[Q] Soft Brick with screwed up /system possible to repair?

[fugugaipan]

In my run to restock my Tab after trying CM9 on MTD so that I could do a full wipe and reset to see if I could clear up the problem I had with the unit not going to sleep I ran into an issue.

I screwed up the the reflash with Overcome, which ended up with a probably partial formatting to EXT4 on the /system partition.

Currently I can get to download mode and boot into recovery and it will respond to ADB commands and Odin says it's flashing when I try to send it images. I've attempted to reflash Overcome from scratch and see if it would format the /system partition but it still just hangs on the boot screen.

In Recovery I can't mount /system or /cache.

Is there a way to format the partitions in this state so I flash the ROM and Kernel?

 

[priyana]

Have you tried restock to gb stock safe v5 with pit selected?

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[fugugaipan]

Have you tried restock to gb stock safe v5 with pit selected?

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First thing I tried.

 

[fugugaipan]

Well crap. So I tried it again for giggles even though I tried it yesterday thinking that was my best bet since it was responding in Download and Recovery. And bloody thing flashed and started working.

Well cheers for making me do the thing again.

 

[priyana]

There you have it.
As long as you can go to download mode, it is always good to try and retry.
glad it works.

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