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[NEED HELP] Captivate can't detect internal storage and external SD

first, sorry for my bad english.
I flash Slimbean 3.1 on my cappy and it work well ... until yesterday. The phone is and i have to reset phone, but its stucked on the semaphore screen. Then I try to remove battery, restart again and its stucked again.
I try to flash stock ROM 2.3.5 using odin and but i realize that it can't detect a internal SD and my 4GB micro SD.
my phone status :
- it will bootloop if i remove the SD card althoug it doesnt detect ??
- boh SD card and USB storage are "unavailable"
- can't flash any ROM or install a app or take picture
Help me, is my phone gone

tquang620 said:
first, sorry for my bad english.
I flash Slimbean 3.1 on my cappy and it work well ... until yesterday. The phone is and i have to reset phone, but its stucked on the semaphore screen. Then I try to remove battery, restart again and its stucked again.
I try to flash stock ROM 2.3.5 using odin and but i realize that it can't detect a internal SD and my 4GB micro SD.
my phone status :
- it will bootloop if i remove the SD card althoug it doesnt detect ??
- boh SD card and USB storage are "unavailable"
- can't flash any ROM or install a app or take picture
Help me, is my phone gone
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Are you able to boot in recovery? (3 buttons combo)
From there, you can try to clear cache/dalvik and reboot (booting will take a while).
Another option would be to try to mount the your SD through recovery, backup your files, get in download mode, flash KK4 with Odin one click, flash corn kernel with Odin 1.85 and finaly, get back on Slimbean as per their instructions.

BWolf56 said:
Are you able to boot in recovery? (3 buttons combo)
From there, you can try to clear cache/dalvik and reboot (booting will take a while).
Another option would be to try to mount the your SD through recovery, backup your files, get in download mode, flash KK4 with Odin one click, flash corn kernel with Odin 1.85 and finaly, get back on Slimbean as per their instructions.
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i can boot in recovery, clear cache/dalvik but can not factory reset it because internal storage is not available. I have a ROM file in internal SD but I can't access to it. Is there a ROM with a extension that can be flash through Odin?
The phone work well in 2.3.5, just cant detect both storage, and if i put out the SD card, it will boot loop.

tquang620 said:
i can boot in recovery, clear cache/dalvik but can not factory reset it because internal storage is not available. I have a ROM file in internal SD but I can't access to it. Is there a ROM with a extension that can be flash through Odin?
The phone work well in 2.3.5, just cant detect both storage, and if i put out the SD card, it will boot loop.
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So you flashed KK4 already? If not, you should.
As for flashing a ROM with Odin, you'd need it to be packaged for it (or made into a one click). Before flashing a new custom ROM, you'll need to fix your SD card problem.
If you're able to connect your SD card to your pc, backup it's files, format it and try it again.

BWolf56 said:
So you flashed KK4 already? If not, you should.
As for flashing a ROM with Odin, you'd need it to be packaged for it (or made into a one click). Before flashing a new custom ROM, you'll need to fix your SD card problem.
If you're able to connect your SD card to your pc, backup it's files, format it and try it again.
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i find this topic http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1447303&page=1, Is my phone have that issue?
Can I access to the internal storage again or i lost it forever?

tquang620 said:
i find this topic http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1447303&page=1, Is my phone have that issue?
Can I access to the internal storage again or i lost it forever?
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Did you see the EU screen? If not, then no.
You didn't answer nor reply to my last post, I need you to in order to help you.

BWolf56 said:
Did you see the EU screen? If not, then no.
You didn't answer nor reply to my last post, I need you to in order to help you.
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This is my friend's phone, so i dont know it had EU screen or not. I flash KK4 but it is bootloop, i try KF1, KJ2, bootloop. Yesterday KF1 work but today it doesnt, Only JF6 working now. Its still not detect internal memory, and i must put a external SD card in to make it work.
IF i see EU screen then my internal SD gone ? I use captivate too, so im very worry now.
Thanks for helping me

i dont want to use SD anymore so i think it is not necessary to format or backup it. Captivate can work well without a SD card.

tquang620 said:
This is my friend's phone, so i dont know it had EU screen or not. I flash KK4 but it is bootloop, i try KF1, KJ2, bootloop. Yesterday KF1 work but today it doesnt, Only JF6 working now. Its still not detect internal memory, and i must put a external SD card in to make it work.
IF i see EU screen then my internal SD gone ? I use captivate too, so im very worry now.
Thanks for helping me
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Well first step would be to ask your friend if he got the EU screen. If so, follow the guide to recover from it.
You will need the bootloaders version of KK4 now as JF6 flashes old bootloaders. If Odin doesn't work, you can try Heimdall (know that Odin won't work on the same USB port as Heimdall, due to Heimdall flashing it's own drivers to that USB port).
I'm not sure what you mean by having to put the external SD card to make it work, do you mean that the internal SD works when the external is in? If so, copy it's content to your pc or external SD while you still can as you might need to completely wipe it.

BWolf56 said:
Well first step would be to ask your friend if he got the EU screen. If so, follow the guide to recover from it.
You will need the bootloaders version of KK4 now as JF6 flashes old bootloaders. If Odin doesn't work, you can try Heimdall (know that Odin won't work on the same USB port as Heimdall, due to Heimdall flashing it's own drivers to that USB port).
I'm not sure what you mean by having to put the external SD card to make it work, do you mean that the internal SD works when the external is in? If so, copy it's content to your pc or external SD while you still can as you might need to completely wipe it.
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I ask him, he said that he saw a black screen, he press power button but it did't work, then he put out battery then the phone was stucked in semaphore screen. When he give me his phone, I try to restock it using odin and JF6 . Thats all.
I mean that if external SD is put in, then phone then boot successful, if not it will bootloop. When using phone, it say both internal and external is unavailable, if i put out external SD the phone turn off immediately.

tquang620 said:
I ask him, he said that he saw a black screen, he press power button but it did't work, then he put out battery then the phone was stucked in semaphore screen. When he give me his phone, I try to restock it using odin and JF6 . Thats all.
I mean that if external SD is put in, then phone then boot successful, if not it will bootloop. When using phone, it say both internal and external is unavailable, if i put out external SD the phone turn off immediately.
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That sounds worse than the EU bug.. But I would still try their fix so follow their guide. Hopefully it helps, one thing though, EU is a ICS bug and you were on JB so there's something missing here.. Was there any changes or mod made before the black screen? Tried to install something perhaps?
As for JF6, it should never be flashed anymore as it flashes the old bootloaders. KK4 is what you need (GB 2.3.5) and since you flashed JF6, you'll need to reflash the GB bootloaders, so Odin KK4 with bootloaders.
So here are your next steps:
1- Find out what exactly happened before the black screen
2- Try to flash Odin KK4 (with BLs)
3- If it doesn't work, try with Heimdall KK4 with bootloaders (Use it on a different USB port)
4- If all of the above don't work, follow the EU bug guide

Thanks alot for your help, i will try tomorow, then i will report.

Stupidly bootlooped - Way to install new rom to internal sd card?

Hi everyone,
I've stupidly managed to bootloop my phone and need a little help sorting it out if possible.
I have been following the guides to install the custom roms and have no idea where I messed up.
I have 2 roms on my internal sd card (OrDroid and Maximus7) I have tried manually flashing the boot.img for each individually before installing the rom through recovery, but both result in the phone getting stuck on the boot up screen.
Is there a way I can put another rom on the internal sd card to try and get that working? The phone doesn't show up on the PC.
Thanks for any help!!
-Mike

can u get into fastboot? if u can, flash the boot.img again for the rom u installed and see if that works

jngtt said:
can u get into fastboot? if u can, flash the boot.img again for the rom u installed and see if that works
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Thanks for the reply jngtt
I managed to sideload a ROM and get the phone out of bootloop. I now have no signal though. (When there definitely is some as my wife is with the same carrier)
At least from here I can load a new ROM/Kernel to the phone.
Is there a Stock ROM for the M7 somewhere?
I saw this thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2158763
but couldn't work out how to restore my phone back to a factory ROM?
-Mike

Bricked after ROM Flash

I had a stock Optus firmware for my s5830 running 2.3.6 Gingerbread. I installed a zip off the internet to remove the stock Optus apps so I could root the phone, which i ended up doing.
I then installed Clockwork Mod 5, which installed successfully. After, i proceeded to install a custom ROM called "The Ultimatum", the installation went fine, i selected the kernel which didn't require an extra partition so it would not go into a bootloop. No errors were shown during installation.
I then rebooted my phone and now it is stuck into a bootloop. I thought "Oh yeah, i can just flash the custom 2.3.6 firmware back onto my device, which i have done many times". But to my surprise, my PC does not recognize my phone in download mode. I have tried using two cables as well as deleting drivers and reinstalling them.
If it helps, i once had ROM Manager installed as it said so on an online tutorial for my exact device. I did not use any features in it, but it is installed. Also when i mount the sd card to the computer, it is fully empty.
Anyone please help me with this, it would be greatly appreciated,

abletm said:
I had a stock Optus firmware for my s5830 running 2.3.6 Gingerbread. I installed a zip off the internet to remove the stock Optus apps so I could root the phone, which i ended up doing.
I then installed Clockwork Mod 5, which installed successfully. After, i proceeded to install a custom ROM called "The Ultimatum", the installation went fine, i selected the kernel which didn't require an extra partition so it would not go into a bootloop. No errors were shown during installation.
I then rebooted my phone and now it is stuck into a bootloop. I thought "Oh yeah, i can just flash the custom 2.3.6 firmware back onto my device, which i have done many times". But to my surprise, my PC does not recognize my phone in download mode. I have tried using two cables as well as deleting drivers and reinstalling them.
If it helps, i once had ROM Manager installed as it said so on an online tutorial for my exact device. I did not use any features in it, but it is installed. Also when i mount the sd card to the computer, it is fully empty.
Anyone please help me with this, it would be greatly appreciated,
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try to flash stock rom via odin by removing sd card from phone
also if that doesnot work try to flash stock rom via odin on another pc with latest samsung usb drivers installed
good luck :good::good:

aditya rathee said:
try to flash stock rom via odin by removing sd card from phone
also if that doesnot work try to flash stock rom via odin on another pc with latest samsung usb drivers installed
good luck :good::good:
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Thankyou for this, it must have been something with the USB port on my main laptop as I used my school laptop and it all worked fine. Without the sd card it went into another boot loop, Odin seemed to like the sd card :/ It has booted up fine.
Only problem now is when I apply the root zip SuperSU is not showing, I'll fully set up the device and then I'll see if it is a problem.

abletm said:
Thankyou for this, it must have been something with the USB port on my main laptop as I used my school laptop and it all worked fine. Without the sd card it went into another boot loop, Odin seemed to like the sd card :/ It has booted up fine.
Only problem now is when I apply the root zip SuperSU is not showing, I'll fully set up the device and then I'll see if it is a problem.
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so now you are having proble in rooting phone ?? or everything is fine

aditya rathee said:
so now you are having proble in rooting phone ?? or everything is fine
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There are a few problems but i know now what i am doing and can fix these problems as i have had them before, thankyou so much

abletm said:
There are a few problems but i know now what i am doing and can fix these problems as i have had them before, thankyou so much
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ok brother have fun then :laugh::laugh:

[Q] accessing external SD from recovery?

So I rooted my daughters samsung SGH-T599N, and installed philz touch and was planning on putting a custom rom on the phone. unfortunately out of habit, I put the rom file, and gapps file on the external SD, booted to recovery.. wiped cache, dalvik and factory reset to install a new rom. Unfortunately this device will not access the external SD card through the recovery, and now the phone just gets stuck with the samsung logo when turned on (so i cant turn debugging on again).... I can't get odin, or any other program to read and connect properly.... and now I'm stuck... I have been searching online for several days now trying to find a solution, but have come up empty. Any help would be GREATLY APPRECIATED.. I was even thinking to use adb to transfer files over but have been unsuccessful as of yet ...

sorry to burst your bubble but this exhibit 4g section is for T679 version.

tileguy001 said:
So I rooted my daughters samsung SGH-T599N, and installed philz touch and was planning on putting a custom rom on the phone. unfortunately out of habit, I put the rom file, and gapps file on the external SD, booted to recovery.. wiped cache, dalvik and factory reset to install a new rom. Unfortunately this device will not access the external SD card through the recovery, and now the phone just gets stuck with the samsung logo when turned on (so i cant turn debugging on again).... I can't get odin, or any other program to read and connect properly.... and now I'm stuck... I have been searching online for several days now trying to find a solution, but have come up empty. Any help would be GREATLY APPRECIATED.. I was even thinking to use adb to transfer files over but have been unsuccessful as of yet ...
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do you have cwm installed? if so you could boot into that and in the advanced menu there's an option called mount usb storage. just make sure your phone is plugged into your computer boot into cwm and then advanced/mount usb storage, then open my computer and your external drive should so up also your internal I believe, so you could transfer your new rom and gapps to a new location of your choice.. though i'm not sure how you'd would do this on odin or other recovery software.

I actually had philz touch cwm installed, but I resolved the problem by flashing back to stock with odin in recovery mode... turns out this device just doesnt read external sd from recovery. adb push didnt work, sideload didnt work..lol . But good ole odin saved my butt again
this thread is a lifesaver---> http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2503550

i have the t599 using it now. got twrp from vanir rom after getting cwm and root. then flashed rom over. been messing with both vanir and carbon. but anyways i can flash from sdcard and extsd. only issue i have at the moment with new roms. after installing 2 games i have 0 freespace on /data. then again i dont use my phone much and just too lazy to find a workaround atm.
also everything ya need to know for the t599 is here as far as recoveries, custom roms, etc

[Q] rooted and flashed but unable to flash new rom

Hello!
I have a SGS I9000, which I rooted and flashed with Darky's ROM years ago. I can't really remember how/what I did, but it all worked out fine.
A week ago I tried to factory reset it, but the setup afterwards always crashes, therefore I'd like to flash it again (preferably paranoid android or cyanogenmod).
I have access to the download mode and the recovery mode. So I tried to copy the cyanogenmod zip to my external SD card and rebooted to the recovery mode, to install from zip. But the recovery mode states that there are no files on the external sd card.
Also, when I format the ext. sd card on the phone, it seems to work, but when inspecting the sd card on the computer afterwards, everything is still on there.
Any suggestions how to flash CM or PA on my phone?

Have you tried installing a fresh copy of Gingerbread via ODIN? You can try that. Flash GB, root it and then check if you still have problems.

Höhenheim said:
Have you tried installing a fresh copy of Gingerbread via ODIN? You can try that. Flash GB, root it and then check if you still have problems.
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I was unable to do so, I'll need to check some tutorials on that.
When I tried it, ODIN restarted my phone to download mode and then couldn't find it anymore.

daedalus.mythos said:
I was unable to do so, I'll need to check some tutorials on that.
When I tried it, ODIN restarted my phone to download mode and then couldn't find it anymore.
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Restarted your phone all of a sudden, without finishing writing your rom ?

Höhenheim said:
Restarted your phone all of a sudden, without finishing writing your rom ?
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It restarts my phone when it claims to get the PID file, but never manages to recognize it when its done rebooting to download mode again..