A Friend gave me his galaxy s3 since he recently upgraded to a note 4, so naturally i wanted to wipe everything on it and i figured the fastest way would be me doing a factory rest. . so the phone does its thing then reboots into recovery with the image of the android guy on his back with a red cation thingy above him.
i get the following messages below the blue option menu thing that you scroll with using the volume rocker. :
E: failed to mount /data (invalid argument)
cant mount '/data' (invalid argument)
E: failed to mount /data (invalid argument)
and others like it all saying it cannot mount /data
i tired using kies to have an emergency firmware update but ask me for a code.
would be installing a custom recovery and downloading a custom rom fix this or not ?
please help
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failed to mount /efs (Invalid argument) Issue
Hi, First Off I should state i'm still a bit of a noob with all this stuff...I'm currently experiencing trouble with my Samsung galxey note 2 GT-N7105
Its stuck in a boot loop and When I go in to recovery It comes up In red writing E:failed to mount /efs (invailed argument) I DID have CWM recovery But for some reason Its gone and Only comes up with the stock android system recovery.
I've tried everything I can think of.. I've done a factory reset with no luck, I've tried re-installing CWM via odin , I installed a stock rom via odin no luck and when I try connecting it to kies It recognizes that its plugged in but just keeps Saying "connecting"
I'm really stuck here and out of my depth.
thanks in advance.
My Note II N7100 Stuck at the boot Screen
I tried to flash philz_touch and CWM by Odin3.09 but it didnt work
every time I try to get to recovery mode
I get this message
E:failed to mount /cache (Invalid argument ) can't mount '/cache' (Invalid argument )
E:failed to mount /system (Invalid argument ) can't mount '/system' (Invalid argument )
a pic of the message is attached
I dont know what to do
I almost tried every thing I know
Please help
There has to be something sinister with all Note 2 dying around the same time, I have run into same trouble, and only hope is a costly motherboard replacement, I see several others reporting the same
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M.yaseen said:
My Note II N7100 Stuck at the boot Screen
I tried to flash philz_touch and CWM by Odin3.09 but it didnt work
every time I try to get to recovery mode
I get this message
E:failed to mount /cache (Invalid argument ) can't mount '/cache' (Invalid argument )
E:failed to mount /system (Invalid argument ) can't mount '/system' (Invalid argument )
a pic of the message is attached
I dont know what to do
I almost tried every thing I know
Please help
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Do these at your own risk.
search for PIT file made by dr ketan and flash it together with the stock n7100 firmware in odin. that will solve tour problem.
somebody posted pit file here.. be sure that your n7100 is 16gb
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1927983
extract it and use that together with the stock firmware in odin. select pit for pit files and pda for stock firmware
after finish flashing it will be stuck again in samsung logo. boot again to recovery mode and wipe data/reset to factory mode and then reboot
hello guys
i have a galaxy note 8 that i didn't use for a month and when start it goes in boot loop. i didn't flash any ROM. i try to reset factory but ended with error. any one can help please.:crying:
I am in the exact same circumstance; and i've never rooted it. All of a sudden it began to boot loop. The thing is -- is that I have data on there that I really need to preserve. Is there any way that I can reach the data on the hard drive? I've done a wipe cache partition function.
I'm also receiving some of the following error messages (among others):
failed to mount /efs (Invalid argument)
E: failed to mount /data (Invalid argument)
can't mount '/data (Invalid argument)
Please advise if you're familiar.
Thanks!
Hey guys, so my girlfriend's S4 mini won't turn on and its stuck on the Samsung booting logo. I did a hard reset, but with no luck, wiping the cache didn't help either. I flashed a stock rom with but that also didn't work. When i enter recovery mode this is what I get:
did not match sized ' /system/csc/common/system/csc/others.xml ' (No data available)
E: failed to mount /cache (Invalid argument)
can't mount '/cache' (Invalid argument)
E: failed to mount /cache (Invalid argument)
E: Cab't mount /cache/recovery/last_recovery
E: failed to mount /data (Invalid argument)
E: Can't mount /data/log/recovery_log.txt
E: failed to mount /cache (Invalid argument)
E: Can't mount /cache/recovery/log
E: Can't open /cache/recovery/log
E: failed to mount /cache (Invalid argument)
E: Can't mount /cache/recovery/last_log
E: Can't open /cache/recovery/last_log
E: failed to mount /cache (Invalid argument)
E: Can't mount /cache/recovery/last_install
E: Can't open /cache/recovery/last_install
E: failed to mount /cache (Invalid argument)
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mlakov said:
Hey guys, so my girlfriend's S4 mini won't turn on and its stuck on the Samsung booting logo. I did a hard reset, but with no luck, wiping the cache didn't help either. I flashed a stock rom with but that also didn't work. When i enter recovery mode this is what I get:
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I have bad news for you. If none of those methods that you tried worked, it probably means you have a fried storage which is probably the cause of the Recovery not being able to mount the partitions as it cannot find any.
Sayrian said:
I have bad news for you. If none of those methods that you tried worked, it probably means you have a fried storage which is probably the cause of the Recovery not being able to mount the partitions as it cannot find any.
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So i should replace the motherboard ?
mlakov said:
So i should replace the motherboard ?
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That could be one solution, however, What problem are you encountering while flashing a stock OS?
Sayrian said:
That could be one solution, however, What problem are you encountering while flashing a stock OS?
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I flash stock os without encountering problems, but the phone still doesnt turn on
mlakov said:
I flash stock os without encountering problems, but the phone still doesnt turn on
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Have you tried to flash a custom recovery to see if that does the trick?
I flash a custom recovery but when i go in recovery mode it takes me to the stock recovery
So, I've got a Galaxy Tab S 10" (SM-T800X), its the retail demo version and I've been trying to remove the retail demo firmware, I can't factory reset the device because the option is greyed out. So far I've had no luck, I've tried using Odin to install a stock ROM but that doesn't do anything. I've tried going through recovery mode to wipe the device and it says that MDM doesn't allow factory reset. Tried running Odin a few times in case it just wasn't working the first time. I've now encountered a new problem where its stuck on the Samsung logo when I try to turn it on, even after running it through Odin, and whenever I boot it into recovery mode I get the message
E:failed to mount /data (Invalid argument)
can't mount '/data' (Invalid argument)
E:failed to mount /data (Invalid argument)
E:Can't mount /data/log/recovery_lot.txt
E:failed to mount /data (Invalid argument)
E:Can't mount /data/log/emmc_checksum_log.txt
I'm at a loss as to what I should do here, I don't use android and have never rooted a device so I've just been reading what I've found on the internet to attempt to solve it.
Anyone got any ideas what I should do now?
crotmate said:
So, I've got a Galaxy Tab S 10" (SM-T800X), its the retail demo version and I've been trying to remove the retail demo firmware, I can't factory reset the device because the option is greyed out. So far I've had no luck, I've tried using Odin to install a stock ROM but that doesn't do anything. I've tried going through recovery mode to wipe the device and it says that MDM doesn't allow factory reset. Tried running Odin a few times in case it just wasn't working the first time. I've now encountered a new problem where its stuck on the Samsung logo when I try to turn it on, even after running it through Odin, and whenever I boot it into recovery mode I get the message
E:failed to mount /data (Invalid argument)
can't mount '/data' (Invalid argument)
E:failed to mount /data (Invalid argument)
E:Can't mount /data/log/recovery_lot.txt
E:failed to mount /data (Invalid argument)
E:Can't mount /data/log/emmc_checksum_log.txt
I'm at a loss as to what I should do here, I don't use android and have never rooted a device so I've just been reading what I've found on the internet to attempt to solve it.
Anyone got any ideas what I should do now?
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You need to install TWRP. Factory reset within TWRP, reboot to Download mode then install the stock firmware with odin.