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E:/ Can't mount /emmc - Possible Brick?

Well...long story short, I flashed ICS but I got locked out so I had to Nandroid back to my original ROM, but some error happened and now my phone won't turn on and I can't access my internal SD card. Using Rogue Recovery, when I try to Restore, my internal SD card isn't detected and I get E:/ Can't mount /emmc. Any way to fix this? Or am I bricked? Please help ASAP

I think my entire internal SD has been fried... If anyone has information, please tell me ASAP

I would start by seeing if you can get into download mode. Sorry if you've already tried this. Otherwise, pull the battery for 10 secs and then hold the volume down button and power key until your screen enters download mode. If that works, you can then Odin back to whatever you want.

I got into Odin, but I'm not really sure what to do with it. I'm not experienced with Odin. Should I push a Kernel? a ROM? My phone won't turn on regularly so a ROM would be pointless

Read along with this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1274337
If I tried to explain it, I'd for sure leave something out and you'd really be bricked. It sounds like you're phone is fine. It sounds like you just need to download a stock ROM .tar and flash it via Odin, then re-root, etc. Good luck.

Thanks. I pushed a kernel through but I'm hesitant to take the step for flashing a whole ROM. Also, by stock, do you mean a stock rooted ROM or a blank stock ROM?

in recovery, try to mount the SD card and connect it to your computer. See if it shows up in the computer and if your files are there and you can access it.

If you follow the steps in that guide, you'll be fine. I've done it a bunch of times. I keep a couple of stock ROM .tars on my laptop in case I screw something up while flashing. If I can do it, anyone can.

s9amme said:
in recovery, try to mount the SD card and connect it to your computer. See if it shows up in the computer and if your files are there and you can access it.
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It won't let me. I think my internal memory is fried. But if I can get my phone working again, I don't care about the internal memoru

I'm on my way to bed. But, I can tell you that some of the vets around here have said time after time that if you're able to get into download mode, chances are your phone will be fine if you know how to Odin back to stock. Good luck to you.

iniz94 said:
It won't let me. I think my internal memory is fried. But if I can get my phone working again, I don't care about the internal memoru
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It's fine. Mine was doing the same thing with Blazer ICS.
Basically, the way ICS handles USB mount is absurd. Makes no sense.
You have to flash clockworkmod touch from a zip file.
Just follow Phantoms steps exactly, only what's in bold:
To recover recovery:
Thru Odin:
Boot into Download Mode
Open ODIN
Download and Put this in PDA http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1390393
Flash
Thru Recovery:
Temp CWM How-To (Thanks to overstew for the concept)
1. Download CWM Touch 5.8.1.5 for Epic 4G Touch
http://clockworkmod.com/rommanager
2. Reboot into Stock Recovery
3. "apply update from external storage"
4. Find CWM T ouch 5.8.1.5 zip file and flash it
5. Using Touch Recovery flash ICS-4-ICS v1.0 (FOR THE ICS THEME ONLY)
6. Reboot and enjoy.

Thank you very much, rde. I'm currently flashing sfhub's factory reset from Odin (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1383678)
I pray that my phone is okay, lol.

VoX_XDA said:
It's fine. Mine was doing the same thing with Blazer ICS.
Basically, the way ICS handles USB mount is absurd. Makes no sense.
You have to flash clockworkmod touch from a zip file.
Just follow Phantoms steps exactly, only what's in bold:
To recover recovery:
Thru Odin:
Boot into Download Mode
Open ODIN
Download and Put this in PDA http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1390393
Flash
Thru Recovery:
Temp CWM How-To (Thanks to overstew for the concept)
1. Download CWM Touch 5.8.1.5 for Epic 4G Touch
http://clockworkmod.com/rommanager
2. Reboot into Stock Recovery
3. "apply update from external storage"
4. Find CWM T ouch 5.8.1.5 zip file and flash it
5. Using Touch Recovery flash ICS-4-ICS v1.0 (FOR THE ICS THEME ONLY)
6. Reboot and enjoy.
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I've done that already but my phone was still acting up so I flashed Rogue Stock Kernel thru Odin and now I'm flashing a factory reset tar.

Awesome. glad you got it figured out.

Stuck at data.img
Gonna have to follow this
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1504808

rde34 said:
I'm on my way to bed. But, I can tell you that some of the vets around here have said time after time that if you're able to get into download mode, chances are your phone will be fine if you know how to Odin back to stock. Good luck to you.
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We've actually found 2 cases where this isn't true:
1) if you flash the intl ICS release (which includes the intl bootloader) This seems to disable the USB port even though you can boot into ODIN D/L mode
2) some process people were doing early on when the FB02 release first came out (not saying it is the FB09 release causing issues, just some unidentified process people were doing at that time) seems to hoars the /data partition and even ODIN repartition doesn't help. I don't want to point fingers but there seemed to be pattern of CWM Touch being involved doing restores, but that was not scientifically proven.

I've learned that no matter what happens, this file will always fill the cracks in mah heart.
SPH-D710.EL29_CL852097_ROOTED-OneClick
afterwards I can begin anew

VoX_XDA said:
I've learned that no matter what happens, this file will always fill the cracks in mah heart.
SPH-D710.EL29_CL852097_ROOTED-OneClick
afterwards I can begin anew
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Tried that... stuck at data.img like 10 other ppl. I hope there's a fix soon :/ Only just got this phone.

iniz94 said:
Tried that... stuck at data.img like 10 other ppl. I hope there's a fix soon :/ Only just got this phone.
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If you just got the phone and can get it replaced, I would just do that.

sfhub said:
If you just got the phone and can get it replaced, I would just do that.
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Got it around a month ago and didn't get insurance... is it possible to suddenly add insurance and go next week to get it replaced? Or do I need to bring the phone in?

Phone keeps booting into Recovery Mode

I accidentally flashed the kernel for my old SGS II International to my Epic 4G Touch, but I managed to get it back to stock eventually. Everything was fine for the past couple months, and today I finally decided to install the system update(which I just put off for awhile despite all the prompts). Then it gave me that white triangle and when I rebooted into recovery mode. Now it just stays in recovery mode no matter what I do. Reboot option? Reboots back into recovery? Factory reset option? Boots back into recovery.
The ok button should be the power button right? This is a bit different from my old SGS

i would try pulling the battery and attempting to boot into download

yea, try & get into download mode... power off>vol dn+power until download mode is on the screen. then use ODIN/HEIMDALL to flash a stock tar file.

I should have mentioned that I did remove the battery and leave it out for a few minutes several times. It just kept booting back into recovery. I did eventually find the jig I made which was able to force it into download mode. But heimdall just keeps giving me this "ERROR: Claiming interface failed!" message even though it can detect the phone.

So no one has any idea what to do about this?

Did you try odin? If that fails put a rom(.zip) in sd card and flash from revovery.
Edit: if you are goin to switch from heimdall to odin you have to unistall heimdalls drivers. There are instructions on how to do this in heimdalls readme file.

javi_emma said:
Did you try odin? If that fails put a rom(.zip) in sd card and flash from revovery.
Edit: if you are goin to switch from heimdall to odin you have to unistall heimdalls drivers. There are instructions on how to do this in heimdalls readme file.
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No, I didn't try Odin because I'm using OS X. I guess I'm going to have to make a windows boot partition. sigh
Well I guess I'll try to flash a rom from recovery first.

Well this is odd. It won't let me write anything to the sd card I normally use in it. It says it's read only. But uh....it always copied things fine if it was IN either this phone or my SGS II International when I tried to copy things.
I should just be able to put the rom on any micro SD card right? I have another 4 GB laying around here I can use if so.

Correct any sd should work!
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And once again I highlight "apply update from sdcard" and hit the power button...just reboots into recovery mode for the millionth time without doing anything.

Gradius said:
And once again I highlight "apply update from sdcard" and hit the power button...just reboots into recovery mode for the millionth time without doing anything.
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You may have to go the route of installing Odin and flashing a full stock tar that includes ROM, kernel, and modem so it overwrites everything in that one flash. I don't think it is something you can do by flashing in a recovery
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Gradius said:
And once again I highlight "apply update from sdcard" and hit the power button...just reboots into recovery mode for the millionth time without doing anything.
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You have the stock recovery. That why. U can't flash an unsigned from from there. You are gonna have to Odin something. Either a full tar or maybe a kernel with cwm to flash something.
Sent from my Nexus S 4G using xda premium

Well anyone want to recommend/link me a tar? I'm making a windows partition right now so I can run Odin.
And yeah I figured it was because I put it back to stock that it wasn't working. But if it's back on stock why am I still getting the white triangle with the orange exclamation?

In fact if it's back to stock the past couple months and been working fine then why did it decide to screw up when I tried to install the OS update?

Gradius said:
In fact if it's back to stock the past couple months and been working fine then why did it decide to screw up when I tried to install the OS update?
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The OTA updates are not always perfect. It is possible that there was something lingering from before. Let me try to find a link to a one click stock restore for you ...
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Here is sfhub's EL29 full stock Gingerbread restore ...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1433101
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Haha, double post, haha
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Tried to install CWM via app, now no ODIN

Hello,
I had my phone rooted and on the last stock ICS ROM. I wanted to install CWM so I downloaded the app from the Play store and hit the install recovery button. I chose the Epic 4g as it was the closest device to mine. Now when I go into recovery I get a strange looking recover multi CSC version? Very few choices and whenever I try to flash a zip they always fail authentication. PC Odin does not recognize the phone. What can I do to either get ODIN back or the real CWM? Thanks.

piedra92 said:
Hello,
I had my phone rooted and on the last stock ICS ROM. I wanted to install CWM so I downloaded the app from the Play store and hit the install recovery button. I chose the Epic 4g as it was the closest device to mine. Now when I go into recovery I get a strange looking recover multi CSC version? Very few choices and whenever I try to flash a zip they always fail authentication. PC Odin does not recognize the phone. What can I do to either get ODIN back or the real CWM? Thanks.
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Clockwork Mod Touch recovery bricks this phone. Sounds like a hard brick...

piedra92 said:
Hello,
I had my phone rooted and on the last stock ICS ROM. I wanted to install CWM so I downloaded the app from the Play store and hit the install recovery button. I chose the Epic 4g as it was the closest device to mine. Now when I go into recovery I get a strange looking recover multi CSC version? Very few choices and whenever I try to flash a zip they always fail authentication. PC Odin does not recognize the phone. What can I do to either get ODIN back or the real CWM? Thanks.
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If you can go into whatever that recovery is try this... http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1865102
I don't see any other option.
Whats up with so many new bricks?? Why don't you all read and ask before doing stupid things? There are NO apps that install ANYTHING like that to our phone.

BluesRulez said:
If you can go into whatever that recovery is try this... http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1865102
I don't see any other option.
Whats up with so many new bricks?? Why don't you all read and ask before doing stupid things? There are NO apps that install ANYTHING like that to our phone.
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OP, can you post more details as to how you got that recovery?
This is good information for others to avoid having problems, honestly.
(And if CWM site is saying that it works someone should kindly inform them that it does not.)

Mac of York said:
Clockwork Mod Touch recovery bricks this phone. Sounds like a hard brick...
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The funny thing is I can use the phone. It works fine except that since the TAR file of FK09 did not install the modem I have no 3g but do have 4G and WIFI. If I am able to root the phone I should be able to use Mobile Odin again to install the modem file. We shall see.

piedra92 said:
The funny thing is I can use the phone. It works fine except that since the TAR file of FK09 did not install the modem I have no 3g but do have 4G and WIFI. If I am able to root the phone I should be able to use Mobile Odin again to install the modem file. We shall see.
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Only 2 ways to flash a modem are CWM and PC Odin.
If you're already on FK09 try flashing the Rooted nodata version and see if that gets you back where you need to be.
You'll lose CWM but that may not be for too long.
You can always flash one of Agat's CWM repacks for ICS, backup/restore and then flash back the stock FK09 kernel via Odin for now.

picture of recovery screen
I have attached a picture of what the recovery screen looks like on my E4GT. It doesn't matter if I try to update from external sdcard or through ADB Sideload command, everything fails signature verification. Thanks for all of the help so far.

piedra92 said:
I have attached a picture of what the recovery screen looks like on my E4GT. It doesn't matter if I try to update from external sdcard or through ADB Sideload command, everything fails signature verification. Thanks for all of the help so far.
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That is stock recovery. I am not sure if flashing the ota update zip would work or not.
What os version were you on before this happened?
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BluesRulez said:
That is stock recovery. I am not sure if flashing the ota update zip would work or not.
What os version were you on before this happened?
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ICS 4.0.4 (FI27?) the stock rooted OTA. I had root so I ended up using Mobile ODIN to flash the KJ09 tar file but it didn't bring the modem so I have no 3g.
I saw something about version 2e not having the signature check. I need to find a properly signed modem.bin or how to downgrade my phone to 2e.

Sorry this seems to be really obvious question, but Did you try flashing a kernel/recovery through mobile Odin?
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Unfortunately since I no longer have root I can't use it. Does anyone know if the standard recovery can be downgraded to 2e?
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piedra92 said:
Unfortunately since I no longer have root I can't use it. Does anyone know if the standard recovery can be downgraded to 2e?
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Flashing a one click restore pkg will correct the recovery... which honestly looks like the FJ10 JB engineering build.
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garwynn said:
Flashing a one click restore pkg will correct the recovery... which honestly looks like the FJ10 JB engineering build.
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ODIN will not see the phone when it is in the standard recovery screen. I can ADB to it but 3e has signature verification and none of the files I have downloaded have proper signatures so they all fail.

piedra92 said:
ODIN will not see the phone when it is in the standard recovery screen. I can ADB to it but 3e has signature verification and none of the files I have downloaded have proper signatures so they all fail.
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You have to be in Odin mode not recovery

bigdaddy619 said:
You have to be in Odin mode not recovery
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I appreciate everyone's attempts at helping me so I will lay out where my phone is at this momen:
ODIN recovery no longer exists on my phone. When I hold down vol down+power the phone boots up normally - NO ODIN
The recovery that does come up is the Android Standard Recovery 3e which has signature validation turned on - this makes all of the files fail since they are not properly signed.
I am trying to find a way to downgrade the Standard recovery to 2e (no signature verification) or see if signature verification can be turned off in 3e.
I am hoping that getting any of the official Sprint update files might help as those should be signed.
Thanks in advance to all.

piedra92 said:
I appreciate everyone's attempts at helping me so I will lay out where my phone is at this momen:
ODIN recovery no longer exists on my phone. When I hold down vol down+power the phone boots up normally - NO ODIN
The recovery that does come up is the Android Standard Recovery 3e which has signature validation turned on - this makes all of the files fail since they are not properly signed.
I am trying to find a way to downgrade the Standard recovery to 2e (no signature verification) or see if signature verification can be turned off in 3e.
I am hoping that getting any of the official Sprint update files might help as those should be signed.
Thanks in advance to all.
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Thanks for the update.
1) Any luck with a USB jig?
2) Any luck trying 'reboot download' from ADB and seeing if that will get you to ODIN?
If memory serves.. and you're really stuck on recovery as the only option you're going to need to find a way to dump an update.zip onto the phone to get anything to flash. And here's the tricky part - I think it needs to be in a certain location. There are custom .ZIPs that have signatures on them - crawj might even be able to help with that.
If we can't get you to Odin then let's figure out how you can use the recovery to do that... recover. But let's hope we can find you a way to get into Odin one way or another.

piedra92 said:
I appreciate everyone's attempts at helping me so I will lay out where my phone is at this momen:
ODIN recovery no longer exists on my phone. When I hold down vol down+power the phone boots up normally - NO ODIN
The recovery that does come up is the Android Standard Recovery 3e which has signature validation turned on - this makes all of the files fail since they are not properly signed.
I am trying to find a way to downgrade the Standard recovery to 2e (no signature verification) or see if signature verification can be turned off in 3e.
I am hoping that getting any of the official Sprint update files might help as those should be signed.
Thanks in advance to all.
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I think qbking77 has a video on how to update with a link that only work with stock recovery
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garwynn said:
Thanks for the update.
1) Any luck with a USB jig?
2) Any luck trying 'reboot download' from ADB and seeing if that will get you to ODIN?
If memory serves.. and you're really stuck on recovery as the only option you're going to need to find a way to dump an update.zip onto the phone to get anything to flash. And here's the tricky part - I think it needs to be in a certain location. There are custom .ZIPs that have signatures on them - crawj might even be able to help with that.
If we can't get you to Odin then let's figure out how you can use the recovery to do that... recover. But let's hope we can find you a way to get into Odin one way or another.
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1. I don't know what the USB jig is, where can i find info on that?
2. I have tried that from ADB and it simply reboots the phone into the OS. Seems there is no ODIN to be found on the phone.
Where would I find signed Zip files to try to restore to FI27? Thanks.

piedra92 said:
1. I don't know what the USB jig is, where can i find info on that?
2. I have tried that from ADB and it simply reboots the phone into the OS. Seems there is no ODIN to be found on the phone.
Where would I find signed Zip files to try to restore to FI27? Thanks.
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Wait... You can get into the system?
Then why not download the Mobile Odin Lite (free here on XDA), flash Agat's 0.6.0 repack and then crawj's FI27 rooted .ZIP through Agat's recovery?
That should not only fix the Odin problem but everything else!

garwynn said:
Wait... You can get into the system?
Then why not download the Mobile Odin Lite (free here on XDA), flash Agat's 0.6.0 repack and then crawj's FI27 rooted .ZIP through Agat's recovery?
That should not only fix the Odin problem but everything else!
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Tried that, Mobile Odin won't work because I don't have root.

(Tmobile) Galaxy S2 won't boot up & Nothing works in recovery.

Hey, Guys I had the CM10 Jelly Bean rom downloaded from Rom Manager (I know I shouldnt have used Rom Manager but too late). The rom was giving me problems of low call volume and mic, Losing signal and some other stuff so someone suggested me to use Dark Side Super Wipe and reinstall the rom. I did and Now the phone won't boot up it stays on the CM screen and the Nothing works in the recovery. I tried back and restore doesnt work, Tried installing super wipe again doesnt work. Reseting phone to factory doesnt work. So basically im stuck. I did my search couldnt find anything similar to my problem so I decided to post here. Next step I was going to take is put it on download mode and flash stock rom with ODIN but before I do that I wana get advice from you experts.
I made a short video describing the problem so please take a look to get a better idea of what im talking about. Unfortunately forums wont let me post the links because i have less than 10 posts so please type the title on youtube with my username
Title: Galaxy S2 wont boot up and nothing works in recovery
username: Lshmeet
I will edit and post the link when I have 10 posts to save the hassle.

Dark side wipe broke your recovery. Try installing a new one with Odin.

meekrawb said:
Dark side wipe broke your recovery. Try installing a new one with Odin.
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Any CM recovery with Odin?

ishmeet10 said:
Any CM recovery with Odin?
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Yes, but you will need the .tar version to use with Odin.
Edit: Make sure it is for the T989 Hercules.

meekrawb said:
Yes, but you will need the .tar version to use with Odin.
Edit: Make sure it is for the T989 Hercules.
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Yes i just flashed the recovery-cmw-hercules.tar with Odin and went into recovery but I still see these errors in recovery.
E:Can't open /cache/recovery/log
E:Cant open /cache/recovery/log
E:Cant open /cache/recovery/last_log
E:Can't open /cache/recovery/last_log

I haven't used cwm for awhile so I'm not sure what those errors mean. The next step is probably Odin to stock, unless anyone else has any ideas.

meekrawb said:
I haven't used cwm for awhile so I'm not sure what those errors mean. The next step is probably Odin to stock, unless anyone else has any ideas.
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oh man, I got work in the morning and now im stuck with a non working phone How can I put it back to stock thru odin?

Try this:
http://galaxys2root.com/t-mobile-ga...-to-ics-stock-on-t-mobile-galaxy-s2-sgh-t989/
Be super careful and good luck!

Happened to me. Not sure why but the recovery got corrupted for whatever reason. What you need to do is reflash the recovery using ODIN, use the cwm image from the rooting guide.

Thankyou guys I fixed it. Reflashed recovery thru odin and reflashed stock rom. Still get the error in recovery but no issues so far..

For future reference when use the super wipe it wipes everything including your system partition
So basically there was no ROM installed on your phone
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Search up twrp odin recovery for sgh-t989
I suggest using this instead of cwm recovery like all the others said. Twrp doesnt have the errors that cwm does twrp is the better recovery

[Q] NOT ROOTED Can't Factory Restore

Hey everyone,
Was hoping I could get some help on this.
So I never rooted my T-Mobile Galaxy S3, it's totally stock, but I'm about to sell it and I went to do the factory reset in the settings and when it finally rebooted it rebooted into recovery... So then I went to wipe data/factory reset and it started the process but after the cache and data wipe then I get:
E:failed to mount /cache (Invalid Argument)
E: Can't mount /cache/recovery/log
E:Can't open /cache/recovery/log
E:failed to mount /cache (invalid argument
E: can't mount /cache/recovery/last_log
E: can't open /cache/recovery/last_log
(i just typed that quickly while staring at the screen so please excuse any typos)
Now if I reboot it just never seems to finish booting (well I let it go for a solid 5 minutes and nothing...
I'm gonna bring it to work today while I wait for some responses but any ideas whats wrong with this thing?
Thank you!

hmm. If you can get into download moade, you could try flashing the official firmware through Odin and see if you could factory wipe in the stock recovery.
If that doesn't work, you could also try flashing a pre-rooted firmware with clockworks mod recovery and try wiping from there, then flash back official firmware through Odin.
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ayeitschris said:
hmm. If you can get into download moade, you could try flashing the official firmware through Odin and see if you could factory wipe in the stock recovery.
If that doesn't work, you could also try flashing a pre-rooted firmware with clockworks mod recovery and try wiping from there, then flash back official firmware through Odin.
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thanks i will try that. i've never actually used odin before, but looks like i CAN get into download mode, so hopefully i'm not totally screwed... only problem is i downloaded the wrong file and it says i have to wait 30 minutes to download another file haha. bah.

polarbearmc said:
thanks i will try that. i've never actually used odin before, but looks like i CAN get into download mode, so hopefully i'm not totally screwed... only problem is i downloaded the wrong file and it says i have to wait 30 minutes to download another file haha. bah.
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Two Things
1. Make sure you grab the UVDMD5 file from Sammobile and then ODIN version 3.07. There's a nice tutorial on the Root 66 thread.
2. If you are selling, reset your flash counter with Triangle Away.
3. Do note the latest version of TWRP is unstable. If you are using TWRP then put at least 2.5 version. Given you are flashing via ODIN, its a moot anyway.

Perseus71 said:
Two Things
1. Make sure you grab the UVDMD5 file from Sammobile and then ODIN version 3.07. There's a nice tutorial on the Root 66 thread.
2. If you are selling, reset your flash counter with Triangle Away.
3. Do note the latest version of TWRP is unstable. If you are using TWRP then put at least 2.5 version. Given you are flashing via ODIN, its a moot anyway.
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thanks for the info! i've got 37 seconds to go then i can download UVDMD5 haha so i'll report back later if it works.
also since i'm not (and have never been) rooted, I can't use Triangle Away, can I? i thought it was a root only app.

Yes its Root Only app. But then when you use Root66 image for UVDMD5, your phone will be rooted.

Perseus71 said:
Yes its Root Only app. But then when you use Root66 image for UVDMD5, your phone will be rooted.
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SOOOO...
Here's the story... I wasn't totally honest about just downloading the wrong file, I felt dumb and left out that I also flashed with Odin the "wrong file" (The Kernel file only from the T999UVDMD5 firmware download page) and it was just stuck in a permanent booting at the Samsung screen... So Anyway while waiting on the full firmware file to download, I went through recovery and wiped one more time (post flashing the kernel) and voila! Booted right up to the setup screen! So anyway pointing me in the direction of using Odin definitely worked, so again, thank you.

couple of things real quick. please dont leave info out. people who are trying to help are using their own time to do so, and it just mskes it harder in them.
and in the future, just downliad firmware from my firmware thread. i made it so you dont have to wait on such slow downloads.
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DocHoliday77 said:
couple of things real quick. please dont leave info out. people who are trying to help are using their own time to do so, and it just mskes it harder in them.
and in the future, just downliad firmware from my firmware thread. i made it so you dont have to wait on such slow downloads.
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no problem. although i hadn't left anything out at first, just before my final message. also i'm terrible at searching XDA. i seriously searched for a solid 15 minutes (without finding your post) before deciding to post my message haha. sorry.