How do I check bad sector on my android with ADB recovery mode?

Question

I am finally able to install CWM on my asus. I suspected the asus didn't do well and there could be too many bad blocks on it's NAND.

So Now that I can do fast boot and recovery and adb, I think I would scan the whole NAND memory and see if something is bad and then mark it.

You know, like chkdsk or fdisk

How would I do so?

Answer 1

You can follow these steps to check your Android NAND chip partition which checks bad blocks:

1.for your data safety,backup your data to pc or cloud first.

2.boot to recovery.

3.unmount all partition in recovery.

4.connect your phone to pc.

5.execute adb shell .

6.use cd command go to your partition directory,usual in:

/dev/block/platform/soc.0/<chip ID>/by-name

or like:

/dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name

for example:

cd /dev/block/platform/soc.0/12345678.sdhci/by-name

after enter directory,you can execute ls command show all partition name,like system,cache,userdata,etc.

7.execute e2fsck command with -cfv parameter and partition name,for example,you want check userdata ( /data ) partition with check bad blocks:

e2fsck -cfv userdata

or system partition:

e2fsck -cfv system

Additional Information:

The -c parameter for e2fsck is check for bad blocks and add them to the badblock list, you can execute e2fsck -h get more information.