Issue: Cannot format or restore images, etc

JesseSparta · February 16th, 2012, 04:13 PM

I've got the Galaxy Nexus rooted, CWM installed and working, I have had AOKP and francokernal on it for a couple weeks but last night I am not sure what went wrong.

I tried putting a new ROM on it, I flashed it, restarted, at TitBack was restoring I thought I'd go back to my image I just created. I booted into CWM, restored my image I had created an hour before that, then in the same little session I flashed Francokernal 17.2 and then restarted because it was complete.

It restarted and said it was applying the upgrades, it restarted once, then again, and after that time it looked like it was at the loading screen for a while (about 20 minutes) so I did a battery pull and booted into CWM.

After I got there I couldn't do a full wipe because it kept freezing at data wipe. I can't do a restore because it can't load my data. Anytime I try to do anything with the "/data" it just freezes and I have to do a battery pull!

Ah I've tried mounting and unmounting data and all those things like system and cache.

Btw I can clear the cache and dalvik just fine..

Help please it's been almost a day haha, I'm dying.

EDIT: I am currently trying Super Wipe to see if I can get any results. I 'pushed' it on, it erased the EXT4 cache, erased and formatted the system (probably lost my backups), and now it's hanging at the data part...

stenzor · February 16th, 2012, 04:35 PM

Hopefully it's not a corrupted flash memory issue.. that happened to my first GNex.. couldn't write anything at all and wiping had no effect on anything.

JesseSparta · February 16th, 2012, 04:36 PM

How do I find out if it is?

stenzor · February 16th, 2012, 05:04 PM

Well for me it was the fact that I couldn't actually flash anything.. it would say that the flash was successful but then I'd check and it would still have the old firmware... You may have a different issue though.. Have you tried re-locking and unlocking the bootloader again to force a full wipe?

JesseSparta · February 16th, 2012, 05:23 PM

No I have not. Could relocking and unrooting the phone have an impact? I will try this if it can help..

JesseSparta · February 16th, 2012, 07:42 PM

Any other ideas before I try this? Anybody else?

I'm really hoping I don't have to send this back to Samsung.

stenzor · February 16th, 2012, 11:04 PM

Well relocking and unlocking it should wipe your data partition, thereby solving your problem right? And it's only 2 commands in fastboot.. why not try it?

JesseSparta · February 18th, 2012, 11:48 AM

You are correct it did work. I lost everything but my phone is working.

THank you!!

stenzor · February 18th, 2012, 12:15 PM

No problem! Glad you got your phone working again