Streak 7 "read only" problem

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norcalnub

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dell streak 7, boot loop.. Can't restore, might be read only?

nychawaii21 said:
6. Nychawaii21
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I have tried to use NvFlash (files posed by TheManii) to go back to stock 2.2, but it doesn't take. I can also get into fastboot, but noting seems to work either. I'm going to try everything on a different OS (using Win 7 x64 atm) that might have something to do with my problem. Then I saw your post here and thought it might be stuck in a read-only mode. And I would also like to try getting someone with a t-mobile streak 7 and copy their boot partition files directly and their rom to load on to mine. But I need to make sure it isn't an OS problem on my computer first. (I can also get into the stock recovery mode vol-up+power, so I don't think it is lost cause, just a bit of pain in the rear) Or a worst case scenario in which the tablet's 'bios' needs to be flashed.. (I might be getting things a bit confused but I'm reading as much as I can about android os {I also have OCD so I have to learn it LOL}, even got Oracle VM VirtualBox to try out roms and run apps with android kitchen)

---------- Post added at 01:03 PM ---------- Previous post was at 12:20 PM ----------

I looked back a few pages in this thread and found if you can't format your partitions with fastboot then you are in a read-only mode... Well I went to do that and it said unknown error. I'm going to load a different computer with win xp and see if it will work there. I'll keep this one on and logged in so if anyone sends me a message about or if I have made progress I can reply/post about it.


Wish me luck..

:fingers-crossed:


I was looking around and Giveen posted this on table roms.com "You need to skip p22.img as well, as that flashes your SD card." (he was referring to flashing back to Froyo 2.2) Which would explain why a few pages back a solution was found to fix the read only problem.. Replacing the internal SD card chip... If that is the case I wonder if you can put in a micro CD card slot and slap in a 32 gb SD card (would never be be able to get to it, it is inside the tablet). Going to back a few pages and look at that datasheet link.. :eek:
 
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liamo

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EliasKesh said:
I think I have made progress but I wanted to run it by the group. My streak 7 can not be factory reset. I looked at the filesystem and found that /data (/dev/block/mmcblk3p7) was marked as read only by the filesystem due to a journaling error. I loaded up busybox into /misc/ and wiped the parition using DD since DD does not go true the filesystem but writes directly to the block device. I also cleared the cache partition.
./busybox dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/block/mmcblk3p7
./busybox dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/block/mmcblk3p4

After a reboot data is now writable and I created and removed a file as proof . The root file system I can also make writable using:
mount -wo remount rootfs /
mount -wo remount /dev/block/mmcblk3p3 /system

I still however, can not factory reset the device . Since the entire filesystem is mounted read/write:

rootfs / rootfs rw,relatime 0 0
tmpfs /dev tmpfs rw,relatime,mode=755 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts rw,relatime,mode=600 0 0
proc /proc proc rw,relatime 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs rw,relatime 0 0
none /acct cgroup rw,relatime,cpuacct 0 0
tmpfs /mnt/asec tmpfs rw,relatime,mode=755,gid=1000 0 0
none /dev/cpuctl cgroup rw,relatime,cpu 0 0
/dev/block/mmcblk3p3 /system ext2 rw,relatime 0 0
/dev/block/mmcblk3p7 /data ext3 rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,data=writeback 0 0
/dev/block/mmcblk3p4 /cache ext3 rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,data=writeback 0 0
/dev/block/mmcblk3p5 /misc ext3 rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,data=writeback 0 0
/dev/block/vold/179:206 /mnt/sdcard vfat rw,dirsync,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,uid=1000,gid=1015,fmask=0702,dmask=0702,allow_utime=0020,codepage=cp437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=mixed,utf8,errors=remount-ro 0 0
/dev/block/vold/179:206 /mnt/secure/asec vfat rw,dirsync,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,uid=1000,gid=1015,fmask=0702,dmask=0702,allow_utime=0020,codepage=cp437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=mixed,utf8,errors=remount-ro 0 0
tmpfs /mnt/sdcard/.android_secure tmpfs ro,relatime,size=0k,mode=000 0 0

I am unsure as to what I am missing.
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was your device rooted prior to loading busybox? did you try to flash a custom rom afterwards? my s7 has been sitting on a shelf for some time, so i might dust it off and test it...
 
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liamo said:
was your device rooted prior to loading busybox? did you try to flash a custom rom afterwards? my s7 has been sitting on a shelf for some time, so i might dust it off and test it...
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Yes, my device was rooted when I picked it up and it was already in read-only mode . Put mine back up on the shelf.
 
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aanataliya

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I have the same problem.
Dell Streak 7 is not officially released in India. When I called to dell, they refused to repair.

Fortunately I found a person who is working in dell and repairing dell streak 5. I called him and asked to repair un-officially. he took it and returned me almost after 1 month :crying::crying:. saying it can not be repaired and problem is related to shared memory it seems.

Now I see no way to make it fix.. :crying:
 
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ngochunglt

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help me

My divice Dell Steak 7 - 3G
divice not ROOT, not CWM.
it's the passcode lockscreen.
i want restore but failed
i'm coppy file update.pkg to sdcard install >>>> do not working
i'm fastboot wirte file recovery.img >>> Failed to process command flash: recovery error ( 0x140005 )
you are help me!
tks.

i'm come from vietnamese.
(I'm speak English very bad)
tks


ATTACHED THUMBNAILS
 
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pyttlc

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Read only bug - dell streak 7 t mobile

Well add me also... I'm the another victim of read only bug ... i can't do anything with it .. mine dell streak 7 is from t mobile ....whenever i like to setup android in it .. setup is going well but when it reboot then nothing saved it's comes to previous version android ...what a crap ....plz help:crying:
 
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pyttlc said:
Well add me also... I'm the another victim of read only bug ... i can't do anything with it .. mine dell streak 7 is from t mobile ....whenever i like to setup android in it .. setup is going well but when it reboot then nothing saved it's comes to previous version android ...what a crap ....plz help:crying:
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No user fix for this. The only solution is to return it to Dell as they fix them somehow but nobody knows how or what they do.
 
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kwamayze

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onilink67 said:
Ok I'm trying to compile a list of people that are effected by this problem. Please post in here if your streak has fallen victim to this and you still have it. After we get a decent amount a people I'll try and find a commonality between us and hopefully find the root of the problem.

1. Onilink67
2. tech5
3. hoodred
4. jz83
5. Tanalius
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Can't factory reset. Stuck in read-only mode
 
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Arturior

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Read only fix

Hello, i had dell streak 7 with read only problem, and what is needed to do:
1) Disassemble your streak and found flash memory chip (my streak have this - SanDisk SDIN4C2-16G)
2) Buy it. (i founded SanDisk SDIN5C2-16G)
3) Go to any service center and told them to change broken bga flash memory chip
4) Run dell streak in nvflash mode
5) Through nvflash mode download to the new flash system with all partitions
6) Update firmware through fastboot
And your streak again is live
 
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    onilink67
    just got home to where my JTAG is yesterday I'll probably have some time to play around with it tomorrow
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    hoodred
    WookieFan said:
    Another thing to consider. In another thread, it was mentioned that both Dell and T-Mobile confirmed an OTA upgrade from Froyo to Honeycomb.

    So why was it delayed? Possibly to do with a certain read-only issue found when rooted and discharged? And the warranty returns we provided Dell gave them an opportunity to identify a fix?

    I know, a little thin, but that's my theory. Imagine. Now I'll have to nvflash again to upgrade to the official 4G OTA. Lolz. I just got used my Honeycomb tablet the way it was...

    Let's hope read-only was actually fixed in this next possible OTA...

    Sent from my Dell Streak 7 using Tapatalk
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    I was curious to see if it is design defect or software bugs so went to bestbuy and saw they have Dell Streak 7 WIFI with Honeycomb 3.2 Open Box for $ 159. It was the last one so I bought it.

    I run the test by letting the power go to 0 (watching netflix only last 2 hours from fully charge to 0).
    Guess what It wont BOOT stuck on DELL logo screen.

    HOWEVER this time the recovery partition wasnt lock up
    Tried factory reset (original recovery from dell) did nothing.
    So I NVflash CWM v5
    did factory reset with it (erase data, cache, dalvik cache).
    and it WORK. However you lost all your data.

    So I run second test again by draining the battery to 0.
    Well the it locked up again. And i did factory reset with CWM 5 and the streak comes alive again.

    I am returning the Dell Streak 7 WIFI to best buy today.
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    hoodred
    aweskelo said:
    Can you please give some brief instructions on how to do this? e.g.- how do you use cw5?
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    I use fastboot to flash the cw5 recovery
    you can find the link from here
    Put your streak into fastboot mode (vol down + power) and connect to your computer using USB cable.
    Put the cw file the same you put the fastboot.exe than just type under command pront (cmd.exe on windows)
    fastboot recovery (the name of the cw5 file).img

    Once you done, boot into recovery (Volume up and power) and select factory reset (user data and internal tablet) it will than go to CW5 recovery and again select factory reset.

    I tested this with the WIFI Honeycomb version and I did it very quickly after the streak went to Read Only mode (the data format error code) and after failing to reset it with Dell standard recovery.
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    hoodred said:
    I use fastboot to flash the cw5 recovery
    you can find the link from here
    Put your streak into fastboot mode (vol down + power) and connect to your computer using USB cable.
    Put the cw file the same you put the fastboot.exe than just type under command pront (cmd.exe on windows)
    fastboot recovery (the name of the cw5 file).img

    Once you done, boot into recovery (Volume up and power) and select factory reset (user data and internal tablet) it will than go to CW5 recovery and again select factory reset.

    I tested this with the WIFI Honeycomb version and I did it very quickly after the streak went to Read Only mode (the data format error code) and after failing to reset it with Dell standard recovery.
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    I am having the same problem now..I'm on 513stock version and I have CMW5. everytime I put something on my SD card, it gets erased when restarted and it goes back to the previous state, even if I update/install a new app.

    I have tried the select factory reset (user data and internal tablet) but nothing happens, it just sends me back to CWM5.

    anybody found a solution to this read-only problem?
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    TheManii
    It does sound like the read only problem, the only solution is to send it back to dell and hope they fix it if it really is the case
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