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I have broken my Ace S5830.. Aggggg

Hello
Yesterday I ROOTED my phone, and have been trying to find a way to transfer my apps to my SD Card by unsuccessfully following various Tutorials.
I got fed up and tried to do a factory reset using the CWM v5.0.2.6. I did a data/factory reset. I did not realise that the various formats of a second partition would wipe my entire SD card and the factory reset did not go well.
Since that moment my phone has continually cycled from the Samsung logo, to the flying logo and back to the Samsung logo.
However I did a backup of my SD Card yesterday and I tried to use that backup to restore my phone. But no joy.
Is my phone dead?

the lemming said:
Hello
Yesterday I ROOTED my phone, and have been trying to find a way to transfer my apps to my SD Card by unsuccessfully following various Tutorials.
I got fed up and tried to do a factory reset using the CWM v5.0.2.6. I did a data/factory reset. I did not realise that the various formats of a second partition would wipe my entire SD card and the factory reset did not go well.
Since that moment my phone has continually cycled from the Samsung logo, to the flying logo and back to the Samsung logo.
However I did a backup of my SD Card yesterday and I tried to use that backup to restore my phone. But no joy.
Is my phone dead?
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Try to flash another Custom ROM but first make sure you do all the wipes and then install the ROM. Again do all the 3 wipes and reboot. This might work else try to use Odin and flash your Stock ROM first and see if everything is fine. If so, then try to root your Phone and then use Link2sd to move apps to sd card

OK
This is now serious, I have royally stuffed my phone.
Could somebody please explain what Odin is and what I need to use it and get my phone to work again?
Please.

the lemming said:
OK
This is now serious, I have royally stuffed my phone.
Could somebody please explain what Odin is and what I need to use it and get my phone to work again?
Please.
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What's wrong?
Read all this thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2313363 I explained how to flash a stock rom via Odin It'll restore all your partitions and provide you a Oficial firmware
Original hubix's guide here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1034145

I have sucessfully (?) followed a tutorial on how to use Odin and a CWN recovery TAR file. ODIN did its thing and said that I had Passed.
However the tutorial did not say what to do next. My phone is cycling through the samsung and re-boot sequence and has done so for well over an hour.
Any ideas what I do next?
Cheers

the lemming said:
I have sucessfully (?) followed a tutorial on how to use Odin and a CWN recovery TAR file. ODIN did its thing and said that I had Passed.
However the tutorial did not say what to do next. My phone is cycling through the samsung and re-boot sequence and has done so for well over an hour.
Any ideas what I do next?
Cheers
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Yeah! After flashing an official firmware via Odin you may get a bootloop.
Solution: boot into stock recovery and do wipe data/factore reset and wipe cache partition
So do it always when you finish the procedure

I went to the SamMobile forum and downloaded the stock ROM for the UK and used Odin. However it was for Orange and not Virgin, who I bought my phone from The procedure worked, according to Odin.
I now have an Orange Samsung Ace.
The phone has booted up and all seems well.
Not sure if I will incur any extra charges with an Orange phone rather than a Virgin phone. But it has booted up.
What must I do to make sure this never happens again?

the lemming said:
I went to the SamMobile forum and downloaded the stock ROM for the UK and used Odin. However it was for Orange and not Virgin, who I bought my phone from The procedure worked, according to Odin.
I now have an Orange Samsung Ace.
The phone has booted up and all seems well.
Not sure if I will incur any extra charges with an Orange phone rather than a Virgin phone. But it has booted up.
What must I do to make sure this never happens again?
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No extra charges.
Read read read read and...READ carefully and then READ again and finally have a usable CWM backup
Avoid hard scripts like a2sdgui use the simpest scripts that you can, that don't touch you dalvik-cache partition e.g. If you wipe data/dalvik partiuon you might get troubles with a2sd script

Viper The Ripper said:
No extra charges.
Read read read read and...READ carefully and then READ again and finally have a usable CWM backup
Avoid hard scripts like a2sdgui use the simpest scripts that you can, that don't touch you dalvik-cache partition e.g. If you wipe data/dalvik partiuon you might get troubles with a2sd script
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I now have the joy of an unrooted phone. :-/
Looks like I will have to start this merry-go-round again just so that I can get my apps off the phone and onto the SD card.

[Q] Note 3 AT&T Safestrap Partition Troubles

Hi everybody! I recently installed safestrap 3.72 and installed a couple KitKat roms, everything worked great until I tried to install AzureRom it said E: Unable to mount ' /system'. After that it can no longer mount the system partition... I've tried multiple things and I can't find anything that will work including wiping, formatting, and fix permissions. I also cant flash any roms because of this. I figured out how to use ROM-Slot-1 and able to boot SlimNote but it is very, very buggy and I have zero memory whats so ever. I tried to uninstall Safestrap through the apk but it did nothing. Please help and give me any ideas!!! Thank you so much for all your help!!

antnyhills said:
Hi everybody! I recently installed safestrap 3.72 and installed a couple KitKat roms, everything worked great until I tried to install AzureRom it said E: Unable to mount ' /system'. After that it can no longer mount the system partition... I've tried multiple things and I can't find anything that will work including wiping, formatting, and fix permissions. I also cant flash any roms because of this. I figured out how to use ROM-Slot-1 and able to boot SlimNote but it is very, very buggy and I have zero memory whats so ever. I tried to uninstall Safestrap through the apk but it did nothing. Please help and give me any ideas!!! Thank you so much for all your help!!
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Because azurerom is 4.3 and you are on 4.4. Boot to slimnote on your slot and try to load up a 4.4 rom on your sd or internal memory. Boot to ss then go to stock slot and advanced wipe and wipe everything EXCEPT sd card then flash the 4.4 rom you loaded.

Last time I checked I wasn't able to flash roms, even after wiping but I'll try it. Thank you

antnyhills said:
Last time I checked I wasn't able to flash roms, even after wiping but I'll try it. Thank you
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Hope you get it figured out, if anything you can restore to mj5 and start out fresh.

posersk8r said:
Hope you get it figured out, if anything you can restore to mj5 and start out fresh.
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How can I do that? Odin?

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2559715

Im Having the same issue I cant install ANY rom they all say
E:unable to mount '/system
E:unable to mount '/systemorig
Please help!?!?

mrmead2 said:
Im Having the same issue I cant install ANY rom they all say
E:unable to mount '/system
E:unable to mount '/systemorig
Please help!?!?
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Are you on jb? Kk? What rom you trying to flash?

i Have no rom installed now...I was running Dynamic Kat 3.0
I have safestrap 3.72...
was trying to install URDroid

mrmead2 said:
i Have no rom installed now...I was running Dynamic Kat 3.0
I have safestrap 3.72...
was trying to install URDroid
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That's weird, never had that mounting error before. If you can boot to ss 3.72 try doing a full wipe EXCEPT sd or ex sd. If you still have urdroid saved or kk backup try to flash or restore for kk backup. If it still doesn't work, read 4 posts up.

mrmead2 said:
Im Having the same issue I cant install ANY rom they all say
E:unable to mount '/system
E:unable to mount '/systemorig
Please help!?!?
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i have this issue on my stock slot in safestrap. i don't think it's even able to wipe /system. for some reason, it can't touch /system at all.
i'm googling around and came across this thread. i'll post again if i am able to find a resolution.

If nothing else works, go back to MJ5 (link on page 1).
If that fails, bring the phone to an AT&T Device Support Center. What will most likely happen is that they'll try to reflash it, fail and replace the phone. (If evilpotatoman's MJ5 restore fails, it's usually a bad motherboard.)

isharted said:
i have this issue on my stock slot in safestrap. i don't think it's even able to wipe /system. for some reason, it can't touch /system at all.
i'm googling around and came across this thread. i'll post again if i am able to find a resolution.
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I have the same problem! I achieved root yesterday (finally) and tried to install the Firenote rom. It wouldn't take, so I restored my backup to try again. But when I tried again, it wouldn't mount E:. It wouldn't even allow me to restore backup. It failed to mount every time in stock slot. Eventually, it wouldn't even let me create a slot at all!
Out of desperation, I entered recovery and wiped data, and when I booted into safestrap again, I was able to create a slot, where I installed Alliance KK to have a functioning phone. Wifi works, although it's buggy (wifi doesn't work on Dynamic 3.2). So I'm stuck.
I tried downloading safestrap again and uninstalling/installing it, hoping that would work, but it didn't. The only thing I can think of that I did wrong was that I took the micro SD card out a few times while in safestrap without properly ejecting it, but I'm not sure if that had anything to do with it.

CPT Crunch said:
I have the same problem! I achieved root yesterday (finally) and tried to install the Firenote rom. It wouldn't take, so I restored my backup to try again. But when I tried again, it wouldn't mount E:. It wouldn't even allow me to restore backup. It failed to mount every time in stock slot. Eventually, it wouldn't even let me create a slot at all!
Out of desperation, I entered recovery and wiped data, and when I booted into safestrap again, I was able to create a slot, where I installed Alliance KK to have a functioning phone. Wifi works, although it's buggy (wifi doesn't work on Dynamic 3.2). So I'm stuck.
I tried downloading safestrap again and uninstalling/installing it, hoping that would work, but it didn't. The only thing I can think of that I did wrong was that I took the micro SD card out a few times while in safestrap without properly ejecting it, but I'm not sure if that had anything to do with it.
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Yo fire rom is mj5, read up before you go flash happy. You can't go back to 4.3 once you are on 4.4 with the 4.4 bootloader...
Sent from my SM-N900A using XDA Free mobile app

tylerholbrook said:
Yo fire rom is mj5, read up before you go flash happy. You can't go back to 4.3 once you are on 4.4 with the 4.4 bootloader...
Sent from my SM-N900A using XDA Free mobile app
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Doh! Sorry! That explains a lot.Would that have screwed up my stock slot in safestrap?

isharted said:
i have this issue on my stock slot in safestrap. i don't think it's even able to wipe /system. for some reason, it can't touch /system at all.
i'm googling around and came across this thread. i'll post again if i am able to find a resolution.
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I had this same problem until yesterday, I followed the instructions found here . I was able to restore my phone back to KK goodness, root, install busybox and safestrap, then flash a rom to my (previously untouchable) root slot. It worked perfectly

[Q] AT&T Note 3 4.4.2 unable to mount system

I have a new n900a with stock 4.4.2. I rooted the phone with the TowelRoot and then installed SS 4.72. I backed up my phone with a nondroid backup via SS, titanium backup as well as Helium all on my external SD . The problem is that I tried to flash the Alliance ROM v6 and it didnt work. So I said, hey I've got a full backup lets just restore to the stock ROM and no foul. Well it happens that it FAILED and I noticed that SS cant mount the system partition.
From what I have read, the stock system file for AT&T is not available so I cant flash a stock rom back on my phone. I think that somehow the phone got corrupted. I tried wiping, format data, delvic cache, data, etc. via SS 3.72, nothing works. SS shows the system partition empty. I suspect this may have happened because the ROM I was flashing was based on using SS 3.71. The developer said I should not have a problem flashing the ROM with SS 3.72. I've been flashing roms for a couple of years but have never come across this and am totally stumped. Can anyone point me in the right direction or do I have an $800 brick?

ccaceres said:
I have a new n900a with stock 4.4.2. I rooted the phone with the TowelRoot and then installed SS 4.72. I backed up my phone with a nondroid backup via SS, titanium backup as well as Helium all on my external SD . The problem is that I tried to flash the Alliance ROM v6 and it didnt work. So I said, hey I've got a full backup lets just restore to the stock ROM and no foul. Well it happens that it FAILED and I noticed that SS cant mount the system partition.
From what I have read, the stock system file for AT&T is not available so I cant flash a stock rom back on my phone. I think that somehow the phone got corrupted. I tried wiping, format data, delvic cache, data, etc. via SS 3.72, nothing works. SS shows the system partition empty. I suspect this may have happened because the ROM I was flashing was based on using SS 3.71. The developer said I should not have a problem flashing the ROM with SS 3.72. I've been flashing roms for a couple of years but have never come across this and am totally stumped. Can anyone point me in the right direction or do I have an $800 brick?
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Head on over to the soft brick thread for instructions on how to undo what you did. If that fails, well, you always have the hard debrick method.

SS 3.75, Stock rooted, can't flash roms. Unable to mount system

I can't imagine what I'm doing wrong here. Steps I'm taking (rather circuitously I might add):
1) Odin back to stock 4.4.2
2) Root
3) Install SuperSU, Busybox, & SS 3.75
4) Reboot to recovery
5) Backup stock software
6) Reboot to recovery
7) Flash rom according to instructions
What happens is that it writes the data section, but not the system. So I'm left w/ no OS on the phone and have to Odin again to get it back up. After the initial backup (or even if I skip the backup), I get an error in SS "unable to mount /system"
I've searched high an low through the SS thread and so far have not been able to glean anything close to the problem I'm having. Is there something I'm doing wrong?

Could iy be your sd card?
janderfu said:
I can't imagine what I'm doing wrong here. Steps I'm taking (rather circuitously I might add):
1) Odin back to stock 4.4.2
2) Root
3) Install SuperSU, Busybox, & SS 3.75
4) Reboot to recovery
5) Backup stock software
6) Reboot to recovery
7) Flash rom according to instructions
What happens is that it writes the data section, but not the system. So I'm left w/ no OS on the phone and have to Odin again to get it back up. After the initial backup (or even if I skip the backup), I get an error in SS "unable to mount /system"
I've searched high an low through the SS thread and so far have not been able to glean anything close to the problem I'm having. Is there something I'm doing wrong?
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I don't know if this would help but have you tried the process with a different SD card? I was having problems and thought it was something I did wrong but found out my scan disk 64gb micro SD card was the problem. Hope you get it working, good luck Janderfu

I tried that last night. Same result. For some reason I can read from the system partition, but not write to it.

some have reported issues where if you wipe system, it messes up the sd... if you are able to odin just fine, then when in SS, just do the factory data reset option to wipe and dont do the advance and wipe system.. then see if you are able to flash this way.. just make sure to do the factory reset like 3x to be safe and then flash..
see if that works.. also what version of SSare you using and what version are you on as in JB or KK... i see you say 3.75 up top, but to be sure you are on NC2/KK?
From my Fired-up Note Pro 12.2!

I'll give that a shot.
When I go back and Odin, it's going to NC2/KK. And yeah, the SS is 3.75.

janderfu said:
I tried that last night. Same result. For some reason I can read from the system partition, but not write to it.
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I get a similar issue in trying to run init.d scripts. Several times a "can't mount root as read/write" error is shown. I'm interested to know if this is similar and how to approach as well. Thanks.
~Sent from my AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note 3 Badass~

janderfu said:
I'll give that a shot.
When I go back and Odin, it's going to NC2/KK. And yeah, the SS is 3.75.
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Did it work with the factory rest without wiping the system in advanced wipe? If not than just to make sure that you are flashing the custom rom in one of the rom slots and not on the stock rom partition (just making sure because sometimes we make small mistakes as a noob).

Problem with my TMO Note 4

Hi, Im having problems with my phone. In the 3 different roms I tried the same, The 3 nandroids I made I can't restore and give errors, Cant restore user apps from titanium backup apps alone or with data, optios for restore is unavailable and now this message at startup "uids on the system are inconsistent, you need to wipe your data partition or your device will be unstable"
I think this problems are related. Someone know what it can be? Bad partitions or something?

Quick question, are you doing a Wipe Data/Factory Reset when changing roms?. If not try going booting to recovery choose Wipe>Advance> choose everything except Internal Data and SD> wipe 3 times to be sure then install Rom and after it finishes Wipe Davik/Cache then boot up.

glm0025 said:
Quick question, are you doing a Wipe Data/Factory Reset when changing roms?. If not try going booting to recovery choose Wipe>Advance> choose everything except Internal Data and SD> wipe 3 times to be sure then install Rom and after it finishes Wipe Davik/Cache then boot up.
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Yes I follow the directions by the book in all roms

carlosgardel said:
Yes I follow the directions by the book in all roms
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Odin the base before clean flashing the new rom

xnknown said:
Odin the base before clean flashing the new rom
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Like I said I followed directions by the book and that includes odin the base of the same baseband and bootloader.

carlosgardel said:
Like I said I followed directions by the book and that includes odin the base of the same baseband and bootloader.
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Then it's likely your partitions been corrupted somehow, you should rma for a new device

xnknown said:
Then it's likely your partitions been corrupted somehow, you should rma for a new device
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Yes I think something like that but Its not possible to test it and be sure? I bought it used and I don't think I can send it back anyway apart from that phone works great.