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[SOLVED] Galaxy S I9000B not booting, no recovery mode

I rooted and installed CM7 on my SGS i9000B about 1 month ago. Everything was going fine and I was in love with my phone.
This afternoon, suddenly and with no apparent reason, it started giving me infinite "Force Close" messages to all apps I tried to open, making the phone pretty useless. Whe this happened I tried repairing permission from within Rom Maanger but the problem persisted. So I booted in recovery mode (Clockwork Mod Recovery) and tried fixing permissions there, but force closing problem was still there.
I had an Nand backup from the day I installed CM7. So I went to recovery mode again and tried restoring the backup, but it gave me an error (I believe it was somwthing related to disk space, but I'm not sure about that). So I did another backup (just in case) and tried to reboot the phone to try restoring backup again.
The problem is, now I can't get to recovery mode again. When I rebooted I was not able to go back to recovery mode anymore. I am still able to get to Download mode though. So I was thinking about flashing some rom/bootloader or something back in from Odin, but as I have no experience doing this, I believe it's safer to ask for help here before doing anything to the phone.
I believe it's not bricked yet, since I can still get to download mode.
Can anyone give me some detailed info about what I should do?

Do flash Kernel one more and,
Do root again and try that working.
If it happend again, wipe dalvik-cache and after your device is rebooted, try again in CWM.

evernet21 said:
Do flash Kernel one more and,
Do root again and try that working.
If it happend again, wipe dalvik-cache and after your device is rebooted, try again in CWM.
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Sorry but I have very little experience with this and I want to be sure about what I'm supposed to do. What do you mean by flash kernel again? Is it flashing CyanogenMod 7 again via Odin?

I flashed the kernel again using Odin. Used the same file that I used before (when I fisrt rooted the phone a month ago - speedmod k13C). Now I can get into Recovery Mode.
But now I have a different problem. I tried to do a nandroid restore (backup and restore - restore ALL) but I have some errors related to mounting errors:
Code:
Checking MD5 sums...
Restoring system...
E:Can't mount /dev/block/st19 to /system with parameters auto llw.check=no
(File exists)
Error mounting /system/!
Skipping format...
E:Can't mount /dev/block/st19 to /system with parameters auto llw.check=no
(File exists)
Can't mount /system/!
I have no idea what that means.
Any help?

While searching for help on this error I found some people saying that flashing stock rom back intro phone could solve the problem. So this was what I did. Flashed stock samsung rom back i using Odin but when phone rebooted the following error appeared:
Android system recovery <3e>
Samsung Recovery Utils
- for BML -
[some recovery options]
update media, please wait
E:Can't mount /dev/block/st110
(Invalid argument)
E:copy_dbdata_media:Can't mount DBDATA:
So I have a very similar error - "can't mount /dev/block/SOMEFILE". It looks to me like a problem with the internal sd card. What do you guys think?

Solved
I could solve the problem using the method described in this thread.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=14732179#post14732179

[Q] Phone stuck at splash screen after Odin

I was using Rom switcher with Paranoid android and Touchwiz.
Then I deleted paranoid android and replace the recovery with philz touch recovery.
I wiped data and went to mount format system and format boot.
Then i put my phone in download mode and used stock rom.
Odin showed success, but the phone is unable to boot. I plays the samsung music and stops at halfway.
I tried waiting for long, odin again, I did wipe data/factory reset after odin too.
Now i am getting unable to mount /efs error too.
Please help me.

You will have to restore the backup of your EFS for recover ur phone. Then reflash the STOCK ROM through ODIN.

Joku1981 said:
You will have to restore the backup of your EFS for recover ur phone. Then reflash the STOCK ROM through ODIN.
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how can i do that?

Rooted galaxy note 3 is unable to restart after resetting .

I have a spare note3 , which I had rooted in past to remove some of the Samsung bloatwares . I'd decided today to give this phone a chance again and done a factory reset but after resetting the phone boots in TWRP , instead of system . I tried to restore from backup but still it is failed to boot .I am getting an error when trying to do an advance wipe in TWRP ,which goes like this " E:/ unable to mount cache ". I had taken a nandroid backup in past and trying to restore from it , but its not working . please help.
Edit :- As of now I'd successfully reinstalled the TWRP with the help of Odin and able to do a restore from backup , But I am getting an error when trying to flash it with CM 12.01 nightly . Can someone please point out which is the right CM nightly for N9000 version .
Thank you

Cannot Mount /data and Storage TWRP

Hello Guys am facing a problem in twrp since 3 days.. I flashed twrp-3.0.2-4-hero2lte.img.tar using odin and everything was ok when I booted to recovery it asked me to allow modification (everytime I boot to recovery)then flashed supersu and got an error cannot mount data Then I tried to wipe data I got error cannot mount /data
I changed Data partition type to FAT ,wipe data was ok it worked but when I flash the rom and start the phone I get an error Encryption failed reset device needed .
Any Help
I flashed stock firmware 4 times and nothing changed
Need Help

mrad4tech said:
Hello Guys am facing a problem in twrp since 3 days.. I flashed twrp-3.0.2-4-hero2lte.img.tar using odin and everything was ok when I booted to recovery it asked me to allow modification (everytime I boot to recovery)then flashed supersu and got an error cannot mount data Then I tried to wipe data I got error cannot mount /data
I changed Data partition type to FAT ,wipe data was ok it worked but when I flash the rom and start the phone I get an error Encryption failed reset device needed .
Any Help
I flashed stock firmware 4 times and nothing changed
Need Help
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Flash hydra rom and done

umijani010 said:
Flash hydra rom and done
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Really man??what makes this rom solve the problem I heard many things about this hydra rom

mrad4tech said:
Hello Guys am facing a problem in twrp since 3 days.. I flashed twrp-3.0.2-4-hero2lte.img.tar using odin and everything was ok when I booted to recovery it asked me to allow modification (everytime I boot to recovery)then flashed supersu and got an error cannot mount data Then I tried to wipe data I got error cannot mount /data
I changed Data partition type to FAT ,wipe data was ok it worked but when I flash the rom and start the phone I get an error Encryption failed reset device needed .
Any Help
I flashed stock firmware 4 times and nothing changed
Need Help
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You need to wipe the data partition in TWRP in order to decrypt it.
wipe/format data/type YES
TWRP doesn't yet support samsungs encryption.
wiping data will obviously remove everything, so backup first.
immediately after wiping data, flash an updated supersu, or dm-verity disable
Flashing a rom over an encrypted data partition will do nothing to solve it unfortunately.

Please help, Noob here, i always got "Failed to mount /efs (invalid agrument"

Please help, Noob here, i always got "Failed to mount /efs (invalid agrument"
please some one help me after i flash custom rom via twrp on my S6 edge edge+ it has suddenly had a error "Failed to mount /efs (invalid argument) i dont know what i did wrong, the custom flash perfectly but im stuck in samsung logo, ive tried to flash stock rom from sammobile via odin but i has the same result, always have that error, please help me guys

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mackeeyow said:
please some one help me after i flash custom rom via twrp on my S6 edge edge+ it has suddenly had a error "Failed to mount /efs (invalid argument) i dont know what i did wrong, the custom flash perfectly but im stuck in samsung logo, ive tried to flash stock rom from sammobile via odin but i has the same result, always have that error, please help me guys
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Did you make efs backup in twrp before start flashing stuff ?
Seems like you efs partition is screwed up if you have made efs backup then restore it.
If not then i suggest you take device to repair centre cuz to flash new efs you will require a box like octopus or z3x. Odin or twrp is not gonna do the job.

Trex888 said:
6​Did you make efs backup in twrp before start flashing stuff ?
Seems like you efs partition is screwed up if you have made efs backup then restore it.
If not then i suggest you take device to repair centre cuz to flash new efs you will require a box like octopus or z3x. Odin or twrp is not gonna do the job.
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thank you sir! i already take it to a technician, hopely he can restore efs partition