[Verizon] Still Stuicking @ Boot Animation - LogCat.

iowabowtech · Sep 6, 2012

When I was in cwm today flashing the aokp rom for this thread, I started getting some really weird green pixelation on the right side of the screen and then instead of flashing the rom, it went back to the root cwm menu. All I could think of was your story. :eek:

It came out of it though thankfully.

jova33 · Sep 7, 2012

scary alien said:
Powered it down, wouldn't turn back on.

I tried six ways from Sunday to resurrect it...wasn't doing anything to it.

I shut it down because I was going to reboot it in fastboot mode to read the information off of the screen (was about to help someone with the information I was going to read-off).

Did the shutdown, it asked for confirmation, it kind of froze / pixelated what was remaining on the screen (it never finished shutting down). I did a battery pull and tried to restart.

Nothing. No response at all. Tried a different battery, etc. Zilch.

VZW sent me a replacement under warranty. I was pretty stunned and stumped.

That sounds like a hardware brick. Like something got fried. I can't think of anything software related that would prevent it from powering on, aside from software helping fry it.

iowabowtech · Sep 11, 2012

Anything new on this gapi?

gapi · Sep 11, 2012

iowabowtech said:
Anything new on this gapi?

No, I was hoping the Lean Kernel DEV would chime in but nada.

scary alien · Sep 11, 2012

gapi said:
No, I was hoping the Lean Kernel DEV would chime in but nada.

gapi,

If you were to post your exact, step-by-step instructions that use for attempting to install JellyBean, I'd like to try the same process on my device.

My device is currently a stock 4.0.4 rooted setup (no custom kernel or recovery), so I'd need to know your starting point, too.

Its also possible that this will possibly end-up being a bizarre hardware / firmware issue that only affects a certain number of devices.

Let me know.

Cheers!

gapi · Sep 11, 2012

scary alien said:
gapi,

If you were to post your exact, step-by-step instructions that use for attempting to install JellyBean, I'd like to try the same process on my device.

My device is currently a stock 4.0.4 rooted setup (no custom kernel or recovery), so I'd need to know your starting point, too.

Its also possible that this will possibly end-up being a bizarre hardware / firmware issue that only affects a certain number of devices.

Let me know.

Cheers!

Thanks,

Basically the same as always, I follow the developers instructions which are no different for JB than ICS.

I always make a nandroid, boot into recovery and...

-Wipe Data
-Wipe Cache
-Wipe Dalvik Cache
-format /system
-Flash AOKP JB Build 1 ROM
-Flash GApps
-Reboot

After a few of these I tried everything I could Google up and think of.

Some say do not use a touch recovery, do not use a tool kit, flash the JB boot loader first, do battery pulls, re-flash, wipe before and after flashing, you name it I have read about it and tried it.

There are those who say they used a touch recovery and did not flash the JB Boot loader and used a tool kit and are doing fine. Some thought it was a hardware version 9 thing but there are both versions reporting success. I have used the command prompt and two different toolkits.

I am not alone here. There is a thread over at XDA with folks in the same boat, that's where I got interested in logcats.

JB boot loops my phone Lots of links in the threads branching out to other things to try such as leaked JB test roms and such but nobody has produced a magic bullet fix.

I am just glad I can still flash my AOKP ICS.

I am sitting on go ready to try anything I have not done already. I have been back to a formatted SD/card unrooted factory condition many times.

Sigh!

jhawkkw · Sep 11, 2012

Just a question of redundancy, but have you tried flashing the jb ota leak as an ota over build imk76q to see if it would take?

gapi · Sep 11, 2012

jhawkkw said:
Just a question of redundancy, but have you tried flashing the jb ota leak as an ota over build imk76q to see if it would take?

Yes

scary alien · Sep 11, 2012

Thanks for that info, gapi...I was thinking that I'd use the same JB ROMs (I saw you mentioned AOKP JB Build 1 ROM) and recoveries, bootloader, etc. that you've used / tried.

I'm looking for very specific links or steps so that I can recreate your issue (I know that sounds crazy, but I want my install to fail and bootloop like yours does, so I can do some hands-on debugging).

So, as much additional detail as you can provide about your initial state and resources used, that would be helpful.

Cheers!

gapi · Sep 11, 2012

I failed to mention I used a Touch CWM recovery on my 1st attempt without flashing the JB BL. I did not know it existed and had not heard any warnings against using a touch recovery..

iowabowtech · Sep 12, 2012

I wonder if a possible cause could be an issue with the flashing of the boot.img? I mean the stage at which it's bootlooping (Google screen) does kind of point toward that...not that there couldn't be thousands of other factors in play.

So I checked the updater script of a few roms including the AOKP rom and noticed in all cases, the last action prior to the unmounting of /system is:

Code:

package_extract_file("boot.img" ,  "/dev/block/platform/omap/omap_hsmmc.0/by-name/boot");

So I set out to find the partition table and size/sector info for our phone.

C:\Users\JJ>adb shell
root@android:/ # cd /dev/block/platform/omap/omap_hsmmc.0/by-name
root@android:/dev/block/platform/omap/omap_hsmmc.0/by-name
# ls -l

Code:

lrwxrwxrwx root     root              2012-09-11 20:50 [COLOR=red][B]boot -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p7[/B][/COLOR]
lrwxrwxrwx root     root              2012-09-11 20:50 cache -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p11
lrwxrwxrwx root     root              2012-09-11 20:50 dgs -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p6
lrwxrwxrwx root     root              2012-09-11 20:50 efs -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p3
lrwxrwxrwx root     root              2012-09-11 20:50 metadata -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p13
lrwxrwxrwx root     root              2012-09-11 20:50 misc -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p5
lrwxrwxrwx root     root              2012-09-11 20:50 param -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p4
lrwxrwxrwx root     root              2012-09-11 20:50 radio -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p9
lrwxrwxrwx root     root              2012-09-11 20:50 recovery -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p8
lrwxrwxrwx root     root              2012-09-11 20:50 sbl -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p2
lrwxrwxrwx root     root              2012-09-11 20:50 system -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p10
lrwxrwxrwx root     root              2012-09-11 20:50 userdata -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p12
lrwxrwxrwx root     root              2012-09-11 20:50 xloader -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p1

root@android:/dev/block/platform/omap/omap_hsmmc.0/by-name # find /dev/block/platform/ -name 'mmc*' -exec fdisk -l {} \; > /sdcard/list_of_gnex_partitions.txt

Code:

Disk /dev/block/platform/omap/omap_hsmmc.0/mmcblk0boot0: 2 MB, 2097152 bytes
4 heads, 16 sectors/track, 64 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 64 * 512 = 32768 bytes
 
Disk /dev/block/platform/omap/omap_hsmmc.0/mmcblk0boot1: 2 MB, 2097152 bytes
4 heads, 16 sectors/track, 64 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 64 * 512 = 32768 bytes
 
Disk /dev/block/platform/omap/omap_hsmmc.0/mmcblk0p13: 0 MB, 65536 bytes
4 heads, 16 sectors/track, 2 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 64 * 512 = 32768 bytes
 
Disk /dev/block/platform/omap/omap_hsmmc.0/mmcblk0p12: 30.6 GB, 30691802112 bytes
4 heads, 16 sectors/track, 936639 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 64 * 512 = 32768 bytes
 
Disk /dev/block/platform/omap/omap_hsmmc.0/mmcblk0p11: 452 MB, 452984832 bytes
4 heads, 16 sectors/track, 13824 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 64 * 512 = 32768 bytes
 
Disk /dev/block/platform/omap/omap_hsmmc.0/mmcblk0p10: 685 MB, 685768704 bytes
4 heads, 16 sectors/track, 20928 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 64 * 512 = 32768 bytes
 
Disk /dev/block/platform/omap/omap_hsmmc.0/mmcblk0p9: 16 MB, 16777216 bytes
4 heads, 16 sectors/track, 512 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 64 * 512 = 32768 bytes
 
Disk /dev/block/platform/omap/omap_hsmmc.0/mmcblk0p8: 12 MB, 12517376 bytes
4 heads, 16 sectors/track, 382 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 64 * 512 = 32768 bytes
 
[COLOR=red][B]Disk /dev/block/platform/omap/omap_hsmmc.0/mmcblk0p7: 8 MB, 8388608 bytes[/B][/COLOR]
[COLOR=red][B]4 heads, 16 sectors/track, 256 cylinders[/B][/COLOR]
[COLOR=red][B]Units = cylinders of 64 * 512 = 32768 bytes[/B][/COLOR]
 
Disk /dev/block/platform/omap/omap_hsmmc.0/mmcblk0p6: 4 MB, 4194304 bytes
4 heads, 16 sectors/track, 128 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 64 * 512 = 32768 bytes
 
Disk /dev/block/platform/omap/omap_hsmmc.0/mmcblk0p5: 4 MB, 4194304 bytes
4 heads, 16 sectors/track, 128 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 64 * 512 = 32768 bytes
 
Disk /dev/block/platform/omap/omap_hsmmc.0/mmcblk0p4: 8 MB, 8388608 bytes
4 heads, 16 sectors/track, 256 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 64 * 512 = 32768 bytes
 
Disk /dev/block/platform/omap/omap_hsmmc.0/mmcblk0p3: 20 MB, 20971520 bytes
4 heads, 16 sectors/track, 640 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 64 * 512 = 32768 bytes
 
Disk /dev/block/platform/omap/omap_hsmmc.0/mmcblk0p2: 3 MB, 3670016 bytes
4 heads, 16 sectors/track, 112 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 64 * 512 = 32768 bytes
 
Disk /dev/block/platform/omap/omap_hsmmc.0/mmcblk0p1: 0 MB, 131072 bytes
4 heads, 16 sectors/track, 4 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 64 * 512 = 32768 bytes
 
Disk /dev/block/platform/omap/omap_hsmmc.0/mmcblk0: 31.9 GB, 31910264832 bytes
1 heads, 16 sectors/track, 3895296 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16 * 512 = 8192 bytes
 
 
                                           Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks  Id System
/dev/block/platform/omap/omap_hsmmc.0/mmcblk0p1               
                                                                1     3895296    31162367+ ee EFI GPT
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary

Idk guys, I'm probably grasping at straws here but I was thinking that perhaps there could be an issue with either the initial formatting at install or for whatever reason, some gnex's won't allow a proper flash of a boot.img on JB roms. Not sure if any of that could help you in your travels SA but thought I'd post it up just in case it spun any ideas in your head. I may be off on a tangent here.

scary alien · Sep 12, 2012

No, IBT, I think you are on the right track here. Excellent research, sir!

Was this on a JB device or an ICS device? (I'm thinking that the partition sizes have changed in some meaningful (but subtle) way)

It also might not be the boot image but one or more of the other images.

Comparing the ICS vs. JB settings side-by-side would be very interesting.

iowabowtech · Sep 12, 2012

scary alien said:
No, IBT, I think you are on the right track here. Excellent research, sir!

Was this on a JB device or an ICS device? (I'm thinking that the partition sizes have changed in some meaningful (but subtle) way)

It also might not be the boot image but one or more of the other images.

Comparing the ICS vs. JB settings side-by-side would be very interesting.

It was gathered while on Sourcery 2.2 (JB).
(+ new radios and JB bootloader)

gapi · Sep 12, 2012

iowabowtech said:
It was gathered while on Sourcery 2.2 (JB).

I was trying to find mine to post from AOKP B30 but the commands you used do not work for me.

I am not that experienced with ADB so tell me the commands if you want to see mine.

iowabowtech · Sep 12, 2012

gapi said:
I was trying to find mine to post from AOKP B30 but the commands you used do not work for me.

I am not that experienced with ADB so tell me the commands if you want to see mine.

That's cuz it was getting late last night and I made some errors when transcribing the commands from cmd. So here's my session results with emphasis to show commands (bold) and my comments (red) where applicable:

Code:

[FONT=Lucida Sans Typewriter]C:\Users\JJ>[B]adb devices[/B][/FONT]
[FONT=Lucida Sans Typewriter]List of devices attached[/FONT]
[FONT=Lucida Sans Typewriter]0146BF4F1101801A        device[/FONT]
 
 
[FONT=Lucida Sans Typewriter]C:\Users\JJ>[B]adb shell[/B][/FONT]
[FONT=Lucida Sans Typewriter]root@android:/ # [B]ls -l /dev/block/platform/omap/omap_hsmmc.0/by-name/[/B][/FONT]
[FONT=Lucida Sans Typewriter]ls -l /dev/block/platform/omap/omap_hsmmc.0/by-name/[/FONT]
[FONT=Lucida Sans Typewriter]lrwxrwxrwx root     root              2012-09-11 20:50 boot -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p7[/FONT]
[FONT=Lucida Sans Typewriter]lrwxrwxrwx root     root              2012-09-11 20:50 cache -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p11[/FONT]
[FONT=Lucida Sans Typewriter]lrwxrwxrwx root     root              2012-09-11 20:50 dgs -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p6[/FONT]
[FONT=Lucida Sans Typewriter]lrwxrwxrwx root     root              2012-09-11 20:50 efs -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p3[/FONT]
[FONT=Lucida Sans Typewriter]lrwxrwxrwx root     root              2012-09-11 20:50 metadata -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p13[/FONT]
[FONT=Lucida Sans Typewriter]lrwxrwxrwx root     root              2012-09-11 20:50 misc -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p5[/FONT]
[FONT=Lucida Sans Typewriter]lrwxrwxrwx root     root              2012-09-11 20:50 param -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p4[/FONT]
[FONT=Lucida Sans Typewriter]lrwxrwxrwx root     root              2012-09-11 20:50 radio -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p9[/FONT]
[FONT=Lucida Sans Typewriter]lrwxrwxrwx root     root              2012-09-11 20:50 recovery -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p8[/FONT]
[FONT=Lucida Sans Typewriter]lrwxrwxrwx root     root              2012-09-11 20:50 sbl -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p2[/FONT]
[FONT=Lucida Sans Typewriter]lrwxrwxrwx root     root              2012-09-11 20:50 system -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p10[/FONT]
[FONT=Lucida Sans Typewriter]lrwxrwxrwx root     root              2012-09-11 20:50 userdata -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p12[/FONT]
[FONT=Lucida Sans Typewriter]lrwxrwxrwx root     root              2012-09-11 20:50 xloader -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p1[/FONT]
[FONT=Lucida Sans Typewriter]root@android:/ # [B]find /dev/block/platform/ -name 'mmc*' -exec fdisk -l {} \; > /[/B][/FONT][FONT=Lucida Sans Typewriter][B]sdcard/list_of_gnex_partitions.txt[/B][/FONT]
[FONT=Lucida Sans Typewriter]'mmc*' -exec fdisk -l {} \; > /sdcard/list_of_gnex_partitions.txt            <[/FONT]
[FONT=Lucida Sans Typewriter][COLOR=red]We just asked for the creation of a txt file on the sdcard. So now we need to go get it:[/COLOR][/FONT]
[FONT=Lucida Sans Typewriter]root@android:/ # [B]cd /sdcard[/B][/FONT]
[FONT=Lucida Sans Typewriter]cd /sdcard[/FONT]
[FONT=Lucida Sans Typewriter]root@android:/sdcard # [B]ls -l[/B][/FONT]
[FONT=Lucida Sans Typewriter]ls -l[/FONT]
[FONT=Lucida Sans Typewriter]-rw-rw-r-- root     sdcard_rw 15107307 2012-08-29 09:45 411_radios.zip[/FONT]
[FONT=Lucida Sans Typewriter]drwxrwxr-x root     sdcard_rw          2011-12-15 13:57 Alarms[/FONT]
[FONT=Lucida Sans Typewriter]drwxrwxr-x root     sdcard_rw          2011-12-15 13:57 Android[/FONT]
[FONT=Lucida Sans Typewriter]drwxrwxr-x root     sdcard_rw          2011-12-27 17:51 Box[/FONT]
[FONT=Lucida Sans Typewriter]drwxrwxr-x root     sdcard_rw          2012-07-30 23:14 DCIM[/FONT]
[FONT=Lucida Sans Typewriter]drwxrwxr-x root     sdcard_rw          2012-08-31 17:15 Download[/FONT]
[FONT=Lucida Sans Typewriter]drwxrwxr-x root     sdcard_rw          2012-07-25 20:27 GOSMS[/FONT]
[FONT=Lucida Sans Typewriter]-rw-rw-r-- root     sdcard_rw   247856 2012-03-11 14:38 H264Frame.dmp[/FONT]
[FONT=Lucida Sans Typewriter]-rw-rw-r-- root     sdcard_rw 122852888 2012-08-14 08:53 JBSourceryVersion1.0.zip[/FONT]
[FONT=Lucida Sans Typewriter]-rw-rw-r-- root     sdcard_rw   155682 2012-09-04 23:32 Launch WiFi File Explorer.apk[/FONT]
[FONT=Lucida Sans Typewriter]drwxrwxr-x root     sdcard_rw          2011-12-15 13:57 Movies[/FONT]
[FONT=Lucida Sans Typewriter]drwxrwxr-x root     sdcard_rw          2011-12-15 13:57 Music[/FONT]
[FONT=Lucida Sans Typewriter]drwxrwxr-x root     sdcard_rw          2012-05-26 09:34 Notifications[/FONT]
[FONT=Lucida Sans Typewriter]drwxrwxr-x root     sdcard_rw          2012-06-28 18:03 Pictures[/FONT]
[FONT=Lucida Sans Typewriter]drwxrwxr-x root     sdcard_rw          2011-12-15 13:57 Podcasts[/FONT]
[FONT=Lucida Sans Typewriter]drwxrwxr-x root     sdcard_rw          2012-06-27 21:43 Ringtones[/FONT]
[FONT=Lucida Sans Typewriter]drwxrwxr-x root     sdcard_rw          2012-09-03 08:48 SourceryTools[/FONT]
[FONT=Lucida Sans Typewriter]drwxrwxr-x root     sdcard_rw          2012-01-19 10:11 SpeedSoftware[/FONT]
[FONT=Lucida Sans Typewriter]drwxrwxr-x root     sdcard_rw          2012-07-11 11:09 Temp[/FONT]
[FONT=Lucida Sans Typewriter]drwxrwxr-x root     sdcard_rw          2012-09-11 02:03 TitaniumBackup[/FONT]
[FONT=Lucida Sans Typewriter]-rw-rw-r-- root     sdcard_rw     1000 2011-12-16 11:13 TitaniumBackup_license.txt[/FONT]
[FONT=Lucida Sans Typewriter]drwxrwxr-x root     sdcard_rw          2012-07-18 16:36 TunnyBrowser[/FONT]
[FONT=Lucida Sans Typewriter]drwxrwxr-x root     sdcard_rw          2012-06-19 23:35 Video[/FONT]
[FONT=Lucida Sans Typewriter]drwxrwxr-x root     sdcard_rw          2012-06-19 23:35 airdroid[/FONT]
[FONT=Lucida Sans Typewriter]drwxrwxr-x root     sdcard_rw          2012-06-12 09:32 alogrec[/FONT]
[FONT=Lucida Sans Typewriter]-rw-rw-r-- root     sdcard_rw 149289991 2012-09-06 10:30 aokp_toro_jb-build-1.zip[/FONT]
[FONT=Lucida Sans Typewriter]drwxrwxr-x root     sdcard_rw          2012-07-23 15:45 backups[/FONT]
[FONT=Lucida Sans Typewriter]-rw-rw-r-- root     sdcard_rw  3557373 2012-07-26 23:50 bootanimation.zip[/FONT]
[FONT=Lucida Sans Typewriter]drwxrwxr-x root     sdcard_rw          2012-03-09 22:34 burstlyImageCache[/FONT]
[FONT=Lucida Sans Typewriter]-rw-rw-r-- root     sdcard_rw   853044 2012-07-25 00:51 busybox-stericson[/FONT]
[FONT=Lucida Sans Typewriter]drwxrwxr-x root     sdcard_rw          2012-06-12 09:53 catlog[/FONT]
[FONT=Lucida Sans Typewriter]-rw-rw-r-- root     sdcard_rw        1 2011-12-15 13:57 cfg_dun_status[/FONT]
[FONT=Lucida Sans Typewriter]-rw-rw-r-- root     sdcard_rw        1 2011-12-15 13:56 cfg_uart_sel[/FONT]
[FONT=Lucida Sans Typewriter]-rw-rw-r-- root     sdcard_rw        1 2011-12-15 13:56 cfg_usb_sel[/FONT]
[FONT=Lucida Sans Typewriter]drwxrwxr-x root     sdcard_rw          2011-12-21 13:04 ch.amana.android.cputuner[/FONT]
[FONT=Lucida Sans Typewriter]drwxrwxr-x root     sdcard_rw          2012-09-11 16:23 clockworkmod[/FONT]
[FONT=Lucida Sans Typewriter]drwxrwxr-x root     sdcard_rw          2012-03-11 17:11 com.espn.score_center[/FONT]
[FONT=Lucida Sans Typewriter]drwxrwxr-x root     sdcard_rw          2012-05-04 02:34 data[/FONT]
[FONT=Lucida Sans Typewriter]-rw-rw-r-- root     sdcard_rw 87138923 2012-08-14 08:54 gapps-jb-20120726-signed.zip[/FONT]
[FONT=Lucida Sans Typewriter]-rw-rw-r-- root     sdcard_rw    13249 2012-08-07 22:30 latest_attachment[/FONT]
[FONT=Lucida Sans Typewriter]-rw-rw-r-- root     sdcard_rw  2379360 2012-07-12 13:50 libpatts_engine_jni_api.[/FONT]
[FONT=Lucida Sans Typewriter]so[/FONT]
[FONT=Lucida Sans Typewriter]drwxrwxr-x root     sdcard_rw          2011-12-15 20:02 lightflow[/FONT]
[FONT=Lucida Sans Typewriter]-rw-rw-r-- root     sdcard_rw     4263 2012-09-12 09:23 list_of_gnex_partitions.txt[/FONT]
[FONT=Lucida Sans Typewriter][COLOR=red]^^ There it is. So now we need to pull it to your pc since you have a non-booting phone on JB. [/COLOR][/FONT]
[FONT=Lucida Sans Typewriter][COLOR=red]If this were an ICS rom, you could just boot up, navigate to the card and read it using Root Explorer or similar. [/COLOR][/FONT]
[FONT=Lucida Sans Typewriter][COLOR=red]But we're here anyway so adb pull is almost easier.[/COLOR][/FONT]
[FONT=Lucida Sans Typewriter]drwxrwxr-x root     sdcard_rw          2012-02-25 16:10 lookout[/FONT]
[FONT=Lucida Sans Typewriter]-rw-rw-r-- root     sdcard_rw   796932 2012-08-15 00:30 sdk-tools.zip[/FONT]
[FONT=Lucida Sans Typewriter]-rw-rw-r-- root     sdcard_rw  1126078 2011-12-16 10:48 su.zip[/FONT]
[FONT=Lucida Sans Typewriter]-rw-rw-r-- root     sdcard_rw    77352 2012-07-25 00:51 toolbox-stericson[/FONT]
[FONT=Lucida Sans Typewriter]drwxrwxr-x root     sdcard_rw          2012-06-12 16:57 voix[/FONT]
[FONT=Lucida Sans Typewriter]drwxrwxr-x root     sdcard_rw          2012-05-18 09:55 zedge[/FONT]
[FONT=Lucida Sans Typewriter][COLOR=red]First we'll exit the shell, then we'll pull the file:[/COLOR][/FONT]
[FONT=Lucida Sans Typewriter]root@android:/sdcard # [B]exit[/B][/FONT]
[FONT=Lucida Sans Typewriter]exit[/FONT]
 
[FONT=Lucida Sans Typewriter]C:\Users\JJ>[B]cd c:\android-sdk-windows\platform-tools[/B][/FONT]
 
[FONT=Lucida Sans Typewriter]c:\android-sdk-windows\platform-tools>[B]adb pull /sdcard/list_of_gnex_partitions.txt[/B][/FONT]
[FONT=Lucida Sans Typewriter]4 KB/s (4263 bytes in 1.000s)[/FONT]
[FONT=Lucida Sans Typewriter][COLOR=red]^^ Appears to have worked. Now navigate to your platform-tools folder on your pc and make sure it's there. If so it can be opened and read. All done.[/COLOR][/FONT]
[FONT=Lucida Sans Typewriter]c:\android-sdk-windows\platform-tools>[/FONT]

Review of commands used (in order):

adb devices

adb shell

ls -l /dev/block/platform/omap/omap_hsmmc.0/by-name/

find /dev/block/platform/ -name 'mmc*' -exec fdisk -l {} \; > /sdcard/list_of_gnex_partitions.txt

cd /sdcard

ls -l

(verify presence of text file)

exit

cd c:\android-sdk-windows\platform-tools

adb pull /sdcard/list_of_gnex_partitions.txt

scary alien · Sep 12, 2012

IBT, I'll do this on my 4.0.4 setup here in a second and post back...

scary alien · Sep 12, 2012

Here's my 4.0.4 output (I'll try to smerge your JB output and mine together in a side-by-side comparison):

Disk ./mmcblk0boot0: 2 MB, 2097152 bytes
4 heads, 16 sectors/track, 64 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 64 * 512 = 32768 bytes

Disk ./mmcblk0boot0 doesn't contain a valid partition table

Disk ./mmcblk0boot1: 2 MB, 2097152 bytes
4 heads, 16 sectors/track, 64 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 64 * 512 = 32768 bytes

Disk ./mmcblk0boot1 doesn't contain a valid partition table

Disk ./mmcblk0p13: 0 MB, 65536 bytes
4 heads, 16 sectors/track, 2 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 64 * 512 = 32768 bytes

Disk ./mmcblk0p13 doesn't contain a valid partition table

Disk ./mmcblk0p12: 30.6 GB, 30691802112 bytes
4 heads, 16 sectors/track, 936639 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 64 * 512 = 32768 bytes

Disk ./mmcblk0p12 doesn't contain a valid partition table

Disk ./mmcblk0p11: 452 MB, 452984832 bytes
4 heads, 16 sectors/track, 13824 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 64 * 512 = 32768 bytes

Disk ./mmcblk0p11 doesn't contain a valid partition table

Disk ./mmcblk0p10: 685 MB, 685768704 bytes
4 heads, 16 sectors/track, 20928 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 64 * 512 = 32768 bytes

Disk ./mmcblk0p10 doesn't contain a valid partition table

Disk ./mmcblk0p9: 16 MB, 16777216 bytes
4 heads, 16 sectors/track, 512 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 64 * 512 = 32768 bytes

Disk ./mmcblk0p9 doesn't contain a valid partition table

Disk ./mmcblk0p8: 12 MB, 12517376 bytes
4 heads, 16 sectors/track, 382 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 64 * 512 = 32768 bytes

Disk ./mmcblk0p8 doesn't contain a valid partition table

Disk ./mmcblk0p7: 8 MB, 8388608 bytes
4 heads, 16 sectors/track, 256 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 64 * 512 = 32768 bytes

Disk ./mmcblk0p7 doesn't contain a valid partition table

Disk ./mmcblk0p6: 4 MB, 4194304 bytes
4 heads, 16 sectors/track, 128 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 64 * 512 = 32768 bytes

Disk ./mmcblk0p6 doesn't contain a valid partition table

Disk ./mmcblk0p5: 4 MB, 4194304 bytes
4 heads, 16 sectors/track, 128 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 64 * 512 = 32768 bytes

Disk ./mmcblk0p5 doesn't contain a valid partition table

Disk ./mmcblk0p4: 8 MB, 8388608 bytes
4 heads, 16 sectors/track, 256 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 64 * 512 = 32768 bytes

Disk ./mmcblk0p4 doesn't contain a valid partition table

Disk ./mmcblk0p3: 20 MB, 20971520 bytes
4 heads, 16 sectors/track, 640 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 64 * 512 = 32768 bytes

Disk ./mmcblk0p3 doesn't contain a valid partition table

Disk ./mmcblk0p2: 3 MB, 3670016 bytes
4 heads, 16 sectors/track, 112 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 64 * 512 = 32768 bytes

Disk ./mmcblk0p2 doesn't contain a valid partition table

Disk ./mmcblk0p1: 0 MB, 131072 bytes
4 heads, 16 sectors/track, 4 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 64 * 512 = 32768 bytes

Disk ./mmcblk0p1 doesn't contain a valid partition table

Disk ./mmcblk0: 31.9 GB, 31910264832 bytes
1 heads, 16 sectors/track, 3895296 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16 * 512 = 8192 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
./mmcblk0p1 1 3895296 31162367+ ee EFI GPT
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary

scary alien · Sep 12, 2012

Well, the partition information is identical between ICS and JB:

Code:

[COLOR="Blue"]name      partition      size        bytes  cylinders[/COLOR]
--------  ------------  ------ -----------   --------
n/a       mmcblk0boot0    2 MB     2097152         64
n/a       mmcblk0boot1    2 MB     2097152         64
metadata  mmcblk0p13      0 MB       65536          2
userdata  mmcblk0p12   30.6 [COLOR="Red"]GB[/COLOR] 30691802112     936639
cache     mmcblk0p11    452 MB   452984832      13824
system    mmcblk0p10    685 MB   685768704      20928
radio     mmcblk0p9      16 MB    16777216        512
recovery  mmcblk0p8      12 MB    12517376        382
boot      mmcblk0p7       8 MB     8388608        256
dgs       mmcblk0p6       4 MB     4194304        128
misc      mmcblk0p5       4 MB     4194304        128
param     mmcblk0p4       8 MB     8388608        256
efs       mmcblk0p3      20 MB    20971520        640
sbl       mmcblk0p2       3 MB     3670016        112
xloader   mmcblk0p1       0 MB      131072          4
n/a       mmcblk0      31.9 [COLOR="red"]GB[/COLOR] 31910264832    3895296

gapi · Sep 12, 2012

Here is my AOKP B38. Varify what .txt file and where?

Code:

C:\android-sdk-windows\platform-tools>adb shell
root@android:/ #
ls -l /dev/block/platform/omap/omap_hsmmc.0/by-name/
root@android:/ #
ls -l /dev/block/platform/omap/omap_hsmmc.0/by-name/
lrwxrwxrwx root root 2012-09-10 11:35 boot -> /dev/block/mmcblk
0p7
lrwxrwxrwx root root 2012-09-10 11:35 cache -> /dev/block/mmcbl
k0p11
lrwxrwxrwx root root 2012-09-10 11:35 dgs -> /dev/block/mmcblk0
p6
lrwxrwxrwx root root 2012-09-10 11:35 efs -> /dev/block/mmcblk0
p3
lrwxrwxrwx root root 2012-09-10 11:35 metadata -> /dev/block/mm
cblk0p13
lrwxrwxrwx root root 2012-09-10 11:35 misc -> /dev/block/mmcblk
0p5
lrwxrwxrwx root root 2012-09-10 11:35 param -> /dev/block/mmcbl
k0p4
lrwxrwxrwx root root 2012-09-10 11:35 radio -> /dev/block/mmcbl
k0p9
lrwxrwxrwx root root 2012-09-10 11:35 recovery -> /dev/block/mm
cblk0p8
lrwxrwxrwx root root 2012-09-10 11:35 sbl -> /dev/block/mmcblk0
p2
lrwxrwxrwx root root 2012-09-10 11:35 system -> /dev/block/mmcb
lk0p10
lrwxrwxrwx root root 2012-09-10 11:35 userdata -> /dev/block/mm
cblk0p12
lrwxrwxrwx root root 2012-09-10 11:35 xloader -> /dev/block/mmc
blk0p1
root@android:/ #

Code:

find /dev/block/platform/ -name 'mmc*' -exec fdisk -l {} \; > /sdcard/list_of_gnex_partitions.txt

 'mmc*' -exec fdisk -l {} \; > /sdcard/list_of_gnex_partitions.txt            <
root@android:/ #

Code:

root@android:/sdcard # ls -l
ls -l
drwxrwxr-x root     sdcard_rw          2012-09-05 01:48 AOKP_Backup
drwxrwxr-x root     sdcard_rw          2012-09-05 01:47 Alarms
drwxrwxr-x root     sdcard_rw          2012-09-05 02:30 Android
drwxrwxr-x root     sdcard_rw          2012-09-05 01:48 CWMRTouch
drwxrwxr-x root     sdcard_rw          2012-09-05 01:49 DCIM
drwxrwxr-x root     sdcard_rw          2012-09-04 23:38 Download
-rw-rw-r-- root     sdcard_rw       15 2012-09-05 01:57 GROCERIES
-rw-rw-r-- root     sdcard_rw       64 2012-09-05 01:57 HomeSharedKey
-rw-rw-r-- root     sdcard_rw  1753499 2012-09-05 23:41 InvertedGmail405.zip
-rw-rw-r-- root     sdcard_rw       68 2012-09-05 01:57 LOWES LIST
-rw-rw-r-- root     sdcard_rw      471 2012-09-05 01:57 Lionel.txt
drwxrwxr-x root     sdcard_rw          2012-09-05 01:51 MODS
drwxrwxr-x root     sdcard_rw          2012-09-04 23:38 Movies
drwxrwxr-x root     sdcard_rw          2012-09-05 01:52 Music
drwxrwxr-x root     sdcard_rw          2012-09-05 01:50 My Apps
drwxrwxr-x root     sdcard_rw          2012-09-05 01:50 My Documents
drwxrwxr-x root     sdcard_rw          2012-09-05 01:50 Notifications
-rw-rw-r-- root     sdcard_rw  1034217 2012-09-06 20:27 PRIMELC03.zip
drwxrwxr-x root     sdcard_rw          2012-09-11 22:57 Pictures
drwxrwxr-x root     sdcard_rw          2012-09-04 23:38 Podcasts
drwxrwxr-x root     sdcard_rw          2012-09-05 08:50 ROMS
drwxrwxr-x root     sdcard_rw          2012-09-05 01:51 Radios
-rw-rw-r-- root     sdcard_rw       57 2012-09-05 01:57 Raye Anns key
drwxrwxr-x root     sdcard_rw          2012-09-05 08:52 Recoverys
drwxrwxr-x root     sdcard_rw          2012-09-05 01:51 Ringtones
drwxrwxr-x root     sdcard_rw          2012-09-10 11:31 TitaniumBackup
drwxrwxr-x root     sdcard_rw          2012-09-05 01:57 Wallpaper
-rw-rw-r-- root     sdcard_rw   285144 2012-09-05 23:55 aokp_M6_lockscreen_icon_
fix.zip
-rw-rw-r-- root     sdcard_rw 148545470 2012-09-06 20:29 aokp_toro_jb-build-1.zi
p
-rw-rw-r-- root     sdcard_rw 148627955 2012-09-04 23:45 aokp_toro_milestone-6.z
ip
drwxrwxr-x root     sdcard_rw          2012-09-05 10:37 bugreports
-rw-rw-r-- root     sdcard_rw   853044 2012-09-05 11:41 busybox-stericson
-rw-rw-r-- root     sdcard_rw        1 2012-09-04 23:37 cfg_dun_status
-rw-rw-r-- root     sdcard_rw        1 2012-09-04 23:37 cfg_uart_sel
-rw-rw-r-- root     sdcard_rw        1 2012-09-04 23:37 cfg_usb_sel
drwxrwxr-x root     sdcard_rw          2012-09-10 11:32 clockworkmod
drwxrwxr-x root     sdcard_rw          2012-09-12 12:00 com.foxnews.android
drwxrwxr-x root     sdcard_rw          2012-09-07 04:13 com.mictale.gpsessential
s
drwxrwxr-x root     sdcard_rw          2012-09-05 01:48 com.tokasiki.android.voi
cerecorder
drwxrwxr-x root     sdcard_rw          2012-09-05 23:36 data
drwxrwxr-x root     sdcard_rw          2012-09-05 20:23 documents
drwxrwxr-x root     sdcard_rw          2012-09-05 01:51 ftp_nexus
-rw-rw-r-- root     sdcard_rw 52048746 2012-09-04 23:45 gapps-ics-20120429-signe
d.zip
-rw-rw-r-- root     sdcard_rw 81676727 2012-09-05 09:03 gapps-jb-20120831-JRO03O
-Formula84.zip
-rw-rw-r-- root     sdcard_rw     4263 2012-09-12 16:21 list_of_gnex_partitions.
txt
-rw-rw-r-- root     sdcard_rw    33135 2012-09-05 01:57 recovery.log
-rw-rw-r-- root     sdcard_rw      130 2012-09-05 01:57 sms_20120407.txt
-rw-rw-r-- root     sdcard_rw  1126078 2012-09-05 01:57 su.zip
-rw-rw-r-- root     sdcard_rw    77352 2012-09-05 11:41 toolbox-stericson

iowabowtech · Sep 12, 2012

gapi said:
Here is my AOKP B38. Varify what .txt file and where?

I can see it on your sdcard contents, it's called list_of_gnex_partitions.txt. If you went through all the steps including the adb pull command already, it should be waiting for you on the PC in your platform-tools folder. If not, you can pull it now.

Remember adb pull isn't done from within a shell so you'd just go into recovery, not select anything, then:

adb devices

cd c:\android-sdk-windows\platform-tools

adb pull /sdcard/list_of_gnex_partitions.txt

Then head on over to the PC and check the platform-tools folder for the list_of_gnex_partitions.txt file where you can move/view it at will on your PC.

iowabowtech · Sep 12, 2012

If you have any issues getting it to transfer, try changing the last command to this:

adb pull /data/media/list_of_gnex_partitions.txt

scary alien · Sep 12, 2012

You can also email the file from your SD card to yourself using Gmail, etc.

That's what I do / did

.

iowabowtech · Sep 12, 2012

True.

I saw AOKP and was thinking JB so I was figuring you couldn't boot to access. Oops.

scary alien · Sep 12, 2012

iowabowtech said:
True.

I saw AOKP and was thinking JB so I was figuring you couldn't boot to access. Oops.

LOL

.

IBT, did you see the partition info/comparison up above? Looks like things are the same between ICS and JB as far as the size/makeup of the filesystems go (at least the ones that Android proper knows about--there are always hidden filesystems that Android is not aware of).

Don't know if I'll have time to try flashing JB tonight, but I'll give it a shot.

Cheers!

iowabowtech · Sep 12, 2012

scary alien said:
IBT, did you see the partition info/comparison up above? Looks like things are the same between ICS and JB as far as the size/makeup of the filesystems go (at least the ones that Android proper knows about--there are always hidden filesystems that Android is not aware of).

Don't know if I'll have time to try flashing JB tonight, but I'll give it a shot.

Cheers!

Yeah, sounds good. I'm assuming you'll see the same results as me on the JB structure unless you fall into the unlucky few perhaps. But you never know, gapi MIGHT show different results than us (partition wise) while he's on a JB rom. Remember, he could access a shell on that already so I think he might be able to perform these same steps while on JB.

What could cause differences? Idk, maybe mounting issues at crunch time...i.e. filesystem and partition creation? Could happen. Maybe missing a partition altogether, maybe undersizing such that a boot.img wouldn't fit on the boot partition, etc. It's hair brained but the average boot.img (seemingly ICS or JB) is just over 4mb and the partition itself is only 8mb so you never know. Or like you said, perhaps another partition altogether is a culprit. Or maybe we're looking at the wrong thing entirely.

But it'd be nice to rule it out.

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