Hello. So i have a S3 LTE with possibly(?) an insane eMMC. Long story short: phone bought back in dec 2012. Changed battery twice. Last battery started acting up, lost all power, next thing i know phone is in permanent bootloop. Odin won't repartition the phone (idk why) nor can it flash a full firmware, getting stuck on SYSYEM flash, but can flsh recoveries. After fiddling around with recoveries, i finally flashed TWRP. What i found out : /cache, /system, /data, /sdcard and /tombstones couldn't be mounted (invalid argument). After wiping everything with make_ext4fs, everything works fine, except for /tombstones, which can't be mounted. What i have seen from the logs is that twrp doesn't wipe /tombstones as well, so there was no way of getting it to work.
Full story here http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s3/help-i9305/i9305-bootloop-mount-data-sdcard-t3379377
WHAT MY PROBLEM IS:
I need somebody to tell me the parameters for make_ext4fs in order to wipe /tombstones as well, as it seemed to work flawlessly with the other folders.
UPDATE: I managed to wipe /dev/block/mmcblk0p11, which mounts in /tombstones. used rm -fr, then mkdir for the tombstones folder. Everything mounts just fine now. Will reflash and post an update.
UPDATE 2: Phone still won't work with odin. i flashed amcha with twrp. Boots just fine, but 10 seconds after boot finishes, phone freezes and won't respond to button presses. Any ideas?
Full story here http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s3/help-i9305/i9305-bootloop-mount-data-sdcard-t3379377
WHAT MY PROBLEM IS:
I need somebody to tell me the parameters for make_ext4fs in order to wipe /tombstones as well, as it seemed to work flawlessly with the other folders.
UPDATE: I managed to wipe /dev/block/mmcblk0p11, which mounts in /tombstones. used rm -fr, then mkdir for the tombstones folder. Everything mounts just fine now. Will reflash and post an update.
UPDATE 2: Phone still won't work with odin. i flashed amcha with twrp. Boots just fine, but 10 seconds after boot finishes, phone freezes and won't respond to button presses. Any ideas?
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