Phone boots but stuck on lock screen - Samsung Epic 4G Touch

Ok, I need some help. I had my phone rooted and had CWMR installed. I installed a custom rom and everything was working great. However, I needed my my sd card for flashing a nook color. So I removed the SD card, copied all the files to my pc, then used the sd to succsesfully flash the nook. I then deleted all the old files from the sd card and recopied the old. I put the sd card back in the phone and powered it on. Now, I'm stuck on the lock screen and the screen just keeps turning on and off. The all buttons and the touch screen are unresponsive. What have I done and how do I get this fixed? If I try to call my phone it goes stright to vm. HEEEELP!!!

Have you tried re-formatting the SD card ?

Tried formatting just now. didn't work. Then i tried flashing through odin, now i have a yellow triangle when i turn the phone on....getting worse by the minute...

Have you tried taking the damn card out?
If you flashed a bootable disk image to that card I'm pretty sure you need the HP format tool (I think it was HP) to format it normally again. I could be wrong, but, I do know that I had a special tool to reformat my SDcard when I flashed a bootable disk image to boot my nook.
That yellow triangle doesn't necessarily mean anything bad, so, chill out. Take the card out and lets take it from there.
Also, if something in your /data was what caused your phone to be hosed and you did an ODIN flash but didn't do a factory reset (or "Calkulins format all" zip is perfect for this) you would have the same problem no matter how many things you flashed to /system.

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Can't get past HTC Start up screen.

Hi,
I had DJ Droid installed on my desire and I was trying to unroot it and put a stock 2.1 rom on so I could put Froyo OTA once it was released but I didn't get very far!
I formatted my spare card sd card and wanted to make a new gold card as out of the two I used I wasn't sure which was the gold card.
Whenever I turn on my phone it hangs on the HTC start up screen.
I can hold power and volume down and get into HBOOT, go to recovery, volume up and get to Android system recovery <2e>
Apply update.zip and it says No Such File even though I put it on but I may of wiped the partition during all this which has removed this file.
When I try to mount the micro sd using an adapter and look at the files on it it says 'You need to format the disk in drive G:before you can use it.
This happens for both cards. I try to format them but they both fail
Anybody ideas apart from leave things how they are in future!
Cheers
hmm, try to use the windows drive manager to fully remove the partition on the sd card. then create a new partition, reformat and! be sure to select the PHYSICAL DRIVE (without a letter) when editing the sd-card and making the goldcard.
it looks like you edited the volume header and the partition table is corrupted too.
if this is not helping maybe the sdcard is broken indeed, but I seriously doubt two sdcards failing at the same time
greets,
messy
Managed to format the card and put the update and djdroid files on the card and start again.
I must not be doing the wipe incorrectly at times, also the boot took a lot longer to load compared to when it was working fine so it might of been me thinking it had froze on the htc screen when in fact it was working, sorry!
All sorted now and I have put OpenDesire to see what that is like.
Thanks for the help.

[Q] She is bricked (pls not) HELP!

Hi,
Was running on LeeDroid 1.9, wiped and flashed for OpenDesire 3.4, came up fine then rebooted for the 3.4.2 patch and now my Desire just will not go past the HTC logo screen no matter what I do.
I can boot into recovery and have full access to everything, tried formatting the SD card and loading different ROMS but stuck @ the HTC green logo on white background.
Even Revoked3 again but the prob is not getting into the Recovery menu, its getting past that HTC screen.
Any info / idea's / help?
Thanks
Russ
If your phone turns on its not bricked, there will be a way to fix any issues your having, its just finding the correct one.
When flashing other roms did you wipe everything?
Data
Dalvik Cache
Ext parititon (if you have one)
Not wiping Dalvik is the number one reason roms get stuck bootlooping on bootscreen1.
Alternatively, it is booting but your not waiting long enough, you can always run adb logcat while booting to see if they phone is actually doing anything.
Hi,
Thank you for replying....
Figured it out that it is the SD card, here is the situation:
- Boot into recovery but cannot mount nor format the SD card
- Can see the SD card in MAC/ Windows and formated it Fat32
- Can boot without SD card
- Can boot with another SD card which is only 128Meg so cannot get LeeDroid back on it to reflash that ROM
I obviously need to format the SD card proper and it looks like I need to use Gparted but that looks like a HUGE Linux ISO download unless you know of a MAC version of it I can use?
Thanks
Found a 2Gig SD Card, got LeeDroid back on it, flashing and hoping I can boot with the original SD card so I can format with ROM manger but thinking it wont boot up with the SD card in regardless of the ROM, lets hope!
if you don't manage to boot it up. find this in the forum "PB99IMG.zip" w/o the quotes. format your sd card and put the archive in root of sd card. after that turn on your phone by pressing volume down and power on/off. wait till phone recognizes the archive and follow onscreen directions. phone should boot normally as unrooted. use unrevoked to root again and flash any rom you want.
post result.
Okay I am up but not on my original SD card, using a spare.
In recovery mode my phone refuses to mount nor format the card but can see it 100%
Seen some posts of a ADB cmd I need to use or is there something else I can try?
Thanks!
I ran "unrevoked" on my phone again and it booted when I had that problem.
But I took out the sd card when I did that. Not sure if it helps. But who knows.
Tried that, booting without the card is fine, with the card in is the issue, phone cannot see it.

Stuck at Splash screen after failed SD card

My dinc is set up like this:
9.01 radio
.92 bootloader
I flashed a rom and then it said my sd card went bad. Tried flashing another rom and it problem persisted. As a last resort i tried to reformat my sd card with no luck. got an error. I then tried to flash through recovery and did a full wipe (my mistake for doing this) but cant flash another rom since the sd card it bad. When i restart it gets stuck at the splash screen.
I bought another sd card and placed a rom which i know works on it and it seemed to have installed fine, but now when i restart i get stuck at the splash screen like i did before.
Any ideas?
Maybe i need to find the original update.zip file from when i first rooted? My sd card is empty except for that rom i put on it.
I found it. Nope, didnt work. Maybe i need to flash a recovery, though i have none anymore.
In case someone else comes across the same problem, i fixed it.
The sd card was ruined. unable to reformat or anything. Luckily i back up my sd card recently so i transfered everything to my new sd card. Went into recover and did a recovery of an old backup.

[Q] Help Cannot read sd after partition

Ok I screwed up majorly. I was in CWM which I had just updated to the newest version with orange text. I had finished a factory restore and cache wipe, wanting to flash the Cyanogen RC1. Well while playing around I ended up in the partitions menu and tried backing out with the power button, which apparently is the wrong procedure now that the back button is enabled in recovery. I believe I ended up selecting the 128MB partition with OM Swap (no idea what to do with these never used them before). I ended up not able to see my sd card and am stuck with phone with no ROM. I have only connected to a work computer without admin rights, the phone comes up as three removable drives that I am unable to open. Any Help Please.
I have another 2GB SD that came with phone, so when I return home I can flash CM7. My main worry is recovering the data on the card with old back ups, especially Titanium Back ups of Apps. Thanks to anyone who takes time to read and try to help.
In recovery, under Mounts and Storage there is a USB mount, so you may try that to see if you can get to your SD card. If not, then take it out and put it into you computer (if you don't have a card reader, there are USB readers you can buy). See if it comes up that way, and hopefully nothing got erased when it was partitioned.

[q] sd card & internal storage not recognized = no recovery or backup restore :(

I was running skyraider 4.2 and everything was perfect. My brother in law convinced me to try nils gingersense. I made a nand first then flashed it. Everything worked fine except it nils gingersense ran slow and kind of choppy on my phone. I decided to go back to skyraider. I made another nand of nils gingersense first. I booted into recovery ran the nand and once it finished I immediately tried restoring my previous skyraider 4.3 nand which appeared to be successful. Once that finished I used the option to reboot in recovery. It started to reboot, showed my splash screen then just went to a black screen buzzed five times followed by the blinking green led. It did that every time I rebooted no matter what I tried. Finally I tried flashing the stock image and figured stock was better than a brick. This time different splash screen same result. I did some searching and found that if you plugged your phone in to the charger when the splash screen came on it would actually boot on. I tried this and was successful in getting the phone to turn on. Now the phone is back to stock and working but my SD card will not recognize on the phone (pulled it out and it works perfectly on my wife phone) and I also noticed that the 8 gb's of internal storage is also unrecognized by the phone. I am also unable to get into recovery. It shows a picture of a phone with like two green arrows making a circle and just sits there.
Any advice would be appreciated. I would like to be able to flash back to my previous skyraider nand but I would settle for a working SD card and internal memory. Thank you for any help in advance.
I could really use some help here guys. anyone?
Have you tried copying everything on your SD card to your computer and reformatting the card making sure its in FAT32 format, then copying everything back on to the card?
If not give that a try...
I haven't tried that yet but I Will. Still confused why my phone won't even read my phones internal storage also.
I would also do a factory rest and wipe your dalvik cache and what not. Worth a try.
I can't wipe the dalvic cache because that is done from recovery correct? My phone won't go into recovery without the SD card. I will try to reformat the SD card and see if that helps. I installed my wife working SD card and my phone won't recognize it either but her phone recognizes her SD card and mine fine.
Sounds like your on the stock recovery still (phone with green arrows). You need to format your sd fat32 with your pc, and then flash clockwork recovery thru hboot. You are still s-off right? And then from in recovery wipe everything in mounts and storage including emmc and sdcard, and then flash what ever rom you want.
cmlusco said:
Sounds like your on the stock recovery still (phone with green arrows). You need to format your sd fat32 with your pc, and then flash clockwork recovery thru hboot. You are still s-off right? And then from in recovery wipe everything in mounts and storage including emmc and sdcard, and then flash what ever rom you want.
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I flashed the stock image and I believe it says s-on now. I can't get into recovery at all to flash anything. I will reformat my memory card but after that I am at a loss since my phone doesn't recognize my memory card or my internal memory at all.
If your S-On you are going to have to root your phone again first before flashing anything.
1967ls2 said:
I flashed the stock image and I believe it says s-on now. I can't get into recovery at all to flash anything. I will reformat my memory card but after that I am at a loss since my phone doesn't recognize my memory card or my internal memory at all.
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If you are s-on you will have to use unrevoked to get s-off and root again.
That is the second time in 2 days i have seen someone say they flashed a rom and somehow lost s-off doing so. The said the same black screen and 5 vibrates happened to them too. Something strange is going on with something, you should not be able to loose s-off by flashing a rom.
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That is the second time in 2 days i have seen someone say they flashed a rom and somehow lost s-off doing so. The said the same black screen and 5 vibrates happened to them too. Something strange is going on with something, you should not be able to loose s-off by flashing a rom.
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I second this....very strange.
FIX IS HERE...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=695243
Happened to me yesterday too.
Or here http://pvillecomp.com/?page_id=33
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Or here http://pvillecomp.com/?page_id=33
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awesome, thank you very much. i will try this and see if it works. You guys are the best!
ok i have a fix for you that I know works, as i had this issue 2 months ago, and have a fully functioning phone now, you will notice your phone doesnt see the internal memory, or the sd card, the phone is also not detected via the usb cable. if you take the sd card out and test it in the computer it will be inaccesible, dont worry though your sd card is ok, and the data is still on it.
follow this thread/walkthrough, as it is the one that i used.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1110865
if you get lost or confused message me on here and i will send you my phone number so i can walk you through it,
if this helps show me some love with the thanks button...... btw i am seeing an rise in these threads recently for some reason
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wow lots of responses while i was typing,

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