[Q] internal storage faulty or partition corrupt

endrancer said:

hi guys,

i just received a s3 mini which seems to have massive problems related to either it's storage drive or partition.

the phone is entirely stock. it's showing some developer overlay screen with yellow text.
when i check in system settings for storage, it's showing me 0.00b total space and 143mb applications.
when plugging it into the computer, the phone will show up as a drive but the size is messed up, too. it's showing -15827131273 bytes space.
when i reboot the phone i think it's kinda discarding all changes. I flashed twrp with odin. flashing suceeded after rebooting and trying to access recovery, twrp was not available but the standard recovery.

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so what can be done to fix the problem?

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endrancer said:

flashed I8190XXANC2 with odin and used stock pit file to re-partition. didn't help

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endrancer said:

the phone was pretty much stock everything. the owner does not have any technical knowledge of rooting, modding or bricking the phone. he said from one day to another, all data was just gone and the phone could not been used because it's pretending to have no space anymore.

flashing with odin seems fine, but partition / other things do still mess up everything like before. is it an issue thinking modem and baseband being unknown / corrupted etc? is there a way to get them seperately to flash them ?

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endrancer said:

it shows imei and serial number

imei sv ( 00 )

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qasim799 said:

i also faced same problem but i resolved it by restoring efs

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auxdefault said:

Err. how do you restore EFS on this thing? I have a somewhat similar problem with the OP where changes are discarded after a reboot and been searching for weeks on how fix this problem. I hope you will not mind sharing

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