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[Q] Galaxy S not starting after boot animation

I have a peculiar problem.
I flashed a Doc Rom yesterday. After restarting the phone simply will not go past Black white samsung screen. I thought something might be wrong and flashed JPY firmware using odin. It was successful. But everything is fine except that the phone will not go past the Galaxy S boot animation screen. When I went to recovery mode it is showing an error message which goes something like this" cannot mount media. sd card requires preparation. go to the UI and format and boot options." I have got 3 button recovery as well as download mode. Is it possible to correct this error using ADB? Can somebody guide me. I am desperate as I love my phone very much.

i will not look for the problem cause ... if you have cwm check if lagfix is disabled and flash new rom via "install zip file" in cwm ... don't worry your phone is fine
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themate1987 said:
i will not look for the problem cause ... if you have cwm check if lagfix is disabled and flash new rom via "install zip file" in cwm ... don't worry your phone is fine
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At present condition, I have no CWM. I have only recovery 3e. Is it possible to flash CVM rhrough Odin?

If you can flash voodoo kernel, that has CMW inbuilt? Then try and figure it out from there?

I solved the problem by doing the following steps:
1. followed this link http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=807784 and flashed XWJM8 whatever that may mean.
2. Voila after flashing the above with odin my phone restarted with familiar UI.
3. Suddenly I noticed that my phone does not have an IMEI and my sim card not detected. I was tempted to copy my backed up EFS folder and I resisted the temptation. Instead I copied the CWM and Doc's rom which I was using prevously to the External SD and afterwards copied the same to Internal SD.
4. I started my phone in recovery mode and i could see that still the error message was there. But I flashed CWM and again flashed Doc's Rom. After the phone restarted, I found that my sim was detected and everything was back to normal. OMG what a relief it was.
5. Thanks to XDA and it's members for helping me.

if u have root acess (and i hope yes)
u have to restore system, turn off and than turn on pressing home and volume up, 3 bottons in same time, than with volume keys and home choose BACKUP AND RESTORE, than ADVANCED RESTORE and than SYSTEM, if u have maked a backup u have to chose that backup or one of them if u have more. let him restore and choose REBOOT PHONE. now u have phone again.
if u need some help email me [email protected]
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seking said:
I have a peculiar problem.
I flashed a Doc Rom yesterday. After restarting the phone simply will not go past Black white samsung screen. I thought something might be wrong and flashed JPY firmware using odin. It was successful. But everything is fine except that the phone will not go past the Galaxy S boot animation screen. When I went to recovery mode it is showing an error message which goes something like this" cannot mount media. sd card requires preparation. go to the UI and format and boot options." I have got 3 button recovery as well as download mode. Is it possible to correct this error using ADB? Can somebody guide me. I am desperate as I love my phone very much.
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Borrowing the tread. I was using CM9 and installed NStools and after a while my phone rebooted and started then froze at my homescreen. I went in to recovery and did a factory reset and the phone worked again. So I tried installing NStools again and got bootloops so I did a factory reset again but now I get bootloops and I can't go in to recoverymode.
My question is can I just flash EZbase 4.0 (Gingerbread) and then flash CM9 directly from it?
Thanks.

[Q]I think it may be bricked, but i cant tell over my vast wall of Noob-ness

As much as i absolutely hate making my first post a Oh no, Help me i'm a noob distress call, i have to ask it.
Tried to flash in a rom, went to wipe factory data. Factory wipe never started or succeeded just sat their idely, removed battery and immediately booted back into CWM wiped it again worked perfectly. Heres the bad part, i went to and flash in one of the 5 roms on my sd card and not one of the seems to be responding... i get an error message like so
E:Failure at line (9 or 10 depending on rom)
Copy-Dir PACKAGE:data DATA:
Installation aborted.
Tried to just reboot and it takes me back to CWM
i'm thinkin this is bricked? Any help would be appreciated (you can add in the noob insults as well if you wish lol)

your phone is not bricked.
make sure you have update.zip in your internal sdcard root dir. boot into recovery and install packages twice, you should then be in the right CWM mode.
then install the rom zip file from there.

mengbo said:
your phone is not bricked.
make sure you have update.zip in your internal sdcard root dir. boot into recovery and install packages twice, you should then be in the right CWM mode.
then install the rom zip file from there.
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Make sure everything is on the internal SD card, in fact its best to remove any external just in case of bad things
Also try using ODIN for the whipe and put all of your CWM and Roms on afterward

Thanks for the help guys, fortunately everything is there i can see the update.zip, three of my rooms and a bunch of other junk that was saved to the internal sd i have everything out of the phone and i am getting the same results when i try to reinstall the update.zip, and the same errors when i go to install the roms. Any ideas?

which rom are you on right now ? which rom are you going to install ?

i was running Cognition216 Atinm. Trying to install andromeda v2.1 themed.

Prc90 said:
i was running Cognition216 Atinm. Trying to install andromeda v2.1 themed.
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you can use odin to flash back to stock, do a master clear. copy back your update.zip & andromeda rom file to your sd. then follow the above post to give another try.

Ok, i'll give that a shot and see if i dont really brick it now haha. Have any links or video tutorials?

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=884364

Thanks guys i appreciate the help thankfully odin v3 is a one click set up and my phone is up and running. Aside from a really angrey girlfriend, pissed off father and a few annoyed friends no harm done lol. Cheers!

[Q] Plz help! Screwd up my Captivate while re-installing Latest CM7 nightly Build181

Help Needed.Looks like i screwed by Samsung Captivate.
here is what i did :
My captivate was running cyanogen mod 7 (nightly build cm_captivatemtd_full-181)
I wanted to re-install CM7 and did the following:
1)Phone already had the copy of the same build in root directory which i used for cm7 install for the first time
2)I kept the phone in download mode and Used ODIN to flash the Kernel.It went through successfully.
3)I used the three button technique and tried to install the Build which has failed with 'assert failed:getprop (" some blah blah) saying finally installation aborted.
Not sure if i should have recopied the build to the phone instead of using the same existing build in the phone
4)Though the installation failed...my phone is not booting up and when i reboot.. the phone is hung with a message 'galaxy S scg-i897 Samsung' and doesnt boot up.
Please help on how to recover my phone to a normal state.
4)

This should be in CM7 thread. Did you try going back in to recovery? Try to get in recovery and factory reset+wipe cache and wipe dalvik and reflash?

I did all the steps you have mentioned in recovery . May i please know what do you mean by reflash?
you mean again i have flash kernal and install CM7 ?
Also as you know the i cannot copy any build to the phone as phone is booting up . Do u mean i have to use fresh build instead of the one which is there since my first cm7 install..
please suggest.Thanks for you reply.

If you can get in to cwm and you have a cm7 rom in your sd card, then you can attempt to reflash the rom. IF that's not possible ODIN back to a "stock" and start all over.

^Or...If you can get to cwm...you can mount the sdcard, in mounts and storages, and transfer what the hell ever you want over from your PC to your phone. Like a fresh download of cm7 for example...

sorry i know i am taking your time .
i am very new to these techincal words..
1)can you please help me how i can go into cwm ?
2)How to ODIN back to 'Stock'?
Thanks.

studacris said:
^Or...If you can get to cwm...you can mount the sdcard, in mounts and storages, and transfer what the hell ever you want over from your PC to your phone. Like a fresh download of cm7 for example...
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Lol You always know a better way lol xD.
sdamarla15 said:
sorry i know i am taking your time .
i am very new to these techincal words..
1)can you please help me how i can go into cwm ?
2)How to ODIN back to 'Stock'?
Thanks.
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CWM= ClockWorkMod its the modified recovery used to do a whole bunch of things one being flashing roms.
If you don't know how to use ODIN then you shouldn't be messing with AOSP's or flashing for that matter.
Read First thread
Captivatte Directory thread <- lots of guides there.
How to Gingerbread thread
All of these are stickied and you should understand most of them to flash "safely"

[Q] Challenging technical issue

I have a problem and i would be very thankful if anyone could help me solve it:
I looked around the guides here and on youtube and found out that installing a custom rom is much better than sticking with the original gingerbread, so that's what i did. I tried RocketRom for a while and decided that i want to try checkrom to see which is better. So i downloaded the rom, performed all the wipes (cache, dalvik and battery stats) and reset the phone to factory. However due to my immense stupidity i forgot to put the rom on the internal phone memory and i saved it on my microsd card instead. so now i'm stuck: I can't access my internal phone memory because my phone won't start (either bootloops or it shows the boot animation once and then a black screen with nothing on it). And i wasn't able to use CWM to flash the rom using my microsd card because it keeps giving me the error "unable to mount". I looked around again and read that i should format the microsd card but nothing changed and i kept getting the same error.
So this is basically it. Is there a way to access the internal phone memory with my phone turned off? If not, what should i do? I just need to paste the damn rom but i couldn't figure out what to do :S
Any suggestions will be very very appreciated, and thank you for your cooperation

basharno_1992 said:
I have a problem and i would be very thankful if anyone could help me solve it:
I looked around the guides here and on youtube and found out that installing a custom rom is much better than sticking with the original gingerbread, so that's what i did. I tried RocketRom for a while and decided that i want to try checkrom to see which is better. So i downloaded the rom, performed all the wipes (cache, dalvik and battery stats) and reset the phone to factory. However due to my immense stupidity i forgot to put the rom on the internal phone memory and i saved it on my microsd card instead. so now i'm stuck: I can't access my internal phone memory because my phone won't start (either bootloops or it shows the boot animation once and then a black screen with nothing on it). And i wasn't able to use CWM to flash the rom using my microsd card because it keeps giving me the error "unable to mount". I looked around again and read that i should format the microsd card but nothing changed and i kept getting the same error.
So this is basically it. Is there a way to access the internal phone memory with my phone turned off? If not, what should i do? I just need to paste the damn rom but i couldn't figure out what to do :S
Any suggestions will be very very appreciated, and thank you for your cooperation
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Seems like you have issues with CWM as I can access the external sd card without problems..
I think that your only solution is to:
-flash a pre-rooted GB ROM from THIS thread
- Use Chainfire's corresponding kernel to the ROM you flashed so you can get CWM recovery, get it from HERE
- after having both rooted ROM and the CWM recovery transfer the ROM you want to the sd card and flash it from CWM Recovery
Hope this helps

thanks
Thank you for the prompt reply, but i am still quite confused: how can i flash a rom if my phone does it boot? how will i get the rom to the phone memory? Remember the microsd card isn't working so i can't use it for flashing.

basharno_1992 said:
Thank you for the prompt reply, but i am still quite confused: how can i flash a rom if my phone does it boot? how will i get the rom to the phone memory? Remember the microsd card isn't working so i can't use it for flashing.
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The ROMs in that thread use the .tar format and are flashed using PC Odin which uses download mode follow the instructions posted there and you're out in no time hopefully

OK
Ok which version do you recemmend? and should i use a wipe or non-wipe version?

[Q] HELP!!! Cappy Dead Or Alive?? any hope??

i have been running slim bean latest till date for some time now on my Captivate. few days back in the morning while i was playing music, my phone freezed for about 30 seconds and suddenly restarted. the problem is that the phone cant even boot. once it loads the kernel image and enters the bootanimation for about 10 seconds, it will keep rebooting till infinity. i left the phone for hours and flashed another Jb rom through the external sd card. after about 4 hours, the phone freezed and restarted with the same circling restart again. i left it for hours longer than before and succeeded in flashing ics rom. this time around, the phone freezed and restarted as usual in 1 hr. i tried to go back to stock gb which i did with heimdall one click package. after flashing the phone rebooted in recovery with errors that cant mount sd card and so on. i flashed an ics kernel luckily for me i was able to access the sd card this time around and flashed an ics rom. within 10nmins the phone freezed and restarted as usual. from here was the last i got progress with this phone. if i succeed in getting into recovery, i will get an error cant mount sd card likewise cant mount ext sd card. the condition of my phone now is that it never enters recovery no matter what i flash all it does, is restart in 2 - 3 secs whether in recovery or not. please what is the solution to this problem. is the chip responsible for mounting sd cards in the phone's main board dead or alive? because each time i manage to see sd card again, the content is always untouched.

so_iccy said:
i have been running slim bean latest till date for some time now on my Captivate. few days back in the morning while i was playing music, my phone freezed for about 30 seconds and suddenly restarted. the problem is that the phone cant even boot. once it loads the kernel image and enters the bootanimation for about 10 seconds, it will keep rebooting till infinity. i left the phone for hours and flashed another Jb rom through the external sd card. after about 4 hours, the phone freezed and restarted with the same circling restart again. i left it for hours longer than before and succeeded in flashing ics rom. this time around, the phone freezed and restarted as usual in 1 hr. i tried to go back to stock gb which i did with heimdall one click package. after flashing the phone rebooted in recovery with errors that cant mount sd card and so on. i flashed an ics kernel luckily for me i was able to access the sd card this time around and flashed an ics rom. within 10nmins the phone freezed and restarted as usual. from here was the last i got progress with this phone. if i succeed in getting into recovery, i will get an error cant mount sd card likewise cant mount ext sd card. the condition of my phone now is that it never enters recovery no matter what i flash all it does, is restart in 2 - 3 secs whether in recovery or not. please what is the solution to this problem. is the chip responsible for mounting sd cards in the phone's main board dead or alive? because each time i manage to see sd card again, the content is always untouched.
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Getting in download mode and flashing KK4 through Odin is your best bet atm. Once that's done, keep it that way (only get the apps you need) and see if it reboots again. If so, it is most likely a hardware issue but I'm thinking it isn't so far.
I would also suggest to redownload the ROMs and kernel you want to use and delete the hold ones.
If everything goes well with KK4, move up to a custom ROM (I'm sure you know the drill). But once again, only install the apps you really need (fresh install instead of restoring). A bit of a slow process but better be safe than sorry.

BWolf56 said:
Getting in download mode and flashing KK4 through Odin is your best bet atm. Once that's done, keep it that way (only get the apps you need) and see if it reboots again. If so, it is most likely a hardware issue but I'm thinking it isn't so far.
I would also suggest to redownload the ROMs and kernel you want to use and delete the hold ones.
If everything goes well with KK4, move up to a custom ROM (I'm sure you know the drill). But once again, only install the apps you really need (fresh install instead of restoring). A bit of a slow process but better be safe than sorry.
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Thanks for replying but KK4 is the exact stock rom i flashed, two different types of it to be precise. it wont boot aswell as it restarts just like any other and says sd error in its recovery.

so_iccy said:
Thanks for replying but KK4 is the exact stock rom i flashed, two different types of it to be precise. it wont boot aswell as it restarts just like any other and says sd error in its recovery.
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Do you use a external SD?
Usually flashing stock KK4 (through heimdall of Odin) will completely wipe any errors that isn't hardware related.
Just to be clear, KK4 flashes just fine but on the auto-reboot, it goes directly into recovery and gives you that error? If so, are you able to factory reset once you're in recovery?
Usually, after flashing KK4, the phone will fully start so something isn't flashing right. Also, have you tried flashing KK4 with the bootloaders?

BWolf56 said:
Do you use a external SD?
Usually flashing stock KK4 (through heimdall of Odin) will completely wipe any errors that isn't hardware related.
Just to be clear, KK4 flashes just fine but on the auto-reboot, it goes directly into recovery and gives you that error? If so, are you able to factory reset once you're in recovery?
Usually, after flashing KK4, the phone will fully start so something isn't flashing right. Also, have you tried flashing KK4 with the bootloaders?
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i did exactly that.that is flashing the KK4 rom through heimdall as my cappy refused to be detected by odin since i flashed heimdall. it flashed ust fine and booted to recovery
this is the error i got
-- Copying media files . . .
E:failed to mount /sdcard (No such file or directory)
E:copy_dbdata_media:Can't mount /sdcard
your storage not prepared yet. please use UI menu
for format and reboot actions
Media files copy failed
-- Wiping data . . .
formatting /data. . .
E:format_volume: rfs format failed on /dev/block/mmcblkop2
Formatting /dbdata. . .
Formatting /cache.
-- Applying Multi -CSC. . .
Installing Multi -CSC
Applied the CSC-code 'ATT'.
Succesfully applied muli-CSC
this is the error i got on the recovery after flashing and it booted into recovery on its own. i have an external sd card. i also copied a custom rom to my external sd card and flashed an ICS recovery that enables intallation of zip files from external sd card. but when i succed in booting into recovery with it, it will give me error can't mount sd card likewise error cant mount external sd card. this is as far i can go

Did u ever see the "Encryption Unsuccessful" screen ? That's what ur problem sounds like. There r two threads in the Dev forum about that subject.
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so_iccy said:
i did exactly that.that is flashing the KK4 rom through heimdall as my cappy refused to be detected by odin since i flashed heimdall.
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I believe I mentionned this before but Odin won't work on the same USB port Heimdall installs it's drivers on. You need to use a different port for both. Also, on a PC, I would highly suggest using the ports in the back for Odin (somehow they always seem to work better).
so_iccy said:
it flashed ust fine and booted to recovery
this is the error i got
-- Copying media files . . .
E:failed to mount /sdcard (No such file or directory)
E:copy_dbdata_media:Can't mount /sdcard
your storage not prepared yet. please use UI menu
for format and reboot actions
Media files copy failed
-- Wiping data . . .
formatting /data. . .
E:format_volume: rfs format failed on /dev/block/mmcblkop2
Formatting /dbdata. . .
Formatting /cache.
-- Applying Multi -CSC. . .
Installing Multi -CSC
Applied the CSC-code 'ATT'.
Succesfully applied muli-CSC
this is the error i got on the recovery after flashing and it booted into recovery on its own. i have an external sd card. i also copied a custom rom to my external sd card and flashed an ICS recovery that enables intallation of zip files from external sd card. but when i succed in booting into recovery with it, it will give me error can't mount sd card likewise error cant mount external sd card. this is as far i can go
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If you're able to mount through recovery, put the ROMs and kernel you want to flash on your internal SD (16gb). I'm not so sure why it won't read your external but it might be what's causing the errors. So once you moved those (if you're able to mount of course), turn off your phone, remove your external SD and give it another try. Kinda a shot in the dark but we're running short on options here.
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Did u ever see the "Encryption Unsuccessful" screen ? That's what ur problem sounds like. There r two threads in the Dev forum about that subject.
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I though about that too but flashing KK4 (through Odin or Heimdall) should take care of it and atleast let him boot on stock. I guess it is worth a try tho!

wow. u wont believe this. after sending my last message, i flashed KK4 again just for luck, i got the error as usual. i now did a factory reset, got an error though and rebooted the system. to my greatest surprise and for the first time, it booted to stock and started up without problem. i did a full format of the hard drive immediately as it was almost full. now i've been running the phone for 5 hrs now. and has not experienced any freeze so far.
as for the encryption unsuccessful, YES i've seen it twice. i will read on that and see what might have happened. thanks guys.

so_iccy said:
wow. u wont believe this. after sending my last message, i flashed KK4 again just for luck, i got the error as usual. i now did a factory reset, got an error though and rebooted the system. to my greatest surprise and for the first time, it booted to stock and started up without problem. i did a full format of the hard drive immediately as it was almost full. now i've been running the phone for 5 hrs now. and has not experienced any freeze so far.
as for the encryption unsuccessful, YES i've seen it twice. i will read on that and see what might have happened. thanks guys.
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Sweet, glad it worked out! :good:

My phone suddenly dead 10 minutes ago :|,same problem with so_iccy :|

KaKaShiHp said:
My phone suddenly dead 10 minutes ago :|,same problem with so_iccy :|
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Read what we wrote. the solution is there.
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i ran the stock rom for 3 days in my cappy and decided to flash cyanogen ics rom. after about 18 hrs, i got the freeze and restart once again. then i flashed back to kk4 yet i didnt see the sd card just as last experienced. after about 6 hrs, i flashed KK4 again and booted normally. at the moment am biased. please is there a way to root kk4 the easy way. the threads i saw in the forum didnt work. i will just have to stick with stock GB. all i need now is how to root this KK4. thanks y'all for the help so far.

so_iccy said:
i ran the stock rom for 3 days in my cappy and decided to flash cyanogen ics rom. after about 18 hrs, i got the freeze and restart once again. then i flashed back to kk4 yet i didnt see the sd card just as last experienced. after about 6 hrs, i flashed KK4 again and booted normally. at the moment am biased. please is there a way to root kk4 the easy way. the threads i saw in the forum didnt work. i will just have to stick with stock GB. all i need now is how to root this KK4. thanks y'all for the help so far.
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Flashing Corn Kernel with Odin 1.85 will root your phone.

BWolf56 said:
Flashing Corn Kernel with Odin 1.85 will root your phone.
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i did that before and did'nt acquire root access. but am counting on ya word, will try it again thanks

so_iccy said:
i did that before and did'nt acquire root access. but am counting on ya word, will try it again thanks
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Perhaps you can re-download the kernel. I believe it has a specific root version.

BWolf56 said:
Perhaps you can re-download the kernel. I believe it has a specific root version.
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it works now. thanks

Yep KK4 Corn Kernel has the ability to give u Root through its avanced menu in the its cwm recovery. Or [Utility] KK4 Easy Root by Red_81 in the Dev forum works as well.
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