Hi all!
I am having this issue with my AT&T i927 and I hope you guys can bring some light to the matter.
I was using OsiMood 2.2.14 (which is great!), for about a week, when out of nowhere I got a message saying that the SD was removed or something similar. I was just charging the phone, I wasn't using the phone at all when I got the message.
So far I tried:
1. Tested 3 different SD cards, whith no lucky.
2. Tried to restore only sd-ext under CWM (advanced option), but it did not work.
3. Restored the original AT&T settings that were backed up with CWM and the problem persisted.
Is there any way to mound the ext-sd with CWM or any other way to make sure that it's not a hardware issue?
I read about a so called "usb brick" on other Android phones, but couldn't find anything specific to our model. This may be the case?
Thank you!
Change the volds. fstab file from mmc1 to mmc2. That will redirect the kernels path to the external SD. Problem solved
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Thank you for the reply, but how exactly am I suposed to do that?
Seemingly, you must edit this file located at /system/etc/vold.fstab on your phone, with a text editor or if you prefer a shell.
Right, I have got to the following line:
dev_mount sdcard1 /mnt/sdcard/external_sd auto /devices/platform/sdhci-tegra.2/mmc_host/mmc1/mmc1
Should I change it to the following?
dev_mount sdcard1 /mnt/sdcard/external_sd auto /devices/platform/sdhci-tegra.2/mmc_host/mmc2/mmc2
Another issue is that the file is read-only, how do I edit it? Also there is another identical file under /etc ... should I change the /system/etc one only?
Thanks!
/etc is a link to /system/etc, so this is exactly the same file.
You can edit it with a file manager like "ES File Explorer" which provides root access and write rights on mount.
Thank you. I've managed to change that line as in my previous post, but the issue persists.
By now, I've also flashed the original firmware with ODIN and also tried to flash the kernel only, but still no go.
Any other thoughts?
No ideas? Please guys, I haven't got my sd slot access back yet
Could someone please paste here the original vold.fstab so I can check if something is messed up there?
Thanks
After you flashed the firmware through odin, did you do the "Firmware Upgrade and Initialization" through kies, its under "tools"
(This will wipe your device)
After I did odin stock, I had problems untill I did this.
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Ok I will try that now as a last resort and I will post how it goes.
Well, maybe the real last resort would be the emergency recovery option, but it requires a code.
Fingers crossed...
Um, its been a while! How's it goin'?
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Thanks for the idea, but it didn't work. Still no SD card access.
Any other ideas? What about this emergency option on Kies, is it worth a try?
Any chances to be a hardware issue? like a sudden SD slot defect on the phone? There was no damage or falls or anything like that, for sure.
Well, now it's unrooted with stock recovery... take it to AT&T. They will test it and likely replace it right then. If they don't replace it they will mail you a replacement and you mail the defective one back.
We had to do this when my Dad's Atrix bricked from an ota from Motorola. (it was unmodified too, pure stock.)
Humm... I am afrraid it won't be possible as I livein Rio, and there's no ATT over here. I had to take the risks, as I need a physical keyboard (had a n900 before).
'There's samsung however, but my flash counter is not nil, and I am not sure that they would sort it here, as it's not sold here. To make things worse, I would need the purchase invoice from.US, not sure they sent me that.
Any thoughts are very welcome.
Humm... I am afrraid it won't be possible as I livein Rio, and there's no ATT over here. I had to take the risks, as I need a physical keyboard (had a n900 before).
'There's samsung however, but my flash counter is not nil, and I am not sure that they would sort it here, as it's not sold here. To make things worse, I would need the purchase invoice from.US, not sure they sent me that.
Any thoughts are very welcome.
Oh, that's a bummer. I really don't know, I'm sorry.
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Is there anyway for us to boot into fastboot mode? As I've found on google a way to restore sd brick, it's a fastboot command that you use on windows cmd, having the phone on the usb.
Any clues?
Had this happen to me the other day on my stock rom. Was fooling around in a game and got kicked back out to the home screen where it told me both the internal storage and the sd had been ejected. Took about an hour of turning the phone on and off, but I did manage to get it to work by booting with no sd card inserted, then inserting it after media scanner ran the first time.
Good luck hope this helps
Thank's for the advice men, I will try it and post the results here.
I tried what you said but id didn't work, so I put it back on stock using Odin and updated using Kies. So it was almost back to the original state (only the version was 2.3.5 rather than 2.3.6).
As I had tried everything, I was convinced it was a hardware issue, however, out of nowhere, it recognized the sd that was inside it.
I have no clue how I did it, so I could help other people. I only know that I have installed a animal sounds kids game, that had a counter and some ads and it apparently cleared the recent apps tab (if you hold the home key) and it was back to life then.
Anyone knows, what sort of command would clear the recent tab and in some way force the device to mount or unmount the ext sd?
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**Disclaimer so that this doesn't get deleted. I looked at all the posts and tried to search, couldn't find any answers and I made this thread HERE because I doubt anyone in "General" would know what I'm talking about. This is more of a development question.**
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Ok, I am actually having two problems.
1) Normally when I plug my phone in the computer and choose "disk drive" mode, a screen pops up on my PC titled "Removable Disk (J)" That's actually not the right one because right behind that screen I get another pop-up titled "Removable Disk (K)" and that's actually the one with the folders and everything that I'm supposed to use (the root of the sd card folder.) So I hit cancel on (J) and am on my way using (K).
Well over the weekend, on Friday, I rooted my phone using toast's way and then I went camping without doing ANYTHING else.
Then I come back last night, everything is working fine and I installed ROM Manager on there because I wanted to flash Pete's "BuglessBeast". Since my internet connection in my basement is super slow I decided to just leave it at that and work on it at work today. Well here I am.
Problem: Phone was not connecting to computer. It kept giving me errors and then asked me to Format my card. After about half hour of trying to get it to connect I said "fine.. I'll just format it and factory reset my phone and root all over again and do all this. Well now.. phone is only connecting to (J) drive. (K) never appears.
2) Also, after rooting and finding out that ROM Manager won't work for me I have to manually download the file, I tried to go into recovery mode and every time I selected "sd card: apply update.zip", I keep getting the same error saying "FILE NOT FOUND ON SD CARD".
Any help please?
Am I doing something wrong?
Is there a way to start over, all over again?
With the problem running (where you can see both disks), right click on "My Computer" and select "manage", then go to "Disk Management" and see if your SD card is partitioned or something. That's very unusual and should only present itself if your SD card is partitioned and it's seeing both partitions.
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**Disclaimer so that this doesn't get deleted. I looked at all the posts and tried to search, couldn't find any answers and I made this thread HERE because I doubt anyone in "General" would know what I'm talking about. This is more of a development question.**
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Ok, I am actually having two problems.
1) Normally when I plug my phone in the computer and choose "disk drive" mode, a screen pops up on my PC titled "Removable Disk (J)" That's actually not the right one because right behind that screen I get another pop-up titled "Removable Disk (K)" and that's actually the one with the folders and everything that I'm supposed to use (the root of the sd card folder.) So I hit cancel on (J) and am on my way using (K).
Well over the weekend, on Friday, I rooted my phone using toast's way and then I went camping without doing ANYTHING else.
Then I come back last night, everything is working fine and I installed ROM Manager on there because I wanted to flash Pete's "BuglessBeast". Since my internet connection in my basement is super slow I decided to just leave it at that and work on it at work today. Well here I am.
Problem: Phone was not connecting to computer. It kept giving me errors and then asked me to Format my card. After about half hour of trying to get it to connect I said "fine.. I'll just format it and factory reset my phone and root all over again and do all this. Well now.. phone is only connecting to (J) drive. (K) never appears.
2) Also, after rooting and finding out that ROM Manager won't work for me I have to manually download the file, I tried to go into recovery mode and every time I selected "sd card: apply update.zip", I keep getting the same error saying "FILE NOT FOUND ON SD CARD".
Any help please?
Am I doing something wrong?
Is there a way to start over, all over again?
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you probably built an ext container before (partitioned the card, using one of the recoveries). if you partition the card, they will come up as two disks when you plug the usb in. when you 'repaired' it, it formatted the whole thing into one block. by formatting, you've erased anything you had on it. you'll have to put the files you want back on the card.
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Any help please?
Am I doing something wrong?
Is there a way to start over, all over again?
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ive seen quite a few windows users on here name their file update.zip but have hidden file extensions turned on so in reality the name is update.zip.zip which will not work.
if thats not the issue, something sounds very wrong with your microsd card.
not sure why you had two partitions, J and K, but seems to hint at app2sd or had two partitions setup on the microsd card ...
my friend had one go bad on him yesterday, i had never seen it before but perhaps there is something defective.
otherwise, a reformat of the card, should bring it back to new.
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ive seen quite a few windows users on here name their file update.zip but have hidden file extensions turned on so in reality the name is update.zip.zip which will not work.
if thats not the issue, something sounds very wrong with your microsd card.
not sure why you had two partitions, J and K, but seems to hint at app2sd or had two partitions setup on the microsd card ...
my friend had one go bad on him yesterday, i had never seen it before but perhaps there is something defective.
otherwise, a reformat of the card, should bring it back to new.
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THANK YOU SOOOO MUCH!
Ok. That worked.
That was actually the problem. =D
I thought my phone was going all sorts of crazy.
Thank you thank you thank you.
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Now installing bugless beast. Hopefully the phone will connect to my computer now.
Edit: everything seems to be running fine now.
Thanks joey.
I've searched for quite a while and can't find a thread on this, think I've managed to find a fairly unique problem!
Following a recent screen replacement (entirely successful apart from the following problem!!), my DHD is not recognising my SD card. I've tried a factory reset and fixing the permissions through CWM recovery.
I have also tried the SD card in another DHD which recognised it no problem.
I know that this could be a hardware issue due to my fumbling around, but there are several other small glitches that make me think that my rom might be the problem, so I'm wondering if there's a way of flashing a new rom without using the SD card?
Anyone who could provide me with instructions for doing this would be much appreciated!!
Thanks in advance.
Using a file manager, look in /mnt/
Do you see anything in there? i.e /sdcard?
If not then I'd say it was hardware, If you can try another SDCard in it, give that a whirl.
AFAIK, even if you run a RUU~.exe to restore you still need a SDCard as that transfers the rom.zip/PD98IMG.zip to your SDCard.
Not trying to teach you to suck eggs, but have you checked the contacts on the handset? Dirty/Obstruction/etc....
Suggestions,
1). Another SDCard
2). Finding a suitable RUU for your device & running (Search the DHD Dev forums for the RUUs).
Ok i've had a look in Astro.
Firstly I get a little error message saying "Error creating external cache".
Looking in /mnt, there are 4 folders: /asec /obb, /sdcard and /secure
All of these folders are empty according to Astro. If I attempt to create a new folder within any of them I get an error message.
Have turned up a new issue too - the usb connection is intermittent. It will sometimes give me the option to choose the connection type, but at other times it will just charge the phone. I've made sure I'm using the correct cable (i.e. one that is capable of data transfer - not just a charger!)
Have also tried someone else's sd card from their phone that I know is working and no joy.
Thanks for the suggestion about contacts, I hadn't thought of checking that to be honest. I seem to remember reading somewhere that the phone will not access the sd card if the bottom cover is not on properly (the contacts are not seated correctly?) - is this something I should check or have I made it up? I'll have a look at the sd card slot this weekend and make sure nothing is causing problems.
Will also do some research into RUU.
Thanks again for your response, much appreciated!
Problem solved! Seems it was to do with the back covers not being properly aligned.
Phew! Thanks for the suggestions.
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Hello mshipway
I have the exact same problem. It also came after screen replacement.
Could you please describe hos to fix it?
Thx in advance
jjj
mshipway said:
Problem solved! Seems it was to do with the back covers not being properly aligned.
Phew! Thanks for the suggestions.
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AT&T SGS3 running AOKP 4.2.2
I dropped my phone and broke the touch screen. It displays, but is unresponsive to touch commands. I'm looking to:
-Back it up on my PC or External Card, and
-Get it back to stock. I paid for the extra warranty so they'll just send me a phone before I even send mine back in, but I at least want to make a reasonable effort to cover up my rooting. I can just imagine them deciding I owe them $600. Basterds.
I have read the related threads, and they gave me some ideas, but I wanted some fresh thoughts. I currently have CWM on it, and I know you normally can't see the external card with CWM, but I haven't had a chance to poke around too much because I'm still at work.
I'll keep you guys updated.
Thanks.
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AT&T SGS3 running AOKP 4.2.2
I dropped my phone and broke the touch screen. It displays, but is unresponsive to touch commands. I'm looking to:
-Back it up on my PC or External Card, and
-Get it back to stock. I paid for the extra warranty so they'll just send me a phone before I even send mine back in, but I at least want to make a reasonable effort to cover up my rooting. I can just imagine them deciding I owe them $600. Basterds.
I have read the related threads, and they gave me some ideas, but I wanted some fresh thoughts. I currently have CWM on it, and I know you normally can't see the external card with CWM, but I haven't had a chance to poke around too much because I'm still at work.
I'll keep you guys updated.
Thanks.
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Even though the phone doesn't respond to touch does the computer recognize it as a storage device when you plug it in? If so you should be able to back up your photos and personal files. You could even do a nandroid in recovery then dump those from internal storage to your PC. However I've never tried restoring a nandroid backup to another phone.
Or if you already had USB debugging active you could likely fetch the files you want using adb through terminal but I couldn't help with that.
Just some of my thoughts
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OK I just did a backup to my external SD card. CWM had a specific option for it, which originally I thought would be the obvious course, but I read on here that CWM didn't normally see external storage for some reason.
I just hope my external card is big enough. It should be.
*EDIT* Error on the data back-up. Probably not enough space. Is there anyway I can check what the issue is? because it would be really easy to buy a bigger SD card.
Also, are there any issues with restoring onto another phone? Would I just have to flash the same ROM onto it before restoring?
Thanks
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Even though the phone doesn't respond to touch does the computer recognize it as a storage device when you plug it in? If so you should be able to back up your photos and personal files. You could even do a nandroid in recovery then dump those from internal storage to your PC. However I've never tried restoring a nandroid backup to another phone.
Or if you already had USB debugging active you could likely fetch the files you want using adb through terminal but I couldn't help with that.
Just some of my thoughts
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I would like to think that I had USB debugging on but I'm not entirely sure. Knowing me it would have been one of the first things I did.
I'm at work and they have a security guard against data transfer via disk. I can't see the actual storage, just the media Icon, or whatever that is. This may just be a result of the security settings here.
I'll have to check all this at home
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I would like to think that I had USB debugging on but I'm not entirely sure. Knowing me it would have been one of the first things I did.
I'm at work and they have a security guard against data transfer via disk. I can't see the actual storage, just the media Icon, or whatever that is. This may just be a result of the security settings here.
I'll have to check all this at home
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OK I'm not seeing the storage when I USB to my desktop (Windows 7). Lame. I thought it might be that easy.
Hmm. Can't I use Odin or something to back-up to my desktop, then mount the files?
Mendax_ said:
OK I'm not seeing the storage when I USB to my desktop (Windows 7). Lame. I thought it might be that easy.
Hmm. Can't I use Odin or something to back-up to my desktop, then mount the files?
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I'm also having trouble getting it to go to download mode. It starts to, then reverts to normal boot up.
A new phone's on the way, but I need to get some files of this one, and get it back to stock before I send it in.
What's the likely hood they would charge me for the phone if I send them back the broken phone with a custom ROM? Especially considering that it was undoubtedly a hardware issue and we paid for the extra warranty.
They already processed the return and shipped me a phone. They would have to get my phone, boot it up, and get mad enough to want to punish me, rather than just processing the refurb. I think it's highly unlikely they would try to rescind my warranty, but I'm really trying to give a college try at getting it to stock.
Anymore ideas would be appreciated.
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Even though the phone doesn't respond to touch does the computer recognize it as a storage device when you plug it in? If so you should be able to back up your photos and personal files. You could even do a nandroid in recovery then dump those from internal storage to your PC. However I've never tried restoring a nandroid backup to another phone.
Or if you already had USB debugging active you could likely fetch the files you want using adb through terminal but I couldn't help with that.
Just some of my thoughts
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OK, so I'm thinking about what you say about "dumping my nandroid onto my desktop". Would there be a way to access the files from this image using my desktop? There has to be some sort of "virtual droid" or emulator package where I could mount the data.
Thanks. This sucks
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I gave up on recovering my pics and media. They weren't that valuable.
I flashed a stock ROM, but I didn't Triangle Away so my counter reads "1". Do I need it to read "0"?
I performed a factory reset hoping to wipe everything, including my personal photos and media, but there seems to be some confusion as to whether or not this deletes your pics and media. I performed this through the stock recovery as there is no way for me to do it through my ROM without a touchscreen.
What's the latest verdict on this? I read a few threads and it seems people still aren't in agreement.
Does a factory reset/delete through the stock recovery delete EVERYTHING including pics and media? If not, how can I do this? I was thinking that I need to flash CWM again and do some formatting/partitioning?
I'm really trying to read all I can, I just don't have hours to do this right now. I'd greatly appreciate some help.
Thanks
The stock recovery will not delete anything stored on internal storage. AFAIK cwm has the options to and you can use the volume buttons to scroll up and down and power to select the choice.
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mkfryan said:
The stock recovery will not delete anything stored on internal storage. AFAIK cwm has the options to and you can use the volume buttons to scroll up and down and power to select the choice.
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OK so I was finally able to look at my storage on my PC via USB, after getting it back to stock ROM, and the reset appears to have deleted everything. There are no pics or vids in the DCIM folder where in the past this is where they've always been. I'm going to content myself with this observation.
Now I just need to set my flash counter to 0. It's at 1. Although I think it's highly unlikely they're going to retro charge me for a phone that's already on the way. Also, my screen has been degrading over time. Now I believe I can't see anything on it. Is it still possible to use Triangle Away when I can't use or see the touch screen. I'm sure I'd have to go from the ADB shell or something. Any thoughts on this would be great. Thanks.
I've been doing some reading for the new method of unbricking devices (with an SD card) and was wondering if anyone would be willing to test out my solution? This is taken off of my L900 on the latest 4.3 firmware.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/25vcpgruz6lwfvg/unbrick.img
To use this you must have access to Linux:
1) You must have a 16GB SD Card (unsure about why everyone suggests 16GB, but it's the one that's worked for most people) inserted into a reader/adapter to insert into your computer.
2) Download my unbrick.img
3) Type su in a terminal to gain admin privileges
4) Type dd if=/path to unbrick.img/unbrick.img of=/dev/mmcblk0 (you will want to find out which partition your SD Card reader is on, I used fdisk to search for it. Mine ended up being mmcblk0).
5) Insert the SD Card into your L900 and try to boot into Download Mode (Vol Down+Home+Power)
I HIGHLY SUGGEST TRIPLE CHECKING YOUR SD CARD PARTITION BEFORE SENDING THE DD IF COMMAND (to prevent "waa waa my main OS is gone...")
120 views... sooo did anyone try it out yet? Did it work? Did it do nothing? Is everyone scared because I don't have a lot of posts? Lol. I'll post the procedure I used to make the .img when I get to work for those of you requiring proof that this should work (on a HARD bricked phone; it does nothing for an already working phone).
Here's how I got the .img:
dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0 of=/sdcard/unbrick.img bs=1024 count=71680
I then transferred the unbrick.img from the phone's SD Card to the computer, and used Linux on the computer to write the img to the SD card (this method is NOT the same as copy paste) using this command after elevating myself to admin (su), "dd if=/path to unbrick.img/unbrick.img of=/dev/mmcblk0"
After this, you should be able to insert the SDCard into the phone and boot it (you might need to hold down vol down+home+power to get into download mode). I don't currently have a bricked L900 but I'd like to know this works (just in case).
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120 views... sooo did anyone try it out yet? Did it work? Did it do nothing? Is everyone scared because I don't have a lot of posts? Lol. I'll post the procedure I used to make the .img when I get to work for those of you requiring proof that this should work (on a HARD bricked phone; it does nothing for an already working phone).
Here's how I got the .img:
dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0 of=/sdcard/unbrick.img bs=1024 count=71680
I then transferred the unbrick.img from the phone's SD Card to the computer, and used Linux on the computer to write the img to the SD card (this method is NOT the same as copy paste) using this command after elevating myself to admin (su), "dd if=/path to unbrick.img/unbrick.img of=/dev/mmcblk0"
After this, you should be able to insert the SDCard into the phone and boot it (you might need to hold down vol down+home+power to get into download mode). I don't currently have a bricked L900 but I'd like to know this works (just in case).
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I will try this out as soon as I get computer access. How large is the image file?
I've done quite a bit of research since then, and have become very familiar with the SD Card "JTAG" process that msmercy, noobtoob, DocHoliday, zinnium, ShabbyPenguin, and I (I'm VERY sorry if I forgot someone, this was the list off the top of my head!) were working on with the N900T. To revise my OP, I think the count I used was closer to 200MB. The image is about 195MB. Let me redo this again, reupload it, and I'll edit this post with the new link.
Additionally, you MUST use an SD Card the same size as your phone. I think the L900s were 16GB? My total device storage space (minus SD Card storage) is 16GB, so I'd have to use a 16GB SD Card. Additionally you MUST use some kind of Linux terminal to write this image to the SD Card. You can also do it in terminal emulator on a android phone though. You just need to be VERY careful about what partition you're writing to; it MUST be to the SD Card partition (on my phnoe it's mmcblk1, although yours MAY be different).
My new revised image is 310MB. It's the size that was used in the N900T hard brick *solved* thread. Should definitely cover enough to boot. Enjoy: https://www.mediafire.com/?5zwpr45v7zzhyat
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I've done quite a bit of research since then, and have become very familiar with the SD Card "JTAG" process that msmercy, noobtoob, DocHoliday, zinnium, ShabbyPenguin, and I (I'm VERY sorry if I forgot someone, this was the list off the top of my head!) were working on with the N900T. To revise my OP, I think the count I used was closer to 200MB. The image is about 195MB. Let me redo this again, reupload it, and I'll edit this post with the new link.
Additionally, you MUST use an SD Card the same size as your phone. I think the L900s were 16GB? My total device storage space (minus SD Card storage) is 16GB, so I'd have to use a 16GB SD Card. Additionally you MUST use some kind of Linux terminal to write this image to the SD Card. You can also do it in terminal emulator on a android phone though. You just need to be VERY careful about what partition you're writing to; it MUST be to the SD Card partition (on my phnoe it's mmcblk1, although yours MAY be different).
My new revised image is 310MB. It's the size that was used in the N900T hard brick *solved* thread. Should definitely cover enough to boot. Enjoy: https://www.mediafire.com/?5zwpr45v7zzhyat
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Tried this with a 16gb Kingston sd card using Linux terminal but formatted as ext4. This did not work. However I did read in some other thread that it worked when it was formatted in exfat for the note3. Will try that when I get a chance on my l900 and I will try the smaller image as well. I bricked my l900 after successfully installing swamp monster rom. I didn't disable the update notification and someone did me the wonderful favor of clicking update.... And a few days later when I rebooted into recovery for whatever reason at the time restarted again and phone showed note2 logo froZe for 10 minutes I pulled the battery and put it back and boom. Dead, no power no led no charge light no download mode. I'm hoping one of these images work...I miss my note.
Class 10
Ok the sd card that I had was not a class 10 but a class 4. Just purchased a class 10 16gb sd San disk today, the. I will try this again when I get home and keep you posted as to what happens. hope I can get my L900 going this time with this card. Wish me luck!
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Ok the sd card that I had was not a class 10 but a class 4. Just purchased a class 10 16gb sd San disk today, the. I will try this again when I get home and keep you posted as to what happens. hope I can get my L900 going this time with this card. Wish me luck!
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can you get into download mode? If so, I started a thread on how to unbrick your phone after failing 4.3 downgrade. I can help you if you can get into download, if not, there isn't really much anyone can do outside of a shop. You can flash the tar file in my thread, then do the mc2 back to stock, it works to downgrade to mc2
i cannot get into download mode, phone doesn't respond to charger or plugging usb into computer, computer does not recognize...it appears to be hardbricked... i tried the 310mb image but haven't gotten a chance to try the other one on my 16gb sd sd card
Sorry I've been a little inactive here. So the 310MB image didn't work on a 16GB Class 4 card? Hmm. How many times did you try to write to it? I've heard of some guys that gave had to write to the card multiple times before the phone actually recognized it as a boot able device.
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Brick problem
Maybe you guys can help me out. I bricked my phone by going from the Carbon rom to the latest CM nightly, at which point i had no connection to the network, so I decided to flash the stock MC2 via Teamwin Recovery, and now it goes black after showing the Galaxy Note 2 screen.
I can get into boot loader.
I don't know if Teamwin was the issue instead of clockwork, or if it's a modem/kernel reverting to previous version issue. I'm downloading MK4 stock now and I'll try doing that from odin,
Any advice?
citizens said:
Maybe you guys can help me out. I bricked my phone by going from the Carbon rom to the latest CM nightly, at which point i had no connection to the network, so I decided to flash the stock MC2 via Teamwin Recovery, and now it goes black after showing the Galaxy Note 2 screen.
I can get into boot loader.
I don't know if Teamwin was the issue instead of clockwork, or if it's a modem/kernel reverting to previous version issue. I'm downloading MK4 stock now and I'll try doing that from odin,
Any advice?
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Hopefully you're grabbing the MK4 tarball and not one of my unbrick images lol. My unbrick images in this thread are for HARD bricked devices only and they're supposed to be wrote to a sdcard not the phone.
Now that that's out the way...I've heard of TWRP issues after MK4. I'd stick with CWM if I were you. You should come right out of your soft brick after you flash the MK4 tarball. You may need to wipe data and cache afterwards.
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citizens said:
Maybe you guys can help me out. I bricked my phone by going from the Carbon rom to the latest CM nightly, at which point i had no connection to the network, so I decided to flash the stock MC2 via Teamwin Recovery, and now it goes black after showing the Galaxy Note 2 screen.
I can get into boot loader.
I don't know if Teamwin was the issue instead of clockwork, or if it's a modem/kernel reverting to previous version issue. I'm downloading MK4 stock now and I'll try doing that from odin,
Any advice?
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Yeah, doing the MK4 stock, then reinstalling the CM11 fixed everything.
ecs87 said:
Hopefully you're grabbing the MK4 tarball and not one of my unbrick images lol. My unbrick images in this thread are for HARD bricked devices only and they're supposed to be wrote to a sdcard not the phone.
Now that that's out the way...I've heard of TWRP issues after MK4. I'd stick with CWM if I were you. You should come right out of your soft brick after you flash the MK4 tarball. You may need to wipe data and cache afterwards.
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Ok i tried both images on my 16gb class 10 card and no luck so far. Will try again when I get home.
tegocalde said:
Ok i tried both images on my 16gb class 10 card and no luck so far. Will try again when I get home.
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I tried it both images 5 times on my wife's Linux PC no luck there, phone doesn't respond, I then tried it from a rooted tablet tried both images 4 times here and phone hasn't responded. unbrick.img and l900unbrick.img both have yielded me no results....
Did this from linux: "sudo dd if=/home/linux/Download/unbrick.img of=/dev/sdd/mmcblk1"
Did this on rooted tablet:su
"dd if=/storage/sdcard0/unbrick.img of=/storage/sdcard1/mmcblk1"
When entering these commands in terminal arguments seemed correct, no errors everything appears to be successful but after unmounting sdcard and inserting it in phone and doing the 3 button combo (volume down, power and home button) I get nothing no response. I tried pressing the buttons before I placed the battery back in as well and no cigar...I tried plugging my note 2 for a couple hrs and tried again and nothing. I can't even tell if it is charging....I hope I don't have to send this in....I know shops but no one around here (Denver) knows how to JTAG. That will be my last resort if I can't get it going here. Any advice anyone?
tegocalde said:
I tried it both images 5 times on my wife's Linux PC no luck there, phone doesn't respond, I then tried it from a rooted tablet tried both images 4 times here and phone hasn't responded. unbrick.img and l900unbrick.img both have yielded me no results....
Did this from linux: "sudo dd if=/home/linux/Download/unbrick.img of=/dev/sdd/mmcblk1"
Did this on rooted tablet:su
"dd if=/storage/sdcard0/unbrick.img of=/storage/sdcard1/mmcblk1"
When entering these commands in terminal arguments seemed correct, no errors everything appears to be successful but after unmounting sdcard and inserting it in phone and doing the 3 button combo (volume down, power and home button) I get nothing no response. I tried pressing the buttons before I placed the battery back in as well and no cigar...I tried plugging my note 2 for a couple hrs and tried again and nothing. I can't even tell if it is charging....I hope I don't have to send this in....I know shops but no one around here (Denver) knows how to JTAG. That will be my last resort if I can't get it going here. Any advice anyone?
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Thanks for trying. Seems some of the other Note 2 variants have some kind of short that's able to get it into SD card mode. Might not be as easy as the Note 3 phones where there is no short required (despite the n900 generic Samsung JTAG document saying otherwise).
Mobiletechvideos.com is supposedly a good place to get your phone JTAG'D. You ship your phone to them, they do the work, and they ship it back.
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ecs87 said:
Thanks for trying. Seems some of the other Note 2 variants have some kind of short that's able to get it into SD card mode. Might not be as easy as the Note 3 phones where there is no short required (despite the n900 generic Samsung JTAG document saying otherwise).
Mobiletechvideos.com is supposedly a good place to get your phone JTAG'D. You ship your phone to them, they do the work, and they ship it back.
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I can open it up if I knew where to short it. The pdf file I have seen for that method seems kind of vague.
As small as the insides of this phone are I may need a magnifying glass. I will take a look at the pdf again. Thanks again
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Thanks for trying. Seems some of the other Note 2 variants have some kind of short that's able to get it into SD card mode. Might not be as easy as the Note 3 phones where there is no short required (despite the n900 generic Samsung JTAG document saying otherwise).
Mobiletechvideos.com is supposedly a good place to get your phone JTAG'D. You ship your phone to them, they do the work, and they ship it back.
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After opening phone up I cannot find the resistor referenced in the pdf for the n900 I can't find the r4075 resistor on the l900 so I'm sending it in to MobileTechVideos.
Thank you for your help.
If they can't help (they couldn't JTAG my N900T) we can continue here. We got this working for the N900T so I'm SURE we can get it for the L900. Just need time, like any other project Keep us updated!
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ecs87 said:
If they can't help (they couldn't JTAG my N900T) we can continue here. We got this working for the N900T so I'm SURE we can get it for the L900. Just need time, like any other project Keep us updated!
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I will keep u updated. I haven't had time to send out my phone yet I've been so busy with work. I am willing to give the images a try again however I am limited to where I think my battery is dead in my l900 and I need a way to charge it without using another note2. Phone doesn't respond to USB charger... I can try splicing open an extra USB cable I have and clipping the wires to the battery but, I do not know where to connect on the battery terminals...any references or advice appreciated.
Alright, I'm running CyanogenMod 11 with TWRP as my recovery. When I try to change my build.prop it tells me that the action is not allowed because the system folder is mounted as Read only and not as R/W. I have tried using the chmod syntax 755 while in recovery but, after rebooting nothing has changed. Using my file manager (Solid Explorer) I have tried changing the permissions to be R/W by using the same chmod syntax. What have I done or am I doing wrong? I have never crossed this issue before with any other ROM or phone and I would like to add some additional speed and smoothness tweaks to the ROM build.prop. Have I tried another ROM to see if the same thing continues to happen? Nope, I sure haven't. If I did though and something magically changes to where it would begin working using another ROM, I still would not know how to fix the issue that I'm faced with now. Will ya please help? Thank you for your time in advance as well!
The drive isn't being mounted by solid Explorer as read/write. I'm not familiar with the app so can't explain how to do it but it may be in the options somewhere or a button on the screen.
You could try es file Explorer. It's free and works for me.
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Well, I just tried ES File Explorer and it said that I'm mounted as R/W on my system folder, same as it did on Solid Explorer, yet once I try to alter anything I still receive the same "Operation Failed......System Mounted as Read Only" message. I have even switched ROM's to see if maybe, just maybe, it was some sort of CM 11 bug. Everywhere I look online says to correct it through my recovery and since that doesn't work..........? I'm at a bit of a loss now! I have granted both file managers Superuser rights. Hell my Superuser auto-response is always set to grant all apps that permission. And as far as the form of Superuser I'm using goes, I'm just sticking with the CM stock Superuser because whenever I attempt to use SuperSU all sorts of stuff begins to fail.
Is your SD card formatted as FAT32....or EXFAT...???
Needs a possible format again it sounds like....IMHO..g
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Haven't thought about it possibly being my SD's format being that I am trying to access my systems files (i.e.- build.prop, system apps, etc.) and not the external SD Card, but what the hell?! I reckon I can always give it a shot. Could very well be that simple since I just dropped $100.00 on a stupid Lexar 64 Gig. Micro SD about the same time this issue arose. Hope so even if i do end up feeling like a dumb ass later on. It's getting annoying! I've tried several different ROM's, file managers, running syntax in the emulator, and anything else I could dig up now and this isn't quite my first Android experience, still relatively new though, so I know I'm not flashing anything wrong or outta the ordinary. Give me bit to take care of some every day life crap and I'll report my findings back to ya.
Dead serious, I did not do anything different whatsoever and it began to allow me to change permissions on my system files or whatever else I wished to do to it......?! No Earthly idea what was/did go on for it not to allow me to for the time it didn't, but outta nowhere, as I said, it is working again. I did wipe and flash numerous ROM's without any luck and even had flashed the one that it is working on now, but it didn't work the first or second time I flashed it. Never even got the chance to reformat my SD Card. Hell, I don't know.....!
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Dead serious, I did not do anything different whatsoever and it began to allow me to change permissions on my system files or whatever else I wished to do to it......?! No Earthly idea what was/did go on for it not to allow me to for the time it didn't, but outta nowhere, as I said, it is working again. I did wipe and flash numerous ROM's without any luck and even had flashed the one that it is working on now, but it didn't work the first or second time I flashed it. Never even got the chance to reformat my SD Card. Hell, I don't know.....!
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Running Jellywiz Extreme Rom 4.3 for my Note 2 on Verizon, and ever since i updated it to 4.3 on an unstable original ROM (Davidson3680's OG 4.3 ROM pre-2014), i havent been able to mount system as R/W.
I keep coming back to the possibility that in both of these recent cases that the file structure is somehow corrupted...
A possible 4.3 return to stock using Zen Arcades 4.3 stock rom may correct the file issues and restore the external functionality...
I'm still perplexed about the differences in flashing success based on whether or not a user has taken an official 4.3 update versus a user who has not...and the variables in function using the exact same software's...
The Zen thread method seems to be the stable and reliable way back to full function...or at least the best way to build the file structures back within their respective partitions...
We are playing very near the partition level...but I don't think it's a partition/pit issue....rather the broken file structure inside...
I'd be interested in the results of that test using Zen's files in the attempt to repair the files...and path to the SD...
If you are willing to try that...and meet success...it would solve a good half dozen device issues across different users in one pass....g
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