so I was flashing back to D18, then going to update to ec05
I used odin but it froze at factory..rfs
and screen went blueish
so i bat pulled, and restarted, computer, bat pulled again
pink screen stopped at bin
tried eb13
same
tried sw tool, froze after 9 seconds, pink screen
so i tried to boot into recovery and of course now it's sprints, but interestingly enough i tried to update.zip and it says
"E;Can't mount dev/block/vold/179:1
(no such file or directory)
E;Can't mount SDCARD:update.zip"
what do i do, can't boot phone it freezes at the samsung logo, can only get into sprint recovery and download mode, but odin and tool don't work...am I screwed?
I've never had this trouble before with the moment, epic or intercept or even the G-tablet and for the first time I'm worried...yike!
UPDATE:
so i don't know which but for kicks and giggles, I poped the sdcard back in and ejected it (properly instead of poping it out)
and switched to my other computer (both 64bit)
and it worked....good grief, was that just an error glitch because the sdcard wouldn't mount?
Well at least you got it working. Format that sd card. Sounds corrupted
Sent From My Evo Killer!!!
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I woke up this morning and unplugged my phone from the charger. The notification light was blinking but the phone would not turn on so I pulled the battery. Now it won't boot past the Google screen. I tried booting into recovery but the screen goes black and nothing happens. I reflashed recovery but have the same issue. I tried flashing stock recovery and had the same issue. At one point I somehow got into recovery but it couldn't mount anything and it locked up.
Any suggestions?
Ok I can get into recovery now but it can't mount E: and it's causing errors. Memory failure?
Well I give up... I've tried everything. I downloaded the toolkit and tried to reinstall CWM or TWRP or stock and it did not work. When I go to recovery it's always CWM and it takes a good 10 minutes to get into there. Once I'm in absolutely nothing works. I can't wipe data, I can't mount anything, I can't format anything.
Can't mount \cache\
Can't open \cache\
etc
I tried using adb commands but Windows will not recognize my phone because nothing can mount it. I'm pretty sure the storage is shot.
What do I do? Sprint wants $275 early upgrade fee + $250 for an S4. My early termination fee is $260 but they still won't budge. :crying:
Hi,
Summary: Was running Cyanogenmod 10.2.0 and tried to update to 10.2.1. Phone won't boot. Using CWM recovery 6.0.4.3. Factory Reset reports that it can't mount / clear /data (due to encryption?). Can get phone into CWM recovery and Download mode. Haven't been able to successfully connect to PC (ADB or Odin) even though I have samsung drivers.
I do have an unencrypted SD card in the phone so my normal way of flashing is to connect SD card to PC, download, then in CWM recovery to install ZIP from SD card.
Looking to get into any good state - Cyanogenmod 10.2.1, or 10.2.0, or heck go back to stock.
**** I think the answer might be use ODIN and flash back to stock, I see some guides but haven't been able to get ODIN to "see" my phone *****
Details
I had downloaded Cyanogenmod update to phone using "About this phone" menu and when I tried to "Install it" from that window the machine booted into recovery, immediately failed, and rebooted. The phone is encrypted (work requires this) and I discovered Cyanogenmod saves the download to encrypted phone storage and CWM recovery doesn't support encryption.
Downloaded 10.2.1 to my SD card and flashed it. (no back-up, no wiping of cache). Installed successfully, reboot asked me for my encryption password, Android optimized apps, rebooted, encryption password, then blue spinner spins forever.
From here I started my troubleshooting:
- I flashed back to 10.2.0 then flashed Gapps again, no change.
- Reading about boot.img I installed ADB and SDK Manager and tried connecting and flashing boot.img. ADB devices shows up empty. I have installed Samsung drivers.
- Researching going back to Stock points me to installed Triangle to reset my custom ROM count - but I can't boot.
Thanks in advance.
Matt
[Solved] This is for anyone who happens to read this wondering if their phone is screwed. Relax! If you can get into Download mode and Odin can see your phone, you'll be o.k.
Turns out the machine and cable you use do matter. I tried for days connecting using my MAC running Windows 7 Virtual Machine. Once I switched to my Win7 laptop and used the original Samsung cable things starting working out more smoothly.
Steps:
1) Get Odin (mine was 3.09) and run as admin. If you see an error in Korean it's because you have to unzip the entire Odin folder.
2) Get stock firmware for t-mobile. There's only 1 firmware file, I didn't need a PIT nor a specific recovery step. The t-mobile firmware includes everything I needed. Flashing failed in Odin saying Complete Write failure. This had me stumped for hours and hours. When I switched to stock cable and Win7 laptop it succeeded. I never had to check Nand erase all or repartitian (almost did in desparation though). Flash took about 10 minutes but eventually PASSED.
3) However, when it rebooted it asked for encryption key and my old one didn't work. Turns out their are more steps. This scared me.
4) Reboot into recovery (up, home, power) which gave a bunch of scary error messages. Actually those listed at the bottom in http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1840030.
5) Factory Reset then Wipe Cache
6) Reboot
Now I'm back at stock and breathing a sigh of relief. Unclear if I'll ROM back to Cyanogenmod.
I spent hours and hours reading discussions and going down one dead end after another. I'd say it was like looking for a needle in a haystack but it was the complete opposite. It was like looking for a specific needle in a sea of needles. Every search query yielding tantilizing results and a plethora of step by step guides that ultimately didn't work. A very frustrating experience all around. Good luck to anyone who reads this.
Hi Matt
Similar thing happened to me last night. I am/was using Omni-Nightly build. I plugged it in to the charger before bed, and it rebooted, saying upon reboot - "Encryption Failed" and saying the only way to recover would be to wipe the machine and start again, it then rebooted and all I get is the Samsung boot screen.
Tried rebooting, wiping, everything, Odin, Android Toolkit, nothing works. It shows up on my Linux PCs but not accessible, but not windows at all.
Hi I managed to to get to SDCARD Download mode from a dead boot N7105 using the SD Boot Repair SD. Odin recognizes this and phone was previously on 4.3 JellyBean already. Now when I'm trying to flash with Odin 3.09 , it says "There is no PIT partition" . Should I click the Phone Bootloader Update checkbox also? Need some advice from all the gurus here to guide me along this, thank you very much
Hi guys,
I have a very similar scenario but with an Samsung Galaxy S3 i9300:
Couple of days ago my phone went into booting loop but after removing the battery for a couple of minutes the issue was solved.
Then 3 days later it restart out of the sudden and was stuck on the Samsung Galaxy S III splash screen.
I rebooted and tried putting the phone in Download mode. The phone went into the Samsung Galaxy S III screen twice and turn off not to boot again. Seems like a hard bricked, no response with any buttons combinations.
I read other posts here saying that I could probably boot the phone with an micro sd card. So I donwloaded image I9300UBUGML1_I9300UWHUGMK1_I9300UBUGMK1_HOME from SamMobile and mouted in a 16 Gb type 10 micro SD (my phone is also 16 Gb version)
At first I tried booting the phone pressing the power button for about 10 seconds and the screen ligthted up very quickly (less than a second) saying
SDCARD MODE
UP KEY: NORMAL BOOTING
DOWN KEY: DOWNLOAD MODE
But it was so quick that I was not able to press anything.
A day later I figure out that if I was quick enough I could press down key and put the phone on Download mode (SDCARD)
After putting the phone on Download mode I connected the phone to the PC and tried flashing it with ODIN v3.07
Odin is able to see the device but when trying to flash the phone (selecting PDA and the image mention before) a message came up saying:
There is no PIT partition
And failed.
Reading about this error in this forum, I have tried using different PIT files to re-partion the phone but no success so far.
GT-I9300_mx_20120220.pit
GT-I9300_mx_20120322.pit
GT-I9300_mx_20120329.pit
mx.pit
Odin stays on Get PIT for mapping after initializing the process.
I would like to know if anyone here have an idea on what else to try (before talking about JTAG reparing the phone as I am not 100% the phone is hard bricked)
I have not attempted to use a USB Jig yet, should I?
Other details:
I am not able to get the download with any other image file in the sd card.
If the phone is on download mode and connected to the PC, the battery can be removed and the phone stays on.
If I press up key in the SD CARD Mode the phone freezes.
Do you guys have any ideas here?
Thanks,
So, I've been trying to get my Epic 4G Touch back on it's feet. It crashed about a year ago and I have finally had the time to look into it (running a Nexus 5 with Lollipop, currently). I'm able to get the GS2 into download (ODIN) mode as well as the reboot screen.
I've downloaded JODIN3 (I'm on Ubuntu) and have retrieved the PIT file from my phone. JODIN3 tells me that this file is corrupt and I can't proceed. I've found other PIT files and tried those with the same result.
I tried working around this, setting my phone into the reboot screen and choosing to load an update from the SD card. I downloaded the SPH-D710 Zedomax Kernel and tried loading that. No luck there either.
Basically, my phone, when booting, goes into the Sprint 4G screen and freezes. I can see it on my computer when connected to USB, so I'm pretty sure that I can bring it back to life. I'm just new. Any tips?
Also, I've tried a couple of different ROM's loaded onto a microSD card. Like I said, I can get to the manual screen (Volume Up/Power), but when I try to load the ROM file from the microSD card, the phone reboots and gets stuck at the 4G load screen. I'm not sure how to get around this problem.
noahwass said:
Also, I've tried a couple of different ROM's loaded onto a microSD card. Like I said, I can get to the manual screen (Volume Up/Power), but when I try to load the ROM file from the microSD card, the phone reboots and gets stuck at the 4G load screen. I'm not sure how to get around this problem.
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Now you should wipe data.Tell me if it keeps doing it.
Its been a long time since I booted my Galaxy Note-II (GT-N7100) as I use an iPhone and Nexus 5 as my daily drivers.
The phone wont boot past the Samsung Galaxy Note II GT-N7100 logo. I am able to access the recovery and download mode as well, and I have flashed the latest stock rom from Sammobile using the Odin. The flashing was successful. however the phone doesn't boot past the logo. Also the phone will not power up unless connected to a PC, it wont power up even when connected to a charger and will immediately shut down when the USB cable is disconnected from the PC. I flashed TWRP 3.0.2 Custom Recovery using the Odin and tried installing CM 13 based Rom through the mem card, however the log reads patching image unconditionally and also that "Failed to mount /system" (invalid argument). The phone when restarted into recovery can no longer mount the /system partition. However on flashing the stock rom using Odin, the /system partition is available for mounting. The recovery log also shows MTP enabled, but my PC doesn't detect the phone when in recovery, it only detects the phone in Download mode. I have the Samsung drivers installed. Since the phone is not being detected in recovery I am unable to use the adb.
I am out of ideas and request your suggestions other than approaching a service centre.
If I can somehow access the phone via ADB, I might be able to check the memory partitions for corrupt units, and possibly create a custom PIT file to repartition and suit the available memory units.
Try this: open Odin, uncheck everything except f.reset time. Connect phone and flash stock ROM. When you see the word reset in the status window, remove USB cable, remove battery for a few seconds, replace battery, immediately boot the phone into recovery mode, factory wipe, and boot the phone.
Could the battery be defective or dead?
audit13 said:
Try this: open Odin, uncheck everything except f.reset time. Connect phone and flash stock ROM. When you see the word reset in the status window, remove USB cable, remove battery for a few seconds, replace battery, immediately boot the phone into recovery mode, factory wipe, and boot the phone.
Could the battery be defective or dead?
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Thanks a lot.
Tried your method and finally the phone has booted into the OS.
Had to replace the battery with another spare one in the process.
However the phone is still not being detected by the PC unless it's in Fastboot/ Download mode.
When connected to a computer, does anything appear on the phone screen? If you're using Windows, nothing new appears in device manager?
sorry to jump in this thread but i am having a similar problem
my completely stock tmobile note 2 is stuck on the samsung logo
i have never flashed it or done anything to it
my phone was working really slow, freezing up and battery draining fast
so i did a hard reset and it fixed the problem of running slow and freezing up for a week or so but battery drained fast
so i bought a replacement battery from ebay and installed it and the next day i restarted my phone and it froze on the samsung logo
i tried turning it off and on and still the same thing
any suggestions or should i start a new thread?
fyi i am a noob