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My phone is crippled... Mounting from recovery

Hey guys,
I flashed to the 5.01H dream build, didn't like it, and tried a nandroid recovery back to the latest JFW.
Now I'm getting the hanging G1. I've tried wiping but it still hangs. My SD card no longer has update.zip, because I deleted it upon sucessful launch of the 5.01H. I don't have a microSD card reader and was wondering how I can mount the sd card to usb from the recovery console, which I can get to.
I'm tried searching around but can't find a clear answer, and my linux knowledge is basically nill.
Thanks for your help!

plug your phone in..
using fastboot type the following
1. fastboot erase system -w
2. fastboot erase boot
after this... use your nandroid images and do this:
1. fastboot flash system system.img
2. fastboot flash boot boot.img
3. fastboot flash userdata userdata.img
4. fastboot reboot

I feel like a total idiot. I just realized that I did not flash the boot and userdata images when I did my nandroid restore.
Thank you, you're a lifesaver!
P.S. The 3rd step actually was fastboot flash userdata data.img

glad that helped! yeah you are right....data.img..

URGENT - Cant wipe my xoom

Hi peeps. ..
Really need someone to help here. I've sold my xoom and need to delete all my info off it. I've tried to do it the the normal way of just wipe data but when it reboots into recovery mode it just says..
Entering Android Recovery Mode
Reading ODM fuse: 1
And thats it, its just stuck there.
Now I bought it second hand and was told it had been rooted and flashed with a kernel that allowed you to alter the CPU.
My question is how do I get rid of my data and get it booting into this recovey mode?
I've installed Rom Manger from the market and tried installing CWM but it just gets stuck again on the dual core screen.
Mine is a UK 3G model.
Any advice, suggestions would be most welcome. It does boot fine into android 3.01.
I need to get this posted out today, hence the wipe.
Thanks,
Steve

Get the UK img files and reflash it back to stock through fastboot.

Grab the stock images here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1049485
Extract the images and run these commands:
fastboot flash boot boot.img
fastboot flash system system.img
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
fastboot flash userdata userdata.img
fastboot erase cache
fastboot erase userdata

[Q] How to mount sdcard in ICS Encrypted phone?

I was using a CM9 Nightlies. My company requires us to encrypt our phone.
Now that I was trying to update my phone to the latest version of CM9, I found I couldn't mount /sdcard in CWM recovery...
Is there anyway either to de-encrypt the phone without full-wipe or mount encrypted /sdcard in CWM?

By encrypting your phone you are unable to mount /sdcard currently(stock recovery can flash through it) and the only way you could do it is a full wipe or mounting a "fake" sdcard(idk how to, sorry)
So in short, you pretty much need to full wipe to update
Sent from my ice cream powered Nexus S

I'm running CWM with AOKP and recently encrypted for work policies and now that I want to upgrade and flash a new ROM it is stating that the sd card is unable to be mounted, even after a full wipe in CWM. What is needed? I don't mind wiping but would rather not lose what was on my sd card (titanium backups, etc)
Thanks in advance!

You need to do it within android. Did you do a cwm backup before wiping?

yes, I have a nandroid but it will not restore due to the inability to mount sd storage. Actually it can't even load the option to restore from a nandroid.

Good, now let's hope that actually helps. Unsure if anyone else has tried, but maybe it'll let you flash a new ROM and decrypt it through there. Worst case scenario you end up in the same position as now and you'll have to do an sd wipe, unless someone else knows different. As on the Nexus S the sdcard is seperate to the /data partition (unlike the GN), it flashing a fastboot image shouldn't erase it.
Try to flash a ROM via fastboot images which you can find here. Select your phone and choose an ICS fastboot image (not full ROM, update, etc - must be fastboot). You'll want to download the appropriate image and store it on your computer, then extract the archive until you end up with several files and another archive. You want to have boot.img, system.img and userdata.img ready. Use the following commands in fastboot mode:
fastboot flash boot boot.img
fastboot flash system system.img
[try to boot - if fails, continue]
fastboot flash data userdata.img
The last one should be correct, but maybe it is userdata. Havn't actually tried that one myself - it may not even be necessary (try booting it without this first, if it doesn't work you may need to do this). You can also use the fastboot -w update method but i wouldn't recommend it this time just so we know exactly what is being flashed. After this, boot into android and hope it asks you for decryption information.
edit: also, if those commands don't work, you'll need to flash the contained radio.img and recovery.img files too. It might be picky.

Thanks for the advice. If I flash the stock image via fastboot it sounds like I will lose root and custom recovery since it flashes the bootloader, correct? Will this also wipe my sd card?
If so I may just try to format my sd card in Android so that will be all that I lose versus having to reroot and install CWM again.
Thanks again for your time and info. Very helpful.
*Thanked*

katmandu421 said:
Thanks for the advice. If I flash the stock image via fastboot it sounds like I will lose root and custom recovery since it flashes the bootloader, correct? Will this also wipe my sd card?
If so I may just try to format my sd card in Android so that will be all that I lose versus having to reroot and install CWM again.
Thanks again for your time and info. Very helpful.
*Thanked*
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You will lose all you data, it will be as if you just bought it, your SD card is NOT wiped
You will only lose recovery as a result of the stock rom script
Oh and you only have to flash boot.img, system.img and userdata.img
Sent from my ice cream powered Nexus S

Thanks guys. Got it flashed to stock and booted (had to use fastboot flash userdata userdata.img, btw) but I did not get any prompt to enter encryption password, and I now have no usb storage showing. I don't even get the "unmounted" icon like I had before. Not sure whats going on.
Any thoughts?
EDIT: I even tried all of these commands as well after I read somewhere it is the bootloader preventing the encrypted sd card from being read
fastboot flash bootloader bootloader.img
fastboot reboot-bootloader
fastboot flash radio radio.img
fastboot reboot-bootloader
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
fastboot flash boot boot.img
fastboot flash system system.img
fastboot flash userdata userdata.img
fastboot erase cache
Still unable to mount sd card. Man this sucks. Can't use my camera and many apps are kinda hosed without sd card support.
EDIT 2: I tried going into recovery just to see what was there (power on + volume up, then selecting "Recovery" and I got the android with the exclamation point. I guess that means there is no custom recovery anymore which is good but I thought there was a white screen that went into checking for update.zips automatically when you select the stock recovery.

MuthaF$%er...
I just got a pop up stating that the sd card was in an unsupported format and that I should reformat it. I did and all looks good now, but am unrooted and no recovery...dammit.
Guess I should've done that the other day before going through all the fast boot steps. Lost my data either way. Oh well, most was in the cloud anyways.
Thanks again for all the help. Now I know how to use fastboot at least

Bootloop in Lollipop and can't restore backup

Hello guys, I need urgent help
I've upgraded my moto G 2013 to Lollipop retail UE a couple of days ago, everything was working perfect, I have it only rooted and few apps installed, nothing weird (no xposed). I wanted to install a new bootlogo but just in case I did a backup with the TWRP recovery.
I got a bootloop after flashing that, and when I wanted to restore my backup, it was not there! The ''restore'' tab in TWRP is empty, but I see the backup in my sdcard with the file manager of TWRP, it was done just 2 min before but it's just like if the recovery doesn't see it.
What can I do? I've tried with a factory reset but still in bootloop. Can I flash a Kitkat stock rom via fastboot? Because I've seen in some places that it can brick my phone... I was thinking, maybe I can flash the logo of the Lollipop UE rom?
Thanks in advance, I need your help

matapr0 said:
Hello guys, I need urgent help
I've upgraded my moto G 2013 to Lollipop retail UE a couple of days ago, everything was working perfect, I have it only rooted and few apps installed, nothing weird (no xposed). I wanted to install a new bootlogo but just in case I did a backup with the TWRP recovery.
I got a bootloop after flashing that, and when I wanted to restore my backup, it was not there! The ''restore'' tab in TWRP is empty, but I see the backup in my sdcard with the file manager of TWRP, it was done just 2 min before but it's just like if the recovery doesn't see it.
What can I do? I've tried with a factory reset but still in bootloop. Can I flash a Kitkat stock rom via fastboot? Because I've seen in some places that it can brick my phone... I was thinking, maybe I can flash the logo of the Lollipop UE rom?
Thanks in advance, I need your help
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yes u can flash the kitkat stock rom but follow these steps carefully......
fastboot flash boot boot.img
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
fastboot flash system system.img_sparsechunk.0
fastboot flash system system.img_sparsechunk.1
fastboot flash system system.img_sparsechunk.2
fastboot flash modem NON-HLOS.bin
fastboot erase modemst1
fastboot erase modemst2
fastboot flash fsg fsg.mbn
fastboot erase cache
fastboot erase userdata
mfastboot reboot
note:
u will receive some errors but no problem continue
after flashing kitkat will see flashing line on ur device every time u reboot ur device
just on and off ur screen and that would do it(fix the problem).
upgrade to lollipop to get rid of that flashing lines problem.

Thank you very much! any help to try to install the backup I have but isn't detected by TWRP recovery? Because I wouldn't like to lose all my data

Did you store it to an external SD card using a OTG device? Did you try changing the location for the restore file in TWRP?

Nothing can be written on internal storage (insert sd card error on camera, etc)

I posted this on reddit...but didn't get much help...i hope the geniuses at xda can help me
As the title says, the camera app (any camera app) won't work because as you start any of them, it asks to insert the sd card, but this is a 2013 Nexus 5...so it doesn't have an sd card.
I've done a fair amount of research and the only thing that seems to be mentioned is factory reset. I've done that...both through the settings and twrp. The phone has a stock marshmallow rom.
I tried to download any other file and it won't let me download anything becauase the "sd card" is not available. So it's as if the internal sd card isn't mounted? how do I fix this? I don't have a computer nearby to do anything with adb...any help would be GREATLY appreciated...
The amount of storage according to the settings is correct (3gb used of 12 gb..16gb nexus 5)...all app permissions are correct. I've reflashed two different stock firmwares with the exact same result.

Try this:
boot into fastboot;
run this fastboot command: fastboot erase recovery (to erase existing recovery);
run this fastboot command: fastboot flash recovery recovery.img (to flash stock recovery from stock ROM)
run this fastboot command: fastboot erase userdata;
run this fastboot command to flash the usedata img from the stock ROM: fastboot flash userdata userdata.img;
boot into stock recovery and perform a factory wipe/reset and wipe cache;
reboot.

audit13 said:
Try this:
boot into fastboot;
run this fastboot command: fastboot erase recovery (to erase existing recovery);
run this fastboot command: fastboot flash recovery recovery.img (to flash stock recovery from stock ROM)
run this fastboot command: fastboot erase userdata;
run this fastboot command to flash the usedata img from the stock ROM: fastboot flash userdata userdata.img;
boot into stock recovery and perform a factory wipe/reset and wipe cache;
reboot.
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I'll try that tonight or tomorrow morning. Where do you suggest I download recovery.img (the stock recovery)?
Thanks for the help one way or another.. Hehe

The stock Google images are here: https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/images?hl=en
I assume the phone has an unlocked bootloader since you were able to flash stock ROMs.

What did you do between all being fine and now this problem?
Sent from my Xperia z5 using Tapatalk

Ben36 said:
What did you do between all being fine and now this problem?
Sent from my Xperia z5 using Tapatalk
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I sold the phone to someone I know. I had a rom (i can't remember which)...so before i sold the phone, i encrypted it, wiped it clean, flashed the stock rom (and radio)....and did a factory reset.

audit13 said:
Try this:
boot into fastboot;
run this fastboot command: fastboot erase recovery (to erase existing recovery);
run this fastboot command: fastboot flash recovery recovery.img (to flash stock recovery from stock ROM)
run this fastboot command: fastboot erase userdata;
run this fastboot command to flash the usedata img from the stock ROM: fastboot flash userdata userdata.img;
boot into stock recovery and perform a factory wipe/reset and wipe cache;
reboot.
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Thanks! I used the factory images and flashed everything from the compressed archive and it worked..you're a lifesaver. I guess I had to go further and reset everything..but thanks again!