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Re: Problem with your Nexus booting up w/ Android 2.3? Post here

rmiloh Jun 18, 2011 12:36 PM
Posted in group: Google Mobile Help Forum

Categories: Android Devices : Android Applications :


Symptoms:  

Phone will not boot.  

Trying recovery with wipe/data factory reset option results in 
E:format_volume: make_extf4fs failed on /dev/block/platform/s3c-sdhci.0/by-name/user-data 


It sounds like there are 2 different causes for the Nexus S boot problems discussed here:  

1. Filesystem corruption (occurs with low battery shutdowns?)

2. Hardware issue with a BGA component that Samsung is willing (under what conditions?) to replace. Is Samsung replacing the flash memory due to failing/poor solder (this would explain intermittent startup issues)?