TL;DL: Phones 16gb storage changed to 128mb overnight. None of my files/apps/pics accessible.
I have the international version for the S3 (GT-i9300) with 4.3 stock firmware installed (rooted)
I woke up this morning and looked on my phone to see that my primary launcher, nova launcher, had been reset to the original layout when you first install it. I was confused so I restarted my phone and it went back to touch wiz. But now none of my apps, files, pictures, etc. from the internal memory on the phone are accessible. It seems like it went back to an old backup I once had due to the lack of my newer contacts on board.
When I connected the phone to my PC it only shows 127mb/128mb where as on the storage settings it shows available space of 5.75gb/16gb where all the non system memory are labeled as miscellaneous.
In application manager it shows all my apps i used to have but now they all have the android logo and 0b of storage.
The phone also prompts a message every couple seconds saying clock is not responding.
No idea where to go from here seeing as i can't even access all of my internal storage... Would appreciate some help on my situation, thanks in advance!
EDIT: Tried factory reset, tried installing play store apk, tried flashing an updated firmware, tried booting into clockwork recovery.... all with no luck
Flash full stock firmware with Odin then factory reset.
boomboomer said:
Flash full stock firmware with Odin then factory reset.
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Thanks for the suggestion. I flashed stock firmware and ended up doing a factory reset through the recovery menu. All seemed well as my phone stopped heating up like it used too, battery lasted longe and all the symptoms I was facing stopped. Unfortunately when I woke up this morning the phone factory reset itself again. Same symptoms as before but this time I can view files, even though everything got deleted...
My question is now should I just flash a different rom like cyanogenmod? So far for the past 2 years I've only stuck to the stock rom and I've faced nothing but troubles. Wondering if I might face the same thing once I convert.
Thanks!
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I have samsung Ace s5830. there was some problem with my ace i had sent it for service. It was back from service after 21 days and i was installing the applications back to my device. everything was ok. I had made the default install location as SD card using the method mentioned at
http://androinica.com/2010/08/how-to-install-apps-to-the-sd-card-by-default-on-android-2-2-froyo/
Suddenly I found that the applications installed in the SD card went missing and i was not able to install any application. I was stuck up at the screen "Installing......".
I changed the default location back to phone but still I am not able to install any application even from the market. Actually the application is not getting downloaded at the first place.The install button gets greyed and nothing happens after that in the market. Installing APK files gets stuck up at Installing Screen. I tried doing soft reset by removing the battery and inserting again, i also tried factory reset, i tried the wipe data/factory reset still i am not able to install any data.
before sending it for service i used to have around 50 MB free in the phone. but after sending it for service i now have around 120 MB free in the phone. Is something missing in the firmware? should i send it back for service. I dont want to do that as they will keep it for another 20 more days.
Kindly help.
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I have samsung Ace s5830. there was some problem with my ace i had sent it for service. It was back from service after 21 days and i was installing the applications back to my device. everything was ok. I had made the default install location as SD card using the method mentioned at
http://androinica.com/2010/08/how-to-install-apps-to-the-sd-card-by-default-on-android-2-2-froyo/
Suddenly I found that the applications installed in the SD card went missing and i was not able to install any application. I was stuck up at the screen "Installing......".
I changed the default location back to phone but still I am not able to install any application even from the market. Actually the application is not getting downloaded at the first place.The install button gets greyed and nothing happens after that in the market. Installing APK files gets stuck up at Installing Screen. I tried doing soft reset by removing the battery and inserting again, i also tried factory reset, i tried the wipe data/factory reset still i am not able to install any data.
before sending it for service i used to have around 50 MB free in the phone. but after sending it for service i now have around 120 MB free in the phone. Is something missing in the firmware? should i send it back for service. I dont want to do that as they will keep it for another 20 more days.
Kindly help.
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Its a firmware error, if you can then check hubix tutorial on flashing. its very easy to flash if you read the instructions and follow as said.
i tried flashing 2.2.1 firmware. no use. still i am stuck up at the installing screen. one thing i noticed was the logs and contacts were still intact after flashing. am i doing something wrong.
Maybe this can help you:http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1103756
Try it! Was your phone rooted before getting back to service?
To me this one(link2sd) hase solved the problem:http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=919326
hi all,
Since a week or 2 my phone is constantly giving messages like this: "The application LogsProvider (process com.sec.android.provider.logsprovider) has stopped unexpectedly"
When i make a new contact or a new file on my phone, it disapears after rebooting. When i uninstall all my apps and reboot the phone, all the apps are back and nothing has been uninstalled. Even when i format the sd card on my pc, and reboot the phone, all the content is back as if nothing has happened.
When i try to reset it to factory settings, it opens in recovery mode. When i then select to wipe all data or wipe cache and reboot, nothing has happened to it, everything is still on the phone like before. Even when i deselect the backup and automatic recovery checkboxes before i reset to factory settings, nothing has been wiped.
When i try to update the phone with kies, the update installs correctly, but when the phone reboots, the same old firmware is still installed and the settings are intact.
When i try to update the phone with Odin, everything goes well, and it says 'pass' in green color. when i reboot the phone, the same old firmware and settings are still there.
I run stock firmware from november '11, which i can tell by dialing *#1234*
Can anyone help me identify this problem, and is there a solution? It really looks like this phone has some write protection or something..
i made a youtube video that describes the problem, but this forum doesn't allow me to make a link.
anyway, my phone stays stuck on the 3rd of september and that sucks.. any solutions plz?
the video
i can't post the link, so let's try it like this:
First type the 'www', then the 'youtube', then the '.com', then type 'watch?v=n6SH8QDJr94&feature=g-upl'
Flash custom kernel, do a factory reset in CWM and see if the data is gone.
i've already tried to install cwm, but first i needed to root my phone. When i tried to root it, it could not find the Root.zip on the sd card, although i'm pretty sure i put it there, it just disapeared after the reset, just like all the other files..
Flash it [kernel] through Odin (PC).
allright, i will try that, thanks already!
ehm, even that didn't do anything, i will upload a youtube video in a few minutes..
the youtube video:
type 'youtube', then '.com', then '/watch?v=P_D2EbPF0Ik&feature=youtu.be', without the '..
really strange how i can update the kernel and nothing has changed!
I really start thinking there is some kind of write protection or the internal storage is totaly screwed up?
Seems your nand is partially borked, and is stuck in a state where it will not update the memory, so it is "stuck" at a specific point in time.
I have heard that it's POSSIBLE (and I stress possible) that flashing with repartition ticked with the PROPER .pit file will resolve your issue, but I cannot say this with any certainty as I have not actually done this myself. But at this point, it seems you don't really have anything to lose by trying.
I can't seem to find a reliable download link for the .pit file for the I9100 right now... it's called u1_02_20110310_emmc_EXT4.pit. I'll see if I can't find one when I have a spare moment.
EDIT: Found one - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=28321934&postcount=35. BUT!!! Only use it if you are positive you have an I9100. (check on the label under the battery) Flash it with a stock firmware with re-partition checked.
False alarm. Turns out the link is dead.
EDIT 2: This looks promising... http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1448351
Had my phone 2 years, installed ROMs without any issues before.
Was running CM10.1 daily, when yesterday I thought I'd go and encrypt the phone (using the system menu).
Phone encrypted, rebooted, but immediately I started getting 'google play store crashed' errors in an infinite loop. It was usable enough to push the latest neatrom to the phone via USB connectivity, so I did a full wipe (clear data/factory reset, clear cache, clear dalvik, format /system, install rom in CWM) and installed neatrom.
Phone reboots, looks OK at first except for a 'usb storage is blank or unsupported' message in notification center. I try to format it, no dice, just stops displays the notification again.
Of course, without what is seen by the sgs2 as usb storage I can't install any app and everything crashes to desktop (camera, etc).
I'm not sure what to do next, and could use some advice! Thank you!
Right, so now I've bricked it. Odin, GB phone, csr and pda, then black screen, then nothing. Won't reboot either. Just... great.
Ok, thanks for sharing.
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I got an iPhone now. Wondering why I spent 2 years of my life with a battery that last 1/2 day and constant issues. Problem solved for good!
Alright! Now you got so many things to do with it.
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reflash back to stock rom first, but first make a back up for your current rom. that happened to my tab before. the internal memory is not working and saying something blank/unsupported, really cannot remeber. i couldnt install apps. i contacted the support of the tab (NOMADNINE) and i was adviced to flash it back to stock since it will copy files and put the chipset to write mode and will erase everything... you can try to flash it through ODIN.
He went iOS.
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He went iOS.
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Yup, plus the SGS2 is hard bricked: no power on, tried various ways to address that but no dice. Off to ebay for spare parts.
Hi,
I have had my phone in a bootloop for the last week where I could not access download mode. However, I finally managed to flash stock firmware 4.2.2. It booted up fully and I thought it was all solved when... it started crashing and getting into a bootloop which would be fixed by removing and reinserting the battery.
What I noticed when I went into settings and looked at running apps, was that I was using 0.95gb-1gb of the phones 10GB of RAM!!!!!! Obviously this is not the real amount of the i9300's ram (which is 1GB).
I am now suspecting that I have some sort of problem with my Kernel....?? I am also guessing that the crashes and bootloops come from the phone trying to access an amount of ram which it thinks it has, but is simply not there.
Currently I am in a bootloop where I can access recovery (CWM) for a second and it immediately crashes and reboots. Same for download mode.
Any help is appreciated. I've not found any, but if you happen to know of any other thread which solved this problem, please link. Thanks in advanced.
alexdelrio7 said:
Hi,
I have had my phone in a bootloop for the last week where I could not access download mode. However, I finally managed to flash stock firmware 4.2.2. It booted up fully and I thought it was all solved when... it started crashing and getting into a bootloop which would be fixed by removing and reinserting the battery.
What I noticed when I went into settings and looked at running apps, was that I was using 0.95gb-1gb of the phones 10GB of RAM!!!!!! Obviously this is not the real amount of the i9300's ram (which is 1GB).
I am now suspecting that I have some sort of problem with my Kernel....?? I am also guessing that the crashes and bootloops come from the phone trying to access an amount of ram which it thinks it has, but is simply not there.
Currently I am in a bootloop where I can access recovery (CWM) for a second and it immediately crashes and reboots. Same for download mode.
Any help is appreciated. I've not found any, but if you happen to know of any other thread which solved this problem, please link. Thanks in advanced.
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Flash 4.3 or 4.4 if available and use optiin nand erase all in odin with pit file and repartition
Ive had this i605 since a few months after it came out, brand new. rooted it within 5 min as i got home. only issue i've had with it was the power button and usb port didn't work but i replaced those.
2 nights ago, running cm13 last official version. was just on facebook and i got the boot logo. it's happened before so i didnt think anything of it. except this time, it was boot looping the first logo. ok, something happened to OS, so i went into recovery, erased all but external SD card and installed slimkat, this time it would get to the slimkat logo about 2% and reboot. fine.. back to stock and reroot. INstalled MC3 stock. when it came back up and it did, it hangs on verizon activation until wifi only.. great. go to status, baseband unknown. no radio, bluetooth and wifi still work, but doesn't detect simcard. this phone is my only internet connection as i tether. trying to root with casual and now, even though i can go in download mode and usb is found and i can flash with odin stock rom all day, once i get to android home screen, my computer is not seeing the USB file system, mtp, but it is charging. anyone had this happen before?
this phone has never had an OTA update, was on 4.1.2 when i got it
Update: Loaded back fresh MC3 stock build to start over again, saw a post somewhere about accessing hidden menu,
Go to Phone Dialer and type *#22745927
Enable Hidden Menu
Go to Phone Dialer and type *#7284#
Set USB to PDA, save and exit, rebooted back into android and was able to get USB access for CASUAL to root. FInally got it rooted, in TWRP newest version
Funny thing when it booted back into android before CASUAL root, it showed SDCrd and Internel memory. SDCArd was fine, but internal memory was -1636237227 so i'm thinking that memory is a problem, because when i reloaded stock mc3, it would never boot up after odin, i had to go into recovery and do a factory reset and then it would boot into Android, but no USB access, could get USB access in download mode, but not in recovery or android. I just found it weird.
Now, when i load my custom rom, it just hangs at the ROMs loading screen and just stays there. I'm really thinking this is a memory problem and i'm really upset about it. I'm wondering if anyone knows how to just reset the memory, without messing with EFS.