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[HOWTO] WORKAROUND for BELL i9000m Internal SD Card Failure!!!!!

Hello Everyone,
I like most people upgraded my Bell i9000m from Kies to Froyo, only to have it bricked with the "can't mount /dev/block/mmcblk0" error at the recovery screen during boot-up. I upgraded it last week, where it took the firmware from JL8 to I believe JK3 or JL8 (not sure at this point).
Unfortunately I bought my phone from some guy on Kijiji using it on Rogers, so I doubt Bell is going to handle the return or give me any love
Anyways, I spent many days long days trying to get it back working, and I found a work-around that requires using an external SD card. and going back to Android 2.1 ECLAIR
Steps (This is what I did):
1. Install JK3 stock ROM via Odin (with re-partition at the pit on samfirmware.com, didn't update boot loader)
2. Install K13c speedmod kernel via Odin
3. Insert 16GB External SD card
3. Boot phone to Froyo
4. Reboot to recovery console and wipe data/everything
5. Install JL8 stock ROM via Odin (no re-partition, didn't update boot loader)
6. Phone will boot-up into recovery mode and automatically do wipe data
7. Phone will boot into ECLAIR
8. You will see internal storage of 1.85GB free.
9. Install Market apps - I installed twitter
10. If you remove external SD card, twitter will crash.
11. If you reboot phone without external SD card, you will get rebooting logo
12. If you put external SD card back it, phone boots!
This wasn't a fluke - I was able to reproduce if I flashed other ROMS (XXJPY or similar) instead of JK3.
Background:
Even though the phone can't boot with stock ROM, if I install JK3 ROM + speedmod K13b speedmod kernel, I can get the phone to boot to Froyo, but there is no internal storage (it shows up as 0 bytes available). So you can't install Market apps, and therefore is useless. I can't even mount the external SD card under the Settings app!
So I tried to log in the Froyo device using adb shell, and what I found is that internal SD card is no longer showing up under linux, and the OS thinks that the external SD card is the internal one. This is probably why the external SD card can no longer be mounted.
I figured out that the external SD card shows up as /dev/block/mmcblk0!!! WHich is the same block device as the internal SD card...so I'm thinking if I reboot into recovery and format SD card, how come it's not working? I even tried to partition the external SD card with android partitions, but still nothing!
I think Froyo is 'smarter' in that it knows the external SD card is not internal (whether it's grepping the device-info for manufacture data, don't know).
But if I go to JL8 Eclair, the Android 2.1 is 'dumb' enough that is doesn't see the difference between internal and external, so formats the external to look like internal.
Once I boot to ECLAIR, the external SD card is greyed out under Settings app, but I get 1.85GB internal storage!! OK I can't access the whole 16GB of the card, but at least my phone is not toast.
I can go ahead an install apps, which will install to the external SD card. But if you remove the external SD card, the phone will no longer boot. If I remove the card and apps are running, apps will crash (case in point: I tried twitter).
It will be nice if others can re-produce my findings. But for now my Samsung Galaxy S has been saved!
Kashif Shaikh

this sounds promising, can some more people confirm this solution to use External SD to imitate internal SD?

It worked for me as well! I have i9000M version, with internal SD failure. I'm also using 8GB external microSD card. I tried several 2.2 Android firmwares - specifically I9000XXJPY, I9000XXJPU. With update to speedmod-kernel I'm able to load device, but it doesn't see neither internal nor external SD card. So I couldn't install any applications, upload data or even shot with camera.
Based on this thread, on top of XXJPY with speedmod kernel I uploaded I9000XWJM8 firmware (Android 2.1) with Odin 1.7, no repartitioning. It worked right away - device loaded and I can see ~2GB of program storage (assume they storage is located on my external card). Both internal and external cards are shown as "Not available" in settings. I can install applications now, which made "brick" a bit better then it was before. Unfortunately, I still can't upload any data, i.e. a book for FB2Reader. And can't make a photo with my camera. And it's now Android 2.1, which looks slower.
First of all - thanks for the advice! It would be good to have this topic "sticked" and distributed - there might be other guys with no chance to repair phone under warranty.
Secondly - if someone can do a "hack" for Android 2.2 firmware so it can use external SD card for program storage specifically for I9000M device? And it would be terrific, if the remaining part of SD card (or at least some fixed size, like 4 GB) can be mounted as storage, so the data like music or photo or books can be uploaded.

I'm able to connect to the phone using adb tool, but I can't find a folder on the device where I can upload (push) a file to. I'd like to upload a book to the device so I can finally use it as a reader. I tried all "root" folders (adb shell -> ls) and all don't work. It says "No such file or directory" or "Permission denied".
Is there a folder on the device which I can push file to using adb tool? Maybe somewhere where applications are installed to, i.e. Program Storage location. Please help!

Anyone else following this thread with I9000M with internal card dead?

This isn't much of a fix. This will only work with phones with slightly corrupted (and not fully corrupt) sdcards; eventually your phone will probably stop booting with this "fix" as well. You're going to eventually loose some of the other partitions such as stl10 to corruption, and then you're screwed.
The OP's phone is corrupt in a specific way that allows this - and there are various procedures that will get your phone to a semi-bootable state if you only have a partially dead sdcard. Like the OP said - just installing speedmod kernel with an external SD in will allow your phone to boot, for example (I got my dead sd i9000m to boot froyo with the speedmod kernel, and others had reported the same as well). Then if you're technical enough you can switch around your mount configs and get it to work without the internal mmc device.
It doesn't matter if you bought your phone off kijiji or craigslist 2nd hand; send it back to samsung (or go thru futuretel or a similar provider). No receipt is going to be required (if they ask... just say you can't find it). Products like this will always be repaired under warranty based on manufacture date code.
Send your phone back; don't try to fix it - it's a hardware problem with the mmc connection.

Unfortunately, I'm 10 thousand miles away from Canada with no chance getting there. If I had option to send it back for repair I would do it right away. So I'm searhing an option to use this semi-brick as much as possible.
My i9000M phone has totally corrupted internal SD card - it failed two months ago and I tried all options for it reformatting / remounting / whatever. With speedmod kernel it loads even without external sd card. It just allows loading without internal storage - not use external card to mimic internal. Unfortunately, it doesn't see any storage then - no internal, no program, no external card. So it just loads.
With Android 2.1 and external card it loads _and_ see 2GB of program storage (on external card). It doesn't see any other storage - so I can't upload any file. But at least I can install applications.

I'll try this solution after buy a Microsd card. My i9000M internal sdcard dead in two days ago after fixlag use ext2 partitions.

hi all. i didn't find JL8 stock ROM for sumfireware.com.where can find it ?
i flash my phone step by step as top post.
but after flash 2.1 rom with insert SD card , my Phone still cannot boot into ECLAIR .
who can help me? thanks. my phone can boot to 2.2 system without internal card.

SHINE.YANG said:
hi all. i didn't find JL8 stock ROM for sumfireware.com.where can find it ?
i flash my phone step by step as top post.
but after flash 2.1 rom with insert SD card , my Phone still cannot boot into ECLAIR .
who can help me? thanks. my phone can boot to 2.2 system without internal card.
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Samsung or bell can help you. Send your phone in for repair....

for same reason .i cannot send my phone to bell. so i very want to know find JL8 rom to let me phone canbe use . please help.

HI guys . thanks for your help.
actually ,every I9000 2.1 rom CAN use this solution. just need your external SD same as your phone internal SD size. if you are 8G internal SD , you must use 8G external SD card with 2.1 ROM . you can get 1.85G system space.

I've just tried XWJVB firmware - stock Android 2.3.3 - and it also works! Phone loads without flashing custom kernel.
I wonder, if there is a way to upload any file to the phone - so I can put there a book and read it.

does this mean this workaround still can't recover the files that were originally in my internal sd?

Nope. the internal sd is gone, probably forever.
workaround allows running the phone and having 2GB out of microsd card available for programs storage. it allows downloading and installing application from app market. still, you don't have other storage - can't upload a file or even make a photo with camera.
very wierd. if anyone would suggest a workaround to upload file to the device - even using any hacked way, like from abd or whatever

I flashed custom Kernel (CF-Root-XW_XEE_JVB-v3.1-CWM3RFS) over latest JVB. The device is now rooted.
Using adb tool I was able to push fb2 file to device - specifically to dev folder. (adb push file.fb2 /dev). Using Moon Reader I can open and read it! That's terrific after long time of finding a way of doing this.
Unfortunately, Moon reader is the only app that works. FBReader tries to open the book but fails with writing cache to sd card (which is broken).

This is a most useful post, thank you. I get the phone working on 2.2 which is great but I am unable to find the JL8 stock ROM, I locked for it everywhere but could not find it, would someone please indicate where to find it...

raullugo said:
This is a most useful post, thank you. I get the phone working on 2.2 which is great but I am unable to find the JL8 stock ROM, I locked for it everywhere but could not find it, would someone please indicate where to find it...
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Why would you need old stock ROM?
Just flashed XXJVP stock ROM to my I9000M. This is Android 2.3.4. Taken from http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1011901
Flashed CF-Root-XX_OXA_JVP-v3.7-CWM3RFS on top of it for rooting
Phone works
It needed some tricks this time to upload a file to deivce. For some reason all folders appear to be read only, including dev. So I used abd shell command to change folder permissons
adb shell
$ su
# chmod 777 /data
then exit and
adb push file.fb2 /data
File is stored and is not lost on reboot, like it was for dev folder

stuck on step 6..
first of all, this is a great post for those who still stuck with a dead i9000m and no help from Sammy!
Steps (this is how i followed)
1. fine
2. fine
3. fine (i inserted a 16gb Sandisk class 2 in FAT32 format)
3a. i couldn't 'boot to froyo' i'm not sure if you mean fully boot into the OS or not, but it was in a bootloop
4. i was able to get to step 4 somehow to the recovery (3e) and wipe data (there was still the cant mount error when wiping data but no error when wiping cache partition - is that normal?)
5. i cant find JL8 but others here suggested any other 2.1 ROM works so i tried JM8 (no repart/no update bootloader)
6. the phone did do something other than boot loop! (first time wow!) it was trying to copy something but it didn't go all the way through.. there was an error saying 'efs format failed /dev/block/mmcblk0p2' after/during 'coping media files'.
- could it be the wrong format going in (should it be something other than FAT32?)
- could it be that class 2 was not the right class (no fast enough??)
- the copying process stopped after it finished copying media files.. (the micro sd card did have some media files
- there was 2 folders Samsung folder (with media files) and svox (i think that was the name of the folder)
can anyone shed some light on where i did wrong, thanks everyone, love this forum btw.

pavbul said:
Why would you need old stock ROM?
Just flashed XXJVP stock ROM to my I9000M. This is Android 2.3.4. Taken from http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1011901
Flashed CF-Root-XX_OXA_JVP-v3.7-CWM3RFS on top of it for rooting
Phone works
It needed some tricks this time to upload a file to deivce. For some reason all folders appear to be read only, including dev. So I used abd shell command to change folder permissons
adb shell
$ su
# chmod 777 /data
then exit and
adb push file.fb2 /data
File is stored and is not lost on reboot, like it was for dev folder
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Thank you for the instructions, tha only reason to look for the jl8 rom is to follow the instructions to the letter. I trying your method right now, thank you for taking the time to give me another shot at my SGS, I will let you know how it goes

[Q] Help with partitioning SD Card

Hello first I want to say a big THANK YOU to everyone that has put time and effort into making the Nookie what it is today....but I have a noob question.
I recently got a 16gb micro SD and can successfully get the 0.6.8 Nookie to run on my nook color, my problems start when I try to "recover" my other 13gb's. Before I get burned and tossed aside I have checked
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=922324&page=92
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=883175&highlight=partition&page=103
and about 5 other pages and they all say the same thing..use EASEUS, grab the slide bar and voila. It appears to work but when I install it in the NC it either becomes very unstable or just boots to the NC as if the SD card was not there.
Anyone have any ideas?

Jeep_Lover said:
Hello first I want to say a big THANK YOU to everyone that has put time and effort into making the Nookie what it is today....but I have a noob question.
I recently got a 16gb micro SD and can successfully get the 0.6.8 Nookie to run on my nook color, my problems start when I try to "recover" my other 13gb's. Before I get burned and tossed aside I have checked
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=922324&page=92
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=883175&highlight=partition&page=103
and about 5 other pages and they all say the same thing..use EASEUS, grab the slide bar and voila. It appears to work but when I install it in the NC it either becomes very unstable or just boots to the NC as if the SD card was not there.
Anyone have any ideas?
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I use Lexar Bootit ....a free utility...to format and flip the bit that says its a removeable drive, then your windows pc drive management can see and format it as full capacity fat32.

Hey thanks for the tip, unfortunately it won't work. I forgot to mention that I followed this tutorial ..... and updated my driver (saved my original Windows just in case) to a hitachi driver and now I can switch my SD memory card forth "removable" to "logical" and back when needed. Once I get it as a logical drive I was EASEUS to increase the size of partition 4 (SD Card)..but again no dice!!!
Seeing that I am a noob I can't post the link to the tutorial but I'll say it worked like a charm and when I want to go back to the original I just need to "roll back" the driver.

Well, a couple of things:
Are you using a Sandisk card? Sandisk class 2 and 4 cards have been found much more stable than most others for running a ROM from SD, and problems with SD installs often go back to the card.
Any particular reason you went with Nookie Froyo? It has pretty much fallen out of use since the NC's stock OS was updated to Froyo in May. If you want an SD install, there's a simpler, size-agnostic method for CM7, which is also a more robust and capable OS and a more advanced version of Android (Gingerbread 2.3.4 rather than Froyo 2.2). I would recommend CM7.1 RC1, or if you're adventurous, Nightly 136.

Taosaur said:
Well, a couple of things:
Are you using a Sandisk card? Sandisk class 2 and 4 cards have been found much more stable than most others for running a ROM from SD, and problems with SD installs often go back to the card.
Any particular reason you went with Nookie Froyo? It has pretty much fallen out of use since the NC's stock OS was updated to Froyo in May. If you want an SD install, there's a simpler, size-agnostic method for CM7, which is also a more robust and capable OS and a more advanced version of Android (Gingerbread 2.3.4 rather than Froyo 2.2). I would recommend CM7.1 RC1, or if you're adventurous, Nightly 136.
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Thanks for the info unfortunately I am using a 16gb PNY, class 4 and at $15 I couldn't pass it up...looks like I should have done some more reading first. Really I have no clue why I am using the Nookie, my wife said said that was the one she wanted. I think she just likes saying "Nookie", but I'll give the CM7 a go and see what trouble I can get into.
thanks again...

Taosaur...I was able to get the CM7 mod up and running in no time flat. Now the wife wants me to see if I can get bluetooth working.

You said "I was able to get the CM7 mod up and running ...." so I assume you got your problem fixed. That's good.
About bluetooth.
1. Turn off Wifi
2. Power off NC
3. Power on NC
4. Turn on bluetooth
5. Turn on wifi

votinh said:
You said "I was able to get the CM7 mod up and running ...." so I assume you got your problem fixed. That's good.
About bluetooth.
1. Turn off Wifi
2. Power off NC
3. Power on NC
4. Turn on bluetooth
5. Turn on wifi
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Yep, I had to do the above the first time I turned on bluetooth, but haven't had any trouble toggling it on and off since then. Just open notifications (that broken-circle-and-arrow button on the status bar) and you have toggles there for Wifi, bluetooth, and a couple other things.

@ Taosaur,
I've seen your signature indicate you are running nb136, any change or improvement (both slightly and/or significant) over the previous ones?

Jeep_Lover said:
Thanks for the info unfortunately I am using a 16gb PNY, class 4 and at $15 I couldn't pass it up...looks like I should have done some more reading first. Really I have no clue why I am using the Nookie, my wife said said that was the one she wanted. I think she just likes saying "Nookie", but I'll give the CM7 a go and see what trouble I can get into.
thanks again...
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Damn! My wife never says "nookie".

votinh said:
@ Taosaur,
I've seen your signature indicate you are running nb136, any change or improvement (both slightly and/or significant) over the previous ones?
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I haven't done much but read and browse a little since I flashed it, but I haven't noticed any difference from 7.1 RC1, which wasn't really any different from Nightly 102 I had before that. I mostly just flashed this time for the integrated OC/Tweaks kernel, without the video/lag problems that were reported in 132-134.

Thanks for an update, m8

maybe someone can help me, i'm about to loose my mind here trying to figure this out. i'm using a Sandisk class 4 16gb card running CM7 with the OC kernal.Did all of this using the size agnostic install method. everything is working fine but i can't for the life of me figure out how to access the rest of the space on my SD, when i insert the sd card into my PC it just shows up as the 115mb partition. i've tried using EASeus, the lexar bootit, and some other partition tool with no luck. with Easeus i select the 13gb FAT32 partition and make it active and thats it right? does it need to be logical? and which partition am i resizing?

Dr. Light said:
maybe someone can help me, i'm about to loose my mind here trying to figure this out. i'm using a Sandisk class 4 16gb card running CM7 with the OC kernal.Did all of this using the size agnostic install method. everything is working fine but i can't for the life of me figure out how to access the rest of the space on my SD, when i insert the sd card into my PC it just shows up as the 115mb partition. i've tried using EASeus, the lexar bootit, and some other partition tool with no luck. with Easeus i select the 13gb FAT32 partition and make it active and thats it right? does it need to be logical? and which partition am i resizing?
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None of the above. Windows will only recognize the first partition on a SD card, and when you make a SD bootable, that first partition will be the boot partition. To access the larger storage partition, connect your NC with CM7 running to the PC over USB. Open notifications on the NC, tap through "USB connected" to the USB screen, and "Turn on USB storage." Windows will now detect two storage drives, NookColor (the system partition, where apps install) and SDcard (the large storage partition).
The only time you'll want to remove the card from the NC and plug it into your PC is when you want to put on a new cm...zip update file to flash a new ROM.

I used the size agnostic install method with a 16gb PNY calss 4 SD and after all the steps were completed I was showing 13.8gb free for my SD card when I looked at in on the NC. Not believing my eyes I pulled it out and looked at it with EASUS and it showed partition 4 as 13.8gb (utilizing all the cards remaining space). I then downloaded a few things and added a few books for my wife and the space shrank to 13.4gb. As stated above your computer wont show it.
In short have you looked on the NC under "Storage" (I think that is were I found it) and verified you don't have the full capacity already?
Also there is another method I needed to use when I was messing with an earlier version (Nookie) that allowed me to see an SD card as a "Local Device" so windows would let me see all partitions on the hard drive. I can't post a link until I have more posts but email me and I can send you the link if interested.

Taosaur said:
None of the above. Windows will only recognize the first partition on a SD card, and when you make a SD bootable, that first partition will be the boot partition. To access the larger storage partition, connect your NC with CM7 running to the PC over USB. Open notifications on the NC, tap through "USB connected" to the USB screen, and "Turn on USB storage." Windows will now detect two storage drives, NookColor (the system partition, where apps install) and SDcard (the large storage partition).
The only time you'll want to remove the card from the NC and plug it into your PC is when you want to put on a new cm...zip update file to flash a new ROM.
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thanks, well that got me some where. i connected nook to PC, turn on storage mode and it shows E/F drive. click either one and it says "Please insert disk into removable disk E/F" so then i turn off debugging and the nook color internal memory pops up as drive F, while clicking on drive E gives me the same error as above. any ideas? btw i'm on Windows 7 64bit, do i need any kind of special drivers or anything?

It is because windows will only allow you to manipulate the first partition on an SD card...even if it "sees" the other partition as another card it will not do anything with it. EASEUS will show you all the partitions on the SD.
The only way I got Windows to see all the partitions and do anything with them was to change my driver via the "Hitachi fix" If you google Hitachi driver SD card you will find it. I used this site and even though it is long it did exactly as advertised and now I install this driver when I need to format just the partition of an SD card and then "roll back" the driver when I'm done. It tricks windows into thinking it is a local device instead of removable. www/1src/com\forums\showthread.php?t=133718
change / to .
\ = /
I can't post a link as I'm still a noob...

Jeep_Lover said:
It is because windows will only allow you to manipulate the first partition on an SD card...even if it "sees" the other partition as another card it will not do anything with it. EASEUS will show you all the partitions on the SD.
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S/he really doesn't need Windows to do anything with those other partitions--I suspect messing with them was where s/he went wrong in the first place.
Dr. Light said:
thanks, well that got me some where. i connected nook to PC, turn on storage mode and it shows E/F drive. click either one and it says "Please insert disk into removable disk E/F" so then i turn off debugging and the nook color internal memory pops up as drive F, while clicking on drive E gives me the same error as above. any ideas? btw i'm on Windows 7 64bit, do i need any kind of special drivers or anything?
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I suggest you start over, because you probably damaged your install when you were messing with the partitions earlier. I'm also using Win7x64, and no, I didn't need any special drivers. Delete all partitions except "SDcard" in EASEUS, expand that partition to the whole card, then write verygreen's image to the card again and re-install. At that point, you should be able to access storage over USB from CM7 without turning off debugging or taking any other special steps other than "Turn on USB storage."

Taosaur said:
S/he really doesn't need Windows to do anything with those other partitions--I suspect messing with them was where s/he went wrong in the first place.
I suggest you start over, because you probably damaged your install when you were messing with the partitions earlier. I'm also using Win7x64, and no, I didn't need any special drivers. Delete all partitions except "SDcard" in EASEUS, expand that partition to the whole card, then write verygreen's image to the card again and re-install. At that point, you should be able to access storage over USB from CM7 without turning off debugging or taking any other special steps other than "Turn on USB storage."
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alright i'll give it a shot when i get home from work. is the verygreen image the same one found in the CM7 size agnostic SD thread?
"http://crimea.edu/~green/nook/generic-sdcard-v1.3.img.gz"
and when i delete all partitions except for "SDCARD" do i need to make that partition logical or active or anything?
again thanks for your help.

Dr. Light said:
alright i'll give it a shot when i get home from work. is the verygreen image the same one found in the CM7 size agnostic SD thread?
"http://crimea.edu/~green/nook/generic-sdcard-v1.3.img.gz"
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Yep, verygreen is the author of that thread and image.
Dr. Light said:
and when i delete all partitions except for "SDCARD" do i need to make that partition logical or active or anything?
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No, in fact you might be able to write the image without messing around in EASEUS at all--I'm just not sure if WinImage (or whatever) would write to the whole card or just one partition. I know if you tried to format it, Windows would only format the boot partition.

[SOLVED] Bricked U8800

Hi,
I did some wrong wipe using CWM, then I think my phone is clean now.
Now, if I press Power+ VolumeUp + VolumeDown buttons, I'll get to the pink screen.
Trying to connect to the PC thru USB cable, I'll get a Removable disk named "Qualcomm CDMA Technologies MSM", with size of 239MB.
I tried to copy all 5 files downloaded from this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1370960 to /image/, or /cust/image/, or /cust_backup/image/ and the UPDATE.APP (from step 2, official 2.3.5 package) in /dload/ folder of a blank SDcard, but it still goes to the pink screen.
Any hint for me? I cannot download the official 2.2.1 package
Thanks a lot!
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I re-partitioned my phone before following this guide: http://android.modaco.com/topic/341374-custom-you-data-partitions-size/
My phone is the GSM version, not the CDMA (C8800) one.

I think my /system/ dir is also empty. Does it have anything to do with the upgrade?

Following this post I'm able to have CWM4 and Oxygen back.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=18944228&postcount=4
Thanks.
But, still not able to install stock 2.3.5. Any hint on this? Thanks!

Averell said:
Hi,
I did some wrong wipe using CWM, then I think my phone is clean now.
Now, if I press Power+ VolumeUp + VolumeDown buttons, I'll get to the pink screen.
Trying to connect to the PC thru USB cable, I'll get a Removable disk named "Qualcomm CDMA Technologies MSM", with size of 239MB.
I tried to copy all 5 files downloaded from this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1370960 to /image/, or /cust/image/, or /cust_backup/image/ and the UPDATE.APP (from step 2, official 2.3.5 package) in /dload/ folder of a blank SDcard, but it still goes to the pink screen.
Any hint for me? I cannot download the official 2.2.1 package
Thanks a lot!
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I re-partitioned my phone before following this guide: http://android.modaco.com/topic/341374-custom-you-data-partitions-size/
My phone is the GSM version, not the CDMA (C8800) one.
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So did you managed to get back "old" ROM back?

mesnati said:
So did you managed to get back "old" ROM back?
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Hi, I have been able to get back CWM4 and Oxygen now.
I'm also trying again with stock 2.3.5 but still failed. Always lead to the pink screen when pressing Power+VolumeUp+VolumeDown.
Any hint for me?

Averell said:
Hi, I have been able to get back CWM4 and Oxygen now.
I'm also trying again with stock 2.3.5 but still failed. Always lead to the pink screen when pressing Power+VolumeUp+VolumeDown.
Any hint for me?
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Did you copy the dload folder and its content to an internal or external sdcard? Sounds a bit like your phone doesn't find the update files.

sbasil said:
Did you copy the dload folder and its content to an internal or external sdcard? Sounds a bit like your phone doesn't find the update files.
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internal sdcard? what's that?
I have external SDcard and putting it in SDCARD slot.
So i made dload dir on external SD card and try to install

sbasil said:
Did you copy the dload folder and its content to an internal or external sdcard? Sounds a bit like your phone doesn't find the update files.
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I tried with the external sdcard. My card is 4GB, FAT32. Should that be the cause of this issue?
I also tried with the internal sdcard (/HWuserdata/dload/UPDATE.APP) but the result was same.
Is there anycase that my UPDATE.APP is corrupted? Could you please help check it's checksum?
Thanks!
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I tried with the internal sdcard ONLY (remove the external card), and it's working. Firmware update Step 2/2 - ~35% now.
THANK YOU A LOT!

Friend Averell I had the same problem. I solved it this way:
When the phone was off (black screen) after the "Step 2" update,
I pushed the Vol-Down key (not the Vol-up) and then the power button.
After this I left the power button, but I kept pressing the Vol-down for at least 10-20'', until a screen was shown which told me "Formating User Data, Formating Cache" etc.
After all these the phone booted ok and the stock ROM was activated.
I didn't even needed to apply the "Step 3" of the upgrade.
Try it and I am sure your problem will be solved.

mesnati said:
internal sdcard? what's that?
I have external SDcard and putting it in SDCARD slot.
So i made dload dir on external SD card and try to install
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I meant the internal 2Gb memory of the phone. Sounds still weird tho. Unless your sdcard has some exotic file system that the phone can't deal with (mine has fat32 and everything went well), I don't know what it could be. Maybe some wiser person could step up here. And check that you didn't use capital letters for your dload folder...Don't know if that really matters, but it could...

Thank all.
The problem seems to be at my 4GB SD card. I flashed 2.3.5 successfully with the internal card.
I tried another 2GB card, and it also work.
Thanks!

yesterday, i managed to update oxygen 2.3.2 r1 to huawei's official 2.3.5 with my 8GB Kingston card, and everything went well, but today when i tried to shoot video, camera stopped after 6 seconds, and phone said that sd card is removed, and i tried to restart phone, took sd card off from phone and formatted card in PC, but nothing worked, then i put another 2GB card in phone and everything is working again??!? weird.. maybe my kingston's warranty just voided last night. It's so typical to me.

Micco85 said:
yesterday, i managed to update oxygen 2.3.2 r1 to huawei's official 2.3.5 with my 8GB Kingston card, and everything went well, but today when i tried to shoot video, camera stopped after 6 seconds, and phone said that sd card is removed, and i tried to restart phone, took sd card off from phone and formatted card in PC, but nothing worked, then i put another 2GB card in phone and everything is working again??!? weird.. maybe my kingston's warranty just voided last night. It's so typical to me.
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You could just try re-formatting the 8Gb card and see if it works. I've ended up cleaning up the whole sdcard for a few times (I've usually had a small ext2 partion and wanted to start from the clean table) after which everything has been back to normal again (in windows cmd: diskpart --> list disk --> choose Disk "your sdcard" --> clean all --> create new partion and format the card) ..or you probably could do that in CWM recovery too...I'm just too used to do it this way...just beware if you try this, be SURE you choose the right disk or you'll end up deleting a whole partion from your computer's hard drive.

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You could just try re-formatting the 8Gb card and see if it works. I've ended up cleaning up the whole sdcard for a few times (I've usually had a small ext2 partion and wanted to start from the clean table) after which everything has been back to normal again (in windows cmd: diskpart --> list disk --> choose Disk "your sdcard" --> clean all --> create new partion and format the card) ..or you probably could do that in CWM recovery too...I'm just too used to do it this way...just beware if you try this, be SURE you choose the right disk or you'll end up deleting a whole partion from your computer's hard drive.
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thanks, i will try that method.

ok, cleaned whole sd card and re-partitioned it and formatted, but no luck. Still when i try to take picture or video it wont let me to do that. It does still make android and DCIM folders etc. to card... and i can copy files to card with computer. but only with external card reader, not in phone.

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ok, cleaned whole sd card and re-partitioned it and formatted, but no luck. Still when i try to take picture or video it wont let me to do that. It does still make android and DCIM folders etc. to card... and i can copy files to card with computer. but only with external card reader, not in phone.
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Too bad. But it's hard to believe that your SD card has something wrong in it since it works in your computer. Probably another unexplained weird software glitch again. Some people reported that they can access the sdcard but not being able to write on it, maybe this "bug" is in the same category.
Btw, have you tried any other ROM and if the problem still exist there?

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Too bad. But it's hard to believe that your SD card has something wrong in it since it works in your computer. Probably another unexplained weird software glitch again. Some people reported that they can access the sdcard but not being able to write on it, maybe this "bug" is in the same category.
Btw, have you tried any other ROM and if the problem still exist there?
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ok, i tried card to nokia phone, and it works in there.. also it has been in huawei since beginning, so it has worked with official 2.2, B160 custom rom and with oxygen latest. But now when i changed to new beta 2.3 rom, it worked about a day. Maybe i have to wait one more month until final rom is released. Thanks sbasil for good advices.

U8800 pro serious problem

Ok lets start from the beginning:
I was trying to upade from 2.2.2 official to 2.3 official and now i'm messed up because after the step : "upgrade sd card" my phone restarted and my usb cabel was still on and phone started charging,after that i tried to turn on my phone.It worked but after 20secs my screens freezes and cant do anything even turn off i need to take battery out,also phone not detects my sim card...
Any idea? My phone is rooted,have installed CWM5.0.2.3,but have no backup only public one...But i can't mount usb storage because i get error like "E:Unable to open ums lunfile(no such file or directory)
ANY IDEAS????
I can get to pinkscreen aswell

If you have an external sd card put the public backup there and try to restore via cwm (if you get boot till there). You can also try the update procedure(the dload folder and stuff) but put them in the external sd card! The phone should boot from there.
Anyway,better wait for more answers since I'm not the best in here.I just know how to flash some custom roms.

Moihack said:
If you have an external sd card put the public backup there and try to restore via cwm (if you get boot till there). You can also try the update procedure(the dload folder and stuff) but put them in the external sd card! The phone should boot from there.
Anyway,better wait for more answers since I'm not the best in here.I just know how to flash some custom roms.
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sorry for dumb question but microsd = external sd? if yes - then i placed the backup in the card but in cwm only phone memory shows no sdcard...
Edit: external i got that

well it actually is an external microsd card
did you manage to restore via cwm?
P.S. if cwm doesn't see your se card go to advaced->reboot into recovery
should be able to see it now

Moihack said:
well it actually is an external microsd card
did you manage to restore via cwm?
P.S. if cwm doesn't see your se card go to advaced->reboot into recovery
should be able to see it now
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When i do "reboot into recovery" my phone double restarts and 2nd time it turns on normally not into recovery...

Don't know why this is done,but I think we should be happy that your phone isn't bricked
Maybe someone else here can help you and provide better solutions than mine

Have a read through http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1639761.
Has a link in it to how I solved my issue of constant reboots.
Also , since you can load pink screen, you can connect through usb and change your recovery to 5.0.2.7. That's the one i used. Make sure that you have a cust.img file in the "image" folder. That is where the recovery should be too but am guessing you already know that.
If for some reason you dont have cust.img you can find and download a generic version in these forums. Did not need it so I did not bookmark the post I found it in but I think it was the Kalo's Honor Port thread in the pro development section.

Problem to configure adoptable storage on Marshmallow - Galaxy A5 2016

Hi All,
there are all these interesting tips how to get adoptable storage to work on Marshmallow with e.g. Samsung devices:
sm set-force-adoptable true
sm list-disks
sm partition DISK private
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But for me it does not work at all. Does anyone know what could cause this problem?
The phone I am using is a Galaxy A5 2016.
Modelnumber: SM-A510F
Buildnumber: MMB29K.A510FXXU2BPH3
OS: 6.0.1
Many thanks in advance for any help!
Best regards

Up, for me too this isn't working, with or without correct names of the sd card... No format and no repartition...

yellowt said:
Up, for me too this isn't working, with or without correct names of the sd card... No format and no repartition...
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You can try this.
Please ensure to make a backup of your boot and system partition with twrp before installing.
Install the zip below with twrp then reboot.
Go to settings>storage then tap the sdcard.
You should see the adoptable storage options.
https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=24591000424965737

ashyx said:
You can try this.
Please ensure to make a backup of your boot and system partition with twrp before installing.
Install the zip below with twrp then reboot.
Go to settings>storage then tap the sdcard.
You should see the adoptable storage options.
https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=24591000424965737
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Thanks but my phone is completely stock... That's why the adb method was so nice... Can I flash the zip via adb or in others ways?
Thanks a lot!

yellowt said:
Thanks but my phone is completely stock... That's why the adb method was so nice... Can I flash the zip via adb or in others ways?
Thanks a lot!
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If you want to stay complete stock then this patch is not for you.

ashyx said:
If you want to stay complete stock then this patch is not for you.
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So there is no information why on the stock version the mentioned commands do not work accordingly?
My phone actually needs to stay stock hence no option for the zip this time.

ev!denz said:
So there is no information why on the stock version the mentioned commands do not work accordingly?
My phone actually needs to stay stock hence no option for the zip this time.
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It was removed from the framework, so unless it's replaced it's not going to work.

ashyx said:
You can try this.
Please ensure to make a backup of your boot and system partition with twrp before installing.
Install the zip below with twrp then reboot.
Go to settings>storage then tap the sdcard.
You should see the adoptable storage options.
https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=24591000424965737
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I HAVE THE A510F and this just wiped my sd card... thought this would do, but thank you for the work you did and hope this helps others

popeye331 said:
I HAVE THE A510F and this just wiped my sd card... thought this would do, but thank you for the work you did and hope this helps others
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Of course it wipes your sd card, that's what it's meant to do.
I don't understand the issue? [emoji53]

It doesn't give option for adoptable storage.... Only options are unmount or format.. Sorry for any confusion

popeye331 said:
It doesn't give option for adoptable storage.... Only options are unmount or format.. Sorry for any confusion
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Did you tap the micro sdcard after installing the patch?
Can you backup your patched boot.img with TWRP then post it up so I can check it?

ashyx said:
Did you tap the micro sdcard after installing the patch?
Can you backup your patched boot.img with TWRP then post it up so I can check it?
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Yes i did..... I will try to get you that... Honestly haven't never done that but will surely try

i got it to work...yes the zip is awesome and works great...but after install i hit storage/sd/format, after format was finished in notification it said new sd card detected, set up...i hit setup and there was the option for portable or internal storage so again thank you for the great work.......now i just need to figure out why it says device storage is 69 GB used out of 128 when my card is 64 and my phone is 16 and try to also figure out how to make sd the default for download......so again THANK YOU for this zip

popeye331 said:
i got it to work...yes the zip is awesome and works great...but after install i hit storage/sd/format, after format was finished in notification it said new sd card detected, set up...i hit setup and there was the option for portable or internal storage so again thank you for the great work.......now i just need to figure out why it says device storage is 69 GB used out of 128 when my card is 64 and my phone is 16 and try to also figure out how to make sd the default for download......so again THANK YOU for this zip
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Don't worry about the combined incorrect storage capacity. It seems to common on all Samsung devices. Just pay attention to the individual storage capacity of internal and external which will be correct.
To make sure you are using the external Sdcard as default location tap the sd card and choose migrate data.

Hi ashyx,
I think I went through all the required steps:
- installed TWRP on my SM-A510F
- backed up system+boot partitions
- and finally installed the "adoptable_storage_enabler_ashyx_13916.zip" ZIP through TWRP.
However, once I rebooted, contrary to popeye331, I did NOT have any more options after I went to "Settings > Storage > SDCard" . Only "Format" and "Unmount" were shown, and after I chose "Format" it only offered me to format it as portable storage. After that was completed, I did NOT have a "New SD Card detected" notification as reported by popeye331.
Have I missed sopmething? Was I supposed to root my device by installing SuperSU via TWRP with your custom "UPDATE-SuperSU-v2.65-20151226141550.zip" file??
I hope you can help me as this is driving me nuts ... I wish I bought the HTC One A9 instead of the Galaxy A5 2016 now, I didn't know Samsung was the "Apple" equivalent in the Android ecosystem...
Thanks in advance,
Laurent

PROBLEM SOLVED !! Needed to disable Zip signature verification in TWRP !!
Ok, my bad, problem identified and solved !!!
I did not actually pay enough attention to the log messages during installation of the "adoptable_storage_enabler_ashyx_13916.zip" file through TWRP...
It did display an error message in red stating "Zip signature verification failed", and aborted installation tight after that, but somehow I missed it, rebooted thinking installation had succeeded, and didn't understand why it didn't work...
I only realised my mistake while going through the install procedure a second time. When I noticed the error message I thought at first the Zip might be corrupted, then I Googled the error message and I got the explanation:
Before installing this Zip file, you MUST TURN OFF the "Zip verification" option in TWRP !!!
Once I did that and attempted the installation again, the process went smoothly and succeeded, and after reboot I proceeded exactly as popeye331 explained, the process being actually a bit strange:
You must first format the SD card, but when you first format it you are only presented with the option to format it as portable storage.
HOWEVER, ONCE the formatting has gone through, you do indeed see a notification about a new SD Card being detected, and if you open this notification you are prompted to format the SD card either as portable storage or as internal storage... SO you just have to opt for the latter, and after the card is configured as internal storage it will move some application data onto it for you.... Once this is done it is strongly advisable to reboot, because you might still see the external SD card if your phone is plugged in throuh USB... After you reboot, you will only see one unified storage labelled "Phone" (although you still see the SD card and internal storage as separated entities in Settings > Storage on the device).
Anyway, THANK YOU SO MUCH ashyx for your excellent work, I'm going to make a little donation to you right away to express my gratitude and thank you for all your efforts !!! :good:
Cheers,
Laurent

laurentd75 said:
Ok, my bad, problem identified and solved !!!
I did not actually pay enough attention to the log messages during installation of the "adoptable_storage_enabler_ashyx_13916.zip" file through TWRP...
It did display an error message in red stating "Zip signature verification failed", and aborted installation tight after that, but somehow I missed it, rebooted thinking installation had succeeded, and didn't understand why it didn't work...
I only realised my mistake while going through the install procedure a second time. When I noticed the error message I thought at first the Zip might be corrupted, then I Googled the error message and I got the explanation:
Before installing this Zip file, you MUST TURN OFF the "Zip verification" option in TWRP !!!
Once I did that and attempted the installation again, the process went smoothly and succeeded, and after reboot I proceeded exactly as popeye331 explained, the process being actually a bit strange:
You must first format the SD card, but when you first format it you are only presented with the option to format it as portable storage.
HOWEVER, ONCE the formatting has gone through, you do indeed see a notification about a new SD Card being detected, and if you open this notification you are prompted to format the SD card either as portable storage or as internal storage... SO you just have to opt for the latter, and after the card is configured as internal storage it will move some application data onto it for you.... Once this is done it is strongly advisable to reboot, because you might still see the external SD card if your phone is plugged in throuh USB... After you reboot, you will only see one unified storage labelled "Phone" (although you still see the SD card and internal storage as separated entities in Settings > Storage on the device).
Anyway, THANK YOU SO MUCH ashyx for your excellent work, I'm going to make a little donation to you right away to express my gratitude and thank you for all your efforts !!! :good:
Cheers,
Laurent
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Great stuff, thanks for the feedback.

ashyx said:
Great stuff, thanks for the feedback.
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Is it work to a7 2016 too?

Hanif92 said:
Is it work to a7 2016 too?
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Yes.

Okey let me try. Thanks