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Recovery problems

So I rooted through the NV recovery flasher and flashed miui I wanted to switch and try eagle blood. But my recovery is being dumb and won't let me make a nandroid it say cannot write sytem data or something.
So I tried to get a new recovery but when I download one it says cannot download recovery.
Someone please help!
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Jerald2 said:
So I rooted through the NV recovery flasher and flashed miui I wanted to switch and try eagle blood. But my recovery is being dumb and won't let me make a nandroid it say cannot write sytem data or something.
So I tried to get a new recovery but when I download one it says cannot download recovery.
Someone please help!
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1056847
I would go here and start over from the beginning. Sounds like something didnt go correctly for ya.

Jerald2 said:
So I rooted through the NV recovery flasher and flashed miui I wanted to switch and try eagle blood. But my recovery is being dumb and won't let me make a nandroid it say cannot write sytem data or something.
So I tried to get a new recovery but when I download one it says cannot download recovery.
Someone please help!
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Do you have a physical sd card in the phone. The backups made in CWM are made to the 'external sd card' which is a micro-sd card you insert into your phone. If you are just using the internal memory I believe the backup will fail as it is looking for an actual sd card. Sounds like you are using ROM manager also. Probably the same reason it cannot download any other recoveries. But you should only flash a recovery with NVFlash. ROM manager does not install recovery to the actual recovery partition and does what people here call a 'fake flash' and is storing the recovery image elsewhere on the phone and tricking the phone to boot into it by having recovery apply an update.zip at boot. Use real recovery not fake RM recovery.

I figured it out, its just that my SD card went bad it wont even let me format it again. I pit a new SD in there and its working just right. Any one have any tips on the SD card card dying?
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Jerald2 said:
I figured it out, its just that my SD card went bad it wont even let me format it again. I pit a new SD in there and its working just right. Any one have any tips on the SD card card dying?
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Is it a cheap Chinese SD card? If so just break it in half and throw it away. If a good card try deleting the partition, create a new partition, make it active and try to format it. There are also freeware apps you can download to try and repair sd cards. if that fails toss it, its life is over. :-( Not worth risking your device on a bad card. I had a cheap Chinese chard in a BlackBerry and the BlackBerry kept running erratically and rebotting, etc. It turned out to be the sd card causing all the problems. Once I put a new one in the BB worked with no problems again.

[Q]why dont i have no more space????:(

hi there i have installed a few roms and now my phone space is gone i dont have everything i cant install apps from market and stuff :S and i am running kyorarom (v0.5.2 jpu) and i cant update it becuase i dont have free space on my intern memory how can i fix this or how do i great more space???
i have installed a other rom kyrillos rom 9.5 and still have the same problem annd when i reboot my phone all i need to do settings al over agian but still i dont have any space could someone help please ?

Ganoess said:
hi there i have installed a few roms and now my phone space is gone i dont have everything i cant install apps from market and stuff :S and i am running kyorarom (v0.5.2 jpu) and i cant update it becuase i dont have free space on my intern memory how can i fix this or how do i great more space???
i have installed a other rom kyrillos rom 9.5 and still have the same problem annd when i reboot my phone all i need to do settings al over agian but still i dont have any space could someone help please ?
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Did you wipe data? Also if it doesn't work, sear h around for a zerofill.tar to flash, then flash a rom over it.
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bscraze said:
Did you wipe data? Also if it doesn't work, sear h around for a zerofill.tar to flash, then flash a rom over it.
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do you no where i can download it?
i already found it an read good stuff of it thanks for the help

use your sd card for more space
zerofill tar sounds to me like:
writing lots of "0" to the internal sd?
-> equal to a format of /system?
-> system is gone, mobile doesnt boot
-> all data lost?
Checked the features of kyorarom and what do I see...
Hybrid Data2SD and SD card swap
Why dont you use that feature?
Ah... I see... you didnt create an ext4 partition?
Thsi partition is needed for the feature above!
how to:
Create an ext4 partition via CWM
using this feature will move all user apps to sd card
have a fast card on your side and make a backup of your sd card data
-> all data will be lost on sd card when you repartition your card!!!!!

I think u r facing 0.0kb internal memory bug... if so flash with data.rfs
If not, go to recovery, wipe dalvik cache... format sd ext.. mount data... and mount sd ext
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austin266 said:
I think u r facing 0.0kb internal memory bug... if so flash with data.rfs
If not, go to recovery, wipe dalvik cache... format sd ext.. mount data... and mount sd ext
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yeah i have that problem i can solve that with zerofill.tar right ? or do i need something els?

qaysedcftgb said:
zerofill tar sounds to me like:
writing lots of "0" to the internal sd?
-> equal to a format of /system?
-> system is gone, mobile doesnt boot
-> all data lost?
Checked the features of kyorarom and what do I see...
Hybrid Data2SD and SD card swap
Why dont you use that feature?
Ah... I see... you didnt create an ext4 partition?
Thsi partition is needed for the feature above!
how to:
Create an ext4 partition via CWM
using this feature will move all user apps to sd card
have a fast card on your side and make a backup of your sd card data
-> all data will be lost on sd card when you repartition your card!!!!!
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i think i stay with kyrillos never had problems with it only when i installed kyrorarom i got the bug from 0.0kb internal memory bug

hmm when i put my sdcard in it and reboot my phone says 0.0kb internal memory when i reboot without sdcard i got 100mb free agian so i dont no what to do

put the sdcard in PC and check the card if its working
backup data
delete all partitions on sdcard
put card in mobile
boot into cwm
repartition the card
check the space
just a thought:
could it be, that the sdcard is only full?
or defective?

qaysedcftgb said:
put the sdcard in PC and check the card if its working
backup data
delete all partitions on sdcard
put card in mobile
boot into cwm
repartition the card
check the space
just a thought:
could it be, that the sdcard is only full?
or defective?
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The sdcard works fine i can see all my stuff when i have it in my phone but i wil try that empty my sdcard and i will make backup from it to my pc i hope this works

oh... a second please...
I remember something right now...
In my very early days (ECLAIR flashing) I remember that someone had also space 0.0 MB
And afaik the solution was to flash the CSC file (?) or something like that again...
That was the reason in these days why I flashed all (!) firmware versions from
xxjg7 to xxjk1
well... in froyo days...
I know that this posting is not very helpful, but you might find something similar with these hints in the net...
Hope this helps forward

Flashing zero fill should solve to 0.0kb problem, it formats everything on your phone, then flash a rom over it. If doesn't work, backup your SD card and format your sd ext and your whole SD card.
Cheers
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my problem is fixed i forgot to format data en sd-ext thanks all for youre help and now i am busy with multiboot and stuff got a lot af roms to try

Need to format SD card...

My ROM does not have a format button in the settings, is there another way to format the internal SD space within Android itself?

Jessical said:
My ROM does not have a format button in the settings, is there another way to format the internal SD space within Android itself?
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Quite possibly, kinda. Are you rooted? If so, what recovery are you using? Most recoveries allow you to do this.
Why do u need to format within android? Why not just format from your pc?
Using SeanZ's SkyICS 4.2F r2 v6B ROM / XDA Premium

Boot into recovery, select Mounts and storage then format sdcard/ or emmc whichever one you are wanting to format
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gs2usr said:
Boot into recovery, select Mounts and storage then format sdcard/ or emmc whichever one you are wanting to format
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this is correct, or as an alternative u could either a) hook it up to a computer, mount it and format, or b) use adb, but I recommend either a or the method gs2usr suggested

im gonna post in this thread instead of making a new one since im having a similar issue.
In CW recovery it'll tell me it cant mount my sd-ext and as well give me an error when trying to install a custom rom from my emmc, so do i need to do a format of both of those in order to get a custom rom to finally install again?
i've had this error ever since i switched back to rogers stock 4.0.4 to try it out

I'm getting errors in cwm too. How can I do it in ADB? Macs don't do fat32 correctly and I don't have a Windows machine.

confyzone said:
im gonna post in this thread instead of making a new one since im having a similar issue.
In CW recovery it'll tell me it cant mount my sd-ext and as well give me an error when trying to install a custom rom from my emmc, so do i need to do a format of both of those in order to get a custom rom to finally install again?
i've had this error ever since i switched back to rogers stock 4.0.4 to try it out
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Figured it out. Please try this and see if it fixes your internal aswell.
So go ahead if you don't have it, ADB install a copy of Root Explorer.
Go into the emmc folder and give it read and write permissions.
Now, in the settings, under storage, it should let you reformat the disk again and you should be okay.
I have no idea what's up with CWR, but we were told not to use it anymore on our Kindles due to it messing with partitions. But this is how I just fixed my Skyrocket, just in time for the fireworks tonight.

when in cwm, mount the emmc first

Jessical said:
Figured it out. Please try this and see if it fixes your internal aswell.
So go ahead if you don't have it, ADB install a copy of Root Explorer.
Go into the emmc folder and give it read and write permissions.
Now, in the settings, under storage, it should let you reformat the disk again and you should be okay.
I have no idea what's up with CWR, but we were told not to use it anymore on our Kindles due to it messing with partitions. But this is how I just fixed my Skyrocket, just in time for the fireworks tonight.
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Gonna give it a go I don't use root explorer but i use es file explorer which is the same pretty much
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Stuck during root (can't see SuperSU.zip)

So...I've been following Shabby's thread in the dev forum, but can't post there yet due to being new. Everything works fine to the point where he says to flash the SuperSU zip from recovery.
Basically, there's nothing seen on the SD card in recovery mode. I've verified the file is there from the Terminal in normal mode, and the permissions are a mix of 777 and 755 in there. Only the DCIM and bug2go directories appear in recovery. What am I doing wrong?
Thanks in advance to anyone who replies. I am a happy lady with this phone but want to finish the root job!

internal sdcard or external sdcard?

shabbypenguin said:
internal sdcard or external sdcard?
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Wow, I was not expecting you to answer personally
Er...it's a 16GB microSD card i purchased and put into the SD slot. I suppose that makes it external...? At any rate I know the recovery flash is looking at it because I see the same directory structure in Android's terminal at /sdcard/, just almost nothing in it shows up in recovery.

Azuma Hazuki said:
Wow, I was not expecting you to answer personally
Er...it's a 16GB microSD card i purchased and put into the SD slot. I suppose that makes it external...? At any rate I know the recovery flash is looking at it because I see the same directory structure in Android's terminal at /sdcard/, just almost nothing in it shows up in recovery.
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I think there is a selection somewhere that you can tell it what to see as the SDCard, internal or external. Read it somewhere. Or maybe that doesn't apply here, just trying to help

If you downloaded it with your phone it is saved in a folder on the internal storage, use the files app to copy it to external 1, which is ur sd card. Cwm doesn't see internal storage, everything is saved to and pulled from the sd card when in recovery.
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fallnSaint said:
If you downloaded it with your phone it is saved in a folder on the internal storage, use the files app to copy it to external 1, which is ur sd card. Cwm doesn't see internal storage, everything is saved to and pulled from the sd card when in recovery.
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It worked! I feel derpy lol, lol. Thanks, everyone

i need to track down internal storage so i can add it to cwm before submitting it

shabbypenguin said:
i need to track down internal storage so i can add it to cwm before submitting it
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It's probably my only real complaint about this phone. Internal storage showing up as /sdcard is just stupid, but I understand why they did it.

I hit this bug while rooting mom's phone. I grabbed the microSD from my tablet and it worked great

shabbypenguin said:
i need to track down internal storage so i can add it to cwm before submitting it
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Think I found it in data/media, that what u were lookin for? Guess that makes sense, a data wipe clears it.
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whoa what?!
a factory reset wipes out internal storage?
does it do it on stock or just cwm?
and yes i need to know a bit more info if it is /data/media as its home

Haven't done a stock reset yet, workin on figuring out how to. Confirm wipe data/ factory reset in cwm wipes the internal sd.
There is a shortcut in the root of system dir, as well as in /mnt, to sd card (internal). Both have the sd icon next to them, data/media location shows as a folder. Idk what all you want on this, lemme know what I can get for you. I will figure out how to stock reset to confirm.
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Found it, looks like it will wipe internal sd.
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Ran it and confirmed; internal sd is wiped.
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fallnSaint said:
Found it, looks like it will wipe internal sd.
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Ran it and confirmed; internal sd is wiped.
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internal storage isnt internal sdcard. that is talking about /data
either way since i cant find what partition internal sdcard is i made the unnecessary changes to cwm source ill be building a newer build tomorrow

Sorry Shabby, I misunderstood. Didn't mean to waste your time.
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fallnSaint said:
Sorry Shabby, I misunderstood. Didn't mean to waste your time.
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wasnt a waste i got internal sd mapped now, a factory reset will wipe all teh stuff listed above, however it very well could have been wiping the internal sdcard. so if that was teh case its cuz of you it was avoided

[Q] about what i am thinking of doing

i am thinking of doing a clean install on my phone
what i was planning to do is format everything sd/external sd
format system on CWM
i just dont want any traces from anything or any folder left behind on my phone
what is the best way to do this?
i dont wanna end up bricking it :crying:
any help is appreciated

Heimdall or Odin install stock UCLB3 GB, or stock froyo..
Then format sd cards from Settings, then factory reset from Settings.
Optional... Connect phone to PC,mount drives and use a data wipe utility on both sd cards...
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Zen Arcade said:
Heimdall or Odin install stock UCLB3 GB, or stock froyo..
Then format sd cards from Settings, then factory reset from Settings.
Optional... Connect phone to PC,mount drives and use a data wipe utility on both sd cards...
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I was thinking of flashing the same rom im using now after formatting everything?or i should go to stock before formatting?
Is it advisable to format sdcard and external sd from cwm??

wawaweewa said:
I was thinking of flashing the same rom im using now after formatting everything?or i should go to stock before formatting?
Is it advisable to format sdcard and external sd from cwm??
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My personal choice is to format both SD cards on the computer.Takes a couple of minutes,but if using Windows uncheck the quick format option,after that in recovery go to mounts and storage and format cache,data,system and boot

Go here and get qksters clean wipes. I flash this before every flash and rarely have bad flashes or bugs related to dirty flashes
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=23965646
U can format internal and external sd from pc then flash clean wipes then flash ur rom or odin back to stock then flash ur rom
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wawaweewa said:
I was thinking of flashing the same rom im using now after formatting everything?or i should go to stock before formatting?
Is it advisable to format sdcard and external sd from cwm??
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What ridingmac said
Or, from recovery you can format system, wipe caches, and clear data/factory reset. Then flash the ROM.
Either way, DO NOT format or erase your sdcards. Make sure your ROM install zip is copied to your internal sdcard before the steps above.
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elbscorp said:
My personal choice is to format both SD cards on the computer.Takes a couple of minutes,but if using Windows uncheck the quick format option,after that in recovery go to mounts and storage and format cache,data,system and boot
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thanks that is what i am going to do because i copied the files of both sd in my pc
Ridingmac said:
Go here and get qksters clean wipes. I flash this before every flash and rarely have bad flashes or bugs related to dirty flashes
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=23965646
U can format internal and external sd from pc then flash clean wipes then flash ur rom or odin back to stock then flash ur rom
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will this erase the folders in sd card (not external)
because i am seeing a lot of folders/files ( that are not usually there, from previous flash i think
Zen Arcade said:
What ridingmac said
Or, from recovery you can format system, wipe caches, and clear data/factory reset. Then flash the ROM.
Either way, DO NOT format or erase your sdcards. Make sure your ROM install zip is copied to your internal sdcard before the steps above.
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thanks for the replies well appreciated ill probably do this tomorrow

The clean wipes wont touch your sd cards internal or external. It will only delete ur current rom and such so make sure you have a cwm flashable rom in ur internal or external sd card before flashing clean wipes or that u can odin back to stock. I would reccoment a nandroid backup before doing anything.....like always
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