Hey guys,
I was trying to flash the Starburst ROM onto my Epic 4G Touch yesterday and really messed things up. I followed the instructions on the starburst website and formatted everything. I couldn't, however, find the rom on the SD card, so I used the format /sdcard/ function and put the rom back onto the microsd card, not realizing that the /sdcard/ folder was internal memory and not external.
No matter what kernal I use, from what I can tell, there is no ROM to boot to. How can I get a ROM onto /sdcard/ if I can't get it to boot into anything?
No big deal my man. There is a factory rom you can flash using odin the get you back working. Use this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1282420 then stick with Chris 41g's lostkernel.
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In recover go to moutns and mount usb. Then you can copy a rom to your sd card.
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Ok so after 2 days of working on this I figured out that I could only get USB to recognize this device if I used CWM 5.0.2.3. It mounted USB and I copied Starburst over and I think everything is good. I would like to go back to the stock, plain ROM. I destroyed my backup so is there somewhere I can download the normal rom?
Use odin to go back to stock
Odin will only let me go back to the stock kernel. What if I want the stock samsung rom?
Folow the link I posted that is odin for the stock rom.
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Use odin to go back to stock then redo to flashing guide only don't mess up this time
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My epic 4g touch is doing bootloop in the 4g screen. Need help. any ideals how to recover this. I tried flashing rom but clockwork sees no files in external sd card. Plus, how do you transfter files to your internal sdcard in clockwork?Any help is appreciated. Thanks
When I had to recover from a bootloop I actually had to remove my sdcard, put the phone in download mode and reflash it. Flashing with a .tar on your SD card has caused many problems for me =/
As a rule, here is my emergency ROM evacuation plan:
1) Can I get to recovery? If so, I will simply wipe everything (factoryh reset) then reflash fresh.
2) If not, then just boot to download mode (power+volDown) and Odin over a clean kernel (most bootloop issues are going to be from a kernel issue)
3) If all that doesn't work, then flash a stock rom from scratch using Odin
It sounds like 1 is not an option to you. I don't think you can copy from sd to internal without mounting them on a pc and doing the copy on that side.
In any event, you are gonna need a PC.
HTH
You can put files on your SD card by enabling SD mount somewhere within cwm. However I would listen to that guy^
That is probably the best way to "abort" a ROM
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Oh and I wanted to ask: what ROM did you install because SD mounting doesn't work with any of the AOSP ICS ROMs...
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EpicFlair said:
Oh and I wanted to ask: what ROM did you install because SD mounting doesn't work with any of the AOSP ICS ROMs...
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With ICS, I haven't been able to mount anything but internal storage... But I have been rooting since I got my first Intercept on day 1. I'm a danger seeker
My phone was rooted and I did a backup before flashing it to a starburst v1.7 rom. I did everything correct and now my phone just keeps doing a soft reboot every 10 seconds no matter what.
When I tried to restore it from the CWM recovery screen it says "error sd card not mounted", so therefore I can't even restore. I've done the rooting and flashing soo many times on my other android phone right before I switched to Sprint.
Is there anything I can do?
Thanks
Ddownload a .tar file and flash stick rom and kernal and try again?
Did u access cwm manually? Try to use rom manager off the market see what happen. Internal sd or external sd u talking about? When u access to cwm mount and storage check there too.
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Hello,
I had this same problem, just go back to stock using Odin & you will be good to go. You can also trying updating to the latest clockword- that has worked for me before as well.
There were some rushed CWM builds released. You may want to try a newer release
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Ok, this is what you do.
In cmw, there is an option to mount the phone to a computer, i cant recall where it is in this version. After selecting it, connect your phone to your computer, and move your backup from ur sd card to the phones internal memory, and then restore it from internal memory.
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wipe cache and dalvik and phone just sits at the screen with the yellow triangle.....i can get to odin even though i odin a stock tar it doens't the same thing on reboot......
help
Your putting the file in the PDA slot and only have "auto-reboot" checked when doing Odin?
You could always flash a kernel in Odin that had a custom recovery(cwm, rogue etc) and then flash a rom from there. Hold volume up and power from the phone being off for that, after its flashed from Odin, if you choose that route
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yes i am doing that. and it just sits there with the yellow triangle screen
You could try on of these in Odin(a .tar file not zip). That will give you cwm. Then can flash a rom from there
http://chris41g.devphone.org/index.php?dir=EpicTouch/Stock+Repack/EL26/
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**** i have no roms to flash on my internal memory except the epic aospmodv2.5.1 zip and it installs but don't start up
Don't have an SD card? Should be able to mount storage in cwm and transfer
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**** i have no roms to flash on my internal memory except the epic aospmodv2.5.1 zip and it installs but don't start up
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What was your previous setup (ROM/kernel)?
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el 26 stock thing is i got desperate and wiped all user data and wiped dalvik and cache
how do i mount the sd card i'm in cwm right now and i chose to mount it but my comp done'st recognize a sd card
also el 26 kernel. looks liek the problem is i have the kernel set up an the modem but there is no rom the phone can run apparently
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el 26 stock thing is i got desperate and wiped all user data and wiped dalvik and cache
how do i mount the sd card i'm in cwm right now and i chose to mount it but my comp done'st recognize a sd card
also el 26 kernel. looks liek the problem is i have the kernel set up an the modem but there is no rom the phone can run apparently
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Did you try sfhub's full ROM/kernel/modem Odin flashable tar? I would go for a completely fresh start. Your PC does recognize the phone right?
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Maybe I've missed something in this thread but sounds like you're able to get into download (Odin) mode, flash a FULL recovery tar of your choice. The missing ROM pieces should be corrected.
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Use sfhub's stuff. He provides top notch support too..
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1416477
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since i couldn't find a way to mount the sd card in recovery i got "smart" and used a friends of mines phone took her memory card out plugged in my comp put the roms on then put it back on my phone lol. more than one way to skin a cat
For whatever reason clockwork recovery is not recognizing my external sd card. Unfortunately that is where I put the zip file for the rom I am trying to flash. I only realized this after I already wiped data, and formatted the system. Since I can't get the phone back on to move the zip to the internal memory, is there a way I can flash the rom using odin? I'm not sure which parts would have to be extracted from the zip file for it to work, if it is possible.
You can Odin to stock and then try again with the rom on internal memory this time.
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You can Odin to stock and then try again with the rom on internal memory this time.
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Is there a tar file for stock out there?
Are you familliar with ADB, you could push a copy of the rom from your PC to /mnt/sdcard
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Odin to stock thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1737855
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=28740768
This will get you back to stock and root.
Flash with odin. So you don't trip your flash counter
Then download Rom manager and flash cwm.
Put the zip file on your internal sd card and flash.
Same thing happened to me when I started messing with my s3 without reading
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I need some help.
My SD card is maxed full and I need to wipe my phone back to day one.
I was wanting to know, if it is safe to do a factory wipe to basically nothing on it.
I need to completely format my SD card and restore to stock.
Any help from anyone out there would be greatly apprectiated.
If you have a rom ready to go, then yes.
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If you have a rom ready to go, then yes.
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I completely erased the phone and sd card via usb storage after reflashing UCLJ3 stock, then after re-reflashing UCLJ3 stock via odin again, I checked the SD card, and both are COMPLETELY empty
Now, to use the recovery.tar.md5 for touch recovery and flash dbrannon and I's rom and start testing all our updates without worry!