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Infinite Loop

Hey all, first off, sorry if this is the wrong forum. If it is could one of the mods please move it.
OK, here's my issue. I had CyanogenMods latest build, 3.4 I think and decided to try The Dudes cupcake 1.RC1. I forgot to do a wipe before installing TheDudesCupcake but when my phone came up it worked ALMOST fine. Had a crash here and there of something, not sure what, but the phone still worked fine. Today, I had an issue with a video (is the SD Card) not being viewable with "Video Player" so I decided to remove the card and pop it back (hoping this would somehow refresh the player). Didnt unmount it so I got the error about i may loose data without unmounting. (i'd done it before without a problem). Well this time around my card was corrupted so I ended up formatting with the phone. tried going into settings to view the size of the drive not since I didnt know if the whole card was wiped or only the FAT32 partition. Kept getting an error while trying to go into settings so I decided to reboot. After reboot I was able to get into settings and saw the whole card was wiped (back to full 8GB of empty space). Thought I would wipe right there from settings since I was getting an error or 2 after reboots and since I had gotten that error when trying to get into settings and then updating back into Dudes Cupcake. (thought the wipe would get rid of any issues of going between Cyanogen to Dudes Cupcake). Once I clicked on wipe and android reboots, it's trying to do something but just keeps rebooting. I've got Cyanogens restore image v1.2 on. So I see the G1 logo, then comes up
Build CyanogenMod v1.2 + JF
Formatting DATA ....
and at the Formatting DATA part it does the reboot and goes back to the G1 logo and comes back to formatting data and reboot.
I tried doing a HOME + POWER but it just goes back to formatting data. I tried doing a CAMERA + POWER but it goes back to formatting DATA.
Any ideas would be appreciated.
Thanks and sorry for the long post, I just wanted to give all my steps.

Huascar82 said:
Hey all, first off, sorry if this is the wrong forum. If it is could one of the mods please move it.
OK, here's my issue. I had CyanogenMods latest build, 3.4 I think and decided to try The Dudes cupcake 1.RC1. I forgot to do a wipe before installing TheDudesCupcake but when my phone came up it worked ALMOST fine. Had a crash here and there of something, not sure what, but the phone still worked fine. Today, I had an issue with a video (is the SD Card) not being viewable with "Video Player" so I decided to remove the card and pop it back (hoping this would somehow refresh the player). Didnt unmount it so I got the error about i may loose data without unmounting. (i'd done it before without a problem). Well this time around my card was corrupted so I ended up formatting with the phone. tried going into settings to view the size of the drive not since I didnt know if the whole card was wiped or only the FAT32 partition. Kept getting an error while trying to go into settings so I decided to reboot. After reboot I was able to get into settings and saw the whole card was wiped (back to full 8GB of empty space). Thought I would wipe right there from settings since I was getting an error or 2 after reboots and since I had gotten that error when trying to get into settings and then updating back into Dudes Cupcake. (thought the wipe would get rid of any issues of going between Cyanogen to Dudes Cupcake). Once I clicked on wipe and android reboots, it's trying to do something but just keeps rebooting. I've got Cyanogens restore image v1.2 on. So I see the G1 logo, then comes up
Build CyanogenMod v1.2 + JF
Formatting DATA ....
and at the Formatting DATA part it does the reboot and goes back to the G1 logo and comes back to formatting data and reboot.
I tried doing a HOME + POWER but it just goes back to formatting data. I tried doing a CAMERA + POWER but it goes back to formatting DATA.
Any ideas would be appreciated.
Thanks and sorry for the long post, I just wanted to give all my steps.
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when it says formatting data then done, are you pressing and holding home and back or just pressing and releasing. when the phone is powering on and you hold the home and back keys it will do a hard reset just like a wipe(same thing) or since there is no data to lose any more, try pulling the battery, this will not do any harm as you are not flashing anything
since you have the cyanogen recovery image you should have gone into the console at recovery and typed
fix_permissions.sh or sh fix_permissions.sh

Thanks for the response tubaking. My problem was that it didnt say done. right when the "Formatting Data...." line came up, it reboots, without saying done. And I couldnt get into the Home+Power or the Camera + power screens. Neither one would go there, just back into "Formatting Data:..." screen. After reading half way through the Brick thread I saw someone mention pulling the SIM card out, didnt think that would help but it finally dropped me back into the recovery console. Might I ask why something as simple as removing the SIM drops the loop and takes you to recovery?
thanks.

How I fixed my internal SD card error

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.

[Q] what happens if I boot into recovery CM7 on sd?

Well, in trying to clean off data, I have really monkeyed things up. Can't download anything from Market, new or old. If I boot into recovery will that take me back to the original, clean CM7 on my sd card? Please help.

I will answer my own post in case anyone else wonders what happens: nothing. I rebooted into recovery (CM7 is on the sd card, not eemc), and nothing really happened, or so it seemed. The screen went black and after a while I turned it back on, and it booted normally into CM7. But after that, the market worked for me.
Anyway, problem solved.

from .141 "stock" back to unlocked/usable

Since I'm kind of a newbie, this isn't so much a HowTo as it is a HowIDidIt. Follow at your own risk...
I had to send in my Atrix for a warranty replacement because the WiFi inexplicably died. Kept saying "error" and wouldn't connect anywhere. Very annoying.
I used Motorola's software update tool on a windows box to flash to the .141 update, which removed the "unlocked" bit. Somehow, though, it dorked up the OS to the point where the status bar was disappearing, phone wouldn't auto switch to incoming calls, etc. Also very annoying. So when the replacement phone came, and I put my SIM card and SD card in, it had the same issues with that. Basically it was barely usable.
Using my linux box, I booted the phone into RSD mode and used sudo ./sbf_flash to flash the 4547-fix-try2.sbf file onto the phone, which allowed me to reboot the phone into fastboot mode and use sudo ./moto-fastboot oem unlock the phone. At that point, I got stuck with the "Failed to boot" business. See http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1528729.
Then I realized I needed some sort of recovery app installed, and didn't have one, so I found this guy's work http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1204500 and used moto-fastboot to flash the recovery program into the recovery partition.
Next I needed a ROM to install, and I took the http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1528729 poster's recommendation to use Neutrino. Downloaded the zip, pulled the SD card out of the phone and stuck the zip on it, put the SD card back into the phone and booted the phone into recovery mode. Then I chose install from SD card, and installed the zip.
After install it gave me a slight scare when it didn't get past the opening motorola screen without rebooting itself, but that must have been part of the process cause it worked fine after that and booted into Neutrino. Which, I'd like to add, is pretty nice. I added a bunch of the add-ons that I use (various syncs, google stuff, and the alarm clock) by downloading them, putting the zips on the SD card by USB, and installing through booting the phone into recovery mode as with installing the ROM itself.
Now I have a usable phone again, yay!

Did the same thing yesterday when I bought a used Atrix to replace my out of warranty atrix's wifi radio. Even reloaded my cwm backup

xandr115 said:
Did the same thing yesterday when I bought a used Atrix to replace my out of warranty atrix's wifi radio. Even reloaded my cwm backup
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So do you think it was a hardware issue and not a software issue? I could never get a solid answer on that in reading online. Some folks swore up and down that it was not hardware, but I couldn't see how my CM7 suddenly just broke for no apparent reason. I don't THINK I added any funky apps. Maybe I got a virus somewhere?

[Q] Frustrated, can't get a good reboot CM10, same problems crop up

Last week, following Leapinlar's updated directions, began putting latest nightly cm on the ol' nook. Thought it was okay, but then, on reboot, it just sticks on rotating "Cyanogen Mod" screen (which I take is a boot loop). I waited a long time, maybe 30 minutes, still spinning. That began my frustrating journey. Here's the deal:
Latest nightly cm, 121212 gapps. Same deal. Loads on initial boot, then it powers itself off. Next boot, android keyboard failure, sometimes trebuchet failure. But I have (bearing in mind I have gone through these steps maybe 20 times) seen some success in getting past the keyboard issues and managed to get logged into the play store. Then, on the subsequent boot, spinning splash screen forever. Try again.
Try different gapps files. Sometims I hit one that seems to be digested fairly well, sometimes pretty much all the apps begin failing on the initial cm boot (after the load boot). No matter what, still, on the second cm boot, spinning splash screen.
Try to load gapps again, maybe a different version. I do this through holding the n and going to recovery, which reinstalls the gapps (or some other file). In this case, it seems to inflate all the apps okay, then goes to a "starting apps" screen, and it sticks *there.*
I rolled back to the latest stable version, 7.2 I believe, and got it running just fine on that; ran it for a week with no glitch whatsoever. But it's not the same! I really want this thing to run the latest and greatest!
So this weekend I am back to attempting the latest nightly and I am just getting skunked. It either loops the cm splash on second cm boot (which is the first boot after I set up account, etc), or it, in the case of trying to "after install" a new gapps file, sticks at the "starting apps" screen. Oh yeah, if it does that and I do hard reboot, I stick at the cm splash spinner again. Help!
Maybe a new sd card? (but it did load 7.2 okay). Maybe factory reset to the internal? I have done the cwm alt recovery and cleaned out the caches. I have cleared the data from the android keyboard.

For SD card cm10 installation (use Sandisk class 4 or 6)
Here is LeapinLar's thread to get you started http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=1941858
Get the latest CM10 nightly here http://get.cm/?device=encore
Make sure to use Gapps 20121011. Newer version will not work.
Here are the steps involved to make a bootable sd card:
Unzip the ...Rev5.zip
Use program Win32diskimager.exe to write the above unzipped image to SD card
Copy latest Cm10 nightly to sdcard (do not unzip)
Copy gapps 20121011 to SD card (do not unzip)
Safely eject SD card from computer
Turn off Nook Color
Insert SD card you created above
Turn on Nook color
Watch the Cm10 splash screen come to life.

wilco
Thank you for the response! Will run out and get a new card. will report later this P.M.

nailed it! It was the card!
Got the new class 4 micro sd card. Followed the instructions, again. Install different this time, with not a single error. On boot, it asked for google info, smoothly, all seemed right. Reboot success! Smooth as silk!. Play Store, the whole deal, perfect! YAY!
THANK YOU XDA-DEVS!
BTW, went to Office Depot for the card. Their website says 13.99 for a 4 gig card; on the shelf it was listed as 17.99. At the register I say, "Your web site has this for 13.99." So the dude does a price override on his terminal (he chose "match competitor's price" then "Office Depot website") and I got it for the lower price!