So in TWRP i wiped everything but my external sd card, now i'm getting an error :
E: Unable to mount '/data'
and occasionally E: Unable to mount '/cache' .
Tried searching forums but only got solutions for xperia phones but not for my Samsung note 2 - GT n7100.
So please help guys, kinda really need my phone!!
Also I have already tried re flashing rom etc etc, nothing worked so far. Read somewhere you can solve this with repartitioning with .pit file in odin, but can hardbrick you phone if not done right. SO please some suggestions as of what should i do.
menko123 said:
Read somewhere you can solve this with repartitioning with .pit file in odin, but can hardbrick you phone if not done right.
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Correct way to flash the PIT file is only if it is flashed together with the stock firmware. Firmware under PDA, pit file under PIT and re-partition checked.
tetakpatalked from Nexus 7 flo
Fortunately solved it now without having to use PIT file. Ty anyways.
menko123 said:
Fortunately solved it now without having to use PIT file. Ty anyways.
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Congratulations!
It would be nice if you post here your workflow for other users in similar situation and add to thread name [solved]
tetakpatalked from P5110
Did nothing special with fixing it tbh. At first, before I posted this thread, I have already tried flashing stock rom through odin and it didn't work. Tried flashing some more so called fixes I found on the internet and tried a few different recoveries.
Well after a while I figured maybe another rom would work so I downloaded another stock note 2 rom from sammobile, which then fixed everything after I flashed through odin. So my guess is the stock rom which I tried before obviously wasn't working properly (can't remember which one it was sadly).
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Hi All,
I stupidly (by accident) attempted flashing a n7100 CM10.1 ROM to my n7105. Basically I soft-bricked the phone but when I used Odin to restore the stock rom my baseband is showing up as unknown and my internal sdcard storage shows up in stock as having 0 bytes.
Anyone have any idea how to recover from this? I have read alot and it seems reflashing the stock rom has helped some people and not others. I even tried a kies restore with no luck
Regards,
Phoenix
flash stock ROM including pit file
if your device is 7105
here is thread you can find pit and stock ROM
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2032849
dr.ketan said:
flash stock ROM including pit file
if your device is 7105
here is thread you can find pit and stock ROM
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2032849
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Tried that one already with no luck
try just flashing pit file only
then flash pit + stock ROM
does your odin log was showing successful?
have you tried factory reset after flashing?
As well your IMEI is displaying correctly?
dr.ketan said:
try just flashing pit file only
then flash pit + stock ROM
does your odin log was showing successful?
have you tried factory reset after flashing?
As well your IMEI is displaying correctly?
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Tried pit alone, didnt make any difference.
Followed by PIT + Stock ROM, didnt make any difference.
Always factory default after a flash and it hasnt helped.
Odin did not give me an error either time that I flashed.
IMEI is null/null when using *#06#
Thanks for your help
PhoenixMage said:
Tried pit alone, didnt make any difference.
Followed by PIT + Stock ROM, didnt make any difference.
Always factory default after a flash and it hasnt helped.
Odin did not give me an error either time that I flashed.
IMEI is null/null when using *#06#
Thanks for your help
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It seems your efs is corrupt.
Try this. This is your last and best bet
http://www.cvxcvx.pl/podstrona-0/naprawa-efs-w-i9100-n7000?lang=en
PhoenixMage said:
Tried pit alone, didnt make any difference.
Followed by PIT + Stock ROM, didnt make any difference.
Always factory default after a flash and it hasnt helped.
Odin did not give me an error either time that I flashed.
IMEI is null/null when using *#06#
Thanks for your help
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try flashing baseband only
In odin select ROM file for 'Phone' tab instead 'PDA'
OR get modem.tar from here and flash using odin for phone tab
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=31986738&postcount=6
zeeshanonlyme said:
It seems your efs is corrupt.
Try this. This is your last and best bet
http://www.cvxcvx.pl/podstrona-0/naprawa-efs-w-i9100-n7000?lang=en
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I backed up my existing efs then tried this. Didnt help and the phone got stuck in Factory Mode until I restored the efs image I backed up. I had to change the partition from mmcblk0p1 to mmcblk0p3 as that is my efs partition.
I suspect you are right and if I could get someone elses efs image then I may have a hope but considering if contains the IMEI I doubt anyone would be willing to do that.
So I'm not sure what I did but to keep it simple I was trying to flash ROMs like I always do but while flashing it gave me an error. Now when I'm in recovery and try to even wipe or install a new rom, it keeps saying failed. something is wrong with /system. I can't flash anything on the device or restore my backup file to it because of the error.
I would like to ODIN back to stock because at this point I'm not sure what else to try. The problem is, I can't seem to find an ODIN link to download anywhere..I've tried about 6 links but none of them actually work.
I'm also on a time constraint (need to head to class). blah!
If anyone could help with either getting this thing working OR providing me with a copy of the .tar file to restore via Dropbox or something I'd be forever grateful.
disturkis4u said:
So I'm not sure what I did but to keep it simple I was trying to flash ROMs like I always do but while flashing it gave me an error. Now when I'm in recovery and try to even wipe or install a new rom, it keeps saying failed. something is wrong with /system. I can't flash anything on the device or restore my backup file to it because of the error.
I would like to ODIN back to stock because at this point I'm not sure what else to try. The problem is, I can't seem to find an ODIN link to download anywhere..I've tried about 6 links but none of them actually work.
I'm also on a time constraint (need to head to class). blah!
If anyone could help with either getting this thing working OR providing me with a copy of the .tar file to restore via Dropbox or something I'd be forever grateful.
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Stock tar
http://www.hotfile.com/dl/213469534/9ff06bd/M919UVUAMDL_M919TMBAMDL_TMB.zip.html
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I was going to upgrade to kitkat, and was in the process of just doing a factory wipe using teamwin. The issue is, I was a work doing this at my desk and trying to just breeze through it and deleted the OS. I have all of the files I need to throw kitkat on it, but the .PIT file. I was reading some of the forum posts and I came across one where someone was running into a similar download mode issue using Odin and was able to get his note 3 to work again after adding in the PIT file. My issue is, Ive scoured for my particular PIT file, but to no avail. can someone please help. Thanks in advance. :fingers-crossed:
According to your post, all you did was format the system in TWRP? Do you still have TWRP installed? If so, you can just flash another rom. Otherwise, have you tried just flashing the stock tar file in Odin? I'm assuming I'm missing a big detail, as to why you went from wiping the system in recovery, to having a bigger issue.
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Towle said:
According to your post, all you did was format the system in TWRP? Do you still have TWRP installed? If so, you can just flash another rom. Otherwise, have you tried just flashing the stock tar file in Odin? I'm assuming I'm missing a big detail, as to why you went from wiping the system in recovery, to having a bigger issue.
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That worked. I just flashed a new ROM. I was over complicating it. What happened is i was manually selecting wipe criteria and checked the box for the OS to wipe with the cache and such. When i was going through the process before it was giving me a partition error.
Thanks for the help =)
How could I in Odin insert a PIT file to remap my filesystem.
Is there one for the TMO S4 or could I simply use one from the gt9505?
Stoowyguy said:
How could I in Odin insert a PIT file to remap my filesystem.
Is there one for the TMO S4 or could I simply use one from the gt9505?
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You don't.
Remapping the file system is not a current mod and is not recommended to try. One of the 95xx variants had a remapped PIT file done to add a little bit of usable space. (You can't use that one. It will break your 919 device) The risk was high and the benefit was low. It's just so cheap and easy to buy a 32 or 64 GB external SD card that accomplishes the same thing.
I guess basically what I'm trying to achieve is for my phone to be able to install custom roms again. Randomly one day I was unable to install any, for it would just install a few apks from each CustomRom installation zip.
I've tried reinstalling stock and it doesn't fix my issue that most likely lies in the file system of my phone.
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I guess basically what I'm trying to achieve is for my phone to be able to install custom roms again. Randomly one day I was unable to install any, for it would just install a few apks from each CustomRom installation zip.
I've tried reinstalling stock and it doesn't fix my issue that most likely lies in the file system of my phone.
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That is weird. Did you try to reflash back to stock using Odin? Or by flashing a nandroid of a stock ROM?
If using Odin to flash a stock image doesn't work I'm not sure a pit file would help. The stock .tar image for Odin contains the proper PIT file. So it's getting the PIT file anyway.
I'll try again..
I've tried coming back from Odin many times but I've noticed Odin is pretty sketchy because honestly most of the time oI get FAIL status near the end of stock installation but I keep going until it passes and I've tried going back from NAND. I was going to see this phone because no one on XDA nor me could figure out this tricky issue. Someone pm'd me claiming he has the same issue and I told him I haven't solved it yet. I think tomorrow I'm going to maybe try stock install and then wipe data factory reset after and then boot and then go back to download mode and install recovery and try install wicked or maybe gpe. Btw the last ROM I was running was Gpe by Kot49h danvd I think the name is
I'm The Second Person Who Claimed it Wasn't work
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I woke up the other day with my phone stuck at the Galaxy Note II bootup screen.
Great!
So I've been trying for days to solve this issue that's driving me insane.
I'm running TWRP 2.8.0.0
It starts and can't mount any of the partitions. Attempting to mount internal storage or SD card is impossible, it says it has 0 bytes.
Obviously something corrupted something. But now I can't get anything working.
I can't format from withing TWRP, it fails.
Tried using KIES emergency firmware update, but its supposed to show a list of devices that need emergency update, it never shows up.
I was able to flash a stock rom with Odin. Except for that it doesn't repartition the device's internal storage and it never is able to boot into the new ROM. If I check TWRP after installing with Odin, it shows that all the devices are still unmountable.
So I flashed the new TWRP 2.8.6.0 with Odin. Except when I boot back into Odin it shows 2.8.0.0 still.
Anyone have any ideas? I've been phoneless for a week now!
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I woke up the other day with my phone stuck at the Galaxy Note II bootup screen.
Great!
So I've been trying for days to solve this issue that's driving me insane.
I'm running TWRP 2.8.0.0
It starts and can't mount any of the partitions. Attempting to mount internal storage or SD card is impossible, it says it has 0 bytes.
Obviously something corrupted something. But now I can't get anything working.
I can't format from withing TWRP, it fails.
Tried using KIES emergency firmware update, but its supposed to show a list of devices that need emergency update, it never shows up.
I was able to flash a stock rom with Odin. Except for that it doesn't repartition the device's internal storage and it never is able to boot into the new ROM. If I check TWRP after installing with Odin, it shows that all the devices are still unmountable.
So I flashed the new TWRP 2.8.6.0 with Odin. Except when I boot back into Odin it shows 2.8.0.0 still.
Anyone have any ideas? I've been phoneless for a week now!
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Have you tried flashing a pit file along with the stock firmware in Odin? That's what I would do in your case. It'll repartition the phone and flash the firmware. Fresh as the day you bought it.
absinthesummer said:
Have you tried flashing a pit file along with the stock firmware in Odin? That's what I would do in your case. It'll repartition the phone and flash the firmware. Fresh as the day you bought it.
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On your advice I just flashed i317.pit with Stock ROM. Succeeded in flashing in ODIN as well as looking like it rewrote the partitions. However, upon reboot to TWRP, all partitions are still unmountable. Tried flashing pit along with TWRP 2.8.6.0. It remained on 2.8.0.0 when I rebooted into TWRP. Again experienced the same issue and could not mount any partitions. Tried flashing PIT alone and then booting into TWRP. Same.
I've attached a picture too. This inability to mount also prevents me from formatting, factory resetting, loading from external microsd, so on and so forth...
http://i.imgur.com/J5ppODI.jpg
Man I really thought the pit would work! Just 2 days ago I had the unable to mount data error and flashing stock with the pit file worked for me
A few questions-
1. I wonder if that old old old issue of eMMc brick bug is present in your device. The symptoms are very similar from what I remember of it but I do highly doubt that's what's happening.
2. Do you have more info about your device prior to this breakdown? Ie what rom + kernel were you on? were there any hints of anything failing? did you flash anything and if so what was it?
I'm hoping the information might help point us in the right direction. I'll look into something a well, but I'm also hoping that someone else with more experience with this problem will come help. @sawdoctor didn't this happen to your note 2 once also? When mine refused to mount data the other day it wasn't quite as bad as this, so it was an easy fix. Hopefully we can get you sorted.
absinthesummer said:
Man I really thought the pit would work! Just 2 days ago I had the unable to mount data error and flashing stock with the pit file worked for me
A few questions-
1. I wonder if that old old old issue of eMMc brick bug is present in your device. The symptoms are very similar from what I remember of it but I do highly doubt that's what's happening.
2. Do you have more info about your device prior to this breakdown? Ie what rom + kernel were you on? were there any hints of anything failing? did you flash anything and if so what was it?
I'm hoping the information might help point us in the right direction. I'll look into something a well, but I'm also hoping that someone else with more experience with this problem will come help. @sawdoctor didn't this happen to your note 2 once also? When mine refused to mount data the other day it wasn't quite as bad as this, so it was an easy fix. Hopefully we can get you sorted.
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I had a similar issue when porting a s3lte 4.4.4 base to the n2 I couldn't mount data even odin didn't fix it but I was able to format internal with recovery. A full wipe of everything fixed it. I'd try mskips toolkit, it has an emergency firmware rescue package that you can flash see if it helps. It maybe your internal sd has actually died which I've heard off before
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sawdoctor said:
I had a similar issue when porting a s3lte 4.4.4 base to the n2 I couldn't mount data even odin didn't fix it but I was able to format internal with recovery. A full wipe of everything fixed it. I'd try mskips toolkit, it has an emergency firmware rescue package that you can flash see if it helps. It maybe your internal sd has actually died which I've heard off before
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Thanks for chiming in! Hopefully that'll help him. Yeah memory failure us what I was thinking not brick bug (couldn't think of the right word, thanks)