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[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Jaymoon:
After trying to follow about 3 or 4 different threads on this issue, I finally came across the guide here for the Galaxy Note: ATTENTION! my way out of a MMC_CAP_ERASE brick! Lucky for E4GT owners with the brick issue, it works for us too! (brick issue meaning your phone powers on, and you can get in to recovery, but can't format /data or install a rom)

I just tried this today, and so far so good. First off, the guide is worth a read to understand the issue, and how they went about solving it ...but we'll save all that reading for afterwards... :silly:

Head over to the ATTENTION! my way out of a MMC_CAP_ERASE brick! thread, and scroll down to the section Update: instructions for unexperienced users

Read those instructions carefully so you have a basic understanding what is going on. You'll also need this 16GB file PIT file: Q1_20110914_16GB-patched.pit

(Updated: The OP added specific E4GT PIT files to avoid confusion, after this post was written. The Q1_20110914_16GB-patched.pit is confirmed to work, yet as time goes on, there may be a better solution discovered.)

Now open up ODIN. Make sure your phone is plugged in and in Download Mode (When phone is off, hold down Power and Vol Down until you see the warning screen). There should also be a yellow box in ODIN meaning your phone is ready.

Choose the 16GB PIT file in the PIT box. Select the EG30 Stock Rom in the PDA box. Cross your fingers, and Start the process.

If the process Passes (Green), then EG30 Stock should start booting up!

If you're cool with that, you're done. Otherwise, use e4gtauto-sfx to root and install CWM, then flash a *good* ICS rom such as Phantom's Blazer Rom. :good:

* one small note though, using the Standard PIT fix, will decrease your internal storage from 16GB, to a total of 8GB. There are other PIT files you could try to get some of that space back, or just write it off as a loss, and get a bigger MicroSD card. :p
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Oscar_david:
Holy Carp this worked!

Whoa!!! just booted after following the thread you pointed to! Thanks a bunch!!

Let the ROM addiction continue!.. I guess I'll never learn.

Thanks again.

cheers.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] AndroidRocksSocks:
Finally, the key has been found.

I had ten days before my samsung shipping label expired. 6 days with no solution and a non working Touch. If I couldn't fix my phone today, I would be sending it out before the night's over.

This has fixed my problem. I thank you so very much!

After flashing EG30 Stock thru ODIN, I went into a loop on the sprint 4g screen.

This post solved that.

Now I am going through the setup screen on my E4GT. Once again, THANK YOU!
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Oscar_david:
Once again thanks.

So I'll have to make do with the reduced memory for now. But I hope to see an update w/ further info on recovering full capacity. I've tried a few other pit files to no avail.

cheers.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] forest1971:
Wow,

It is interesting and nice to see that the custom PIT file for Note from hg42 also work for Ep4g! congratulations!

From the partition table of the two device, I can see that now you will have a larger system partition of 893 MB (instead of the original 537MB) and a smaller cache partition 210MB (compared to 315MB before). Those changes should not matter. Just remember to also format cache for it to work.

One thing need to be noted is that the modem partition has changed location and you need to make sure that the install rom need to have modem in it.Otherwise you can flash it separately using odin if the rom does not have it.

cheers,
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] playya:
Honestly this needs a bump......
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] *GalaxyDev*:
Sooo guys sorry for the question but I have been working and I have lost my way in this post since page 23....I have a bricked E4GT because of the format data cache in AOKP from loong ago and I wanted to know if theres a way out of the brick because it seems to but i dont quite get it if its permanent or its only for a special brick or dont know because Im really lost and dont understand anymore this thread...Pleasee help just want my old E4GT back
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] AndroidRocksSocks:
Try This. I did that, and I now have my E4GT working again. I didn't know if I was bricked or what. I did know that I could get into a custom recovery (but not flash, sd card wouldn't mount, etc.), I also could get into download mode to use ODIN. So that post helped me bring my phone back to life. If you can get into download mode, you can try that method. Btw, if you can do that method, your 16gb phone turns into a 8gb internal memory phone. But if you have a big sd card, that shouldn't be a problem. Using that method, I flashed cm9 alpha5 (latest) with gapps. No problems or errors have been appearing while using my phone today. So...
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] *GalaxyDev*:
So after months of trying...flashing all the one clicks they showed and of odining stocks and ics I just got to flash al el26 modem and the calks format all and cyanogenmod 9?!?! and thats all?! or I have to do the galaxy note page that is shown?! confuseed :eek:
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] AndroidRocksSocks:
Step by step instructions

Okay.

1) create a folder on your desktop. call it "epic4gtouch". Something...

2) Download "pits-patched-standard.zip"

3) open the zip, select both "Q1_20110914_16GB-patched.pit" and "Q1_20110914_16GB-patched.pit.txt" and drag them to the "epic4gtouch" folder you created.

4) Download ODIN.

*The link should go to Google Docs. The two arrows on the far right are clickable. Click, then "download". (Download both .ini and .exe)

**Place those in a new folder called "ODIN", place the ODIN folder in the "epic4gtouch" folder.

5) Download this "EG30 stock rom".

*Place it in the "epic4gtouch" folder.

6) Open the ODIN folder, then open "odin3 v1.85"

7) On your phone, go into download mode: hold volume down + power.

*"Warning...blah blah..." Release those buttons, then press the volume up button.

8) Connect your phone to your pc with the usb cable.

9) Back on ODIN, a box should highlight yellow. The big white box on the corner should say added.

10) Click the PIT button, navigate to the "epic4gtouch" folder on your desktop. Choose the 16GB PIT file.

11) Click the PDA button, navigate to the "epic4gtouch" folder on your desktop.

Choose the "Stock-EG30" rom.

12) Make sure "Auto Reboot" and "Re-Partition" are the ONLY ones ticked. Also make sure the usb cable is not loose.

13) Press the big button "Start."

Once it's complete, it will boot to the EG30 Stock rom.

Mine went into a loop on the Sprint 4G Screen animation.

This post solved that.

______

Put the Calk's_FORMAT_ALL script, the gapps package, and THIS rom CM9 alpha5 all on the external SD card.

Go back to ODIN, hit the Reset button. Click PDA select the EL26CWM kernel.

Untick re-partition AND reboot.

Connect phone with pc via usb cable.

Press the big Start button.

Once complete, unplug, take the battery out, re insert it. Volume Up + power.

Hold till you get into recovery.

Flash Calk's_FORMAT_ALL script.

Flash the ROM.

Flash the gapps package.

Reboot.

____

Anyway, thats pretty much what I did to fix my phone.

Follow all the above if the original post is too confusing. (which really... it isn't at all.) :highfive:
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] caspersfi:
Morning guys. I just edited the title to the op. I haven't been following this thread or the other brick threads closely enough to know if Jaymoon is totally responsible for this possible fix. From what I did read here and the number of thanks he's gotten so far I just thanked him.

I just put his name and pg # in the title.

Hope that'll help a little for anyone that falls into this brick problem again.

Thanks
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] AndroidRocksSocks:
Cool. :good:
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] JWnSC:
Would this pit file work instead? http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1265023
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] renzyyy:
the pit workaround/fix should def be stickied. worked perfect on my old phone that i was considering tossing out. awesome work.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] AndroidRocksSocks:
No. Follow instructions. If all of the files are provided, why go wonder off looking for something else? If other people are looking for that last resort on fixing their phone, don't get them confused by asking this question. I'm not saying don't ask questions. But the .pit file is already posted, the correct .pit file for this method. You can try it if you want, but if something gets messed up, that's on your end. I would recommend just using the correct .pit file. :)
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] JWnSC:
Didn't mean to confuse anyone...I'm confused myself with this part..

* one small note though, using the Standard PIT fix, will decrease your internal storage from 16GB, to a total of 8GB. There are other PIT files you could try to get some of that space back, or just write it off as a loss, and get a bigger MicroSD card. :p[/QUOTE]

Does that mean if i use the correct file provided I'll lose 8gigs of internal storage?:confused:

The pit file posted on the last page of the link was posted by sextape, who seems pretty reputable up here. Thanks for any clarifications. I'm new to this phone and would like something to fall back on incase I mess it up. I've owned a gs1 for a while so I'm pretty familiar with repartitioning. Thanks
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Houndog101:
Just wanted to thank you for writing that procedure up, Just gor my brick swaped but you know us flashers,, may need this yet..Thanks again . :good:
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] AndroidRocksSocks:
Pretty much, yes. I just used the .pit file instead of trying others to regain some of it back. I don't have that much of a problem with going to 8gb, I have a bigger micro sd card so that covers that "flaw." No problem with the clarifications, glad to help. This phone is a tad bit complicated than my DInc2 or Droid 3... But I'm catching on. I'm just going to start planning everything out, I really don't want anything else to go wrong with this wicked device. ha-ha

Sure thing! Ha-ha.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] *GalaxyDev*:
Sooo @AndroidRockSocks do you know where the .pit file went?! when i press the link it just send me to a vbulletin message that the link is lost do you know where is it now?!
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] AndroidRocksSocks:
Weird... same here.

Anyway here ya go: Mirror;)
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] mehdimoshkel:
thanks a lot

i want to thank all xda guys specially jaymoon :laugh::victory:
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] AndroidRocksSocks:
No problem! :) But hit the Thanks Button- don't just say it. :highfive:
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] caspersfi:
Hell, I'm just looking forward to this thread going away now that we have kernel source!!!!!

LOL
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] bBigBrO:
SII I9100

Does your PIT file work with Galaxy SII GT-I9100???:cyclops:
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] krazie1:
Is there any way to get the 16Gb back? I don't want to be stuck with only 8Gb especially since this isn't my phone I just messed up.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] krazie1:
Please can anyone say if there is a way to get the 16Gb internal storage back? I've searched but cant find anything, the stock pit file wouldnt work would it?

EDIT: Yes flashing the Stock Pit with the GB27 Stock Restore tar in Odin 3.07 fixed my internal storage, I got 11.50Gb again. I did only have Auto Reboot & Re-Partition checked too.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] garwynn:
Depending on where on the eMMC it triggers the lockup you may be able to recover some.

Please click on the following link to get to hg42's thread.

You'll find some tools to help assess where the problem is and if possible, a modified PIT that may help.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1667886

If you've done this already - at the moment you're at the limitations.

I'm sure that someone will update this thread if that changes.

Hope this helps!
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] dadoc04:
with the rogue recovery, i was able to wipe and mount every partition...

now to try and flash a rom.... we'll see what happens
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] caspersfi:
Good luck man.....didnt work for me.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] dadoc04:
even after wiping and mounting all partitions?

hmmmm
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] caspersfi:
Just for the hell of it I just did a full wipe again and format system

its booting......

stuck at same effing screen

It will also blink after about a minute.....and like i stated earlier...i've got gt-i19100 and a yellow triangle on my boot screen after flashing the rogue recovery.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] dadoc04:
what screen you getting stuck at? "samsung galaxy s2"?

---------- Post added at 11:45 AM ---------- Previous post was at 11:38 AM ----------

stuck at data.img.............
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] caspersfi:
yep............
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] caspersfi:
Whenever i try to odin back to stock or even a rooted file is when i get stuck at data.img.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] dadoc04:
yup... im stuck there too.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] caspersfi:
Sfhub just got back to me...he said he'll be posting here.....if anyone can help its him.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] dadoc04:
^we were trying all night... he's very helpful
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] caspersfi:
Just tried to restore a backup again and getting the same errors as i reported before. I can flash a rom but it then gets stuck at the samsung boot screen.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] dadoc04:
i get the same exact thing
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] barnacles10:
When you say 'flashed cwm touch recovery' do you mean you flashed a kernel containing this recovery through odin, or you flashed the recovery from system through rom manager?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] dadoc04:
kernel containing recovery... our phones wont boot to be able to use rom manager

heres the recovery im currently on http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1390393

problem is, i can wipe and mount all partitions with this recovery... however flashing roms and nandroiding gives me errors for /data
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] barnacles10:
And did you ODIN this recovery or did you use the zip?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] dadoc04:
i used ODIN to get that recovery... sorry, didnt know u realized what was going on
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] sfhub:
Not sure if it is a good idea, but I'm flashing FB17 and back to EK02 to see if I can get some insight what is happening.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] arehm:
Keep us posted. I'm F5'ing every 5 minutes here.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] caspersfi:
I've been doing that since 6 this morning. Really hope this gets worked out.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] sfhub:
Well, I flashed FB17 played around with it, booted into stock recovery, booted into FB17, then used EK02 One-Click ODIN to flash back to EK02.

Everything worked as expected.

Given that CWM, regular ODIN, and ODIN One-Click are all having trouble with your data partition(s), something is obviously going wrong with that.

When you do the format in Rogue CWM, can you look in the /cache directory (or /cache/recovery) to see if there are any log files? I forget which directory, but there usually is a log.

If there is one, see if there are any errors or post it.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] YoungAceAtlanta:
My friend.. i have the same issues as you! i posted it in another thread

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1505687

i think the recovery from FBXX leaks cause the issue with me.. it killed my /data and nothing is able to wipe it/write to it. ive did everything!! you all listed above, different tars, different recoverys, update roms,

i just gave up after staying up to 5am working on it..

so i just just use my insurance (since thats why we have it) and have Sprint send me out a new one.. ill just flash a stock tar on top of it when i get the new one Tuesday or so..

Call and tell them your phone wont boot or charge and they will send you a new one, Then root the phone with the No data wipe root EL29 tar. flash a recovery in odin and mount your internal storage so you can copy all your data from that phone into your new one when you get it.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] caspersfi:
Sorry sfhub but I'm not seeing any log files in any cache/recovery or directory.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] caspersfi:
Feelin like its time to just bite the bullet. Glad I have insurance. Can't wait to hear crap from the wife about this. Bad timing to with all this cool stuff with ICS happening right now. Oh well, it'll all be here when i get my replacement.

BIG THANKS to everyone that helped out here.

Really appreciate it!!
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] bleyten:
I had this same issue and did the same thing as YoungAceAtlanta... flashed nodata, pulled the battery and went to the Sprint store and told them that after updating my phone it gets stuck at the Samsung logo (don't act knowledgeable!). They tried a hard reset and said it was FUBAR (not that they know everything about recovery). I could see they had the phone in download mode and was concerned because I know it said "Custom binaries yes (3). They didn't mention it and seemed more concerned that I was gonna be pissed because I was loosing everything on the phone. They wanted to order me another phone that would take 3 days but I pushed for an exchange today so I had to drive to a second store that had one in stock. I just got home with my new phone (I have the total protection coverage btw).

I realize it's kinda frowned on to return a phone that I janked up but hey, I'm forced to pay an extra $10 a month to Sprint for "Premium service" when there's no 4G in my area and to boot I pay $8 a month for the insurance so I'm not feeling to guilty about it!! I'm no stranger to rooting or flashing and have done so successfully with many other Android devices but quite frankly I spent way too many hours dickin' around with the phone.

Hopefully someone can figure out this issue for those still in woe!! Best of luck!!
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] dadoc04:
^ did it say Samsung Official for the current binary?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] sfhub:
In case it helps others, can people list what they did other than flash FB09?

Did you install CWM Touch Recovery, try nandroid restore, ROM Manager, etc.?

Something is messing up /data. Normally I would have expected repartition in ODIN to resolve it, but it isn't doing so for the people that tried earlier.

CWM restore, ODIN restore, ODIN One-Click restore are all the victims of the /data problem. Something happened before they came in the picture and it would be useful to at least figure out what even if a solution can't be found so people can avoid the problem.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] bleyten:
I tried sooo many things I can't remember what it last thing it said but I think so because the reason it was 3 was because of using Odin to flash Rogue recovery and it wouldn't even boot into recovery when I took it to them. It would only show some red and yellow text about E: and /data blah blah blah with Vol up + Power. Honestly, I think the techs at the Sprint store are not all that knowledgeable about the Custom binaries thing or they just don't care?!
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] caspersfi:
This probably doesn't mean anything but because I can't leave well enough alone I just tried once again to odin back to stock. I went into rogue cwm wiped data then odined stock file. It passed due to data not needing to be done(i think). Now it didn't attempt to boot but its sitting at the screen with the white box and the arrow coming out with the android guy next to it.

Anything maybe I can try from here.....or is this old news.

NVM.....just got all the usual error messages and I'm now back on stock recovery.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] bleyten:
It started after I used CWM Touch Recovery (the temp loading one) to "Restore" the backup I made (with installed CWM) just before flashing and trying out the FB09 (which booted properly following the QBKing77 video method). If I remember correctly the restore looked as though it re-installed properly but hung at the logo on restart. By this point someone had posted in the FB09 thread to not use CWM Touch to recover at which point I tried to Odin the EL29 OC it hung at data.img so I tried the NODATA which "Passed". I tried the factory/wipe in recovery and it would hang at wipe /data then after a long time would say it wiped /data and the rest but still hung at Samsung logo with restart. After that I flashed every stock ROM I could find to no avail. Eventually I tried using the PIT file while flashing in Odin, still no go!

Next I tried flashing Rogue in Odin and though it was gonna work because it let me format and mount /data but no luck. I even tried to flash back to the FB09 and I also tried flashing the FB17 tar. Nothing would boot :-/

Hope this helps!!

I don't know much about it how recovery works but I read something on the web that mentioned something about encryption problem?!
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] dadoc04:
^bleyten... thats exactly what happened. SMH @ me not waiting... got caught up in the excitement
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] bleyten:
Yeah, I got caught up in the excitement too! I read every post that was made until I flashed and it seemed safe enough so I gave it a go. If I'd had waited another hour to know to use Odin rather than the CWM Touch I would have probably been ok?!
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] caspersfi:
^Yep.....something I just thought thats pretty freakin ironic. In all the excitement Fri. afternnon with the leaked ICS build I was one of the people that donated to Shabby so he could get his sgs2. I think he said he'll be getting it tommorow, and I'll be without. Funny **** huh?

Oh and in KNOW way am I blaming anyone for my phone being jacked. I'm a big boy and new the risk going in. It was clearly stated that this was a test build. But damn I wish I would have waited 24 hours.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] dadoc04:
^ took mine to the sprint store... they going to try and fix or order me a new one. Hopefully they dont notice its rooted... SMH

my fingers are crossed
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] caspersfi:
NVM.........
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] sfhub:
So it sounds like the common factor is people used CWM Touch to restore their backup?

I am uploading an ODIN One-Click to try in case anyone still has their phone. It'll be ready in around 35 minutes.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] caspersfi:
Thank you sir....still have my phone.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] dadoc04:
i hope it works for you casper... im crossing my fingers for ya
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] pbsst7:
I am in the same situation as Casper. Any help with this would be absolutely amazing.

Again, thanks in advance.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] jayharper08:
Sorry to hear about this guys :mad:

Wish I had more experience with this phone so I could maybe help. Hate to see this. sfhub I do commend you for trying to help and even trying to recreate the situation. Stand up thing and we need more users like you.

Best of luck to you all.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] caspersfi:
Heavy snow outside....lookin at about a foot.....lights just started flickering.The way this days been I fully expect the power to go out before I get my hands on this possible fix. lol

Better go make sure the lappys got a good charge.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] pbsst7:
Absolutely. Such amazing show of helpfulness. Thanks sfhub. Seriously.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] sfhub:
See if flashing this EL29 ODIN One-Click helps.

EL29-v1-oc-sfx.exe
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] caspersfi:
Thank you.....downloading but I'm in a bad data speed area right now so its gonna be a good hour before I know anything. Hopefully someone else will know something sooner. If not I'll report back the second I know if its a fix.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] dadoc04:
just got my phone denied because of the (custom binary count) at the download screen.

ill go get it either tonight or tomorrow i guess... SMH
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] pbsst7:
"Hold on to your butts." Thank man. I'm gonna run it right now and check back.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] ravizzle:
get a usb jig and it will reset the counter. like 2-5 bucks online.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] dadoc04:
^^ thanks... i may just do that.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] caspersfi:
Damn that sucks....sorry bro.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] dadoc04:
its all good homie... **** happens. I definitely learned from this.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] ram9200:
Im still stuck on data.img