Hi all
My Galaxy S went nuts. Something is very wrong with it. I will try to provide as much details as possible.
Today i was using it as usual, sending messages on facebook, reading email... and suddenly my mail client freaked out and force-closed. This has never happened before (i use K9 mail), so i just restarted it, only to see that there is no more messages in inbox. Trying to "load more" got force close again.
So i thought, OK, **** happens - clear data, uninstall, reinstall. However, when i cleared the data something weird begun to happen. Apps started force closing one by one.
OK, i thought, **** happens - rebooting the phone should help. Only that it didn't help - apps still force closed.
OK, i thought, **** happens - clear data of every app, uninstall and reinstall. I got backups anyway. So i cleared all the data, uninstalled all i had and rebooted. However, apps still force closed, and when i went to app manager - surprise surprise! - all the apps i uninstalled a cluple of minutes ago were still there.
Now this was already kinda freaky, but OK, **** happens - i rebooted into clockwork (i have voodoo lagfix) and wiped the hell out of my phone. Rebooted - but the apps i uninstalled were still there, even after full wipe! Now i escapes me how exactly ANY app (let alone all apps) could survive wipe to factory defaults.
Just to be sure that i'm not dreaming, i rebooted to clockwork once again, wiped everything two times and restored a backup from a month ago. The apps were still there.
I am going to try disabling lagfix as a last resort, but for now i am out of ideas, as this is clearly way out of line with what could be considered normal.
Now to the details of what i have installed - froyo, voodoo lagfix, superuser, busybox blablabla, some common apps like skype, facebook, astro, poweramp player, launcher pro, k9 mail, newsrob, blogaway, easyprofiles, pansi sms, mapdroyd, google shopper, qr droid. That's pretty much it. I have one of the custom battery icon mods that could be found here on boards.
Any ideas about what is wrong and how to make it right?
I cant help you with all the poltergeist sh*t on your phone but if it were mine id copy stuff to pc then full wipe and reflash.
regards
id recommend to flash Eclair 2.1 with partition check than to Froyo so that ud have a "clean" rom to play with
cheers
Problems never walk alone - i would, but my laptop has died a week ago...
However, i think i found the cause - looks like for some reason, some of the partitions (including, apparently, internal sd card and data partition) mount as read only. This could explain all that is happening. Is there a way to correcr this without reflashing?
Burillo said:
Problems never walk alone - i would, but my laptop has died a week ago...
However, i think i found the cause - looks like for some reason, some of the partitions (including, apparently, internal sd card and data partition) mount as read only. This could explain all that is happening. Is there a way to correcr this without reflashing?
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go into recovery and fix permissions , if that doesnt work then as said before
I have tried all possible solutions - from restoring from backups i made earlier, and down to flashing back to different ROMs - namely JPM, JPC, JM8. With repartitioning and without repartitioning.
Moreover, when i mount the SD card on the PC - i can delete files (well, it looks that way) but then when i reboot and mount again - everything is back to the state it was before.
Now i can't even boot my phone. Sometimes it can't mount stl10, sometimes it can't mount stl11. I went through all the solutions that were mentioned in the threads related to these errors. Also, when i format all the partitions (with voodoo's clockwork) it says everything went OK - i "can" reformat everything including internal SD card, repartition it etc. but then it goes back to what it was, and phone doesn't boot any ROM.
Any ideas? Can this be a hardware problem?
EDIT:
i tried to flash latest stock gingerbread ROM, and after installing a clockwork from here it boots but still doesn't work - starts force closing, can't load anything.
Formatting partitions with clockwork does not induce any errors, nor there are any errors mentioned at boot. however, even unmounting, formatting and mounting internal SD card doesn't affect it.
after flashing stock rom it says it cannot mount /data partition
EDIT 2: still no luck. i can't do anything with SD card. maybe there is some hardcore way with adb that i can try? like manually fscking up partitions so that i force reformat or something like that?
i have been tinkering with my phone and now i am certain that the root of the problem is that the internal SD card went into read-only mode - and it doesn't get fixed with any sort of permission fixing, repartitioning or flashing ROMs. i've searched some more on this topic (now that i know what the problem is) and found that on one was ever able to successfully fix this problem. i just hope that the samsung guys fix it for free because it doesn't look like a user problem...
thankssssss
Samsung accepted it on warranty, and they agreed it is a hardware problem.
What is alarming is that this is not the first time (as i said i found a bunch of threads with similar problems), and apparently it can also happen on galaxy tab (i seem to remember stumling upon a similar thread in tab section, and IIRC galaxy tab has hardware similar to SGS). This means that it can easily happen again.
So whoever is reading this thread - save yourself some time, don't bother fiddling around with odin and go straight to samsung customer service, they'll fix it for free provided you bought your phone less than 2 years prior.
.... okay nvm
Hello all.
I got my hands on very interesting phone, if I flash any GB ROM including stock, phone may or may not start boot looping (can't get past first screen). Now the interesting thing is that after 3-20 attempts it boots and then works perfectly (app install, taking pictures etc.) until it again gets rebooted or turned off.
If I install ICS ROM's on start-up I get Encryption unsuccessful screen and then again it takes 3-20 reboots to get the phone working. No need to do factory resets etc. Now I am no guru on Samsung HW and Android but my guess is that on boot android fails to mount /data and /emmc partition. Now I understand that this can be caused by either Corrupted partition or hardware failure. The interesting thing is that I cannot call my partitions corrupt - as I don't loose any data and I cannot call it a hardware failure - as after phone boots I can access all storage space. Tired repartitioning using Odin/Heimdall and only trick that seems to work is using External SD card as "internal".
Any ideas what this wonder is?
just search encryption unsuccessful bug on vibrant....and you will find TONS of information about it.....take your time and read it.....and btw you will be unable to access your internal sd( 16gb mem) anymore...
Hello all,
I am banging my head against a brick wall with this problem and would be very grateful if anyone could help! anyway..3 days ago i was browsing music on my phone when it rebooted itself and then became stuck in a boot loop. After trying everything known to man i finally was able to get the phone to boot up by flashing the XXJPU_XXJPU_OXAJPU_Sbl ROM via Odin using the 512 PIT and then re-flashing the PDA with speedmod-kernel-k13e-500hz.
The problem i now have is, the phone boots up as normal but my internal SD card is showing up as unavailable..is there anything i can do to bring the internal SD back online? i badly want to retrieve the photo album pics.
I have tried using speedmod to repartition the card but it fails to mount..is there anything i"m missing here? i"m really hoping the SD card is not permanently corrupted..
Any help here guys?? surely someone has a solution to this problem i can try!!?
Nooblah said:
Hello all,
I am banging my head against a brick wall with this problem and would be very grateful if anyone could help! anyway..3 days ago i was browsing music on my phone when it rebooted itself and then became stuck in a boot loop. After trying everything known to man i finally was able to get the phone to boot up by flashing the XXJPU_XXJPU_OXAJPU_Sbl ROM via Odin using the 512 PIT and then re-flashing the PDA with speedmod-kernel-k13e-500hz.
The problem i now have is, the phone boots up as normal but my internal SD card is showing up as unavailable..is there anything i can do to bring the internal SD back online? i badly want to retrieve the photo album pics.
I have tried using speedmod to repartition the card but it fails to mount..is there anything i"m missing here? i"m really hoping the SD card is not permanently corrupted..
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I have the same problem, but unfortunately can't find a solution. Have you gone back to stock?
Factory reset or formatting /data might solve it.
However, on the costs of all your data so make sure to backup all.
tetakpatalked from Nexus 7 flo
tetakpatak said:
Factory reset or formatting /data might solve it.
However, on the costs of all your data so make sure to backup all.
tetakpatalked from Nexus 7 flo
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Drhedphuk: I flashed back to the original Froyo 2.2.1 rom that the phone came with but it would not boot with the stock PDA kernel which is why i used the speedmod kernel to stop it boot-looping. I have not found a way to fix the internal SD card error which is:
E:Cant mount /dev/block/mccblk01 (or /devblock/mmcbkl0) (no such file in directory) Error mounting /mnt/sdcard/.android_secure! skipping format... Data wipe complete.
The above error occurs when i try a factory reset and i get a similar error when i try to format the SD card.
tetakpatak: I could not find a way to backup the data since i cannot find a way to mount or access the internal SDcard to retrieve any data off it. I am almost ready to give up on this phone sadly.
Few days before i flashed Hyperion rom in my galaxy pocket.After sometime i started getting force close from all applications. After little research i found out that my internal memory may be corrupted. I can read everything from the internal memory but cant write or delete any data. I think Apps also cant write data to the memory. For instance i can receive calls on the device but call log doesn't gets registered. Adding a new contact works fine but upon restarting i can't find that newly added contact. I tried clearing data , installing custom rom from CMW but nothing worked. Installing roms and clearing data doesn't show any error but upon restarting the phone it goes back to old state. It is pretty much like a corrupted SD card. Is there a way i can fix this?
Thank you
Same (it looks, like nasty virus got inside) things - i have, and since i dont have a PC - i would like to know, if there is some alternatives to Odin - to try to reflush stock ROM from another mobile?
Sounds like an emmc issue.
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hi all,
I have a samsung galaxy young (GT-S6310N) that when I turn it on it just keep restarting until pulling out the battery. It just turn on and a little after the samsung logo and before showing the lock screen it restart again. this also happens while I want to get in the safe mode but I still have access to recovery mode and device is rooted also.
I've got an idea to extract data from internal storage that I don't know it is really doable or not in action.
Can I boot any operation system from a sd card without formatting or deleting something from internal storage (in just try mode) and then get a copy from files and then run a factory reset??
sorry for my poor English.
Regards.