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Don't Try to Partition with Rom Manager.

If You try to partition with Rom manager it partitions the internal sd and you will brick your phone. Your screen will be black with only the capacative buttons glowing. This brick is possibly the more annoying ones where you have to flash your phone twice. If you have this problem don't panic like i did.
*REMOVING EXTERNAL SD CARD MIGHT IMPROVE ODIN CHANCES OF WORKING*(Thanks Hoey2011 for mentioning this)
Step 1: Download all files from this thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=734475
PUt them in a safe spot you will need them for later.
Step 2: Download files from this thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=740558
Step 3: HAVE ODIN OPENED FIRST!!(This helped it detect my phone for some reason)Get phone into download mode. The easiest way to do this is pull out battery from phone. Then plug phone into usb connected to computer it will have the battery sign. Hold volume keys and power button when the screen goes black let go of power button. You will be in download mode if Odin doesn't detect it unplug usb and replug it.
Step 4: Once Odin has recognized your phone set the pit file and .tar file FROM EUGENE'S 2.2 THREAD. NOT THE FIRST LINK THE SECOND LINK. Then click start. And follow all the directions on his thread.
Step 5: Once you have flashed that rom you put your phone in download mode again and set up the pit and .tar file for Stock 2.1. After you finish flashing it your phone should be saved!
Thanks to Eugene373, justanothercrowd and anomalous3(for being patient and helping me out when I had this problem) And to anyone else that helped me solve this problem.

Thanx for being the guinea pig. Glad you got it back working.

Yea It was a ***** tho. Spent at least 4 hrs fixing it. But glad its working

Wow that sucks well thanks for the write up.

I was in the same boat as you and as I was downloading 2.2 to try I found your thread. Works like a charm! Thanks for the info on this. I guess I shouldn't read threads backwards from now on, huh?

ok so I've been following this method, and got eugene's 2.2 loaded up correctly, and rebooted back into download mode. The 2.2 files loaded just fine through odin, but now that I'm flashing 2.1, it seems hung on the cache.rfs.
I am gonna go smoke a blunt or two and come back and see how it's progressed, but this hang is the same issue I had before, on my windows 7 64bit machine. I figured it was a compatibility problem so I'm using my old busted vista machine. I've gotten further on the vista laptop than the W7 one, but I'm still hung.
How long should the 2nd loadup take??
I am almost at my wits end with this stupid mistake I made and hope is such a far stretch

ok, so i continued my use of the search tool here at xda and found my answer
I had my MicroSD card in my phone, hadn't even thought to remove it. I have moved past the cache.rfs file and am now waiting to see the results....
IT WORKED OMG OMG OMG
Xda forums almost ruined my phone, then brought it back from the dead
god i love equlibrium

Good info thanks for posting it, but one thing I would like to point out and I am not alone in feeling this way people are throwing the.word brick around and far to casually. You did not brick your phone by partitioning it the proof is that you fixed your phone. Bricking a phone is wheb youbrender the phone usless as a brick when it is totally broken and unfixable. I dont mean to nitpick i just hate seeing everyone that makes a mistake in anything crying wolf and claiming to have bricked. But my rant aside thanks for the very usefull info you mightvwanna pass it on to koush so he can fix it.
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I did exactly this and I was so frustrated that I sent my phone back to tmobile and just purchased a new one. I don't know about yall but if there are two storage points (internal and external) there should be an option for both in default recovery because when I tried to partition the external sd card *in which i was able to execute on my nexus one* it was very easy but because I use clockwork recovery and did a rom backup, i guess the backup zip wasn't safe because I received the same results as you. There should be 2 options to choose from that says *internal storage, External SD Card* why make things difficult? lol
The manufacturers need to be a little more intuitive.
*this is my opinion*

zDisturbed1 said:
Good info thanks for posting it, but one thing I would like to point out and I am not alone in feeling this way people are throwing the.word brick around and far to casually. You did not brick your phone by partitioning it the proof is that you fixed your phone. Bricking a phone is wheb youbrender the phone usless as a brick when it is totally broken and unfixable. I dont mean to nitpick i just hate seeing everyone that makes a mistake in anything crying wolf and claiming to have bricked. But my rant aside thanks for the very usefull info you mightvwanna pass it on to koush so he can fix it.
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Thanks for the clarification. I actually had no idea a brick was unfixable. I thought a brick was when your phone messed up and you'd reflash to get it working. Lol sorry again
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Ah crap, that's right, /sdcard is mapped to the *internal* sd card on the phone, and that's what is partitioned. I'll disable partitioning on the phone (external SD card is not accessible in recovery).

Koush said:
Ah crap, that's right, /sdcard is mapped to the *internal* sd card on the phone, and that's what is partitioned. I'll disable partitioning on the phone (external SD card is not accessible in recovery).
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I haven't tried partitioning, but the card's /dev/block/mmcblk1p* entries are there and I can mount them. That's how the dc2ext hack works. It mounts /sd-ext and /data to do the copies and it does it in recovery.

hoey2011 said:
ok so I've been following this method, and got eugene's 2.2 loaded up correctly, and rebooted back into download mode. The 2.2 files loaded just fine through odin, but now that I'm flashing 2.1, it seems hung on the cache.rfs.
I am gonna go smoke a blunt or two and come back and see how it's progressed, but this hang is the same issue I had before, on my windows 7 64bit machine. I figured it was a compatibility problem so I'm using my old busted vista machine. I've gotten further on the vista laptop than the W7 one, but I'm still hung.
How long should the 2nd loadup take??
I am almost at my wits end with this stupid mistake I made and hope is such a far stretch
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I have had serious issues with Odin hanging on my WIn 7 32bit system. However, I think I was actually doing it wrong. I was booting my phone to download mode then plugging it in to my computer. However, I have had continued success (tried a bunch last night) by doing this:
Open Odin, take out the battery, plug in USB cord to phone and computer, hold vol up+down, put in battery. Whenever I booted into Download Mode this way, Odin worked perfect every time. Turns out after cursing my computer it was user error, whoops .

brandnewsimmy said:
I have had serious issues with Odin hanging on my WIn 7 32bit system. However, I think I was actually doing it wrong. I was booting my phone to download mode then plugging it in to my computer. However, I have had continued success (tried a bunch last night) by doing this:
Open Odin, take out the battery, plug in USB cord to phone and computer, hold vol up+down, put in battery. Whenever I booted into Download Mode this way, Odin worked perfect every time. Turns out after cursing my computer it was user error, whoops .
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turns out, the system wasn't the finicky piece of equipment, it was the phone and the odin software. I inadvertently left the sd card in the phone, the external one, and that was causing my hangs. Two more tries after pulling the sd card, I had success and was back to my phone again

hoey2011 said:
turns out, the system wasn't the finicky piece of equipment, it was the phone and the odin software. I inadvertently left the sd card in the phone, the external one, and that was causing my hangs. Two more tries after pulling the sd card, I had success and was back to my phone again
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I forgot to mention to do that. I did that with mine as well. Taking out the sd card increases success. Thanks for mentioning it.
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farrisizdaman said:
Thanks for the clarification. I actually had no idea a brick was unfixable. I thought a brick was when your phone messed up and you'd reflash to get it working. Lol sorry again
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YEa I guessed as much thats why I was trying not to "flame" and to be informative you are a victim of exactly what I am talking about. Because so many people throw around the word brick anytime anything goes wrong not only is it losing its meaning but people are also getting confused.

This does work, it took me about 7 hours last night to fix it.
I will say if it does not work then keep trying.
My flash kept freezing on the froyo rom and would not finish, so I actually had to try and flash the full captivate stock rom (search the captivate forum) it froze but afterwords it let me go throught the whole flash process with Eugenes 2.2 rom, then flashed right back to 2.1 no prob.
I will also say that if you are on a x64 system then go find a x86 (32 bit) system. I dont know why but it just works better.
So if it doesnt work then do this:
1. Make sure you are on a 32 bit system.
2. Flash a Full Rom from the Captivate forum. (It has a more to it I believe, changes the system maybe?)
3. If it freezes that is ok. Flash the 2.2 rom. (might need to do it a couple times)
4. After successful flash then go to stock.

This needs a sticky!!!!!!!!!
I just did this. Wish I would have seen this thread first!

I'm having a really hard time getting to download mode. Read all the threads I could find on it.
Any ideas? Download mode isn't removed when partitioning with rom manager is it?
I'm trying not to freak out...

tsnow247 said:
I'm having a really hard time getting to download mode. Read all the threads I could find on it.
Any ideas? Download mode isn't removed when partitioning with rom manager is it?
I'm trying not to freak out...
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After fighting with it I found out this worked best for me:
Battery out
Plug in USB cord to the phone and PC
Hold Vol up and down
Put the battery in
Phone should boot right into download mode.
Also, I found you should have Odin open FIRST before you do this. If I didn't I would have constant issues with Odin hanging.

Ok...idk what to do anymore...

Soo I had a problem with my phone's charging where I would pull the plug to stop charging the phone, and the batteey would still indicate that it was charging. Also, randomly, my phone would think its connected to the computer and the "USB" notification would pop up and leave every 2 seconds over and over "again (that stopped eventually). Also, when i try to connect my SD card to my computer, it wont connect (even if the phones "USB" notification popped up). I used to use many different chargers to charge my phone and then stopped because I thought that was the problem. Now, my phone still acta a little weird when I charge it, USB is gone, abd I can't recover into CWM recovery. I have the full version of ROM manager, tried going into recovery that way, but when in normal recovery, it just keeps resetting onto that stock recoveey system. This problem started when I had DL30, now I'm using EB01. I wiped data and chache and its still giving me problems...oh and I forgot to mention, if my phone shuts off, I have to connect it to a charger to turn it back on...even if it has good battery. What can I do???
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My friend is having this prob.. The 3 button recovery method still works for him.. I still have not fixed his phone.. But all I have tried so far is a franken kernel flash because he has an extended battery.. I will try more next week
Rocking dj05 and jt's voodoo 5

Are you using a different charger than the stock Samsung one? It sounds like your USB port is screwed over.

KitsuneKnight said:
Are you using a different charger than the stock Samsung one? It sounds like your USB port is screwed over.
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ahhhhhhyep. Sure that is part of it, but the constant flux and what not I'm sure has messed with the phone. Try an odin back to Di01 or dl09 and see if it fixes things.

I had the same exact problem, odin'd back to stock, didnt fix it at all. Had to return the phone. Guy at best buy said he had seen a few others with the same problem. Must be common for the USB port to take a ****?

mikey6p said:
I had the same exact problem, odin'd back to stock, didnt fix it at all. Had to return the phone. Guy at best buy said he had seen a few others with the same problem. Must be common for the USB port to take a ****?
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It's when incorrect chargers are used. Whether it be voltage or pin arrangement, it's not as uncommon as you think.

No its not uncommon at all...there are many different grades of chargers

Rom manager throws up a red flag for me to begin with. If your CWM is jacked up you should replace it with an odin flash. I've seen a lot of people having trouble with CWM from rom manager lately.
I agree with the probability of the USB port being messed up, but i'd make sure your software is square first.

As far as the usb issues, have you tried using a different usb cable? If you have, and you are still having issues, then I'm guessing your usb port has a short in it and will need to be repaired.
About your CWM problems, if you flash with something like SuperClean v2.4, you will have your kernel, CWM, and rom all replaced at the same time. This way, if you can get into CWM once, then you won't have issues getting back into recovery again, because CWM will be permanently installed.
Don't use the ROM manager's recovery unless you manually the swap the recovery-update.zip file on your SD card:
Daswolven said:
Take the fixed CWM update.zip from the above post. Drop a copy on your sd card. Copy it into the clockworkmod folder and rename the copy recovery-update.zip. Will work on both ends then.
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[Fixed] Black Screen on Boot

Hello.
I just rooted my phone for the first time with Motochopper and flashed the Google Wallet Mod. Everything was working fine until after a while I tried turning my screen on and it wouldn't turn on. I rebooted the phone and the Samsung Logo with the Custom Lock logo appears for a short while, then the screen goes black. After about 20 seconds the blue LED stays constantly lit and slowly fads in and out - after a few minutes the device becomes really hot. The screen stays black and I can't do anything. Is there any way to get my phone back to normal without deleting everything off my phone and restoring the stock ROM?
I have a US AT&T Samsung Galaxy S4 16GB (SGH-I337).
Any help is appreciated,
Thank you.
-Problem fixed.

You have any backups? try restoring one and see if you get the same result. If not, odin back to stock would be your only option.

TheAxman said:
You have any backups? try restoring one and see if you get the same result. If not, odin back to stock would be your only option.
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Unfortunately I don't have any backups. This is my first Android phone, coming from an iPhone, and I'm still getting used to rooting as opposed to jailbreaking. I installed TWRP before I flashed the Google Wallet mod but thought I would be fine until I get an external micro SD card to create the backup on. Is there any way I can access and transfer my photos that are on the device either via Recovery Mode or Download Mode to my computer before I loose everything restoring back to stock?

If you just rebooted thru power menu, try pulling battery--
Did you try manually booting into recovery--

rugmankc said:
If you just rebooted thru power menu, try pulling battery--
Did you try manually booting into recovery--
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The first time I rebooted, I used some combination of the power and home button because when I tried to turn it on the screen was black. Something must have happened while the device was idle because everything was fine but when I turned it on it wouldn't come on so I rebooted. When it boots, the screen stays black with the blue LED and if I try to reboot, the same thing happens - it's stuck in a loop and the only way to turn it off is to pull the battery out. I can manually boot into recovery, but I have no backups. I've tried doing a Factory Reset in the TWRP, but no dice.

Wow--lesson learned hard way--ALWAYS have backup on phone and pc, including a copy of your sdcard--
That should be at top of every phone forum stickies--
I am not expert on Samsung yet. But, on my HTC phone we would have downloaded a rom to the pc and thru adb pushed it to phone then wiped and flashed it.
It is easy, but you will need to get adb files on your pc or download and install Android ADK. I think if someone has them for this phone you can copy them to pc and put in adb folder and bypass SDK. They are in some of the exploits like motochopper. Matter of fact you could probably extract motochopper and put in your download folder or to desktop and run adb from there. It has all the commands.
Some one else more expert on phone can confirm that and give exact push command to get rom to phone. I can Google it, just haven't used those commands for awhile,
It will be something like putting motochopper extracted folder onto pc. Opening a terminal window and cd'ing to where ever you put it
Then typing adb push rom.zip /sdcard rom.zip
Of course you need to rename rom to "rom.zip" or use the exact name of the rom you put on pc.
That command will have rom.zip on root of sdcard

I pretty much had this happen to my phone -
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2331112
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Bilateral Pneumothorax said:
Unfortunately I don't have any backups. This is my first Android phone, coming from an iPhone, and I'm still getting used to rooting as opposed to jailbreaking. I installed TWRP before I flashed the Google Wallet mod but thought I would be fine until I get an external micro SD card to create the backup on. Is there any way I can access and transfer my photos that are on the device either via Recovery Mode or Download Mode to my computer before I loose everything restoring back to stock?
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Connect the phone to PC, then you can access the internal folders
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Bilateral Pneumothorax said:
Unfortunately I don't have any backups. This is my first Android phone, coming from an iPhone, and I'm still getting used to rooting as opposed to jailbreaking. I installed TWRP before I flashed the Google Wallet mod but thought I would be fine until I get an external micro SD card to create the backup on. Is there any way I can access and transfer my photos that are on the device either via Recovery Mode or Download Mode to my computer before I loose everything restoring back to stock?
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I am on an iMac and use Android File Transfer. Not sure how they do it on PC as I thought we still can't mount sdcard in Recovery. Maybe Kies if it works for you. But, if you can only get to recovery and no backup, pushing a rom may be the answer. Come morning you'll get more answers. One thing I noticed coming from TMobile HTC to US ATT, not much overnite posts since we are all within 3 hour time zones. With Tmobile, lots of Europe folks.

rugmankc said:
Wow--lesson learned hard way--ALWAYS have backup on phone and pc, including a copy of your sdcard--
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Lesson well learned. When I get my phone up and running my first priority after re-rooting will be making a backup.
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I am on an iMac and use Android File Transfer. Not sure how they do it on PC as I thought we still can't mount sdcard in Recovery. Maybe Kies if it works for you. But, if you can only get to recovery and no backup, pushing a rom may be the answer. Come morning you'll get more answers. One thing I noticed coming from TMobile HTC to US ATT, not much overnite posts since we are all within 3 hour time zones. With Tmobile, lots of Europe folks.
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I was actually able to mount USB Storage via TWRP and use the ADB command adb pull /sdcard/DCIM/Camera to extract the photos off my phone to my computer. Now it's not so bad if I have to restore to default.

Always always backup FIRST before attempting to do anything, that is lesson one period.
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Bilateral Pneumothorax said:
Lesson well learned. When I get my phone up and running my first priority after re-rooting will be making a backup.
I was actually able to mount USB Storage via TWRP and use the ADB command adb pull /sdcard/DCIM/Camera to extract the photos off my phone to my computer. Now it's not so bad if I have to restore to default.
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Great. Since you are up on adb you can easily push a rom. I will have to try to mount in recovery again. I think android file transfer messes with mounting.
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rugmankc said:
Great. Since you are up on adb you can easily push a rom. I will have to try to mount in recovery again. I think android file transfer messes with mounting.
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Instead, I used Odin to flash the stock GS4 firmware. Now my phone is working again. Oh and I made a backup this time.
Thank you to all who helped me.
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Super. Having not used Odin and on an imac, not sure that was an option in your case. Glad you got it.
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Kernel Emergency

Good morning.
So I'm running KitKat on my Nexus 4 and everything was fine until I decided to install TouchControl to avoid using the power button that much. I'm not an expertise over kernel's so I followed the prompted instructions and I ended up flashing the stock kernel I guess.
So after that my phoned rebooted, and since then I can not connect to Wifi, it only says connecting. I don't have CWM on my phone because I have a problem connecting my phone to my computer since it got wet some weeks ago so now it only charges but I can not transfer any files into my phone.
I restored my phone to factory settings and nothing.
I know this will be tricky but I also know you guys can help me, I know the main issue will be the fact that I can not transfer files over USB.
Please your help you will be of so much help.
Thanks in advance

grillaxo said:
Good morning.
So I'm running KitKat on my Nexus 4 and everything was fine until I decided to install TouchControl to avoid using the power button that much. I'm not an expertise over kernel's so I followed the prompted instructions and I ended up flashing the stock kernel I guess.
So after that my phoned rebooted, and since then I can not connect to Wifi, it only says connecting. I don't have CWM on my phone because I have a problem connecting my phone to my computer since it got wet some weeks ago so now it only charges but I can not transfer any files into my phone.
I restored my phone to factory settings and nothing.
I know this will be tricky but I also know you guys can help me, I know the main issue will be the fact that I can not transfer files over USB.
Please your help you will be of so much help.
Thanks in advance
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Does ADB work?

If the phone is rooted, grab Flashify off the Play Store and install CWM or TWRP from there.
Have a custom/stock kernel zip to flash on your sdcard.

PR0XiMA said:
If the phone is rooted, grab Flashify off the Play Store and install CWM or TWRP from there.
Have a custom/stock kernel zip to flash on your sdcard.
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He can't. His internet connection doesn't work.

abaaaabbbb63 said:
He can't. His internet connection doesn't work.
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Did it say that 3G didn't work?

Problem fixed
So at the end I figure that the problem was caused by the Touch Control App, I did not put the required attention to the prompted instructions and the kernel was flashed.
So, using my phone's BT I transferred the files to install CWM and then I flashed it with the stock ROM.
That's the way I recovered the WiFi Capability.
Thanks for your advice guys.
Cheers.

Deleted os , computer cant see phone, last ditch effort.

So I moved onto a new phone once I screwed up my phone a couple months ago, but if I can save it in a way that would be cool. Basically right now it has no os and no backup, but I can still go to twrp. I had issues with the usb being recognized to my computer even when the phone worked, I don't believe I can get my computer to see my phone, even though it charges though it. Doesn't help that the usb port is loose. So I just wanna see if there is any way I can get my computer to see my phone to get it running again.

hav u tried changing the usb port on the phone and or use different cable or pc!!!

percy5911 said:
hav u tried changing the usb port on the phone and or use different cable or pc!!!
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Like try to take the phone apart and replace it? No, I did try various cord on two pcs, no dice.

You will have to ADB Fastboot and then flash a ROM

what about a USB otg drive? load up OS files and flash from TWRP

I suppose that is the last thing to try, I'll order one today.

If you can get your 6P to recognize a USB-OTG device after mounting OTG in TWRP then you can save a ROM and GAPPS to your OTG device and flash it from TWRP.
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Update
So I got my otg-usb was able to see the storage device in recovery. However I was having trouble flashing a rom, well more specifically I couldn't flash a vendor img. But eventually I installed the latest twrp, and was able to install a vendor img and rom, and I was able to get it running I'm so happy!! Thank you for the otg suggestion,I thought this phone was a paper weight.

pjanobe said:
Update
So I got my otg-usb was able to see the storage device in recovery. However I was having trouble flashing a rom, well more specifically I couldn't flash a vendor img. But eventually I installed the latest twrp, and was able to install a vendor img and rom, and I was able to get it running I'm so happy!! Thank you for the otg suggestion,I thought this phone was a paper weight.
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That's awesome!!! glad to hear that it worked.

Were you able to boot into fastboot?