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0B phone storage, first time set up on every boot?

Well, I was fine up until last night when I went to flash back to a old backup I had after not being pleased with what I had downloaded. That somehow brought me to some odd stock rom, I have no idea how really but I had lost vibration and these issues started. I then used Odin's stock file stock files to get back to what should be stock, but I'm not having both of these problems. Every time my phone boots it runs though the first time setup regardless if I follow though the whole thing or not. I also can not install anything like Rom Manager because my phone has no storage left. My SD card was also formatted at some point while I tried to fix all these issues last night.
At this point I have no idea how to proceed. I've tried rooting and I just get a failed message after my reboot. I'm stuck at this point.

Is this a development question? There are many threads about this issue. Search: use it
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wizang said:
Is this a development question? There are many threads about this issue. Search: use it
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I have no idea why I posted this here. Really sorry. I'll delete it in a second, but I have searched several times and none of the fixes I've found work.

yes there are alot of threads with the same problem>
did you install voodoo kernel and did not remove voodoo before reverting back?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=804784

also here is the original topic called "FIXED 0.00 internal storage problem". it was several pages in.

itstee said:
yes there are alot of threads with the same problem>
did you install voodoo kernel and did not remove voodoo before reverting back?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=804784
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I believe at this point that is what my problem is. WHen I try to get into CWM I don't have update.zip on my sdcard any more.

sonofskywalker3 said:
also here is the original topic called "FIXED 0.00 internal storage problem". it was several pages in.
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Thanks for that; I'm working my way though those steps now. I believe I should be rooted well enough soon.
I do not know, however, how I'm suppose to install CWM, or "4. Use cwm to restore the stock.zip (kernel)." and "7. Apply CWM. Wipe data." to remove voodoo.
Also after running the one click root in that thread it ends with several errors and I do not see superuser as an app on my phone, making me assume it didn't work.

[Q] STRANGEST ROM Flashing Symptoms and Issues. CALLING Flash, Recovery, EXPERTS!!!

Dear Friends,
I just bought a Sprint S4, and despite my half a decade experience of flashing custom ROMs and such, I seem to run into a whole lot of issues with this phone that I cannot solve or get past.
So some background first, on what's happened and been done to the phone:
1. Bought the phone (don't recall the original firmware), but Rooted it via the QBKing method.
2. Flashed TWRP 6.1 something from the GooManager
3. Have a Class 10 SD 64Gig SD Card that I formatted via S4, so I assume it's in the ExFat format?
4. Downloaded Sacs, put the ZIP on the SD
5. Booted into TWRP, Wiped, Data, Dalvik, Cache, and System
6. Tried Flashing Sacs ZIP from SD, Errored out: Something like: Flash failed, unable to read the Zip file. And some verbiage for Partition
7. I can't Mount my SD or INTERNAL via Recovery. Can read them from the Recovery file Manager, but nothing shows up on the computer, unrecognized drivers (worked fine for the same phone, later, when it was on, so I know it was the drivers that was the issue)
8. Ran straight for Odin after that, but after trying SEVERAL TARs and etc, the phone would NOT begin flashing with Odin even :'(! (Could still enter Download Mode)
9. After HOURS of trying VARIOUS Odin versions and TARs, I found a One-Click EXE with Odin Packaged with the MDC Rooted firmware this FINALLY brought the phone back to life!!
Now the issues remaining that I need your expert help and advice on:
1. Since the phone coming back to life, I went STRAIGHT for Sacs ROM again! MD5 checked it, everything looked good. Put it both on SD and Internal.
2. Made Backups of the MDC ROM
3. Tried Flashing and ran into the similar error that you saw in Step 6 from the Backgroun
4. Downloaded Stock, DeOdexed MF9 ZIP, downgraded TWRP to a stable version, and tried Flashing again and Step 6 repeated. Tried VARIOUS ROMs this way, same issue. Error flashing, something about Partition, and Couldn't read Zip. All these Zips were MD5 Sum CHECKED!
5. The lack of mounting issue as USB drives from Recovery continues
6. Then a FREAK discovery was, when the ZIP failure occurred, I opted for Flash Dalvik and Cache and tried Installing right after that, and BOOM! Sacs starts Flashing !!!
7. I broke Sacs quick, restoring things from Titanium Backup, and when I tried restoring my latest MDC Backup, it recovered with a black screen and bootloops, and NO recovery entry AGAIN :'(!! (I think I may have backed up Recovery with that Nandroid and restored)
8. So I repeated the One-Click again, the phone restored again... this time in FACTORY MODE :-/?? I ignored, and restored to an older MDC backup, which worked!
9. I downloaded TriForce MF9, this time, tried flashing and failure again with Failed Flashing, error reading Zip. And on and on it goes :'(! I can't run Odins with MF9, I can't flash ROMs, I can't mount my INTERNAL AND SD in Recovery and am just straight bummed :'(!!
I have a few hunches:
- Format SD Card as Fat32, using this one app. But I think you lose 32 gig space from your card, right? Also, why doesn't Internal storage mount from Recovery :-/?
- Maybe a I just have bad or corrupted sectors in my Internal AND External storage devices?
In either case, please treat me as a NOOB, and chime in with your thoughts and experience on what you think could be happening? I appreciate ALL your help in advance, thanks for your time !

I would try a new recovery, I have always had problems with the newer TWRPs, I recommend 2.5.0.2 or CWM

^ that, and do you have to update to mf9 before flashing an mf9 rom? That might be helpful. Are you just dirty flashing rom over rom in your attempts, that could be an issue. Wiping and factory resetting before flashing the Rom may help.
Just tossing out random ideas.
Edit: just realized I missed #5 in the first half. Sorry, and missed the stock deodexed part lol.
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xchampx13 said:
I would try a new recovery, I have always had problems with the newer TWRPs, I recommend 2.5.0.2 or CWM
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Yes Sir, I sure did downgrade TWRP, including the version you mentioned.
HPferoxCraft said:
^ that, and do you have to update to mf9 before flashing an mf9 rom? That might be helpful. Are you just dirty flashing rom over rom in your attempts, that could be an issue. Wiping and factory resetting before flashing the Rom may help.
Just tossing out random ideas.
Edit: just realized I missed #5 in the first half. Sorry, and missed the stock deodexed part lol.
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Also a yes, Sir. MF9 kept failing, that is, it wouldn't be read by Recovery. Odin would fire the Tar either . No dirty flashing... almost EVER !
Any other ideas, guys ? Desperately need help here !

ProFragger said:
Yes Sir, I sure did downgrade TWRP, including the version you mentioned.
Also a yes, Sir. MF9 kept failing, that is, it wouldn't be read by Recovery. Odin would fire the Tar either . No dirty flashing... almost EVER !
Any other ideas, guys ? Desperately need help here !
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Why dont you just go to stock mdc and download the update and just do a normal ota?

Take your sd card out and try flashing it from your phones storage
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ROMANTiC KiD said:
Why dont you just go to stock mdc and download the update and just do a normal ota?
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That's one of my plans RomanticKid, but I'm flashed to Page Plus, wondet if the OTA will still work? I get notifications for the updates though, next time I Odin EXE, assuming that also leaves me with stock recovery, I will give it a shot. Thanks for your idea...
churchey thanks for your idea as well, tried it, I get the Zip and fail flash error ! Appreciate all the help guys, keep it coming !
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Take your sd card out and try flashing it from your phones storage
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I just ran into a bunch of problems. Man.. You need to be careful what you flash. Not everything is on the up and up. Steer clear of this website and their firmware. ------> http://galaxys4root.com/galaxy-s4-stock-firmware/ Unless you are intrigued by complex remote spyware. You'll be amazed with the phoney updates that inject things like a note 3 keyboard, Android device manager, and a bogus samsung hub. All of which will show AT THE BOTTOM, NOT THE TOP of your google play "all" list as installed apps.... but not in your installed apps list. They show as installed, but incompatible with your device. Go figure. Somebody had complete control of my device. It took me a minute to figure it out. Then finding a legit source of firmware here. ----->http://samsung-updates.com/device/?id=SPH-L720 I was able to get legit again. But not after encountering the problems you are having. I had to go in and manually delete a few partitions that did not belong and stayed after flashing anything. Once I did that... I flashed the MF9 firmware from samsung.updates.com (the second site I just listed above) and everything is legit now. No phoney updates. No bogus apps. Everything is perfect just like it came when I took it out of the box. Beware.... MANY of these ROM's have b.s. injected into them, and so do some of the firmwares. Take caution bro. I'd be happy to answer any questions if there are any.

Sleepycloud said:
I just ran into a bunch of problems. Man.. You need to be careful what you flash. Not everything is on the up and up. Steer clear of this website and their firmware. ------> http://galaxys4root.com/galaxy-s4-stock-firmware/ Unless you are intrigued by complex remote spyware. You'll be amazed with the phoney updates that inject things like a note 3 keyboard, Android device manager, and a bogus samsung hub. All of which will show AT THE BOTTOM, NOT THE TOP of your google play "all" list as installed apps.... but not in your installed apps list. They show as installed, but incompatible with your device. Go figure. Somebody had complete control of my device. It took me a minute to figure it out. Then finding a legit source of firmware here. ----->http://samsung-updates.com/device/?id=SPH-L720 I was able to get legit again. But not after encountering the problems you are having. I had to go in and manually delete a few partitions that did not belong and stayed after flashing anything. Once I did that... I flashed the MF9 firmware from samsung.updates.com (the second site I just listed above) and everything is legit now. No phoney updates. No bogus apps. Everything is perfect just like it came when I took it out of the box. Beware.... MANY of these ROM's have b.s. injected into them, and so do some of the firmwares. Take caution bro. I'd be happy to answer any questions if there are any.
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Sorry to hear of your problems brother, indeed, such a pain and disappointing to go through this crap when all you want to do is enjoy the custom ROM goodness . ..
I think the key thing for me to do and understand is cleaning and or deleting partitions that you spoke of... but you'll see, I have so many issues that I keep hitting the wall one way or another . ..
I would LOVE your help if you can make some GTALK time for me?
My address is [email protected]
Appreciate your help in advance!

I just hit you up on hangouts bro.
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I will say this... Your problem could be entirely different than mine. There are other choices besides firmware that will fix many problems. Remapping yhe partitions with PIT files which are also flashed with odin. I wanted to be sure, so I manually deleted partitions, then flashed the good firmware I mentioned above.
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Sleepycloud said:
I just hit you up on hangouts bro.
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I will say this... Your problem could be entirely different than mine. There are other choices besides firmware that will fix many problems. Remapping yhe partitions with PIT files which are also flashed with odin. I wanted to be sure, so I manually deleted partitions, then flashed the good firmware I mentioned above.
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Hey bro... thanks for your request. .. I actually don't like Hangouts and still use Talk so I didn't get any requests . ..
Can I send you a request somewhere? Appreciate your help!

Just send it from talk. I'll get it. Its the same thing. I see you on there and it says message delivered.
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Sleepycloud said:
Just send it from talk. I'll get it. Its the same thing. I see you on there and it says message delivered.
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I never got it man... may I have your Gmail to message you? Thanks!

Safestrap Help!!

Hi guys,
I wiped the stock slot while on slot 1 with Bones ROM. I can't access SS anymore. When I boot my phone, I can't select either recovery or continue from the SS boot screen (touch screen doesn't respond). My phone still boots fine into Bones.
I tried installing SS again, but no luck. Please help

gtmaster303 said:
Hi guys,
I wiped the stock slot while on slot 1 with Bones ROM. I can't access SS anymore. When I boot my phone, I can't select either recovery or continue from the SS boot screen (touch screen doesn't respond). My phone still boots fine into Bones.
I tried installing SS again, but no luck. Please help
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There are 2 actions about ss.
Install the apk & install recovery which did not work?

aviwdoowks said:
There are 2 actions about ss.
Install the apk & install recovery which did not work?
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I tried uninstalling and reinstalling the recovery. Still have the same problem

I think you must restore to stock. See my signiture button

aviwdoowks said:
I think you must restore to stock. See my signiture button
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So I can't wipe the stock slot ever? I don't use stock at all and never will. I'd rather have the extra space, given the phone's limited internal storage

gtmaster303 said:
So I can't wipe the stock slot ever? I don't use stock at all and never will. I'd rather have the extra space, given the phone's limited internal storage
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You can swap a slot to stock then delete the slot only. See post #2 of my ss rom for example/ steps.

gtmaster303 said:
So I can't wipe the stock slot ever? I don't use stock at all and never will. I'd rather have the extra space, given the phone's limited internal storage
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No, you can't wipe the stock slot. SS uses the stock boot.img to run the other slots. Also, SS itself is run off of the stock ROM. To get stock back, you're going to need to do a full restore, like Avi already said. There is a way to restore a saved ROM over your stock slot, but you need to recover your phone first.
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aviwdoowks said:
You can swap a slot to stock then delete the slot only. See post #2 of my ss rom for example/ steps.
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RikRong said:
No, you can't wipe the stock slot. SS uses the stock boot.img to run the other slots. Also, SS itself is run off of the stock ROM. To get stock back, you're going to need to do a full restore, like Avi already said. There is a way to restore a saved ROM over your stock slot, but you need to recover your phone first.
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Learning all this the hard way Thanks a lot guys. You've both been pretty patient or I'm the first noob you've dealt with in a while

gtmaster303 said:
Learning all this the hard way Thanks a lot guys. You've both been pretty patient or I'm the first noob you've dealt with in a while
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Yeah, we've all learned the hard way. You're asking questions and accepting the advice, that's why we're patient. Some don't do that and that's when people lose patience.

Note 3 System Partition Size Can't Install Rom Slot 1

I have a verizon note 3 and I am trying to load a rom into slot 1 using safestrap. Everytime I try, it fails due to insufficient system space. It also fails to mount the system. I have tried soft and hard resets as well as odin but the sytem size stays the same. The size is 2500mb but only 300mb free. Is it possible to free system space? Would removing and reinstalling the OS help? Any suggestions would be great.

njsges said:
I have a verizon note 3 and I am trying to load a rom into slot 1 using safestrap. Everytime I try, it fails due to insufficient system space. It also fails to mount the system. I have tried soft and hard resets as well as odin but the sytem size stays the same. The size is 2500mb but only 300mb free. Is it possible to free system space? Would removing and reinstalling the OS help? Any suggestions would be great.
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To get best results flash over stock rom but do a nano first.

the_rooter said:
To get best results flash over stock rom but do a nano first.
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How do I flash over the stock, it does not let me do it. I'm using safestrap 3.72.

njsges said:
How do I flash over the stock, it does not let me do it. I'm using safestrap 3.72.
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Check out this thread here from the great @az_biker. Step by step instructions, and be sure to hit THANKS.

Phone wont boot Into System

Hey there. I was wondering if anyone could help me out. I was running CM 13 on my Nexus 6P for a while but then I kept getting this message that said that there was something wrong internally and that I should contact the manufacturer. I just ignored it. I decided to download the latest nightly and try to freshly install it. I did a full wipe and installed the new CM13 nightly (7-1) and then gapps. When I tried booting the phone up it wouldnt go into the system. I went back into the recovery and tried installing a back up. I did that and tried booting up again into that restored backup and stilled didnt work. So I'm stuck right now with a non working phone. My bootloader is unlocked if that helps any.

XAL2 said:
Hey there. I was wondering if anyone could help me out. I was running CM 13 on my Nexus 6P for a while but then I kept getting this message that said that there was something wrong internally and that I should contact the manufacturer. I just ignored it. I decided to download the latest nightly and try to freshly install it. I did a full wipe and installed the new CM13 nightly (7-1) and then gapps. When I tried booting the phone up it wouldnt go into the system. I went back into the recovery and tried installing a back up. I did that and tried booting up again into that restored backup and stilled didnt work. So I'm stuck right now with a non working phone. My bootloader is unlocked if that helps any.
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Have you tried flashing a factory IMG?
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XAL2 said:
Hey there. I was wondering if anyone could help me out. I was running CM 13 on my Nexus 6P for a while but then I kept getting this message that said that there was something wrong internally and that I should contact the manufacturer. I just ignored it. I decided to download the latest nightly and try to freshly install it. I did a full wipe and installed the new CM13 nightly (7-1) and then gapps. When I tried booting the phone up it wouldnt go into the system. I went back into the recovery and tried installing a back up. I did that and tried booting up again into that restored backup and stilled didnt work. So I'm stuck right now with a non working phone. My bootloader is unlocked if that helps any.
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What options did you select when creating and restoring your backup? And, as above, have you tried flashing the factory images?

Heisenberg said:
What options did you select when creating and restoring your backup? And, as above, have you tried flashing the factory images?
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I actually just did that. All is well. I was having trouble with fastboot commands because my phone wasnt being recognized but i just googled nexus 6p drivers installed them again and ran through the fastboot commands to get my phone back to stock.

XAL2 said:
I actually just did that. All is well. I was having trouble with fastboot commands because my phone wasnt being recognized but i just googled nexus 6p drivers installed them again and ran through the fastboot commands to get my phone back to stock.
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Cool, glad you got it worked out. With your backup you may have selected the wrong options, have a look in my guide, there's a section dedicated to backups.

Heisenberg said:
Cool, glad you got it worked out. With your backup you may have selected the wrong options, have a look in my guide, there's a section dedicated to backups.
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I actually have a question about that. When you say check vendor boxes are we supposed to check them both or just the vendor box and not the vendor image box to backup?

XAL2 said:
I actually have a question about that. When you say check vendor boxes are we supposed to check them both or just the vendor box and not the vendor image box to backup?
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Only the ones that I mention, leave the system image and vendor image boxes alone.

Heisenberg said:
Cool, glad you got it worked out. With your backup you may have selected the wrong options, have a look in my guide, there's a section dedicated to backups.
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Heisenberg said:
Only the ones that I mention, leave the system image and vendor image boxes alone.
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Noted for sure. Thank you for your help. Oh hey can you answer one question for me though? When I was running CM13 how come I always got that alert that something internal was messed up and that I should contact my manufacturer? Also how come when I tried to do a clean install it wouldn't boot? Like that confuses me a lot because it was a clean install but I ran into problems.

XAL2 said:
Noted for sure. Thank you for your help. Oh hey can you answer one question for me though? When I was running CM13 how come I always got that alert that something internal was messed up and that I should contact my manufacturer? Also how come when I tried to do a clean install it wouldn't boot? Like that confuses me a lot because it was a clean install but I ran into problems.
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Perhaps you had the wrong vendor image installed? Other than that I'm not sure. As for why the clean flash didn't boot I'm not sure either, there could be multiple causes for that so it's a bit hard to narrow down.

Heisenberg said:
Perhaps you had the wrong vendor image installed? Other than that I'm not sure. As for why the clean flash didn't boot I'm not sure either, there could be multiple causes for that so it's a bit hard to narrow down.
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Oh man who knows. Thank you again though for the help and answering to quickly! Also thank you for that guide! Saved my phone's life. Lol

XAL2 said:
Oh man who knows. Thank you again though for the help and answering to quickly! Also thank you for that guide! Saved my phone's life. Lol
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No probs, happy to help.