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Have a Note 3, rooted, flashed Jedi Elite about 3 months ago, works like a champ.
Randomly today during normal usage, phone froze, reset, then gives me this message
"Device memory damaged - the data partition has been corrupted. You need to reset your device to factory defaults. This will erase all the data on your device"
Tried that, didn't change anything (booted right back to the same screen), Went into the bootloader, wiped the cache, no change, tried a factory reset from there, no change, tried 're-rooting' it (a suggestion online), root worked, no change ( still booting to the same screen )
Help! Can't find any help online, in desperate need of guidance.
doctorc501 said:
Have a Note 3, rooted, flashed Jedi Elite about 3 months ago, works like a champ.
Randomly today during normal usage, phone froze, reset, then gives me this message
"Device memory damaged - the data partition has been corrupted. You need to reset your device to factory defaults. This will erase all the data on your device"
Tried that, didn't change anything (booted right back to the same screen), Went into the bootloader, wiped the cache, no change, tried a factory reset from there, no change, tried 're-rooting' it (a suggestion online), root worked, no change ( still booting to the same screen )
Help! Can't find any help online, in desperate need of guidance.
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if you have no choice, I would recommend flashing through ODIN the new firmware, or which ever firmware you have installed on your phone..
goto recovery,, wipe system, data, cache, dalvik cache, then ODIN your firmware.. this way you will have a fresh clean install, see what happens after that,
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mdiaz33685 said:
if you have no choice, I would recommend flashing through ODIN the new firmware, or which ever firmware you have installed on your phone..
goto recovery,, wipe system, data, cache, dalvik cache, then ODIN your firmware.. this way you will have a fresh clean install, see what happens after that,
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Tried, everything seemed to go well, but on boot up after flashing the ROM, same screen about corruption of memory.
Seems like I might want to try the re-partition option, which requires a pit file, but can't find the right file (SM-N900T)
doctorc501 said:
Tried, everything seemed to go well, but on boot up after flashing the ROM, same screen about corruption of memory.
Seems like I might want to try the re-partition option, which requires a pit file, but can't find the right file (SM-N900T)
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After boot up of the stock ROM it still said that?
If you Odin the stock room boot into the stock recovery and factory reset. You can also do this in the settings menu under storage. This will wipe your phone
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I've looked around a bit and can't quite find someone that has had my specific situation.
I have a AT&T S3 SGH-I747 that is rooted running stock 4.1.1 with CWM 6.0.4.7. I have updated the modem and bootloader (Baseband - I747UCUEMJB and Build # JRO03L.I747UCDLK3).
I have tried to flash custom and stock ROMS with CWM but get stuck on the glowing Samsung logo. I have tried to follow the instructions listed here but I cannot flash the stock ROM with ODEN.
I am not sure as to what to attempt next. I first want to be able to update to 4.3/4.4.2 and then try custom builds.
I have all my apps and data backed up with MyBackup and a Nandroid backup as well.
Thank you.
Are you wiping the cache, davilk, and data before of after flashing the ROM?
I wipe/format before the flash. I factory reset, clear cache, clear davilk, format data, and format system then flash the ROM. I've tried several combinations of clearing/formatting. The flash always goes well and then I reboot. The boot goes and then just sits at the Samsung logo (It does make the AT&T sound during this time)
Hubbins said:
I wipe/format before the flash. I factory reset, clear cache, clear davilk, format data, and format system then flash the ROM. I've tried several combinations of clearing/formatting. The flash always goes well and then I reboot. The boot goes and then just sits at the Samsung logo (It does make the AT&T sound during this time)
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Try to factory reset once the flash is done if it doesn't boot after 5-10min.
Thanks. I'll give it a shot and we'll see how it goes.
Unfortunately that tip did not appear to help. I still got stuck on the glowing Samsung logo.
I was final able to flash 4.3 using the method here using odin.
Hi,
I was frustrated with the delay in T-Mobile's release of KitKat for the GSIII, so I decided to root my phone last night in order to try flashing CM11 on it. Rooted my phone with Towelroot, installed ROM Manager and CWM, and created backups on Kies and through CWM. Then I proceeded to do data wipe/factory reset, cache wipe, and /system format. Tried to flash CM11, but got a status 7 error.
I freaked out, so I decided to restore everything from the backup I'd created. Restoration seemed like a success, but now I get the error "Unfortunately, the process com.google.process.gapps has stopped" in an endless loop, and it prevents me and any apps from doing anything. I tried clearing dalvik cache in recovery, but the problem still persists. Read on a few threads that I should flash to stock firmware via Odin, but I'm currently on a macbook, so I can't install it.
tl;dr - Prepped to flash CM11, reached status 7 error, got freaked out, and did restore via CWM, only to get infinite loop of gapp crashes. No access to Odin or PC. Not hard bricked or soft bricked, but essentially useless phone. Help? );
if you can still get to recovery, download latest gapps and flash that
Did you factory reset before or after you restored your back up?
Yeah, I've tried flashing gapps--no avail.
And yeah, I did factory reset/data wipe, cache wipe, /system format 3x each before attempting to restore. Was that wrong? /:
Try to factory reset again
vvnn said:
Yeah, I've tried flashing gapps--no avail.
And yeah, I did factory reset/data wipe, cache wipe, /system format 3x each before attempting to restore. Was that wrong? /:
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If I'm not mistaken, there is some device ID that will change each time you flash a new rom. It may be something to do with this ID not matching the one in the restored data. Purely a guess but seems logical to me.
Anyway, factory resetting will most likely solve this for you, but I wanted to add that except in certain circumstances, you shouldn't ever manually format /system. (and one format on any partition is sufficient. There shouldn't be any need to format multiple times). If you format /system, you are wiping the O/S off of your device. Then what happens if you have problems flashing a rom, or firmware? I've seen it happen many times and I often end up spending a couple of days working with them just to get the thing to boot up again!
When you flash a rom, the first thing it does is format /system. So there is just no need to do this manually. At least if the rom fails to flash (such as failing the assert checks), youll still have something to boot into. Hope this helps in the future!
I have had the exact same issue. I have a Samsung note 2 N7105. I rooted made a backup in CWM and flashed ditto n3/s5 rom made another backup in CWM. No issues. Got a bit cocky seen as it was my first time doing anything like that. My next adventure was to try a custom kernel (agni). This didn't go so well, so I tried to do a restorw to my working backup of ditto n3/s5 rom through CMW. restore went smoothly and the phone booted. once I opened the lock screen I got the gapps error as described. I had to do a factory reset to get the phone working and then re-flashed ditto n3/s3. I've since flashed other roms and when ever I try to do a restore, I get the issue described. Note I am using the latest CWM. I putting off flashing and trying any other ROMs because of this issue. I do love dn3/s5 but id love to try others. Anyone can help it would be appreciate.
Some how I have screwed up my partitions. I was able to Odin to stock lollipop and I can get into download and recovery. However I cannot flash anything at all at this point. In TWRP when I try to flash a custom ROM, Kernel or even the lastest TWRP version, all that happens is recovery restarts. This all started when I tried to flash SlimLP ROM. It flashed fine but would only bootloop when I tried to start phone. So I wiped everything and reflashed lollipop AllianceROM. The phone started okay but I got some error message about the UID. I noticed right away that ALL my text messages which should have been wiped were intact. The phone was running really, really slow and I had continual issues installing apps from the Playstore and TiBu. I decided to try another ROM and again wiped everything, flashed and rebooted. Again text messages were intact. I believe it's my system and/or data partition that is messed up but I am not sure. I'm not knowledgable about any of this so I really need some help here.
Factory reset in TWRP a few times and power down. Pull the battery, reinstall and Odin stock OB7 again. Watch the auto boot, it should go into stock recovery noted only by a android with wavy antennas and small progress bar that may not even fill before booting the ROM.
If you don't see that, factory reset, power down and try again. Make sure stock is OK before trying another flash. Also, use internal memory to flash from. Almost sounds like your sdcard is encrypted?
BTW, I don't know of any available PIT file for our phone. I thought it may be included in the stock tar but who knows for sure? One thing I learned a while back on the older phones going from CM to stock, flash twice to correct the partitions. Maybe it still works? -different recoveries; flash, reboot recovery, flash again. Those ROMs included recovery.
Before going to Alliance, factory reset.
From the sound of things you don't need a pit file to repartition your phone. Don't attempt to mess with that. I would do what was suggested above. Just make sure you do the "factory reset" several times then wipe data several times. also go into advanced wipe and wipe everything EXCEPT your external micro-sd card several times as well. then odin flash the stock BOB7 rom tar. That should do it.
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From the sound of things you don't need a pit file to repartition your phone. Don't attempt to mess with that. I would do what was suggested above. Just make sure you do the "factory reset" several times then wipe data several times. also go into advanced wipe and wipe everything EXCEPT your external micro-sd card several times as well. then odin flash the stock BOB7 rom tar. That should do it.
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samep said:
Factory reset in TWRP a few times and power down. Pull the battery, reinstall and Odin stock OB7 again. Watch the auto boot, it should go into stock recovery noted only by a android with wavy antennas and small progress bar that may not even fill before booting the ROM.
If you don't see that, factory reset, power down and try again. Make sure stock is OK before trying another flash. Also, use internal memory to flash from. Almost sounds like your sdcard is encrypted?
BTW, I don't know of any available PIT file for our phone. I thought it may be included in the stock tar but who knows for sure? One thing I learned a while back on the older phones going from CM to stock, flash twice to correct the partitions. Maybe it still works? -different recoveries; flash, reboot recovery, flash again. Those ROMs included recovery.
Before going to Alliance, factory reset.
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Thank you both. I did just what you guys suggested and it worked out! Thank you again!
I'm having some issues flashing any ROM. TWRP will not wipe data, or internal SD
For some reason, when I go to wipe data and factory reset, TWRP will say it was successful, but nothing ever gets wiped. It will only wipe system if I choose to. I've gotten a ROM to flash but when it boots up, all of the old apps and user data are still there and it makes everything crash. I've gotten into settings to do a reset, it reboots into recovery, runs the script, and still nothing wipes.
What I have tried:
Old TWRP, newest TWRP
CWM (seems to wipe but it won't get past the note 2 screen after flashing anything)
Wiping with CWM, flashing TWRP, then flashing a ROM (still loops after the note 2 screen)
Is there a terminal command I can use in TWRP to manually wipe things?
Thanks for any help I can get, I've flashed so many phones I can't remember but I've never had this issue
Maybe flash back to a stock ROM, factory wipe using stock recovery, then flash TWRP?
audit13 said:
Maybe flash back to a stock ROM, factory wipe using stock recovery, then flash TWRP?
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Well when it bootloops t the Note 2 screen, I have to flash a ROM with Odin to get it working again. I've flashed a stock ROM with Odin, flashed TWRP with Odin, tried the wipes and it never wipes anything... I'm lost...
Isn't there a format function in TWRP that is seperate from the factory reset or advanced wipes? I was also trying to find a terminal command to type in the terminal in TWRP... I'm a little stumped...
I'm sorry, I read that too fast... That may actually work, wipe it in the stock recovery, and just don't let it boot into the system before flashing other stuff... I'm gonna try that out... Thanks man, I'll post back about it...
Since you are flashing the phone with Odin, is it a stock 4.1.1 ROM you're flashing? Which custom ROM are you flashing to the phone?
audit13 said:
Since you are flashing the phone with Odin, is it a stock 4.1.1 ROM you're flashing? Which custom ROM are you flashing to the phone?
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The stock ROM I used is I317-ODIN-UCUCNJ1-Stock without the booloader packaged in, I'm still on the old bootloader. It's 4.4.2
The ROMS I've tried to flash was
Cyanide (Error 7, says incompatible data, please wipe the phone)
Resurrection Remix (Error 7, says incompatible data, please wipe the phone)
Latest CM10 Nightly
I got CM10 and Resurrection Remix to flash a couple times, but the phone boots and all the old apps and data, including the AT&T ones are still there, and the system keeps crashing. Then I change the recovery to CWM because it seems to wipe, change back to TWRP, flash the ROM and gapps again, but it bootloops at the Note 2 screen.
Should I try the 4.1.1 ROM and CWM? Whenever I'm going from a stock TW to non-TW I like to format everything, data, cache, system, and internal SD, but of course TWRP won't wipe the data or the internal SD.
It's probably because the bootloader and modem are too old for the roms. Recent roms will need updated bootloaders.
Ok, I had some more time to mess around with this today and figured it out. I feel kind of dumb but oh well, I got it.
TWRP was already loaded on, so I went to messing with it again. The 'Swipe to factory reset' was not wiping the data, and there was the 'Format Data' button right there in front of me. I did the factory reset, format data, rebooted recovery, wiped dalvik, cache, and system, then flashed the ROM and everything booted up just fine.
Thanks for all of the help!