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[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Android Development] peruwan:
hi there i got the new build 28-9 and i got the problem when i want to boot it...its says storagecard/andboot directory does not exist...while its exist... someone told me to:

Startup.txt, in the cmdline section. Don't use the startup utility (MGJDroidUtil) if you edit the startup manually tho. It'll blast out whatever you put in there.

but i dont know where the Startup.txt is..in my sd card i been searching but no results and i got a gsm touch pro 2... well maybe i should delete everything again...are these FSCK0000.REC files also from this builds?cuase i didnt delete that..i only deleted the andboot and 100android(dcim) files
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Android Development] arrrghhh:
Yes, the .rec files are from the build. You can put an entry in your froyo.user.conf that deletes them for you.

Also, you can't find your startup.txt...? How are you running Android, it should be where haret.exe is!
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Android Development] uncleswoop:
its after you install and load android. after exiting android and returning to winmo, somewhere along the lines startup text gets deleted. for what reason? i know not..

hey atleast it teaches us workarounds lol
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Android Development] peruwan:
ye i know but i could find that file thats why i think it didnt work this time for me:p

is com.handcent.nextsms-2.9.29 a android file? and EncFiltLog to?

tnx cheers..btw im just gonna install it all over again
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Android Development] sukru:
The latest CAB with the new startup utility seems to have fixed the issue for me. I guess the old one was too buggy to be useful, but thanks for their efforts, I was able to test Android so far.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Trump211:
I updated my phone to Cognition 2.1.2, and think i bricked it. I was on Cognition 2.1.1, i disabled the lag fix as per the instructions, and then installed cognition 2.1.2 with Rom manager. when my phone rebooted it seemed to work fine. Then i realized that there was no calculator app installed anymore. I went into the settings screen, but when i clicked on any of the options it would highlight, but not do anything. I rebooted, but i got stuck on an ATT boot loop.

I then pulled the battery, got into the download mode with the button combo, and did an odin oneclick back to stock. however, when it rebooted it went into the stock recovery console and gave an error message "cant mount \dev\block\ stl11"

After that i tried updating with odin 3 to JH2. Everything went ok, but when it reboots it still goes to recovery, but this time it gives me a differnet error

format_vfat_device -> argv[4] : android
format_vfat_device -> argv[5] : /dev/block/mmcblk0p1
run_program: child exited with status 1
E: Can't mount /dev/block/mmcblk0p1
(No such File or Directory)
E:copy_dbdata_media:Can't mount SDCARD:copy default media content failed.

I can boot into download and recovery with the button combos

I can use adb when in recovery , I'm not sure what to do though (I can't mount with shell, nor can i get to su

I can't get to ClockWork Mod Recovery as it was'nt the last update.zip, and when i try to reinstall packages it says

E:can't mount SDCARD:update.zip
Installation aborted.

I'm pretty sure this has to do with the lag fix. I think that odin can't wipe the ext4 partition even though i disabled the lag fix.

Please help, am i completely bricked? If so should i return to att even though its been rooted? I guess i could say it was from the OTA.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vietphunguyen:
I would suggest making sure that you disable the lagfix by

adb shell
touch /sdcard/voodoo/disable-lagfix

Reboot, and it will probably say "converting back to rsf blah blah blah" It takes like friggin 10 minutes to disable

Then I would try to replace the update.zip with the clockwork recovery update.zip. I uploaded it here: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/115587/update.zip To do this I would use

adb push [local path to update.zip] /sdcard/update.zip

In my case since I'm using a mac (I put it in my downloads folder) I did

adb push ~/Downloads/update.zip /sdcard/update.zip

Then try to go into recovery mode and reinstall packages, hopefully clockwork will come up and you can restore a good version of your phone

Hope it helps
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Sirfearoth:
Laundry? Do you have insurance on it?

Sent from my 42 node TI 89 cluster
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] di11igaf:
i dont know a whole lot about adb or even know if this is possible, but is there a way to reformat the internal sd card in adb like there is in the stock settings menu? if you reformat that should get rid of all traces of anything including lagfixes correct?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Trump211:
I am unable to use the touch command because it can't mount the Internal SD. it gives me

touch not found

even when i touch files that i now were there.

I wonder if i could flash the voodoo kernal back on to it if it would take care of it. is there a .tar of it that can be flashed with odin 3?

Is there a way to see what partitions are on the internal sd, and like di11igaf said, is there a way to reformat with adb?

Also i don't think warranty covers putting it through the laundry :p and w/ insurance it costs like $125 to replace
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Zilch25:
Wow this one is a bit of a headscratcher.

Have you tried manually flashing in a voodoo compliant kernel just to see if it will boot? It's not mounting the internalSD, which is bizarre, but I do know that stock kernels can't read EXT4 data- now I don't know why your internalSD might get switched over, and I have very little expectation that this will work, but at this point what's the harm?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Trump211:
I thought of manually flashing in a voodoo kernal, but the only ones I can find are update.zip or with clockwork mod methods neither of which i can get to. Is there a voodoo kernal that can be flashed with odin3?

Edit: I just flashed unhelpfuls kernal and i am now getting a different error message

E:Can't mount /dev/block/stl11
(Invalid argument)
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kakalaky:
I have flashed a voodoo kernel but it just tries to create the ext4 partition, fails and reboots. The problem is that there is now no /dev/block/mmcblk0p1 or /dev/block/mmcblk0p2. There is still a /dev/block/mmcblk0 but since we both tried to flash stock with Odin we no longer have root to attempt recreating the partitions. We also can't flash anything from recovery since there is no /sdcard.

We need a rooted ROM that is flashable with Odin. The e3 recovery also has an option to reformat the internal sdcard but I've only found it with i9000 ROMS where the captivate power button doesn't work to select it.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Zilch25:
This may sound crazy, but do you happen to have the update.zip from ROM Manager on the root of your sdcard? From the sounds of it, once you switch back to the voodoo kernel your phone is able to mount your SD again, now it's just encountering errors on your NAND. If you can get into clockwork recovery go in there and have it format your SDCard, once you've done that, try to flash back with Odin one click and see if everything starts working again.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Devin5277:
that wont work, I have been messing with this all morning. The op has a corrupted internal SD card. Nothing will fix this because it wont mount. Its just like any other sd card that gets corrupted.

I even went as fas as flashing eugene's froyo that dont brick from the vibrant forums. thats the only 2.2 rom that will partition the internal sd. but a corrupted sd is a whole other ballgame. Just get another phone.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Zilch25:
You did catch the part where after flashing the voodoo compliant kernel he's no longer getting the error where he can't mount the internalSD, and is instead getting a message about a partition on the NAND not initiating? The theory here is that perhaps SOMEHOW the internalSD has got some EXT4 data on it that the stock kernel can't understand, so it refuses to mount it, the voodoo enabled kernel DOES understand it, and as such will mount it. The objective is to get that internalSD formatted again so that he can switch back to a stock kernel and have it recognized

I'd also like to add that eugene's kernel also doesn't read ext4 =P Noticing a pattern here?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Zilch25:
Another thing that might be worth trying... though doubtful. Do an Odin 1 click, yank the battery as soon as it completes before it gets a chance to boot again. Restart Odin and get your phone back into download mode, and flash in the Voodoo kernel, see what errors it spits out on first boot (if any)
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Devin5277:
No worries bro, was just trying to help. You probably have more exp when It comes to this, I was just letting the OP know what worked for me in the same situation. Seems like the captivate is a little different beast.

for the record I wasnt talking about flashing another kernal. I was talking about flashing a 2.2 rom ( which thru odin) repartitions the internal sd to stock, which will cut out the ext 4 lag fix issue. It did for me anyway.

With the cant mount issues, I think its currupted. ATT gave my friend another phone with next day shipping. they also said that phones are soft bricking like crazy because of the ota update. so I dont think the OP will have much of a issue saying it was the ota update and getting another phone.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Zilch25:
Sorry I didn't mean to come off harsh :) My theory here is that SOMEHOW voodoo is writing EXT4 data to the internalSD outside of the NAND area and in some cases it's corrupting it in such a way that the internalSD cannot be read by the stock kernel (since it has no EXT4 support) so in theory if you can get the internalSD mounted again it can be reformatted to allow a stock kernel to return to use... if this is the case, or at least close enough to what's happening it would fully explain why the froyo kernel with repartition couldn't touch the internalSD (It couldnt mount or read it due to the limitations for file systems in a stock kernel)
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kakalaky:
Looks like the sdcard on mine has had it. I got root and ffdisk and parted still give I/O errors when trying to read or write to /dev/block/mmcblk0.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Zilch25:
Is this after using a Voodoo kernel? And are you attempting to perform the ffdisk and parted commands while using a voodoo kernel, or stock? I'm just trying to gather as much information as possible on this problem, so forgive all the questions
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Trump211:
I'm about to try parted with a voodoo compliant kernal (unhelpful's) But for some reason adb isn't finding my phone when its in recovery. Does this have something to do with the unhelpfuls kernal, or should i just uninstall and reinstall the drivers a few more times?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Zilch25:
Nah, make sure you have the phone plugged in when you turn it on and go into recovery. For some reason plugging it in when it's already in recovery doesn't work. At least it doesn't for me...
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Trump211:
Ok, i tried that, but its still not connecting. Tried multiple usb ports, and uninstalled/reinstalled drivers. If i put it in download mode it gets recognized instantly.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Zilch25:
Not sure =/ I had it running last night without too much issue, but I did have to juggle it around a bit before it would find the device. You might want to try doing an adb kill-server before you try to connect in case the system still thinks its running
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Trump211:
i tried to do reinstall packages when i had unhelpful's still on it, and it gave me another failed to mount SDCARD:update.zip....even though on the main screen it never said anything about this

I don't know why, but when i flashed back to stock, and windows is recognizing it in recovery again. I tried to push over one of the parted files and adb spits out

failed to copy 'tune2fs' to '/sbin//tune2fs': Permission denied

Also, with the normal kernal i can do delete all user data, and delete cache without any errors
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kakalaky:
I tried with two voodoo capable kernels.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Trump211:
Ok, i re flashed back to unhelpful's kernal, this time i didn't repartition with odin. I was able to push all the files over, and chmod 0755 all of them. However now i'm not quite sure what to do with parted.

I've tried the following

# parted /dev/block/mmcblk0 mkfs ext2
parted /dev/block/mmcblk0 mkfs ext2
Error: /dev/block/mmcblk0: unrecognised disk label

# parted /dev/block/mmcblk0p1 mkfs ext2
parted /dev/block/mmcblk0p1 mkfs ext2
Error: Could not stat device /dev/block/mmcblk0p1 - No such file or directory.

heres a link to the post i've been looking at on how to work parted:

http://forum.cyanogenmod.com/topic/6433-solved-messed-up-partitions-on-internal-storage/

Edit: I'm not sure if it has to do with not repartitioning in Odin, or what i did with pushing and chmod'ing in adb, but i gave up with trying to run parted, pressed reboot phone in the recovery, and it rebooted all the way to the Galaxy S Logo!! (but then it just went black) Before it was either boot looping on the ATT screen, or it was booting into recovery and giving a ton of errors...hopefully this means good things, i don't want to have to return and get a phone without the button into recovery working unless i absolutely have to

Edit 2: I also noticed that even though it goes to a blank screen after the Galaxy S logo, the soft buttons still light up when pressed. Don't know if this helps or not
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Zilch25:
I had made a suggestion earlier in the thread, and I wonder if you had tried this one in particular- I want to revamp it a little though.

Step 1: Flash back to stock with 1 click Odin (Or just plain JF6 with repartition)

Step 2: Pull out battery as soon as the flash finishes (Before it can attempt to boot on it's own)

Step 3: Get back into download mode, and flash this version of Unhelpful's kernel- http://xdaforums.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=403731&d=1284846261

(DO NOT REPARTITION- I chose this version because it doesn't have voodoo but it DOES have support for non-native file systems like EXT4)

Step 4: See if it boots into the OS

Also, I don't know if you've been doing this or not, but you should not be performing a repartition unless you're reflashing full firmware, not individual components like the kernel, if you are this will cause other problems.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Trump211:
@Zilch25 ok did as you said. When the phone reboots after i flash the unhelpful's kernal it gives me this message

wiping data
DATA WIPE FAILED

...but everything else goes fine, and the phone reboots to a black screen again after the galaxy s logo.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kmao2004:
The exact same thing is happening to me on two different Vibrants. Any more ideas?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Militiamuzic:
Im having the exact same issue. Im going crazy! Anyone find anything out?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lost1:
This reads like my past 36 hours. I'm on a Captivate. Though I'm guessing that /sdcard is dead and gone.... Oh well, at least I have a warranty.
[Droid X General] dcorrea:
Can anyone who is running the official froyo update confirm whether or not bluetooth tether is still working? (Not tether through the wireless tether apk or another third party method).
[Droid X General] zehkaiser:
That stopped working for me when they released update1 for 2.1. They called it a "bluetooth enhancement."
[Droid X General] dcorrea:
Crap, that figures. My wife has the X, but unfortunately I'm away on business and I haven't been able to confirm if it still works. She wouldn't know how to check it anyway though.

She jumped ship to Verizon last month, and I have to wait out my contract till December for T-mobile before I leave. I plan on getting the X, but for some reason I am a hesitant on getting the X and rooting it (which is weird since I rooted my G1 as soon as the root method was developed for it). I travel alot, and I rely on my G1 for internet when the hotel internet sucks. Oh well, guess I'll root and install wireless tether.

Thanks for the help.
[Droid X General] zehkaiser:
Yeah. Verizon is working hard to keep is down. :-P
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Max_Pain:
Hey guys,

Is there any way to get auto updates to work on market while using app2sd?

When I open market it tells me there are updates and when I click update all it says update unsuccessful for almost all of them. If I move the app back to the phone then the update works...but it's not practical to be moving all the apps back and forth for every update!

Solutions?

Thanks a million :-)

Swyped from an HTC Evo on MetroPCS...
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Max_Pain:
there are several thousand downloads for app2sd...i can't possibly be the only one that is having this problem!

any help guys? :o
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TickLe MY eLMo:
So, i rooted my EVO a long time ago with unrevoked 2, i believe, and i decided i didn't want to bother with roms and all that crap, so i decided to update to 2.2, but unfortunately after i download it and start the install, it stops about a third the way through of the install of froyo and gives me a error(triangle with a ! in it, little android guy next to it on the bottom right). I'm not exactly sure why this is happening, but i thought something was screwed up, so i decided to do a factory refresh after backing up all my stuff. Did so, and got same results, think i read it has something to do with the custom recovery added on with unrevoked? Well, can anyone help me get to straight up 2.2(new OTA for 30 fps fix as well), then root? I really just don't want to bother with ROM's right now. Thanks in advance for any help!

Oh and, after i get the error, it reboots fine after i pull out the battery.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mgilmore86:
It's a sticky in the development thread 3.28.651.5 I believe. Just flashed it, stock rooted Rom. To me seems a lot faster (I'm very picky haha) was running a stock rooted rom prior. Did NOT lose root. Must be fully rooted though (s-off) with unrevoked forever. Hope that helps. BTW do a search next time or someone will flame u ;)
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bratnetwork:
I searched and found a lot of calendar issue threads, but non that really had the issue I'm having.

Running a Droid Incredible with Froyo. I just got the phone a few says ago. Ran the initial setup. Created an Gmail account to sync all my stuff and imported my outlook contacts and all.

Got all that done with no problems. Started setting up my google calendar and noticed nothing was transferring over to my phone that I was adding to the calendar. Did some google searching and basically came to find out that my phone is not set to sync the calendar, But I don't know why or how to fix it.

I go Setting>Accounts & Sync>Google and it only shows "Sync contacts" and "Sync Gmail". How do I add Calendar to that? I saw that some people said you need to have a calendar made before you add that account, but its too late for that. I tried to remove the account to re-add it, but it says "This account is required by some applications. You can only remove it by resetting the phone to factory defaults."

So how do I get the Calendar Sync added to my phone?
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jdmba:
Solution for Droid 2

I found a posting that worked on my wife's Droid 2 (didn't know this had hit the Incredible). This worked for me. YMMV.

From a different forum ... this worked for me:

1. Go to 'my accounts' on droid 2

2. Click on 'create account'

3. choose google account

4. Follow the process for creating a new gmail acct not just adding your original to create a dummy account

5. Make sure all sync options are checked

6. Finalize account creation

7. Go to your calendar and create a new event using your ORIGINAL gmail acct not the new/dummy account

8. Save event

9. Go back into my accounts and check your original account sync options, calendar should now be there

10. Remove your dummy account from your phone
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bratnetwork:
I'll def have to try this later when I get home from work
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bratnetwork:
This worked! Did it a little different. When creating account on the phone it did not give me a list of what to sync. So I made the account on the computer and then created a calendar and then added the account and it automatically added the calendar sync.

Now another issue. If I add to my google calendar on the website it add its to the calendar on my phone. But stuff that I have on my phone doesn't get to the calendar on the website...
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] almyz125:
Can anyone confirm this works? It is a legit link on

Android-Spin

but the web site seems almost to good to be true.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ld006:
cellstores.com? no idea...the site they are showing inside their page (wirefly) yes, wirefly is the largest online cellphone store and have been around for years

i suggest you go directly to www.wirefly.com and you wont have any problems
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] backward0:
Legit. Although if seems android spin will post just about anything these days.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Coucher:
Mods, if this is better in the general Android app section since it isn't really Epic exact, please move.

So, as most mobile phones do, the Epic records in 3gp format. Fine for playing back on the phone itself, but becomes a pain when you pull the file off to a PC, or any other media player that doesn't support that file. I know there are applications that can easily convert the 3gp file to a more broadly supported mp4, but I was wondering if there was an Android app out there that could convert 3gp files to mp4 (or any other more common type) actually on the phone?
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] othan1:
That would be awesome. Then DLNA (via PS3) might be worth something.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Coucher:
It seems there's some type of video editor that comes on the Droid X stock called Arc Video Editor.

There's an .apk out there from a Droid X dump. Tried installing it, but there's no way to run it after installing. Doesn't show up in the apps list. Other users have reported they couldn't get it to run either.

:confused:

Still looking around..