cache partition?

[Guest stinky817]

so today i went to open my mobile banking app, and log in, and when i hit my user name, it acted as though i touched it, but nothing happened.....so i went in, force closed the app, tried it again, didn't work. uninstalled it, reinstalled it, and when it opened it auto FC'd, so i hit the report button, and that FC'd as well. so i'm like F this, and i rebooted my phone, and it never started back up. it just sits at the dell logo.... well, the long and short of the story is that i've found out that there's prolly something wrong with my internal SD card. not sure exactly what though. in clockworkmod i get "E:Cant mount /dev/block/innersd0p5 (file exists)" along with some other related errors. so i tried formatting the cache with clockworkmod, and it fails, i tried erasing it with fastboot, still doesn't work. tried reflashing the rom i was using (Hyde's 2.2 v1.4.1) tried reflashing other roms via clockwork, but nothing seems to be fixing my issue. i've seen a couple other people with the same problem, and it seems that it just magically fixed itself. B)

now, what i was wondering is if there's a way to format the internal SD card completely and starting fresh, without having to take the internal one out. and what decides what partitions go where? because i was thinking that if i could figure that out, then i could just do whatever part of the puzzle that re-writes all of the partitions....

[Guest stinky817]

well. i found a solution to this issue. what i did is flashed the boot, system, and amss from the new 2.2 release, and tried booting, it didn't work, did a software reset (whatever the first selection is in the recovery screen [both vol buttons and power]) and that still didn't boot up, so i used clockwork again, and noticed that the error went away, so i reflashed (using the .zip for 1.4.1 from steven) and it booted up B) i'm glad that i made a backup a couple of weeks ago :)

[Guest brokenpixel]

Hey stinky, I had this issue, the fix is simple if you did a nandroid backup, just use fastboot to load your nandroid backup

you can flash all 4 files or just do boot and system whit this commands

fastboot-windows.exe -i 0x413c flash boot boot.img

fastboot-windows.exe -i 0x413c flash system system.img

Hope it fixes your problem, it did for me it might take a little time to boot but it'll work, after that just go back to CWM format your data and cache partitions and you should be ready to drop a new ROM or use that old one.

P.S. I was thinking on re-partition and formatting the whole thing like you and saw it was going to be a pain in the rear so my lucky shot with fastboot was a nice finding.

ED: sorry for not reading! lol but well this is how I fixed a similar issue on 1.1.1

so today i went to open my mobile banking app, and log in, and when i hit my user name, it acted as though i touched it, but nothing happened.....so i went in, force closed the app, tried it again, didn't work. uninstalled it, reinstalled it, and when it opened it auto FC'd, so i hit the report button, and that FC'd as well. so i'm like F this, and i rebooted my phone, and it never started back up. it just sits at the dell logo.... well, the long and short of the story is that i've found out that there's prolly something wrong with my internal SD card. not sure exactly what though. in clockworkmod i get "E:Cant mount /dev/block/innersd0p5 (file exists)" along with some other related errors. so i tried formatting the cache with clockworkmod, and it fails, i tried erasing it with fastboot, still doesn't work. tried reflashing the rom i was using (Hyde's 2.2 v1.4.1) tried reflashing other roms via clockwork, but nothing seems to be fixing my issue. i've seen a couple other people with the same problem, and it seems that it just magically fixed itself. B)

now, what i was wondering is if there's a way to format the internal SD card completely and starting fresh, without having to take the internal one out. and what decides what partitions go where? because i was thinking that if i could figure that out, then i could just do whatever part of the puzzle that re-writes all of the partitions....

Edited November 23, 2010 by brokenpixel