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Installing a new ROM Borked my Caps SD cards?

I recently updated my cappy from Phoenix rising to Continuum following all instructions in the first couple posts except for flashing back to stock. "Including enabling lagfix"
Everything seemed to be running perfect. Rebooted a couple times to see how it behaved, plugged it in and turned in for the night. Seemed to be fine in the morning while I surfed the web, played games, etc. I ended up losing data service (a constant problem I get with custom ROMs that I've never been able to shake) so I rebooted, which normally solves the problem.
Instead, this time appears that all the apps installed in the internal SD card are missing... Weird but whatever. Titanium time and troubleshoot after school. Well, titanium says that there's no backups. Slight panic. Then I think about all my 3 stars from the angry bird series... MAJOR PANIC!
I can access my phone just fine via root explorer but my TiBU folder is empty, I have no games on my SD cards but a lot of other stuff is there including my dropbox and download folders as well as my ROM .zips. It's almost as if random stuff was removed.
Reboot into recovery to fix permissions and delete caches, etc. While I there I checked my backups (Nandroid?) and my lastest one (the one I did prior to flashing) was missing! Even more panicked!
Checked my phone... No luck. So I think that maybe I'll try some sort of undelete program when I get home. Plug the phone into compy and the mount cards options doesn't appear... Reboot to recovery and reflash ROM. No luck. Try to update back to TiBU pro and I notice a new problem. I can't install anything from the market, they just don't download. Tried to install .apks I have stored locally, no luck.
At this point I just want a working phone, screw dem birds, I can always redo all the levels and put music back on. Goto reformat SD cards. The format external is greyed out. Trying to reformat the internal one goes through the motions but there's no update in the available storage.
Flash to Firefly since I had a copy of it on the internal SD. Same issues listed above but with a pretty new interface.
So... Anyone have a suggestion aside from go back in time and buy titanium media sync or for me to suck less? I'm pretty much out of ideas

my first captivate was deleting files on the internal sd (mostly my music folder), returned for exchange. no problems since. hardware issues are fixed by the hardware manufactures!
And if you have other problems NO MATTER what rom you use, then its probably not the rom...

Oops! Sorry, I meant to stress that in the original post: I by no means hold any ROM responsible for the shenanigans my phone is currently experiencing, I originally omitted mentioning any names but decided to include them so I could be as explicit as possible in describing the issues and the steps I took.

Update 1: Attempted Odin3.
Since I'm apparently mentally handicapped, I clicked on "Master clear" instead of "Start". Yellow android guy has been digging a hole on my phone's screen for the last 10-15 minutes with no change.
Don't think that it's suppose to take this long and worried that whatever the SD card issue is may be affecting the master clear but currently too scared to unplug the phone.
Currently chain smoking nervously
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Update 2: Revenge of the unborking
Unplugged phone and removed battery since master clear was clearly not working
Powered it back up and Odin -> Flash to stock
Stock working but unable to load SD cards
Rebooted a couple times -> problem solved
Mounted SD as USB card
Recurva -> Recovered TiBU folder.
Rooted phone
Reinstalled Clockwork mod
Reflashed Firefly
Installing stuff from the market is still a bit wonky with a custom ROM which is odd since I could install stuff with a stock rom but at least things are progressing

That's cool you got your stuff back. Now make a copy of it on your computer!! Now its just a call to att to get it replaced cause it's a hardware issue for sure.
Oh I'm sure you figured this out but master clear doesn't do anything in download mode, that works when the phone is actually booted.

master clear works booted with debugging on!

Yep, looks like installing stuff from either the market or from the SD card is hit or miss depending on time of day, prevailing winds, or the phase of the moon. Got some stuff installed but now nothing will go on the phone.
Going to complain to Samsung directly to see where what that gets me. Bought the phone used after my last android bit the dust while I was still on contract. Ended up getting a cappy since you could unlock it manually and was unaware that you were stuck on edge service. Wish me luck!

Boot into recovery
Onix Speed Features
LAGFIX options
Enable lagfix: Convert Data to Ext4
Convert SYSTEM to Ext4 /RFS
YES
Go back twice
Reboot System Now
EXT4: Convert to EXT4 (wait for the conversion to complete)
After reboot choose YES (for the rest of partitions to be converted)
Wait for the welcome screen and from the power menu reboot to Recovery
ONIX Speed features
ROOT / install superuser
Simple: Install busybox
Scrool to Yes - apply root to device and select it
Go back twice
Reboot system now
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I think that I may have borked up my phone when doing this. I used the onix recovery to set everything back to rfs to no avail. I am still unable to install any apps or format the SD cards. Any advice? Currently on hold with Samsung support but apparently I am having a hard time convincing them that Hawaii is part of the United States and that we do in fact have UPS on this island.

[Q] Freaky i9000M problems - any idea why/what/who???

Hey guys, I need some advice please. Have had a number of odd happenings with my i9000 in the last 24hrs and not sure if some of them are the fault of the phone, or my fault! Apologies up front too for the long post – didn’t know how to put it all more succinctly!
First things first – it’s a Galaxy i9000M Bell vibrant. Came as Éclair 2.1, upgraded recently via Kies to Froyo 2.2, Build UGKC1. Then rooted with SuperOneClick, successfully without drama. Can get into recovery and download modes no problem via 3-button method.
Bit of background info – int SD 16GB, inserted 16GB ext SD. Before any upgrade to the phone had some issues where some photos taken with camera on the phone would show up in gallery as a corrupted/damaged icon. Pretty sure this occurred on default int SD so changed save location to ext SD but same deal now and then. Formatted ext SD – still happened from time to time. Actually replaced ext SD (exchanged at shop with brand new one), but same thing happened again. Figured I’d learn to live with it as only happened now and then.
So, phone rooted last week. Had been doing reading on ROMs/kernels before trying to flash anything. Only root-type things I’d done were to get TiB (and do full backup), Root Explorer, Terminal Emulator and Wireless Tether. Y’day I noticed after taking a few pics that one of the ‘corrupt’ icons that had previously been in place of an older photo, was now in the spot of one of the pics I had just taken (and strangely, the older, apparently corrupted photo was now fine).
I tried to delete a few of the photos but the phone just got stuck trying to delete. Had to force close it with task manager. Same deal if I tried 1 or many photos. Did this a number of times but no joy. Eventually just took ext SD out, put it into PC and deleted them that way, then put back into phone. Now it took AGES to complete the media scan on ext SD – like 5-10 mins! This happened a couple of times if I tried to do anything with the SD eg. save a file to it. So reformatted the SD card (on PC) but same prob when put back in phone.
Figured it might finally be time to try a new kernel in hope it may fix this bug. Had speedmod all ready to go (but hadn't been brave enough yet to try my first flash) so flashed K13E-500Hz via Odin. It worked fine, but “media scanning” problem was still there. Figured I might as well go the whole hog so factory reset the phone via recovery 3e. Did this ok, and “media scanning” was no longer a prob when I put the ext SD card in, just took a couple of seconds – hooray!
Restored apps + system using TiB which also appeared at first to work fine. Put a few pics and ringtones on the ext SD and all seemed fine. Then some app icons disappeared from the Applications pages. They appeared ‘crossed out’ in TiB and when I went to restore them again the phone spazzed out saying (sorry can’t recall exact wording) there was not enough memory and to delete some things to try to fix this. A red SD-like icon appeared in the top bar. I tried rebooting the phone via recovery 3e and it went into a cycle of vibrating, flashing up the turn-on screen/display then shutting off, but vibrating occasionally and lighting the soft touch keys but nothing else. This did this for about 5 mins and in order to try to save battery/stop the whole process I ended up factory resetting yet again via recovery.
Today it works 'ok'. Have not braved putting an ext SD in yet! Got Tib off the market but have also not dared to try to restore any thing yet. Oddly, in TiB it shows “System ROM” as almost fully taken up ie. Full green bar (289MB, only 6.06MB free) – this can’t be right can it?
Internal, DB data and SD card all show as ~99% free.
Deleted Dalvik cache in case that was the RAM problem but it didn’t do anything much (freed up about 6MB only).
So, my questions!
1. is this all because of the ‘corrupt/damaged’ issues before I’d done anything to my phone?
1b) How do I find out what RAM is available and what is using it all up? RAM manager is showing 197MB/339MB used but is this what the 'memory' problem would be? Clearing memory doesn't seem to do anything.
2. I never installed any kind of lagfix (knowingly anyway) – could this be a reason - have seen lots of threads/posts about disabling lagfix before flashing roms or kernels
3. I thought factory reset would wipe everything – but it obviously kept the int SD info ok (I’d copied Tib backup to ext SD and also to dropbox just in case) –should I maybe reformat the int SD and factory reset again?
4. If the issue is the phone itself (with prior corrupt file problem) – would it be worth flashing back to stock kernel and unrooting phone to try to bring back and get fixed/replaced under warranty?
Thanks in advance for any help anyone can offer!!!!!!

Read your hole post its really long. Can't answer to all questions. But did you try to put your phone as massage storage to your pc and mark everything thats on int sd and just erease it. When turn your phone off, put it in download mode and flash a stock rom (with 3 files) from samfirmware.com with repartition enabled? Maybe that works. Good luck! Before i forgot ext 4 is the better filesystem. Rfs getting laggy after a while cause its not the correct filesystem for sgs. Thats why ext4 is the main format on sgs2.
Sent from my GT-I9000 using XDA App

hey thanks for the reply.
i know it was a super-long post, apologies again.
didn't try deleting the ext SD whilst connected via usb. got fed up with the phone not being able to delete & freezing when i tried that way so just took SD out and deleted them with card plugged directly into laptop.
as it happens, since 2nd factory reset, i've been cautious about what i do. no ext SD yet (though might try that tomorrow). didn't do full restore of missing apps and system files as i did the first time. so far have only restored about 6apps via TiB and wifi locations. Phone working ok...for now.
next steps:
1. try taking loads of photos to see if 'corrupt'-style icons occur again with int SD only;
2. maybe try an ext SD again after reformatting it and see how the media scanning goes and how it goes having music/vid/pic files on it etc;
3. gonna look more into the speedmod kernel ie. the tweaks which i think i need to access via recovery mode.
not quite ready to try and flash a custom rom with that little scare!
...but would like to try a custom rom at some point when i feel more educated about all this

Just look at the search function on xda or google. There enough guides about flashing. Know how you feel. The first time i flashing it was very scary for me. Got a heartbeat like a technosong. If you want i can write you a guide for every step. Trust me it is easier as it sounds. Just pm me and i will help you out.
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Clockworkmod from External to Internal SDcard + a question about possible issue.

First of all, I am posting this thread here because I can reply in a thread about CWM, since topics are located in the Dev part and I, as a new user, dont have the access. To get it, it would take me an hour or so, to get 10 posts.
Back to this thread...
So yesterday I rooted my LG Optimus 2x using this Guide:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1327599
and I did everything as listed.
Then I downloaded ROM Manager and tried to download a CM7 ROM. First I had to re-flash CWM Recovery (for some reason). After that I tried to backup my ROM(Stock 2.3.4, flashed without root, LG support is great yay!), but when it rebooted and launched CWM, nothing happened.
I couldn`t even select a command by pressing power button. I was worried, but since I did nothing to the ROM, I pulled out the battery. Since I knew there was a backup option when downloading the ROM, I downloaded it and again, when CWM launched, nothing happened. This time I could choose commands, so I went on and rebooted.
So I did it manually, downloaded gapps and CM7, placed them on my 1gb SD card. Launched into CWM, made a backup, wiped data, cache and partition cache. Installed CM7 from SD and Google Apps. Rebooted and the nice CM7 Launch Screen appeared.
So until now everything went seemingly well. When I did the setup I noticed the Google Apps were missing, but I didn`t mind that. That was the only problem issue.
Today I tried to take a picture, but I couldn`t because my SD card was full. First I was confused, since the Camera shots used to be stored in the Internal memory.
So I plug the phone into my PC and checked the External SD card. The Back-up ROM took all the space and I am quite bothered, since I have planned on changing my SD card.
Now I wrote all this just in case I did something wrong, but here is the question:
Can I somehow move this back-up to my Internal storage and not lose my Back-Up.
Where is CMW installed?(I had to re-install it again after ROM flash. ROM Manager remained on my phone, while other apps go deleted.)
Now this is quite a lot of text, but I am a newbie, and I need to know if I messed it up.
Thanks in advance!

CWM are installed to an own partition (cant remember wich one, but that doesnt really matter)
Just move backup folder from /sdcard/clockworkmod/backup/*BackupDate* to /mnt/emmc/clockworkmod/backup or something like that,
Try and see

When I connect the phone to PC I get to folder, the External SD one and Internal(5,5gb). THere is a folder called clockworkmod, but I cant see the mnt and emmc thingys.
Is it allright if i copy my whole backup folder there(there is a download folder for CM7. I can delete that can`t I, for storage space purposes.)
Ty

Should work

Galaxy si9000 proper boot fail after nandroid backup // recovery for external sd card

Hey folks,
So Cyanogenmod 10 stable was released today, and I was planning on putting it on my phone. I'm running Cyanogenmod 9.1 right now, with the kernel that came with it, I think. I have not made any adaptationts to just the kernel, only when it was adviced in the guide for flashing CM9. So I backed up my apps with Titanium Backup, transferred all backups to my pc, backed up my photo's. You know, the usual riddle.
Then I booted into recovery to create a full backup image just to be sure. It did it's thing, and after the backup finished, I think the device either rebooted or I clicked reboot system. From there on, it started to act strange (the battery icon started showing up, for instance). The normal boot screen wouldn't show up, so I assumed that that was happening because I still had the usb cable plugged in. I unplugged the cable and waited for the phone to do something, nothing happened.
Then, I removed the battery, and tried booting the device. Didn't work. Using the 3 button combo to get into recovery no longer worked either. So, here's what I did:
1. I put the device into download mode.
2. I installed hardcore's kernel through this method. Like I had done before.
Now I am able to get into recovery again, but the thing is... This kernel won't allow me to flash .zip files from my external sd-card, and I have no idea how to get the new CM10 files on my internel sd, because my phone won't boot. Restoring the last nandroid backup also fails, because it can't find the /data, /system etc folders.
Also, I just noticed that when I plug the device onto the power net, the battery icon appears with the "processing" animation in it. It does not show how full or empty the battery is.
Any ideas on how to flash my phone back to CM9, or CM10 while we're at it? I'm assuming that flashing a recovery that allows flashing of files on my external sd will put me back into business, but I'm not sure if that'll work. Any ideas?
Thanks!

Bricked Bionic help needed!

So just a quick run down of the what happened. I am rooted with safestrap. I had the slimkat rom installed and I have a nandroid backup of my slimkat rom and stock rom.
I tried to use the app called internal to external to swap my internal and external sd so I would have more room (stupid because I didn't know what I was doing). First I copied all the files from my internal storage to the external sd per instructions including the safestrap files(Probably part of my problem). Then for those familiar with the app I selected the sdcard and sdcard-ext for the first two options and sys/dev/block/179:97 for the third option where it says select the sdcard at the system level. For the mount option I had unmask=0000.
Anyway I hit the swap button and not much changed. I checked storage and it showed that the internal storage was clear but it still only said 2gb were available. I then rebooted and it was stuck in a boot loop. Its pretty messed up no but with much playing I can still sometimes get into safestrap, but when I look in the rom slots it says there is 0 space available internal. I have tried to do wipes but it says it can't wipe cache. Right now it is active under slot 1 but if I try to activate any others it crashes. I tried to restore my nandroid but it fails. I can still move files in file manager though.
Is there anything I can do that might help? And would restoring with rsd lite even help at this point? Thanks for any ideas!

Ok so it a crazy turn of events it actually booted to stock jb and is still rooted but it is still pretty messed up. In files it says that the internal has 0 free space but I can still open it and see its files. It won't save pictures because it says no space is available. See pictures. I am going to try to leave it on so it might be a little easier to work on the files. Is there a way to unflip what ever I flipped with that app?

So with it booted back up I installed the external to internal app again and played with it some more. At first I had though I had made it worse because it said the SD card was the internal and the external. But I rebooted it and after a series of wipes and restore attemps I was able to restore my stock and slimkat backups. Everything looks good except I has a flashboot error every time I reboot but I think I might have found the a way to fix that also. Thank you Lord!