Samsung Galaxy S9 - automatic shutdown after boot due to low memory

[Rolatir]

Hi community,

I have run into a stupid problem. My Galaxy S9 (starlte) is automatically rebooting into recovery after boot (and input of PIN) with the hint that memory is low.

I have already found a similar problem with solution here from community for a fairphone, completely same problem.

Fairphone shuts down after entering pin and goes into recovery mode

Thank you so much tcecyk! I somehow didn’t manage to understand the previous thread without your help here. This worked, even though I don’t know yet what exactly I deleted. For others: I went into adb shell Then within the shell: mkdir -p /mnt/userdata mount /dev/block/bootdevice/by-name/userdata /mnt/userdata/ du -cs /mnt/userdata/* | sort -n | tail -n10 Which provided me the ten largest folders. The largest one was /mnt/userdata/media. I then navigated to that folder and searched for l…

So I have tried to follow this procdure for deleting stuff from the phone.

What I have already achived:

• bootet phone to recovery
• enabled adb
• started adb shell on the connect PC (running UBUNTU)

then I am stuck, because I can’t mount the userdata.
My phones userdata file is named USERDATA, so I try to mount that.

starlte:/ # mkdir /mnt/userdata
starlte:/ # mount /dev/block/bootdevice/by-name/USERDATA /mnt/userdata/
mount: /dev/block/bootdevice/by-name/USERDATA: need -t
starlte:/ #

Seems that the file type is not detected. Why? What is wrong? Is the step-by-step guide from fairphone not applicable for samsung galaxy?

Thanks for your support
Rolatir

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[tcecyk]

the feedback in those threads was: recovery of starlte / star2lte can’t mount userdata, thus the method won’t help. It works for FP3 owners.

If you see successful posts, go back to the initial user post what device is in use.