Well here it goes.. yeah im a noob to somehow have accomplished this, i have semi brickedmy phone, the internal flash on my phone got completely wiped, /boot /misc /system /data etc... all gone, just one big 8GB partition, cant restore any roms or backups, any ideas? help?
Can you install a new ROM through recovery?
nope cant flash anything since the partitions are gone there is nowhere to flash anything.
update: so i have recreated mmcblk0p1 -> mmcblk0p8 - was able to flash the stock rom, and mount all the partitions but still phone boots straight to recovery... im guessing it has to do with some of the partitions not being recovered with a backup like /misc anyone have any idea?
sincest said:
update: so i have recreated mmcblk0p1 -> mmcblk0p8 - was able to flash the stock rom, and mount all the partitions but still phone boots straight to recovery... im guessing it has to do with some of the partitions not being recovered with a backup like /misc anyone have any idea?
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When you do a factory reset - besides wiping, it sets up the partitions even if there is not a ROM installed. Do that and try to boot up after that.
If it does not start up, then try flashing the ROM again.
If that does not work, I think there is a firmware file in the Dev. section that I believe has everything. Carefully follow the OP directions if you go there.
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from CWM? I started it 20 min ago and every time I look at the screen it says:
-- Wiping Data...
Formatting /data...
Formatting /cache...
Formatting /sd-ext...
E;format_volume: make extf4fs failed on /dev/block/mmcblk0p2
Formatting /sdcard/.android_secure
Terra27 said:
from CWM? I started it 20 min ago and every time I look at the screen it says:
-- Wiping Data...
Formatting /data...
Formatting /cache...
Formatting /sd-ext...
E;format_volume: make extf4fs failed on /dev/block/mmcblk0p2
Formatting /sdcard/.android_secure
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It happens in seconds. last time it happened to me i had to odin. i suggest using ayoteddys cmw3xx
How do I acquire that? Sorry I'm very new to phone dev
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How do I acquire that? Sorry I'm very new to phone dev
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nahh no problem dude, i know what its like to soft brick your phone so ill help to the best of my knowledge. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1126631 it's here. on teddy's first post. so pretty much, you would download it, put it onto your phone which is the /sdcard part, then 'flash it' (fancy word for install) by going into cwm mode, and going to install .zip from sd card, find the cwm3xx file at the bottom, then flash it. THEN it'll pop up a 'new' cwm mode and from there factory reset, reset the cache, go to advance and erace dalvil cahe and check your mounts, then flash the new rom..if your trying to flash a rom that is lol. if you have questions post away!
oh and i think this should go in the general section.
Im stuck on the Sidekick/Tmobile/Samsung screen now and it will vibrate once, then 3 times then wait 3 seconds then vibrate once then 3 times etc.. WHy?? is it bricked now?
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Im stuck on the Sidekick/Tmobile/Samsung screen now and it will vibrate once, then 3 times then wait 3 seconds then vibrate once then 3 times etc.. WHy?? is it bricked now?
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its soft bricked you have to odin!
tylermaciaszek said:
its soft bricked you have to odin!
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Yeahh that happened to me too, and i had to odin, but it wouldnt read the phone so i had to uninstall and reinstall the drivers on my comp. then go into download mode and odin.
Yup, that kept happening to me.. Im gonna try and install this cmw now.. By the way, do i still have to check the mounts and storage because i've successfully installed the maximus rom gingerclone. Do i have to check mounts and storage everytime i need to flash a rom, if so what should they be, as far as Data, sd card, cache, and system etc..?
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Yup, that kept happening to me.. Im gonna try and install this cmw now.. By the way, do i still have to check the mounts and storage because i've successfully installed the maximus rom gingerclone. Do i have to check mounts and storage everytime i need to flash a rom, if so what should they be, as far as Data, sd card, cache, and system etc..?
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no you do not have to check!
Yes you do need to check! Not checking is what makes you soft-brick.
it should read:
System: Unmount
Data: Unmount
Cache: Unmount
Anything else isn't an issue.
Don't worry about the errors reading that cache file, they happen to everyone, it's part of the kernel.
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Yes you do need to check! Not checking is what makes you soft-brick.
it should read:
System: Unmount
Data: Unmount
Cache: Unmount
Anything else isn't an issue.
Don't worry about the errors reading that cache file, they happen to everyone, it's part of the kernel.
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i thought once your on the red recovery you don't need to check! i never check....
terra i'm having the same problem you are. keep this thread in mind http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1214432 hopefully i'll be getting a response soon. orange cwm is my nightmare
Please help!
I am getting this error on my sidekick 4G
E:format_volume: make extf4fs failed on /dev/block/mmcblk0p2
Formatting /sdcard/.android_secure
i was trying to upgrade to Lite'ning ROM but it gave me this error, i did already ODIN to stock and it did not work and what i mean by it did not worked i did get to stock and started from scratch but still getting the same errror..... any other suggestions?
Don't worry about that error, that just means that you don't have an android secure partition on your sdcard. nothing to worry about.
I don't see why red CWM would be any different from Orange CWM in having to check mounts... I always check my mounts, and have always had to.
well u say not to worry but i can't update the rom to the lightning rom b/c i cannot factory reset, if i don't factory reset, phone bricks
You don't have to factory reset, just make sure you check your mounts. that's why it's bricking.
ok... so what are the mounts?
Please see thread: [RECOVERY] CWM for the SK4G. Enjoy!
therion0 said:
I am getting this error on my sidekick 4G
E:format_volume: make extf4fs failed on /dev/block/mmcblk0p2
Formatting /sdcard/.android_secure
i was trying to upgrade to Lite'ning ROM but it gave me this error, i did already ODIN to stock and it did not work and what i mean by it did not worked i did get to stock and started from scratch but still getting the same errror..... any other suggestions?
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Please see thread: [RECOVERY] CWM for the SK4G. Enjoy!
You will find in the OP (original post #1) there is a step:
CWM Final
http://www.krylon360.com/file_host/sk4g/update.zip
Place in the root of your SD.
After your in clockwork mod recovery (orange) (and have downloaded the update.zip to sd card) make the selection: -apply sdcard:update.zip (this will load cwm again (red cwm)
Now: reattempt!
Im quite desperate here.
Last weekend i rebooted my nexus s, it was doing allright but after the reboot it got stuck on the bootanimation, so i rebooted it again.
After that the phone went black and some white letters informed me that the /Data partition was corrupted and couldn´t be mounted again.
I tried restoring with Nandroid but it didn´t let me because the /data partition can´t be mounted.
I tried flashing with fastboot but again, the /Data partition can´t be mounted.
What I want to do is to erase that stupid /data partition and recreate it so i can flash it with fastboot, or at least mount it.
I tried that with parted on ADB shell, but the stupid partition won´t leave the partition table, neither any of the other ones.
I´m quite pissed since I leave in Argentina and Samsung won´t change my phone for the problem.
Does anybody had this problem before and could solve it?
Tomassirio said:
Im quite desperate here.
Last weekend i rebooted my nexus s, it was doing allright but after the reboot it got stuck on the bootanimation, so i rebooted it again.
After that the phone went black and some white letters informed me that the /Data partition was corrupted and couldn´t be mounted again.
I tried restoring with Nandroid but it didn´t let me because the /data partition can´t be mounted.
I tried flashing with fastboot but again, the /Data partition can´t be mounted.
What I want to do is to erase that stupid /data partition and recreate it so i can flash it with fastboot, or at least mount it.
I tried that with parted on ADB shell, but the stupid partition won´t leave the partition table, neither any of the other ones.
I´m quite pissed since I leave in Argentina and Samsung won´t change my phone for the problem.
Does anybody had this problem before and could solve it?
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You can try "fastboot erase userdata" but that may not work since there is possibility that the flash memory is failing.
I´ve already tried that, but it takes me nowhere.
hoewer thx
Tomassirio said:
I´ve already tried that, but it takes me nowhere.
hoewer thx
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Sad to hear that... most likely you are getting flash memory failure (board failure). Got any warranty left?
So I just went into recovery (buck's twrp) to flash me some aosp, it worked fine but I forgot to get a gps lock in sense before I flashed so I went into recovery to restore a nandroid and I got the dreaded "unable to mount /data, and unable to mount internal storage. Tried reflashing buck's twrp in fastboot and no dice. I have the RUU downloading although I would hate to have to go through that. Any recommendations? I;m going to try flashing philz recovery right now
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So I just went into recovery (buck's twrp) to flash me some aosp, it worked fine but I forgot to get a gps lock in sense before I flashed so I went into recovery to restore a nandroid and I got the dreaded "unable to mount /data, and unable to mount internal storage. Tried reflashing buck's twrp in fastboot and no dice. I have the RUU downloading although I would hate to have to go through that. Any recommendations? I;m going to try flashing philz recovery right now
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Just plugged it into my pc to try to flash philz and a pop up came up saying that the file system is currupt. Ugh. I'm so p/o'd right now. Is RUU my only choice right now to repair this if any?
Just flashed RUU. Same thing. Going to dry formatting in windows device manager now
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So I just went into recovery (buck's twrp) to flash me some aosp, it worked fine but I forgot to get a gps lock in sense before I flashed so I went into recovery to restore a nandroid and I got the dreaded "unable to mount /data, and unable to mount internal storage. Tried reflashing buck's twrp in fastboot and no dice. I have the RUU downloading although I would hate to have to go through that. Any recommendations? I;m going to try flashing philz recovery right now
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In TWRP go to Wipe < Format Data and do that and it should fix your /data problem. Before doing that I recommend just using the advanced wipe and ticking /data /cache /boot & /system and then re-trying. Also afterwards a good ROM to start with would be Cyanogenmod, I've had the least number of problems with that than any other, especially when helping people with issues like this. I actually had someone who's only way of fixing his issue was flashing that.... odd I know but that is why I always recommend it after having this issue.
Edit: just seen you've did an RUU and your problem is still persisting, I still recommend doing the 'Format Data' option in TWRP, this is known (at least to me) to fix most if not all problems with mounting...
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In TWRP go to Wipe < Format Data and do that and it should fix your /data problem. Before doing that I recommend just using the advanced wipe and ticking /data /cache /boot & /system and then re-trying. Also afterwards a good ROM to start with would be Cyanogenmod, I've had the least number of problems with that than any other, especially when helping people with issues like this. I actually had someone who's only way of fixing his issue was flashing that.... odd I know but that is why I always recommend it after having this issue.
Edit: just seen you've did an RUU and your problem is still persisting, I still recommend doing the 'Format Data' option in TWRP, this is known (at least to me) to fix most if not all problems with mounting...
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Thanks a bunch dude, appreciate it. Restoring a nandroid now, had no issues with data yet. Phew. That was an exciting night
Yep its a stressful problem when it happens.
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I got a nexus 5 off of eBay, the seller said he had tried to root it and failed so I thought I would have a crack at it.
I thought it would be an easy restore but I ran into a few problems:
Phone originally came with 6.0.1 installed.
On android 5+ I could not access the standard recovery screen, and when I pressed power+volUp it just said formatting /data and would not move from that.
Rolled back to 4.4 and I got into the ususal recovery screen.
Tried to do a factory reset, but it again stuck at formatting /data.
I left it the entire night while I slept and it was still saying formatting /data. in the morning, nothing had changed.
Trying to boot the phone normally just left it on the 4 startup screen.
I've tried doing a full flash of stock android with each seperate part manually.
Also /data is unable to be mounted in any custom recovery, like it is corrupted or locked somehow.
With the stock recovery, it cannot be detected by adb, but in cwm it can.
EDIT: checking the /data folder in adb shell shows it's completely empty, and the same with system even after flashing and flashing again.
Can anyone advise me as to what might be the problem here?
Reflash all partitions manually, including userdata.img file. After flashing the last partition, boot directly into stock recovery and perform a factory wipe, then reboot.
Done that multiple times, I get the same result on stock android.
I don't want to root or anything like that right now, just get it back to a working state.
So you flashed the userdata.img file?
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So you flashed the userdata.img file?
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yes multiple times
If you flashed userdata.img multiple times and the phone still can't perform a factory reset, the emmc chip may be damaged.
I have flashed android 8.0 with odin then flashed twrp with odin (making sure to disable auto reboot) and rebooted straight into twrp. I then flashed dm verity disabler and now i was able to boot back into my os. The problem is i am now unable to mount my data partition. I have tried formatting my data and this works, but whenever i boot back into my os and set up android, tge problem comes back. Can anyone help with this?
Jack_Rickwood said:
I have flashed android 8.0 with odin then flashed twrp with odin (making sure to disable auto reboot) and rebooted straight into twrp. I then flashed dm verity disabler and now i was able to boot back into my os. The problem is i am now unable to mount my data partition. I have tried formatting my data and this works, but whenever i boot back into my os and set up android, tge problem comes back. Can anyone help with this?
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i have the same thing, only difference is that i was stupid enough to wipe everything off my system including the system.
now it only boots to recovery and twrp
Now the fool seeks to return to the past and undo the future that is no phone
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I found this it worked
watch?v=Rs4zcryNt5Y
SharinganSensei said:
i have the same thing, only difference is that i was stupid enough to wipe everything off my system including the system.
now it only boots to recovery and twrp
Now the fool seeks to return to the past and undo the future that is no phone
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I found this it worked
watch?v=Rs4zcryNt5Y
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Thanks, ill try it!
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Thanks, ill try it!
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This Worked for me too. It's a simple trick but it's working. Via TWRP, modify EXT4 to EXT2, then again to EXT4 ;-)
Thanks guys
I'm sure it will be useful to many who are going through the same issue
bebou said:
This Worked for me too. It's a simple trick but it's working. Via TWRP, modify EXT4 to EXT2, then again to EXT4 ;-)
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It works only 1 time... and after you lose all data the error come back next boot...
I am planning to install a custom ROM on my S7 and now looking for a way to backup the /data/ partition, which is encrypted.
My preferred solution would be to create a full backup of the old system using twrp, but that doesn't seem to be feasible due to encryption. As the device is not rooted, I cannot pull /data over adb, remove encryption, then restore /data. Any ideas how to solve this?