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[Q] Help! Corrupted internal SD Card and can't find a way to wipe

First, some background:
I've had the S for 2 months now and about a month ago I applied JG5/Modaco r2 and Mimocam lag fix. All was well, 1800+ benchmark figures and no lag at all. That was until a few days ago....
As I was reading on the device, a number of errors started to pop up, force closes, etc. It stopped responding completely so I took the battery out and rebooted. Straight away I was hit with multiple force close and 'process stopped unexpectedly' messages. Basically, it was an unusable brick.
When I took the SD card out the errors were different so, figuring it was related to the Mimocam fix, I decided to undo it. I removed the symlink to the sd card and copied everything to the local data directory.
That didn't work, so I did a hard reset. Which also didn't work. Worse than that, I now can't get the phone to connect in any way to the PC so can't reflash and I can't access any settings on the phone because the error messages keep appearing and obscuring the screen.
Last thing I tried was repartitioning the SD card to see if the ext3 partition was corrupt and that hasn't helped either.
Which is where I am now. What I really want to do is wipe the internal SD and effect a total factory reset but I can't think of any way to do it. I can't access the phone through adb (device not found), Kies (keeps trying to connect but never does) and I can't do it through the phone. I also can't send it back because it has 'flashed rom' written all over it, especially when a root request pops up in the background.
I'm all out of ideas, short of trying to degauss it somehow.
Help! Please!

You cant get it into download mode ?

Kilack said:
You cant get it into download mode ?
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Or recovery mode: format sd card, clear cache etc ?

Turn the phone off, hold Home + Vol -, then press Power.
I don't see how you can get error messages there...

Doesn't work, I can't get it in to recovery mode. Neither vol up or down work using the 3 button hold. I've tried repeatedly and it just boots as normal, although the animation doesn't display while it boots but it does play the audio.

So I take it I'm f***ed then?

bumping this up and subscribing. I hope you find a solution soon, man.

if you know what your firmware was, get it from samsung-firmwares, get odin, and flash your phone. maybe that will solve your problem.
Keep in mind that I wont be responsible if your phone gets bricked if you mess up the procedure (however the chances of it being bricked is very less if you follow the instructions properly).
search the forum for flashing via odin.

emclondon said:
if you know what your firmware was, get it from samsung-firmwares, get odin, and flash your phone. maybe that will solve your problem.
Keep in mind that I wont be responsible if your phone gets bricked if you mess up the procedure (however the chances of it being bricked is very less if you follow the instructions properly).
search the forum for flashing via odin.
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He said he cant get it into download mode so would be quite hard to flash with odin then...

No, I've tried over and over and d/l mode doesn't work. The phone just reboots.

LeeJS said:
No, I've tried over and over and d/l mode doesn't work. The phone just reboots.
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Try the Vol + Recovery mode. The timing is a bit tricky.
On my phone, if I keep Vol+, Home and Power button held down, the phone goes into a reboot loop (it keeps showing the logo, blank, logo, blank). After the logo appears the 2nd time, wait 1 second then release the Power button. Then it goes into the Recovery mode.
If you can't get it to work, try it without the USB/power plugged in as well.

Tried settings/sd card and phone storage/unmount internal sd/format? Or u could do settings/security/factory reset
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I can't really try that because, as I said, I can't get past any of the error messages that pop up on the phone.
Have had to bite the bullet and take it in to T-mo for a repair and hope they don't notice
Will find out in 28 days.

I had a similar problem with JPC. After a while both the internal and external sd cards crapped out. After pulling the external sd and many tries I was able to boot into recovery mode where it says something like E: cant mount etc.
After pulling the ext sd card I was able to get into download mode and downgrade to JM7 with odin. After formatting with odin. It took two tries.
I still don't have access or storage on both the int and ext sd. I have roughly 2gb storage on the internal non-sd memory of the phone (i am not sure what it is but its enough to run android and I can make calls).
I can't install apps use the camera or anything that uses either of the sd cards for storage.
I did try a new sd card that was installed on the phone when it was stock FW but it doesnt work either.
I have a thread posted about it.

LeeJS said:
First, some background:
I've had the S for 2 months now and about a month ago I applied JG5/Modaco r2 and Mimocam lag fix. All was well, 1800+ benchmark figures and no lag at all. That was until a few days ago....
As I was reading on the device, a number of errors started to pop up, force closes, etc. It stopped responding completely so I took the battery out and rebooted. Straight away I was hit with multiple force close and 'process stopped unexpectedly' messages. Basically, it was an unusable brick.
When I took the SD card out the errors were different so, figuring it was related to the Mimocam fix, I decided to undo it. I removed the symlink to the sd card and copied everything to the local data directory.
That didn't work, so I did a hard reset. Which also didn't work. Worse than that, I now can't get the phone to connect in any way to the PC so can't reflash and I can't access any settings on the phone because the error messages keep appearing and obscuring the screen.
Last thing I tried was repartitioning the SD card to see if the ext3 partition was corrupt and that hasn't helped either.
Which is where I am now. What I really want to do is wipe the internal SD and effect a total factory reset but I can't think of any way to do it. I can't access the phone through adb (device not found), Kies (keeps trying to connect but never does) and I can't do it through the phone. I also can't send it back because it has 'flashed rom' written all over it, especially when a root request pops up in the background.
I'm all out of ideas, short of trying to degauss it somehow.
Help! Please!
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am wondering, did your phone ever work with the three button mode to enter download/recovery ? or did you always flash using "adb reboot recovery" ?

solipsism said:
I had a similar problem with JPC. After a while both the internal and external sd cards crapped out. After pulling the external sd and many tries I was able to boot into recovery mode where it says something like E: cant mount etc.
After pulling the ext sd card I was able to get into download mode and downgrade to JM7 with odin. After formatting with odin. It took two tries.
I still don't have access or storage on both the int and ext sd. I have roughly 2gb storage on the internal non-sd memory of the phone (i am not sure what it is but its enough to run android and I can make calls).
I can't install apps use the camera or anything that uses either of the sd cards for storage.
I did try a new sd card that was installed on the phone when it was stock FW but it doesnt work either.
I have a thread posted about it.
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Did you ever find a solution to this problem?

mkurzum said:
Did you ever find a solution to this problem?
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It is posted in several threads in all of the 19000 forums that there is no fix for this. Your only option is to send it in for repair.

mkurzum said:
Did you ever find a solution to this problem?
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it would be nice if there was a way.
I agree with Electroz.
there is a new software out by Samsung
new PC Studio, it comes with a feature to "Emergency Restore"
you can try that, and see if that does anything to the internal SD
links are on the SGS wiki, click my link

AllGamer said:
it would be nice if there was a way.
I agree with Electroz.
there is a new software out by Samsung
new PC Studio, it comes with a feature to "Emergency Restore"
you can try that, and see if that does anything to the internal SD
links are on the SGS wiki, click my link
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I'll give it a shot, downloading now.
I'm not sure where to send my phone in, I called samsung, they sent me to bell, but I bought my phone from best buy and I'm with fido...

It sees both drives, but that's about it, when I try to click on them it just says "insert the disk into drive ..."
There has to be a way to format the internal card with a third party application. I'm gonna keep looking.

[Q] Force-Close on every app

Hi there,
I´m running a SGS i9000 with JM5 and CFLagFix-1.80 (ext3).
Everything worked fine since yesterday! I rebooted and all of a sudden apps that were fine and stable before force close during their startup (e.g. CoPilot, WikiDroyd, Locale, etc even titanium backup). I only get a notification the application was stopped, try again.....
any fix here? Or do i really have to set up my SGS all over again????
PLZ help!!!!
no one any idea????
or does nobody wanna help me????
plz don´t let me alone with my prob guys

Help
Me too can't seem to find answers. soon as i boot up after a new flash I get the force close error and other google force closers. wt? I've done everything, format, hard reset and Ive noticed if some how I get to install from the app market i click on the app and get fc.. Also I can't delete my internal sd card hard format still does not erase the card. I'm running out of ideas. please if someone know of away please let me know. Thanks

prana_Sky said:
Me too can't seem to find answers. soon as i boot up after a new flash I get the force close error and other google force closers. wt? I've done everything, format, hard reset and Ive noticed if some how I get to install from the app market i click on the app and get fc.. Also I can't delete my internal sd card hard format still does not erase the card. I'm running out of ideas. please if someone know of away please let me know. Thanks
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For both the above flash with odin. Takes like 5mins to do

prana_Sky said:
Me too can't seem to find answers. soon as i boot up after a new flash I get the force close error and other google force closers. wt? I've done everything, format, hard reset and Ive noticed if some how I get to install from the app market i click on the app and get fc.. Also I can't delete my internal sd card hard format still does not erase the card. I'm running out of ideas. please if someone know of away please let me know. Thanks
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well i am not alone anymore.

No not alone on this one. Have flashed with Odin is no work. but I have a feeling that theres something wrong with my internal SD card. Is there a Fix for corrupted SD CARDS For Galaxy S. Can you try to format in windows Fats or do I need Linux. I have formated from phone and from kies, my folders go away but when I reboot the phone is back the same with all my folders back again. please help if any ideas. thanks

I've had this one before, needed to format my sd memory (int and ext). All was well then.

[Q] Help! Internal SD Write Protection / Read Only

I have a tricky problem with the internal storage (Internal SD Card).
No changes are possible to perform. No format, wipe or whatever worked.
For instance, after every boot-up the uninstalled apps are back, no pictures can be taken by the camera and so forth...
I found other people with the same problem, so I'm certainly not the only one with this problem.
Here I found people with the same Problem:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=941139
And here a possible solution
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=875042
Unfortunately, I did not find the mentioned Zip file to cure my sweet Galaxy S [running 2.3.5 XXJVT].
Does anybody know a solution?
Thanks!

QuiniXXL said:
I have a tricky problem with the internal storage (Internal SD Card).
No changes are possible to perform. No format, wipe or whatever worked.
For instance, after every boot-up the uninstalled apps are back, no pictures can be taken by the camera and so forth...
I found other people with the same problem, so I'm certainly not the only one with this problem.
Here I found people with the same Problem:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=941139
And here a possible solution
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=875042
Unfortunately, I did not find the mentioned Zip file to cure my sweet Galaxy S [running 2.3.5 XXJVT].
Does anybody know a solution?
Thanks!
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I have the same problem did you find a solution?

Any one fix this I have the same problem

I too had same problem, then i connected as USB Mass storage and run Error-Checking in windows then it automatically fixed some errors and then onwards all is well

see problem 14 here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1841250

What about non Samsung phones?
For an unknown China phone that is?

Xperia T Memory problem "Memory unmounted or unavailable"

Hi!
I have a problem with my xperia T memory. Every time i go to Album i get an error that says "Memory unmounted or unavailable".
My memory card is working in apps like Walkman or any other app that reads data from card but apps that need to save data to work are partially or fully not working.
Sd card is recognized by phone. It shows my remaining free space percent of file types on memory card but if i try to format it, the phone freezes and reboots itself.
I tried to delete all files from internal and external storage, rebooting and restoring all but nothing changed. Problem persists after reflashing, changing roms, updating software and restoring backups.
I don't know what else i can do. Please help

PiThr0 said:
Hi!
I have a problem with my xperia T memory. Every time i go to Album i get an error that says "Memory unmounted or unavailable".
My memory card is working in apps like Walkman or any other app that reads data from card but apps that need to save data to work are partially or fully not working.
Sd card is recognized by phone. It shows my remaining free space percent of file types on memory card but if i try to format it, the phone freezes and reboots itself.
I tried to delete all files from internal and external storage, rebooting and restoring all but nothing changed. Problem persists after reflashing, changing roms, updating software and restoring backups.
I don't know what else i can do. Please help
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Format it with your pc

St.Jimmy90 said:
Format it with your pc
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I tried it. Formatted it with pc, xperia x8 and xperia tipo and still getting error

PiThr0 said:
I tried it. Formatted it with pc, xperia x8 and xperia tipo and still getting error
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Does it work without errors on your other devices?

St.Jimmy90 said:
Does it work without errors on your other devices?
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Yup. It works on both X8 and Tipo

PiThr0 said:
Yup. It works on both X8 and Tipo
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Did you try to reset your phone? Maybe it's an error in your fw.... Before resetting you should backup your data!

St.Jimmy90 said:
Did you try to reset your phone? Maybe it's an error in your fw.... Before resetting you should backup your data!
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I did. Resets, changing roms, updates, other firmware versions and still no effect

PiThr0 said:
I did. Resets, changing roms, updates, other firmware versions and still no effect
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Do other sdcards work ?

[Q] Xperia V Internal Memory Error

Hello Guys, I have sony Xperia V, everything was fine until i was going to install cm12, i did a factory reset with erase internal memory too, then after i flashed the rom, everything went fine but i was unable to move or copy or store anything in and out of the internal memory, and none of my apps are able to read or write data into it, i tried reflash the rom and tried to flash the stock rom but the problem is still on,
What should i do, please help me!

I have the same problem. I cannot download files and save them on internal memory or make photos or videos or record voice.

What about having a look at my CM12.1 thread, post #3... "Fixing internal storage"

I have tried but unfortunately still not working . Maybe it works only with your CM 12 mod?

dzejkobjj said:
I have tried but unfortunately still not working . Maybe it works only with your CM 12 mod?
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Try replacing 1023 in the Terminal commands with 2800