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[Q] Flashing a stock kernel? (FI03 app2sd issue)

I am using stock rooted FI03 with AGAT 5.4 kernel and I cannot move any apps to my external SD card (tells me there is not enough space). I want to try flashing a stock kernel with Mobile Odin to see if this will fix the issue, but I want to make sure there are no consequences of doing this that I am unaware of. I figure I will loose Clockworkmod Recovery but will still be rooted, so I can flash back to AGAT 5.4 or another recovery kernel when I am finished. Anything else I should know?
(If anyone has any other suggestions on getting the phone to move apps to the external SD again, I would love to hear it!)

rsngfrce said:
I am using stock rooted FI03 with AGAT 5.4 kernel and I cannot move any apps to my external SD card (tells me there is not enough space). I want to try flashing a stock kernel with Mobile Odin to see if this will fix the issue, but I want to make sure there are no consequences of doing this that I am unaware of. I figure I will loose Clockworkmod Recovery but will still be rooted, so I can flash back to AGAT 5.4 or another recovery kernel when I am finished. Anything else I should know?
(If anyone has any other suggestions on getting the phone to move apps to the external SD again, I would love to hear it!)
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There are others with that issue as well in this thread that may give you another option without going back to stock.. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1879381&page=7
But no, you shouldn't have any issues with what you've suggested and you already listed what you will/won't have.

Either flash with odin as tar or in recovery as zip
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Well, flashing the stock kernel did not go well for some reason. I flashed the stock FI03 tar with Mobile Odin and got a soft brick, wouldn't get past the Samsung logo. I used Odin to flash back to AGAT 5.4, cleared the triangle and it's working fine.
On the subject of not being able to move any apps to the External SD (reporting no space available), that is finally working again! The kernel flashing I mention above did not fix this issue. What does seem to have fixed this doesn't really make sense to me, but then I don't understand what was causing the issue in the first place...
I was messing around with the Amazon Kindle app, trying to figure out where it was storing covers and books I had downloaded. I downloaded a couple of large free books from the Amazon store and found that it had placed them in the data/data/com.amazon.kindle/files folder. Not wanting them to take up space in my system, I decided to try moving them to the kindle folder on the internal SD (where I also put books I have sideloaded). I found that the Kindle app still accessed them fine here.
Now, at some point after this I happened to notice that Titanium Backup was showing that the Kindle app was on my external SD. I did not think much of this at the time, figuring that moving the 2 books to my internal SD had confused something. But today, before planning on reflashing FI03 to see if it would fix this, I tried moving an app to the External SD (just to be sure it still wasn't working) and it worked fine. Also the Kindle app IS on my external SD card. I have no idea why or how this fixed my issue, but I can think of nothing else I could have done which would have fixed this...

Yesterday, I lost the ability to move to ExtSD again, did nothing I know of to cause this. Made a nandroid, planned to go back to prior nandroid where moving to ExtSD was working, but moving to ExtSD suddenly started working again (on it's own, as far as I know).
The continuing adventures...

HELP!my phone keep rebooting after flashing CM9

After flashing CM9.
I turn on it few seconds later it reboots
I have tried CM9,9.1,10.ALL has the same problem
WHAT CAN I DO NOW:crying:

What recovery (CWM) version do you have installed?
Did you try flashing a baseband from here? http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1842763

drumist said:
What recovery (CWM) version do you have installed?
Did you try flashing a baseband from here? http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1842763
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I have flashed the baseband from P936 to P930

Did you do factory reset/wipe data before installing?

drumist said:
Did you do factory reset/wipe data before installing?
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CWM 5.8.2.0
and I have wiped everying.

Remove and reinsert SIM card and SD card (while phone is off), and try again.
Is there any ROM that you've used that did work?
What exactly did you do leading up to when the problem first started?

drumist said:
Remove and reinsert SIM card and SD card (while phone is off), and try again.
Is there any ROM that you've used that did work?
What exactly did you do leading up to when the problem first started?
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it doesn't work
I am using an Offical MIUI V2.9.21.
I just shot a photo than it rebooted..........

try rec 6.0?i think
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leung991085 said:
it doesn't work
I am using an Offical MIUI V2.9.21.
I just shot a photo than it rebooted..........
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If you try going back to MIUI, does it work?

Reboot Problem
leung991085 said:
it doesn't work
I am using an Offical MIUI V2.9.21.
I just shot a photo than it rebooted..........
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I too had the reboot issues even after installing almost all ROMs including stock as well as CM series. However, thanks to instructions from DRUMIST, my phone is stable now. I think the problem is with the SD card. If you see LOST.DIR in your SD Card, it indicates some bad sectors or wrong formatting .The steps I did to resolve this issue are :-
1. Removed the SD card from phone, inserted in Laptop and did a FULL FORMAT (Not Quick format). [It may take some time]
2. Re-inserted SD card and Flashed Official LG V20c using OTA update method ( Using LG Tools ).
No reboots since 7 days of heavy usage.
Thanks again to drumist for advice

axeman007 said:
I too had the reboot issues even after installing almost all ROMs including stock as well as CM series. However, thanks to instructions from DRUMIST, my phone is stable now. I think the problem is with the SD card. If you see LOST.DIR in your SD Card, it indicates some bad sectors or wrong formatting .The steps I did to resolve this issue are :-
1. Removed the SD card from phone, inserted in Laptop and did a FULL FORMAT (Not Quick format). [It may take some time]
2. Re-inserted SD card and Flashed Official LG V20c using OTA update method ( Using LG Tools ).
No reboots since 7 days of heavy usage.
Thanks again to drumist for advice
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Glad you got your problem solved. However I should mention that Android will always create the LOST.DIR folder on your SD card if it doesn't already exist. Just the folder being there is not a problem -- however, if there is anything inside it, that means there was some data corrupted at some point. Most people should have nothing inside that folder.

axeman007 said:
I too had the reboot issues even after installing almost all ROMs including stock as well as CM series. However, thanks to instructions from DRUMIST, my phone is stable now. I think the problem is with the SD card. If you see LOST.DIR in your SD Card, it indicates some bad sectors or wrong formatting .The steps I did to resolve this issue are :-
1. Removed the SD card from phone, inserted in Laptop and did a FULL FORMAT (Not Quick format). [It may take some time]
2. Re-inserted SD card and Flashed Official LG V20c using OTA update method ( Using LG Tools ).
No reboots since 7 days of heavy usage.
Thanks again to drumist for advice
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So formatting it from CWM wouldn't have worked then? I would assume that would have been easier.

nate1975 said:
So formatting it from CWM wouldn't have worked then? I would assume that would have been easier.
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Possibly, but I personally suggest using SD Formatter which is a program that will do a better job of formatting an SD card than either Windows or CWM.

[Q] Stuck on TWRP

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?
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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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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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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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Forgive My Ignorance????
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.
Sent from my SPH-L900 using xda premium
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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

[Q] 64GB SDXC Issue

OK so i bought a 64GB micro SD card for my phone. I moved everything from my old card onto it and all was working well.
Today i decided i wanted to flash a new ROM and i installed the ROM onto the external SD card. I went into CWM, formatted data/cache/dalvik and went to go look for the zip to flash. However CWM wouldnt recognize my SD card. I had to remove that SD card, install the ROM onto my old 16GB SD card and install it from there.
Just wondering if anyone else has had that issue. THe 64GB card worked perfectly fine up until that point...

You will have to format the new card to Fat32.

I read about that, but it was working before and now that I flashed a new rom, it's working fine again. It was just from I had done a factory reset until I flashed a new rom.
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So, is the recovery reading it now ?

Perseus71 said:
So, is the recovery reading it now ?
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Yes. It was a CWM issue. Once i updated to the latest one it was able to read it.

SD card damaged

I flashed the latest version insane kitkat v5 and followed the instructions of wiping. And now it says my sd card is damaged. But when I put it in a different phone, it reads fine. I'm using s5 toggles and s5 settings. Not sure if that matters. Any help please!! Thanks!

bluerogue85 said:
I flashed the latest version insane kitkat v5 and followed the instructions of wiping. And now it says my sd card is damaged. But when I put it in a different phone, it reads fine. I'm using s5 toggles and s5 settings. Not sure if that matters. Any help please!! Thanks!
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Just a thought. Can you back the card up to your computer then put the card on the phone and format it? Then restore the backup from computer.