I am looking over how I'll recover my gtab in an emergency, and I have moved a backup I have done in Clockwork mod to the MicroSD card I received recently. Today I booted into ClockWork mod, and tried to mount the 'external' card with "mount /sd-ext" and get this error:
E:Can't mount /dev/block/mmcblk0p2
(No such file or directory)
Error mounting SDEXT:!
Am I doing something wrong here?
Scott
PS ClockWork MOD 0.8
i beleive that in the case you are preparing for what you would do is backup the file to a computer. When you need to copy it back to the device for restoring you would enter CWM and mount usb under mounts/storage and plug your tab into your computer using the smaller usb port on the tab. this will allow for copying from your computer to the internal memory of the tablet. then you can unmount usb and restore your backup. If i'm wrong someone please correct me.
Ah yesh just tried that with mine in CWM, man CWM is several layers of awesome!
Attempting to partition sd card with ext4 -a process I completed multiple times successfully on a Nexus One, the process appeared to complete but now the phone will not mount the sd card. I've tried a wipe/reset, to no avail. I can still access and partition the sd card through adb, but the phone cannot mount it to format/partition, restore from recovery, partition sd-card from within ClockWork Recovery, nothing. I've re-partitioned the sd card through adb, which indicated a successful completion, but the phone still refuses to mount the sd card. If this weren't a Nexus S with it's cursed internal sd-card I would simply swap out the sd card with another or format it externally like all the google topics I pull up on the subject suggest.
Is this fixable or has the fused sd-card scenario become a liability?
Common Error messages:
Can't mount /sdcard
Can't mount /sdcard/.android_secure
Phone: Nexus S
Recovery Img: ClockworkMod Recovery 3.0.2.4
Rom: CM 7.0.3 (now wiped, cannot put back on since sd card won't mount)
fstab:
/dev/block/mtdblock4 /cache yaffs2 rw
/dev/block/platform/s3c-sdhci.0/by-name/userdata /data ext4 rw
/dev/block/platform/s3c-sdhci.0/by-name/system /system ext4 rw
/dev/block/platform/s3c-sdhci.0/by-name/media /sdcard vfat rw
Can mount everything except the last one, /sdcard.
I've attempted all: wipe/reset, format using clockwork, partition using clockwork, partition using adb, changing fstab, etc etc.
All topics I've found on the net end up being resolved by taking out the sd-card and formatting externally or using different card. i've had a N1 for well over a year and done far worse without problems, this phone seems to be very fragile for a 'developer' phone.
Jacks0n said:
Attempting to partition sd card with ext4 -a process I completed multiple times successfully on a Nexus One, the process appeared to complete but now the phone will not mount the sd card. I've tried a wipe/reset, to no avail. I can still access and partition the sd card through adb, but the phone cannot mount it to format/partition, restore from recovery, partition sd-card from within ClockWork Recovery, nothing. I've re-partitioned the sd card through adb, which indicated a successful completion, but the phone still refuses to mount the sd card. If this weren't a Nexus S with it's cursed internal sd-card I would simply swap out the sd card with another or format it externally like all the google topics I pull up on the subject suggest.
Is this fixable or has the fused sd-card scenario become a liability?
Common Error messages:
Can't mount /sdcard
Can't mount /sdcard/.android_secure
Phone: Nexus S
Recovery Img: ClockworkMod Recovery 3.0.2.4
Rom: CM 7.0.3 (now wiped, cannot put back on since sd card won't mount)
fstab:
/dev/block/mtdblock4 /cache yaffs2 rw
/dev/block/platform/s3c-sdhci.0/by-name/userdata /data ext4 rw
/dev/block/platform/s3c-sdhci.0/by-name/system /system ext4 rw
/dev/block/platform/s3c-sdhci.0/by-name/media /sdcard vfat rw
Can mount everything except the last one, /sdcard.
I've attempted all: wipe/reset, format using clockwork, partition using clockwork, partition using adb, changing fstab, etc etc.
All topics I've found on the net end up being resolved by taking out the sd-card and formatting externally or using different card. i've had a N1 for well over a year and done far worse without problems, this phone seems to be very fragile for a 'developer' phone.
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Are you able to go with ADB through the directories?
and yeah, false Section! Q&A would be better
I am having the same issue. I actually just got my phone back from Samsung support (which is real ****ty) because the SD card started having I/O issues.
According to the ticket information they replaced the PCB.
Anyway, I immediately installed Clockwork recovery and transferred the latest Blandroid rom to the root of the SD card. No matter what I do I cannot mount the SD card from the recovery menu or format it from the recovery menu. Mounting USB storage works fine, though.
Hiya I got the same problem
Any salutation yet ?
Yeah. Don't format the internal storage with clockworkmod etc.
I have that issue I cant even open phone now
albundy2010 said:
Yeah. Don't format the internal storage with clockworkmod etc.
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Hi The phone just stuck in boot logo I can patch iso file from adb though but I cant mount or even wipe devlink cache I dont know what to do ?
Did you ever get this resolved? If so, can you tell me how you did it?
Jouten said:
Did you ever get this resolved? If so, can you tell me how you did it?
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1.power off...on it back...test it
2.plug your usb cable, boot into recovery..will heard usb sound from your PC, if does not work, try several times plug the usb untill you get usb sound...unplug, then reboot...
3.fresh install ROM...
Yeah, don't mess with the internal memory. I semi-bricked a Droid Incredible one time doing that. It ended up making all the internal partitions FAT. Took me hours to fix it. Be careful. I am afraid to even do it on my crespo4g. When I mount it in gparted running Linux Mint, the internal sd card showed up as not partitioned. I didn't even think about trying to partition it thinking back on the Incredible.
A solution, at least, for flashing/updating roms
Just happened to me, using CM9 after enabling the encryption I can't access the /data /sdcard paths. It would be nice to be able to read them but for me the biggest problem was how to update to the latest CM9 nighty.
In the end I've tricked the clockwork recovery to think the cache partition is the sdcard. I'll post the method in case someone find it useful.
1. Tranfer the update to the cache partition.
- Normally big enough, wipe it from the cwm if there is not enough space
adb push update-cm-9-20120305-NIGHTLY-crespo-signed.zip /cache/update.zip
2. Log into the phone and mount cache to sdcard.
adb shell
mount /dev/block/mtdblock4 /sdcard
3. Go into the cwm option to flash the uploaded package, it wont give you the mount error as we already mounted /sdcard
4. After the update log again and clear the update package, and unmount /sdcard
adb shell
rm /cache/update.zip
umount /sdcard
As long as you don't have to wipe you can continue updating and using your encrypted storage without much trouble
Help, internal storage not showing
Hi,
I wanted to go back from CM9 to Stock rom, but now I did something wrong (don't know what exactly) and my device is still on CM, but unable to access the internal storage. I cannot even take pictures or access it through CWM.
Any thoughts?
Hi i flash locky another CWR AND IT'S FIX LUCKY ME B^)
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getting SD card back
rellivisit said:
Hi,
I wanted to go back from CM9 to Stock rom, but now I did something wrong (don't know what exactly) and my device is still on CM, but unable to access the internal storage. I cannot even take pictures or access it through CWM.
Any thoughts?
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I have had no luck using multiple methods to partition sd card with Nexus S. Each time I can view the modified fat32 partition from windows, add files etc, but cannot be recognised from within CWM recovery.
Left me unable to reflash roms etc.
The only thing which has worked for me is to use mini tool for windows and mount usb storage from recovery. Do a refresh from mini tool and it should come up in the list of drives. delete the partition(s) you find there (not your notebook ones of course), and reformat it as fat 32.
CWM>Advanced>Reboot recovery, move over your rom to the sd card, then try to find it in CWM, should now show up :fingers-crossed:
Hi all,
I have recently flashed RevolutionROM with Galaxian kernel onto my SGS I9000.
I then flashed Darky's ROM 10.2.2 to my wife's phone (same model) and love it so want to flash it to mine too. So I need to flash Darky's Resurrection 10.2 first but can't get any PC (I've tried 3 of them - 2 with Ubuntu Linux and 1 with Windows 7) to recognise the phone over USB.
I plug in the USB and it vibrates and charges, but I get nothing on the phone display (i.e. USB mass storage screen) and the PC doesn't detect it at all.
I also tried it in Download mode but it was again not detected by the PC (Heimdall).
I'm figuring there is something wrong with the physical USB connection in the phone, as the same cable and PC worked on my wife's phone just yesterday.
So, a couple of questions:
1. Any suggestion for how to fix the USB issue?
2. Assuming I can't figure out the USB issue, is there any way to flash a ROM without USB connectivity?
thanks
Aaron
Anyone? Thanks
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Have you tried reinstalling the drivers on your pc?
Hi,
Thanks, I appreciate your response but ask that you read my original post again - as i stated I tried it on 3 different PCs and that my wife's phone is detected fine.
It seems to be moot now unfortunately as I think I may have bricked my phone last night. I tried restoring a previous nandroid backup via CWM recovery and ended up in a boot loop. I was able to get back to recovery but now when I try to do anything I just get a heap of error messages saying it's unable to mount/find various filesystem locations.
I can get into download mode but without access by USB it is no help to me.
cheers
Aaron
Your device is not bricked. As long as you can get into recovery mode, you are fine. Have you tried using a new SD card, placing a rom on it then flashing it via CWM Recovery?
Theonew said:
Your device is not bricked. As long as you can get into recovery mode, you are fine. Have you tried using a new SD card, placing a rim on it then flashing it via CWM Recovery?
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Thanks Theonew. Can you help me with how to go about that?
When I go into CWM recovery and try to restore a backup it simply shows several messages on the screen basically saying it can't mount or find any of the locations it's looking for (sorry I'm at work and don't have it with me to get the exact error messages) then returns to the recovery menu.
With that, I made the (possibly incorrect) assumption that the recovery is not going to be able to access any ROM that I might be able to put on the external SD card (and certainly not on the internal SD card).
If there's a way to do it though, I'm keen to give it a try. I have a 2GB external card that I can place a ROM on, but how would I get CWM recovery to flash it from there?
thanks
Aaron
Now that I'm back from work, here's the error messages I am consistently getting in CWM recovery.
Pretty much anything I try to do results in a variation of these errors appearing:
This one was after trying to apply update.zip from sd card.
Code:
E:unknown volume for path [/sdcard/update.zip]
E:Can't mount /sdcard/update.zip
Installation aborted.
E:unknown volume for path [/cache/recovery/log]
E:Can't mount /cache/recovery/log
E:Can't open /cache/recovery/log
E:unknown volume for path [/cache/recovery/last_log]
E:Can't mount /cache/recovery/last_log
E:Can't open /cache/recovery/last_log
E:unknown volume for path [/cache/recovery/command]
Try looking for the zip of the rom instead of the update.zip (install zip from SDcard -> Choose zip from SDcard)
Best bet is just put a new ROM in the root (i.e not in any folder) and look for it and flash make sure to clear out all the old stuff.
Hi, thanks again for the response. There are no actions I can take in CWM that don't result in the errors and failure (except reboot and test keys!)
I can't access anything that is stored as it's not mounting any partitions.
I can't add anything to the root because my USB isn't working.
thanks
Aaron
aaronlp said:
Hi, thanks again for the response. There are no actions I can take in CWM that don't result in the errors and failure (except reboot and test keys!)
I can't access anything that is stored as it's not mounting any partitions.
I can't add anything to the root because my USB isn't working.
thanks
Aaron
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Try flashing a new version of ClockworkMod Recovery.
Theonew said:
Try flashing a new version of ClockworkMod Recovery.
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Thanks again. How? I can't find any solutions that don't require USB.
Cheers
Aaron
aaronlp said:
Thanks again. How? I can't find any solutions that don't require USB.
Cheers
Aaron
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Use rom manager. Just hope that you don't get the error during flashing.
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Use rom manager. Just hope that you don't get the error during flashing.
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Thanks but I can't get into the OS at all, it's boot looping unless I get into download or recovery.
I was running scotts newest build 2/3/13 JB however my internal sd card kept failing.. i read going back to stock would fix the problem.. i have gone all the way back to gingerbread before and i got odin to work for me in doing this, ( it says it successfully passes, however when the setup shows up on my phone it says
"E: failed to mount /dbdata (File exist)
E: copy_dbdata_media: Can't mount /dbdata
your storage not prepared yet. please use UI menu for format and reboot options."
. I really need help i feel really dumb for trying this. I should also mention that i formatted my internal sd card before doing this
Ok so i was able to get it working i used a different tar file that was linked to me. i completly forgot how GB looked like did not miss it at all
I was attempting to clean up my SDCard1 when I accidentally formatted SDcard0. Now it refuses to mount and refuses to format.
I was on CarbonRom 4.4.4.
When I try to mount it says:
"Error mounting /storage/sdcard0/"
When I try to format it says:
"Could not format /storage/sdcard0"
Now it suddenly will no longer let me mount scard1 I have no idea what to do now!
I am at a complete loss, I believe it was formatted as exfat as I thought I was doing the external SDCard1. I am currently in CWM-based Recover v6.0.5.0 and have no idea what to do.
About the only thing I can do is choose "Install zip from sideload" and it seems to pop stuff up on my computer.
I just hope the phone is salvageable.
Any help would be appreciated.
UPDATE: Well, now the phone died and when I try to turn it on it gets the icon with the phone, the exclamation symbol, and the computer. I can't even get it into download mode. I might be out of luck now.
UPDATE2: Well I just said "Screw it" and plugged in the USB with that logo, odin detected it, and I unbricked back to GB. It rebooted and I am now in the setup screen, so I hope I am home free.
UPDATE3: I finally got it back to KitKat and it seems to be working fine.