Hey all,
I am flashing a new ROM in CWM 5.0.2.7. When I tried to do a standard nandroid backup, CWM says: "Error while making a backup image of /system!"
I tried to fix permissions, which didn't work. There is 900mb free on SD.
What can I do to fix this? Flash a new CWM?
Thanks in advance!
That might work try this recovery its acs recovery5 just flsh this and reboot your recovery.
http://db.tt/n15N2E9q
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Thank you for the reply. Unfortunately ACS recovery does the same thing. It says "backing up system", the progress bar finishes, and I get the error.
Any other suggestions?
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You don't have enough space. Backups are over a 1 GB in space. Delete some old backups.
There not that big but cwm requires more than a gig of memory to preform it at least my backups are only like 700mbs total....if I remember correctly you need a minmum of 1 gig or more idk. If you need some space open the LOST.DIR folder and delete any of those #'d files like 820 2903 923 etc etc they are usless if you have any tha is.
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Biggoron said:
There not that big but cwm requires more than a gig of memory to preform it at least my backups are only like 700mbs total....if I remember correctly you need a minmum of 1 gig or more idk. If you need some space open the LOST.DIR folder and delete any of those #'d files like 820 2903 923 etc etc they are usless if you have any tha is.
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I must have a lot more apps than you, mine adds up to just under 1GB.
kennyglass123 said:
I must have a lot more apps than you, mine adds up to just under 1GB.
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Wow... hey go check the battery issue q&a post I asked you a ? And don't feel like reposting it plz
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This time I freed up 2gb and the same error came up. Never had a CWM issue before... Any other options?
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ashamir said:
This time I freed up 2gb and the same error came up. Never had a CWM issue before... Any other options?
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Reroot? Odin back to stock and reroot? Only other thing I can think of or odin in the recovery again?
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Just try reflashing CWM 5.0.2.7. If you continue to get the error, backup your sd card and reformat then restore everything.
Try wiping cache/dalvik and then install it twice. See what happens. If that doesn't work, just do what kenny suggests.
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Try wiping cache/dalvik and then install it twice. See what happens. If that doesn't work, just do what kenny suggests.
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Tried this as well. No go.
I haven't used ODIN in ages - I just enable usb debugging, plug in the phone, and run ODIN on pc right? What boxes do I check or leave unchecked in ODIN?
Also, has there been an EI22 odin file released?
Thank you for all your help xda
ashamir said:
Tried this as well. No go.
I haven't used ODIN in ages - I just enable usb debugging, plug in the phone, and run ODIN on pc right? What boxes do I check or leave unchecked in ODIN?
Also, has there been an EI22 odin file released?
Thank you for all your help xda
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No stock ei22 tar as of yet so ec05 is your point just odin back to it place the pit file in and check pda and place the ec05 tar there and have auto reboot checked only. Hit start and wait for it about 2-3 minutes usually if it hangs on one for like 5 mins its not going to go through...
If you need help here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ2g6J1JgjU&feature=youtube_gdata_player
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ashamir said:
Tried this as well. No go.
I haven't used ODIN in ages - I just enable usb debugging, plug in the phone, and run ODIN on pc right? What boxes do I check or leave unchecked in ODIN?
Also, has there been an EI22 odin file released?
Thank you for all your help xda
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No, you need to be in download mode. Phone off, hold the 1 key on keyboard then add pressing and holding the power button and it should go into download mode. Then you should be able to connect to computer with Odin running.
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if you still get errors...odin again and check mark "reboot" and "repartition", then go for it.
let me know if you find solution....I have same issue
edit.... found solution, boot into CWR to make backup.....dont use rom manager. hope you didnt go all the way back to ec05 lol.
CWM/ACSRecovery Error Message
OK Guys, I'm really really stumped on this one and I hope someone can help out.
I'm running the latest SleeperROM on MTD/YAFFS2 and the TW.MTD SEPPUKU kernel. I was getting an error in CWM 5 that wouldn't let me make nandroid backups at all. I'd go to start backing up and this would appear:
SD Card space free: 7444MB
Backing up boot image...
Backing up recovery image...
Backing up system...
Can't mount /system!
E:Can't mount /cache/recovery/log
E:Can't open /cache/recovery/log
E:Can't mount /cache/recovery/last_log
E:Can't open /cache/recovery/last_log
I have no clue what's going on, so any help would be very much appreciated!
CWM should be able to mount system. That is your phone memory not your sd card. Try reflashing CWM 5.0.2.7.
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Reflash = no go
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CWM should be able to mount system. That is your phone memory not your sd card. Try reflashing CWM 5.0.2.7.
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I just reflashed CWM 5.0.2.7 and tried a backup. No dice, I'm afraid. Still getting the same exact error message.
Update: I went to the Mounts and Storage menu and tried a "mount /system"
It came back with "Error mounting /system!"
I'm gonna have to ODIN back to stock and re-do everything, aren't I?
Yes it sounds like it. I would also check repartition and use the PIT file.
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When I'm using RA_GNM recovery instead of CWM and reboot into recovery, how do I scroll down past the last file. I can only access whats shown on the page and I know that I put the .zip file on there cause they aare there when I switch back to CWM. Thanks
Great now I dont know what to do. I partitioned my sd card and now I can't get to my nand restore.
I don't know why I did this please help.
I found the recovery img on my sd card when I put it in the PC but not sure how to get it back on my phone now.ARGHHHHH
You can go in Rom manager and at the top of the main page it says flash clockwork mod recovery tap it and let it load and there you go..... about the file you downloaded are you looking in the download folder?
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no im looking on the root. I editted my op
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When I'm using RA_GNM recovery instead of CWM and reboot into recovery, how do I scroll down past the last file. I can only access whats shown on the page and I know that I put the .zip file on there cause they aare there when I switch back to CWM. Thanks
Great now I dont know what to do. I partitioned my sd card and now I can't get to my nand restore.
I don't know why I did this please help.
I found the recovery img on my sd card when I put it in the PC but not sure how to get it back on my phone now.ARGHHHHH
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What errors are you getting?
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E:Couldn't open directory /sdcard/nandroid
This is RA-inc-v1.8.1
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E:Couldn't open directory /sdcard/nandroid
This is RA-inc-v1.8.1
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I'm afraid you may have to flash back to stock, unroot, reroot, and format your SD card..... try doing a full wipe and let me know if you get errors like.....E:can't mount Dev block..... on system mounting system or data.. let me know ill be waiting
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I'm afraid you may have to flash back to stock, unroot, reroot, and format your SD card..... try doing a full wipe and let me know if you get errors like.....E:can't mount Dev block..... on system mounting system or data.. let me know ill be waiting
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Thanks but I'll be a while
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Thanks but I'll be a while
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Send me a pm when your ready
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Hello all,
I have been trying to resolve this issue since I rooted and installed CWM on my Epic 4g Touch. I've searched through all the other threads but see to have a copletely new issue with recovery. When I try backing up my existing rom, the back up gives me this error message "Error while backing up boot image/tmp/recovery.log was copied to /sdcard/clockworkmod/recovery.log Please open rom manager to report the issue"
What am I doing wrong?
Thanks for your help.
Don't use ROM manager.
Install CWM using the Auto Root sticky.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1342728
thanks!
ok so do I use Rom Manager for anything or can I uninstall?
Stryke_the_Orc said:
ok so do I use Rom Manager for anything or can I uninstall?
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I would just uninstall. There are simple equivalents for what you need done that have been tested extensively with this phone.
Still won't let me backup
I did the CWM through autoroot, now when in recovery mode and trying to perform a backup I get "Error backing up boot image! (Free space: 0mb)"
I reinstalled the Rogue Recovery from autoroot and tried again, but recieved the same error message...
Any idea what's going on here?
Stryke_the_Orc said:
I did the CWM through autoroot, now when in recovery mode and trying to perform a backup I get "Error backing up boot image! (Free space: 0mb)"
I reinstalled the Rogue Recovery from autoroot and tried again, but recieved the same error message...
Any idea what's going on here?
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Do you have a sd card in and if not look at settings and choose internal
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Do you have a sd card in and if not look at settings and choose internal
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Yeah i have an external sd card, how do i select the internal card?
Go into mounts and storage and unmount the sd and it will use the internal...you may have to do this every time...is your external broken or full ?
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Sweet!
Turns out I had to re-format my external sd card, worked perfectly! Thanks a ton!
OK, when I do a three finger recovery, I now am getting this.
E: Can't mount /cache/recovery/command
E: Can't mount /cache/recovery/log
E: Can't open /cache/recovery/log
E: Can't mount /cache/recovery/last_log
E: Can't open /cache/recovery/last_log
I am on the People's Rom....not CM9 or ICS ...but am encountering similar issues as in this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=26989331
any help would be appreciated!
Need to Odin and back up your sd card and format that too.
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edit: KG got it in while i was typing
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Need to Odin and back up your sd card and format that too.
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Thanks kenny...you saying odin back to your fc09 rom (stock prerooted one). Backup sd card..reformat it...then reinstall TPR? Right ?
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Odin the FC09 tar, include the PIT file which will automatically check the repartition box. Then odin cwm5 with autoreboot unchecked. When completed unplug cord, pop battery out and in, 3 finger to cwm5 and flash MTD TPR 2.2.
Also back up your sd card, reformat on PC and restore it.
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kennyglass123 said:
Odin the FC09 tar, include the PIT file which will automatically check the repartition box. Then odin cwm5 with autoreboot unchecked. When completed unplug cord, pop battery out and in, 3 finger to cwm5 and flash MTD TPR 2.2.
Also back up your sd card, reformat on PC and restore it.
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Ok...how many times have you, flastnoles, or others said this I can't remember...but using the search xda on phone really is limited and hard to find stuff...thanks again...ps
Don't forget me for any future rom testing!
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Can't restore, can't boot
kennyglass123 said:
Odin the FC09 tar, include the PIT file which will automatically check the repartition box. Then odin cwm5 with autoreboot unchecked. When completed unplug cord, pop battery out and in, 3 finger to cwm5 and flash MTD TPR 2.2.
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My noobishness knows no bounds. I am new to flashing, just talked myself into rooting and flashing my Epig 4G. Everything worked perfectly (kennyglass123 thanks for your work!), got to CM9beta4, but I realized some of my data was missing. So, I tried to restore my NANDROID image containing the rooted FC09 via the CWM restore menu, but I started out with the same error lines that started this thread, and I cannot restore any of the backups, it says:
E:format_volume: format_rfs_device failed on /dev/block/st19
Error while formatting /system!
I was hoping the process you mentioned might fix something, however the only thing for which I used Odin was to put CWM 5.0.2.7 on it, then I used the recovery menu to install the pre-rooted FC09. I have no idea how to do what you just said, not do I know what a PIT file is. Please guide me!
Side note, I have seen people talking about the filenames having wrong information...my backup filenames show a time 4 hours before the actual time of the backup, but I haven't seen anyone be able to tell me if changing it does anything?
korollyn9776 said:
My noobishness knows no bounds. I am new to flashing, just talked myself into rooting and flashing my Epig 4G. Everything worked perfectly (kennyglass123 thanks for your work!), got to CM9beta4, but I realized some of my data was missing. So, I tried to restore my NANDROID image containing the rooted FC09 via the CWM restore menu, but I started out with the same error lines that started this thread, and I cannot restore any of the backups, it says:
E:format_volume: format_rfs_device failed on /dev/block/st19
Error while formatting /system!
I was hoping the process you mentioned might fix something, however the only thing for which I used Odin was to put CWM 5.0.2.7 on it, then I used the recovery menu to install the pre-rooted FC09. I have no idea how to do what you just said, not do I know what a PIT file is. Please guide me!
Side note, I have seen people talking about the filenames having wrong information...my backup filenames show a time 4 hours before the actual time of the backup, but I haven't seen anyone be able to tell me if changing it does anything?
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When you flashed CM9 it changed your partition table and file system. Plus TW backups (FC09) from cwm are incompatible with CM9. Reflash CM9 to rwstore your recovery and do not use ROM manager without setting it up manually to use the MTD CWM that comes with CM9 and do not change your recovery...it is built into the operating system
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It worked!! Kenny, you are brilliant, thank you so much (thanks button clicked!) I have everything back to the way I had it, and I learned stuff too.
Many many thanks again!
kennyglass123 said:
Odin the FC09 tar, include the PIT file which will automatically check the repartition box. Then odin cwm5 with autoreboot unchecked. When completed unplug cord, pop battery out and in, 3 finger to cwm5 and flash MTD TPR 2.2.
Also back up your sd card, reformat on PC and restore it.
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Kenny,
Gonna do it today, will keep you posted...peace out...any update on the court action (APPLE vs Sammy) today?
Edit: Done successfully...on to Titu-Backu to restore apps! thanks again
facing same froblem
kennyglass123 said:
Odin the FC09 tar, include the PIT file which will automatically check the repartition box. Then odin cwm5 with autoreboot unchecked. When completed unplug cord, pop battery out and in, 3 finger to cwm5 and flash MTD TPR 2.2.
Also back up your sd card, reformat on PC and restore it.
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Hi Kenny
I am facing same problem, I didn't undersatnd ypur reply,
please expalain it
Thank You
panku_etc said:
Hi Kenny
I am facing same problem, I didn't undersatnd ypur reply,
please expalain it
Thank You
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Check my thread in the stickies of General subforum. It has links to qbking77 video as well.
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CWM 5.0.2.7 recovery not working
Hi friends
I have instlled ICS CM9 works well, but I tried to restore original ROM from Backup and Restore, but it not work and mobile is also not working
shows following messages on screen
CWM-based Recovery v5.0.2.7
E: Can't mount /cache/recovery/command
E: Can't mount /cache/recovery/log
E: Can't open /cache/recovery/log
E: Can't mount /cache/recovery/last_log
E: Can't open /cache/recovery/last_log
Please Help, my mobile not working
Thank You
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Check my thread in the stickies of General subforum. It has links to qbking77 video as well.
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Please provide like if possible, I can't find your thead
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=34469629
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hi
kennyglass123 said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=34469629
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Hi Kenny
I flash stockROM using ODIN, but not working
My phone ON in only Recovery and Downloading Mode and does not turn ON.
Please help me
Thank You
Hold 1 + power to enter download mode. If that doesn't work, you might be SOL.
http://www.killthecan.org
hi
frostedunit said:
Hold 1 + power to enter download mode. If that doesn't work, you might be SOL.
http://www.killthecan.org
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hi
Its work in download mode, I flash stock also but not working
Thank You
problem solved
panku_etc said:
Hi friends
I have instlled ICS CM9 works well, but I tried to restore original ROM from Backup and Restore, but it not work and mobile is also not working
shows following messages on screen
CWM-based Recovery v5.0.2.7
E: Can't mount /cache/recovery/command
E: Can't mount /cache/recovery/log
E: Can't open /cache/recovery/log
E: Can't mount /cache/recovery/last_log
E: Can't open /cache/recovery/last_log
Please Help, my mobile not working
Thank You
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Hi friends
I solve my problem of CWM error given already
Use folllowing link. it is helpfull to you definitly
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1052813&nocache=1
Thankx
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I've been rooted since April and have been running CM10 since September, and suddenly my SD Card reader stops working. I unrooted myself by doing the ODIN back to stock method. The SD Card reader worked while I was unrooted, and when I tried rooting my phone, well it was really weird. In odin, the PDA file ended in tar instead of md5, which I wasn't sure if it would affect it or not. My phone installed CWM 5.0.2.7, but I couldn't install the deodexed prerooted rom. And according to root checker I'm not properly rooted. When I try installing any rom at all I get "E:/Can't install from /sdcard/(insert rom file here)...Installation aborted" Now what?
Ok I'm only bumping this because nobody replied. I really need some help please!
Re Odin CWM, with Auto-Reboot unchecked. Pull battery, boot into recovery, flash your ROM of choice.
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Re Odin CWM, with Auto-Reboot unchecked. Pull battery, boot into recovery, flash your ROM of choice.
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Should the file be called "cwm-5.0.2.7-epic4g" or "cwm-5.0.2.7-epic4g.tar"? Because the video shows it end in tar, but my file doesn't. When I rename it, it's still a zip file.
Never mind, I figured it doesn't need to end in .tar because Odin adds it anyway. I still got the same error! This is what I did (my drivers are already installed):
1. Downloaded the ROM to my computer, transferred it to my phone
2. I turned off mass storage and turned off my phone
3. I put the CWM file in a separate folder, as well as the two Odin files
4. Opened Odin as Administrator
5. Unchecked auto reboot, as well as made sure everything was unchecked
6. Set the CWM PDA file
7. Connected my phone to the computer
8. Put my phone in Download Mode
9. When my phone appeared, I pressed start
10. It was successful, so I removed the battery and put it back in
11. CWM started successfully, I cleared my caches for good measure
12. When I installed the zip from SD Card, this is exactly what I get (I will convert to MTD later):
-- Installing: /sdcard/Deodexed-FC09-BML.zip
Finding update package...
Opening update package... (Here it freezes, as well as the progress bar, for up to at most 20 seconds)
E:Can't open /sdcard/Deodexed-FC09-BML.zip
(bad)
Installation aborted.
Help me, what should I do?
Sounds like a bad download. Try to download or try The Peoples ROM from the development section.
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Sounds like a bad download. Try to download or try The Peoples ROM from the development section.
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That's what I thought, but every ROM I try to install gives me this problem
Have you tried to reformat your sd card? Can be done from the phone or your pc.
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Hey man, it seems to me that your phone is already on MTD, since you say you were running CM10, and yet you are trying to push BML files through with Odin and flash them in CWM.
I would install CM10 again (by flashing the zip in CWM) and if that doesn't work then I would Odin back to FC09 and check 'repartition' in Odin while doing so.
I know you wrote that you had Odin'd back to stock already, but if you didn't repartition back to BML when doing so then that's probly what's wrong.
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I did repartition to BML, but thanks anyway, turns out I did need to reformat my SD Card. Everything worked fine after that. Thanks for the help!
di14 said:
I did repartition to BML, but thanks anyway, turns out I did need to reformat my SD Card. Everything worked fine after that. Thanks for the help!
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Glad to see you got it working.
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di14 said:
I did repartition to BML, but thanks anyway, turns out I did need to reformat my SD Card. Everything worked fine after that. Thanks for the help!
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Lol. Leave it to me to type three paragraphs instead of just asking "did you repartition?"
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ok i tried to odin to gb27 stock restore to get everything back to normal, after odin was done , it was doing a factory reset and it failed, it said something like "error can not mount e:\cache no such file or directory (block device required?)" and it won't boot, though i can still go to stock recovery and download mode, did i get a bad one click or somthing? and also does anyone have a mirror to one because the servers are going very slow on the site.
Try another kernel in odin
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so just odin jb kernel? ill try that
:crying:not even other one clicks will work, still when doing the factory reset part, it still says that it cant mount or read anything
did i do something wrong or am i screwed forever
Did you make a back up if you did go in to recovery and restore that back up and try a dif way to go back stock
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jason504 said:
Did you make a back up if you did go in to recovery and restore that back up and try a dif way to go back stock
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i think i have my twrp backup up but its no use as of right now
You already tried it
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You already tried it
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no, i can't, i dont have twrp anymore because of the one click
gamepro602 said:
ok i tried to odin to gb27 stock restore to get everything back to normal, after odin was done , it was doing a factory reset and it failed, it said something like "error can not mount e:\cache no such file or directory (block device required?)" and it won't boot, though i can still go to stock recovery and download mode, did i get a bad one click or somthing? and also does anyone have a mirror to one because the servers are going very slow on the site.
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Sunday my phone said "android system recovery 3e failed to mount" I can still odin with the computer and get into recovery but nothing on my flash card is readable and that is where all my roms are located. Sprint tech played with it for an hour said it was bricked and they couldn't do anything. Yesterday I realized hope because I could still flash odin it just wouldn't recognize my card. I kept getting the fallen over droid with red print saying not installed. I kept flashing all different one click's and even at one point wet my pant's because my phone now said on rebott Galaxy I9000 which when I did this before I was totally bricked.
I reformatted my sd card and odin one click from http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2191954
then my phone rebooted with stock gb27 then to make sure everyting was good I updated the software from Samsung's website and my phone has benn great since yesterday 3:00 pm. I'm hesitant from rooting agian since this would have been the 4th bricked E4GT and I've got until 12/13 before upgrade. Running stock has been good otherthan me being a tablet mode junkie.
In closing I think what did the best was reformatting my sd card, I'm not sure what happens when doing that but I did acces my card from my computer and take my important files off 32gb card before formating in case I lost items. Didn't end up loosing anythining but i'm a junkie not an expert.
@jtsv
can you tell me the steps you took to achieve this, you might be able to help me
the only thing i'm worried about is my twrp backup and my titanium backups on my internal sd card
gamepro602 said:
@jtsv
can you tell me the steps you took to achieve this, you might be able to help me
the only thing i'm worried about is my twrp backup and my titanium backups on my internal sd card
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Everything on my internal and external storage remained intact. I just vol down power button to get into download mode and odin form the link http://www.sxtpdevelopers.com/showthread.php?t=166.
It actually booted not for sure why this link was different than the others however it worked. After this installed and I set the phone up I then went to samsungs site and did the update from themevice(Install),Others (Software) (ver.OS Update GB27 (Jelly_Bean)).
It works fine now funny thing sprint tech's said to only update software through kies and it never worked for me.
Main question's everyone asked me was: What screen freezes, how far can you get it to boot, can you see your sd card, when it doid crashes trying to install what color is the print and what exactly does it say?