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What Did I Do Wrong?

Ok so I have Vahalla Final flashed through Odin as my first ROM on this phone. Everything has been great for a few days and I flashed the lighting tweak today with no issues. Just a little while ago I made a backup and flashed the Linda voices and the Ki3 modem bc I saw where the KJ6 didn't allow long text messages. When I flashed the modem some blue words popped up really zoomed in on another screen then it was done. The phone was laggy so i tried to delete everything and restore like I had done numerous times on old phone.
I did a factory reset then cache then tried to format system. These are all steps i used to successfully take on other phone. It won't let me format the system though. Says: "format_volume failed to mount "/system" error formatting system!"
Where did I go wrong? Am I supposed to do some more wacky things on this phone for a restore? Everything else on it seems to take 20 more steps

aburn95 said:
Ok so I have Vahalla Final flashed through Odin as my first ROM on this phone. Everything has been great for a few days and I flashed the lighting tweak today with no issues. Just a little while ago I made a backup and flashed the Linda voices and the Ki3 modem bc I saw where the KJ6 didn't allow long text messages. When I flashed the modem some blue words popped up really zoomed in on another screen then it was done. The phone was laggy so i tried to delete everything and restore like I had done numerous times on old phone.
I did a factory reset then cache then tried to format system. These are all steps i used to successfully take on other phone. It won't let me format the system though. Says: "format_volume failed to mount "/system" error formatting system!"
Where did I go wrong? Am I supposed to do some more wacky things on this phone for a restore? Everything else on it seems to take 20 more steps
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CWM versions prior to those in bhndven's Slightly Modified Stock kernels have a problem with mounting/unmouting the /system partition in GB. I believe you can backup and restore user data, but nothing on the /system partition.
Flashing the KI3 modem shouldn't have had an effect like you're describing, though. I can't say I've had an issue like that at all or heard of people having that issue after flashing the modem.

stephen_w said:
CWM versions prior to those in bhndven's Slightly Modified Stock kernels have a problem with mounting/unmouting the /system partition in GB. I believe you can backup and restore user data, but nothing on the /system partition.
Flashing the KI3 modem shouldn't have had an effect like you're describing, though. I can't say I've had an issue like that at all or heard of people having that issue after flashing the modem.
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So everything should run fine after trying the actual restore of my backup even though i couldn't format the system? I have a backup but don't want to restore over data that wasn't deleted or whatever. If that's possible.

How the hell do i know which modem to use anyways? There's like 10 to choose from

Uh yeah I forget it tries to format system anyways when restoring... and it couldn't. So what do i do? Re-flash the GB starter pack way through Odin?

aburn95 said:
Uh yeah I forget it tries to format system anyways when restoring... and it couldn't. So what do i do? Re-flash the GB starter pack way through Odin?
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As for the modem, I'm using KI3 on mine. You already did a factory reset so you should be able to just re-flash Valhalla.

Trying now. Does Vahalla automatically change all the mounts that the other roms require changing before flashing?

aburn95 said:
Trying now. Does Vahalla automatically change all the mounts that the other roms require changing before flashing?
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I'm not sure about that one. Definitely go check the original Valhalla post to make sure you don't have to set the mounts.

Guess you don't have too. I'm using it now. thanks for the help

aburn95 said:
Guess you don't have too. I'm using it now. thanks for the help
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No worries. Good luck

Hey I still have an issue. I reflashed Vahalla through CWM and it was fine at first all the way through setting everything up like it was before. Ran smooth. I went to the market this morning and checked for updates and Google Search, Maps and Superuser updated. Phone started acting really laggy again. Scrolls really slow, pulls up GO Launcher menu slowly, etc.
It seems to me that the re flash installed over the existing data that was left on the phone since i couldn't format my system.
My new question is, what's the best way to re do everything including formatting the system if I can't format through CWM? If I flash through Odin does that format everything? Or am I better of just going through the whole GB Starter Pack process again?? Or will that even work now since i've already done it?

aburn95 said:
Hey I still have an issue. I reflashed Vahalla through CWM and it was fine at first all the way through setting everything up like it was before. Ran smooth. I went to the market this morning and checked for updates and Google Search, Maps and Superuser updated. Phone started acting really laggy again. Scrolls really slow, pulls up GO Launcher menu slowly, etc.
It seems to me that the re flash installed over the existing data that was left on the phone since i couldn't format my system.
My new question is, what's the best way to re do everything including formatting the system if I can't format through CWM? If I flash through Odin does that format everything? Or am I better of just going through the whole GB Starter Pack process again?? Or will that even work now since i've already done it?
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Did you restore your previous apps are do fresh installs?

Restored w titanium..... ugh.. Flashing a new zip doesn't wipe anything right? Just installs over whats already there right?

aburn95 said:
Restored w titanium..... ugh.. Flashing a new zip doesn't wipe anything right? Just installs over whats already there right?
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If you flashed and "it was fine at first all the way through setting everything up"...
try reflashing as you did before. Do fresh installs on as much as you can ONE AT A TIME. And then restore ONE AT A TIME what you can't do fresh installs on. It sounds like one of your backups is not agreeing with the system. Install/Restore ONE AT A TIME and play with phone between each to see if you can determine which backup your system is not agreeing with.
Did that make sense??
EDIT: And make sure to wipe dalvik cache and cache partition before you reflash as is always recommended.

stephen_w said:
No worries. Good luck
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lumin30 said:
If you flashed and "it was fine at first all the way through setting everything up"...
try reflashing as you did before. Do fresh installs on as much as you can ONE AT A TIME. And then restore ONE AT A TIME what you can't do fresh installs on. It sounds like one of your backups is not agreeing with the system. Install/Restore ONE AT A TIME and play with phone between each to see if you can determine which on your system is not agreeing with.
Did that make sense??
EDIT: And make sure to wipe dalvik cache and cache partition before you reflash as is always recommended.
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Yeah it makes sense thanks. I will do this despite how impatient I am (see where that got me). I'm just got spoiled on another phone that was way way easier to work with. Weren't as many options to screw up either.
Any suggestions on how I can get my system to format for future reference?

I feel like it's Go Launcher for some reason. In cased you missed it though, I didn't start having lag issues until I flashed the Ki3 modem and linda voices one after another. I have a good backup but I can't format system to restore it.

aburn95 said:
Yeah it makes sense thanks. I will do this despite how impatient I am (see where that got me). I'm just got spoiled on another phone that was way way easier to work with. Weren't as many options to screw up either.
Any suggestions on how I can get my system to format for future reference?
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I have never formatted my system nor read anybody wanting/needing to format their system. A factory reset is what people use to clean the gremlins along with wiping dalvik cache and cache partition. Bhundven has recommended flashing the same rom twice in a row I believe to help make sure all installs correctly (I think he was talking about bootloaders when he recommended that).
But a factory reset is what I think you are trying to accomplish with formatting your system.
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aburn95 said:
I feel like it's Go Launcher for some reason. In cased you missed it though, I didn't start having lag issues until I flashed the Ki3 modem and linda voices one after another. I have a good backup but I can't format system to restore it.
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I use GoLauncher on Vahalla Black with no problems. I think it has to do with your backup... not the app itself.

I wiped caches, did factory reset, tired to format system again with no luck and accidentally restarted before re-flashing Vahalla. Which, I guess I didn't really need to do anyways if it's an App causing the issue. I guess the factory reset would be enough. Smooth again so i will try some fresh reinstalls now. Thanks for the noob patience

lumin30 said:
I have never formatted my system nor read anybody wanting/needing to format their system. A factory reset is what people use to clean the gremlins along with wiping dalvik cache and cache partition. Bhundven has recommended flashing the same rom twice in a row I believe to help make sure all installs correctly (I think he was talking about bootloaders when he recommended that).
But a factory reset is what I think you are trying to accomplish with formatting your system.
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I use GoLauncher on Vahalla Black with no problems. I think it has to do with your backup... not the app itself.
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Ok cool. In another phones forum a system wipe is actually suggested a lot. I think... I did it every time on the G2x before installing any new roms or backups. I wasn't doing it at first but started after someone suggested it. But yeah I think the factoy reset is enough. Seems to be enough so far.

aburn95 said:
I wiped caches, did factory reset, tired to format system again with no luck and accidentally restarted before re-flashing Vahalla. Which, I guess I didn't really need to do anyways if it's an App causing the issue. I guess the factory reset would be enough. Smooth again so i will try some fresh reinstalls now. Thanks for the noob patience
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I am a noob too. No worries. Vahalla Black is solid. Backups are tricky. Fresh installs are the way to go.

Format SDcard to ext4

Could someone hel me with this. Ive searched and cant seem to find it all i can find is internal sd.

BAleR said:
Could someone hel me with this. Ive searched and cant seem to find it all i can find is internal sd.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1204682&highlight=ext+4

This is for the micro sd card?

BAleR said:
This is for the micro sd card?
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Are you trying to use use the link2sd app?

lumin30 said:
Are you trying to use use the link2sd app?
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no, ive been trying to flash valhalla black ed. and its been acting weird, i noticed when i wipe delvik cash it says E: no volume path (sd ext) or something similar, so i thought maybe it was because i got a new sd card and its not partitioned either

BAleR said:
no, ive been trying to flash valhalla black ed. and its been acting weird, i noticed when i wipe delvik cash it says E: no volume path (sd ext) or something similar, so i thought maybe it was because i got a new sd card and its not partitioned either
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I don't think you need to worry about the E:unknown volume for path [sd-ext]. There are actually a bunch of threads regarding it. As far as your ROM acting funny -- try the standard:
Wipe Cache Partition
Wipe (yes it is wiped even with the error)
Fix Permissions
Reboot and let phone sit 10 mins to rebuild caches.
If that doesn't work....
Factory wipe and reflash ROM.

Well ive tryed all that and more, the last rom didnt have any of these problems. Now i noticed the phone getting hot so i installed setcpu, and the cpu isnt scaling, it just sits at 1000mhz , if i set max at 200mhz the phone cools off and charges much faster. I think its a kernel issue, why it is happening to some and not others i dont know. Do you know of any good kernels i could try? One that O/C's?

BAleR said:
Well ive tryed all that and more, the last rom didnt have any of these problems. Now i noticed the phone getting hot so i installed setcpu, and the cpu isnt scaling, it just sits at 1000mhz , if i set max at 200mhz the phone cools off and charges much faster. I think its a kernel issue, why it is happening to some and not others i dont know. Do you know of any good kernels i could try? One that O/C's?
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What ROM are you on? If you are on Valhalla Black - people are OCing with that. Sometimes you need to start fresh man. Flash to complete KJ6 stock, factory reset, wipe all caches and start over. Sometimes even reflash stock twice to make sure you get all the gremlins off the phone.
I am on Valhalla Black - rc3.1 - and I have not had a SINGLE issue. A lot of people haven't had any issues. But I flashed from stock... hmmmm.
Maybe try it. Otherwise I defer to somebody else to help you. Consider hitting thanks!
BTW I get the same error when wiping dalvik. But it still wipes it and no big deal.

lumin30 said:
What ROM are you on? If you are on Valhalla Black - people are OCing with that. Sometimes you need to start fresh man. Flash to complete KJ6 stock, factory reset, wipe all caches and start over. Sometimes even reflash stock twice to make sure you get all the gremlins off the phone.
I am on Valhalla Black - rc3.1 - and I have not had a SINGLE issue. A lot of people haven't had any issues. But I flashed from stock... hmmmm.
Maybe try it. Otherwise I defer to somebody else to help you. Consider hitting thanks!
BTW I get the same error when wiping dalvik. But it still wipes it and no big deal.
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Yes im on that rom
So just flash the stock kj6 rooted rom and then VB? Ill try that but if that dont work then i dunno cus i dont have a computer, thanks for tryin though, you still helped

BAleR said:
Yes im on that rom
So just flash the stock kj6 rooted rom and then VB? Ill try that but if that dont work then i dunno cus i dont have a computer, thanks for tryin though, you still helped
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Flash it twice... no computer??

Nope. Not one at home
So you overclocked with the kernel in VB?

BAleR said:
So you overclocked with the kernel in VB?
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Not me... I don't feel like I need it. The ROM is flawless as far as I am concerned. But I have read posts from others saying they have overclocked.
thomas.raines - "I'm using Lightning Zap with no issues. Brought the quad scrores (although not very meaningful) from 2100+ to 2600+ NOT Oc'd, improved FPS, and OC'd I finally hit a 3000+..."

If you want to overclock just use tegrak paid. I have OC'd on this and it works fine. No heat issues other than what you would expect.

Hmm.. downloaded the app and says 1ghz is the highest i can go

you need paid version, legit from market
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Somairotevoli said:
you need paid version, legit from market
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No. Its not that. It does the same thing with setcpu

Ok, i wiped everything and reflashed. Let it sit. I checked to see if the phone was idleing, it was i rebooted, and after every step i checked if it was idleing and once i signed into google and opened the market, phone idle under battery usage went away and now its not idleing. Dunno what this means but im just going back to the last build till this is figured out, thanks for all the help though.
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Yeah, its the market. All is well untilled I open the market.

Did you load the overclock module?

hechoen said:
Did you load the overclock module?
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Yup i did..........

Flash ROMs without wiping data?

In the ARHD forum a while back someone advocated the strategy of never wiping data when switching between ROMs. He said he had never wiped data, and if he ever ran into problems with an app on a new ROM he just manually cleared that app's data and everything was fine.
He boasted essentially never having to reconfigure anything on his phone, and that he has successfully retained every app, setting, and text message that he's always had every time he has flashed a new ROM.
Is it possible that this is true?

I doubt it,
I didn't wipe once and ran into so much errors that I ended up re flashing whole rom..
Honestly it doesn't take much more then 30-35 min to setup a new rom specially if you buy the titanium backup app they even have a free version of it which also works great.
Sent From My Sexy Sensation Running Aokp.

well on the ARHD thread it says a wipe is optional when coming from previous versions, but personally i've only flashed it once so i can't say something about it.. however, when i do upgrade from rom's i have just flashed over it (if im switching to different rom i do a wipe) and haven't had problems, unless it says a wipe is recommended when upgrading then i just do a full wipe, and then restore the data from previous backups within 4EXT, this restores all my apps and settings i had previously.. its worked for me so far

I had once do that because i forgot to wipe the data. I forgot the rom's name but i experienced no error then i switched to Smartdroid rom
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Like i said before.
You do wipe your ass when you are done taking a dump dont you?
Its possible. But dont complain about having crap in your underware
Btw. Use search. (Not attacking.you)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=23405654
Ive seen multiple threads about this
typed on a sensation cracked screen

stroobach said:
Like i said before.
You do wipe your ass when you are done taking a dump dont you?
Its possible. But dont complain about having crap in your underware
Btw. Use search. (Not attacking.you)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=23405654
Ive seen multiple threads about this
typed on a sensation cracked screen
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LOL
Sent From My Sexy Sensation Running Aokp.

Love that analogy! But yes, wiping is very important!
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think id be ok to flash a completely new rom without wiping if my plan is to reflash again after a wipe?

cresch07 said:
think id be ok to flash a completely new rom without wiping if my plan is to reflash again after a wipe?
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Yeah but what's the point, there are many apps out there that can back up your data to restore afterwards.

I almost lost my phone!
I flashed a custom rom in my htc.... it was a total loss.. i don't know what happened..but as soon as i locked it....it never came back.... proximity sensor flashed red light all the time.....finally, had to open the back cover to make it work and boot into recovery....

No Data

Hey guys,
I seriously tried looking everywhere but could not find an answer.
I flashed my shift to JellyBellyCM10.
Everything works. voice and Wifi but no cell data doesnt get anything. Can only go online using wifi. Ive installed the radios from the link below.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1479466
Could anyone tell me why I dont have any data?
Just to get it out of the way i wiped wiped wiped....
Thanks in advance.

Have you tried...
Other roms?
Flashing clean? (Again)
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CNexus said:
Have you tried...
Other roms?
Flashing clean? (Again)
Sent from my PG06100
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Other roms...
in a sense yes...
the other versions of the same "roms"
flashed clean...many times. im going nutz

Try a GB rom like newSense or Supreme Sense
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What are your flashing procedures? Are you wiping EVERYTHING multiple times and/or performing superwipe multiple times,depending on which recovery you are using?

im fairly certain im wiping everything multiple times.
im using this recovery
recovery-clockwork-5.0.2.0-speedy
So maybe im flashing wrong but i rooted the phone. downgraded to 2.2 to s-off. then flashed the radio, wipe wipe wipe. flash rom.
also tried wipe wipe wipe. flashed the radio then flashed the rom.

Hm, did you check the md5sum on the radio you flashed?
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CNexus said:
Hm, did you check the md5sum on the radio you flashed?
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i did. when i upped the radio. i tried under 2.2 and my data was working fine. so i tried that then flashed the new rom then i lose data.

This happened to me when I switched my account to an Epic 4G I was working on; when I switched it back to the Evo Shift, I couldn't get data.
I can't say this will or won't help you, or that it's even the right way to go about things. I activated another phone we had lying around, through sprint.com. And then I reactivated the shift again and went through all the steps, put the ##code in etc., and when it rebooted, it was working. And it will still have whatever ROM you installed on it (duh). Sounds like a mess but it worked for me.
I think ## 786 # does a hard reset if I'm not mistaken. You could also try that first to avoid the hassle of what I did.

klund29078 said:
This happened to me when I switched my account to an Epic 4G I was working on; when I switched it back to the Evo Shift, I couldn't get data.
I can't say this will or won't help you, or that it's even the right way to go about things. I activated another phone we had lying around, through sprint.com. And then I reactivated the shift again and went through all the steps, put the ##code in etc., and when it rebooted, it was working. And it will still have whatever ROM you installed on it (duh). Sounds like a mess but it worked for me.
I think ## 786 # does a hard reset if I'm not mistaken. You could also try that first to avoid the hassle of what I did.
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tried that
also i cant use the ## codes without using a sense rom if im not mistken. but thank you

cardriver said:
im fairly certain im wiping everything multiple times.
im using this recovery
recovery-clockwork-5.0.2.0-speedy
So maybe im flashing wrong but i rooted the phone. downgraded to 2.2 to s-off. then flashed the radio, wipe wipe wipe. flash rom.
also tried wipe wipe wipe. flashed the radio then flashed the rom.
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I was trying to ask for specifics of your wiping process, sorry. Now that you mention which recovery, make sure you go into the mounts & storage menu and 'format' pretty much everything but 'sdcard' multiple times each. I know alot of people take the term 'wipe' and assume we mean just the 'wipe data/factory reset' and 'wipe cache' options that are displayed on the main menu, just want to make sure.
If you are already doing that then disregard.

BigSplit said:
I was trying to ask for specifics of your wiping process, sorry. Now that you mention which recovery, make sure you go into the mounts & storage menu and 'format' pretty much everything but 'sdcard' multiple times each. I know alot of people take the term 'wipe' and assume we mean just the 'wipe data/factory reset' and 'wipe cache' options that are displayed on the main menu, just want to make sure.
If you are already doing that then disregard.
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oh yeah. anything that said wipe. i wiped. except the sd.

I had am issue like this when I switched ROMs from Sense to AOSP at one point. Ended up having to nandroid back to Sense and update PRL and profile. Have you tried going back to a Sense ROM, updating those then reflashing the CM10 ROM?

brandontowey said:
I had am issue like this when I switched ROMs from Sense to AOSP at one point. Ended up having to nandroid back to Sense and update PRL and profile. Have you tried going back to a Sense ROM, updating those then reflashing the CM10 ROM?
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in the process of trying that now. ill let you guys know how it goes...

ok. after flashing back to 2.2 and rooting. then flashing the new radio. reinstalling a cm7 rom i was able to gain access to the web and then update to ICS/JB.
Thank you everyone for your help

[Q] Dumbest error ever: flashed stock image, now lost all backups

So... I'm pretty ashamed of posting this, but I am desperate as well. I flashed to stock in order to install CM11 on my Nexus 5 (had to, i don't know why it wouldn't like my bootloader otherwise) but, of course, it deleted my media partition as well.
Is there something I can do to retrieve my backups on /media? I think I can't, but I'd like a final word from someone who's not dumb as me. Thanks.

You're pretty much screwed. But you could try this
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=47623410
You'd have to be real desperate or its not worth the effort
Edit, for the future, just flashing the system and boot image probably would have accomplished what you wanted to do
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jd1639 said:
You're pretty much screwed. But you could try this
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=47623410
You'd have to be real desperate or its not worth the effort
Edit, for the future, just flashing the system and boot image probably would have accomplished what you wanted to do
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I don't think there's anything that can be done. It hurts my nerves so much because it seems I did EVERYTHING wrong: backupping only on SD and not on the cloud, wiping system from TWRP (there was no need of doing this, wiping data would have been perfectly fine), realized that the stock flash would have wiped internal memory as well while it was running but the critical point was not reached yet and didn't have the courage to stop the process before the damage was actually done. I lost a lot of SMS I was really attached to... but I hope I learnt some lessons...

cm0901 said:
I don't think there's anything that can be done. It hurts my nerves so much because it seems I did EVERYTHING wrong: backupping only on SD and not on the cloud, wiping system from TWRP (there was no need of doing this, wiping data would have been perfectly fine), realized that the stock flash would have wiped internal memory as well while it was running but the critical point was not reached yet and didn't have the courage to stop the process before the damage was actually done. I lost a lot of SMS I was really attached to... but I hope I learnt some lessons...
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Hate to be cut and dry, but there's nothing you can do; it's unfortunately gone. When I flash a new rom, I wipe everything except internal storage. If you're flashing an update of your current rom, you need to do cache | dalvik only. Though I prefer to always do clean installs.