I think I've made a fairly large mistake going from MIUI to Darkys.
I was on MIUI v3 (based on CM7) for a short while, but wanted to try something else. I chose to try Darky's v10.1.
I opened ODIN, and chose to flash a 512 pit along with Ficeto's JVH rom (in accordance to this guide). After doing this, my phone is stuck in a bootloop of showing Samsung Galaxy S GT-i9000 screen.
I can still access Download Mode, and my Recovery Menu is very limited (restart, wipe/factory reset, wipe cache partition). I've tried all of those but am not sure what to do to get my phone back on its feet again.
Any help is greatly appreciated!
Download any stock firmware or EZBase.
I have a stock Froyo ROM (Full UGJH2 including SBL) that I tried flashing with a 512 pit but it is still stuck in a boot loop. Actually, now it is showing the Galaxy S GT-i9000 white lettering, then turning off completely.
I fear that I have forgotten to disable the lagfix before flashing with ODIN, however, I never applied one...unless it is applied by default, and has to be specifically removed.
After flashing Ficeto's JVH I get this info in Recovery 3E...
Reboot system now
Apple Update from SD card
wipe data/factory reset
wipe cache partition
-- Copying media files...
E:failed to mount /sdcard (file exists)
E:copy_dbdata_media: Can't mount /sdcard
your storage not prepared yet, please use UI menu
for format and reboot actions
--Wiping data...
Formatting /data...
E:format_volume:rfs format failed on /dev/block/mmcblk0p2
Formatting /dbdata...
Formatting /cache...
Deleting Meta Data
Data wipe failed
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Your probably best to go to the Ezbase thread(just search it), download the 3 files for either 2.0(Froyo) or 3.0(GB) depending on what you want, the Ezodin and Ezpit, flash using the guide there and start fresh. Let me know if it works!
Thanks for the recommendation! I've made some progress in Flashing EZbase 2.2.
When I try to reboot the phone however, I am still stuck in a boot loop of white Galaxy S GT-i9000 letters.
I now have access to an advanced recover menu ClockworkMod Recovery v2.5.1.0 SOK ULFK. I've checked my lagfix options, all of them say ENABLE LAGFIX: Convert to xxxxxxxxxx. I'm assuming this at least means that none are currently ENABLED, as I don't have the option to disable any of them. I'm looking at an option called CONVERT, where I can choose to convert my filesystem....Should I select one of the following?
Convert to EXT4
Convert to JFS
Convert to EXT2
Convert to RFS
When I try to access Install ZIP from SD Card it tells me E:Can't mount /dev/block/mmcblk0p1 and E:Can't mount /mnt/sdcard . Is this the source of my problems?
Well, I've been flashing various combinations of pits and roms for the past 3 or 4 hours. I'm not exactly sure what did the trick, I was not able to mount or format my internal SD at all. But, after several attempts at the EZBase ROM, followed by trying to flash to 2.1, finally worked. I got into my UI in 2.1, poked around for a second, and then flashed to Ficeto's JVH which worked.
I've now wiped the device and installed Darky's 10.1 JVH successfully. I wish I had a more detailed answer to how I did it exactly, it was quite a crap-shoot
Nice to see you got it going, don't know why EZbase didn't work straight away.
I'll try to be brief...
Background: I bought a used Samsung Galaxy Tab knowing full well that there was something wrong with the internal 2GB memory. The previous owner had installed CM10.1 nightlies on the SD card and was booting the tablet from the external SD card, totally bypassing the internal memory.
The goal: to recover the internal memory
Steps I've taken:
1. Removed external SD card so it doesn't boot from SD card
2. Successfully used Heimdall to re-flash to stock (VZW 2.3.5 Stock Root) - after the flash the tablet attempted to reboot. It went to the VerizonWireless screen and I think went into a bootloop.
3. Turned off the tablet and booted into the stock recovery. From the recovery menu I tried to reboot the system, which gave me the following error:
"failed to mount data"
4. Turned off the tablet and booted into stock recovery. I wiped the cache partition. Then I tried to wipe data/factory reset and got the following error:
"E:failed to mount /data (Invalid Argument)
E:install_application_for_customer: Can't mount /data
your storage not prepared yet. please use UI menu for format and reboot actions"
5. Using Heimdall I successfully flashed ClockworkMOD recovery, and booted into CM recovery.
6. I attempted to reboot system now and the tablet just hangs at the Samsung logo, doesn't even go to the Verizon screen.
So obviously there seems to be a problem with the /data partition. I'm not sure exactly what to try at this point. How do I mount /data? Can this be done from within CM recovery?
Any advice or things to try would be greatly appreciated.
I've tried flashing my LG 4X HD with Zaiben RC8 using TWRP but it got stuck after the LG spalsh screen. Went back to TWRP and noticed that it was showing 0MB of Internal Storage and can't mount/format the /data partition. Managed to change the recovery to CWM through TWRP's terminal but still cant format/mount it. Does any1 have any idea on how to proceed? It also doesn't appear listed in ADB...
EDIT1: Also can't mount/format /sdcard partition... I was using latest cm10.2 previous to trying to flash zaiben... :/
Update2: Managed to get it connected to ADB, but still don't know what can I do to solve this...
update3: It seems I can't get into fastboot...
Only after a few many hours I noticed that the Mounts and Storage menu in CWM 6.0.4.5 was scrollable, and the last format option in there did actually format the whole /data partition and allowed me to mount it and flash a new ROM afterwards still don't know what caused this, though.
After installing twrp i tried flashing liuneage os but somehow messed up. Now i am getting the error Unable to Mount /data. I tried changing file format, repair with no luck. Thanks.
The data partition of the stock rom is different and not usable with lineage (I think because of encryption). You have to reformat it at first.
If TWRP can't mount the data partition, you need to flash the stock recovery, format data from there and then TWRP should be able to mount it again. The stock recovery image is somewhere in this forum.
Hey,
I was trying to unroot my phone (8.0 + Magisk beta) to go back to stock 8.0. I flashed the stock recovery but it would not boot. So I decided to follow this method. https://forum.xda-developers.com/on...ota-update-t3519074/post74716080#post74716080
However, as I flashed back TWRP (bluspark) and formatted, the /data was unable to mount. Last time that happened, I change format to ext4 and then back to f2fs. It worked fine last time although that time i was on official TWRP and on nougat...
This time the format change from ext4 to f2f2s was failing so I tried exfat.
I am now stuck at the formatting screen (for more than 40 min). The console says
Updating partition details...
...done
Formatting Data using mkexfatfs...
Done.
The progress bar is still flashing/moving. There is no option to go back or reboot etc etc...
Should I wait it out until it completes? or can I turn off the phone. I do not want to risk bricking my device so did not turn it off yet. Was hoping it does it soon...
Any suggestions?
Force turn off the phone and then boot to TWRP again, should work fine. But format back to ext4
Why EXFAT out of all the widely more supported partitioning methods?
Reboot to TWRP and follow the same procedure, but format to EXT4.
If you want to unroot your device, just flash the Magisk uninstaller, or reinstall the ZIP. Don't flash Stock Recovery when you have Magisk or other add-ons installed.
If all fails, try the MSM tool and restore your device.