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Cwm wont mount or restore

Getting the following message when booting into stock recovery via quickboot (threebutton combo no longer works)
E:Cant' mount /dev/block/st11
(invalid argument)
E:Can't mount CACHE:recovery/command
# MANUAL MODE #
--Appling MULTI-CSC...
Installing MULTI-CSC
E:Cant' mount /dev/block/st11
(invalid argument)
E:Can't mount CACHE:log/recovery.log
E:Can't open CACHE:log/recovery.log
E:Can't mount /dev/block/stl11
(invalid Argument)
When i resinstall packages i get :
E: Can't mount /cache/recovery/command
E: Can't mount /cache/recover/log
E: Can't open /cache/recover/log
E: Can't mount /cache/recovery/last_log
E: Can't open /cache/recovery/last_log
Im receiving this error after odining kd1, after trying to ext4 the latest blackice rom

zenofsong said:
Getting the following message when booting into stock recovery via quickboot (threebutton combo no longer works)
E:Cant' mount /dev/block/st11
(invalid argument)
E:Can't mount CACHE:recovery/command
# MANUAL MODE #
--Appling MULTI-CSC...
Installing MULTI-CSC
E:Cant' mount /dev/block/st11
(invalid argument)
E:Can't mount CACHE:log/recovery.log
E:Can't open CACHE:log/recovery.log
E:Can't mount /dev/block/stl11
(invalid Argument)
When i resinstall packages i get :
E: Can't mount /cache/recovery/command
E: Can't mount /cache/recover/log
E: Can't open /cache/recover/log
E: Can't mount /cache/recovery/last_log
E: Can't open /cache/recovery/last_log
Im receiving this error after odining kd1, after trying to ext4 the latest blackice rom
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It OK just ignore it I'm getting the same problem to. It did go away for awhile but it came back when I tried the GB leak and after I reverted back to bionix with ext4 and the error came back. Trust me your phone is fine.
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your partitions are messed up. you will need a pit file to fix this.

Yeah I lost the three button trick to get to cwm once I flashed the Gingerbread ROM and reverted back to KD1. the only thing we still have is Download mode. and the mounting errors I got in cwm althought they are not a big deal I just didn't wanna see them there anymore so I flashed the update.zip for cwm again. I rebooted the recovery after that and I no longer have those red letter in the recovery page.

Ill follow your.suggestions guys. I also cannot mount cache with cam though other mounts work fine. Is this apart of the same problem?
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zenofsong said:
Ill follow your.suggestions guys. I also cannot mount cache with cam though other mounts work fine. Is this apart of the same problem?
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Everytime I clicked on mount or unmount and didnt work. I rebooted the recovery from the advanced section and thats how I was able to mount or unmount after that.
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zenofsong said:
Ill follow your.suggestions guys. I also cannot mount cache with cam though other mounts work fine. Is this apart of the same problem?
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I got it to go away by odining a fresh kd1. But everytime you use the ext4 converter you will get that error.
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After odining kd1 mounts are still acting funny, backup wont flash cache
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ssmokey727 said:
Everytime I clicked on mount or unmount and didnt work. I rebooted the recovery from the advanced section and thats how I was able to mount or unmount after that
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Flashed the update, rebooted recovery, still getting error mounting cache
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flash the KF1 leak rom again including pit file in the zip file. then flash back to KD1.

Will do after six hours of sleep. Thank gawds I can still use blackice.
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zenofsong said:
Will do after six hours of sleep. Thank gawds I can still use blackice.
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If you have terminal emulator open it an type these two commands
SU <enter>
Mount <enter>
This will bring up alot of text but if you will read a little at the top it will tell you what mounts are what(ext4 or rfs) notice my system and data are ext4 but my cache is rfs that is the reason you see the error, give it time and a couple cache wipes in cwm and it should go away. On my last cwm session is when I formatted my cache and it went back to rfs as you can also see in the pic. So when your cache is ext4 you will receive this error till your cache returns to normal
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GDofWR420 said:
If you have terminal emulator open it an type these two commands
SU <enter>
Mount <enter>
This will bring up alot of text but if you will read a little at the top it will tell you what mounts are what(ext4 or rfs) notice my system and data are ext4 but my cache is rfs that is the reason you see the error, give it time and a couple cache wipes in cwm and it should go away. On my last cwm session is when I formatted my cache and it went back to rfs as you can also see in the pic. So when your cache is ext4 you will receive this error till your cache returns to normal
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Cache is not listed. System and data are rfs right now in black ice.
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zenofsong said:
Cache is not listed. System and data are rfs right now in black ice.
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Can you post a screen shot? Also cache is listed, it should be right below the data and system.
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GDofWR420 said:
Can you post a screen shot? Also cache is listed, it should be right below the data and system.
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When I odind gb I used the pit. I don't know if that has any bearing on the situation. When I try to ext4 this room I get bootloops which must have something to do with my funky mounts.
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zenofsong said:
When I odind gb I used the pit. I don't know if that has any bearing on the situation. When I try to ext4 this room I get bootloops which must have something to do with my funky mounts.
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Damn it looks like you have no cache. Try re-odining and if that doesn't help then you will have to do what chadster suggested and grab the pit for flashing kd1. BEFORE YOU DO THAT THOUGH HAVE YOU TRIED MOUNTING THE CACHE AND REBOOTING.(REMEMBER MOUNT MEANS UNMOUNT AND VICE VERSA)
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GDofWR420 said:
Damn it looks like you have no cache. Try re-odining and if that doesn't help then you will have to do what chadster suggested and grab the pit for flashing kd1. BEFORE YOU DO THAT THOUGH HAVE YOU TRIED MOUNTING THE CACHE AND REBOOTING.(REMEMBER MOUNT MEANS UNMOUNT AND VICE VERSA)
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Cache will not mount period. Ill try the gb pit. Where can I grab the kd1 pit?
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zenofsong said:
Cache will not mount period. Ill try the gb pit. Where can I grab the kd1 pit?
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If you look in the sgs4g bible there is a .pit there but you might want to pm a more knowledgeable person than me(like dsexton702 or mad_fitter)because I haven't had to use a pit. Just pm them and tell them your situation and I'm sure they will help you. Hope you get things going again and sorry I couldn't be of more assistance.
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[Q] Full wipe before flashing backups?

Do I need to format / wipe anything in the CWM screen before restoring a flashed backup?

This is my personal procedure evertime I install a new rom, or revert to a saved backup. I am a noob, so I don't know if it's necessary, but I do it by habit now, and it seems to work for me.
1.wipe dalvik (in advanced menu)
2.wipe cache
3.wipe data/factory reset x 2
4.wipe system (in mounts and storage menu) x 2
5.(optional) wipe dalvik,wipe cache
6. Install zip or backup depending on what my intention is
7. fix permissions
reboot
edit: Actually, this isn't "MY PERSONAL" procedure...this is what was recommended to me from other valued members of this forum. I have simply adopted it into my routine.

That's a whole lotta wiping... wont hurt anything but very redundant.
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I thought dalvik couldn't be wiped in Recovery- it gets an error message.

tgerbracht said:
I thought dalvik couldn't be wiped in Recovery- it gets an error message.
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The unknown path error? I get that too... but then is says dalvik wiped... wondering about that myself...
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BobbyDukes707 said:
The unknown path error? I get that too... but then is says dalvik wiped... wondering about that myself...
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never heard of that, do u have internal or external recovery? i have external and never seen that parsing message once ..........and when i go from rom to rom i wipe data first then cache then dalvik and install new rom...........then if im just updating rom or puting akernel on it is same procedure for both and it goes wipe cache then dalvik and update rom or install kernel, and i never had problems this way never

el buho said:
Do I need to format / wipe anything in the CWM screen before restoring a flashed backup?
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well when i restore a backup i always wipe everything, and it never fails me then i restore

sarni84 said:
never heard of that, do u have internal or external recovery? i have external and never seen that parsing message once ..........and when i go from rom to rom i wipe data first then cache then dalvik and install new rom...........then if im just updating rom or puting akernel on it is same procedure for both and it goes wipe cache then dalvik and update rom or install kernel, and i never had problems this way never
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I have external recovery... I haven't updated CM maybe it will take care of it... could it be an SD card issue? I mean I haven't seemed to have had any issues... dunno...
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el buho said:
Do I need to format / wipe anything in the CWM screen before restoring a flashed backup?
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It depends on what the backup is. If the backup is just an older version of the same rom I will just flash right over sometimes. If you are trying to restore a gb rom over a froyo, you will have to wipe first. Any time you are in doubt, just wipe.

BobbyDukes707 said:
The unknown path error? I get that too... but then is says dalvik wiped... wondering about that myself...
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x2 Yea. I always wondered that. I get the same thing all the time.

BobbyDukes707 said:
The unknown path error? I get that too... but then is says dalvik wiped... wondering about that myself...
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I get the same path error to sd-ext. I've wondered what sd-ext even is, there is nothing in it and it is not my external or internal memory because they are in different directories.

CWM not working?

OK! Im kind of confused. Rooted then flashed cwm, I flashed Smooth Maximus ROM Gingerclone onto the phone through cwm and now i cant get into it at all. When i boot to recovery i get the stock recovery, ive tried though quickboot, button combo, and rom manager and i get the same thing everytime. Any help would be appreciated. CWM 4.0.0.2

Don't use ROM Manager. It has the wrong CWM version. Use the instructions in this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1124453
I'm not entirely sure that'll work if you've already flashed a ROM, so wait for an actual dev to chime in.

heres what i did when i couldnt get it to work
make sure ur rooted
download this
http://www.krylon360.com/file_host/sk4g/update.zip
extract the update.zip and ur gonna look for a file called recovery.bin
and get ahold of root explorer
place the recovery.bin on ur sd card and remember where its at
go into root explorer and find it and long press it and hit copy then go into the phone using root explorer and go into /system/bin and paste it dont delete anything or move files just overwrite it
then download this
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/12704578/sk4...eclickroot.zip
and unzip it on your computer make sure u unzip it if not it wont work
and double click run.bat and let it do its thing and itll reboot into CWM for you and go into install packages or something and voila
make sure you have usb debugging enabled
and id flash
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1128657
this kernel then reflash your rom making sure to wipe it
this method working after countless hours of errors etc report back

second link 404'd

welp i pushed the update binary file in that first link then booted to recovery from quickboot and it booted into cwm. Thanks guys for the help

Ok nvm I can boot to cwm but I can't do anything with it. I just get errors. I'm really confused.

Update.zip in root of sd... make sure you extract the file from recovery before placing it
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It won't let me install update.zip I get an error.

Cassidywilson said:
It won't let me install update.zip I get an error.
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did you put the update.zip on your sdcard and replace your recovery in system/bin?

Yes, here are the errors I get when I boot into cwm -
E: can't mount cache/recovery/last_log
E: can't open /cache/recovery/last_log
E: unknown volume for path [/cache/recovery/command]
And upon trying to install update.zip....
E: unknown volume for path [/sdcard/update.zip
E: can't mount /sdcard/update.zip
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Cassidywilson said:
Yes, here are the errors I get when I boot into cwm -
E: can't mount cache/recovery/last_log
E: can't open /cache/recovery/last_log
E: unknown volume for path [/cache/recovery/command]
And upon trying to install update.zip....
E: unknown volume for path [/sdcard/update.zip
E: can't mount /sdcard/update.zip
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what color is the recovery youre using?

Orange
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Cassidywilson said:
Orange
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then you dont need to install update.zip
just wipe data
wipe cache
wipe dalvik
check mounts
flash rom
wipe dalvik
check mounts
reboot

Okay. Gonna give it a shot.
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Just tried wiping and it didn't work just got a bunch of errors
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Cassidywilson said:
Just tried wiping and it didn't work just got a bunch of errors
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what did the errors say?

Can't mount /sdcard when wiping user data
Unknown volume for path /cache when wiping cache
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Cassidywilson said:
Can't mount /sdcard when wiping user data
Unknown volume for path /cache when wiping cache
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im pretty sure youre okay you can keep on going make sure you check your mounts before and after flashing

I select mounts and storage... and the only option is mount usb storage. I can't select a .zip from the sdcard.
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Cassidywilson said:
I select mounts and storage... and the only option is mount usb storage. I can't select a .zip from the sdcard.
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thats really weird.... i dont know whats going on here?
there should be alot more under mounts and storage and the install zip should have 4 options in it!

What's the difference between flashing a completely new ROM and...

installing an updated version of an older ROM. Is the process any different?
Do I simply install from SD Card using the .zip?

When coming from the same ROM just updating. You can just wipe cache and dalvik then install zip. It will keep everything safe.
When installing a new ROM you have to wipe data and everything. Format system. Essentially everything.
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thefulleffect89 said:
When coming from the same ROM just updating. You can just wipe cache and dalvik then install zip. It will keep everything safe.
When installing a new ROM you have to wipe data and everything. Format system. Essentially everything.
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Should I use the "apply update from sdcard" prompt, when coming from the same ROM?

iArtisan said:
Should I use the "apply update from sdcard" prompt, when coming from the same ROM?
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Nope, use install zip from SD card
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[Q] Formatting /data error

Hi all, I'm having a serious problem in my TF101 C10...
I cannot boot any OS (it get stuck into Android screen), but only into Recovery. When I try to wipe Factory Reset I get the following message:
Formatting /data...
Skipping erase of data/media.
Error removing /data/data/com.android.gallery3d/cache/156C764383426C78.bin!
Also I cannot Unmount the /data partition!!!
Can anybody help me?
Thanks in advance!

Can you update your recovery before trying to wipe ?
Unsure if that is possible, but if you can find a new recovery .zip, maybe you can flash it and then see if the wipe works

sandroaw said:
Hi all, I'm having a serious problem in my TF101 C10...
I cannot boot any OS (it get stuck into Android screen), but only into Recovery. When I try to wipe Factory Reset I get the following message:
Formatting /data...
Skipping erase of data/media.
Error removing /data/data/com.android.gallery3d/cache/156C764383426C78.bin!
Also I cannot Unmount the /data partition!!!
Can anybody help me?
Thanks in advance!
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Push a different recovery using easy flasher... preferably TWRP...
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udupa82 said:
Push a different recovery using easy flasher... preferably TWRP...
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Thank you for the reply udupa82, I've already tried the TWRP and didn't solved it, the same problem....

sandroaw said:
Thank you for the reply udupa82, I've already tried the TWRP and didn't solved it, the same problem....
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Did you out try formatting your internal memory ( wiping) using twrp...? Also reformat your micro SD using your computer and then copy just the ROM back on to it.... now in trap wipe everything and try installation of the ROM..
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udupa82 said:
Did you out try formatting your internal memory ( wiping) using twrp...? Also reformat your micro SD using your computer and then copy just the ROM back on to it.... now in trap wipe everything and try installation of the ROM..
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Yup, I tried to wipe using TWRP but I always get the error message of that file that cannot be deleted. I also tried the wiping option into coldboot but it doesn't helped either because the /data dir is not wiped...

I had the same problem what I did to resolve it was i formatted my internal storage via TWRP and tried to load the ROM and it booted fine.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1245892 use super wipe script to completely reformat partitions

VITUSH said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1245892 use super wipe script to completely reformat partitions
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Thank you VITUSH, it worked! I installed the ARHD 3.6 and is working fine!!
Thanks a lot!