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I used to format /system every time I flashed a ROM on my gs2, but I saw in the numerous imei threads some posts about not doing so because it may be part of the lost imei issues. Do you do it ? Have you had issues ? I'm reluctant to do so , but feel it will be " beneficial to my flashing" if I did...
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Format system does not wipe out imei. It's when you root it the wrong way. If you want to play safe, you can go to development section use imei back up method to back it up
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No lie I formatted my system the other day and right after tried to revert to a stock android backup that I made. And wasn't able to do so because it told me M.D.5 sum mismatch after I reverted to it earlier in the day. Huh is what I was like and after that clockwork mod recovery would let me restore a cm10 backup I made said something about couldnt restore system. So out of frustration I went back to being unrooted. Just couldn't take the problems with clockwork mod because that's what where the problems ly. It wasn't me it was the recovery
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Did you changed the backup in any format? Change name or date? Any minor changes to the backup will fail md5 check
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None what so ever. I really just flashed the stock back up right before I flashed my gsfree back up so no I made no changes what also ever. Some times when you format systems in clockworkmod recovery this could happen because it happen to me. Can't wait till ext4 touch recovery comes to us here in this forum. Not saying cwm recovery isn't nice but I never had any problems with other recoveries that have been offered.
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No lie I formatted my system the other day and right after tried to revert to a stock android backup that I made. And wasn't able to do so because it told me M.D.5 sum mismatch after I reverted to it earlier in the day. Huh is what I was like and after that clockwork mod recovery would let me restore a cm10 backup I made said something about couldnt restore system. So out of frustration I went back to being unrooted. Just couldn't take the problems with clockwork mod because that's what where the problems ly. It wasn't me it was the recovery
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There are ways to fix that issue with the MD5 sum mismatch. I've had it happen a few times and ran a few commands thru ADB and got it working.
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There are ways to fix that issue with the MD5 sum mismatch. I've had it happen a few times and ran a few commands thru ADB and got it working.
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Yes you are right. But I didn't want to go thru all of that. Really didn't have time so just unrooted my phone so there would be no more problems. I get like alot of people and become flash aholics. So I just stop it from being problem later down the road. Look I like rooting and adding mods to my phone like the next guy but there comes to a point where unnecessary issues can be avoided. Like the one I had.... but on the real tip I really enjoy the phone just the way it is STOCK I have zero issues and love the battery life that I have. So until some cooler roms come out I just don't have interest in cm9 or cm10 base roms. I mean I came from the sensation where I could flash a lot more variety of roms. I like this phone the way it is and really that's why I bought it.
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Can anyone advise how one would go about fixing the S3's internal partition tables? I believe I need to flash someone else's table?
Help!
Some context:
I've been having this issue where my S3 runs into a symlink failure/Status 7 error whenever I try to flash a Jelly Bean rom, ie. CM10/PA/Jellybro. This occurred despite me having the latest 5.8.4.7. CWM, wiped and reformatted EVERYTHING, etc. I posted a sample of where the recovery error log shows the flashing processes failing here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=30287780&postcount=302
Lots of XDA member offered advice with no avail. I remember one member mentioned something about partition tables, so I dug a little deeper. I noticed that the error log also contained error messages about missing directories and my sd-ext not mounting, which is strange since I can access my external sdcard under /mnt/extsdcard directory, and the two directory names aren't matching. So I downloaded an partition table app and saw the following:
http://imgur.com/6r4Vo
Basically, it looks like my partition tables are somehow corrupted and my sdcard and external SD is being mounted for use, but somehow...incorrectly. I'm thinking this is the likely culprit.
What was the app you ran to get that? And what rom were you running when you took that screenshot?
You said its happening when you try to flash jellybean. Do you have any problems with cm9, or stock?
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What was the app you ran to get that? And what rom were you running when you took that screenshot?
You said its happening when you try to flash jellybean. Do you have any problems with cm9, or stock?
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I ran this app called partition table.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...t=W251bGwsMSwyLDEsImNvbS5jbHMucGFydGl0aW9uIl0.
Oy, I missed the reviews where people are saying that this returns bogus info.
Anyways, here's the situation with what I could/could not flash
-Could not flash CM10/ParanoidA/Jellybro/one other ICS rom that I couldn't think of
-COULD flash CM9, as well as restore nandroid backup of older redrum stripped stock (which is what I ran this off of)
-Tried to flash from CWM/TWRP, neither worked
Back to the partition table, even though that app may be malfunctioning, there were still lines in the recovery error log that indicated that the loader was trying to access /sd-ext, when the external SD in my CWM is displayed as /external_sd. Also, it was trying to reference, edit, and delete from non-existent sources, which seems to indicate that these instructions are being misdirected. If this sounds like another error, I'm all ears.
Well, that is an odd problem! If stock based and other roms flash and run normally, I seriously doubt it'll be a partition related problem. While in cwm recovery, in mounts and storage did you check to make sure your sd was mounted? I may be wrong but I seem to remember some had problems with it correctly recognizing the external sd. In twrp there should be an option just above the slider to use either internal or external.
Sounds like its a problem more with your recovery to me. Try downloading goo.im from play store and use that to install the latest twrp recovery.
If that doesn't work the only other thing I can think to try is to apply the FULL latest update from samsung, UVALH I believe. Install using kies and I think it will rewrite the whole system to pure stock. You will have to reroot, but its definately worth trying before messing with the partitions. If you do that, use goo.im to reinstall twrp and give it a go again.
If I think of anything else to try ill let you know but for now that's the best I can think of.
Just to be sure what model phone do you have? T999, T999V, i9300?
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Well, that is an odd problem! If stock based and other roms flash and run normally, I seriously doubt it'll be a partition related problem. While in cwm recovery, in mounts and storage did you check to make sure your sd was mounted? I may be wrong but I seem to remember some had problems with it correctly recognizing the external sd. In twrp there should be an option just above the slider to use either internal or external.
Sounds like its a problem more with your recovery to me. Try downloading goo.im from play store and use that to install the latest twrp recovery.
If that doesn't work the only other thing I can think to try is to apply the FULL latest update from samsung, UVALH I believe. Install using kies and I think it will rewrite the whole system to pure stock. You will have to reroot, but its definately worth trying before messing with the partitions. If you do that, use goo.im to reinstall twrp and give it a go again.
If I think of anything else to try ill let you know but for now that's the best I can think of.
Just to be sure what model phone do you have? T999, T999V, i9300?
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I'm on the T999, T-Mobile.
To your question I've tried TWRP and CWM and neither works. The external SD cards were mounted in recovery during my attempts. I've actually tried using an earlier version of CWM to flash directly from the external SD card, to the exact same results.
I'll try the Samsung update; my hope is that it also provides a partition refresh. It is indeed a unique problem!
Its the best thing I can think of, so hope it fixes everything. If it is a corrupt partition it should rewrite it, so lets hope!
One other thing, what version of twrp were you using? 2.2.1.1 is the latest for our phone. I think there's an older unofficial one out there and even though it would say the sd was mounted, you would have to go into the backup section and look at available space to confirm that. There were also problems with the touch cwm recovery...
I think the way the gs3 handles the sdcard is part of the problem with those though.
Anyway, good luck! Let me know how it goes!
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Its the best thing I can think of, so hope it fixes everything. If it is a corrupt partition it should rewrite it, so lets hope!
One other thing, what version of twrp were you using? 2.2.1.1 is the latest for our phone. I think there's an older unofficial one out there and even though it would say the sd was mounted, you would have to go into the backup section and look at available space to confirm that. There were also problems with the touch cwm recovery...
I think the way the gs3 handles the sdcard is part of the problem with those though.
Anyway, good luck! Let me know how it goes!
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TWRP didn't work and neither did flashing the new Samsung update.
I'm absolutely baffled at this point. I can't find what the hell are causing these symlink errors anywhere.
Sorry I don't have any other ideas. Just to be sure though, did you flash the rooted rom, or use kies or odin to install the update directly from samsung?
Actually, one or two more ideas, though I wouldn't expect much at this point.
You could try using odin to reflash the original shipped version....you never know.
Or
Go into the updater-script and wherever it tries to use /sd-ext, change it to /external_sd, or whatever your error log says its looking for.
Definately ask another dev if its worth trying before doing that!
You may want to examine what is happening with any simlinks in there as well. Unfortunately Im probably not the best person to troubleshoot that stuff. But if you want to attach a copy of your logfile ill be glad to take a look.
Sorry I haven't been better help for you.
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Sorry I don't have any other ideas. Just to be sure though, did you flash the rooted rom, or use kies or odin to install the update directly from samsung?
Actually, one or two more ideas, though I wouldn't expect much at this point.
You could try using odin to reflash the original shipped version....you never know.
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Go into the updater-script and wherever it tries to use /sd-ext, change it to /external_sd, or whatever your error log says its looking for.
Definately ask another dev if its worth trying before doing that!
You may want to examine what is happening with any simlinks in there as well. Unfortunately Im probably not the best person to troubleshoot that stuff. But if you want to attach a copy of your logfile ill be glad to take a look.
Sorry I haven't been better help for you.
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No I'm more than appreciative, believe me.
I've attached some log files from various attempts. There are some common error lines, including various referencing missing directories and such.
W:Unable to get recovery.fstab info for /datadata during fstab generation!
W:Unable to get recovery.fstab info for /emmc during fstab generation!
W:Unable to get recovery.fstab info for /sd-ext during fstab generation!
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Cool, just got home so ill take a look at these in a bit.
In the meantime there's a new rom, Speed Rom which you may want to try. A few min ago I saw the dev had posted that it is in fact based on cm10.
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Cool, just got home so ill take a look at these in a bit.
In the meantime there's a new rom, Speed Rom which you may want to try. A few min ago I saw the dev had posted that it is in fact based on cm10.
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Hey, I actually fixed it; It turns out I had to reflash a stock insecure kernel, reboot into recovery, AND force a signature check to get it to work. It's strange, because the first flash had some issues and upon trying to reflash it I had to repeat the whole kernel flash process all over again or else it ran into the same symlink error.
I had tried flashing other kernels before but still had errors; it took be sitting down and flashing every kernel for the phone I could find, paired with a ODIN stock flash, to get it to work. I'm still not sure why this phone seems to have this sensitivity about it.
Anyways, thanks for your help; I'm going to post this around in case anyone else has this issue.
Awesome! Great work figuring that out!
(And props for changing the title!)
I'm still a little confused as to why symlinks were failing, but in the end as long as there's a resolution Im thinking it'll be ok!
After getting it to install again have you tried installing anything from recovery? Just curious if its a problem you will have to dance around on future flashes, or if this seems to have solved it altogether.
Either way, excellent job! I love solutions!
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Awesome! Great work figuring that out!
(And props for changing the title!)
I'm still a little confused as to why symlinks were failing, but in the end as long as there's a resolution Im thinking it'll be ok!
After getting it to install again have you tried installing anything from recovery? Just curious if its a problem you will have to dance around on future flashes, or if this seems to have solved it altogether.
Either way, excellent job! I love solutions!
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I just can't tell. And it's also worth noting that that failure occurred with different kernels.
I'm going to flash more JB roms as they come along but I'll have backups ready this time. Ostensibly, now that I have a base down I should be able to get around similar errors with a little elbow grease, as opposed to days of OCD-driven anguish. But you'll note that I already ran into the error right after successfully flashed it the first time. I still feel like there's some setting or another that needs to be adjusted in the background. But for now, at least I can sleep.
Cheers and thanks for the help and suggestions mate. :good:
Rest well! You deserve it after all that!
And id be keeping multiple nandroid backups laying around!
Anyway, I've only had a chance to glance at those logs you posted. Now that things have calmed down ill look at em more closely in case anything jumps out at me. I think you are probably right that there is still some issue in there somewhere. I don't know about you but I hate that feeling!
But at least that sense of urgency is diminished!
Ill let you know if I find anything a little later.
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Rest well! You deserve it after all that!
And id be keeping multiple nandroid backups laying around!
Anyway, I've only had a chance to glance at those logs you posted. Now that things have calmed down ill look at em more closely in case anything jumps out at me. I think you are probably right that there is still some issue in there somewhere. I don't know about you but I hate that feeling!
But at least that sense of urgency is diminished!
Ill let you know if I find anything a little later.
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I just tried to flash the latest 8/20 CM10 with all of the aforementioned precautions and it failed a couple of times, even reflashing the 8/18 rom from last night didn't work. It seems like after several tries it just...clicked? And it then did flash.
I wonder if it's a bad sector in my internal memory?
Ugh, I would hope not. How long have you had the phone? If you can it may be worth thinking about trying to exchange for another.
Bad memory can cause all sorts of crazy problems. If it were me I might not want to risk waiting to see how it goes.
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I have similar issues. If I flash speed rom or any cm10, I get the error. Also if I flash wicked v2 it won't boot, this is a rom based on stock4.0.4. My question is where did you find the signature verification? I have stock recovery 3e I believe, but don't see that option.
Btw, all other roms flash and run fine, including aokp, wicked v1, xquisite, and everything else.
You'll have to have a custom recovery installed.
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I have similar issues. If I flash speed rom or any cm10, I get the error. Also if I flash wicked v2 it won't boot, this is a rom based on stock4.0.4. My question is where did you find the signature verification? I have stock recovery 3e I believe, but don't see that option.
Btw, all other roms flash and run fine, including aokp, wicked v1, xquisite, and everything else.
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You'll have to have a custom recovery installed.
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Right, you'll want CWM or (I think) TWRP. CWM definitely has it; you should be able to flash it from rom manager if nothing else.
Meh, looks like I'm right back where i started, symlink failures up the wazoo again.
Need to find way to flash roms in ODIN, if that's even possible.
Hey guys! Its been a while since I've rooted a phone (HTC Inspire 4G) but last night I rooted my S3. Today I was checking storage and it says I have 2.62GB left on my internal SD card. I run the numbers on apps, downloads, etc. and it just doesn't add up to using 9GBs of space. I'm running LiquidSmooth with gapps (which downloaded my previous apps from stock via my account). Can someone help me out with this? Even if I have to completely wipe the storage space to get the room back, I'm fine with that. I just don't like not having space especially when there should be way more since there are no pictures or music on the phone. Thanks everyone and its good to be back flashing!
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I'm also running into an issue finding flashable .zips that are in my /download folder in Astro but not found when using CWM. Weird...
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Disregard not being to find them... Apparently I have a separate folder labeled /sdcard/0 that I have no idea how it was made... Is there a .exe to full wipe/format my sdcard so I can start with a clean slate and then simply restore my current ROM/Kernel? Factory reset, format system, wiping cache and dalvik cache then restoring backup isn't working.
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You know if you posted this in the right forum you might get some help.
It's not hard to realize that if you're asking a question it should probably be in the forum labeled questions and answers. Think before you post.
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You know if you posted this in the right forum you might get some help.
It's not hard to realize that if you're asking a question it should probably be in the forum labeled questions and answers. Think before you post.
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His question is in the Q&A
Read before posting
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His question is in the Q&A
Read before posting
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It is now that I reported it for being in the wrong section and a mod moved it.
Think before you post.
Anyways, the internal SD card is always going to have much less space then as advertised on the phone. My phone is a 16GB and out of the box I think it had like 13 or so.
You can install TWRP from Goo Manager and use that recovery to make a backup, format your internal storage, then restore data from a backup if you really think you're missing space, but honestly you probably arent.
Thank you for noticing that it was in the wrong forum Tekno.... And for getting that fixed. I understand I have less than advertised but before I rooted it, I backed up all the pictures onto my computer. My phone has no pictures or music on it so I'm trying to figure out where 10GBs have gone.
I will look up TWRP and hopefully that will help...
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Well if you've already backed up that you may as well just backup your contacts and anything else you may need and start clean. And by that I mean do a full wipe before flashing a ROM and don't restore data after.
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TeknoGodz said:
Well if you've already backed up that you may as well just backup your contacts and anything else you may need and start clean. And by that I mean do a full wipe before flashing a ROM and don't restore data after.
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Well, I'm a little too late for all of that now. I soft bricked the phone. Using CWM, I managed to erase everything from the sdcard. All files, all folders, everything. Now when the phone boots it hangs at the "Samsung Galaxy S III" screen. I can, however, get into Download Mode and Recovery Mode. Unfortunately for me though, I do not have the stock ROM .tar and cannot download it due to workstation restrictions. I can also get to Recovery Mode but I have absolutely no files on the sdcard at all and I can't figure out a way to force push LiquidSmooth onto the phone. I receive recognition of connection via ODIN but that program only uses .tar/.gz/.img/etc. and I can't put the LiquidSmooth .zip on that way. Hopefully someone can bring me a copy of the Stock ROM in to work tomorrow as I'm on duty and won't be able to leave work for a while (days).
Oh, it's been a while since I've bricked a phone also. Those days I don't miss...
Are there any other options that I may not have exhausted?
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Well, I'm a little too late for all of that now. I soft bricked the phone. Using CWM, I managed to erase everything from the sdcard. All files, all folders, everything. Now when the phone boots it hangs at the "Samsung Galaxy S III" screen. I can, however, get into Download Mode and Recovery Mode. Unfortunately for me though, I do not have the stock ROM .tar and cannot download it due to workstation restrictions. I can also get to Recovery Mode but I have absolutely no files on the sdcard at all and I can't figure out a way to force push LiquidSmooth onto the phone. I receive recognition of connection via ODIN but that program only uses .tar/.gz/.img/etc. and I can't put the LiquidSmooth .zip on that way. Hopefully someone can bring me a copy of the Stock ROM in to work tomorrow as I'm on duty and won't be able to leave work for a while (days).
Oh, it's been a while since I've bricked a phone also. Those days I don't miss...
Are there any other options that I may not have exhausted?
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Well heres a few things you can try:
1) ADB to push the rom to the phone
2) Use a proxy service to download original firmware (not sure if your workplace would like that though), Heres a link to the stock ATT firmware, not rooted, pure stock from sammobile http://www.hotfile.com/dl/182319352/b8d55a6/I747UCDLK3_I747ATTDLK3_ATT.zip.html
3) Ask to borrow a co-workers phone to download the file
Thanks Tekno. Finally back online...
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I flashed an AOSP Rom (SuperNexus) on my LGOG. Now when I try to flash a Stock (ZVB) based ROM, my phone reboots every time data connects. I tried Stock Rooted and Lifeless. The ROM's will flash onto my phone, but I can't get any data.
I tried installing LGNPST, but every time I connect my phone and open the LGNPST software I get a message that LG USB/Parallel dongle is not detected. I flashed back to Super Nex and my connection is fine.
And I am re-flashing, not restoring a backup. I ran a backup in TWRP before I flashed Super Nex so that I could get back to my Stock setup, but TWRP can't see anything to restore.
Ugh
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I flashed an AOSP Rom (SuperNexus) on my LGOG. Now when I try to flash a Stock (ZVB) based ROM, my phone reboots every time data connects. I tried Stock Rooted and Lifeless. The ROM's will flash onto my phone, but I can't get any data.
I tried installing LGNPST, but every time I connect my phone and open the LGNPST software I get a message that LG USB/Parallel dongle is not detected. I flashed back to Super Nex and my connection is fine.
And I am re-flashing, not restoring a backup. I ran a backup in TWRP before I flashed Super Nex so that I could get back to my Stock setup, but TWRP can't see anything to restore.
Ugh
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sounds like you're having similar issues as bmp7777, have you made any changes to your storage? as in the whole sdcard0 stuff? are your backups stored in sdcard0 ? when you flash a aosp rom it changes the way your storage is set up make sure you put your important stuff on sdcard0
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Androidawg said:
I flashed an AOSP Rom (SuperNexus) on my LGOG. Now when I try to flash a Stock (ZVB) based ROM, my phone reboots every time data connects. I tried Stock Rooted and Lifeless. The ROM's will flash onto my phone, but I can't get any data.
I tried installing LGNPST, but every time I connect my phone and open the LGNPST software I get a message that LG USB/Parallel dongle is not detected. I flashed back to Super Nex and my connection is fine.
And I am re-flashing, not restoring a backup. I ran a backup in TWRP before I flashed Super Nex so that I could get back to my Stock setup, but TWRP can't see anything to restore.
Ugh
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spleef said:
sounds like you're having similar issues as bmp7777, have you made any changes to your storage? as in the whole sdcard0 stuff? are your backups stored in sdcard0 ? when you flash a aosp rom it changes the way your storage is set up make sure you put your important stuff on sdcard0
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Why not just completely erase data? Including data media? That will solve all problems.
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sharkboy0901 said:
Why not just completely erase data? Including data media? That will solve all problems.
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Good idea. I'll give that a run.
sharkboy0901 said:
Why not just completely erase data? Including data media? That will solve all problems.
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Didn't want to suggest a complete erase If it could be avoided... so was basing my response on a minimal damage scenario... Lol,
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Didn't want to suggest a complete erase If it could be avoided... so was basing my response on a minimal damage scenario... Lol,
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Hope I didn't come across as rude, wasn't my intention, just thought up the quickest way I knew would solve it
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This happened to me a couple months ago.
Easy solution:
Go to TWRP -> Wipe -> Advanced -> make sure you wipe all four options data, dalvik, cache, and system.
When you factory reset you only wiped data, dalvik, and cache. You forgot to wipe system, then you can go back to flashing normally.
Dont worry this wont wipe your SDcard.
Well I ****ed up. I formatted the data partition. I am now hard bricked. No recovery, no boot, nothing. glad I purchased that insurance.
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Hope I didn't come across as rude, wasn't my intention, just thought up the quickest way I knew would solve it
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Nah not at all bud just explaining why I went the route I did
Androidawg said:
Well I ****ed up. I formatted the data partition. I am now hard bricked. No recovery, no boot, nothing. glad I purchased that insurance.
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Are you actually hard bricked because at this point normally I'm pretty sure you could just LGNPST back to stock? I mean I've wiped everything before to rule out dirty flashing related bugs on ROMs and I don't think TWRP actually touches any of the really critical low-level files.
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Well I ****ed up. I formatted the data partition. I am now hard bricked. No recovery, no boot, nothing. glad I purchased that insurance.
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Yeah hop on irc lgpnst that sucker and follow their instructions to the letter you'll be back in no time
spleef said:
Yeah hop on irc lgpnst that sucker and follow their instructions to the letter you'll be back in no time
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I was on irc earlier and the mega download was unavailable. I'll check it again tomorrow.
gentlemenace said:
Are you actually hard bricked because at this point normally I'm pretty sure you could just LGNPST back to stock? I mean I've wiped everything before to rule out dirty flashing related bugs on ROMs and I don't think TWRP actually touches any of the really critical low-level files.
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Worse than I've done before. Whatever I did I got black screen no matter what volume rocker power button combo I use. I have lgnpst installed on my computer but it doesn't recognize that I have my phone plugged in. Not sure what to do with that. Everything worked well when I rooted.
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Androidawg said:
Worse than I've done before. Whatever I did I got black screen no matter what volume rocker power button combo I use. I have lgnpst installed on my computer but it doesn't recognize that I have my phone plugged in. Not sure what to do with that. Everything worked well when I rooted.
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I sent you a pm so we can talk on gtalk/hangouts.
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I had the same issue with LGNPST. The solution is very simple. Uninstall LGNPDT completely from your computer. Go into start-computer-c drive and delete folders labeled LG electronics off of there and inside program files. Then reinstall LGNPST but right click the .exe file and select install as administrator. This will solve your issue and flash back to stock. Make sure you follow the normal process of selecting the .dll and .bin files.
Let me know if this helped.
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Well i took it back to best buy and they rapid exchanged it. So I'll get a new one in 3 to 5 days. Back on the galaxy nexus for now.
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So i decided to go from illusion to stockaroma v2 and once i got the phone setup it said i was running low on storage space so later on i rebooted my phone and i got android.phone has crashed blabla
Upon rebooting it kept crashing and crashing so i decided to wipe and reflash stockaroma but funny thing is everytime id wipe and start over I'd get same settings apps and stuff already preloaded as if cwm wasnt even wiping i tried couple times reflashing the rom didnt work..
So i decided to restore my backup now when i went ahead to do that o couldn't because it was saying there is no files ? And i flashed a rom i had on my sdcard but even tho i wiped i got some stuff preloaded which is not normal ? And now i got like 7 times the same directory it looks like this : sdcard/emulated/0/0/0/0 ??
Everything is messed up and down i do not want to go through odin since i have a damn slow computer which shutdowns by its own now imagine me flashing and it crashes...
So my question is how may i restore my backup ? I have like many "0" directory just not sure which one to delete as each contains different file ??
Please help me out im not a noob but this is the first time ive seen this
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Does each "O" folder have a recovery folder?
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alloycowboy said:
Does each "O" folder have a recovery folder?
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Nope and just accidentally lost half of my data and my 500 music about 400pics i am going to murder someone f*king hellllll today is not a good day for me
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Sorry but Odin seems to be your best bet or go buy an external sdcard and reader (as I've advertised on all forums before). This is also why we say to update your recovery to the latest one constantly, in many threads and most OP posts of most roms. Good luck. Also always having a backup of all your contemts on memory is recommended before messing with flashing ROMs. Live and learn.
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Sorry but Odin seems to be your best bet or go buy an external sdcard and reader (as I've advertised on all forums before). This is also why we say to update your recovery to the latest one constantly, in many threads and most OP posts of most roms. Good luck. Also always having a backup of all your contemts on memory is recommended before messing with flashing ROMs. Live and learn.
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Funny thing is in 4 years never been through anything similar you're telling me live and learn like i probably never read anything before flashing which is not the case i am always careful....
My guess is i ran out of storage space and maybe thats why there was so many /0 folders now that i cleaned some junk im all set up back and running just was wondering what happened and i had the latest cwm touch recovery so i don't know how should i upgrade my recovery if an update isn't out?
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Personally I use TWRP. You may try that instead. CWM may or may not be the problem
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shahkam said:
Funny thing is in 4 years never been through anything similar you're telling me live and learn like i probably never read anything before flashing which is not the case i am always careful....
My guess is i ran out of storage space and maybe thats why there was so many /0 folders now that i cleaned some junk im all set up back and running just was wondering what happened and i had the latest cwm touch recovery so i don't know how should i upgrade my recovery if an update isn't out?
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I say live and learn cause you didn't have thing backed up like you should and you made a mistake. I've yet to see anyone have duplicate /0 for that reason and I'm pretty sure that wasn't the cause. Its cause you weren't on the latest or even up to date to handle 4.2.2. I never said you weren't careful but in lots of the threads including illusion my post and Ramsay's, I think, says make sure you have updated your recovery and backup your sdcard contents. Just saying and its a friendly heads up, also advised you on external sdcard. No need to be defensive, just giving pointers and helping, bud.
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I say live and learn cause you didn't have thing backed up like you should and you made a mistake. I've yet to see anyone have duplicate /0 for that reason and I'm pretty sure that wasn't the cause. Its cause you weren't on the latest or even up to date to handle 4.2.2. I never said you weren't careful but in lots of the threads including illusion my post and Ramsay's, I think, says make sure you have updated your recovery and backup your sdcard contents. Just saying and its a friendly heads up, also advised you on external sdcard. No need to be defensive, just giving pointers and helping, bud.
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Yeah sorry having just another bad day but from now on i will be backing up content to dropbox on my pc aswell just to make sure its just that i never though of such a thing ever happening and it did....
And the most annoying part here is i can't delete the multiple "0" folder i did delete two of em but the rest i can't it says some files were not delete using oi file manager
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I haven't ever ran into the issue so maybe someone else can chime in. I would just format it if you don't care what else you lose.
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Can you delete them from the built-in file manager in recovery?
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Can you delete them from the built-in file manager in recovery?
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I can't :/
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In TWRP there's an option to only wipe internal sd if you want to try that.
Or maybe if you Odin the stock firmware it'll kill the symlink or whatever is holding it there. Then try to delete.
Or factory reset?
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In TWRP there's an option to only wipe internal sd if you want to try that.
Or maybe if you Odin the stock firmware it'll kill the symlink or whatever is holding it there. Then try to delete.
Or factory reset?
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Usually I'd odin but since i broken my laptop i only got my super buggy one which crashes random moments and just don't want to risk that happening while im in odin flashing the stock firmware...
But my issue is solved as i flashed illusion rom a copy i had on my sd just little annoyed i can't restore my nandroid backups might delete them its taking 3gig of space for nothing lol..
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Isn't there a way you can extract specific data from them? Never had to myself but I swear I've seen it mentioned somewhere.
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Isn't there a way you can extract specific data from them? Never had to myself but I swear I've seen it mentioned somewhere.
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You can use TiBu. But I just open them with WinRAR. Any archiver should work.
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Yeah sorry having just another bad day but from now on i will be backing up content to dropbox on my pc aswell just to make sure its just that i never though of such a thing ever happening and it did....
And the most annoying part here is i can't delete the multiple "0" folder i did delete two of em but the rest i can't it says some files were not delete using oi file manager
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Use Odin and switch to the latest twrp, lots of ppl have been having issues with cwm lately as its not updated with the latest flashing scripts and such, most cwm recoveries can't handle preload or wipe everything needed for 4.2 roms, try twrp and u shouldn't have anymore issues...
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Use Odin and switch to the latest twrp, lots of ppl have been having issues with cwm lately as its not updated with the latest flashing scripts and such, most cwm recoveries can't handle preload or wipe everything needed for 4.2 roms, try twrp and u shouldn't have anymore issues...
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Will try its just that I've always used cwm before feeling more comfortable whit that but will try twrp also and let you know how it goes
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Isn't there a way you can extract specific data from them? Never had to myself but I swear I've seen it mentioned somewhere.
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(In TWRP) Restore>Advanced>Select the partitions you want to restore
There is a similar option in CWM6 (at least there was last time I used it on my old phone) but I don't remember the specifics.
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(In TWRP) Restore>Advanced>Select the partitions you want to restore
There is a similar option in CWM6 (at least there was last time I used it on my old phone) but I don't remember the specifics.
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Yeah, that's an option in both, but I was referring to the ability to just pull a certain app and data out of one of those partition backups.
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Yeah, that's an option in both, but I was referring to the ability to just pull a certain app and data out of one of those partition backups.
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Ah ok. Yeah thats in Titanium. Batch>Restore>Data from Nandroid, then you should be able to select the specific data/apps you want.