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[Q] Can't erase user data partition

So I woke up this morning and I was running CM10, goo manager told me I had an update so I applied the update and low and behold it was CM9 on boot. Needless to say CM9 would not boot because nothing was wiped. So I decided to go back and re-flash 10 (CWM touch). So wiped and it said could not mount user data. after re-flashing it again would not boot. so I downloaded odin3 and the stock sprint rom and tried flashing that. No dice Odin screen gets stuck on "Erasing userdata.." for like 10 minutes, after it gets past the sprint LTE animation and get stuck booting in the glowing samsung screen. Also I cannot mount /SDcard in recovery but i can mount the external. I also cannot adb to the device. any Ideas????

JBurlison said:
So I woke up this morning and I was running CM10, goo manager told me I had an update so I applied the update and low and behold it was CM9 on boot. Needless to say CM9 would not boot because nothing was wiped. So I decided to go back and re-flash 10 (CWM touch). So wiped and it said could not mount user data. after re-flashing it again would not boot. so I downloaded odin3 and the stock sprint rom and tried flashing that. No dice Odin screen gets stuck on "Erasing userdata.." for like 10 minutes, after it gets past the sprint LTE animation and get stuck booting in the glowing samsung screen. Also I cannot mount /SDcard in recovery but i can mount the external. I also cannot adb to the device. any Ideas????
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Sounds like odin flash is a success. When in recovery, can you wipe data/factory reset without error? That is a MUST after the odin flash. So boot into recovery and wipe

billard412 said:
Sounds like odin flash is a success. When in recovery, can you wipe data/factory reset without error? That is a MUST after the odin flash. So boot into recovery and wipe
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No dice. The default android recovery was put back from the stock odin re-flash, it comes up with "ERROR unable to mount /Userdata.." "Cannot Find /Userdata.."

JBurlison said:
No dice. The default android recovery was put back from the stock odin re-flash, it comes up with "ERROR unable to mount /Userdata.." "Cannot Find /Userdata.."
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Assuming you haven't already tried. See if a custom recovery can wipe or mount it. try to factory reset with TWRP (attched odin flash) and report back

billard412 said:
Assuming you haven't already tried. See if a custom recovery can wipe or mount it. try to factory reset with TWRP (attched odin flash) and report back
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I think My stock image was bad I re-downloaded one and ran ODIN again and it worked.

[Q] T999 I think I bricked my phone

Help. I think I bricked my phone. I was running S3Rx 3.0 with JB4.3 on my T999 GS3. I attempted to update the rom to its latest version 3-20-14. I made a nandroid backup. I wiped cache and dalvik and then tried to install the zip file in TWRP, but it said install failed. I tried again with same failed results. I then did a factory reset, wipe cache, dalvik, data and system. I tried to flash the zip file and it failed again. So giving up on the failed update, I then restored my nandroid backup. After the restore was complete, I rebooted the phone and it got stuck at bootup with the Samsung logo and the blue LED light. I let it sit for over 15 minutes and it was still stuck there. I powered off the phone and went back into TWRP recovery and repeated the restore and reboot again, and it was stuck at that same part for over 15 minutes. Should it take that long? I've done backups and restores in the past and I don't recall it having take that long to bootup.
Does anyone have any suggestions? Please let me know if you need more explanation. Thanks in advance.

Try using odin to update the recovery system and flashing a rom.
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It's been a long while since I used odin. I want to get the steps right before I risk further damaging my phone. Should I download odin and latest TWRP tar file to my pc. Put my phone into download mode and go thru the odin process...run as admin, placing tar file in pda... Then do I reboot into recovery mode? From there I'm not sure what to do. How do I flash a rom to my phone? Do or can I download a zip file via odin? One other option I thought of is to odin root66. So am I actually downloading 2 files via odin? Sorry for my confusion.

Ok, so I odined root66. My phone initially booted up to stock, but I got a pop up "unfortunately system ui has stopped". I went to recovery mode to do a factory reset. It took me to android system recovery. Apparently i lost my TWRP recovery. I did a factory reset and rebooted. Hallelujah!! my phone booted up into stock successfully. Whew...

Cool.
Sorry I couldnt respond earlier, I just woke up.
I always keep copies of odin flashable packages for the latest cwm and twrp recoveries just in case some craziness happens.
Ive had a similar issue when dualbooting. Recovery seemed to work 100% but one bad flash sent me into a bootloop I couldnt get out of. Booting to recovery just tried booting my corrupt 2nd rom and I had to odin cwm on to stop the boot script from locking me out of recovery.
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All part of the hazards of tinkering with the phone. It goes with the territory. But as long as I can get into download or recovery mode I believe there's always a fighting chance.
Separately I reinstalled TWRP via odin. Next will be to reflash the custom rom.

SM-T705 Need .pit file

Hello. Someone have any pit for t705 or t700?
After flashing stock firmware via Odin tablet stuck on boot logo. I think that the partitions damaged, because in recovery i see E: faled to mount /data.
Re-flashing and wipes do not help.

While on a bootloop try entering recovery then wipe/cache or factory reset i think, then try booting again

LoVeRice said:
While on a bootloop try entering recovery then wipe/cache or factory reset i think, then try booting again
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Same problem, Can't enter recovery anymore, only goes into download mode. Not even flashing stock rom boots up.. think i have a partition problem as well.

Here's a thread with PIT files for each device: http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-tab-s/general/extracted-sm-t800-pit-download-t3071209

note 3 cannot start odin success

Odin success on each version NB4,NE6 and OB6
Everything goes through smoothly, but it gets stuck on "rebooting to recovery" and never actually gets to recovery
I've flashed twrp,stock recovery img,chainfire, phils, none will actually boot
got this device from a person who said they tried to flash a custom rom and got it into this boot
all I can think of is to repartition the device, but cannot find a pit file that works
odin mode says write protection: enabled
if that is of importance

also tried the unbrick images on sd card, no luck
is there a way to make a bootable recovery.img sdcard? like how nooks can
made a pit from a working note 3 tmo, repartitioned, no go

What you are saying is that you odin successful, and it will not go into recovery, even if you force it to? After the rom image flash, are you in download mode and trying to flash a working recovery?

AxAtAx said:
What you are saying is that you odin successful, and it will not go into recovery, even if you force it to? After the rom image flash, are you in download mode and trying to flash a working recovery?
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yes odin completely finishes, I tried forcing into recovery mode
loaded twrp,philz recovery, cwm, older versions of recovery, the current version etc.
no longer have the phone but still wonder why it was a no go

Tmobile s6 edge bootloop after using odin/samsung smart switch

Please help. I have SM-G925T. I have used odin 3.10.7 to flash latest stock firmware. After it says success the phone reboots saying installing system updates then immediately says erasing.. then during boot it gets stuck on logo screen and repeatedly flashes. then when entering into stock recovery a no command android symbol displays. I wipe cache and perform a factory reset and reboot system and same bootloop continues. I also went to samsung smart switch and used the emergency recovery mode and once it completes it restarts phone automatically and still bootloop. I am using the latest OI1 firmware update on the device. I have tried wipe cache partition and factory reset numerous times, I have also flashed bootloader and modem files through odin which pass but still bootloops. I have tried the update before the OI1 which was OH6 and it fails saying check failed on the phones download screen. Only the OI1 passes successfully due to the SWREV is now showing B:3 K:2 S:2 & before I updated to the OI1 it used to say B:2 K:2 S:2. I have tried flashing custom kernel and the latest TWRP it then says kernel is not seandroid enforcing and in Twrp I have preformed wipe and factory reset.. with no luck on getting passed the bootloop. So I reflashed everything OI1 again through odin & preformed the wipe cache partition & factory reset again but still stuck. I have tried safe mode but I cannot boot into safe mode and I have been seeing posts explaining to upload a PIT file but when flashing I have no error when it comes to Get pit mapping so I don't believe that would be needed and I have tried flashing the files I mentioned earlier individually and no go so please if there is anyone that can help me I'd greatly appreciate it. I did not tick anything that I wasn't suppose to in Odin so I'm not understanding after being on the latest version of everything that my phone is still not booting.