I decided to partition my SD card today because i needed more space for my apps. I used ROM Manager to do the work. Everything went fine until it booted up. Now I'm stuck on the HTC screen. I read that the boot takes a while but I've been waiting for over an hour. I've also tried to pull the battery out and restart but I'm still stuck on that same screen. Anyone know how to fix this?
I do have this problem. I have to remove the SD card in order to boot successfully and reformat it to FAT32.
what rom you use?
I used to flash whitetigerdk v0.4 and got that problem but now I downgrade to v0.3 and problem's gone
I thought I should share this with everyone in case it helps someone out there. I might have gotten lucky, so YMMV.
Basically like everyone else my SGS (I9000M from Bell) died due to an internal SD error, but in my case I haven't updated the phone since I got it in September 2010 (it had the JG9 firmware). The good thing is I was able to flash it to the stock Froyo 2.2, and I'm currently using it as normal and can access the internal SD without problems.
Summary of steps that most likely fixed the problem:
Go into recovery mode and "wipe data/factory reset". If your phone boots (but still have problems accessing the SD card) then it's a good indication that you maybe able to fix it.
Flash JL2 (from samfirmware.com) using ODIN. Not sure if this is needed, but you may need to ask ODIN to Re-partition. You still get an error "Can't mount DBDATA", and the phone won't boot. That's ok.
Flash the SpeedMod Kernel using ODIN (I used SpeedMod K12J with HZ=256). Your phone should boot into JL2 and the SD card should be accessible again.
At this point your internal SD card is fixed and you should be able to flash whatever you want. Just note that Kies will sometimes not work properly with the SpeedMod installed. In my case I flashed 2.1 (JH2) again (this won't work if you have 2.2 without speedmod kernel), then used Kies to update to 2.2 (JL2).
For those who are interested in the details, please read on.
Bought the phone in September, it's a Samsung Galaxy S I9000M from Bell. It says 10.07 on the back of the phone, and it had the JG9 firmware on it.
Since the 2.2 update came out I've been following closely the problem of the internal SD failures and the grief it's causing to a lot of people. So I decided to hold off updating until Samsung gets their act together. (I know it's better to update as soon as possible in case it dies so that I can use the warranty, but I had 9 months remaining so I decided to wait a little more.)
Close to the end of 2010 I noticed that my Android Market has changed, and that it now allows me to "Update All", so I just hit that and noticed that after updating several apps, all the remaining updates failed. I knew this wasn't a good sign. My SD card was still fine though.
After the above incident the phone felt a bit sluggish and less responsive than it used to be. I hadn't correlated this to anything yet, but now I know it was most probably due to the internal SD on its way to die.
On January 7 the phone suddenly died. When I rebooted it, I got the infamous symptom of seeing the S logo animation then black screen, then if I touch the two buttons at the bottom they light up indefinitely. At that point I knew it was the internal SD card.
I put the phone into recovery mode and confirmed my guess when I saw the red error message "Can't mount SDCARD".
I took the phone to the Bell store, the guy told me Bell now has an expedited shipping process for this problem and gave me a number to call to get a new replacement phone.
I called the number and they verified the symptoms with me, and said they're going to send me a new phone. I asked for the $100 credit but I was told I can't get it since I didn't update to 2.2. Apparently they only give you the credit if you actually tried to update and the update caused the phone to die (which doesn't make any sense to me).
So, while waiting for the new phone to arrive, I decided to try a few things. Here's what I did:
First thing I did was going into recovery mode and doing a "wipe data/factory reset". To my surprise, the phone actually booted after I did that, but I got force closes on almost all apps, and when I checked the internal SD card it wasn't mounted at all. The phone response was extremely slow and barely usable. I was able to make phone calls though.
I wondered if the SD problem is a corrupt partition rather than a physical error. After searching for a while I found someone posted a solution to fix a problem with his internal SD card by using the "parted" tool to mkfs the partition. Unfortunately I couldn't copy the tool using adb; my phone wasn't rooted and I couldn't access the SD card, so there was no place to copy the binary to. I get either a read-only error when trying to copy to the root, or a permission denied error when trying to copy to other mounted partitions.
Then I figured if I could flash 2.2 somehow (even if it doesn't work) I can try to ask Bell for the $100 credit Kies was useless as it couldn't recognize the phone, so I grabbed the stock JL2 firmware from samfirmware.com and used ODIN 1.7 to flash it. I asked it to Re-partition (not sure if this was needed). After reboot I saw another red error message, but this time it was complaining "Can't mount DBDATA" (as opposed to SDCARD). Then all reboots after that resulted in the same problem (S logo then black screen).
I searched for the "Can't mount DBDATA" error and found a post on xda that shows a method that should fix this by first using a 512 PIT file to repartition (no ROM involved), then flashing a stock firmware. I did that but it didn't help.
Then I found a site called "AKA skriller" that shows a way to reflash a stock firmware after the phone is bricked. So I followed the instructions by flashing a "nobrick" image (apparently made by someone called eugene), and then flashing a stock firmware. I flashed nobrick then JH2 in attempt to go back to 2.1. After doing this the phone went into a boot loop where it keeps showing the I9000M screen then rebooting. At that point I couldn't go into recovery mode, but I could go into download mode.
After searching again I found out that this was due to a new bootloader in 2.2 that prevents going back to a 2.1 firmware. I wanted to stop the boot loop so I flashed JL2 again, which stopped the boot loop but still the phone won't boot (black screen).
After more searching I found that I could go back to a 2.1 firmware only if I flash a custom kernel, someone suggesting the SpeedMod kernel (not sure if it has to be SpeedMod or any other kernel). So I flashed SpeedMod (I used SpeedMod K12J with HZ=256) using ODIN 1.52. First thing I got is a custom recovery menu with more options, I just skipped it and rebooted. THE PHONE ACTUALLY BOOTED this time into 2.2. Not only that, but the SDCARD problem was FIXED, and the phone was responsive and fast again.
I wanted to load my contacts again using Kies from a backup I made earlier. Kies recognized the phone but for some reason the contacts widget keep saying "please connect your phone" and I couldn't copy back my contacts.
I thought this might be due to the custom kernel and I was right. I flashed a stock 2.1 (JH2) with a bootloader included using ODIN. It just worked. I could copy my contacts again back to the phone.
I was also able to update to 2.2 (JL2) again using Kies this time, and it even kept my contacts. This is what I have now on the phone.
P.S. I can't post external links due to a restriction by the forum (since I'm new).
I had my doubts when I opened this thread... I've gone through 5 phones already and just finished killing my sixth...
I had tried flashing JL2 stock after killing it through the usual process (transferring over my music collection)... and got the EXACT same errors you wrote about.
What I didn't try was then flashing the custom kernel... so I tried that...
and it was too good to believe... didn't work for me. after the boot animation, display goes blank and buttons off... you can tell it's not going to work if it starts vibrating during boot.
I'm sorry it didn't work for you. As I said I might have been lucky.
Although that I just found another thread on androidforums where the guy managed to fix his sd card in a very similar way to what I described*. I actually haven't seen his post before I fixed my card, so it was independent.
Here are the commonalities between what I did and what he did:
* We both flashed a 2.2 firmware with a PIT file and Re-partition (using ODIN)
* We both got the black screen afterwards
* We both then flashed a custom kernel with no Re-partition
* We both got recovery menu right after flashing the kernel
* We both ended up in Android 2.2 aftwerwards with the SD card fixed
Here are the differences between us:
* I used JL2 firmware while he used JPM
* I used a 512 PIT while he used an 803 PIT (that's just what samfirmware.com said to use for each firmware)
* I flashed the firmware using ODIN 1.7 while he used ODIN 1.3
* I used the SpeedMod kernel while he used the YAOK kernel. He flashed using ODIN 1.3 while I flashed using ODIN 1.52.
* Once in the recovery menu I rebooted right away into 2.2, while he "ended up selecting every option that had something to do with mounting, formating, erasing. Anything to do and sounding to do with the SD card [he] pressed." then rebooted successfully with no SD card errors.
(*)http: //androidforums.com/samsung-galaxy-s/235987-clueless.html
what slaman encountered was REAL hardware failure, like I did
what you encountered was just a Corrupt SD card, which can be fixed all the time, using the process you described, and many other methods.
Real hardware failure, even if you manage to boot into the OS, it will show no internal SD, or 0 available space, or simply an error message complaining about the internal SD
You can only see that with custom ROMs, with a stock ROM you wont even get past the black and white SGS logo screen
internal SD card
Hi,
I have followed a few discussions on this board as also my internal and external SD card was "gone". I couldn't access or mount it any more after flashing with Odin to european JPY 2.2.1 ... and I found out where at least my internal memory has gone.
In fact the internal memory couldn't be accessed after installing an exchange email account. My OWA account requires security like password protection and NO external SD card.... but it seems that version 2.2.1 does not make a difference between internal and external SD card and removes the access to both away. It looks like disappeared but it comes back after uninstalling your exchange email account.
May be this is all known and logic but I couldn't find the explanation to it therefore I would like to post the information.
Thanks
Thank you very much for this! I indeed had the mpbk01 (whatever) error, and did exactly what was posted above (using 512 pit, and 1.7 odin) and now have my pone working just fine.
Again, thanks a lot for the post!
Edit: While all this is true.. seems like i have 0.00b of internal phone storage available, so I cannot install any apps. The internal SD card space is reporting normal at 13.03gb though.
Glad it worked for you. Hope you can solve the internal phone storage problem though.
As I mentioned I might have been lucky, I don't expect everyone to be able to fix the internal SD card problem by just flashing custom roms/kernels. If it works for a few people then I'm happy I saved them the hassle of going through Bell to replace the phone.
just a suggestion to send it out for repair, before you run out of warranty
Uss_Defiant said:
Thank you very much for this! I indeed had the mpbk01 (whatever) error, and did exactly what was posted above (using 512 pit, and 1.7 odin) and now have my pone working just fine.
Again, thanks a lot for the post!
Edit: While all this is true.. seems like i have 0.00b of internal phone storage available, so I cannot install any apps. The internal SD card space is reporting normal at 13.03gb though.
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uys I have a very serious problem. I'm on Darkkys latest rom...
I took out my battery for 1 hour... put battery back in and the phone did not boot up.
All I got was the screen saver and the phone kept on virbarting...
I tried wiping cache through clock work recovery, resetting to factory settings via clock work.. still nothing..
I just updated phone via odin to latest JPY...the phone goes to black screen and keeps vibrating... It won't boot.
Guys what's wrong with my phone? I am really worried...and I need to use it
I appreciate your help.
Ps. Phone can go into download mode..
Edit: XWJM8 worked
jUsT2eXy said:
uys I have a very serious problem. I'm on Darkkys latest rom...
I took out my battery for 1 hour... put battery back in and the phone did not boot up.
All I got was the screen saver and the phone kept on virbarting...
I tried wiping cache through clock work recovery, resetting to factory settings via clock work.. still nothing..
I just updated phone via odin to latest JPY...the phone goes to black screen and keeps vibrating... It won't boot.
Guys what's wrong with my phone? I am really worried...and I need to use it
I appreciate your help.
Ps. Phone can go into download mode..
Edit: XWJM8 worked
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well I have this problem and cant get it sorted at all, it seems to have also created another partion and i have no idea how to wipe the sd card clear of all partions so it can recreate them!!!!
please help !!!
Hii there,
this thread seems to be very helpful, so I want to value your help with something in return. if any of you can get me out of this mess I will donate you appropriately so that you can constantly offer this helps to others too.
some details are as follow:
1. my Galaxy S (korean) M110s was on USB downloading Market update when I disconnected it abruptly to make a call. It was downloading some updates then.
2. moment than its showing SD card damage error and even showing 00 for external SD card which I inserted post that.
3. this means neither internal nor external SD card are being detected. Though it shows that ext SD card is mounted when I insert in and also let me unmoutn it.
BTW I have tried flashiing using odin and eclair 2.1 version which didnt help much.
Need urgent help
usb jig only gets me into download mode. and not recovery mode
so can Odin still get it to work while in download mode instead
It worked for me but I can't access the internal memory nor the external one. Hence, I can't use the camera or install any app. I don't have any kind of warranty so I believe this is the best I can get, right?! At least I can use as a phone and browse the internet!
Thanks for your help, even though it worked half-way for me!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1020278
Please take a look of this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1188482
It may fix your internal sd card problem permanently.
Hello!
I have a problem with my Galaxy Note 3:
On a monthly basis, I do a Online Nandroid Backup to my SD-Card.
After encountering a problem with the PlayStore, I booted into Recovery and recovered to my last "good" backup.
Since starting I had weird problems on my phone and I tracked them down to being a problem with the root access.
I used TowelRoot to gain root access again, but the SuperSU app didn't work. I then upgraded the SuperSU app, by deleting the old and installing the new version from the play store.
(After trying the uninstall function within SuperSU which did exactly nothing)
Since then everything kept working fine, but I encounter serious reboot problems.
With no clear time frame, my Note 3 Screen just freezes for 5 sec, and then the phone reboots. Sometimes I can use the phone 1 hour, sometimes 20 min until it happens again.
I have tried to narrow down the problem over christmas, and have the following points:
When I boot up, I have a SD-Card symbol in the notification bar which shows a sd card with a cog wheel in it. As soon as I enter my password it vanishes. Without the SD Card inserted I haven't encountered a problem, and it runs faster. So I reformated the SD Card in my PC to exfat, then reformated it again in my Note 3 and copied all the Data back (over my PC). After using it for 10 min, it rebooted again. I would really like to use my SD Card. 128 GB can't be the problem because it worked beforehand just fine.
In SuperSU I have set the root access to "allow always without questioning". This didn't change anything. I have fixed the Error from KitKat which blocks write/read access to the SD Card. So no problem there.
The problem still persists. And I have no clue what to do.
Tech Details:
Rooted: Yes (with Towelroot), SuperSU installed/working
Branding: None (International Version)
Micro SD-Card: SanDisk 128 GB
Android: KitKat 4.4.2 (Stock)
Recovery: ClockWork Mod 6.1ish (newest)
XPosed Framework installed
1. Factory reset your phone and flash the latest firmware official for your device.
2. Replace the SDCard for other and make some tests.
Joku1981 said:
1. Factory reset your phone and flash the latest firmware official for your device.
2. Replace the SDCard for other and make some tests.
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Thanks for your fast answer.
As I mentioned above, the SD Card can't be damaged because it worked beforehand. So I think it is not a hardware issue.
As I have recovered from a working Backup it has something to do with the rights/root access and the SD Card.
Factory Reset is not an option for me, because I spent so much time costumizing this thing that it isn't worth doing it all again.
On the other hand:
I am thinking of Flashing CM 11 and doing a Titanium Backup Restore.
Do you think CM 11 would solve my problem?
Hello. I will go through what I have done thus far to fix this and describe the problem as best I can.
Upon booting up a fresh version of Turbo ROM, after being on TruPure for quite a long time, I booted up to find the SIM card and SD card no longer functional. The menu for cellular networks is greyed out and the sd card is not recognized in the phone booted up, or in recovery. Windows does recognize the SD card and functions as normal.
What I have tried:
Obvious things like reseating, removing, reinstalling. Reinstalling when in recovery, when booted up, everything you can think of.
I downloaded and flashed new modems through using internal storage.
I updated TWRP in case something was going on in recovery.
WIFI still works in terms of getting data
The only thing I haven't tried is backing up the contents of the SD card and reformatting due to being at work. But given this is both the SIM card and SD card, I do not believe this will solve the problem.
Has anyone had this issue or has any advice? I am obviously rooted and unlocked and sending this in for repair probably isn't a great option.
Thank you
Edit: Just wanted to add that this SIM issue first popped up after flashing the Pure Nexus ROM, then Turbo, then back to TruPure. All the same result. But it was fine before I flashed Pure Nexus.
try flash NON-HLOS.bin, hope this will help
So I ended up using the back-to-stock tool and went the nuclear option. This allowed the SIM card and SD card to be recognized. If anyone else seems to have this issue, using that method will get you back up and running at least.
Is it my imagination or can updating to 6.0 cause the SD Card slot to cease to exist? Manually force updated stock rom from 5.0 to 6.0.1. Everything seemed to be working fine, until I went to access files on the SD card. No card found. Rebooted into recovery mode, unable to mount sd. Connecting to computer, no sd. Did a little searching, backed everything up to a thumb drive, factory reset, flashed cache, etc. Rebooted, went through 4 or 5 updates....still no SD. I'm getting 'SD not Inserted' message when I try to access it. But the dang thing was working before I flashed to 6.0.1 . What the flunk?
I suppose the next option is to root and try a custom rom for the 900M ? Unless someone has other ideas?
Thanks.