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I was trying to fix my NC and install the 1.0.1 firmware. So I tried to format everything back to factory setting so I went into clockwork mod recovery and thought formatting the system partitions would restore me back to factory settings. Well I formatted "boot" and now it will not boot.
tl;dr I formatted boot, is it bricked?
help?
wolffboy212 said:
I was trying to fix my NC and install the 1.0.1 firmware. So I tried to format everything back to factory setting so I went into clockwork mod recovery and thought formatting the system partitions would restore me back to factory settings. Well I formatted "boot" and now it will not boot.
tl;dr I formatted boot, is it bricked?
help?
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http://nookdevs.com/Flash_back_to_clean_stock_ROM
Do "Method one: Eight interrupted Boots" and post what happens afterwards
As I understand it, it is not bricked. You need to go read both the Nookie Froyo thread and the Clockwork Thread in the Nook Color Development Subforum. There is a way to put Nookie Froyo on an sdcard. You then boot with that and there's a way to put stuff back on the NC.
Do you have a Clockwork backup?
If you can boot back into Clockwork, there are some copies of other folks nandroid backup available. You can then put that on your sdcard and restore it.
I don't have the exact answer for you, but I'm sure it can be fixed.
Geezer Squid said:
As I understand it, it is not bricked. You need to go read both the Nookie Froyo thread and the Clockwork Thread in the Nook Color Development Subforum. There is a way to put Nookie Froyo on an sdcard. You then boot with that and there's a way to put stuff back on the NC.
Do you have a Clockwork backup?
If you can boot back into Clockwork, there are some copies of other folks nandroid backup available. You can then put that on your sdcard and restore it.
I don't have the exact answer for you, but I'm sure it can be fixed.
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Paul22000 said:
Do "Method one: Eight interrupted Boots" and post what happens afterwards
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When I press the power button nothing happens. I.E. screen stays black. Would your guy's ideas work if you can boot at all?
wolffboy212 said:
When I press the power button nothing happens. I.E. screen stays black. Would your guy's ideas work if you can boot at all?
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I had the same thing happen. I tried plugging it into my Macbook, but nothing happened. I plugged into my Windows PC, and it came back to life.
A nookie froyo SD card would work fine. Restore from there manually. Next time make a nandroid and do not delete things that you do not know...
Syco54645 said:
A nookie froyo SD card would work fine. Restore from there manually. Next time make a nandroid and do not delete things that you do not know...
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i have a nandroid back up and i cant get into recovery mode.
Because you deleted boot. Use a nookie froyo SD card and put the contents of boot back manually.
wolffboy212 said:
i have a nandroid back up and i cant get into recovery mode.
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Which button combo are you trying to use to boot into recovery mode? If you haven't already, make sure you're using the three-button method.
Sent from my Nooted friend...
I have gotten it to boot to froyo on my sd card.
Now I need help restoring the boot partition from there.
Thank you very much with the support so far
It is not three buttons. Only need home and power.
wolffboy212 said:
I have gotten it to boot to froyo on my sd card.
Now I need help restoring the boot partition from there.
Thank you very much with the support so far
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I am not certain what to do exactly as I have never used nookie froyo. Generally you are going to want to do
modified /system/boot
mount -t vfat /dev/block/mmcblk0p1
then put the files back in there from in nookie froyo.
Someone else may have the exact way. Sorry I cannot be of more help but that will mount boot when in stock. Of course you will have to mount system as RW as well.
Syco54645 said:
I am not certain what to do exactly as I have never used nookie froyo. Generally you are going to want to do
modified /system/boot
mount -t vfat /dev/block/mmcblk0p1
then put the files back in there from in nookie froyo.
Someone else may have the exact way. Sorry I cannot be of more help but that will mount boot when in stock. Of course you will have to mount system as RW as well.
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Bare with me I know very basic unix and linux commands but I do have the brain capacity to figure things out (not boot partitions).
I was on the command line and I couldn't get into the nook color stuff just the nookie froyo stuff on the sdcard.
suggestions?
Please read CW recovery thread. All answers are in there!
Really, please take time to browse through existing threads before posting questions which have already been answered several times.
Anyway, considering the number of people asking, here goes:
Note: You can do all this from the Nook, without the need of ADB, except for the fact that you will need gapps on nookie in order to install terminal and root explorer (although you could install those apps by directly installing APK's), see http://nookdevs.com/NookColor:_Nookie_Froyo_Tips, Third-party app support
Please read entire thread before attempting anything!
- Boot into nookie with market installed.
- Install terminal emulator.
- Install root explorer
- Create a new folder at root (/), for example "boottmp" => "/boottmp"
- Launch terminal emulator
- type: "su"
- type: "mount /dev/block/mmcblk0p1 /boottmp"
- type: "echo -n -e "\x08\x00\x00\x00" > /rom/devconf/BootCnt" (this will force reset on next boot, as if you did 8 failed boots)
- open browser
- Download boot.zip from here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=10470539&postcount=268
- copy zip content to "/boottmp", by replacing existing files
- shutdown
- remove sdcard
- power up, you should see installation process after splash screen. Wait for it to finish, and it will reboot.
- power off
- Next you need to reset to factory settings:
- Boot while using power button and N button. Should boot to menu allowing reset. Proceed with reset.
Boot and be happy.
OR,
If you're able to access ADB (available when booting CW recovery and mounting /system and /SDcard, format from android required on SD to work here), CREDIT GOES TO Duloz, try this:
adb push uRecRam.bak /sdcard/
adb shell
su
mount -o rw,remount -t ext2 /dev/block/mmcblk0p5 /system
mkdir /system/boot/
mount -t vfat /dev/block/mmcblk0p1 /system/boot
cat /sdcard/uRecRam.bak > /system/boot/uRecRam
umount /system/boot
rmdir /system/boot
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Note: Don't worry about errors concerning unmount.
If you're not back in business, post your questions, being very clear about what worked and what didn't.
Thank you.
Sent from my HTC Desire using XDA App
Back from Clockwork Recovery to Virgin (Factory) Recovery ... works like a charm!
samuelhalff said:
Please read CW recovery thread.
- Boot into nookie with market installed.
- Install terminal emulator.
- Install root explorer
- Create a new folder at root (/), for example "boottmp" => "/boottmp"
- Launch terminal emulator
- type: "su"
- type: "mount /dev/block/mmcblk0p1 /boottmp"
- type: "echo -n -e "\x08\x00\x00\x00" > /rom/devconf/BootCnt" (this will force reset on next boot, as if you did 8 failed boots)
- open browser
- Download boot.zip from here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=10470539&postcount=268
- copy zip content to "/boottmp", by replacing existing files
- shutdown
- remove sdcard
- power up, you should see installation process after splash screen. Wait for it to finish, and it will reboot.
- power off
- Next you need to reset to factory settings:
- Boot while using power button and N button. Should boot to menu allowing reset. Proceed with reset.
Boot and be happy.
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Works perfectly, thanks! I actually used adb instead of root explorer to do the copy and mount (etc.) commands, and did a manual 8-times power start interruption, but essentially the same. This made my poor "sound-failing" Nook a virgin again so I can swap it out at the store today. Crossing fingers that they will provide quick and easy exchange service (and let me test the sound on the replacement before I leave the store!)... Then, back to Autonooking (and even back to Clockwork Recovery...) again; now that I know how to go back and forth.
Owe you (or y'all) a beer!
UPDATE: My hosting I had for XDA related work expired, so I re-uploaded everything here: http://www.mods4cars.com/pub/xda
Hi everyone. As pretty much everyone of us who got suckered into buying this excellent (hardware) tab from Verizon knows, their update strategy has been very slow and on top of that, glitchy. Finally, 4 months after the other editions of this tab, we're getting ICS... BUT the update is an incremental OTA update that fails on 99% of the tabs, because it expects a version FD01b instead of the FD01 most of us have. The update seems to have gone through for only 2 or 3 lucky users who must somehow have had FD01b on their tab when they got it.
So after one of the best collaboration efforts on the "Tab 7.7 General" forums, I am happy to present to you
The CWM flashable "full stock" ROM for the SCH-i815 - ICS IMM76D.LP10
First up, let me stress again that this is a HACK and that this is RISKY and that if something goes wrong you MAY end up with a BRICK that will require complicated revival ceremonies! Unfortunately I *have* to say here, that whatever you do here, you do AT YOUR OWN risk, I can not be held liable for anything!
Prerequisites:
Verizon SCH-i815 LTE Tablet (ONLY this version!) with Honeycomb (everyone should have FD01 at this point)
Windows PC with Samsung USB drivers installed, meaning when you connect the tab, you should be able to copy files to it.
A micro-SD Card 2GB or bigger, preferable BLANK, FAT32 formatted.
Step 1: Prepare the SD card
Connect the SD card to your PC and copy the ROM files to it.
ROM Choices:
Original Cloned ROM (First version with direct partition image copy, requires >1GB space on SD card which has caused issues for some)
http://electron73.org/XDA/i815/electron_ICS-LP10_i815.zip
Update 10/12:
NEW ROM with full ext4 optimizations. System, Cache and Data (only in wipe version) will be cleared, formatted and "fsck -Dfy" checked!
DO NOT WIPE ANYTHING IN CWM!!! Just choose the ROM file appropriately.
Non-Wipe Version (This one leaves existing data partition alone, only checks it for errors)
http://electron73.org/XDA/i815/electron_ICS-LP10_i815_nowipe.zip
Wipe Version (THIS ONE WILL FORMAT DATA PARTITION, ALL USER DATA WILL BE LOST!)
http://electron73.org/XDA/i815/electron_ICS-LP10_i815_wipe.zip
Step 2: Download the Odin CWM Recovery pack and get ready to flash
Odin Pack: http://electron73.org/XDA/i815/electron_i815_odin_pack.zip
This ZIP contains everything you need now and later during this process. Extract it in any folder you like (Desktop/Odin or C:\Odin).
Run Odin3 v1.85.exe
Step 3: Bring the tab into Odin mode
Hold down the power and volume down buttons on your tab continuously until you see the big warning. Press volume UP to enter flash (odin) mode. Connect USB. In Odin the leftmost ID:COM field should now be yellow. Click the PDA button and select the cwm-6.0.1.1-i815.tar file. Leave everything else as-is. Click start to flash and when it says rebooting immediately grab the tab and hold down power and volume UP until you see the blue CWM screen! If you don't do this and let the tab boot, then it will automatically kill CWM (yes, bastards!), so don't let it boot the regular ROM!
Step 4: Flash the ICS ROM
Insert the card into the tablet, then in CWM go to install zip from sdcard, then choose zip from external sdcard. Select the electron_ICS-LP10_i815_v2.zip.
It will flash the kernel, the radio (LTE modem), the factory fs (/system) and preload partitions. The whole flash will take about 5 min. Especially on the last two steps be patient, it takes a while to extract 800mb and then flash the full filesystem image. Turning off power here (or running out of battery juice!) will make the rom unbootable and will require a full re-do. IMPORTANT: This requires the use of an external SD card! Using internal storage will not work!
WARNING: DO NOT wipe or factory reset in CWM! You can simply install ICS over an existing Honeycomb setup! Choose the correct ROM version: One erases everything and the other one preserves user data. Since this was originally an OTA, it knows how to convert your saved data. So all your emails, save games etc. will still be there! We had too many reports of problems when wiping/factory resetting with CWM. So for now the best advice for anyone looking into installing the ROM is DO NOT WIPE!
UPDATED PROCEDURE as of 10/16 - NO NEED to flash the old 3e recovery any more! Much easier and quicker baseband update below...
Step 5: Download and flash the baseband modem.bin with ODIN
Download the baseband update: http://electron73.org/XDA/i815/electron_ICS-LP10_i815_modem.zip
Bring the tab back into ODIN mode the same as before. Extract the modem.bin file from the modem.zip and drop it in the PHONE section (not PDA!) in ODIN this time. Click start and let it flash and reboot. Done. Under settings/about device you should now have Baseband Version i815.04 V.LP10 / I815LP10
B]Step 6: Optional: Keep CWM or go all stock[/B]
If you would rather like to be full stock than keeping CWM as the recovery program, then bring the tab back into ODIN mode one last time (pwr + vol down) and Connect USB, then flash LP10_recovery.
The ROM is pre-rooted. SuperSU is pre-installed as part of the ROM.
Trouble?
If the tab for some reason gets stuck in a boot loop with the Verizon animation playing over and over, don't fret! Give it AT LEAST 10 full minutes to start with and if it still doesn't show the home screen after that, hold down power and vol up until you're in CWM and wipe data/factory reset (yes, that will completely kill all user data and the tab will be "like new").
Trickier: If you see any warnings in CWM or 3e stock recovery, that there was an error mounting /data, then you lost the data partition and need to do extensive hacking before the tab will ever boot again. We fixed exactly this problem beginning on the very bottom of the page here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1927392&page=16 so don't panic! This repair surgery thanks to the excellent guide by Androguide.fr here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1862294
Thanks
Thanks to everyone involved in making this happen! Especially asenduk for dumping the image backups from his tab, rayjr13 for bringing this whole thing to my attention and sending me the first OTA bin file.
Every use of the thanks button is greatly appreciated
Hi, thank you so much for these instructions and all the help. I was wondering does that 6.0.1.1 protect you from the brick bug and I saw that you hosted the V2 file in the original thread but here you have the regular file hosted. Is the V2 better?
johnny13oi said:
Hi, thank you so much for these instructions and all the help. I was wondering does that 6.0.1.1 protect you from the brick bug and I saw that you hosted the V2 file in the original thread but here you have the regular file hosted. Is the V2 better?
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What is this brick bug people speak of? Bricking during a flash or bricking when you're sleeping at night and doing nothing to the tab?
Thanks again for this Rom electronic73! Hopefully some devs will take this as a base and run with it!
Sent from my SCH-I815 using xda premium
johnny13oi said:
Hi, thank you so much for these instructions and all the help. I was wondering does that 6.0.1.1 protect you from the brick bug and I saw that you hosted the V2 file in the original thread but here you have the regular file hosted. Is the V2 better?
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Yes the 6.0.1.1 (as far as I know!) is safe. No need to wipe anyway. The v2 included more files that turned out to be not necessary. The files posted here along with the updated, safer method of flashing, should be the best and quickest way to get to full stock ICS.
The v2 was mainly an attempt to bring user ice's tab back to life after his data partition got killed.
Newbie question of the day - where is the IMEI stored on the 7.7? If it's in /system, won't this result in *everyone* flashing this image ending up with the same IMEI (which causes a whole set of problems of its own)?
Rodney
Thank you so much, and I do plan on doing a wipe to clear out my Tab to bring it to a clean slate. Just didn't want it to be a broken state lol.
rhester72 said:
Newbie question of the day - where is the IMEI stored on the 7.7? If it's in /system, won't this result in *everyone* flashing this image ending up with the same IMEI (which causes a whole set of problems of its own)?
Rodney
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IMEI and such is stored in the mmcblk0p1 partition which (along with 2 and 3 which are the bootloader) we don't touch. So no, we only flash the factory fs, lte modem and kernel. CDMA modem.bin via the new method.
electron73 said:
Hi everyone. As pretty much everyone of us who got suckered into buying this excellent (hardware) tab from Verizon knows, their update strategy has been very slow and on top of that, glitchy. Finally, 4 months after the other editions of this tab, we're getting ICS... BUT the update is an incremental OTA update that fails on 99% of the tabs, because it expects a version FD01b instead of the FD01 most of us have. The update seems to have gone through for only 2 or 3 lucky users who must somehow have had FD01b on their tab when they got it.
So after one of the best collaboration efforts on the "Tab 7.7 General" forums, I am happy to present to you
The CWM flashable "full stock" ROM for the SCH-i815 - ICS IMM76D.LP10
First up, let me stress again that this is a HACK and that this is RISKY and that if something goes wrong you MAY end up with a BRICK that will require complicated revival ceremonies! Unfortunately I *have* to say here, that whatever you do here, you do AT YOUR OWN risk, I can not be held liable for anything!
Prerequisites:
Verizon SCH-i815 LTE Tablet (ONLY this version!) with Honeycomb (everyone should have FD01 at this point)
Windows PC with Samsung USB drivers installed, meaning when you connect the tab, you should be able to copy files to it.
A micro-SD Card 2GB or bigger, preferable BLANK, FAT32 formatted.
Step 1: Prepare the SD card
Connect the SD card to your PC and copy the ROM files to it.
ICS ROM: http://electron73.org/XDA/i815/electron_ICS-LP10_i815.zip
Modem Upgrade: http://electron73.org/XDA/i815/electron_ICS-LP10_i815_modem.zip
Make sure you have MORE than 1GB of free space left on the SD card when done.
Step 2: Download the Odin CWM Recovery pack and get ready to flash
Odin Pack: http://electron73.org/XDA/i815/electron_i815_odin_pack.zip
This ZIP contains everything you need now and later during this process. Extract it in any folder you like (Desktop/Odin or C:\Odin).
Run Odin3 v1.85.exe
Step 3: Bring the tab into Odin mode
Hold down the power and volume down buttons on your tab continuously until you see the big warning. Press volume UP to enter flash (odin) mode. Connect USB. In Odin the leftmost ID:COM field should now be yellow. Click the PDA button and select the cwm-6.0.1.1-i815.tar file. Leave everything else as-is. Click start to flash and when it says rebooting immediately grab the tab and hold down power and volume UP until you see the blue CWM screen! If you don't do this and let the tab boot, then it will automatically kill CWM (yes, bastards!), so don't let it boot the regular ROM!
Step 4: Flash the ICS ROM
Insert the card into the tablet, then in CWM go to install zip from sdcard, then choose zip from external sdcard. Select the electron_ICS-LP10_i815_v2.zip.
It will flash the kernel, the radio (LTE modem), the factory fs (/system) and preload partitions. The whole flash will take about 5 min. Especially on the last two steps be patient, it takes a while to extract 800mb and then flash the full filesystem image. Turning off power here (or running out of battery juice!) will make the rom unbootable and will require a full re-do. IMPORTANT: This requires the use of an external SD card! Using internal storage will not work!
BTW there is NO NEED to wipe! You can simply install ICS over an existing Honeycomb setup! Since this was originally an OTA, it knows how to convert your saved data. So all your emails, save games etc. will still be there!
Step 5: Flash the old Honeycomb recovery in order to do the modem upgrade
Since CWM does not understand the proprietary command used to flash the "firmware" which is the base modem file, we need to use STOCK recovery for this. The downside is that, of course, the new recovery is now locked down and won't accept unsigned files. So we need to flash the OLD Honeycomb FD01 recovery and feed it the modem update!
When the CWM flash above is finished and tells you to reboot, simple press and hold power and vol down again to get back into ODIN mode. Connect the USB again and this time use Odin the same way as above, but to flash the FD10_recovery.tar. This time uncheck the "reboot" tick mark.
Step 6: Flash the modem upgrade with the old stock 3e recovery
When Odin is done above, hold down pwr and vol up until you see the old school recovery pop up saying *manual mode*. Select flash update zip from sdcard and select the electron_ICS-LP10_i815_modem.zip this time. It will go on for a while in total bling flight. No output apart from rotating gears! This one is tricky. Just wait until it either ends saying that it is done or a yellow exclamation point shows up in the middle of the screen. The flash is done.
Step 7: Choose between Stock and CWM
Now bring the tab back into ODIN mode one last time (pwr + vol down) and Connect USB, then flash either CWM or LP10_recovery if you rather like to be full stock. If you chose CWM then be aware that the ROM will try to overwrite that immediately on first boot!! In order to avoid that, flash it with "reboot" box unticked and manually reset into CWM mode (pwr + vol up) and inside CWM select reboot system. It will then give you a big warning that the ROM has a CWM killer and offers you to disable that, so CWM will stay in place (good for Nandroids etd).
Step 8: Boot the ICS ROM and enjoy!
Once you see ICS, go to the play store and install SuperSU. The rom is pre-rooted and just needs the SuperSU app for full root access control.
Trouble?
If the tab for some reason gets stuck in a boot loop with the Verizon animation playing over and over, don't fret! Give it AT LEAST 10 full minutes to start with and if it still doesn't show the home screen after that, hold down power and vol up until you're in CWM and wipe data/factory reset (yes, that will completely kill all user data and the tab will be "like new").
Trickier: If you see any warnings in CWM or 3e stock recovery, that there was an error mounting /data, then you lost the data partition and need to do extensive hacking before the tab will ever boot again. We fixed exactly this problem beginning on the very bottom of the page here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1927392&page=16 so don't panic! This repair surgery thanks to the excellent guide by Androguide.fr here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1862294
Thanks
Thanks to everyone involved in making this happen! Especially asenduk for dumping the image backups from his tab, rayjr13 for bringing this whole thing to my attention and sending me the first OTA bin file.
Every use of the thanks button is greatly appreciated
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Hey Electron, thanks again for your outstanding work as well as all involved to make this happen. Since I installed your V2 this morning, I can skip the ICS ROM installation and go straight to step 5 right? Or is it better to start over from scratch?
Sent from my Nexus 7 using xda premium
bathanr said:
Hey Electron, thanks again for your outstanding work as well as all involved to make this happen. Since I installed your V2 this morning, I can skip the ICS ROM installation and go straight to step 5 right? Or is it better to start over from scratch?
Sent from my Nexus 7 using xda premium
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Same here, what steps do I take to flash the updated modem
Awesome!
ice0901 said:
Same here, what steps do I take to flash the updated modem
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from step 5 on forward. no need to reflash the whole rom if you already have ICS running.
Just odin the old recovery on, flash the modem update zip, then odin the new recovery or CWM back.
boot loop
Not sure whats up. Ive had your rom on all day. No problems. When i went to install the modem update, i entered odin and installed stock recovery, and boom, went into a verizon logo boot loop. i continued any way with the modem install, then put cwm back on, then wiped and data factory reset. waited 10 minutes during bootloop. Gave up, totally reflashed entire V2 Rom, again, stuck on a bootloop...so nwiped and data factory reset again,,,,still a bootloop....
bummer...does it just run until battery dies?
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Not sure whats up. Ive had your rom on all day. No problems. When i went to install the modem update, i entered odin and installed stock recovery, and boom, went into a verizon logo boot loop. i continued any way with the modem install, then put cwm back on, then wiped and data factory reset. waited 10 minutes during bootloop. Gave up, totally reflashed entire V2 Rom, again, stuck on a bootloop...so nwiped and data factory reset again,,,,still a bootloop....
bummer...does it just run until battery dies?
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Weird. OK did the v2 flash go all the way through? Did it finish at some point and say "please reboot" ? Or did it get stuck half way though?
Can you in CWM mount your internal storage? Did you get any errors when you did the full wipe/factory reset? anything saying "error mounting /data" maybe ?
electron73, did you create the .pit file in the cwm zip? It does not seem to match my i815 (which may be my problem, that mine is wrong)
I noticed the latest stock rom is like 550mb opposed to the one you uploaded this morning which was 990mb.. Is there a difference?
almus said:
electron73, did you create the .pit file in the cwm zip? It does not seem to match my i815 (which may be my problem, that mine is wrong)
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No I didn't create it but it is guaranteed the right one for i815. I know because I messed up my partition table last night and had to use that pit to repartition Lucky I found that. What you would do in order to re-do your pit is open odin, put the CWM in the PDA section as usual and then click PIT and select that pit. That should activate a checkbox "repartition device". Leave that on for this one run and click start.
As a result it should partition, then flash the CWM and you should immediately be able to enter CWM. With CWM running connect USB
and use adb shell to get onto your tab.
IN the root prompt enter parted /dev/block/mmcblk0
and in the parted prompt enter print. If you see the result as in the attached pic (note: no file system in the DATAFS line) then you need to fix that the same way ice got it fixed last night. I think the link to the thread is in the OP
bathanr said:
I noticed the latest stock rom is like 550mb opposed to the one you uploaded this morning which was 990mb.. Is there a difference?
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Yes the difference is that the preload partition (550mb decompressed) is not included any longer. Not needed. It was never altered in the first place. It only contains a game and useless verizon demonstration videos. I found out later that it had been untouched since Honeycomb FA02c
Yes. V2 went through with no problems.in CWM I can mount efs,cache,system but not data. Then in cwm... OK..wiping data then I get a error mounting data. Skipping format
Sent from my DROID RAZR using xda premium
chefdave12118 said:
What is this brick bug people speak of? Bricking during a flash or bricking when you're sleeping at night and doing nothing to the tab?
Thanks again for this Rom electronic73! Hopefully some devs will take this as a base and run with it!
Sent from my SCH-I815 using xda premium
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The flash controller in our tablets is buggy. See here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1862294
electron73 said:
Yes the difference is that the preload partition (550mb decompressed) is not included any longer. Not needed. It was never altered in the first place. It only contains a game and useless verizon demonstration videos. I found out later that it had been untouched since Honeycomb FA02c
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Thanks again man.. You have put forth an awesome effort in this work.. Sent you a little something as an appreciation:good:
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bathanr said:
Thanks again man.. You have put forth an awesome effort in this work.. Sent you a little something as an appreciation:good:
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I ran into the splash screen just hanging and followed the data retore steps. I keep getting this error when trying to print the print command from the parted prompt.
Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7601]
Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
C:\Users\Flatlinz>f:
F:\>cd 7.7
F:\7.7>cd adb
F:\7.7\adb>adb shell
adb server is out of date. killing...
* daemon started successfully *
~ # ls
ls
boot init sys
cache init.rc system
charger lpm.rc tmp
data preload ueventd.goldfish.rc
default.prop proc ueventd.rc
dev recovery ueventd.smdk4210.rc
efs res vendor
etc sbin
external_sd sdcard
~ # parted /dev/block/mmcblk0
parted /dev/block/mmcblk0
GNU Parted 1.8.8.1.179-aef3
Using /dev/block/mmcblk0
Welcome to GNU Parted! Type 'help' to view a list of commands.
(parted) print
print
print
Error: Can't have the end before the start!
(parted)
Any ideas?
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Working-tested by me.
PLEASE CHARGE YOUR PHONE AT LEAST 60% BEFORE DOING THIS
No. of steps-10
1. Download and install LG United Drivers From Official Site
Link-http://www.lg.com/in/support-mobile/lg-E405
(see pic to know what to download)
2. Download SuperOneClickv1.7-ShortFuse.zip
Link-http://www.mediafire.com/?6f1sttgi1rc1q72
3. Disable your antivirus as it can block or can delete any file without your permission between the completion of whole process leaving you a soft bricked phone. SuperOneClick will run an exploit, your antivirus can show it as a virus or infection but after the process you can do a full system scan and there will be no virus in your system.
4.Extract SuperOneClick to desktop or any drive.
5. Connect your device to PC through data cable and connect in PC Software Mode.
6. Now go to Settings-> Applications-> Development-> Enable USB Debugging (in your phone)
7. Go to the folder where you have extracted SuperOneClick and run SuperOneClick.exe (see pic) (1)
8. Now select rageagainstthecage (2) as you can see in the pic and click on ROOT (3).
9. Wait for a while till you can see rooted and it will ask you to run a superuser command, say yes or no its up to you. yes is preferred.
10. Close SuperOneClick, Disconnect your Device. You can see a new app in there 'Super User', run it. If it starts.
Congrats, you are rooted but if it get force closed, then just connect device with usb debug enable and run superoneclick again with rageagainstthecage as mentioned above, this time you'l be rooted.
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My Work:
Mods For Lg L3 E405 Dual
Micromax Canvas Music Kernel Development Thread
How to mod lewa os PIM.apk (sms)
Multi Boot MTK Devices
Custom recoveries for Canvas Music A88 and Canvas 2 A110
Micromax Canvas Music Custom Rom's Patches
MT6577 Auto Focus Fix
CWM Recovery
Credits to dansh for build the first version of CWM Recovery for E405, all below versons are mine with changes
(See video tutorial if having any problem, links below)
1. Download terminal emulator from given links and install it to your E405.
(google play)-https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=jackpal.androidterm&hl=en
(apk)-http://www.papktop.com/android-terminal-emulator-1-0-32.html
2. Download the Recovery file from the link.
CWM (normal version for user's not using link2sd and 3 partition system)
http://www.4shared.com/file/PSf8-KOF/cwmrecovery.html?
Stock Recovery
http://www.4shared.com/file/V0-hm93J/recoverystock.html?
3. Connect your E405 to pc in mass storage mode and move/copy 'cwmrecovery.img' to Internal SD (1GB)
4. Run the Terminal Emulator (see video tutorial for ease, links below)
Now, type the following commands-
after $ type
su (press enter) (terminal'll ask for superuser permission, grant it)
you'll see this
#
now type after #
dd(single space here)if=/sdcard/cwmrecovery.img(single space here)of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p17 (press enter)
above command should look like this in terminal-
$ su
# dd if=/sdcard/cwmrecovery.img of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p17
you'll see 'some records in some records out etc etc'
press the back soft-key to exit the terminal.
you can use 'recoverystock.img' by just replacing 'cwmrecovery.img' in all commands.
You can reboot to recovery by pressing and holding volume up (or down, hard reset gone, you can use recovery to reset your phone now) when the device is powering on.
See the images to know how to make a back up using CWM Recovery.
Videos-
Old Recovery Wroking-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7vckwBHWyY&feature=youtu.be
VIDEO TUTORIAL-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8r8YpHQJTeo&feature=youtu.be
UPDATE:
New CWM Recovery for link2sd and 3 partition system users.
Flash using old CWM Recovery and reboot to recovery.
http://www.mediafire.com/?s1bgcmf80a87xbd
Features of link2sd version-
This will mount and backup in third partition of ur sd card instead of first
1st-fat (smallest size) <--------- Previous recovery backup and mount location
2nd-EXT4/3/2 1gb
3rd-Fat32 (rest of the space) <--------- this recovery mount and backup in this partition.
this version will make backup of
system, data, cache, recovery, boot and also .android-secure
Another version is under testing
Features-
will backup sd-ext (all apps linked by link2sd)
wipe option added for sd-ext
complete backup of the phone (nothing left)
test backup was of size 1.5 gb
will be out soon.
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Link2SD
1. Download and install Link2D from any given link.
2. Root your phone (if not rooted) (guide is previously posted on the page).
3. Download a Partition manager (Link given).
4. Insert your card in card reader and back up all your files to the computer because partitioning will wipe your data.
5. Open Mini Tool (partition manager's name) in your computer. Locate your SD card (be careful in choosing and make sure not to choose the drive of your computer).
6. Right click and choose Delete.
7. Again Right click and create a FAT (not fat32) PRIMARY partition and choose the smallest size possible.
8. Then create a EXT2 PRIMARY partition of 1 GB (not bigger) which will be used with Link2SD.
9. Create a FAT32 partition for the remaining space left on the SD card, by the same way you created EXT2.
10. Click the “Apply” button on the top left corner and wait for it to finish the process. Done.
11. Put back your SD card to your phone and switch it on.
12. Open Link2sd. You will be prompted to choose between ext2, ext3, ext4 and FAT32. Select ext2. (ext4 is also working in my case, try if working for u)
13. It will say mount script created. Reboot your phone now.
14. Open link2sd and if the message doesn’t show up, you succeded.
15. Go to Link2sd>Settings>check the autolink (to automatically move apps upon installation) (Optional).
16. If you already have some apps, select “move to phone” then after moving select “Create Link” (be sure to check the three files: app, dalvic-cache and library files).
Links:-
Partition manager- http://download.cnet.com/MiniTool-Partition-Wizard-Home-Edition/3000-2094_4-10962200.html
Link2SD (google play)- https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.buak.Link2SD
Link2SD (APK)- http://dl.apktops.com/app/201208/Link2SD_2.2.1.apk
Note: EXT2 is old, EXT4 is the fastest among 3 (EXT2,EXT3,EXT4) but not compatible in all ROMS and often requires kernel that supports EXT4.
So you can/should try all of them and keep the best one that works with your rom.
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Move All Existing Apps to the SD Card (internal sd) WITHOUT ROOTING
NOTE:don't move launchers, widgets and all the apps that you want to keep running when your phone is mounted or when you just switched it on, till external memory prepares. u can not use widgets if the are moved to sd
Tools required-
1. Drivers of your phone
2. Oracle’s Java JDK
3. Android SDk
# As in this tutorial, you have to connect your phone to pc in ‘pc software’ mode, so you have to install all the drivers in your pc, required by your phone. Look on official site of your phone to download the drivers or search for a cd/memory card in the phone box.
For LG Drivers, download and install in pc from here (around 10mb file, see image to know what to download)
Link-http://www.lg.com/in/support-mobile/lg-E405
(see bottom half of the image to know what to download)
1. Enable USB Debugging
Open the Settings screen, tap Applications, and select Development.
Tap the USB Debugging checkbox to enable it.
You may want to disable debug mode after completing this process.
#if USB Debug is grayed and u are not able to tick it, just in case, then plug your device to pc via data cable and connect in 'pc software' mode. now go to above said location in you phone and enable usb debug now.
# (If you don’t already have Oracle’s Java JDK installed on your computer, you’ll have to download and install it before installing the Android SDK ie mentioned in next step)
link for Oracle’s Java JDK-http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/jdk7u9-downloads-1859576.html
(check " Accept License Agreemen" and click "jdk-7u9-windows-i586.exe" on this page)
2. Install the Android SDK
link-http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html
(click "Download the SDK for Windows")
#note the path of installation, you'll need it later OR change the location of android sdk to a simpler path like root directory (C: or D: etc) for ease.
3. After you’ve installed both, JDK first and then Android SDK,
launch the SDK Manager from your Start menu.
Click on Start-> All Programs-> Android SDK Tools-> SDK Manager
Android SDK will open.
4. Now uncheck all check boxes (if checked by default) and select "Android SDK Platform-tools" and click the Install button to download and install it.
5. After the process completes, connect your Android device to your computer with USB cable (if not connected in step 1 or removed after it, you may have to enable usb debug again, plz refer to step 1 now).
Windows should locate the device and install the appropriate drivers automatically. If it doesn’t, you may have to download and install the appropriate drivers from your Android device’s manufacturer. Do not mount the device after connecting it – just plug it in. Use "PC Software" instead.
6. Open a Windows Explorer window and navigate to the android-sdk\platform-tools folder.
On x64 Windows, you’ll find this folder at C:\Program Files (x86)\Android\android-sdk\platform-tools by default.
Check C:\Program Files\Android\android-sdk\platform-tools if you’re using a 32-bit version of Windows.
#This will be the path where you have Android SDK in step 2.
i've told u to note it.
now plz look where u've installed it.
7. Launch a Command Prompt window (CMD) in this folder.
For this, press and hold shift key, right or left shift doesn't matters
right click anywhere (holding the shift) in empty space and select "Open command window here".
CMD will open.
8. Now type "adb devices" and press Enter.
You should see your connected Android device.
9. Now at last, type the following and press enter to set the default install location to your SD card:
ALL THE COMMANDS ARE CASE SENSITIVE
adb shell pm setInstallLocation 2
If you want to revert this change later and install apps to the internal storage by default, run this command:
adb shell pm setInstallLocation 0
code meanings-
0-auto
1-internal storage
2-external storage
(optional)
to know where the apps will be stored now run the following command
adb shell pm getInstallLocation
the result will be 2, ie external storage.
10. Now close CMD, disconnect your Device and start moving apps to sd without root
In you device, open the Settings screen, tap Applications, and select Manage Applications. Select the app you want to move and tap the Move button on its details screen.
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UNBRICK YOUR LG OPTIMUS L3 E405 and E400 WITH KDZ UPDATER
No. of steps-15
LET THE PHONE CHARGE OR AN HOUR OR TWO OR MORE
DISABLE YOUR ANTIVIRUS TEMPORARILY
1. Download LG Optimus L3 USB Driver
2. Download LG Optimus L3 stock firmware/rom from the page given at the end. (according to your network provider and country)
3. Download and extract KDZ updater on desktop or in any directory.
4. Install Microsoft XML parser (by running msxml.msi in the extracted folder)
5. Restart your computer.
6. Now, switch off your phone (ignore this, as assumed you can't even switch it on kidding)
7. Remove the battery and reinsert it. Press and hold Volume Up button and Volume Down button together. While you are pressing both buttons, press the Power/Lock button. DON'T LEAVE VOLUME UP DOWN BUTTONS TILL YOU GET TO EMERGENCY MODE (yellow screen with Emergency mode written on it). ALSO DON'T REMOVE THE BATTERY ONCE YOU REACHED EMERGENCY MODE.
8. Connect your phone to the computer via the USB Cable.
9. Run KDZ updater as Administrator.
10. Choose the following options in KDZ Updater (also see image):
Type: 3GQCT
Phone Mode: DIAG
KDZ file is the one you downloaded in step 2
CHOOSE CORRECT OPTIONS & RECHECK THEM TWICE OR THRICE!!
(these settings are for l3 only don't try on any other random phone)
11. Click 'Launch Software Update' and pray to god.
12. Go for a walk or talk to the mirror as it will take a while for the rom to be flashed.
13. At last you will se 'Finished'. Your phone will be switched off, switch it on normally. (or it can restart by itself, wait for about half minute before trying to switch it on)
14. It will take more time in switching on once, after that you can use it normally.
15. It is preferable to do a hard reset after flashing by this method.
LG Optimus L3 USB Driver
Link-http://www.lg.com/in/support-mobile/lg-E405
LG Optimus L3 stock firmware/rom
Link-http://lg/-phone-firmware.com/index.php?id_mod=11
KDZ updater
Link-http://www.unclenet.de/files/KDZ_FW_UPD_EN.7z
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How to use game gardian
Wanna cheat in any game???
download game gardian and follow the instructions (pics)
apk:
http://www.mediafire.com/?lumaz3036caain0
mirror:
http://www.mediafire.com/?sdh57bfv9krk559
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MOUNT LINK2SD PARTITION (i.e. EXT PARTITION) AS SYSTEM MEMORY (i.e. 157 mb default)
this is for the partition structure created to use with link2sd (ie fat, ext, fat32)
REMOVE ALL SCRIPTS U ARE USING TO MOUNT EXT PARTITION AND MAKE A TITANIUM BACKUP OF ALL APPS
FLASH THE ATTACHED BOOTINT.IMG USING CWM (DO A NANDROID BACKUP FIRST AND RESTORE DATA ONLY AFTER FLASHING)
OR
extract init.rc of boot.img and edit it. (for extracting u need Cygwin for windows and dsixda-Android-Kitchen or kernel kitchen, google about them)
do the following in init.rc
1. search 'on fs'
on fs
comment out 'mount yaffs2 [email protected] /data nosuid nodev' with #
like this
# mount mtd partitions
# Mount /system rw first to give the filesystem a chance to save a checkpoint
mount yaffs2 [email protected] /system
#mount yaffs2 [email protected] /system ro remount
#mount yaffs2 [email protected] /data nosuid nodev
mount yaffs2 [email protected] /persist nosuid nodev
mount yaffs2 [email protected] /cache nosuid nodev
mount yaffs2 [email protected] /persist nosuid nodev
now on 'on emmc-fs'
replace
wait /dev/block/mmcblk0p21
exec /system/bin/demigod_make_ext4fs -l 160M /dev/block/mmcblk0p21 /data
exec /system/bin/e2fsck -y /dev/block/mmcblk0p21
mount ext4 /dev/block/mmcblk0p21 /data nosuid nodev noatime barrier=1 data=ordered noauto_da_alloc errors=continue
with
wait /dev/block/mmcblk1p2
wait /dev/block/mmcblk1p2
wait /dev/block/mmcblk1p2
exec /system/bin/demigod_make_ext4fs -e /dev/block/mmcblk1p2 /data
exec /system/bin/e2fsck -y /dev/block/mmcblk1p2
mount ext4 /dev/block/mmcblk1p2 /data nosuid nodev noatime barrier=1 data=ordered noauto_da_alloc errors=continue
save it
pack the boot.img and flash it using cwm
if u have any cwm flashable package with u then extract 'META-INF>com>google>android>updater-script' and edit it with notepad++
delete everithing it it and paste this
run_program("/sbin/busybox", "mount", "/system");
package_extract_file("boot.img", "/tmp/boot.img");
assert(run_program("/system/bin/dd", "if=/tmp/boot.img", "of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p9")=="0");
run_program("/sbin/busybox", "umount", "/system");
save it and drag and drop it to it's location, i.e. 'META-INF>com>google>android> here'
now drag and drop boot.img in the zip (no folder, the zip itself)
make a nandroid backup and flash this.
now, advance restore ONLY data using cwm recovery and reboot
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MOUNT EXTERNALSD AS INTERNALSD
THIS MOD IS UNDER TESTING, PLEASE DON'T REPORT BUGS
edit init.rc and do search this
#exec /system/bin/resize2fs /dev/block/mmcblk0p20
now remove all # from
# [START] LGE_USE_INTERNAL_FAT
#wait /dev/block/mmcblk0p20
#exec /system/bin/resize2fs /dev/block/mmcblk0p20
#exec /system/bin/e2fsck -y /dev/block/mmcblk0p20
#mount vfat /dev/block/mmcblk0p20 /mnt/sdcard
# [END] LGE_USE_INTERNAL_FAT
to make it like to like like this
# [START] LGE_USE_INTERNAL_FAT
wait /dev/block/mmcblk1p3
exec /system/bin/resize2fs /dev/block/mmcblk1p3
exec /system/bin/e2fsck -y /dev/block/mmcblk1p3
mount vfat /dev/block/mmcblk1p3 /mnt/sdcard
# [END] LGE_USE_INTERNAL_FAT
add this above "mount vfat /dev/block/mmcblk1p3 /mnt/sdcard" if not mounting
unmount /dev/block/mmcblk0p20
OR FLASH THE ZIP
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ICS THEME FOR STOCK ROM (see images)
THIS IS FOR TESTING ONLY. IF WORKING, PLEASE COMMENT. THEN I'LL UPDATE THE THEME WITH MORE THEMED APP (only UI is themed in this version)
Flashing this is simple as 1, 2 and 3.
1. download and move/copy both zips to internal/external sd card
2. reboot to recovery and make a nandroid backup.
3. flash "1.zip" (from where u've placed it in step 1)
4. reboot.
if there is no bootloops and the phone starts up normally the proceed, otherwise restore cwm backup from recovery.
5. reboot to recovery and flash "2.zip"
6. reboot.
Enjoy
Zips:-
http://www.mediafire.com/?s5jv658c6ujoj4x
http://www.mediafire.com/?a5nr8m75k453ars
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thanks mate .
this is exact what I want!
needs to test some of them
there is one question
are you done all this things on your lg e 405 dual sim and is your phone work still normally? )
and is there any bug after rooting the phone I means some ppl says get buged in wifi or something like that...
thanks
x625 said:
thanks mate .
this is exact what I want!
needs to test some of them
there is one question
are you done all this things on your lg e 405 dual sim and is your phone work still normally? )
and is there any bug after rooting the phone I means some ppl says get buged in wifi or something like that...
thanks
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Click to collapse
i've tested all of them and rotting doesn't caused any bug in my case.
Im very glad to see you support here .
I newly bought a L3 E405 dual and had some trouble with it.
1)
firstly I must thank you for your rooting method (post #1) it worked for me and I my biggest problem solved.. millions of thanks to you my bro.
2)
But after a wile I encountered another major trouble . the phone extremely rapidly get fulled (internal system usable memory is only 157 mb!!! wtf!
although i have bought and installed an external sd card it is completely useless and even using app2sd apps on market many apps leave half of size on system memory some other apps dont support app2sd feat. and in result after installing 10-15 little routine apps (not games just needed essential apps) the phone get notification of low size and hangs and stop wifi and ... I installed external sd card on this phone but it is completely useless coz even app2sd moved apps take size on internal sd card not external!!! why !!!
now how could I overcome this problem with best and simple revertable steps? I know you posted some solution before but I want to know which method you personally recommend duo to you said some method still in test mod and im noob in android & adb & programming and dont want to breik my phone.
my phone has 2 year exchanging guaranty and dont want to void it i Know I already voided it because successfully rooted it with your method before but i think I can unroot it with that button on superoneclick software again.
3)
I only rooted my phone but still having fear to instal CWM on it . is that ok also to install CWM also? I just have low system memory problem and dont want any tweaks on my phone if they aren't necessary for it. my other season of fear is I didnt find my installed firmware county code . my phone is on V10G version sw but there are many E405 V10G firmware in here I dont know which is mine . and my living country in not listed there ( how could i find my firmware locale on my E405??
and more Q
what is the difference & benefit and advantages of link2sd over app2sd apps? I mean why we must use complicated steps of link2sd (partitioning & needs roots and ... when there is simple app2sd feat of our native android phone enhanced with app2sd apps on market? I dont got that ??
in your post #7 line #3 you said :
FLASH THE ATTACHED BOOTINT.IMG
and in end of post #8 you said:
OR FLASH THE ZIP
I cant see any attached ZiP files on that posts where could I find them?
in recovery mod tweak post you said you are preparing another new version of recovery soon . is there any new news ? i m so exited approximate date of release
thank you so so much for your helps
U already helped me so much for rooting my phone
million million tanks!!
and sory for such long story
x625 said:
Im very glad to see you support here .
I newly bought a L3 E405 dual and had some trouble with it.
1)
firstly I must thank you for your rooting method (post #1) it worked for me and I my biggest problem solved.. millions of thanks to you my bro.
2)
But after a wile I encountered another major trouble . the phone extremely rapidly get fulled (internal system usable memory is only 157 mb!!! wtf!
although i have bought and installed an external sd card it is completely useless and even using app2sd apps on market many apps leave half of size on system memory some other apps dont support app2sd feat. and in result after installing 10-15 little routine apps (not games just needed essential apps) the phone get notification of low size and hangs and stop wifi and ... I installed external sd card on this phone but it is completely useless coz even app2sd moved apps take size on internal sd card not external!!! why !!!
now how could I overcome this problem with best and simple revertable steps? I know you posted some solution before but I want to know which method you personally recommend duo to you said some method still in test mod and im noob in android & adb & programming and dont want to breik my phone.
my phone has 2 year exchanging guaranty and dont want to void it i Know I already voided it because successfully rooted it with your method before but i think I can unroot it with that button on superoneclick software again.
3)
I only rooted my phone but still having fear to instal CWM on it . is that ok also to install CWM also? I just have low system memory problem and dont want any tweaks on my phone if they aren't necessary for it. my other season of fear is I didnt find my installed firmware county code . my phone is on V10G version sw but there are many E405 V10G firmware in here I dont know which is mine . and my living country in not listed there ( how could i find my firmware locale on my E405??
and more Q
what is the difference & benefit and advantages of link2sd over app2sd apps? I mean why we must use complicated steps of link2sd (partitioning & needs roots and ... when there is simple app2sd feat of our native android phone enhanced with app2sd apps on market? I dont got that ??
in your post #7 line #3 you said :
FLASH THE ATTACHED BOOTINT.IMG
and in end of post #8 you said:
OR FLASH THE ZIP
I cant see any attached ZiP files on that posts where could I find them?
in recovery mod tweak post you said you are preparing another new version of recovery soon . is there any new news ? i m so exited approximate date of release
thank you so so much for your helps
U already helped me so much for rooting my phone
million million tanks!!
and sory for such long story
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Click to collapse
u can use lik2sd as you are not much familiar with android. i'll recommend to mount a EXT4 partition as your /data as this is better than link2sd (my personal opinion) but link2sd is fine and simple. and mounting EXT4 as /data will also give you large space for application's data also, which is not possible with link2sd. try using link2sd, you'll get to know what i am talking about.
which country do you belong?
CWM is must. as in any case, if you are unable to boot your phone than there is only kdz method to recovery, other then restoring CWM backup. and cwm backup restoration is much easier, better and safe than using kdz. also for flashing/installing .zip, you'll need CWM Recovery.
in any case you want to go back to stock recovery, u r free to do so.
app2sd will only move your apps to internal sd but link2sd will link them on your external sd. in app2sd apps will take a small amount of storage of your system memory while in link2sd only data will remain in system memory.
sorry about the zips. zips of recovery and boot are ready and uploaded on mediafire and on my blog, will add them here if few days.
thanks for quick reply.
you helped me a lot.
idont know how to appriciate you.
I done it (link2sd tweak) . I created ext2 partition on sd with pc partition manager (step1). and then on my phone I run link2sd app and run ext2 scrip (step2). and worked good.
you mentioned I can also use ext4. you meanthat I replace any ext2 with ext4 format in step1 or step 2 only ?? or in both steps must use ext4 choice??
and what is the pros and cons of using ext4 instead of normal ext2 . and is the stock kernel support this format officially?
Im on 2.3.6 with build number GRK39F sofware version V10g 15 nov -2012 . and my country is IRAN .and my phone firmware handle persian (farsi) languge characters (not only arabic) in menu and keyboard and dont want too loose that after update or installing new firmware for this reson I need to find my own phone firmware version but in lg-phone-firmware.com there is no any iran country ?
could you please tell me what is the exact step by step method of reinstalling stock firmware after I mesed up somethig ? you said it is better and safer flash firmware with CWM but i dont know how do that . is that possible to explain more this TWO different ways separately (kdz way and recovery way) . thank a lot .
yes stock kernel support EXT4, you can replace EXT4 in every step your've done with EXT2.
how to flash kdz has been already posted. and for cwm recovery. once you are in cwm recovery, you can see backup and restore. select it to backup to external or internal sd, similarly, use it to restore an old backup.
you can make a backup of current rom, can do anything you want and if anything wrong happens, just restore your backup.
Wow!
Finally i have done it?
Now i have cwm with supported backup to external sd. + link2sd with ext4 . script.
You are my hero sudeep!
Now im waiting for more and more SIMPLE FLASHABE tweaks from you not just working with terminal command.
Maye be you release your final version of your custom rom !!
Anyway i always checks this topic and thanks so so much to you
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Another good tweak for gaming
Try using Chainfire3D (Gingerbread)....It improves GPU a lot
Best Regards
Has anyone heard of any other tweaks improving L3 performance on CM9?
Will Chainfire 3D be working on ICS ?
nice
i've rooted my phone like in thread, and i can use apps that needs root perms (like link2sd)
but when i use Android Commander, i get Root Acess: NO
what to do?
Hello everybody, I'm new to this forum, but I'm reading it for about 8 months now. I have a problem with my Samsung Galaxy S I9000. After flashing with Odin3 v1.83(with 512.pit file, bootloader, PDA, PHONE and CSC), and I got a green "PASS!" on it, and after phone rebooted in Recovery Mode, I've got following error while Copying media files:
E:Failed to mount /sdcard (Invalid Argument)
After that, I tried flashing bunch of different ROM's but I always get the same error. Phone can go into Download mode, Recovery mode with no problem, I can also normally turn on phone and in a beggining I get a lot of "Force Close" pop-ups, but after that my phone works okay, I can go into settings and there I can see that there is no memory, so that means that my phone doesn't even sees my 8GB external micro sd card. When I try to open Camera, I get this error:
Turn off usb storage before using camera.
I currentlly have i9000XWJVZ 2.3.6 ROM on it, with CF-Root-XX_OXA_JVZ-v4.3-CWM3RFS(Clockwork Recovery v3.0.0.5). When I'm in Recovery mode and access my phone via ADB, and try to manually mount sdcard, this is what I get:
~ # mount sdcard
mount sdcard
mount: mounting /dev/block/mmcblk0p1 on /sdcard failed: I/O error
I've also tried partitioning my external 8GB micro SD card with linux(I found a video on youtube: "Samsung i9000 mmcblk0p2 error recovery"), and then tried to flash ROM on it, but I get the same error.
Can somebody please help me, I'm getting really desperate.
All ideas are welcome, Thanks.
Hi there! I have a similar problem. After updating from Android 2.3.4 Build MCGv7.6 ( I9000XXJVK) I keep on getting CWM. I can also return to download mode and use Odin with success - with as only result a changed CMW version at max. Returning to CWM 3.0.0.5 and stock rom Froyo doesn't result in a applied rom. When i try to mount /emmc and /sd-ext it simply states Error mounting /emmc! Even though I didn't format it! When I look in AROMA explorer in CWM from Semaphore_JB_2.9.12, I can see that both /emmc and /sdcard have ----- as permissions instead of rxwrx or something alike. If permissions are the problem here, Fix Permissions doesn't appear to have an effect on these two folders. Is there another way to restore these permissions?
Thanks guys for your time! :good:
@ficko flash dbdata.rfs as PDA in odin.
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knuckles1978 said:
@ficko flash dbdata.rfs as PDA in odin.
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I've tried that, but with no luck.. always the same error.
Check my signature:laugh:
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Can't see sigs, I'm using tapatalk.
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Your tutorial was the first thing I tried, it fixed the wipe error, but the main error (E:Failed to mount /sdcard) stayed.
Possible solution is to Format your SD card by using SDFormatter (Windows)
01. Download "SDFormatter" from the link above
02. Install "SDFormatter"
03. Enable "USB Debugging Mode" from Developer Options in settings.
04. Connect your tablet to PC (USB).
05. Then, tap the "USB Strage Mode" to connect to PC.
06. Backup data on INTERNAL_SD card.
07. Run "SDFormatter".
08. Specify the drive letter of INTERNAL_SD in SDFormatter and click "(Option)" button.
09. "FORMAT TYPE" select "FULL OVERWRITE" and set "FORMAT SIZE ADJUSMENT" to "ON" and click "OK"
10. Now click "FORMAT" and wait for the procedure to complete. (Can take approximately 1 hour 40 minutes)
11. After format is completed you can recopy the backup files back onto the INTERNAL_SD
Let me know if that works
If not hopefully someone else can give more info
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Possible solution is to Format your SD card by using SDFormatter(Windows)
01. Download "SDFormatter" from the link above
02. Install "SDFormatter"
03. Enable "USB Debugging Mode" from Developer Options in settings.
04. Connect your tablet to PC (USB).
05. Then, tap the "USB Strage Mode" to connect to PC.
06. Backup data on INTERNAL_SD card.
07. Run "SDFormatter".
08. Specify the drive letter of INTERNAL_SD in SDFormatter and click "(Option)" button.
09. "FORMAT TYPE" select "FULL OVERWRITE" and set "FORMAT SIZE ADJUSMENT" to "ON" and click "OK"
10. Now click "FORMAT" and wait for the procedure to complete. (Can take approximately 1 hour 40 minutes)
11. After format is completed you can recopy the backup files back onto the INTERNAL_SD
Let me know if that works
If not hopefully someone else can give more info
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This worked!
It took me about an hour, and after it was finished, I was able to flash ROM without any errors. Thank you so much for this, you saved my phone.
No problem glad it worked out for you:good:
Ficko2210 said:
This worked!
It took me about an hour, and after it was finished, I was able to flash ROM without any errors. Thank you so much for this, you saved my phone.
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No problem glad it worked out for you:good:
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I got the same problem but my phone alway boot loop. How can I enable USB Debugging mode to format internal SD
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I got the same problem but my phone alway boot loop. How can I enable USB Debugging mode to format internal SD
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Explain your issue please
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Explain your issue please
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Thanks for your response
Here is my problem
1. Phone got boot loop (Never pass splash Galaxy S).
2. Try to flash a new rom via ODIN (several version JPA, JW4 , JVU..) then got error as below
--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
Media files copy failed.
--Wipping data...
Formatting /data...
E:format_volume: rfs format failed on /dev/block/mmcblk0p2
Formatting /dbdata...
Formatting /cache...
Deleting Meta Data
Data wip failed.
--Applying Multi-csc...
Installing Multi-csc
Can't access to '/system/csc/TMB/system/'.
Successfully applied multi-CSC.
3. After reboot phone still boot loop.
Refer to My signature at bottom HOW TO GUIDE it show steps on what you need to do....
dbdata and PIT File is all there.....just follow instructions and it will set you free!
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Refer to My signature at bottom HOW TO GUIDE it show steps on what you need to do....
dbdata and PIT File is all there.....just follow instructions and it will set you free!
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Yep, seconded. dbdata.rfs and PIT file, that's what you need
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After flash dbdata.rfs.tar, it still showed same error message.
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After flash dbdata.rfs.tar, it still showed same error message.
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You could try changing the way you do it. I can't remember whether you should flash dbdata straight after the rom, or if you should let it fail to boot then go back into download mode and flash it.
I do remember though that it was a bit fussy with me like that, so try it both ways.
I also found that flashing your GB ROM twice, one after the other seemed to help sometimes too. (Just noticed that I've written a .txt file in my GB ROM folder on my PC reminding me to do this, so there must have been a reason for it - been a while since I've played with gingerbread so I can't remember why)
So there's a couple of things for you to try.
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Flash the JVU Rom First with PIT and Root...
When Finished Root pull battery ....put battery back in after 30 seconds
Reset ODIN Flash dbdata ..Done
Hope this helps
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You could try changing the way you do it. I can't remember whether you should flash dbdata straight after the rom, or if you should let it fail to boot then go back into download mode and flash it.
I do remember though that it was a bit fussy with me like that, so try it both ways.
I also found that flashing your GB ROM twice, one after the other seemed to help sometimes too. (Just noticed that I've written a .txt file in my GB ROM folder on my PC reminding me to do this, so there must have been a reason for it - been a while since I've played with gingerbread so I can't remember why)
So there's a couple of things for you to try.
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Flash the JVU Rom First with PIT and Root...
When Finished Root pull battery ....put battery back in after 30 seconds
Reset ODIN Flash dbdata ..Done
Hope this helps
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Thanks both of you. I will try.
EwOkie - Should I use CF-Root-XX_OXA_JVU_2.3.6-v4.3-CWM3RFS for rooting phone or others?
CF Root is in the HOW TO GUIDE or HERE
CF-Root-XX_OXA_JVU_2.3.6-v4.3-CWM3RFS is the correct one to use ...
Everythng you need is in there
After unlocking the bootloader, installing TWRP recovery and rooting my phone with SuperSU (v2.82), I was preparing to install a custom ROM (more specifically the Resurrection Remix 7.1.2.) all in all, things ended up going out of hand and I accidentally deleted my internal storage, losing every single bit of my existing ROM, not to mention the RR ROM file as well. Now when I try to wipe, I can't, it usually says "Failed to mount '/data' (Device or resource busy) and "Unable to mount storage".
I tried using ADB sideload but to no success, only the same message. What I can understand is that the previous data is gone, I tried changing the format of data, system and cache to FAT & exFAT but it still did not resolve my issue.
I'm out of options here, I don't want to have to give up this phone because of my stupidity.
I also tried flashing the LineageOS 14.1 ROM to see if anything was different, here is what it said:
Installing zip file '/sideload.package.zip'
Target: HUAWEI/EVA-L09/HWEVA:7.0/HUAWEIEVA-L09/C432B361:user/release-keys
detected filesystem ext4 for /dev/block/bootdevice/by-name/system
detected filesystem exfat for /dev/block/bootdevice/by-name/userdata
mount: failed to mount /dev/block/bootdevice/by-name/userdata at /data: Device or resource busy
unmount of /data failed; no such volume
Patching system image unconditionally...
detected filesystem ext4 for /dev/block/bootdevice/by-name/system
Script succeeded: result was [1.000000]
Although it said succeeded it clearly did not work and I am sitting without a ROM. I'm not smart when it comes to these things please help a guy out.
(Is there a way to going back to completely stock EMUI 5.0?)
Cheers.
EMUI 5.01 requires encryption, which you obviously removed.
Search for DC Unlocker, it can probably fix it for 25 Euros
zgfg said:
EMUI 5.01 requires encryption, which you obviously removed.
Search for DC Unlocker, it can probably fix it for 25 Euros
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I know this is awkward to ask and all, but how exactly do I go about this, I'm pretty lost and I have minimal experience with this stuff..
I never had to use it but here is their portal (with download info, prices, instructions, etc)
https://www.dc-unlocker.com/DC-Phoenix-flash-repair-tutorial
If you search on XDA or search on Google for eg XDA Huawei DC Unlocker you will find threads with first hands experience (I've seen them several tines but didn't save to Favorites)
zgfg said:
I never had to use it but here is their portal (with download info, prices, instructions, etc)
If you search on XDA or search on Google for eg XDA Huawei DC Unlocker you will find threads with first hands experience (I've seen them several tines but didn't save to Favorites)
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I'm terribly sorry for being THIS stupid. As I'm looking into this even more, I'm conflicted about the credit amount I need, been scrolling through the list and I can't really find my problem involving firmware I suppose.
People usually buy for 15 Euros. It may help you, Chrome will automatically translate from German
https://www.android-hilfe.de/forum/...-wiederherstellung-mit-dc-phoenix.818669.html
I'm not educated about DC Unlocker but that is NOT neccesary here. You can easily repair the /data partition by flashing the stock recovery via fastboot, formatting data with that stock recovery and then flashing TWRP again. After that TWRP should be able to read the data partition again.
You can easily go back to stock completely and even restore your bootloader by doing a "rollback" to Android 6. (dload method). After that you can normally upgrade from there though EMUI to the latest version of stock.
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I'm not educated about DC Unlocker but that is NOT neccesary here. You can easily repair the /data partition by flashing the stock recovery via fastboot, formatting data with that stock recovery and then flashing TWRP again. After that TWRP should be able to read the data partition again.
You can easily go back to stock completely and even restore your bootloader by doing a "rollback" to Android 6. (dload method). After that you can normally upgrade from there though EMUI to the latest version of stock.
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I've tried using eRecovery to format the data but to no success, I can't even use the touch screen for some reason, (I know about the volume keys, but when it comes to selecting the Wi-Fi, there is no success whatsoever). If you do know a fix for this, could you possibly walk me through this?
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I've tried using eRecovery to format the data but to no success, I can't even use the touch screen for some reason, (I know about the volume keys, but when it comes to selecting the Wi-Fi, there is no success whatsoever). If you do know a fix for this, could you possibly walk me through this?
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UPDATE: I flashed the stock recovery image and it showed me the wipe cache partition and factory data and system reset, I tried both, only the cache one succeeded, the other one failed. I saw a post that directed you to flash boot.img, recovery.img, recovery2.img and then system.img, I did that, but I couldn't boot into my phone - the good thing is however! That I can use my touchscreen in the recovery now.
Obviously the second time booting into EMUI recovery it prompts me to 'Download latest version and recovery', I try to connect to my Wi-Fi, seems okay but then it suddenly fails. More specifically it says 'Getting package info failed'. Save me please :crying:
So this "erecovery" never worked in any way for me (the one which offers you to download the latest version).
Instead you need the normal recovery you already used. Formatting failed for me the first time too, try it again and then it will try to format "low-level" which worked for me.
Go directly into fastboot from that, flash TWRP and go directly into TWRP.
After that should be able to use /data in TWRP. As soon as you are able to start TWRP without any error messages (like "Device busy" or something) go to Wipe and then format data.
Important: check which partition type you have! For EMUI you need "f2fs" and for lineage you need "ext4". You can see and change that in TWRP under Wipe -> "change or repair filesystem".
If you have any more questions, just ask.
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So this "erecovery" never worked in any way for me (the one which offers you to download the latest version).
Instead you need the normal recovery you already used. Formatting failed for me the first time too, try it again and then it will try to format "low-level" which worked for me.
Go directly into fastboot from that, flash TWRP and go directly into TWRP.
After that should be able to use /data in TWRP. As soon as you are able to start TWRP without any error messages (like "Device busy" or something) go to Wipe and then format data.
Important: check which partition type you have! For EMUI you need "f2fs" and for lineage you need "ext4". You can see and change that in TWRP under Wipe -> "change or repair filesystem".
If you have any more questions, just ask.
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So what you're saying is, as soon as I get my data sorted and my partition set to the right one I should be able to install the custom ROM. I could use data and even formatted it, tried installing Lineage but I must've had the storage on the wrong type, now I'm back with the same issue, I'll try to fix it and post my results here. Thank you!
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So what you're saying is, as soon as I get my data sorted and my partition set to the right one I should be able to install the custom ROM. I could use data and even formatted it, tried installing Lineage but I must've had the storage on the wrong type, now I'm back with the same issue, I'll try to fix it and post my results here. Thank you!
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Update: It did NOT work, tried flashing LineageOS through ADB sideload, it was going fine before the bar completely filled up around 50% of the way done, it said 'detected filesystem ext4 for /dev/block/bootdevice/by-name/system' and in the next line it said 'script succeeded: result was [1.000000]'
Help me, I'm begging you, at the moment I don't have an access to a microSD that has the capacity to hold the stock files to do the dload method, therefore this is my only hope.
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Update: It did NOT work, tried flashing LineageOS through ADB sideload, it was going fine before the bar completely filled up around 50% of the way done, it said 'detected filesystem ext4 for /dev/block/bootdevice/by-name/system' and in the next line it said 'script succeeded: result was [1.000000]'
Help me, I'm begging you, at the moment I don't have an access to a microSD that has the capacity to hold the stock files to do the dload method, therefore this is my only hope.
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Whats the error? Why doesn't it work? What happens when you try to boot?
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Whats the error? Why doesn't it work? What happens when you try to boot?
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That's what I'm trying to figure out, when I try to boot in it's just stuck on a boot loop. Unfortunate..
Remember that you have to what *a while* for the first boot. Only if you see no change after 5-8 minutes or so something is definitely wrong.
Have you checked in TWRP if your /data partition is ext4?
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Whats the error? Why doesn't it work? What happens when you try to boot?
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Remember that you have to what *a while* for the first boot. Only if you see no change after 5-8 minutes or so something is definitely wrong.
Have you checked in TWRP if your /data partition is ext4?
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I know, but it was flashing the Huawei logo and the unlocked bootloader warning continuously. It was set on EXT4 but as I was saying, it said script succeeded at 50%.
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'detected filesystem ext4 for /dev/block/bootdevice/by-name/system' and in the next line it said 'script succeeded: result was [1.000000]'
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That just said that /system partition is ext4. That is default even for stock I believe. You need to check for /data.
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That just said that /system partition is ext4. That is default even for stock I believe. You need to check for /data.
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I deliberately set the data partition to EXT4 before installing
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I deliberately set the data partition to EXT4 before installing
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Can you check in TWRP if it actually says /data is ext4?
Which lineage are you trying to install? Don't you need a vendor.zip for some of them?
/data is indeed on EXT4, and I was installing the one that was on the room section.