lost internal memory after flash - G1 Android Development

ok so i was on rc33, flashed to the appstosd rc33, ran the appstosd program and it erased my apps and then i reset my g1 and it was stuck in a boot loop, so i then flashed to haykuro latest appstosd H rom, and ran the appstosd program again, same thing happened. so i flashed again, but now my internal memory is at 48mb, i have not installed anything yet. any ideas?

no /system
Both haykuro build versions G & H take up space in /system . The H version takes more because it has more apps and things to install, so everybody's has lower mem, but thats the whole point of apps-to-sd is so you dont have to worry about low internal memory

ahh ok thanks, i dont know if i should make a new topic for this, but everytime i run the appstosd program it erases my apps and then i reset my g1 and it gets sent into a bootloop and i have to reflash, i have partitioned my card and have the appstosd rom, am i doing something wrong?

Can any one help with apps 2 sd. Every time i try to do adb remount on my desktop command prompt I get "error: device not found" What to do?

Nikeem24 said:
Can any one help with apps 2 sd. Every time i try to do adb remount on my desktop command prompt I get "error: device not found" What to do?
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lol... join the club... I can't do it either, no one is really looking into this either cause it is only affecting a few users for some reason.

SolemnWishing said:
lol... join the club... I can't do it either, no one is really looking into this either cause it is only affecting a few users for some reason.
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its probably a user error forsure..
I can help out with adb to those who use Mac

jak33 said:
ahh ok thanks, i dont know if i should make a new topic for this, but everytime i run the appstosd program it erases my apps and then i reset my g1 and it gets sent into a bootloop and i have to reflash, i have partitioned my card and have the appstosd rom, am i doing something wrong?
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can anyone tell me what im doing wrong, i tried like 4 times and keep get stuck in in boot loop when i reset. is there a step im missing or something?

jak33 said:
can anyone tell me what im doing wrong, i tried like 4 times and keep get stuck in in boot loop when i reset. is there a step im missing or something?
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do you mind posting the steps you did jak? it would help us determine during what part of the process u made an error.

andonnguyen said:
do you mind posting the steps you did jak? it would help us determine during what part of the process u made an error.
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ok so,i installed the haykuro appstosd rom, i had some trouble partitioning my card, i always got errors in ubuntu live cd but after like 4 tries it mysteriously worked i think. then i downloaded the appstosd program and ran the program, when i did, it didnt look like it did anything, it just went back to the app and the when i went back home, all my apps were gone so i reset my g1 and was sent into a boot loop, this happened 4 times, and i also tryed the rc33apptosd rom also and the same thing happened

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HELP! Standby Block!!!

Hi guys!!
I'm really desperate.
Today I installed copilot 8, after a while the phone when goes in standby doesn't wake up anymore. When I press the menu button it remains down.
So I tried to reflash myhero 1.1.2 but in vain, and if I try to wipe I get the boot loop on hero logo.
The rotation doesn't work.
Please help me!!!!
Format your ext partition, wipe and flash again.
I use copilot 8 and the same ROM and I haven't that kind of issues on the full version of myhero v1.1.2! On a previous version on the 2.6.29 kernel when never I closed the copilot 8 the system crashed. Then I flashed the red's HTC kernel 2.6.27 and the issue never happened to me again. On this new version, the GPS is working fine for me! I just installed a fresh and clean ROM..
Do you deleted the save folder on the copilot 8, before re-installing the app or it was a fresh install? Is mandatory whenever you re-install the app.
When you install it, be sure you don't have this folder, no matter what is the situation!
Edit: I didn't read the second part of your issue.. Evil is right.. no other solution
It was the first install!
It can be a kernel problem?
Evil, when I try to wipe it goes in loop with the hero logo, do you think that formatting will work?
eViL D: said:
Format your ext partition, wipe and flash again.
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I did it!
I also tried to change kernel with the three different versions but the problem is still alive!!!
Something new?
daeron666 said:
Something new?
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I had this prob too.. after my micr sd card was set as damaged by the android sys and i wasn't able to start the device as well. But, the device was able to boot without the microsd card. Try it too. If so backup the information in your pc and format and remove the partitions of the microsd card (if you didn't do it before)!
I tried it, but the bug remains, I think it's something in the OS...
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I tried it, but the bug remains, I think it's something in the OS...
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My friend, the best solution is really to try it..install other rom, just for testing! ,,at least to have something to work on it.. step by step.. I use the same ROM, the newest version of copilot (and I previously was with olders ones without prob too), swapper, overclock, 2.6.29 red's kernel (without BFS), Engineered SPL, no radio changes, bla bla..
Gives a description of what is the state of your gear..
I already started to think that it can happen that some piece of hardware on the device is broken, but lets see.. no false alarms,,
Let's try to understand the status!
Of course! I have a 32a with no radio update, engineering spl 2010 and .29 kernel bfs. I Aldo tried without bfs but in vain.
The last thing left to do is trying another ROM....but there's a low level formatting method?
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Of course! I have a 32a with no radio update, engineering spl 2010 and .29 kernel bfs. I Aldo tried without bfs but in vain.
The last thing left to do is trying another ROM....but there's a low level formatting method?
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If there is, it was never spoken here.. the only way I see the internal phone partitions formating is when applying a new room...
Remove the sdcard/copilot directory and reinstall copilot
OR
Format your SDcard and reinstall copilot
Amon_RA said:
Remove the sdcard/copilot directory and reinstall copilot
OR
Format your SDcard and reinstall copilot
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My friend, I think he tried that!
ricardomega said:
My friend, I think he tried that!
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Yes of course, I tried that!
I also tried several roms, but nothing changes!
What can I do?
I'm really desperate.
daeron666 said:
Yes of course, I tried that!
I also tried several roms, but nothing changes!
What can I do?
I'm really desperate.
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But without the copilot no issues, right? I'm using the copilot v8.0.0.328 kfc3.0 and you??
Excuse me, I'll explain better:
The problem is ALWAYS, with or without copilot, with or without sd...
daeron666 said:
Excuse me, I'll explain better:
The problem is ALWAYS, with or without copilot, with or without sd...
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No need for excuses.. Man, "just" in my opinion.. you might have some broken hardware on your device.. I can't find any other answer. Flash back everything original like it should be and send it to warranty. There's SPL collections, there's original ROM's from HTC, etc etc..
I'm sorry.. I'm unable to help you.. Maybe someone has other idea, or something, but in opinion you a broken device..

Boot stops at 'Google', can't mout sdcard in cwm

Hi,
since this morning I have this problem that my Nexus S just boots until the Google logo appears.
I have no idea what caused this. I was just reinstalling the youtube app and rebooted after that and it booted.
Then I noticed that my phone would not change the screen orientation and because it worked in the past I started another reboot. But then it got stuck at the Google logo.
To solve this problem I just wanted to flash my nandroid backup but that didn't work as well cause the recovery was not able to mount the sdcard.
E:Can't mount /sdcard
Does anyone have an idea how to solve this problem? By the way is it possible to pull the Nandroid backup from the phone to my computer with ADB for example. Would be great because (of course) I just have an backup on my phone... (but if not... well, **** happens)
Thanks in advance!
PedroBustamonte said:
Hi,
since this morning I have this problem that my Nexus S just boots until the Google logo appears.
I have no idea what caused this. I was just reinstalling the youtube app and rebooted after that and it booted.
Then I noticed that my phone would not change the screen orientation and because it worked in the past I started another reboot. But then it got stuck at the Google logo.
To solve this problem I just wanted to flash my nandroid backup but that didn't work as well cause the recovery was not able to mount the sdcard.
E:Can't mount /sdcard
Does anyone have an idea how to solve this problem? By the way is it possible to pull the Nandroid backup from the phone to my computer with ADB for example. Would be great because (of course) I just have an backup on my phone... (but if not... well, **** happens)
Thanks in advance!
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flasgh stock via fastboot and wipe everything DONE!
i had this problem when i flashed a non-cm kernel on a cm-based rom. try flashing a different kernel. know what kernel your rom is compatible to,
Cascabreu said:
flasgh stock via fastboot and wipe everything DONE!
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So there's no way to get the content of the sdcard before I wipe everything?
ej8989 said:
i had this problem when i flashed a non-cm kernel on a cm-based rom. try flashing a different kernel. know what kernel your rom is compatible to,
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I'm using ParanoidAndroid with Mamite (the version for cm based roms since PA is also based on cm)
PedroBustamonte said:
So there's no way to get the content of the sdcard before I wipe everything?
I'm using ParanoidAndroid with Mamite (the version for cm based roms since PA is also based on cm)
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Go to mounts and storage in CWM Recovery and "mount usb storage". That will let you get to your SD card to backup. Then I suggest just a clean wipe and start over.
Note: mount /sdcard just mounts it to the phone. You are wanting to mount it to your computer to pull the files off the external.
mdean1981 said:
Go to mounts and storage in CWM Recovery and "mount usb storage". That will let you get to your SD card to backup. Then I suggest just a clean wipe and start over.
Note: mount /sdcard just mounts it to the phone. You are wanting to mount it to your computer to pull the files off the external.
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Yup thank you. Already tried that and a lot of other stuff. Seems like my phone's broken. I can't write on or erase /system or /sdcard. I'll try today to lock the bootloader and then unlock it. Maybe that solves the problem...
It will also wipe everything if I remember well
Envoyé depuis mon Nexus S avec Tapatalk
PedroBustamonte said:
Yup thank you. Already tried that and a lot of other stuff. Seems like my phone's broken. I can't write on or erase /system or /sdcard. I'll try today to lock the bootloader and then unlock it. Maybe that solves the problem...
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dont lock it cuz u wont be able to unlock it after. unlocking requires being able to erase the sdcard
tested it my self yesterday on a phone with the same issue
Cascabreu said:
dont lock it cuz u wont be able to unlock it after. unlocking requires being able to erase the sdcard
tested it my self yesterday on a phone with the same issue
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Yes you're right. But I really can't think of any thing I could try.
PedroBustamonte said:
Yes you're right. But I really can't think of any thing I could try.
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It's interesting and maybe fortuite that this is happening to you just as something almost equal happens to me (see here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1972447 ) You should also enter the recovery via adb from your computer if you have it, and check if a) you have mmc* files in /dev/block and b) have mmc error messages in dmesg (in the phone: "dmesg|grep mmc" and look for lines with "error" in them).
Btw to the person who suggested flashing stock thorough fastboot, do you mean stock system, system+boot or system+boot+recovery ? and where could I find those stock .img please? Mine's an i9020a
Blissfull said:
It's interesting and maybe fortuite that this is happening to you just as something almost equal happens to me (see here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1972447 ) You should also enter the recovery via adb from your computer if you have it, and check if a) you have mmc* files in /dev/block and b) have mmc error messages in dmesg (in the phone: "dmesg|grep mmc" and look for lines with "error" in them).
Btw to the person who suggested flashing stock thorough fastboot, do you mean stock system, system+boot or system+boot+recovery ? and where could I find those stock .img please? Mine's an i9020a
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Factory Images for Nexus Devices
https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/images
Hi ^^
I had the same problem with my Nexus S a long time ago and never found out how to solve it. It seems that the internal memory is corrupted and nothing but replacing the motherboard can solve it. Since I bought mine in the USA but I live in Belgium I never got mine repaired. Sometimes I come back here to see if there is still no solution but each time I'm disappointed...
Sorry.
PedroBustamonte said:
Yes you're right. But I really can't think of any thing I could try.
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Cascabreu said:
dont lock it cuz u wont be able to unlock it after. unlocking requires being able to erase the sdcard
tested it my self yesterday on a phone with the same issue
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I can confirm this. I had the same thing happen to my Nexus S 4G recently. I was never able to salvage any data off the sdcard no matter what I tried (various mounting attempts in recovery, any adb command I thought might be helpful, etc.). As a last resort I tried to lock/unlock the bootloader - once I locked it, I was unable to unlock it again, it just froze up after asking me if I was sure I wanted to unlock. I guess that's what happens when the internal sdcard goes to hell. I ended up taking it to my local Sprint store and they replaced the phone with a refurbished one from Samsung (for approximately $35).

[Help!] XT926 Mega Bricked

Everything is screwed for me. I can't even RSD back to stock. I can access TWRP, but can't wipe System or Data. Fastboot is just there and won't actually push anything. I already have a Moto X now, and I was talking about this issue about a week ago on the Android Development subcat, but I thought I would give it one last go on here to see if I can at least make it a backup.
kungpowchicken said:
Everything is screwed for me. I can't even RSD back to stock. I can access TWRP, but can't wipe System or Data. Fastboot is just there and won't actually push anything. I already have a Moto X now, and I was talking about this issue about a week ago on the Android Development subcat, but I thought I would give it one last go on here to see if I can at least make it a backup.
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Maybe if you could give some more detail about what exactly you can and can't get the phone to do, what screens can be accessed, and what you did that lead to this condition, we could offer some advice.
Also, no offence to the devs, but twrp is the devil lol. Most issues I have had in the past have led back to it in one way or another, so I never use it. (Just my opinion)
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I can get to the Fastboot screen, I can access TWRP, and I can get the phone to bootloop at the boot animation screen.
I can't push anything through ADB or Fastboot, I cannot mount data or system in TWRP or otherwise. RSD comes back failed every time with every single stock build I use.
Literally two weeks ago, I was in bed, watching TV, with the phone charging. I unlock it to see if I had any notifications, and it kept saying that Nova launcher FC'd. So logically, I rebooted my phone and that's when it started boot looping.
I did nothing to the phone for a couple of hours, it was on the official CM 10.2 11/9 build. I had that ROM running fine for at least 24 hours before it went FUBAR.
kungpowchicken said:
Everything is screwed for me. I can't even RSD back to stock. I can access TWRP, but can't wipe System or Data. Fastboot is just there and won't actually push anything. I already have a Moto X now, and I was talking about this issue about a week ago on the Android Development subcat, but I thought I would give it one last go on here to see if I can at least make it a backup.
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Is it this problem?: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=47558893&postcount=47
If so use this solution: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=47716278&postcount=57
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Is it this problem?: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=47558893&postcount=47
If so use this solution: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=47716278&postcount=57
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Nope, my status us unlocked: 3. But when I get home, I'll try the mfastboot instead if fastboot.
kungpowchicken said:
I can get to the Fastboot screen, I can access TWRP, and I can get the phone to bootloop at the boot animation screen.
I can't push anything through ADB or Fastboot, I cannot mount data or system in TWRP or otherwise. RSD comes back failed every time with every single stock build I use.
Literally two weeks ago, I was in bed, watching TV, with the phone charging. I unlock it to see if I had any notifications, and it kept saying that Nova launcher FC'd. So logically, I rebooted my phone and that's when it started boot looping.
I did nothing to the phone for a couple of hours, it was on the official CM 10.2 11/9 build. I had that ROM running fine for at least 24 hours before it went FUBAR.
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i made a modified utility to fix the partition error but need someone to test it please. it should do the process previously suggested automatically through the script.
http://www.mediafire.com/download/987490ykl14j4t8/DROID_RAZR_HD_Utility_1.3.gpt_fix.rar
thanks
bweN diorD said:
i made a modified utility to fix the partition error but need someone to test it please. it should do the process previously suggested automatically through the script.
http://www.mediafire.com/download/987490ykl14j4t8/DROID_RAZR_HD_Utility_1.3.gpt_fix.rar
thanks
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Testing now.
UPDATE: Still no go.
kungpowchicken said:
Testing now.
UPDATE: Still no go.
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Well that sux.
Your problem is different than what I made this for but I was hoping it would work for you.
What did it do, fail all the way through?
When I tested it on my phone it reported flashing the partitions ok. There was actually extra text displayed while it was doing it that I didn't put into the script, that's how I knew it was working.
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Failed all the way.
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Failed all the way.
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im running out of suggestions
if you havent tried to put stock recovery back on yet, how about we try that and see what happens.
if you dont know how to do it through adb, just grab the 1.34 utility from the dev forum, it will push it through fastboot.
something is obviously wrong with twrp, maybe we can fix that first.
I tried flashing even the stock Recovery manually and through the 1.34 utility. Always comes up failed. :sad:
Did you try the manual steps that I posted in my links?
i hope that works, but im doubtful.
the utility essentially flashes exactly as you would manually.
he doesnt have a partition issue, im guessing something is wack with the permissions.
if twrp somehow screwed up the permissions to read only, i believe even the partition file cant overwrite it. i could be wrong.
So I think it has something to do with the Permissions of one or more of the partitions. I just noticed it keeps saying Permissions Denied when I try to fastboot or mfastboot.
kungpowchicken said:
So I think it has something to do with the Permissions of one or more of the partitions. I just noticed it keeps saying Permissions Denied when I try to fastboot or mfastboot.
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Are you sure you have the snapdragon fastboot? Can't hurt to reinstall it.
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Also have you tried flashing it manually? (fastboot flash system system.img, etc.)
penser said:
Are you sure you have the snapdragon fastboot? Can't hurt to reinstall it.
Sent from my MB886 using Tapatalk
Also have you tried flashing it manually? (fastboot flash system system.img, etc.)
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he defiantly has the right fastboot, its in the utility that has been downloaded thousands of times.
if its write protected some how, its not going to flash no matter how you try it.
what i was wondering is if recovery can fix permissions that deep, not sure he said he tried that.
What do you mean with recovery?
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What do you mean with recovery?
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go into twrp, advanced (i think thats the right section) and look for a line that says "fix permissions" and do it.
Keeps saying it can't mount anything.
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Keeps saying it can't mount anything.
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thats what i figured would happen

[Q] Nexus 5 Bootloop

So let me start by saying I am 100% a noob, and I have read many threads trying to get to the bottom of my problem to no avail. I am sorry if there is a solution for my problem somewhere, I've been working on this issue for 24 hours and have yet to find it.
My girlfriend was apparently using google maps on here relatively new phone (running 5.0.1) and it crashed. Upon restarting it was stuck on the coloured dots screen for several hours. She has not installed any third party apps, only those from the playstore and not too many of them at that.
I tried factory reset and received a bunch of errors about failing to load the E:// or something like that. The phone still would not boot up.
I downloaded minimal fastboot thinger on my windows 8.1 laptop and tried to flash a new image of 5.0.1 on it, IIRC I received errors about E:// again
Got Wugfresh NRT and tried TWRP wiped all (still saw some stuff about E:// failing to mount and such) then tried to unroot flash stock with soft brick/bootloop checked.
Still bootlooped for over an hour when I started it up.
Tried flashing 4.4.4 instead. It worked. Phone booted up. Gallery/Camera do not work however at this point. Tried updating to 5.0.1.... phone restarted bootloop for 8 hours and counting.
Flashed 4.4.4 again, Followed Full Driver Installation Guide in NRT exactly. Tried Flash Stock + Unroot with Device is on/Normal checked this time instead. Now it has been colored dots screen for about 20 minutes.
So I can load 4.4.4 but no matter how I've tried to install lollipop 5.0.1, it stays on booting screen forever.
What do?
Thank you so much in advance and apologies for being a noob.
EDIT: More googling today. Looks like my E:/Persist partition is corrupted or something, trying to figure out how to repair it right now.
Anjo_Smash said:
So let me start by saying I am 100% a noob, and I have read many threads trying to get to the bottom of my problem to no avail. I am sorry if there is a solution for my problem somewhere, I've been working on this issue for 24 hours and have yet to find it.
My girlfriend was apparently using google maps on here relatively new phone (running 5.0.1) and it crashed. Upon restarting it was stuck on the coloured dots screen for several hours. She has not installed any third party apps, only those from the playstore and not too many of them at that.
I tried factory reset and received a bunch of errors about failing to load the E:// or something like that. The phone still would not boot up.
I downloaded minimal fastboot thinger on my windows 8.1 laptop and tried to flash a new image of 5.0.1 on it, IIRC I received errors about E:// again
Got Wugfresh NRT and tried TWRP wiped all (still saw some stuff about E:// failing to mount and such) then tried to unroot flash stock with soft brick/bootloop checked.
Still bootlooped for over an hour when I started it up.
Tried flashing 4.4.4 instead. It worked. Phone booted up. Gallery/Camera do not work however at this point. Tried updating to 5.0.1.... phone restarted bootloop for 8 hours and counting.
Flashed 4.4.4 again, Followed Full Driver Installation Guide in NRT exactly. Tried Flash Stock + Unroot with Device is on/Normal checked this time instead. Now it has been colored dots screen for about 20 minutes.
So I can load 4.4.4 but no matter how I've tried to install lollipop 5.0.1, it stays on booting screen forever.
What do?
Thank you so much in advance and apologies for being a noob.
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If I can bet it must be a corrupted persist partition. Lollipop will not boot if its gets corrupted but kitkat will do. If you could tell what is the actual error you see in twrp or cwm recovery then we could identfy the actual problem. But I am 90% sure the mount error is about persist partition.
bitdomo said:
If I can bet it must be a corrupted persist partition. Lollipop will not boot if its gets corrupted but kitkat will do. If you could tell what is the actual error you see in twrp or cwm recovery then we could identfy the actual problem. But I am 90% sure the mount error is about persist partition.
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You are correct sir I literally just identified that as the problem 5 minutes ago. Now the question is how do I fix it.
Anjo_Smash said:
You are correct sir I literally just identified that as the problem 5 minutes ago. Now the question is how do I fix it.
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I made a thread about it. Here it is http://forum.xda-developers.com/google-nexus-5/general/guide-to-fix-persist-partition-t2821576
bitdomo said:
I made a thread about it. Here is it http://forum.xda-developers.com/google-nexus-5/general/guide-to-fix-persist-partition-t2821576
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I'm actually looking at that right now! Downloading Java and Android SDK atm. Of course still a little shaky on a couple terms in your guide hopefully I can sort it out. Really confused as to how Google Maps on a vanilla nexus 5 could corrupt a partition like that, its all google endorsed and official. They should be fixing my phone not me lol.
Anjo_Smash said:
I'm actually looking at that right now! Downloading Java and Android SDK atm. Of course still a little shaky on a couple terms in your guide hopefully I can sort it out. Really confused as to how Google Maps on a vanilla nexus 5 could corrupt a partition like that, its all google endorsed and official. They should be fixing my phone not me lol.
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If you want to make it quick then allow me to join to your pc through teamviewer. Send your ID and Passowrd to my e-mail: [email protected]
If you try to do it alone and you face a problem then I might not be here, because it is already past 11:30pm here.
bitdomo said:
If you want to make it quick then allow me to join to your pc through teamviewer. Send your ID and Passowrd to my e-mail: [email protected]
If you try to do it alone and you face a problem then I might not be here, because it is already past 11:30pm here.
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Thanks for the offer. I'll try on my own and get back to you maybe tomorrow if I can't get it down.
Alright so I am definitely having problems running adb shell. even if I change the directory in cmd to my adb.exe location (android\android-sdk\platform-tools) I keep getting the error adb shell is not a recognized blah blah blah....
NVM got it working. Whenever I get frustrated enough to make a post I end up finally finding a solution.
ALRIGHT I have Lollipop up and running thanks to your guide on fixing persist partition. Thank you so much! Question: I have a nexus 5 and it does not have an sd card. I'm not sure how to proceed in doing the steps you described involving mac addresses. I did use a hex editor and make those files, but not sure where to put them in my phones internal storage, and how to direct adb to said location. Any help with that?
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ALRIGHT I have Lollipop up and running thanks to your guide on fixing persist partition. Thank you so much! Question: I have a nexus 5 and it does not have an sd card. I'm not sure how to proceed in doing the steps you described involving mac addresses. I did use a hex editor and make those files, but not sure where to put them in my phones internal storage, and how to direct adb to said location. Any help with that?
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Just copy them to the root of your internal storage, then follow the guide.
I mean you just open the phone's internal storage from your PC and you dont open any folder. You just copy it there.
The guide is for nexus 5, but some people refer to the internal storage as sdcard too. I know it is a bit confusing. Thanks to point it out. I will make clear in my guide now.
AH I see ok I will do that tonight. Ran in to another problem though it may be related to the mac address thing I haven't done yet, not sure how that all works. The phone randomly restarts every few minutes and it won't connect to the carrier either. Also if it matters I left the boot loader unlocked for now until the phone is working properly, if that affects anything.
Anjo_Smash said:
AH I see ok I will do that tonight. Ran in to another problem though it may be related to the mac address thing I haven't done yet, not sure how that all works. The phone randomly restarts every few minutes and it won't connect to the carrier either. Also if it matters I left the boot loader unlocked for now until the phone is working properly, if that affects anything.
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The lock state of the bootloader does not matter, but this random reboots after a few minutes is something to worry about. Your phone should not do that after formating persist partition.
bitdomo said:
The lock state of the bootloader does not matter, but this random reboots after a few minutes is something to worry about. Your phone should not do that after formating persist partition.
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Should I try formatting it again?
Anjo_Smash said:
Should I try formatting it again?
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Give another try formating persist, but I am here now. So, if you want I can do everything for you through teamviewer. You just have to send the log in informations to my email address.
bitdomo said:
Give another try formating persist, but I am here now. So, if you want I can do everything for you through teamviewer. You just have to send the log in informations to my email address.
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Ok I'm going to install team viewer then.
bitdomo said:
Give another try formating persist, but I am here now. So, if you want I can do everything for you through teamviewer. You just have to send the log in informations to my email address.
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I'm all set up, so let me know when you are available friend, thanks for your help.
Anjo_Smash said:
I'm all set up, so let me know when you are available friend, thanks for your help.
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I am here, send the login infos -> [email protected]

[SOLVED] Nexus 5 32Gb won't go back to full internal storage. Tried everything!

So after a few weeks after the launch of the Marshmallow uptade, I flashed the stock image with fastboot using a Mac and everything gone flawlessly, until I saw my internal storage. My 32Gb nexus became a 16Gb model.
I search in EVERY Forum I found on the internet, and I have good skills on recovering android phones with software problems, all the "how-to's" I found were with very easy instructions, but NONE of then worked for me.
Ive tried EVERYTHING I found on the internet. Do a factory reset, tried to resize the partition using TWRP, flashed manually all the partitions, flashed the stock image again and again many times, flashed customs roms, tried to erase the userdata, cache and system partitions tons of times using flashtool on windows, mac and linux and NOTHING worked. In all the process my phone started with no problems, but my internal storage stayed 12,55gb. My Bootloader shows 32Gb model, the IMEI on LG database shows 32Gb model AND the logic board indicates a 32Gb model... I really don't know what to do! Anyone can save me???? Thanks!
In advance information, I followed every step on this guide at least 10 times, and didn't work:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/google-nexus-5/general/tutorial-how-to-flash-factory-image-t2513701
I was thinking in the possibility of an custom Userdata partition, only for the 32Gb model, that I can flash manually or a program, like GParted, that I can manually resize the data partition.
I'm really desesperate here, so sorry for any english mistakes, since I speak portuguese, or any dumb idea.
Thanks for any help!
-------------------------------------- FOUND THE SOLUTION! ----------------------------------------------
After WEEKS trying to realize what the hell happened and rethinking every possible form to regain my full storage, I've found the solution.
Fiddling with the partitions on the phone, i learned that there is a partition on the system, that "informs" the userdata that the phone is a 16Gb or a 32Gb variant, and it's called "Primary GPT".
I realized that the guy who sold to me, recovered the phone from an brick it suffered, but he used a 16Gb model GTP partition to reinstall the bootloaders and the system, so, no matter how many different process I tried, I would NEVER recognizes the 32Gb, because THIS partition was telling the system that it was a 16Gb model.
(Little of a noob explain but that was the way I got it...)
So all I had to do was use this thread to reflash the correct GPT partition:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/goo...-unbrick-nexus-5-stucked-qualcomm-hs-t3043301
And then, reflash the complete system image file, and after the boot, my phone recognized the 32Gb internal storage again!
Thank you guys for the effort in sorting out any way to help me, I hope this thread can help someone else facing the same problem in the future!
Peace!
Did you flash the userdata.img file too?
audit13 said:
Did you flash the userdata.img file too?
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Tried everything I could do... Flashed userdata partition, erased the partition with fastboot then entered in recovery mode (stock and custom) and then format the userdata from there, doing that by doing a factory reset and wiping cache partition and nothing...
Any other idea what it could be?
Unfortunately, I have no idea why this happened or how to fix it as I only have the 16 GB version.
seriously guys, anybody to save my day?
audit13 said:
Unfortunately, I have no idea why this happened or how to fix it as I only have the 16 GB version.
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Thanks anyway bro!
Have you tried factory reset and wiping cache from STOCK recovery? That always works for me.
Try using flash-all.bat in Windows. Part of the stock favor image. Make sure to take backup before doing it though
Had this happen once and had to factory reset from stock recovery like he said above. Worked like a charm!
redsmith said:
Have you tried factory reset and wiping cache from STOCK recovery? That always works for me.
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shri_chanakya said:
Try using flash-all.bat in Windows. Part of the stock favor image. Make sure to take backup before doing it though
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Nevermindthelabel said:
Had this happen once and had to factory reset from stock recovery like he said above. Worked like a charm!
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Ive tried with stock recovery, custom recovery, CWM, TWRP Resize partition and no use...
I lost the count of times Ive tried to flash manually, flash-all.bat in windows, flash-all.sh on mac and linux, really nothing work.
There is no toolkit, even knowing its a bad idea to use those things but, since Im out of options, anyone can tell me one that can help me?
Thanks guys btw!
I had this problem with a couple devices on lollipop, typing the command below in a terminal fixed it. Reboot afterwards.
su
restorecon -FR /data/media/0
lynnux said:
I had this problem with a couple devices on lollipop, typing the command below in a terminal fixed it. Reboot afterwards.
su
restorecon -FR /data/media/0
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can you explain what is the function of this line? Tried here and everything stayed the same
Thanks!
Damn... that's weird.
Is it possible to format userdata? Like, for example, "fastboot format userdata"? I don't really know, just shooting in the dark by this point now.
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can you explain what is the function of this line? Tried here and everything stayed the same
Thanks!
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I believe it's a way of restoring data or storage to it's original configuration. Also had this problem on my 32gb N5 early on, unfortunately I can't remember what I did that time to get it back.
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Damn... that's weird.
Is it possible to format userdata? Like, for example, "fastboot format userdata"? I don't really know, just shooting in the dark by this point now.
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Yes, I did this process three times I think, format userdata and erase userdata, none of then resolved the issue
lynnux said:
I believe it's a way of restoring data or storage to it's original configuration. Also had this problem on my 32gb N5 early on, unfortunately I can't remember what I did that time to get it back.
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I tried this code using the terminal on the phone, rebooted and the storage stayed the same, I'll try to do the same process using adb shell from my windows computer, since I have the "light"version of adb and fastboot installed on my mac and the adb shell comand is giving me the "offline" error...
I'll get back here with any updates.
thanks in advance guys! Hope this comand works! :highfive:
Well... Tried with my windows computer, and next with my Mac, with the command line given and.... Nope. Nothing changed.
I know it's not great but if your desperate....
I've always done things manually but there comes a time when your willing to try whatever to fix your phone as they don't come cheap, so if I could recommend a toolkit that has saved my ass more than once and has worked flawlessly for me every time maybe it could help you too.
http://www.wugfresh.com/nrt/
It's called Nexus Root Toolkit and its by the developer wugfresh. Try this if you'd like, if not I hope you find a solution. This kit has everything you can think of that could help you with rooting, or returning to stock and relocking. Best of luck with your journey!
MechanicalMecca said:
I've always done things manually but there comes a time when your willing to try whatever to fix your phone as they don't come cheap, so if I could recommend a toolkit that has saved my ass more than once and has worked flawlessly for me every time maybe it could help you too.
http://www.wugfresh.com/nrt/
It's called Nexus Root Toolkit and its by the developer wugfresh. Try this if you'd like, if not I hope you find a solution. This kit has everything you can think of that could help you with rooting, or returning to stock and relocking. Best of luck with your journey!
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I'll try this as soon as possible, thanks!
Hey Nameless--,
I tried everything possible as you did, but when i tried your steps i am facing an issue. I cannot see Qualcomm HS-USB QDLoader 9008 under device manager
Can you help me?
Dhaval Raichura said:
Hey Nameless--,
I tried everything possible as you did, but when i tried your steps i am facing an issue. I cannot see Qualcomm HS-USB QDLoader 9008 under device manager
Can you help me?
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The wrong size memory issue, 16 Gb instead of 32, is an old issue. It can be solved by booting into the stock recovery then clearing cache and then doing a factory reset. Note, this will wipe your device.
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