So, I decided to flash Freeza's new ROM, stuff happened. Long story short, I had to restore a previous backup I had made a few weeks back of a 4.2 aosp ROM. However, for some reason the backup was messed up or something, so 1) I didn't have a ROM to flash and 2) My backup disappeared. Well, I connected usb to my computer, mounted storage in twrp, and put a ROM on my ext-sd card. However, every time I try to flash it, it says cannot open zip file or something like that. I'd really prefer not to have to reflash odin and stock tar and all that stuff. If someone has any helpful suggestions, they would be greatly appreciated. Thanks
Lolanerd said:
So, I decided to flash Freeza's new ROM, stuff happened. Long story short, I had to restore a previous backup I had made a few weeks back of a 4.2 aosp ROM. However, for some reason the backup was messed up or something, so 1) I didn't have a ROM to flash and 2) My backup disappeared. Well, I connected usb to my computer, mounted storage in twrp, and put a ROM on my ext-sd card. However, every time I try to flash it, it says cannot open zip file or something like that. I'd really prefer not to have to reflash odin and stock tar and all that stuff. If someone has any helpful suggestions, they would be greatly appreciated. Thanks
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sounds like the multiuser 0 folder issue, but what do i know just a thought
......wheres that troll now when u need him?
Lolanerd said:
So, I decided to flash Freeza's new ROM, stuff happened. Long story short, I had to restore a previous backup I had made a few weeks back of a 4.2 aosp ROM. However, for some reason the backup was messed up or something, so 1) I didn't have a ROM to flash and 2) My backup disappeared. Well, I connected usb to my computer, mounted storage in twrp, and put a ROM on my ext-sd card. However, every time I try to flash it, it says cannot open zip file or something like that. I'd really prefer not to have to reflash odin and stock tar and all that stuff. If someone has any helpful suggestions, they would be greatly appreciated. Thanks
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Check your external and internal sdcard for a 0 folder, ive seen people accumulate these over time that they.end up having about 15 to 20 of them and backups and everything are all over the place
The 0 folder shouldn't have made a difference anyhow, because I was flashing the ROM from my ext-sd card. Plus, I couldn't boot so I couldn't check for a 0 folder anyways. Regardless, I ended up just flashing stock tar with odin, and im in the process of re-rooting. Thanks anyways
Lolanerd said:
The 0 folder shouldn't have made a difference anyhow, because I was flashing the ROM from my ext-sd card. Plus, I couldn't boot so I couldn't check for a 0 folder anyways. Regardless, I ended up just flashing stock tar with odin, and im in the process of re-rooting. Thanks anyways
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Ah, sucks that you had to do that
But yeah, flashing back to unrooted stock every one in a while isnt a bad idea, neither is reformatting your sdcard every so often so you can only be helping your phone
Yeah I had this same problem too. Had to reformat my sd card and go back to stock. But now my phone's battery life is better
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Yeah I had this same problem too. Had to reformat my sd card and go back to stock. But now my phone's battery life is better
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Yeah sometimes files can get left behind over time. On my phones i unroot and go back to stock about every 3 weeks and reformat my sd once a week and each time i reroot i find my phone running better than ever
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Just a friendly reminder that Nandroid alone are not sufficient for data protection. Your /sdcard partition is not a safe place.
Last night an update came out for the ROM I'm on so I decided like we all should to do a Nandroid backup before flashing.
Well..
Backup errors out on /data and after that (with no other changes, just the attempted backup) My phone is bootlooping at the Google logo.
I cleared cache and dalvik...no change. Did a factory reset within recovery and reflashed the version of the ROM i was already on, no changes.
Tried to restore an older nandroid backup...restore fails on /data.
Used fasboot and reflashed, bootloader, radio...nope still bootloop.
Final Fix:
Open up stock 4.0.1 firmware package and fastboot flash boot,system,userdata which then booted up fine on stock 4.0.1 android. I then proceeded to flash the ROM, etc and all is fine. However flashing those images did wipe my /sdcard partition so I lost everything on there.
Thanks for the heads up
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Not to be an ass, and I really do feel for you, but you know what you signed up for when you unlocked. There is always that chance and to avoid it all stay unrooted.
But, again, thanks for the heads up and I hope there wasn't too much on your SD.
Same happens to me, in my older phone it was stuck in the boot up screen spent weeks trying to fix it nun worked, so I had to save up money to buy a new one
But on a lighter note I restored back to custom rom now SIM card don't work but o well, that's y I like to do it to figure out the problems
I know how u feel wen I lost my form of communication lol
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Ouch! Good thing it's not a common reoccurring problem.
sucks, but you could unmount sdcard from recovery and transfer all of your stuff to your pc, and then fastboot flash 4.0.1
@OP did you happen to reneme the back-ups at all with spaces?
good day.
To address a few people.
-I have nothing on my phone that is important so as far as 'you know the risks' yes I do and I never said I cared that this happened in any big way but it was a little scary that it wouldn't even restore a nandroid. It happened late last night and after fiddling with it for 10 minutes I just turned it off and then hooked it up to my computer @work this morning and within 45 minutes had everything working again and setup exactly like I did before.
-No I did not rename my backups lol.
[email protected] I didn't know that thanks for the tip, all I really had on /sdcard was some wallpapers and a few ROM downloads. I keep my phone pretty lean since I'm abit of a flashing whore.
-This thread is more of a heads up for people, as you could search I never posted any kind of thread asking for help, the fix was pretty simple, really just a matter of going down the list of least 'destructive' fixes and trying those out before trying out those that involved wiping the entire phone. Its not like it was bricked I had recovery and boot-loader access. It's just strange that it happened I mean doing a backup is not making writes to the system its simple a read operation and then writes to the /sdcard partition.
FWIW I was using CWM Touch Beta5 from Nathan Grebowiec.
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Final Fix:
Open up stock 4.0.1 firmware package and fastboot flash boot,system,userdata which then booted up fine on stock 4.0.1 android. I then proceeded to flash the ROM, etc and all is fine. However flashing those images did wipe my /sdcard partition so I lost everything on there.
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Just a little note: the /sdcard "partition" is actually just a symlink to /data/media. So, if you flash the userdata partition, you are effectively wiping you sdcard.
If you booted CWM, then used ADB to pull all the data from /data/media, you would still have everything on you /sdcard.
nonione said:
sucks, but you could unmount sdcard from recovery and transfer all of your stuff to your pc, and then fastboot flash 4.0.1
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unmount sdcard eh?
Is the rest of the data partition unavailable when the sdcard folder is mounted?
i've used nandroid backup over 200 times between my 4 android devices. i have NEVER ever had an issue like this.
and just the last week i've done 15 backups and recoveries on my gnex. no issues.
Hi, happend to me exactly same thing... twice. And trying to flash other Rom was causing strange behavior, there was no lock screen phone go straight to home screen after pressing power button. Flashing stock image fix the problem, I can only add that if you backup your nandroids buckup(s) and then put it back to your phone (after stock flash) they will work fine. Sorry for my terrible english.
Be Warned: User error can cause boot loops.
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Nandroid has become considerably less reliable since Koush switched to tar.
Ugh, just had this same thing happen to me when trying to flash a rom. If I had known this before I wouldn't flash anything anymore and count on nandroids. lol Oh well, you live and learn. So I've never flashed a stock img through fastboot or anything so I'm going to try that when I get home. I tried to mount my sd card here at work with no drivers and got this error when trying to mount usb 'unable to open ums lunfile no such directory blah blah' I'm assuming it's just because I'm on a computer with no drivers.
Anyway, so if I can get my phone to usb mount to my laptop through cwm I can back up my sd card on the laptop before I flash the stock images that will wipe my sd? I do have some pictures and things on there I would like to keep if possible. Thanks. Wish I read this earlier, 30 minutes too late lol
Anyone know what causes this?
I was running Nocturnal Venum ICS rom with no problems. Yesterday I woke up and the phone had frozen. I rebooted and it went into a boot loop. So I odined EL26 CWM kernel and attempted to redo the install clean. I could only get as far as the application installing before it would freeze. I can get into DL mode and recovery just fine, but no ICS Rom will install. From the stock plus root all the way to custom ASOP and AKOP. If there is anyone that had a similar problem or read of it and solution, I would appreciate any help. I went back to gingerbread and I can install them fine. It appears to be isolated to the ICS roms.
When trying to install the stock ICS FE10 I got a failed to install with a status 7 error. I have taken a logcat after the latest GBread install, but I can't upload it.
TIA
Have you considered corruption of one or both of the SD's? Since you can boot, back up whatever you need off of both internal and external SD's, format them both from settings/storage from the phone (only). Copy back just what you think you may need (no point in adding to the uncluttered phone yet) and try it again.
Edit: If still having issues, yank out the external SD card entirely and try it without.
One click odin back to stock couldn't hurt either. May as well make the phone as virgin as possible.
Have you tried odining back to EL26 stock with a clean install, rather than just Odining the kernel?
iniz94 said:
Have you tried odining back to EL26 stock with a clean install, rather than just Odining the kernel?
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+1
But, like I also recommended, formatting both of the SD's to clean up god knows what is left over after flashing an unknown amount of stuff from a place you've never heard of before.
I normally recommend a full blown reset back to stock. It's easier that way sometimes.
Actually I went back stock EL29 with root. I will try the reformatting the sd. I did the external but not the internal. What files must I leave on the internal if any.
tdunham said:
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But, like I also recommended, formatting both of the SD's to clean up god knows what is left over after flashing an unknown amount of stuff from a place you've never heard of before.
I normally recommend a full blown reset back to stock. It's easier that way sometimes.
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Actually I went back stock EL29 with root. I will try the reformatting the sd. I did the external but not the internal. What files must I leave on the internal if any.
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Once you format the internal, it will be pretty cleaned out.
I would redownload the ROM you want to try, Calkulin's format all and that's about it. Don't trust anything you've copied off of SD just yet. Try a fresh download and install of what you need first. Try installing from the internal SD also for now.
Of course always follow the correct procedure posted for installation of any non-Gingerbread rom. Some have special requirements.
If both sd cards are reformatted and a factory reset is done would you lose root?
Looks like that did it TD. And to think I thought I was getting proficient lol. Thanks so very much for the help. Looks like the apps are loading with no problems. Keeping my fingers crossed lol.
tdunham said:
Once you format the internal, it will be pretty cleaned out.
I would redownload the ROM you want to try, Calkulin's format all and that's about it. Don't trust anything you've copied off of SD just yet. Try a fresh download and install of what you need first. Try installing from the internal SD also for now.
Of course always follow the correct procedure posted for installation of any non-Gingerbread rom. Some have special requirements.
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I didn't. Not sure if the ROMs are including root or what. But all is looking well.
rwright64 said:
If both sd cards are reformatted and a factory reset is done would you lose root?
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cerebralzulu said:
Looks like that did it TD. And to think I thought I was getting proficient lol. Thanks so very much for the help. Looks like the apps are loading with no problems. Keeping my fingers crossed lol.
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Perfect! No telling where your issue really was but there was no point in spending a lot of time troubleshooting it either. So much junk is left over from flashing, I always recommend a full wipe occasionally.
Alright I going keep this simple. I checked all over the forum and can't find a sollution. My devs told me to come here and told me no one else has this issue.
Following is my specs. s3, running twrp 2.3.3.1 have sense it came out. I have a 32 gig SD card patriot. I am running super su (note that)
I use TB backup normal. I run inverted Gapps, normaly.
My attempts to fix.
Did a clean install, format system, factory data reset, cache, dalvik in TWRP. I installed rootbox, I installed normal Gapps 20121212, then
Get to home screen I dont reinstall anything except
TB backup, Root Tool box, and updated super su (which might be installed wrong)
anyways I reboot to back up when there done and poof Roottoolbox is no longer there, though icon is still there. Missing app.... icon still there WTF
TB lost its cousin TB pro (key) but TB is there.... wtf
Oh and super su lost its update as did gapps updates
All missing
Also I can reinstall apps restart again and BAM apps missing again same ones same updates.
Is this something I could of done in android comander? I use droid manager and droid explore too..
Never had a issue back on 4.1 jellybam I flased a few roms 4.2 roms..
baked bean, aokp , cm10 tried them now im on rootbox
I did flash the broken jellybam 5.1 a bunch times trying get to work (shrug) dunno if that matters and I flashed from 4.1 to 4.2 a lot of times
I assume some folder got moved its like my system picks apps to move to certain places
OR maybe I installed backed up apps with android comander somewhere i shouldn't so now I can't install them again (though flashing clean install should fixed everything)
Give me some ideas please thank you
I never had a issue that clean install didn't fix so Im worried. I still have old backup on my computer of before the problem started but there 4.1 roms and I don't wana compound my issues so I wait untill I get reply to try anything crazy
I think I know whats wrong I explored a bit and i dunno my data/data folder is FULL of old stuff I guess I asumed it got cleaned out with system wipe in TWRP
So my question is .... assuming im going to do a reinstall what should I wipe to clean out my system folders? I don't want to clean my SD card just the system I want a true fresh install thank you
xxsicknessxx said:
I think I know whats wrong I explored a bit and i dunno my data/data folder is FULL of old stuff I guess I asumed it got cleaned out with system wipe in TWRP
So my question is .... assuming im going to do a reinstall what should I wipe to clean out my system folders? I don't want to clean my SD card just the system I want a true fresh install thank you
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my advice to you is clean up all partitions by using odin to flash back to stock, reroot, custom recovery and start flashing again. seems like your partitions need a cleaning bud, I'm 99% sure this will solve your problem.
p.s. wiping in recovery is not the same thing as odin back to stock, a full odin flash back to stock will fix EVERY partition on your phone and really clean things up. You can even do a full wipe after the odin to stock to really make sure your system is clean.
also use sdmaid (root app) to clean out your sdcard of crap
Danvdh said:
my advice to you is clean up all partitions by using odin to flash back to stock, reroot, custom recovery and start flashing again. seems like your partitions need a cleaning bud, I'm 99% sure this will solve your problem.
p.s. wiping in recovery is not the same thing as odin back to stock, a full odin flash back to stock will fix EVERY partition on your phone and really clean things up. You can even do a full wipe after the odin to stock to really make sure your system is clean.
also use sdmaid (root app) to clean out your sdcard of crap
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Any chance you got a link to advise me on how to do that? I havn't ever gone back to stock...
Odin or mobile odin? Im assuming Normal odin. hmpf sounds good to me but maybe i shouldn't do it at 1:52 am
xxsicknessxx said:
Any chance you got a link to advise me on how to do that? I havn't ever gone back to stock...
Odin or mobile odin? Im assuming Normal odin. hmpf sounds good to me but maybe i shouldn't do it at 1:52 am
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Get your stock firmware 4.0.4
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1968625
use this toolkit to guide you through everything, it will basically teach you how to use odin, I recommend it
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1746665
FOLLOW ON SCREEN INSTRUCTIONS, don't get ahead of yourself, the tool kit tells you what to do.
root and install custom recovery afterwords using the toolkit
once again, FOLLOW ON SCREEN INSTRUCTIONS, don't get ahead of yourself, the tool kit tells you what to do.
once you boot up just factory reset inside the rom, reboot into recovery (toolkit will do it for you if you choose the setting) and start flashing again
also don't forget to reflash the latest modem for your carrier, found here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1831898
also, I think you should format your sd card, just back up ALL your important stuff on your PC and move it back after, you will REALLY clean stuff up big time,
-I have to flash modem?
-Do I need a kernal?
-I cant use any of my backups after I do this right?
Last but not least I have my stock backup before I started flashing that isn't going to help right? Whats ever messed up im going need to do this all the way right?
Anyways I figure it can't hurt but I gotta make sure I get perfect directions I can follow but if I have guess on anything im doomed. I downloading the stock file now (I think right one its ATT) doesn't say d2att but I assume ATT means that all 3 recoverys are for d2att
anyways you helped me a bunch using search I know I can figure the rest out im going download everything get sleep and attemt in morning I come back let ya know if I get back to running.
Funny this problem effecs so few apps just a couple I must done something wrong. I don't get how anything can live past system wipe in TWRP... I mean it deletes system files right? They get replaced by my new roms files I thought but instead they seem like they get left over every time i wipe... I dunno why. If this don't work im using my warrenty
how come i cant just wipe data then install a fresh rom off my sd card? or could my recovery be messed up also.... (dam) i guess this makes sense oh well lol
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Thanks a bunch man.
Every once in awhile someone really is helpfull on this forum and its cool when it happens. *Tips his hat* thanks
I already formated my sd card (will do it again if nessisery)
Just did it few seconds ago figured might help. umm only other question now is.. do I need flash kernal or is that included... and also the s3 toolkit (I have it already) and have used it I only sounds like a noob I just confused at this issue. Umm it doesn't have my specific model will that be a issue? I know it has i747 but not samsung galaxy i747 att
or does not matter only the i747 part needs be right only asking so i don't F up
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i747 is at&t
i747m is Canada
T999 is tmobile
that should help you out, also, the odin flash covers every partition. kernel, rom, modem etc. you will need to flash a custom kernel after your rooted and have a custom recovery. I would do a little bit more research, flash the rom in my sig (my own rom) when your up and running and use it as a daily driver untill you figure things out a little bit more with some good ol reading :highfive:
that was a long download. I know what im kinda doing. I done same thing on my S2 reverted it to sell. The only difference is my S3 is a girl about things. my s2 could take anything.
Anyways I had a long night.. i dunno what problem IS but I think has to do with me having android comander and backing up my APKs to my computer and my phone. and reinstalling apps with bolth programs.
Its so easy to use Android comander that I dunno maybe I been installing apps in wrong places and it finaly caught up to me
Or maybe phone defective.. *shrug* dunno others had my issues too but no fixes really. Nothing solid.
I give your idea a try but I did just wipe data, wipe system factory data and bla bla nothing helps it still happens. the same dam 3 apps too... over and over jezzzz
Thanks for help Im to tired to continue was just waiting for the reocvery to finish later
Anyone answer this.
If I format everything in Twrp all my
system/system/app folders
system/data/app folders
data/data/ folders
And so forth do they get delete and new one put in there place
do they get over written and merge with the ones from last rom
nothing happens to them?
I need to know. And this Full Recovery via odin the guy above says to do will it really get rid of them? all Not leave stuff behind
I think this is my problem if it isn't then its a faulty phone but problems just started so i think its something i did on acciednt
Even though I installed newest TWRP sometimes its like Settings get left over even after a full wipe. Including data (did last night)
Did data, system, cache , dalvik, factory reset, I even formated SD card
Then reindtall rom downloded rom manager. restarted and poof gone and left behind short cut on the desktop
So wtf ? and settings won't stick they revert back default like it can't remember **** its been smoking weed i bet... dam phone
any ideas help or will flashing odin fix this because i don't wana mess phone up worse
Wait..did you format internal SD?
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jasvncnt1 said:
Wait..did you format internal SD?
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I took bolth out first trasferd exSD and formated on my computer... then after I did a DATA WIPE in TWRP which is a format of interneal sd card (correct?)
Just to see if help.. I ran SD maid cleaned up tons of crap... but still having issues... I dunno maybe its the roms and no one else noticed because they don't flash as much as me.... whatever this is going on its weird... Like I said its got something do with data from apps being stored in wrong place so when I update them they get sent to the wrong folder somehow but only some of them get sent there ( dunno ) then when I reboot they gone and I come back and my settings gone too... also when I flash a rom sometimes settings are picked for me already (then if I change them and flash again) they might be different... or I get settings from a old rom.. and I always clean flash btw
Very odd I dunno I going do odin thing tonight just waiting get more info I don't feel like I can do it right now with out Fing it up
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I took bolth out first trasferd exSD and formated on my computer... then after I did a DATA WIPE in TWRP which is a format of interneal sd card (correct?)
Just to see if help.. I ran SD maid cleaned up tons of crap... but still having issues... I dunno maybe its the roms and no one else noticed because they don't flash as much as me.... whatever this is going on its weird... Like I said its got something do with data from apps being stored in wrong place so when I update them they get sent to the wrong folder somehow but only some of them get sent there ( dunno ) then when I reboot they gone and I come back and my settings gone too... also when I flash a rom sometimes settings are picked for me already (then if I change them and flash again) they might be different... or I get settings from a old rom.. and I always clean flash btw
Very odd I dunno I going do odin thing tonight just waiting get more info I don't feel like I can do it right now with out Fing it up
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Reguardless of what I did to cause this what I don't get is why wiping everything and installing fresh rom doesn't do the trick?
Is there any other way to clean out all /system folders / data folders / root folders of crap and start brand new? beside above post?
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I took bolth out first trasferd exSD and formated on my computer... then after I did a DATA WIPE in TWRP which is a format of interneal sd card (correct?)
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Wipe data doesn't format your internal. You need to actually format internal. Cant remember where that option is. Might be in "wipe" or in "advanced" . BUT....it will wipe everything of your internal. What ever you have saved.... Backups....pics.
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Wipe data doesn't format your internal. You need to actually format internal. Cant remember where that option is. Might be in "wipe" or in "advanced" . BUT....it will wipe everything of your internal. What ever you have saved.... Backups....pics.
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everything important is saved on my computer honestly I make lots of backups im a carefull person I been reading about corrupt EFS folders, and bad system directories and stuff....
Seems only way fix it go back to stock and go through your folders.... Once im stock again I hope I do this right (im ready to do it now) just ... feel like this could all go wrong
What do I do once im stock? Just wipe the phone? factory data... its the not having a custom recovery (with stock) that scares me so much... I rooted this phone with a program I didn't do it by hand so Im worrried I might not get it right *sigh*
Once your back on stock n rooted install goomanager and installed TWRP again.
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Wipe data doesn't format your internal. You need to actually format internal. Cant remember where that option is. Might be in "wipe" or in "advanced" . BUT....it will wipe everything of your internal. What ever you have saved.... Backups....pics.
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Alright so im stock now. with root... Havn't formatted yet (no point) I already did that ... I know how this happned I think..
When I kept going from 4.1 and 4.2 I would get 0 folders so I took it and moved it back by just droping all folders back into the main drive so alll combine. It seemed to work but does sound possible? Would that casue issues with /root folder or is /root got nothing do with internal storage because I can't see it from computer
HEY quick what do I do with 0 folder? delete it all? combine? cry..... hehe I only got 1 but what do I do with it thanks
I wana make sure I fixed now
Danvdh said:
Get your stock firmware 4.0.4
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1968625
use this toolkit to guide you through everything, it will basically teach you how to use odin, I recommend it
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1746665
FOLLOW ON SCREEN INSTRUCTIONS, don't get ahead of yourself, the tool kit tells you what to do.
root and install custom recovery afterwords using the toolkit
once again, FOLLOW ON SCREEN INSTRUCTIONS, don't get ahead of yourself, the tool kit tells you what to do.
once you boot up just factory reset inside the rom, reboot into recovery (toolkit will do it for you if you choose the setting) and start flashing again
also don't forget to reflash the latest modem for your carrier, found here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1831898
also, I think you should format your sd card, just back up ALL your important stuff on your PC and move it back after, you will REALLY clean stuff up big time,
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Thanks again for the information you helped a lot and I think that worked. I think its fixed. I can't be sure but its not happening at least like it was before. I prob won't know for awhile if its going to happen again for sure but Im optimistic. I mean what else can I do after this lol buy a new phone
Thanks dude most people arn't that nice to explain everything to me
I wiped flashed file but it keeps booting into the modified TWRP RECOVERY? Stuck at this point.
Anyone have any ideas?
I was on TWRP 2.4.1 Newest version
MA5 Stock Deodexed MA5 Firmwares
OK Now a little freaked out. I can't get to billards file or any of my back ups because they were on my external sd card!!!! I hate trying to learn new stuff (old dog)
I'm so used to HTC and when I think I have a grasp of Sammy I F&ck it up!
Oh yeah and my back ups on PC are gone because of hard drive crash! FFFFUUUUDDDDGGGGEEEE!!!!!!!
Any help to get me back to where I was before I flashed this thing would be very much appreciated. Hell I'll take a bootable ROM of any kind. Sweating bullets!
I have the mskips 3.0 toolkit can that help? I scared ****less to do anything!
I don't have ideas of why. But if you have ROM, try flashing it and see if it'll boot. Then at least you can get the rom you want later and maybe your backups.
No Rom on Phone
lovekeiiy said:
I don't have ideas of why. But if you have ROM, try flashing it and see if it'll boot. Then at least you can get the rom you want later and maybe your backups.
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It's (TWRP) not showing anything under the external sd card and I'm not sure how to mount the external sd card? Under mount there are some options problem is this is a modified version of TWRP 2.3.2.3 or something close to that. Just confused on how to just get a stock rom back on the thing?
thank you very much for your reply
Charles
ceabbott2 said:
It's (TWRP) not showing anything under the external sd card and I'm not sure how to mount the external sd card? Under mount there are some options problem is this is a modified version of TWRP 2.3.2.3 or something close to that. Just confused on how to just get a stock rom back on the thing?
thank you very much for your reply
Charles
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I had this problem a few times. I know I solved it by just flashing back to stock and formatted everything. I know that's probably excessive and you'll lose a lot of info but it's better than having a very expensive paper weight. Lol
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How did you do that?
nthornton1990 said:
I had this problem a few times. I know I solved it by just flashing back to stock and formatted everything. I know that's probably excessive and you'll lose a lot of info but it's better than having a very expensive paper weight. Lol
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I can't see anything on my sd card and since this is some sort of modified version of TWRP it can only see what's on the internal memory. But none of my back ups are on the internaland whenever it rebooots it always boots the the modified version of TWRP. Really stumped i don't know adb so I don't know if I can even push anything to the phone?
Don't mind losing data no biggie there but I'm like you don't want it totally hosed.
Thanks Charles
Use odin to flash latest twrp over the funky one. Then use real twrp to access sd card. Also before that, remove sd card and copy contents to new hard drive using a card reader.
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Thank you
KEYofR said:
Use odin to flash latest twrp over the funky one. Then use real twrp to access sd card. Also before that, remove sd card and copy contents to new hard drive using a card reader.
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Copying files now. Quick question/advice If I can see my old TWRP file in my internal memory could I flash that file with this weird modified version of TWRP? Then I could flash any file from my sd card stock or custom ROM. If not to flash the TWRP file in Odin do I place it in PDA the slot and which buttons do I need to check (reboot etc)?
Wait I can't use Odin because my PC can't recognize or see my phone because of this modified version of TWRP. Damn it!
My apologies for the noob questions just scared ****less to do anything.
My sd card is wiped clean
So I could put a file on sd card but this modified version of TWRP can't see my external sd card.
Thank you for your time
Charles
To use odin you have to put the phone in "download mode" not recovery. It's a special mode different from recovery or OS or bootloader. Power off the phone and press & hold UPvol+home+power until you get the download mode screen.
It doesn't matter what kind of recovery or anything else you have. It works even with no recovery or kernel or bootloader or OS at all.
Get the tar version of openrecovery 2.4.1.0 (or whatevers latest you future readers). Don't unpack the tar.
Uncheck reboot.
Use the PDA button, select the downloaded tar.
After flashing is done and it says 1 success 0 error, bpull the battery.
This next is annoying and I can't really believe there is no better way, but I need to do it this way or else the newly flashed recovery doesn't "take" and I have to flash it again. Just once the first time after flashing. After that no problem. Anyway, hold DOWNvol+home+power, and while holding all those, put the battery back in.
Now you should have a good fully functional useful TWRP recovery that you can use to flash all kinds of things from the sd card, backup all kinds of things to the sd card, access the internal main OS flash drive, the internal "sdcard" and external sdcard, etc.
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KEYofR said:
To use odin you have to put the phone in "download mode" not recovery. It's a special mode different from recovery or OS or bootloader. Power off the phone and press & hold UPvol+home+power until you get the download mode screen.
It doesn't matter what kind of recovery or anything else you have. It works even with no recovery or kernel or bootloader or OS at all.
Get the tar version of openrecovery 2.4.1.0 (or whatevers latest you future readers). Don't unpack the tar.
Uncheck reboot.
Use the PDA button, select the downloaded tar.
After flashing is done and it says 1 success 0 error, bpull the battery.
This next is annoying and I can't really believe there is no better way, but I need to do it this way or else the newly flashed recovery doesn't "take" and I have to flash it again. Just once the first time after flashing. After that no problem. Anyway, hold DOWNvol+home+power, and while holding all those, put the battery back in.
Now you should have a good fully functional useful TWRP recovery that you can use to flash all kinds of things from the sd card, backup all kinds of things to the sd card, access the internal main OS flash drive, the internal "sdcard" and external sdcard, etc.
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Ok since I was in the middle of all this (On MA5 Firmware and stock rooted ROM) Do I flash a stock rooted ROM and which one(LJ1 MA5 LK8)??? I don't know where I was as far as this zip was when I wiped dalvik and cache and started this disaster?
For the life of me I can't remember how to boot into recovery Power & volume down? Is that right?
Thank you for all of your help your a godsend.
UPDATE:
I'm back on Stock Deodexed MA5. I was and to flash TWRP 2.4.1.0, Reboot recovery, and restore my last back up.
Thank you SOOOO MUCH... going to cry in my stressed out happy place
Update used an all in one and stock deodexed MA7 thank you everyone!
Charles
So I have a ~week old Tab which I havn't used, I played around with it last night and flashed CWM using Odin and that worked fine. I went and flashed the rooted stock firmware, and it seemed to have flashed fine, except now the tablet is in a reboot loop, it restarts about 3 times and then automatically boots into recovery. I've flashed all the ROMs I can find for the 10.1" and it happens with all of them, last resort is flashing stock recovery then taking it back to the place I bought it from and to play dumb, but I'd rather not. Anyone got any suggestions?
TL;DR Tablet stuck in reboot loop, won't boot ROM, recovery & download mode work fine.
You might have done it, but have you tried flashing back the stock firmware ?
try it and post back please
Agree, I had the same issues with a few of the custom roms. I went back to stock rom and have had no issues. My issue was flashing from a SD card. For some reason it would not work. I put the rom on the device in the download folder and flashed from there. Most roms did flash correctly but I found them to be of little use. Did you by chance do a backup before you started playing around with other roms? Hope so. Then at least you can recover back to factory condition.
Nitro_123 said:
You might have done it, but have you tried flashing back the stock firmware ?
try it and post back please
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I have, I tried reinstalling my backup, as well as both of the stock roms here, although both times I didn't have a microsd card available, so I sideloaded both of the ROMs (which apparently worked fine, verified etc). I've just gone and bought one, so when I get home tonight I'm going to have another play around and see if I can get something working.
Brian D said:
Agree, I had the same issues with a few of the custom roms. I went back to stock rom and have had no issues. My issue was flashing from a SD card. For some reason it would not work. I put the rom on the device in the download folder and flashed from there. Most roms did flash correctly but I found them to be of little use. Did you by chance do a backup before you started playing around with other roms? Hope so. Then at least you can recover back to factory condition.
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Interesting, I haven't tried that, I shall, thanks
I might also try flashing the ROM through Odin instead of a recovery.
I do believe that stock roms MUST be uploaded via ODIN. They cannot reside on the device. The stock rom is around 1.9gb (XAR-P5210UEUAMK1). So you will use that file (or whatever stock rom you wish to use). If you are loading one of the other roms developed here then you can put it on the device and load from there (via the recovery app CWM or TWRP)
Brian D said:
I do believe that stock roms MUST be uploaded via ODIN. They cannot reside on the device. The stock rom is around 1.9gb (XAR-P5210UEUAMK1). So you will use that file (or whatever stock rom you wish to use). If you are loading one of the other roms developed here then you can put it on the device and load from there (via the recovery app CWM or TWRP)
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Oh, damn, really? That would explain quite a lot then, thanks, hopefully I'll be home in a couple hours and can report back
My bad I didn't make myself clear. Yes I meant flashing back a stock ROM via ODIN as that is the best way to restore it to stock. Thanks to @Brian D for pointing that out
Nitro_123 said:
My bad I didn't make myself clear. Yes I meant flashing back a stock ROM via ODIN as that is the best way to restore it to stock. Thanks to @Brian D for pointing that out
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Haha thanks, I'm downloading a stock rom now, hopefully I'll be able to report back in about 30
Holy ****, thanks guys! Managed to get the stock ROM flashed with Odin, silly me for the not realising. Anyone know what would have caused the boot loop? I really don't want to run the stock rom with all the samsung crap (I guess I can root and remove everything)
I think what you did was called a dirty flash. You had bits and pieces of the original rom on the device when you tried to load another rom. The two mixed like vinegar and oil. You have to wipe your system clean before you can load a new flash. Before proceeding please do a backup of what you have right now. Load either CWM or TWRP and do the backup. My preference is TWRP. I like the look and feel of how it works.
I found the best instruction set to be http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=49715684&postcount=172. I had the same boot loop as you but when I followed these instructions I finally loaded the rom. But like I said, to me I gained nothing by using it. But this is me. After much reading I found that if I just delete bloatware then I should be ok. I used an app called bloatfree from the play store. Worked just great but one has to be careful about what one removes. That is why I always backup before doing anything. I must have had 20 backup files at one time. LOL
Good luck!