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HELP! i bricked my phone

I think my CM7 installation is f up. It did not install, and I can't go back to my phone! Its stuck on Google logo with an unlock key down below. I can get in clockworkmod recovery though. Any help?

Did u try to install it from the recovery menu that should work
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smoothfreeze said:
I think my CM7 installation is f up. It did not install, and I can't go back to my phone! Its stuck on Google logo with an unlock key down below. I can get in clockworkmod recovery though. Any help?
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go into recovery, wipe data/factory reset, flash cm7, flash gapps(google apps add on), reboot. if that still leads you to the same place, then redownload the rom, put it on your sd card, and try again.

simms22 said:
go into recovery, wipe data/factory reset, flash cm7, flash gapps(google apps add on), reboot. if that still leads you to the same place, then redownload the rom, put it on your sd card, and try again.
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and wipe dalvik (in advanced).

Wait, I'm at recovery mode now. A whole bunch of lines appeared at the bottom of the screen.
E:Can't mount /cache/recovery/last_log
E:Can't find /cache/recovery/last_log
E:Can't find misc
E:failed to find "cache" partition to mount at "/cache"

smoothfreeze said:
Wait, I'm at recovery mode now. A whole bunch of lines appeared at the bottom of the screen.
E:Can't mount /cache/recovery/last_log
E:Can't find /cache/recovery/last_log
E:Can't find misc
E:failed to find "cache" partition to mount at "/cache"
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You get this error because you are using i9023 version of Nexus S and you installed the stock version of Clockworkmod Recovery
You should install the Clockworkmod Custom Recovery from the Development Forums for the i9023.

[Q] Urgent - Boot loop and unable to restore to stock.

Alright guys, I've got a question. I have my brothers nexus s that has had CM9 A11 on it and we decided to move to the latest CM9. Long story short, I am no longer able to boot the phone up, but can only access CWM Recovery and Bootloader/Fastboot mode. Trying to boot results in a bootloop. I need help getting this thing back to stock however I can. I've tried to flash recovery.img via fastboot but cannot get my computer to recognize the phone in order to do what I need. He would like his phone back ASAP and I hate to tell him its bricked for a few days. Thanks!

Download full OTA ROM from the link in my signature. Boot into CWM, mount USB storage, and transfer the file to SD card. Flash it. Done.
Just make sure you download the correct ROM for your phone model.
Sent from my Nexus S using xda premium

Video on that page will show you how to install drivers on a windows-based machine to recognise the phone for fastboot, and provide files to do so.
Also, can't you go into CWM --> mounts and storage --> mount usb storage (while plugged into the computer) then copy over any files you need, then flash through recovery.

I forgot to mention that I am getting this when trying to format cache:
E:Can't find misc
E:failed to find "cache" partition to mount at "/cache"
E:Can't mount /cache/recovery/command
E:Can't find misc
E:failed to find "cache" partition to mount at "/cache"
E:Can't mount /cache/recovery/log
E:Can't open /cache/recovery/log
E:failed to find "cache" partition to mount at "/cache"
E:Can't mount /cache/recovery/latest_log
E:Can't open /cache/recovery/latest_log
E:Can't find misc
E:failed to find "cache" partition to mount at "/cache"
I tried to install the OTA update like you said but got the following:
assert failed: write_raw_image("/tmp/boot.img".
"boot")
E:Error in /sdcard/(OTA file name here)
(status 7)
Installation aborted.
Maybe the internal SD card is bad? Any thoughts?

When you get the drivers installed, download the latest 5.0.2.0 CWM from here.

Alright, so I got fastboot to recognize the phone, but am having another problem. It gave me an error when I gave the command to flash the new CWM. I tried to install pdanet for the drivers, and the phone says at the bottom "FASTBOOT STATUS - FAILInvalid Command". I really think something has been corrupted, any ideas on how to fix it/restore it? Thanks for all the help guys.

Fastboot status is not a command.
Fastboot devices is the command you use to test if it sees the device . The serial number will show.

uh oh sounds like someone flashed brickROM V1
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error after flashing from Odin

I tried to flash a latest firmware(5800XWJPI and with the apollo_0531.ops) with odin 4.252 after hard reseting, everything was ok but after the rebooting the phone stuck on "--delete App data... delete files, please wait"
how do I get to hard reset again somehow from any recovery? The phone cannot boot. I tried to flash another rom but the problem is the same.

kampinas said:
I tried to flash a latest firmware(5800XWJPI and with the apollo_0531.ops) with odin 4.252 after hard reseting, everything was ok but after the rebooting the phone stuck on "--delete App data... delete files, please wait"
how do I get to hard reset again somehow from any recovery? The phone cannot boot. I tried to flash another rom but the problem is the same.
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Hold vol up, vol down, home and power button to go into recovery.

it shows me the g3mod kernel non-oc because I have flashed it before just to go to recovery to enter cmd but it was futile...
now stucks on that logo
update: I suceeded in booting into recovery mode which was cwm. I flashed afterwards CyanogenMod 7.2.0-RC3 (Alpha8.2) and the gapps after having wiped everthing but the phone still stucks this time on the gt-5800i (with the black backround) and not the regular cm7 blue logo. So it does not boot again.

any ideas?

kampinas said:
any ideas?
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flash zerofill.tar...(in my mediafire-sig)...than flash full rom.tar over it
Sent from my SGS-II powered by CM9

ok, I ll flash your zerofill. After that, I flash that "full rom.tar "? where can I find it?
thanks for helping me

kampinas said:
ok, I ll flash your zerofill. After that, I flash that "full rom.tar "? where can I find it?
thanks for helping me
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^By full rom.tar, I think he meant was to flash any other ROM via Odin (preferably a Stock one!)

ok I flashed zerofill and after that G3MOD-2.5-OC-zImage and then I tried to enter recovery. From there I see many errors like
Code:
E: unknown volume for path [/cache/recovery/log]
E: Can't mount /cache/recovery/log
E: Can't open/cache/recovery/log
E: unknown volume for path [/cache/recovery/last_log]
E: Can't mount /cache/recovery/last_log
E: Can't open/cache/recovery/last_log
E: unknown volume for path [/cache/recovery/command]
E: Can't mount /cache/recovery/command
E: Can't open/cache/recovery/command
and maybe more but I cant see them because of the screen
I wiped all and then flashed from zip CyanogenMod 7.2.0-RC3 Alpha8.2 and the Gapps-06-07-12-signed and everything went fine until I reboot. When I reboot, rom is behaving like it does wipe all and everything is from the begining. Plus I see available internal memory 0mb!!! And I cant install anything. Have I combined something wrong? I have 2 gb sd card. I am afraid to reboot cuz I will have to do and setup everything from the start!

lol....do: fire up odin....now...find a fullrom.tar(e.g. Kyrillos rom 9.x...or my Hercolubus rom)...boot in download mode....flash it....when in cwm...wipe data....now reboot.....if u wanna cm7.2 based....i made a full rom for odin flash & i think kyrillos13 did aswell.....
Sent from my SGS-II powered by CM9

thanks for reply but will this solve the 0 available internal memory?

Search '0kb internal memory'. You will find a thread with a tar file that will fix the issue.
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Smonic said:
Search '0kb internal memory'. You will find a thread with a tar file that will fix the issue.
Sent from my GT-I5800 using xda app-developers app
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the only closest result was this post here and after I have downloaded a rom with the proper file inside I can't delete all the other files so I keep only the datafs (I use winrar). Unfortunately I couldn't find a thread with the file attached.

kampinas said:
the only closest result was this post here and after I have downloaded a rom with the proper file inside I can't delete all the other files so I keep only the datafs (I use winrar). Unfortunately I couldn't find a thread with the file attached.
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do: download total commander for pc...(google it it's free)...now open a "whateverromuhave".tar....delete all except datafs.rfs....and boot ur g3 in download mode....now flash that .tar with odin....reboot...if u boot to recovery after flash...wipe data again....reboot....done.....enjoy
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Sent from my SGS-II powered by CM9
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you are awesome, I will try it thanks

the 0 internal memory is gone and now says total193, available 179 but still displays error on instaling an apk with the message insufficient internal space. Another thing. To sd card says total space 0.89gb, availabe 0.89gb! (I partitioned 1gb through cwm). These messages on cwm still remain:
Code:
E: unknown volume for path [/cache/recovery/log]
E: Can't mount /cache/recovery/log
E: Can't open/cache/recovery/log
E: unknown volume for path [/cache/recovery/last_log]
E: Can't mount /cache/recovery/last_log
E: Can't open/cache/recovery/last_log
E: unknown volume for path [/cache/recovery/command]
E: Can't mount /cache/recovery/command
E: Can't open/cache/recovery/command
and maybe more but I cant see them because of the screen
is this a problem for the phone's functionality? How do I repair it? Does it have to do something with the sd?
At the cyanogen's application settings, the options "use internal storage" cannot be ticked (is grey). any clues?

kampinas said:
the 0 internal memory is gone and now says total193, available 179 but still displays error on instaling an apk with the message insufficient internal space. Another thing. To sd card says total space 0.89gb, availabe 0.89gb! (I partitioned 1gb through cwm). These messages on cwm still remain:
Code:
E: unknown volume for path [/cache/recovery/log]
E: Can't mount /cache/recovery/log
E: Can't open/cache/recovery/log
E: unknown volume for path [/cache/recovery/last_log]
E: Can't mount /cache/recovery/last_log
E: Can't open/cache/recovery/last_log
E: unknown volume for path [/cache/recovery/command]
E: Can't mount /cache/recovery/command
E: Can't open/cache/recovery/command
and maybe more but I cant see them because of the screen
is this a problem for the phone's functionality? How do I repair it? Does it have to do something with the sd?
At the cyanogen's application settings, the options "use internal storage" cannot be ticked (is grey). any clues?
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^Maybe try re-partitioning your sd card?

rkoby13 said:
lol....do: fire up odin....now...find a fullrom.tar(e.g. Kyrillos rom 9.x...or my Hercolubus rom)...boot in download mode....flash it....when in cwm...wipe data....now reboot.....if u wanna cm7.2 based....i made a full rom for odin flash & i think kyrillos13 did aswell.....
Sent from my SGS-II powered by CM9
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yes..rkoby13 is right..i faced similar problem before..flashing as one package fixed it..:

rudranilg said:
yes..rkoby13 is right..i faced similar problem before..flashing as one package fixed it..:
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yup....i have had same situation...and solved it this way
Sent from my SGS-II powered by CM9

bricked device?

hi,
I tried upgrading my tf300t from cm10.1 to cm10.2 . after a few failed attempts during which I am not exectly sure what I did wrong i got the device into a condition in which it only boots directly into CWM v6.0.2.3 without any option to do anything else. pressing power+volume down does not stop it from directly booting into recovery.
inside the recovery it says:
"E:Can't mount / cache/recovery/command/
E:Can't mount / cache/recovery/log/
E:Can't open / cache/recovery/log/
E:Can't mount / cache/recovery/last_log/
E:Can't open / cache/recovery/last_log/",
and i cannot mount any partition on the device. trying to access it from fastboot\adb has not been successful.
Any help would be appreciated.
thanks a lot,
guy

I now recall that at some point after trying to flash cm10.2 didn't work I tried flashing the offical asus firmware blob. after that the device successfully booted but when I tried to return to the recovery mode I still could not mount the /data partition. after that I tried some more flashing which brought me to the current situation.

new development -
after installing the universal naked driver i was able to boot into the boot loader using adb and I even can boot the device to the os, though no change when inside the recovery mode. if the device reboots it automatically goes into recovery and to reboot it I have to use adb again.

Ghtm said:
new development -
after installing the universal naked driver i was able to boot into the boot loader using adb and I even can boot the device to the os, though no change when inside the recovery mode. if the device reboots it automatically goes into recovery and to reboot it I have to use adb again.
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Flash the updated stock ROM again via fastboot to reset it back to stock. then flash the correct TWRP and then flash the CM 10.2 ROM you wanted.

cmendonc2 said:
Flash the updated stock ROM again via fastboot to reset it back to stock. then flash the correct TWRP and then flash the CM 10.2 ROM you wanted.
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how do i flash a rom using fastboot?

Ghtm said:
how do i flash a rom using fastboot?
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like this:
http://www.theandroidsoul.com/how-to-restore-asus-transformer-tf300t-back-to-stock/
Code:
fastboot -i 0x0B05 flash system blob

cmendonc2 said:
like this:
Code:
fastboot -i 0x0B05 flash system blob
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I've tried that and the device does not seem to be responding to the idea. in fact I dont think it gets anything I've tried to flash at all. the files do transfer but do not seem to install. after starting a flash with fastboot the device stops responding.

Ghtm said:
I've tried that and the device does not seem to be responding to the idea. in fact I dont think it gets anything I've tried to flash at all. the files do transfer but do not seem to install. after starting a flash with fastboot the device stops responding.
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plus, the bootloader screen does not show the usb icon at all. I am flashing when the device is in the bootloader.
at the bootloader screen there is a message: "key driver not found"

Ghtm said:
I've tried that and the device does not seem to be responding to the idea. in fact I dont think it gets anything I've tried to flash at all. the files do transfer but do not seem to install. after starting a flash with fastboot the device stops responding.
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OK you said it can boot into Android though. Use terminal emulator to install the TWRP and then flash the stock ROM from inside TWRP. Just make sure the TWRP matches your bootloader.
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Ghtm said:
plus, the bootloader screen does not show the usb icon at all. I am flashing when the device is in the bootloader.
at the bootloader screen there is a message: "key driver not found"
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That means you are on the 4.2.1 or 4.2.2 bootloader. That bootloader doesnt have a USB icon, it goes directly to fastboot if it is detected and that is completely normal.

cmendonc2 said:
OK you said it can boot into Android though. Use terminal emulator to install the TWRP and then flash the stock ROM from inside TWRP. Just make sure the TWRP matches your bootloader.
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That means you are on the 4.2.1 or 4.2.2 bootloader. That bootloader doesnt have a USB icon, it goes directly to fastboot if it is detected and that is completely normal.
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it says permission denied (cause i do not have root access?)

Ghtm said:
it says permission denied (cause i do not have root access?)
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Oh i thought you still had CM10.1 on it. Can you flash ROMs from that CWM or is the /data thing messing it up.

cmendonc2 said:
Oh i thought you still had CM10.1 on it. Can you flash ROMs from that CWM or is the /data thing messing it up.
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the /data prevents me from accessing anything on the sdcard so i cant flash anything from inside the recovery itself.

so, after doing as the guy in this thread - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2425581 says, I managed to make the device successfully reboot to the os by default and even make it reinstall the stock rom and than twrp recovery. the problem no is when entering recovery, it asks for a password which i do not know. when choosing cancel it gets me in but now it displays:
"E: unable to find partition size for /misc
E: unable to find partition size for /staging
E: unable to find partition size for /data
E: unable to find partition size for /recovery
E: unable to find partition size for /boot
updating partition details...
E: unable to mount /system
E: unable to mount /cache
E: unable to mount /cache
E:TWFunc::copy_log -- cant open destination log file: /cache/recovery/log
E:unable to set emmc bootloader message
E: unable to mount /cache"
when trying to install a different rom the recovery mode fails to access the internal/external sdcard.
thanks in advance,
guy

Ghtm said:
so, after doing as the guy in this thread - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2425581 says, I managed to make the device successfully reboot to the os by default and even make it reinstall the stock rom and than twrp recovery. the problem no is when entering recovery, it asks for a password which i do not know. when choosing cancel it gets me in but now it displays:
"E: unable to find partition size for /misc
E: unable to find partition size for /staging
E: unable to find partition size for /data
E: unable to find partition size for /recovery
E: unable to find partition size for /boot
updating partition details...
E: unable to mount /system
E: unable to mount /cache
E: unable to mount /cache
E:TWFunc::copy_log -- cant open destination log file: /cache/recovery/log
E:unable to set emmc bootloader message
E: unable to mount /cache"
when trying to install a different rom the recovery mode fails to access the internal/external sdcard.
thanks in advance,
guy
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that means you probably flashed the wrong version of TWRP. Are you on the stock 10.6.1.8 or on a later version of bootloader? Those are different.

cmendonc2 said:
that means you probably flashed the wrong version of TWRP. Are you on the stock 10.6.1.8 or on a later version of bootloader? Those are different.
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stock rom version 10.6.1.27.5 (build number JOP40D.US_epad-10.6.1.27.5-20130902)
TWRP 2.6.3.0
are those not compatible?
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trying TWRP 2.5.0.0 or 2.4.2.0 made no difference.

Ghtm said:
stock rom version 10.6.1.27.5 (build number JOP40D.US_epad-10.6.1.27.5-20130902)
TWRP 2.6.3.0
are those not compatible?
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trying TWRP 2.5.0.0 or 2.4.2.0 made no difference.
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Using twrp 2.6.3.0 -4.2 ? Or -jb?

cmendonc2 said:
Using twrp 2.6.3.0 -4.2 ? Or -jb?
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I do not remeber which I've tried. which one should it be?
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I tried them both again. both require a password at start and both fail mounting the partitions, showing
"E: unable to find partition size for /misc
E: unable to find partition size for /staging
E: unable to find partition size for /data
E: unable to find partition size for /recovery
E: unable to find partition size for /boot
updating partition details...
E: unable to mount /system
E: unable to mount /cache
E: unable to mount /cache
E:TWFunc::copy_log -- cant open destination log file: /cache/recovery/log
E:unable to set emmc bootloader message
E: unable to mount /cache"

Ghtm said:
I do not remeber which I've tried. which one should it be?
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I tried them both again. both require a password at start and both fail mounting the partitions, showing
"E: unable to find partition size for /misc
E: unable to find partition size for /staging
E: unable to find partition size for /data
E: unable to find partition size for /recovery
E: unable to find partition size for /boot
updating partition details...
E: unable to mount /system
E: unable to mount /cache
E: unable to mount /cache
E:TWFunc::copy_log -- cant open destination log file: /cache/recovery/log
E:unable to set emmc bootloader message
E: unable to mount /cache"
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Use the 4.2 one. The jb will result in a very bad brick.

cmendonc2 said:
Use the 4.2 one. The jb will result in a very bad brick.
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seems to be working! thank you very much, I really appreciate the help! :laugh::victory:

Ghtm said:
seems to be working! thank you very much, I really appreciate the help! :laugh::victory:
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No problem, Merry Christmas!

No SD card, NO system, E: Unable to mount storage in Recovery

Hi!
I've installed this ROM on my HTC One S:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/htc-one-s/development/rom-cyanogenmod-12-lollipop-htc-one-s-t2946468
Everything seemed to be fine, but sd storage broken. Now I can't even boot phone, only thing i see is CM logo. If i'm trying use ADB Slideload or wipe data in recovery i see this:
E: Unable to mount storage.
E: Unable to mount /sdcard during GUI startup.
E: Unable to mount /sdcard/TWRP/.twrps when trying to read settings file.
Please, help me, how I can flash anything? I was looking for solutions but I didn't find :<

noomarsil said:
Hi!
I've installed this ROM on my HTC One S:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/htc-one-s/development/rom-cyanogenmod-12-lollipop-htc-one-s-t2946468
Everything seemed to be fine, but sd storage broken. Now I can't even boot phone, only thing i see is CM logo. If i'm trying use ADB Slideload or wipe data in recovery i see this:
E: Unable to mount storage.
E: Unable to mount /sdcard during GUI startup.
E: Unable to mount /sdcard/TWRP/.twrps when trying to read settings file.
Please, help me, how I can flash anything? I was looking for solutions but I didn't find :<
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Relock your device install the factory RUU, now your phone turn on and all is ok but you haven't the bootloader unlocked, root and recovery, so if you want any other rom you can flash any rom, boot and recovery.