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[Q] Samsung I9000 Boot Loop, after Odin reflash etc.

I have a samsung galaxy s, gt-i9000. It was on the t-mobile network. It stopped working one day and is now stuck on a boot loop. (It does go into download mode)
Can anyone help me? ps. I do not know the original firmware names etc.

Hooolagon said:
I have a samsung galaxy s, gt-i9000. It was on the t-mobile network. It stopped working one day and is now stuck on a boot loop. (It does go into download mode)
Can anyone help me? ps. I do not know the original firmware names etc.
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If your phone goes in to download mode you can flash, using Odin, a full stock firmware.
Have you ever update it since you've bought it?

umberto1978 said:
If your phone goes in to download mode you can flash, using Odin, a full stock firmware.
Have you ever update it since you've bought it?
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I have a problem saying Cant Mount sdcard

I have the exact same problem as ysr84.. When i click "reboot system now" it just goes back into the boot loop.
Also.. My phone does go into download mode.. I have tried to flash using Odin3 but get the image as ysr84.. My phone then repeats the boot loop sequence..
PS. I do not know which firmware the phone started with, I have been flashing with JVR.
Since I bought the phone I have not tried to update it, I think there was no available update.. =/ not 100% sure..
Although when flashing with JVR I get the "Can't mount etc"

Android system recovery <3e>
Enter: OK Key, Select : Vol UP / Vol Down
reboot system now
apply update from sdcard
wipe data/factory reset
wipe cache partition
_____________________________________
--Installing package...
Finding update package...
Opening update package...
Verifying update package...
Installing update...
Successfully installed package.
--Copying media files...
Successfully copied meida files.
--Wiping data...
Formatting /data
E:format_volume: rfs format failed on dev/block
/mmcblkop2
Formatting /dbdata...
Formatting /cache...
Deleting Meta Data
Data wipe failed.
-- Appling Multi-CSC...
Installing Multi-CSC
Applied the CSC-code 'KOR'
Successfully applied multi-CSC.
^This is the message I get after a fresh install using Odin3 with repartition selected. I had used the firmware package JVR.

ysr84 said:
I have a problem saying Cant Mount sdcard
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Which firmware you tried to flash...and how? If you want more help about flashing follow http://www.hdtechvideo.com

anukilimanoor said:
Which firmware you tried to flash...and how? If you want more help about flashing follow http://www.hdtechvideo.com
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Hello, I have tried to flash my phone with 'any' firmware as I do not know which firmware my phone was on before.

It maybe a trouble with partition.
You can try to re-virgin your phone by flashing an old eclair (JM8/JM9) firmware always using odin with pit 512, re-partition flagged.
Be careful if using a copy with bootloader.
After that (if phone boot regurarly) you can get any gingerbread firmware, obviusly if you used in the previous step bootloader for eclair firmware, than you'll get a copy of gingerbread with it's bootloader.
But i'm not sure this helps you.
Hope you solve this, guy.

umberto1978 said:
Be careful if using a copy with bootloader.
After that (if phone boot regurarly) you can get any gingerbread firmware, obviusly if you used in the previous step bootloader for eclair firmware, than you'll get a copy of gingerbread with it's bootloader.
But i'm not sure this helps you.
Hope you solve this, guy.
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What do you mean by bootloader?

Hooolagon said:
What do you mean by bootloader?
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If you, using 7ZIP, extract the archive PDA.TAR.MD5, from a package firmware with 3 files+pit512, you'll find boot.bin and sbl.bin.
boot.bin --> primary bootloader
sbl.bin --> secondary bootloader
I hope you don't mean what does a bootloader with your question.....

You'll have to try flashing different ODIN or Heimdall Stock builds. Unfortunately, it may or may not fix your problem. Make sure you have a USB Download Jig just in case because you'll probably get times where it looks like it won't turn on and its the only way to get it back up and running. If all else fails and your warranty is still intact, use it. These are the early signs of internal SD Card failure. If warranty is not an option, you should be able to use the external as your primary partition and lose the internal completely. Its what I'm doing currently on my i9000M with the infamous broken internal SD Card. My internal SD Card is gone completely but everything is running under my External SD Card perfectly.

Okay, so it's included within the three files + pit. That's okay, I thought there was more then four files after the extraction.. I am downloading JM8... Will tell you how I get on.

This time it said...
Android system recovery <2e>
Samsung recovery utils
for BML
reboot system now
apply update from sdcard
wipe data/factory reset
wipe cache partition
_____________________________________
E:copy_dbdata_media:format SDCARD:
Formatting SDCARD...
format_root_device: /dev/block/mmcblkop1format_r
fsdevice -> /dev/block/mmcblkop1
format_vfat_device -> argv[1] :-F
format_vfat_device -> argv[2] : 32
format_vfat_device -> argv[3] :-0
format_vfat_device -> argv[4] : android
format_vfat_device -> argv[5] : /dev/block/mmcbl
kop1
update media, finished
#MANUAL MODE#
-- Appling Multi-CSC...
Installing Multi-CSC
mps_dat value: KOR
copy_multi_carrier from: KOR
multicsc : can not acces tp /system/csc/KOR/system/
copy_common_data
^That's what happend when I flashed with JM8, (I had only flashed with PDA and repartition unchecked, due to phone and csc missing from the download.)
I will now click reboot system now...

dawgpound6985 said:
You'll have to try flashing different ODIN or Heimdall Stock builds. Unfortunately, it may or may not fix your problem. Make sure you have a USB Download Jig just in case because you'll probably get times where it looks like it won't turn on and its the only way to get it back up and running. If all else fails and your warranty is still intact, use it. These are the early signs of internal SD Card failure. If warranty is not an option, you should be able to use the external as your primary partition and lose the internal completely. Its what I'm doing currently on my i9000M with the infamous broken internal SD Card. My internal SD Card is gone completely but everything is running under my External SD Card perfectly.
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Could you perhaps guide me on how to do so, I also think my internal SD CARD is also "buggered"..
Thanks in advance..

Woah WOAH WOAH HAHAHA!... Its alive... slightly! It turns on with the galaxy S logo and does some sort of sound thing.. =/ then turns off! But wahay!... Thanks Umberto1978..
I did this by first flashing JM8 PDA with repartition off...
Then flashing JM1 PDA PHONE AND CSC WITH 512 PIT...
on restart this happened..

Sure. This is what I did on my i9000M. Internal SD Card is useless so everything is now running off my External 8 GB microSD.
Go to this page and grab Heimdall and JVT build:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1196179
Heimdall: http://www.glassechidna.com.au/products/heimdall/
JVT: http://www.multiupload.com/QMORULUWRQ
ODIN may work but I haven't tried it out myself and the packages above are made specifically for Heimdall. Set up Heimdall along with its specific drivers (included in Heimdall) to allow it to flash the phone.
- Make sure you have an external SD Card in your phone and make sure its formatted to FAT32.
- Flash the Heimdall JVT build with repartion checked using Heimdall
- Once it reboots, it'll try to format the SD Card but fail to do so and give you an error message. Ignore it and reboot the phone.
- It should now boot into Stock JVT firmware. If you go to your Storage under settings, you'll notice that Internal and External SD Card will be unavailable which is expected. You'll have 2 GB of internal storage for apps and whatever other things.
- You have two options here: 1) Continue using stock JVT; 2) Flash a custom ROM.
So let's say you want to flash a custom ROM like Cyanogenmod or MIUI. Fire up Heimdall again and go back into download mode. Flash the CF-Root for JVT kernel by Chainfire using Heimdall:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=15188469&postcount=9
This will allows you to flash CWM files. You can now install Cyanogemod or whatever custom ROMs you like.
Switching the primary partitions:
Cyanogenmod has a setting where you can switch the primary partitions in Cyanogenmod settings.
Cyanogenmod Settings --> Application --> UNCHECK use internal storage --> Reboot. Your External SD Card will now be the primary partition.
For myself, I am currently running Galnet's MIUI ICS. It doesn't have the Cyanogenmod settings above. I instead use the vold.fstab trick to switch the two partitions. If you navigate to "system/etc" folder, you'll see a file called vold.fstab. Open it with Notepad++ or some other note editor. You'll see the following (this is only for Galnet's MIUI, other ROMs will have something similar. Just switch the partitions like below):
Code:
# internal sdcard
dev_mount sdcard /mnt/sdcard/external_sd auto [U]/devices/platform/s3c-sdhci.0/mmc_host/mmc0[/U]
# external sdcard
dev_mount emmc /mnt/sdcard 1 [U]/devices/platform/s3c-sdhci.2/mmc_host/mmc2[/U]
Switch the two underlined around and push the vold.fstab back into system/etc/ and put the correct permissions. Your external card will now be your primary partition and your internal SD card (unavailable) is the external.
So why switch the partitions? You don't necessarily have to but if you want your phone storage to be neat, do it as it changes your sdcard mounts around, etc. You'll also get back USB mounting functions which you can't do with the internal storage being unavailable and the primary partition.
Hooolagon said:
Woah WOAH WOAH HAHAHA!... Its alive... slightly! It turns on with the galaxy S logo and does some sort of sound thing.. =/ then turns off! But wahay!... Thanks Umberto1978..
I did this by first flashing JM8 PDA with repartition off...
Then flashing JM1 PDA PHONE AND CSC WITH 512 PIT...
on restart this happened..
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Yeah unfortunately, you have the dreaded Galaxy S bootloop. Internal SD Card is probably toast. You can test this by removing the External SD Card and trying to boot. It most likely won't get as far. What happened is that ODIN flashed Android to your external card and trying to boot off it.

I have tried to use heimdall, and once it had loaded and the phone rebooted I did get the error message, however after ignoring this, once I had rebooted the phone it goes back into the boot loop.?

Hooolagon said:
I have tried to use heimdall, and once it had loaded and the phone rebooted I did get the error message, however after ignoring this, once I had rebooted the phone it goes back into the boot loop.?
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Have you tried reformatting your external SD Card? Just format it to FAT32 and then try again. Also, first boot may take a few minutes. You can verify that its booting fine by using logcat if you have ADB installed on your computer.

Flash jm9 mate, not jm8. Seems to resurrect better. With odin. Pit 512 with Repartition.
Sent from my GT-I9000 using xda premium

Hooolagon said:
Woah WOAH WOAH HAHAHA!... Its alive... slightly! It turns on with the galaxy S logo and does some sort of sound thing.. =/ then turns off! But wahay!... Thanks Umberto1978..
I did this by first flashing JM8 PDA with repartition off...
Then flashing JM1 PDA PHONE AND CSC WITH 512 PIT...
on restart this happened..
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I am at work but will give this a shot... I also found a lot of people resolved problem by using JM8 with repartition and 512 pit
then with JPM & pit 803 with no repartition ticked...
Use Odin 1.3... 1.8 wont allow you to tick and untick with a repart file...
Will post results tonight... its been two days and i have tried everything...

[Q] I9000 Soft-bricked after Jellybean flash

Evening,
After trying nearyl everything I found online to get my phone back into a working state I finally gave up and decided to ask
you for help.
So, it all began with me trying to flash the Jelly Bean Port onto my SGS in the hope it would fix my constant crashes and other problems
I had after another flash.
I got it working at some point, but it did not react when I plugged it in the usb port as mass storage device or any other mode for that matter.
So I tried some other solutions.
A couple tries later i started getting the "cant mount /dbdata" error which i fixed with a solution from this forum using a dbata.tar as PDA, using the JW4 firmware.
However because I wanted the usb to work I tried again to get jelly bean to run, without success.
I'm no unable to boot the phone passed "Enter your password to decrypt storage" or in any other mode.
When flashing I keep getting "Failed to mount /data" which seems to disappear at times when the external sd is inserted.
My Computer regocnizes the Phone as two different drives, even when i remove the sd...
So yeah.
The moral of the story is: I cant get the phone to run on any mode except jellybean and there without usb connection, if i get passed the decrypt thing.
Currently all flashing leads me to the recovery screen saying:
"Can't mount /data " and "Cache wipe failed" after that it just bootloops.
So, can anyone help me out?
P.S. I can at all times enter recovery and download mode.

Hey
If u can enter download mode, why dont u flash 2.3.6??that should clean all your problems..
Plus if you upgrade to JB your external sd-card wont be mounted to ur system...(you cannot alter any data directly to your external sdcard...
There are 3 ways to solve your prob..
1.use CWM..
--goto mounts and storage, then hit external sdcard..
2.use your external memory card directly with ur system..that means without your phone
3.(long method)
Transfer ur data to internal sdcard then use a file manager and transfer to external memory card
Cheers
If I Helped, dont mind Hitting the Thanks button...

Flashing an old Stock Rom mostly fixes all problems for me and should do the same for you
Sent from my GT-I9001 using xda app-developers app

Hi,
Thanks for the answers.
Flashing an old Stock Rom mostly fixes all problems for me and should do the same for you
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I tried this approach and flashed the JVU Version from samfirmware.
It leads to the following error:
Code:
Failed to mount /sdcard (file exists)
(...)
Format_volume: rfs format failed on /dev/block/mmcblk0p2
During the boot up, after the first flash.
Note: The external SD-Card was not in the phone, as well as the sim card.
After that it starts bootlooping.
If I insert the external SD-Card before the flashing process i only get:
Code:
Format_volume: rfs format failed on /dev/block/mmcblk0p2
And the Phone starts to bootloop again.
I've tried to google this and I get two reactions:
The internal SD is fried.
Format the internal SD using CWM.
I believe I did try the second approach, but i would greatly appreciate a short guide on how-to properly format my internal SD
There are 3 ways to solve your prob..
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I was under the impression they had fixed that bug in V6.
Anyway, it's not the real problem since I would rather get my phone to work again, before I go ahead and try out jelly bean again.

The ics semaphore.tar odin kernel from the semaphore thread has worked for everyone I've suggested it to.
For some reason it seems to work where other flashable packages don't, worth a try.
Sent from horseback.

First of all I flash stock firmware. / 3 PDA files, MODEM, CSC / odin with the pit512 and Re-partition.za second is that the flash / ICS, JB / clearing script to use the kernel, then the full wipe and cwm JB installation ....

adytum said:
The ics semaphore.tar odin kernel from the semaphore thread has worked for everyone I've suggested it to.
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Did you mean this Semaphore Thread?
If so, just tried it, didnt work, still get the same error as before:
Code:
Format_volume: rfs format failed on /dev/block/mmcblk0p2
misacek said:
First of all I flash stock firmware. / 3 PDA files, MODEM, CSC / odin with the pit512 and Re-partition.za
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At this Point, I get the first error concering the formating, see above.
If I still continue and manage to get JB to work (I event tried the kernel cleaning script). I get locked out because of this "Enter password to
decrypt storage" Error. Which is known to be fixed by performing a factory reset, which I cant do, because of the first error.

f_erin said:
I get locked out because of this "Enter password to
decrypt storage" Error. Which is known to be fixed by performing a factory reset, which I cant do, because of the first error.
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try and enter any password five times until prompted that this will wipe the card, than you should be able to do so

So, today I decided to buy a new smartphone after one last try of getting my old one to work.
I used the default guide to flash JellyBean and now it works ...
I guess it was scared or something, I'll keep using it to check of fluently it works for now and bought and sd reader to solve the usb issue.
So this thread can be closed.
Thanks to all for their tips.

Dead eMMC, boot loop, SD mounting problem

My i9000 went to bootloop and stuck on repeatition of galaxy s logo and after flashing many roms from odin it shows error sothing like (not exactly remember) the below given :
E:failed to mount /data (No such file or directory)
--Copying media files...
E:failed to mount /sdcard (File exists)
E:copy_cache_media:Can't mount /sdcard
your storage not prepared yet, please use UI menu for format and reboot actions,Meida files copy failed
--Installing Package
Finding update Package
opening update Package
verifying update Package
Installing update
Successfully installed package
--Wiping data...
formatting /data
E:format_volume:rfs format failed on /dev/block/mmcblk0p3
formatting /dbdata...
Formatting /cache
and I never got out of boot loop untill I downloaded the XXJVU modified files from the below thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1893354
The ROM files in the above link are the only way available right now to flash for me. I can't even root this.
In this thread, sesetxu, a user of xda, modified the zimage and repacked XXJVU which made my phone turn on (I partitioned my microSD card to make this work). But neither I am able to root my phone, nor my camera works ("turn off usb storage to use camera") and also gallery is not usable as it shows("no SD card detected").When I go to 'SD card and phone storage' under 'settings' in my i9000, only system memory is available (showing around 1.87GB) while usb storage and SD card are showing unavailable.
I have read many threads regarding this, most of them indicate to edit vold.fstab file. But as my phone is not rooted, I can't edit it.
Also I am not able to mount my SD card by flashing any recovery and not able to use it in recovey.
Can you please help me bring out of this problem?
Help will be appreciated If someone make a Rooted kernel of any rom, which install OS directly on the SD card and makes my external SD card accessible (Coz I know my internal SD is dead)
THANKS in advance!

I got the same problem as yours but the difference is I'm getting "E:format_volume:rfs format failed on /dev/block/mmcblk0p2" instead you've mentioned. The only solution I did is to manually take out the internal sdcard by disassembling the phone and dismount the chip with Sandisk printed on it. Then use an sdcard at least 8gb, format it using linux, first primary partition is fat32, second primary partition is reiserfs. Mount the external sdcard, flash stock gb rom then root it.

Short guide how to recover your I9000 with dead eMMC:
1. Create two FAT32 partitions on SD card, the first one will be used as internal sd card, the second one will be used as internal phone memory (/data)
2. Download XXJVT ROM: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1102881
3. Use this guide: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1152740 to add root acces, but stop after steep 5.
4. Find all occurences of mmcblk0 in extracted text files (do not touch binaries)
5. Replace mmcblk0 with mmcblk1, so your /sdcard will be mapped to first partion on device mmcblk1 and your /data will be mapped to second partiotion on mmcblk1.
6. Recompile and tar kernel.
7. Flash XXJVT ROM using Odin (512 layout, propably repartitioning is needed)
8. Reboot phone
9. If you encounter Can't mount /dev/block/stl10 error after reboot, follow this guide: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2184403
10. Flash your custom kernel using odin (PDA)
11. Enter bootloader and wipe all data/factory reset
12. After reboot your phone will have /data partition mounted on SDCard, and will be rooted, so you will be able to install Superuser and root browser from market.
13. The last step is to change vold.fstab to mount /sdcard from first partition from s3c-sdhci.2/mmc_host_mmc2 and to mount external_sd from third partition from s3c-sdhci.2/mmc_host_mmc2. It's not a mistake, we have to mount external_sd from not existing partition/device.
14. Now your phone should show that there is no SDCard inserterd, your internal usb memory should be equal to size of your first partion, and your phone memory should be equal to size of your second partition.
WARNING: It's not a step-by-step guide, but only some more or less general hints.

LDevil81 said:
Short guide how to recover your I9000 with dead eMMC:
1. Create two FAT32 partitions on SD card, the first one will be used as internal sd card, the second one will be used as internal phone memory (/data)
2. Download XXJVT ROM: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1102881
3. Use this guide: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1152740 to add root acces, but stop after steep 5.
4. Find all occurences of mmcblk0 in extracted text files (do not touch binaries)
5. Replace mmcblk0 with mmcblk1, so your /sdcard will be mapped to first partion on device mmcblk1 and your /data will be mapped to second partiotion on mmcblk1.
6. Recompile and tar kernel.
7. Flash XXJVT ROM using Odin (512 layout, propably repartitioning is needed)
8. Reboot phone
9. If you encounter Can't mount /dev/block/stl10 error after reboot, follow this guide: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2184403
10. Flash your custom kernel using odin (PDA)
11. Enter bootloader and wipe all data/factory reset
12. After reboot your phone will have /data partition mounted on SDCard, and will be rooted, so you will be able to install Superuser and root browser from market.
13. The last step is to change vold.fstab to mount /sdcard from first partition from s3c-sdhci.2/mmc_host_mmc2 and to mount external_sd from third partition from s3c-sdhci.2/mmc_host_mmc2. It's not a mistake, we have to mount external_sd from not existing partition/device.
14. Now your phone should show that there is no SDCard inserterd, your internal usb memory should be equal to size of your first partion, and your phone memory should be equal to size of your second partition.
WARNING: It's not a step-by-step guide, but only some more or less general hints.
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Sorry, I find this post after hours of search, which kernel I've to download if I'm from Italy!? I know the european, but there is a lot with "XXJVT" and I'm a little bit confused. I've a dead i9000 with faulty eMMC!!

V!ruz said:
Sorry, I find this post after hours of search, which kernel I've to download if I'm from Italy!? I know the european, but there is a lot with "XXJVT" and I'm a little bit confused. I've a dead i9000 with faulty eMMC!!
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I use this one: "XXJVT/XXJVT/OXAJVT/Sbl (MultiCSC): Download (148 MB) (Build date: Thu Sep 29 11:43:43 KST 2011)
(MultiCSC: CPW, DBT, KOR, XEO, XEU)" because I need Polish language support. Unfortunatelly I don't know which one will be best for Italy.

I solved the problem long time ago. If you have SGS with dead emmc and could not find any Solution then PM me, I will send you my odin flash able rom

Rohitdahiya said:
I solved the problem long time ago. If you have SGS with dead emmc and could not find any Solution then PM me, I will send you my odin flash able rom
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just wondering, first post you say, gallery , camera etc unusable, here you say its fixed or did sesetxu not guide you to solve it? Also why not include link here for your ROM?
Check this out! You , YES! you are an " Android ". Not your phone but U.​

xsenman said:
just wondering, first post you say, gallery , camera etc unusable, here you say its fixed or did sesetxu not guide you to solve it? Also why not include link here for your ROM?
Check this out! You , YES! you are an " Android ". Not your phone but U.​
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I tried hard as sesetxu guided but being a noob, I failed and could not have gone past the camera and gallery issue. I almost gave up. Later on @rxxxni helped me by giving his cooked ROM and I succeeded. His solution is in the link below in Spanish language:
http://www.htcmania.com/showthread.php?
t=520348

Hello All,
I followed the link Rohit provided in Spanish. I was able to get the Rom V 1.3.2 going on my i9000.
Due to language barries I failed to move to CM10 or if possible, to the latest nighly builds of CM11.
Could anybody point me to some advice in english how to migrate to CM11?
Brgds DerBusIsVoll

DerBusisVoll said:
Hello All,
I followed the link Rohit provided in Spanish. I was able to get the Rom V 1.3.2 going on my i9000.
Due to language barries I failed to move to CM10 or if possible, to the latest nighly builds of CM11.
Could anybody point me to some advice in english how to migrate to CM11?
Brgds DerBusIsVoll
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I sold my i9000 long time ago. But if you stil wanna install CM10/CM11 you have to just edit the vold.fstab file in root of your storage. You can find the instructions in the same forum or search on xda. However, You can open the spanish page in Google chrome and translate in english and you can understand easily.
Here is the translated page for you. Dont forget to hit the thanks button(only if you feel I have helped you)
http://translate.google.co.in/trans...mania.com/showthread.php?t=520348&prev=search
If the above doesn't work, use the below link:
http://translate.google.co.in/trans...dbox=0&usg=ALkJrhgq3j9b7dWUCh9PCAidKMIVdBZf1w

SGS Logic Board corrupted?

Hello friends, I got my SGS(GT-I9000) 3 years back and love this phone a lot since it was my first. I've changed a lot of roms from time to time but this last rom i flashed was MIUI. After i flashed it, it goes into recovery mode and over there i saw a few errors which i tried fixing and never found a solution. Before i flashed MIUI i was running Slim Rom v4.3. Since i was desperate i took it to the Samsung's Service Center and they told me i gotta change my Logic or Mother Board which was around 105$ or something. I decided to try something before i bid farewell to this awesome phone. After i got it back from the Service Center i noticed in the Recovery Mode there were more errors than before.
I've attached a pic of these errors. I tried flashing stock and various other roms but no luck. Is the phone gone for good? or is it fixable?

robdemon said:
After i got it back from the Service Center i noticed in the Recovery Mode there were more errors than before.
I've attached a pic of these errors. I tried flashing stock and various other roms but no luck. Is the phone gone for good? or is it fixable?
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two Q.s
1) After you got back you have more issues? what was the initial issue, if you can recall?
2) How do you get formatting ( in Picture) by just entering recovery? remove Ext SD card & SIM , same result by powering on?
Check this out! Links to useful Guides and " Banned " Documentaries ​

1) After you got back you have more issues? what was the initial issue, if you can recall?
2) How do you get formatting ( in Picture) by just entering recovery? remove Ext SD card & SIM , same result by powering on?
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Initially, I was getting 4 errors :
E: copy_dbdata_media: format SDCARD:
E: Can't mount /dev/block/mmcblk0p1 (No such file or directory)
E: copy_dbdata_media : Can't mount SDCARD : copy default media content failed.
E: Can't mount /dev/block/stl111 (Invalid Argument)
After flashing MIUI rom through download mode it would restart and go into recovery and do some initializations but the above 4 errors poped up.
The lady at the service center mentioned that they are gonna dead the motherboard or something about removing power from the logic board completely.
The Formatting SDCARD... popped up after i came home and tried getting into recovery and noticed these Arrays or argument vectors.
I don't have an external card, the phone came with 16 GB internal card.
Do you want me to put up a video, so you can get a clear picture what's going on?

robdemon said:
Do you want me to put up a video, so you can get a clear picture what's going on?
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Basically the yellow messages will come up when the phone is installing something and the red messages will come up when they are errors that needs to be resolved,. basically it looks like you have an internal SD card problem.
you should try to format all the partitions first If possible (by flashing a CWM recovery) and try for a fresh install of a stock ROM after that.
so read this first to get an idea of what needs to be done, enter download mode and flash the i9000 speedmod kernel, (do not reboot) enter CWM and format everything in Mounts & Storage (do not reboot), enter download mode and follow this to flash a gingerbread ROM on it .
if its not possible to format the partitions, the only other option would be to use an external SD card partitioned into two to act as the internal SD card to boot the phone. Just read all the links in the first link to understand how this can be resolved.
At the same time, for samsung service centers, it would be , changing the whole logic Board (mother board) as they would not replace just the SD card alone, which is the problem here. Some Mobile Technicians have simply striped it off and used the external Sd card to solve such problems.
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Thanks for the reply and the workarounds.
I was able to install CWM (CF-Root-XX_OXA_JW4-v4.4-CWM3RFS).
And now it says unable to process volume !. Do i proceed to Partition SD card? and what Ext size do i choose?
And under mounts and storage there is no /data, etc but only "mount USB storage".
I tried wipe data/factory reset and i get these :
--Wiping data...
formatting /data...
E:unknown volume "/data"
Formatting /cache...
E:unknown volume "/cache"
Formatting /sd-ext...
Formatting /sdcard/.android_secure...
E:unknown volume "/sdcard/.android_secure"
Data wipe complete.
E:unknown volume for path [/cache/recovery/log]
E:Can't mount /cache/recovery/log
E:Can't open /cache/recovery/log
E:unknown volume for path [/cache/recovery/last_log]
E:Can't mount /cache/recovery/last_log
E:Can't open /cache/recovery/last_log
E:unknown volume for path [/cache/recovery/command]

robdemon said:
And under mounts and storage there is no /data, etc but only "mount USB storage".
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take a look at this under mounts and storage menu you can format all the partitions, if its not there than flash the speedmod kernel and format them, as advised earlier, do not partition your SD card
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xsenman said:
take a look at this under mounts and storage menu you can format all the partitions, if its not there than flash the speedmod kernel and format them, as advised earlier, do not partition your SD card
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I installed speedmod kernel and i went into mounts and storage and formatted the following,
Formatting Boot:...
Error formatting BOOT: !
Formatting SYSTEM:...
Done.
Formatting CACHE:...
Done.
Formatting DATA:...
Done.
Formatting sdcard:...
E:Can't mount /dev/block/mmcblk0p1 (or /dev/block/mmcblk0)
(I/O error)
Error mounting /mnt/sdcard/!
skipping format...
Done.
If i try to mount sdcard i get the same error when i try to format sdcard. How do i proceed further? I'm also out to get an external card of 8gb or 16 gb

robdemon said:
If i try to mount sdcard i get the same error when i try to format sdcard. How do i proceed further? I'm also out to get an external card of 8gb or 16 gb
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It should be obvious by now that the problem is in mmcblk0p1 (or /dev/block/mmcblk0) not being able to format, so best get a 16GB external card and partition it to solve your problem , your internal have to be scrapped and best to use only external
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xsenman said:
It should be obvious by now that the problem is in mmcblk0p1 (or /dev/block/mmcblk0) not being able to format, so best get a 16GB external card and partition it to solve your problem , your internal have to be scrapped and best to use only external
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Yeah, i got the external 16gb card, it shows 14.48 gb free on the computer but doesn't load properly from the sd card. I'm stuck and not able to format the sdcard. I'm really stressed out now lol. It's not even recognizing through EASEUS Partition Master. I'll figure something out...any guides i should follow for partitioning it? I create two primary partitions of 2GB(vfat) and remaining fat32 right?

robdemon said:
Yeah, i got the external 16gb card, it shows 14.48 gb free on the computer but doesn't load properly from the sd card. I'm stuck and not able to format the sdcard. I'm really stressed out now lol. It's not even recognizing through EASEUS Partition Master. I'll figure something out...any guides i should follow for partitioning it? I create two primary partitions of 2GB(vfat) and remaining fat32 right?
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yes, it will only be abt 14GB, you use the speedmod CWM menu to format it in the Phone and you should be ableto use it, the earlier links given to you have guides on how to partition it.
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xsenman said:
yes, it will only be abt 14GB, you use the speedmod CWM menu to format it in the Phone and you should be ableto use it, the earlier links given to you have guides on how to partition it.
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Thank You for your support. I think the phone does not recognize the external sd-card. Through CWM i went to storage and mounts and tried to format/mount sd-ext but it failed. I wasn't able to format or mount.
I used minitool partition to create two partitions of EXT(2 GB) and FAT32(12.8). After flashing i got errors can't mount sdcard and can't copy to media. So i tried formatting through Backtrack with mkfs.reiserfs and mkfs.vfat, put the card in the phone and flashed various roms and your rescue kit (ezbase). I get the same error. I guess the phone is gone for good.

robdemon said:
Thank You for your support. I think the phone does not recognize the external sd-card. Through CWM i went to storage and mounts and tried to format/mount sd-ext but it failed. I wasn't able to format or mount.
I used minitool partition to create two partitions of EXT(2 GB) and FAT32(12.8). After flashing i got errors can't mount sdcard and can't copy to media. So i tried formatting through Backtrack with mkfs.reiserfs and mkfs.vfat, put the card in the phone and flashed various roms and your rescue kit (ezbase). I get the same error. I guess the phone is gone for good.
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That's sad, but I guess I sort of noted it might be the case, as you were unable to format the boot partition (your earlier post) .
the only option for this now is to buy a scrap (broken) SGS and switch the mother board
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xsenman said:
That's sad, but I guess I sort of noted it might be the case, as you were unable to format the boot partition (your earlier post) .
the only option for this now is to buy a scrap (broken) SGS and switch the mother board
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Yeah, I guess if the ext-sd was working fine it would've worked. Oh well, time to buy a new phone. Thanks for your support...was very helpful.

Samsung stuck in logo bootloop! HELP please!

So this is what happened, one day I went to get my phone (Samsung Galaxy S I9000) and he was off. I turned it on but then it started in a SALMSUNG LOGO bootloop, never booting into android. What i've done was flashing him to stock ROM (Froyo 2.2.1) following this toturial - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1647890 everything went good during flashing. The problem was when the flashing was over, the phone went to the recovery mode and there were errors (you can see below). I rebooted the system but the SAMSUNG LOGO bootloop was still there. I need some help 'cause i dont know what i should do right now.
This are the errors in the recovery menu:
update media, please wait
E: Can´t mount /dev/block/mmcblk0p1 (No such file or directory)
E: copy_dbdata_media:Can't mount SDCARD:
your storage not prepared yet. please use UI menu for format and reboot actions .
copy deafult media content failed.
I really need some help because im new in this stuff of flashing and using programs like ADB and stuff. Sorry for me being a noob.
PS: Sorry for my English.

sergio627 said:
So this is what happened, one day I went to get my phone (Samsung Galaxy S I9000) and he was off. I turned it on but then it started in a SALMSUNG LOGO bootloop, never booting into android. What i've done was flashing him to stock ROM (Froyo 2.2.1) following this toturial - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1647890 everything went good during flashing. The problem was when the flashing was over, the phone went to the recovery mode and there were errors (you can see below). I rebooted the system but the SAMSUNG LOGO bootloop was still there. I need some help 'cause i dont know what i should do right now.
This are the errors in the recovery menu:
update media, please wait
E: Can´t mount /dev/block/mmcblk0p1 (No such file or directory)
E: copy_dbdata_media:Can't mount SDCARD:
your storage not prepared yet. please use UI menu for format and reboot actions .
copy deafult media content failed.
I really need some help because im new in this stuff of flashing and using programs like ADB and stuff. Sorry for me being a noob.
PS: Sorry for my English.
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With PIT files, the internal SD card needs to be re-formatted. If it fails in the recovery, you need to format it with your PC.

gsstudios said:
With PIT files, the internal SD card needs to be re-formatted. If it fails in the recovery, you need to format it with your PC.
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Thank you very much for your answer. Can you please tell me how can I format the internal SD card via computer? Because the phone wont boot so the computer can't format the internal via windows. Do I need to use some program to format the phone while he is in Download Mode or something? If Yes wich one and how?
Thank you again for your reply!

sergio627 said:
Thank you very much for your answer. Can you please tell me how can I format the internal SD card via computer? Because the phone wont boot so the computer can't format the internal via windows. Do I need to use some program to format the phone while he is in Download Mode or something? If Yes wich one and how?
Thank you again for your reply!
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Can your phone go into download mode? If yes, you will need to flash dbdata.rfs via ODIN unda PDA. If recovery prompts for cache, you will need to flash cache.rfs in the same way. (Odin only accepts .tar files but I've attached all of the files you need).
For more help, ask for help in this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2444308 . There is a guy who is experiencing exactly the same problem but his phone is completely stuffed. Give my method a chance anyway.

gsstudios said:
Can your phone go into download mode? If yes, you will need to flash dbdata.rfs via ODIN unda PDA. If recovery prompts for cache, you will need to flash cache.rfs in the same way. (Odin only accepts .tar files but I've attached all of the files you need).
For more help, ask for help in this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2444308 . There is a guy who is experiencing exactly the same problem but his phone is completely stuffed. Give my method a chance anyway.
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I've done what you say and what says in that thread but the errors are the same and the bootloop is still here, im starting to think that the internal sd is somehow damaged or something. Do you know a way to know if the sd card is damaged or not?