[SOLVED] Installed CWM on stock 2.3 - now in bootloop - Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

I have installed semaphore cwm on a stock Galayxy S 2.3 phone. I can get into recovery mode and also download mode. However, when I try and boot the phone it just flashes up the usual Glxy S boot screen and goes no further. I cannot work out how to get Cyanogenmod 10.1.2 zip on to the /sd card when I can't boot the phone. I have put the zip on to the external sd, but that is no good as CWM doesn't see the external SD.
I am getting desperate as it is my daughter's phone and she will not be happy if I have bricked it. I am running linux mint 14.

Ozdemon said:
I have installed semaphore cwm on a stock Galayxy S 2.3 phone. I can get into recovery mode and also download mode. However, when I try and boot the phone it just flashes up the usual Glxy S boot screen and goes no further. I cannot work out how to get Cyanogenmod 10.1.2 zip on to the /sd card when I can't boot the phone. I have put the zip on to the external sd, but that is no good as CWM doesn't see the external SD.
I am getting desperate as it is my daughter's phone and she will not be happy if I have bricked it. I am running linux mint 14.
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To put files into sd card when you are in recovery mode, just go:
Mounts & Storage -> mount usb storage
Then put your zip file and flash it.

1 step forward and 2 steps back.
TenKoX said:
To put files into sd card when you are in recovery mode, just go:
Mounts & Storage -> mount usb storage
Then put your zip file and flash it.
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Thank you so much for this advice. It worked. I got the phone going again and then, to my eternal shame, I did a restore on CWM. I should have done an advanced restore and only selected what I needed. So now I am back where I started, but in a worse position. CWM is displaying error messages such as failed to open /etc/recovery.fstab, can't mount /cache/recovery....I can't install from the internal sd as it can't be seen. I feel like screaming. I have tried re-installing CWM, doing a factory re-set, wiping the cache and dalvik cache, all to no avail.
I wouldn't blame you for giving up on me!

Ozdemon said:
So now I am back where I started, but in a worse position. CWM is displaying error messages such as failed to open !
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You can use a Rescue Kit from My Android Collections to solve your problem or look in http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=30415128#post30415128 for a solution
You can use a Nandroid Manager app ( from google) to recover data from your backups

Up and running
xsenman said:
You can use a Rescue Kit from My Android Collections to solve your problem or look in http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=30415128#post30415128 for a solution
You can use a Nandroid Manager app ( from google) to recover data from your backups
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Thanks very much. I am now up and running. You have a mighty impressive set of android software.

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Lost CWM, NVFlash not working.

Hi everyone.
I recently decided to give Temasek's CM ROM a go. I made all my backups and booted into CWM from ROM Manager. Things were looking good so I wiped data, cache and dalvik.
But when I went to 'Install zip from sdcard' it could not find the card (all my .zips were stored on the external.) I saw that the internal SD was accessible so I went to mounts and storage to put my things onto there except it wouldn't mount USB storage.
I tried to reboot into CWM but it was gone. It just did a factory-reset.
Realising CWM was gone I proceeded to reflash CWM using NVFlash. But my computer did not detect the phone at all.
So now. I've got a blank 2X with Stock ROM and Neoblaze Kernel.
Any ideas?
Thanks in advance.
Martin9630 said:
Hi everyone.
I recently decided to give Temasek's CM ROM a go. I made all my backups and booted into CWM from ROM Manager. Things were looking good so I wiped data, cache and dalvik.
But when I went to 'Install zip from sdcard' it could not find the card (all my .zips were stored on the external.) I saw that the internal SD was accessible so I went to mounts and storage to put my things onto there except it wouldn't mount USB storage.
I tried to reboot into CWM but it was gone. It just did a factory-reset.
Realising CWM was gone I proceeded to reflash CWM using NVFlash. But my computer did not detect the phone at all.
So now. I've got a blank 2X with Stock ROM and Neoblaze Kernel.
Any ideas?
Thanks in advance.
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Do you have a P990 or a P999? (The reason I ask is that you seem to have done a "fakeflash" of CWM, which should only happen on P999.)
If P990 - follow steps 1 to 3 in this thread. (You don't need to download SU303 though.) Don't worry, NVFlash will work if you follow the instructions to the letter.
If P999 - go to the G2X Forum for instructions.
Hey there.
It seems that I'm not booting into CWM simply because I wasn't holding the buttons down long enough!
(This is the second time I've done something stupid.) So I apologize.
But thank you for replying to my post. I will still hit that 'Thanks' button.
No need to apologise, we all have done stupid things. Now it's important that you learn from it

[Q] Installing ROM on external SD

Hello boys and girls,
I think the internal SD card of my i9000 is corrupted. I've tried everyting: wiped/factory reset, reinstalling Cyanogenmod10, installing Stock ROM, installing stockrom with re-partitioning on etc. Nothing works. I'm using odin to reinstall the stock ROM. 'Uploading' the stock ROM to my phone goes well, but then when I restart and android is installing, I get error messages like:
/dev/block/mmcblk0p2 or
/dev/block/mmcblk0p1
After reading a lot on XDA, my conclusion is: broken internal storage.
Now I want to install everything on my external SD. So I bought a 8GB cat10 SD card.
I followed the instruction given in this youtube video (the error in the video is the same as mine): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdMhYYdMB08 Unfortunatly this didnt help. Reading the Youtube comments it seems this method only works when you're SD card is totally broken. Mine is not I guess
Then I found this XDA-post: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1893354 Seems very promising, but I seem to get stuck on '-- Extract initramfs from zImage ( https://github.com/mistadman/Extract-Kernel-Initramfs )'. I;ve got a virtual machine running Ubuntu. When I start the script, nothing happens..... the terminal just closes.
The easiest solution for my problem would be a ROM that is altered to directly install on my external SD. I red somewhere that ROMS like that exist. Can't seem to find one though.
Well.. thanks for reading my post, and accept my appologies for my bad english. You can probably notice I'm not a native speaker.
Does someone have a solution for me? Maybe know of a good thread?
Thanks in advance!
Greatings, Eldoro
eldoro said:
I think the internal SD card of my i9000 is corrupted.
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check out My Android Solutions and My Android Collections on How to Flash a Rom with a broken SD card
But First powerdown, pull out Battery, SIM CARD, and EXT.SD card, press power button for a minute, than powerup without SIM and Ext.SD Card....Do remember to backup your contacts, data, images etc and also your EFS folder before flashing a ROM and make sure you have more than 50% battery charge before you attempt any sort of flashing.
Corrupt internal storage
xsenman said:
check out My Android Solutions and My Android Collections on How to Flash a Rom with a broken SD card
But First powerdown, pull out Battery, SIM CARD, and EXT.SD card, press power button for a minute, than powerup without SIM and Ext.SD Card....Do remember to backup your contacts, data, images etc and also your EFS folder before flashing a ROM and make sure you have more than 50% battery charge before you attempt any sort of flashing.
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Thanks for your advice. There are a lot of solutions in 'My android solutions'. I have taken another look at my error message, but it's a bit different then the onces that a there. So I don;t know wich one to pick. I will attach a screenshot of my error message:
Trying the other link you gave me (My android Collections), I don't really understand the second step. See my remarks in red:
[I]ROM update without SDcard
If you don't have an sd card, or your slot is broken you can try this trick, but you will need a custom recovery like Clockwork.
Boot up your phone to recovery. And move your rom file to the adb directory, and start a command line ( cmd ) (How do I do this? Where is de adb directory? Where do I start cmd, on my pc or on my android? What is a adb shell?)
adb shell
mount data
adb push D:\custom_rom.zip /data/
Wait until the push finised, and restart your device to recovery again with "adb reboot-bootloader"
mount data
mount /data /sdcard ( mount the data folder into your sdcard folder, so your recovery will think that you have an sdcard installed )
Locate the ROM .Zip file you wish to flash.
Confirm the flash by following the on-screen instructions (ie: pressing the trackball, pressing the call button, etc.)
If no errors arise during the flashing process then the ROM flash was successful, Reboot the device.
With some root file explorer, remove the rom file if you don't need it anymore, to free up space.
Or use adb to remove the custom recovery
adb shell rm data/custom_rom.zip
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Hope you can point me in the right direction.
screenshot
HEre is the link to my screeshot. Didnt seem to work in my previous post:
postimage.org/image/8451hvzuz/
Greatings, Eldoro
eldoro said:
HEre is the link to my screeshot. Didnt seem to work in my previous post:
postimage.org/image/8451hvzuz/
Greatings, Eldoro
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what are you trying to flash with 3e recovery, its better to use CWM recovery, just flash a semaphore kernel to get root and CWM
still problems with semphore
xsenman said:
what are you trying to flash with 3e recovery, its better to use CWM recovery, just flash a semaphore kernel to get root and CWM
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I've flashed smaphore kernel with Odin. I also downloaden Cyanogenmod-10-20121017.
I started my phone with the 3 button combo and got into CMW 6. Then I mounted USB storage and tried to transfer CM-10 to internal storage. While transfering my phone reboots...
I then succesfully copied the CM-10 file to my external SD. When I install the zip (after a wipe data/factory reset and wipe cache) I get the following error: postimage.org/image/5ma4nnnhj/
When I restart my phone I can't get into CMW again... so I flash semaphore again.
When I;m in CMW again I tried some thing... maybe its interesting for you to see:
After I wipe data/ factory reset, and I go to advance -> show log, I see the following errors: postimage.org/image/ygj9q6o1v/
Another example. In CWM, when I try to mount /data and /system, I get the following error: postimage.org/image/hol1hhhyd/
Mounting /data or /cache goes doesnt give any problems.
Hope this gives you some more insight..
eldoro said:
I've flashed smaphore kernel with Odin. I also downloaden Cyanogenmod-10-20121017.
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The root cause of your problem is status 0 ( see My Android Solutions) likely you have flashed an ICS or JB kernel on a Gingerbread , thus having the wrong version of CWM on your phone . go here My Android Collections and download the correct kernel to use according to the firmware you are using
Check Here to chose your forum/Guide by Version of your phone or you will have more problems by using wrong solutions due to different versions of Galaxy S
But First powerdown, pull out Battery, SIM CARD, and EXT.SD card, press power button for a minute, than powerup without SIM and Ext.SD Card....
(Do remember to backup your contacts, data, images etc and also your EFS folder before flashing a ROM and make sure you have more than 50% battery charge before you attempt any sort of flashing.)
xsenman said:
The root cause of your problem is status 0 ( see My Android Solutions) likely you have flashed an ICS or JB kernel on a Gingerbread , thus having the wrong version of CWM on your phone . go here My Android Collections and download the correct kernel to use according to the firmware you are using
Check Here to chose your forum/Guide by Version of your phone or you will have more problems by using wrong solutions due to different versions of Galaxy S
But First powerdown, pull out Battery, SIM CARD, and EXT.SD card, press power button for a minute, than powerup without SIM and Ext.SD Card....
(Do remember to backup your contacts, data, images etc and also your EFS folder before flashing a ROM and make sure you have more than 50% battery charge before you attempt any sort of flashing.)
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I have flashed the semaphore GB kernel 2.7.4 (first pulled out battery, ext sd and hold powerbutton for 60 seconds). Getting other errors now:
postimage.org/image/4pjqlcgb7/ -> screenshot initial booting in CMW
postimage.org/image/8i4rltz7r/ -> screenshot trying tot install zip
Then I flashed Gingerbread (I9000XXJVU_I9000OXAJVU_OXA) -> pda, modem and csc file, partitioning unchecked). After flashing, android keeps restarting on this screen: postimage.org/image/o5ojzxvnr/
Then I pull out battery again, hold powerbutton and power on my phone again. Then I get this error message: postimage.org/image/ecnm34gmf/
I then flash again with semaphore GB 2.7.4. When I restart my phone I don't get past the first 'Galaxy S' screen....
eldoro said:
When I restart my phone I don't get past the first 'Galaxy S' screen....
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Do a clean flash, meaning you will wipe everything and format your SD card too, since you will have CWM recovery
1) First powerdown, pull out Battery, SIM CARD, and EXT.SD card, press power
button for a minute, than powerup without SIM and Ext.SD Card....
2) use combo keys to get into CWM recovery
a) wipe everything, data, cache, dalvik cache in advance
b) go into > mounts and Storage> format everything (except boot) repeat ..do it twice....than pull out battery and use combo keys to boot into download mode ( you will lose everything in your phone by doing this, hope you have backed up your contacts, images and game data etc) If you did not mout to USB storage first and copy the entire SD card to your PC first)
3) connect to PC, use ODIN3 and flash the JVU ROM with a 512 PIT file with repartitioning checked
Once it has booted , check your phone, check your SD card ( so that everything is functioning)
4) Flash the GB semaphore kernel and check again all is functioning, backup your efs before you try custom roms like this
xsenman said:
Do a clean flash, meaning you will wipe everything and format your SD card too, since you will have CWM recovery
1) First powerdown, pull out Battery, SIM CARD, and EXT.SD card, press power
button for a minute, than powerup without SIM and Ext.SD Card....
2) use combo keys to get into CWM recovery
a) wipe everything, data, cache, dalvik cache in advance
b) go into > mounts and Storage> format everything (except boot) repeat ..do it twice....than pull out battery and use combo keys to boot into download mode ( you will lose everything in your phone by doing this, hope you have backed up your contacts, images and game data etc) If you did not mout to USB storage first and copy the entire SD card to your PC first)
3) connect to PC, use ODIN3 and flash the JVU ROM with a 512 PIT file with repartitioning checked
Once it has booted , check your phone, check your SD card ( so that everything is functioning)
4) Flash the GB semaphore kernel and check again all is functioning, backup your efs before you try custom roms like this
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After finishing step 3 my phone tries to install android but comes up with a Error. It only shows for a few seconds, so didnt have time to take a screenshot. It said someting about 'can't find directory samsung/music' ...'vox'.... Then the phone restarts and the samsung intro video starts but the video crashes after a few seconds and my phone restarts again. And again and again...
Not much luck so far )-:
eldoro said:
. It said someting about 'can't find directory samsung/music' ...'vox'.... Then the phone restarts and the samsung intro video starts but the video crashes after a few seconds and my phone restarts again. And again and again...Not much luck so far )-:
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Fundamentally your problem seems to be related to an SVOX installation ( text to speech engine) you must have used when your phone was functioning ...which seems to be mounted and giving you this error
E:copy_dbdata_media:Can't unmount "/dbdata"
E:Format_volume failed to unmount "/dbdata"
so you need to get back into CWM > mounts and storage> unmount everything and also format everything including boot, after that , ( DO NOT BOOT phone after doing this)
after this pull out battery and this time include i9000 JVU bootloader + JVU + 512 PIT ( update bootloader and repartition TICKED and reboot UNTICKED )
after that flash again the JVU ROM and reboot phone
If this fails, we may need to downgrade the ROM to 2.2 and use a speedmod kernel and try, basically, your Internal SD partition is stuck on this one dbdata partition and you need to get it formatted to solve your SD problem ( looks like you are in luck as someone else had this problem earlier , read this thread and solved it.
suggest you use a note book to note down what you are doing (step by step) and what was the result to get to the bottom of solving this , once and for all, will be useful for others who may have this problem.
xsenman said:
Fundamentally your problem seems to be related to an SVOX installation ( text to speech engine) you must have used when your phone was functioning ...which seems to be mounted and giving you this error
E:copy_dbdata_media:Can't unmount "/dbdata"
E:Format_volume failed to unmount "/dbdata"
so you need to get back into CWM > mounts and storage> unmount everything and also format everything including boot, after that , ( DO NOT BOOT phone after doing this)
after this pull out battery and this time include i9000 JVU bootloader + JVU + 512 PIT ( update bootloader and repartition TICKED and reboot UNTICKED )
after that flash again the JVU ROM and reboot phone
If this fails, we may need to downgrade the ROM to 2.2 and use a speedmod kernel and try, basically, your Internal SD partition is stuck on this one dbdata partition and you need to get it formatted to solve your SD problem ( looks like you are in luck as someone else had this problem earlier , read this thread and solved it.
suggest you use a note book to note down what you are doing (step by step) and what was the result to get to the bottom of solving this , once and for all, will be useful for others who may have this problem.
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Tried your first advice. Couldnt unmount SD Card and didnt saw a boot partition to unmount.... Flashed with JVU bootloader, JVU, 512pit like you said. Then flashed again JVU. Got the same result... didnt work. Still error messages.
Then flashed with ROM 2.2 and speedmod kernel. Could format the SD Card with CWM now... Again no result in the end. Didnt get the error messages though when android install... but still keeps rebooting when booting.
Then used the EZbase recovery kit, like described in the thread you gave me (althoug the thread is a bit old and hard to understand). Flashed everything in the kit with EZodin. Result: no error messages after reboot, but I can see it doesnt finish the first install. Then it reboots and gets stuck on the Samsung video..
Now trying to connect to my phone via ADB. Downloaden the ADB toolkit. Want to try this:
adb shell
mount /sdcard
su
parted /dev/block/mmcblk0
rm 1
rm 2
rm 3
quit
Its hard to understand if above commands fixed the problem in the thread you gave me... it's not very well described..
Do you have tips to connect to my phone through ADB? Downloaden ADB-toolkit and started adb-toolkit-main.cmd.
Reinstalled Samsung USB drivers..tried to connect in download mode and in recovery (with different CMW versions). Installed the drivers included in ADB-toolkit through zadig.exe.. tried in download mode and recovery...
eldoro said:
Do you have tips to connect to my phone through ADB? Downloaden ADB-toolkit and started adb-toolkit-main.cmd.
Reinstalled Samsung USB drivers..tried to connect in download mode and in recovery (with different CMW versions). Installed the drivers included in ADB-toolkit through zadig.exe.. tried in download mode and recovery...
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suggest you just flash the Ezbase gingerbread rescue kit again, might solve it since your error message is not there anymore
xsenman said:
suggest you just flash the Ezbase gingerbread rescue kit again, might solve it since your error message is not there anymore
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Flashed with ezbase_recovery_kit_gb. Powered down and flash the stock kernel first. Then flash with partitioning ticked. After reboot it starts to install, but reboots. Then I don;t get past the first Samsung screen. Installed the rooted kernel and rebooted.. didnt got passed the Samsung screen.
Then powered down again and flashed the ezbase_gb bootloader, After that I flashed again with PDA, SCS, Phone and pit (repartioning ticked). Rebooted and the phone starts installing but reboots when doing so. Then again don't get past Samsung Screen.
I;ve made a movie of the initial install. I don't get red error messages, but looked at the video in slomotion and noticed there is still a error message in yellow. Got you a screenshot: http://postimage.org/image/gxhu8tvf7/ Sorry for the lack of focus, it's hard to read.. Think the path in the screenshot is /system/csc/KOR/system
eldoro said:
Think the path in the screenshot is /system/csc/KOR/system
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looks like all your earlier problems is solved but strange its not booting, try flashing a JVU Bootloader with an 803 PIT ( RePartition UNTICKED) from My Android Collections
after this try a custom ROM, meaning flash a semaphore kernel, after that do the wipes, after that mount to USB storage and copy i9000 CM 9.1 stable to SD card and flash it
xsenman said:
copy i9000 CM 9.1 stable to SD card
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Did like you described. Didnt restart/reboot after flashing the bootloader and pit, went straight on to flashing semaphor... Hope I interpreted your description well....
Only when copying CM 9.1 to my phone, my phone restarts when it's halfway.... Tried it a few times, but can't copy the file to my phone...
eldoro said:
Did like you described. Didnt restart/reboot after flashing the bootloader and pit, went straight on to flashing semaphor... Hope I interpreted your description well....
Only when copying CM 9.1 to my phone, my phone restarts when it's halfway.... Tried it a few times, but can't copy the file to my phone...
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you can try any other way to do it, you can even copy it in your EXt SD card and flash from there..which ever suits you.
Bottom line, the errors are not there, so you may just flash the ROM, twice or thrice to get it working
xsenman said:
you can try any other way to do it, you can even copy it in your EXt SD card and flash from there..which ever suits you.
Bottom line, the errors are not there, so you may just flash the ROM, twice or thrice to get it working
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Installed CM9.1 from external SD card. Installing zip finishes without errors, but on boot it gets stuck on the cyanogenmod video. Reinstalled a few times, but no succes. Then flashed with semaphore Jellybean kernel and tried installing CM10nightly... no succes either didnt finisch install... Then flashed semaphore ICS kernel again and tried again with CM9.1.. Result: not errors installing, but freezes on boot...
Then I flashed again with cm9.1 and looked in the log after installing te zip. Seems there are errors! Screenshot of log: http://postimage.org/image/cp1devyfl/
eldoro said:
Seems there are errors!
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Basically, it is CWM errors and not what you should solve first, you need to get your phone booting, so get back to Stock ROM , try Darkys Resurrection with PIT, IF all goes well try for CM 7 first...DO not Flash a CM kernel First, always flash the ROM and only after that, use the relevant kernel for that ROM
But First powerdown, pull out Battery, SIM CARD, and EXT.SD card, press power button for a minute, than powerup without SIM and Ext.SD Card....

[Q] Android not loading, rom zip disappeared.

Hey Guys.
I'm in a bit of ****.
I did my first rom flash yesterday, and all worked well. However the system would reboot once every 12 or so hours.
I noticed when I did CWM Recovery 5.5, that the total data wipe failed, but I researched that it was an issue, and had been fixed in CWM 6.0
The rom description said that if a total data wasn't done, you would have problems.
So I flashed 6.0, and did the CWM Recovery again with all the wiping options, but when I went to 'install zip from sd card', the file wasn't there. I assumed that the contents of the card wouldn't move, or be deleted, but it obviously was.
Now when I followed the original guide on XDA, I did the backup as stated, but it must not have worked, as in restore it's telling me there's no backup file found.
So at the moment, all i'm getting is the Samsung Galaxy S3 loading screen, but it's not going beyond that.
All I can access is CWM, and the Downloading screen.
What can I do to get my phone accessible again?
Thanks
plug your phone to PC (with downloaded ROM)
go to cwm -> mounts and storage -> mount usb storage. Now you should see Phone SD card on your PC. Put ROM in main folder uplug and flash.
if it doesn't help you should flash via odin (at download mode) 3 file ROM (f.e. JW1) with pit512 and re-partition checked, then flash kernel with cwm and start fun with cwm flashing.
Keep your ROMs and gapps and kernels etc on microSD next time
I do that so when I flash a new ROM I just wipe and format everything. I know its not necessary to format SD, I just do it anyway to clean up folders from old apps etc.
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[i9001] Unable to uninstall apps, wipe data, flash rom with Odin or CWM

Hi all, this is my first post on XDA. I'm having big troubles with my device, a Samsung Galaxy S Plus i 9001 and I'm looking for some advice.
After a clean installation of the rom i had been using for some time I started to get messages of force close for most of the apps installed at every boot. The ROM in question is SmoothieICS v2. I believe that the reason of this issue is the fact that I restored all the apps and the data with Titanium backup. To solve the problem I tried to restore a nandroid backup via CWM (version 6.0.1.0), but when a rebooted, the backup was not installed at all and the force close messages continued. After that I tried to wipe data and cache, reinstall the ROM via CWM and Odin, install the stock ROM, fix permissions, format the partition, but nothing worked. Every time I reboot the device, the old ROM boot up with the same force close messages.
I've read several posts on XDA with similar issues, but usually a clean reinstall worked fine. At the moment I'm out of option.
Find attache a copy of the logcat recorded after rebooting the device.
Any suggestion to save my phone is really appreciated.
Thnaks in advance.
Some tips here:
1: Flash BroodROM RC5 (this is an Gingerbread ROM with all the partitions of our device) via odin
2: flash CWM 5.5.0.4 (this is in my eyes the most stable recovery) and wipe all (system, data, cache,dalvic etc)
ibacco said:
Hi all, this is my first post on XDA. I'm having big troubles with my device, a Samsung Galaxy S Plus i 9001 and I'm looking for some advice.
After a clean installation of the rom i had been using for some time I started to get messages of force close for most of the apps installed at every boot. The ROM in question is SmoothieICS v2. I believe that the reason of this issue is the fact that I restored all the apps and the data with Titanium backup. To solve the problem I tried to restore a nandroid backup via CWM (version 6.0.1.0), but when a rebooted, the backup was not installed at all and the force close messages continued. After that I tried to wipe data and cache, reinstall the ROM via CWM and Odin, install the stock ROM, fix permissions, format the partition, but nothing worked. Every time I reboot the device, the old ROM boot up with the same force close messages.
I've read several posts on XDA with similar issues, but usually a clean reinstall worked fine. At the moment I'm out of option.
Find attache a copy of the logcat recorded after rebooting the device.
Any suggestion to save my phone is really appreciated.
Thnaks in advance.
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First solution,
SmoothieICS is an outdated ROM. Currently there are more stable and bug free releases are available for our device. You can try that.
But, the choice is yours, if you want to continue with it,
Access download mode, install a stable and safe recoveries like CWM 5.5.04, TWRP 2.2.1, or CWM 6.0.3.2 via odin or you can try to flash it via current recovery.
Then do a full data wipe, wipe cache, wipe dalvic cache. If necessary, delete the partition and do a full format
Restore the nandroid backup or do a fresh install
Edit: @mrjraider Haven't seen your reply. Silly me, repeated the same thing you said..
jabrif said:
First solution,
SmoothieICS is an outdated ROM. Currently there are more stable and bug free releases are available for our device. You can try that.
But, the choice is yours, if you want to continue with it,
Access download mode, install a stable and safe recoveries like CWM 5.5.04, TWRP 2.2.1, or CWM 6.0.3.2 via odin or you can try to flash it via current recovery.
Then do a full data wipe, wipe cache, wipe dalvic cache. If necessary, delete the partition and do a full format
Restore the nandroid backup or do a fresh install
Edit: @mrjraider Haven't seen your reply. Silly me, repeated the same thing you said..
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No problem mate
Things happen
Thank you both, but your solutions didn't work. After installing BroodROM via Odin my phone rebooted in SmoothieICS just like nothing happened. Also a new recovery can't be installed, Tried with TWRP and CWM with no luck :crying:
ibacco said:
Thank you both, but your solutions didn't work. After installing BroodROM via Odin my phone rebooted in SmoothieICS just like nothing happened. Also a new recovery can't be installed, Tried with TWRP and CWM with no luck :crying:
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That's strange. How is it possible to show up again after deleting and formatting the partition completely.. Are you sure you formatted the data and system in mounts and storage menu of cwm recovery.?
Anyway, Remove your external sd card, and try all the methods again..
Tried again. Did the following:
- removed the external sd card
- rebooted in recovery
- format system and data
- installed CWM 5.5.0.4
- rebooted in recovery
The recovery version installed is still the 6.0.1.0!!!!
It is like the internal SD card can't be written any more.
One thing I maybe didn't mention is that if I delete a file in the internal SD card and the reboot, the file is still there. it is not deleted.
This is really frustrating.
ibacco said:
Tried again. Did the following:
- removed the external sd card
- rebooted in recovery
- format system and data
- installed CWM 5.5.0.4
- rebooted in recovery
The recovery version installed is still the 6.0.1.0!!!!
It is like the internal SD card can't be written any more.
One thing I maybe didn't mention is that if I delete a file in the internal SD card and the reboot, the file is still there. it is not deleted.
This is really frustrating.
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That's strange and weird. Haven't heard about such a problem before. I will look in to it and will reply you if i get something..
ibacco said:
Tried again. Did the following:
- removed the external sd card
- rebooted in recovery
- format system and data
- installed CWM 5.5.0.4
- rebooted in recovery
The recovery version installed is still the 6.0.1.0!!!!
It is like the internal SD card can't be written any more.
One thing I maybe didn't mention is that if I delete a file in the internal SD card and the reboot, the file is still there. it is not deleted.
This is really frustrating.
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I recognize those symptoms. The i/o of the sdcard is defect.
What happens is that when you want to format random 0 and 1 are being written to remove the data on the card. If your card is broken and cant be written to you will be unable to format or flash anything. And thus the data on the card remains.
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mrjraider said:
I recognize those symptoms. The i/o of the sdcard is defect.
What happens is that when you want to format random 0 and 1 are being written to remove the data on the card. If your card is broken and cant be written to you will be unable to format or flash anything. And thus the data on the card remains.
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Does this mean that the only way to solve the issue is to replace the internal SD card?
Same Issue, but with SGS GT-I9000
I have pretty much the same problem!
Ive been reading a lot and it really seems to be a problem of the internal SD card!
I tried many times to delete all the files on the internal SD card via USB and via Recovery Mode, installed different OS ...nothing worked and most of my apps crash the whole time, so force close to all!
Im now about to decide to use my external SD as internal!
What do you say?
Any ideas
Thanks

[Q] Boot loop - Still possible to backup internal sd?

Hi guys!
Here's my situation:
- P990, tonyp's PA 2.6 v.13, old bootloader, Kowalski kernel exp. version 12x
- Phone started boot looping (no obvious cause)
- Tried deleting cache. Didn't help.
- Tried flashing the same ROM from external SD. Didn't help.
- Tried restoring working backup (boot and system only, not complete restore) from CWM. Didn't help.
So then I guess I have to do a complete factory reset, but that means I'll lose everything on my internal SD card, right? I want to make a copy first so that I can keep my files. My nandroid backups are only 2.x GB, so I guess they don't include everything on the internal SD card.
I tried to connect the phone to my laptop, but nothing happened, so I deleted/reinstalled drivers from the LG website. That didn't work, but then I found this post which got me a little further. It said the installation was successful, but when I was in CWM, the disks (int. and ext. SD) wasn't being recognized. When I rebooted recovery (from CWM) or just rebooted the device, the computer recognized the discs and started installing four drivers, but as the phone either gets into CWM or just boot loops, it seems like Windows isn't able to finalize the installation of the drivers. This results in the SD cards not being functional in Windows. I can't even see disk labels or storage used/available.
Does someone have an idea of how I might be able to access the internal SD from Windows? Either by fixing the driver issue, or some other method?
I guess I have to fix this USB issue to be able to try to use adb pull to get all the stuff off the internal memory as well, right? Or is the connection between phone and computer not required to be "complete" to be able to do that? I do not remember for sure, but I believe I had turned on USB debugging before all this mess started. However, I have never used adb before.
I'm massively thankful for any help!
Sammy321 said:
Hi guys!
Here's my situation:
- P990, tonyp's PA 2.6 v.13, old bootloader, Kowalski kernel exp. version 12x
- Phone started boot looping (no obvious cause)
- Tried deleting cache. Didn't help.
- Tried flashing the same ROM from external SD. Didn't help.
- Tried restoring working backup (boot and system only, not complete restore) from CWM. Didn't help.
So then I guess I have to do a complete factory reset, but that means I'll lose everything on my internal SD card, right? I want to make a copy first so that I can keep my files. My nandroid backups are only 2.x GB, so I guess they don't include everything on the internal SD card.
I tried to connect the phone to my laptop, but nothing happened, so I deleted/reinstalled drivers from the LG website. That didn't work, but then I found this post which got me a little further. It said the installation was successful, but when I was in CWM, the disks (int. and ext. SD) wasn't being recognized. When I rebooted recovery (from CWM) or just rebooted the device, the computer recognized the discs and started installing four drivers, but as the phone either gets into CWM or just boot loops, it seems like Windows isn't able to finalize the installation of the drivers. This results in the SD cards not being functional in Windows. I can't even see disk labels or storage used/available.
Does someone have an idea of how I might be able to access the internal SD from Windows? Either by fixing the driver issue, or some other method?
I guess I have to fix this USB issue to be able to try to use adb pull to get all the stuff off the internal memory as well, right? Or is the connection between phone and computer not required to be "complete" to be able to do that? I do not remember for sure, but I believe I had turned on USB debugging before all this mess started. However, I have never used adb before.
I'm massively thankful for any help!
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Can you tell me version of the recovery you use?
Did you tried wipe dalvik-cache? (Advance-->Wipe dalvik-cache)
bitdomo said:
Can you tell me version of the recovery you use?
Did you tried wipe dalvik-cache? (Advance-->Wipe dalvik-cache)
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I'm using ClockworkMod Recovery v6.0.3.1.
Yes, I tried wiping dalvik cache as well, but that didn't fix it either.
Are there some other ways of getting out of the bootloop? I don't mind flashing stock rom or whatever else, as long as I can recover my internal SD.
Sammy321 said:
I'm using ClockworkMod Recovery v6.0.3.1.
Yes, I tried wiping dalvik cache as well, but that didn't fix it either.
Are there some other ways of getting out of the bootloop? I don't mind flashing stock rom or whatever else, as long as I can recover my internal SD.
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Download AIO-toolkit from the developement forum. Install itt, and install nvflash drivers with it.
At the main screen select option 2, and then select option 2 again. Follow teh instructions on the screen, and select TWRP 2.5.0.0 to be installed, or cwm 5.0.2.8, both have working mass storage.
(6.0.3.1 has broken massstorage and adb interface. I think you installed cwm 6.0.3.1 through rom manager, if it that true you are on old bootloader.)
bitdomo said:
(6.0.3.1 has broken massstorage and adb interface.
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Aha, that explains it!
I installed CWM 5.0.2.8 and I got a little further than before. When I mount USB storage in CWM, my external SD card shows up on my computer, but not my internal SD card. What can be the reason for this? Could the card be corrupted, or are there other ways of getting the internal SD to appear?
I tried mounting everything I could mount from the Mounts and storage menu in CWM, but the external SD was still the only thing that showed up on my laptop.
Thank you so much for helping with this!
Sammy321 said:
Aha, that explains it!
I installed CWM 5.0.2.8 and I got a little further than before. When I mount USB storage in CWM, my external SD card shows up on my computer, but not my internal SD card. What can be the reason for this? Could the card be corrupted, or are there other ways of getting the internal SD to appear?
I tried mounting everything I could mount from the Mounts and storage menu in CWM, but the external SD was still the only thing that showed up on my laptop.
Thank you so much for helping with this!
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Can you try twrp 2.5.0.0?
bitdomo said:
Can you try twrp 2.5.0.0?
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I've been trying, but I'm not even able to boot into recovery with TWRP installed.
Any other ideas? :fingers-crossed:
Sammy321 said:
I've been trying, but I'm not even able to boot into recovery with TWRP installed.
Any other ideas? :fingers-crossed:
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Do a factory reset with a working cwm. You will lose all your installed apps and their data, but it will keep data on internal sdcard. After the factory reset you can boot up into andorid
bitdomo said:
Do a factory reset with a working cwm. You will lose all your installed apps and their data, but it will keep data on internal sdcard. After the factory reset you can boot up into andorid
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YES! I thought factory reset would delete the internal SD, so I didn't even consider that, but it worked like a charm! Thank you so much for caring and helping! You just made my week! :highfive:

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