset. This one gives me an Optus spashscreen followed by the sort of pulsing SAMSUNG text in an infinite loop.
Eventually tried the flasher and ROM I used six months ago (at the top of the thread) and was able to get the phone to boot successfully. Reinstalled the rooting package, reinstalled CWM5 and managed to restore just data out of the advanced backup/restore menu.
So I'm back to where I started, only six hours worse off Has anyone got any idea why this isn't working for me, or any good suggestions of how to proceed?
Cheers,
Alex

Are you sure you are using the GT-S5830 and not the Gt-S5830i ?
This was sent from a Galaxy Ace.

damn, that would be a stupid mistake
No, I'm not absolutely positive. The sticker under the battery says GT-S5830, but from a look at google images the two handsets appear identical? How can I establish for sure?

4lex said:
damn, that would be a stupid mistake
No, I'm not absolutely positive. The sticker under the battery says GT-S5830, but from a look at google images the two handsets appear identical? How can I establish for sure?
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Alright , then that's weird.....what are your key combinations for DL Mode ?
This was sent from a Galaxy Ace.

Vol- & home ?

4lex said:
Vol- & home ?
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Alright , I hereby conclude you have a problematic device and that I can't find services
"As a friend, just....put an end to me" - Ventus

Did u wiped data after the flash?
Sent from my brain using my GT-S5830

Marco Chung said:
Did u wiped data after the flash?
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His system is still in ext4 file system he has to wipe data after the flash! You will no longer stuck in bootloop!

Oh god why
I forgot stock = RFS
"As a friend, just....put an end to me." - Ventus

thanks. How can I find out more about this file system issue? is there an app that will tell me how it's currently configured?

4lex said:
thanks. How can I find out more about this file system issue? is there an app that will tell me how it's currently configured?
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Unfortunately , no.....
"As a friend, just....put an end to me." - Ventus

Use Odin 4.38, download any one package firmware from sammobile with your backup's android version (ie 2.3.4, 2.3.5 or whatever).
Flash it, wipe everything after Flash (from stock recovery), then root, install cwm and restore your backup.
Boot loops are mostly caused when you don't wipe after flashing. Connection issues can be fixed by flashing your region's modem.
Also, restore backups using the appropiate cwm version (backups of cwm5 restore with cwm5)

Cheers. Dunno if I'm being a bit simple here, but I'm only finding 10 most recent FWs here, all of which are 2.3.6 ?
I didn't do as much wiping as you suggest last time though, so i'll give it another whirl and see if I do any better.

I was being simple. Hadn't selected a region.
trying now.

Flash DXKPB 2.3.4 Asian firmware first. If you flash that, it will format all of your partition back to rfs
And after that you can just flash newer firmware like XWKT7 2.3.6 and wipe data. Voila!
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i had stock 2.3.6 and i decided to download and flash Jellaxy
it works, but sometimes its slow, lagging and apps crashing
i have nandroids of both (stock and jellaxy)
i tried restoring stock 2.3.6
error restoring /system
advanced restore just system didnt work, too
i flashed 2.3.5 italian through odin (download mode)
odin didnt finish because of bootloop
i dont remember exactly, but i did wipe, factory reset, cache and/or other
it booted, finally (in italian)
then i formatted /data and recovered old data
bootloop
i tried wiping all at once: dalvik, cache, data, factory reset
bootloop
now i cant go to download / recovery by holding vol down/up and home and power, it goes to ramdump
recovery is now home + power
i can restore jellaxy, but not stock
what to do? i'm stuck on jellaxy

trogper said:
i had stock 2.3.6 and i decided to download and flash Jellaxy
it works, but sometimes its slow, lagging and apps crashing
i have nandroids of both (stock and jellaxy)
i tried restoring stock 2.3.6
error restoring /system
advanced restore just system didnt work, too
i flashed 2.3.5 italian through odin (download mode)
odin didnt finish because of bootloop
i dont remember exactly, but i did wipe, factory reset, cache and/or other
it booted, finally (in italian)
then i formatted /data and recovered old data
bootloop
i tried wiping all at once: dalvik, cache, data, factory reset
bootloop
now i cant go to download / recovery by holding vol down/up and home and power, it goes to ramdump
recovery is now home + power
i can restore jellaxy, but not stock
what to do? i'm stuck on jellaxy
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To restore a stock rom your file systen to rfs !!!
And all custum rom are ext4!!
Meaning ... Use stock recovery to wipe data causing the system to become rfs again then install cwm and ONLY !!! Restore ! Otherwise if u format it will convert to ext4 again !
U can also use chainfire ext4 app to change file system in jellaxy and then restore.
Take care
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SnowPluralism said:
To restore a stock rom your file systen to rfs !!!
And all custum rom are ext4!!
Meaning ... Use stock recovery to wipe data causing the system to become rfs again then install cwm and ONLY !!! Restore ! Otherwise if u format it will convert to ext4 again !
U can also use chainfire ext4 app to change file system in jellaxy and then restore.
Take care
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what about that ramdump?
can i use mobile odin?

[Problem] [Solved] Help cant access recovery while on ICS

Update: Solved
Thank you for everyone's reply and help.
What worked for me:
Downloaded Mobile ODIN v3.10
Downloaded Goku v1.5-10 TAR (Kernel-Goku-V1.5-10.tar)
Flashed firmware with Mobile Odin with MD5 signature check
Can now boot into recovery
Currently on:
CM9 Version 9-20120515-Nightly-n7000
Build date Tue May 15 23:06:26
Kernel version 3.0.30-CM-q6804ca8
I cant seem to get into recovery while using any of the ICS roms. I've tried several CM9 bulds, Kindgroid, Stunner and a few others. I doesn't matter if i try to access it through the hardware keys (press and hold the Volume UP+Home+Power) or through one of the software options (reboot into recovery). After the samsung logo apears the screen will turn black. I'll have to restart the phone with the power key.
Everything else seems to be fine. I can get into download mode just fine. I have no problems downgrading to a gingerbread rom from pc odin or mobile odin. Also theirs no problem for me getting into recovery from any of the gingerbread roms I've tried.
I first noticed this while I was on ICS stunner. It was the build with the affected kernel. Everything was running smooth for me. Recovery and everything else seemed to be working fine but when i started reading posts about the brick scare i became afraid of doing anything else on that kernel.
I followed Entropy512's advise:
If you are running an affected kernel:
STOP USING IT IMMEDIATELY. FLASH A SAFE KERNEL USING ODIN/HEIMDALL.
DO NOT wipe in recovery
DO NOT flash anything else in recovery
In general, DO NOT use recovery at all
I flashed his DAFUQ releas using mobile odin while still on stunner. Everything seemed to go smooth. After flashing I checked under setting -> about phone -> kernal version and his kernel was properly displayed. I tried going into recovery but the screen would turn black after the samsung logo.
I've must of done something wrong while flashing Entropy512's kernel because ever since I flashed his kernel I havent been able to get into recovery while running an ICS rom.
TL;DR
Cant access recovery from ICS roms but recovery works fine while on gingerbread roms

Did you try before flashing ics do a 3 wipes first while in girgerbread for a clean installation?

jonpaslim said:
Did you try before flashing ics do a 3 wipes first while in girgerbread for a clean installation?
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Yeah it was one of the 1st things I tried when I encountered the problem.
Can anyone confirm if the recovery is stored in the same place for both ics and gingerbread? I feel like I might have damaged some sectors and might have some bad blocks. Everything else seems fine though.

runnin4mayor said:
Yeah it was one of the 1st things I tried when I encountered the problem.
Can anyone confirm if the recovery is stored in the same place for both ics and gingerbread? I feel like I might have damaged some sectors and might have some bad blocks. Everything else seems fine though.
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How about 4 wipes including format/system and also use jbroid even though your not installing a kernel but rom still use it.

Flash stock GB rom. Reroot it and then check everything is working fine? If yes then flash ICS rom.
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Thanks for everyone's reply
I've tried jbroid and formatted system but it didnt help. Like I said... everything is fine on GB, recovery and everything else. I've been back and forth several times already. Everything seems to be working fine on ICS too. I just can't access recovery no matter what I do while on ICS. I'll try wiping 4 times from gingerbread this time.

runnin4mayor said:
Thanks for everyone's reply
I've tried jbroid and formatted system but it didnt help. Like I said... everything is fine on GB, recovery and everything else. I've been back and forth several times already. Everything seems to be working fine on ICS too. I just can't access recovery no matter what I do while on ICS. I'll try wiping 4 times from gingerbread this time.
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In the system setting of the phone there is back up and reset and there you can format usb storage, this will format your internal sd, this is in ics setting i forgot about gingerbread. You can do this while in gingerbread to be safe, format your internal sd.

jonpaslim said:
In the system setting of the phone there is back up and reset and there you can format usb storage, this will format your internal sd, this is in ics setting i forgot about gingerbread. You can do this while in gingerbread to be safe, format your internal sd.
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Yes.. I've tried that before installing my current ICS rom. Actually I formatted both the internal and external SD while still on GB. I'm still wondering if the recovery stored in the same partition space in both GB and ICS. I can't understand why I can access CWM recovery on GB but not while I'm on ICS.

i too have the same problem even though i can access cwm manually cant install any zip file but if i use abyssnote kernell everything works fine the problem started when switched over to ics from gb

runnin4mayor said:
Thanks for everyone's reply
I've tried jbroid and formatted system but it didnt help. Like I said... everything is fine on GB, recovery and everything else. I've been back and forth several times already. Everything seems to be working fine on ICS too. I just can't access recovery no matter what I do while on ICS. I'll try wiping 4 times from gingerbread this time.
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Wiping more than once is pointless... I don't know where people get silly ideas like "wipe 3 times".
When you switched to something else, did you flash it using CWM or Odin?
Try flashing a different kernel using Odin. I have seen that in rare cases on some devices, doing something like the following:
Flash one kernel from a recovery
Reboot directly to recovery using CWM's Advanced menu
At this point, the device will be stuck either always booting to recovery or never booting to recovery
Flashing a kernel with Odin/Heimdall - NOT "Mobile Odin" (I hate that name because it's completely different from Odin) or CWM often breaks these loops.

problem accessing recovery
hi today i solved my problem of not unable to find cwm in programs and flashing zip files from recovery while on ics. first i flashed abyssnote kernell then rebooted into recovery did all the three wipes and in addition formatted data, system and cache. then used jbroid kernell cleaner. installed fusion rom flashed green theme rebooted at last could see cwm in programs can flash any zip file now

Thank you sir for your swift action.

deepalakshmidas said:
hi today i solved my problem of not unable to find cwm in programs and flashing zip files from recovery while on ics. first i flashed abyssnote kernell then rebooted into recovery did all the three wipes and in addition formatted data, system and cache. then used jbroid kernell cleaner. installed fusion rom flashed green theme rebooted at last could see cwm in programs can flash any zip file now
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How did you flash abyssnote kernel without being able to enter recovery?
Edit: Solved my problem. Updated 1st post

SGS sudden reboot then settings like have been reset...

Hi,
Does anyone i9000 facing sudden reboot then settings like reset and browser & home button can't use anymore problems here?
I have no idea what's happen to my sgs and got this problem since last September happened. I had flashed few cm10 build roms with full wipes, format system/cache/data and storage before but it still happen in cm10 nightly 20121010 just now. This problem keeps annoyed me... Please help

johnsin5393 said:
Hi,
Does anyone i9000 facing sudden reboot then settings like reset and browser & home button can't use anymore problems here?
I have no idea what's happen to my sgs and got this problem since last September happened. I had flashed few cm10 build roms with full wipes, format system/cache/data and storage before but it still happen in cm10 nightly 20121010 just now. This problem keeps annoyed me... Please help
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Try using the fix permission or try another rom.

Yeah, the problem appeared since I used remix-jb rom last time. Then I flash to cm 10 roms, but it still appear again. Do I need to wipe cache&dalvik cache, then fix permission?
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johnsin5393 said:
Yeah, the problem appeared since I used remix-jb rom last time. Then I flash to cm 10 roms, but it still appear again. Do I need to wipe cache&dalvik cache, then fix permission?
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yes you can try that...

I am on Remics-JB v2.0, it was fine for one week. All of sudden reboots are happening almost 1-2 times in a day.
Any solution for this?

Hi, guys.
If I wish to use odin flash back to 2.3 gb rom then re-flash cm10 again, which 2.3 gb version do you recommend?
My sgs still have the randomly then get reset system & lost home button function, so I wish to try reflash to see whether can remove this problem...
And then, can I flash latest cm10 directly after I flash cm7 on 2.3 gingerbread?
Thank you.

Ace bootlooping with all cyanogenmod roms

I own a Samsung Galaxy Ace S5830 running on android 2.3.6 with build number GINGERBREAD.DDKQ8.I successfully rooted my device(SU icon in the app drawer), flashed cwm5.0.2.6 with no error.
I flashed gingercruzt 2.2, cm 7.1,7.2,9,10 with the following instructions:
1) Wipe data/factory reset
2) Wipe cache partition
3) Under advanced, wipe dalvik cache
4) Flashed the rom.
After rebooting for the first time, this happens(for every rom I tried):
The phone boots into the rom(the capacitive buttons get turned on) -> setup window is reached -> then the phone starts booting again->in further boots it reaches cm logo only and keeps on booting again and again.
I tried wiping data, cache partition, dalvik cache and reboot. None of it worked.
I flashed the roms again .But still stuck at bootloop.
Ps : I randomly took my sim out and did a complete wipe and the roms work fine!!!.
But with sim again, the same problem persists.
PLEASE HELP.THANKS IN ADVANCE.

If you have installed any custon rom previous than i suggest you to first flash fresh ddkq8 stock and than try to install ur custom rom..
It might be happening because of previous rom data !
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gb2793 said:
I own a Samsung Galaxy Ace S5830 running on android 2.3.6 with build number GINGERBREAD.DDKQ8.I successfully rooted my device(SU icon in the app drawer), flashed cwm5.0.2.6 with no error.
I flashed gingercruzt 2.2, cm 7.1,7.2,9,10 with the following instructions:
1) Wipe data/factory reset
2) Wipe cache partition
3) Under advanced, wipe dalvik cache
4) Flashed the rom.
After rebooting for the first time, this happens(for every rom I tried):
The phone boots into the rom(the capacitive buttons get turned on) -> setup window is reached -> then the phone starts booting again->in further boots it reaches cm logo only and keeps on booting again and again.
I tried wiping data, cache partition, dalvik cache and reboot. None of it worked.
I flashed the roms again .But still stuck at bootloop.
Ps : I randomly took my sim out and did a complete wipe and the roms work fine!!!.
But with sim again, the same problem persists.
PLEASE HELP.THANKS IN ADVANCE.
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Problem could be your simcard? How is that even possible. Try flashing with your sim out then insert it after the rom is installed.

SuperAce609 said:
Problem could be your simcard? How is that even possible. Try flashing with your sim out then insert it after the rom is installed.
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I tried this after discovering the sim "problem" but it didn't work out.

bhumit22 said:
If you have installed any custon rom previous than i suggest you to first flash fresh ddkq8 stock and than try to install ur custom rom..
It might be happening because of previous rom data !
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When i flashed my first custom rom(cm 7.1), i was on fresh ddkq8 stock rom. But the problem still occured.
Though i will give it a try again.

gb2793 said:
When i flashed my first custom rom(cm 7.1), i was on fresh ddkq8 stock rom. But the problem still occured.
Though i will give it a try again.
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It would be a great advisable idea if you flash stock rom via odin every time when you want to switch from one cusom rom to other...
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bhumit22 said:
It would be a great advisable idea if you flash stock rom via odin every time when you want to switch from one cusom rom to other...
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as told by you, I flashed stock rom and then rooted my phone, installed cwm and then flashed cm9.
I am still stuck on the boot loop...
PLZ HELP

gb2793 said:
as told by you, I flashed stock rom and then rooted my phone, installed cwm and then flashed cm9.
I am still stuck on the boot loop...
PLZ HELP
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Did you mount the /system? Sometimes you have to do this.
Boot into CWM, mounts and storage > mount /system
Check to see that everything is mounted, sd-ext may or may not work, don't worry about it, it's a big in most CM9 ROMs

[Q] Phone stuck on LG logo after flashing ROM

Hello everyone, a noob here in need of some help. I have recently rooted my LG P990 (it had the official ICS stock Rom) with CWM 5.0.2.8, and installed an official Cyanogenmod nightly build ( cm-10.1-20140112-NIGHTLY-p990.zip )
It worked fine overall, but had some issues (battery drain, reboots etc) so yesterday I decided to install the latest Tonyp's CM 10.2 Rom (cm-10.2-20131213-UNOFFICIAL-p990.zip).
I have followed the instructions (made a full wipe: format cache, format data, format system, wiped data and factory reset, wiped cache partition, wiped dalvik cache), and installed the .zip file from external SD card.
However, after rebooting the system, the phone gets stuck. It shows the LG logo, then moves to a black screen with 2 small LG logos on the upper part of the screen. And stays there forever (I tried pulling the battery out and rebooting, but it doesn't change anything)
The main problem is that I cannot even enter recovery mode now (when I hold the power button+volume down keys, it makes the same procedure as above and gets stuck).
So I have a couple of questions:
What have I done wrong?
How can I enter recovery mode to flash a stock Rom? (or alternatively, how could I fix this some other way)
Hope I have explained myself well. Will greatly appreciate any advice on this issue

Maybe you could use the aioli tool kit to fix that. Repartitioning the device and try flashing again would be my choice.
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diufis said:
Maybe you could use the aioli tool kit to fix that. Repartitioning the device and try flashing again would be my choice.
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Thank you a lot for your advice! I did it and it worked perfectly, now I am running CM 10.2
Just one question left: is it always necessary to repartition the device after performing a full wipe?
Thanks again!

No, repartitioning helps in cases like yours, but you need not to repartition after full wipe. Glad I could help, mate
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