OK I have a friend who rooted his phone and has voodoo lag fix recovery v5.0.2.7 when he first rooted I helped him put a rom made a nandroid backup first but now he wanted to make a back up and flash a different rom but when he goes into recovery and goes to back up it gives him error "can't mount backup path" so I went to mounts and storage and tried to mount the /sdcard and it says "error mounting sdcard" but with phone on everything thing works fine pictures and music save to SD and can be looked at or listened to just fine
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Hmmm, I believe I recall having that problem before. I would backup his sd card to a computer and then formatting it and trying to wish just the rom on there
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Hey guys,
So I flashed my Rogers i727R to CM9 a4 and found that when I installed ROOT browser to get to my files on my internal sdcard it was completely blank yet the files/apps/back ups are there still for sure. Is this a known problem or is mine just messed up?
Thanks
External SD is emmc not /emmc/SD card. Internal is /SD card. That's how it is with mine on cm9 a4
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copene said:
Hey guys,
So I flashed my Rogers i727R to CM9 a4 and found that when I installed ROOT browser to get to my files on my internal sdcard it was completely blank yet the files/apps/back ups are there still for sure. Is this a known problem or is mine just messed up?
Thanks
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The standard mounting in CM9 on a SkyRocket is for the internal sd card to be mounted in /emcc and the external sd card to be mounted in /sdcard.
Thanks guys, I figured that out. It looks like the problem is MUCH deeper. When in CWM recovery I can not back up or restore at all. I can navigate to "clockworkmod/backup" and SEE the folder but it says it's empty (it's not). I get "E: can't mount sdcard". I've tried the CMW Touch version too and I get the same outcome. I've formatted the card through stock, I've odin'd back to stock, I've done everything. "E:Can't mount sdcard" has plagued my fu**ing life. I have googled and searched my fingers off yet nothing works. I can see the card, the card has data, I can backup and recover through the ROM Manager with stock firmware but no matter what I do I can't do sh*t through recovery. What makes things worse is when I was using CM9a4 I couldn't back up or restore anything at anytime and when I went into storage I would have the memory greyed out (no colors indicating pictures/data/music/etc.) yet I could access all my data.
I'm ready to pitch this thing out the window. I try ONE ROM, follow instructions to the T and this happens...
copene said:
Thanks guys, I figured that out. It looks like the problem is MUCH deeper. When in CWM recovery I can not back up or restore at all. I can navigate to "clockworkmod/backup" and SEE the folder but it says it's empty (it's not). I get "E: can't mount sdcard". I've tried the CMW Touch version too and I get the same outcome. I've formatted the card through stock, I've odin'd back to stock, I've done everything. "E:Can't mount sdcard" has plagued my fu**ing life. I have googled and searched my fingers off yet nothing works. I can see the card, the card has data, I can backup and recover through the ROM Manager with stock firmware but no matter what I do I can't do sh*t through recovery. What makes things worse is when I was using CM9a4 I couldn't back up or restore anything at anytime and when I went into storage I would have the memory greyed out (no colors indicating pictures/data/music/etc.) yet I could access all my data.
I'm ready to pitch this thing out the window. I try ONE ROM, follow instructions to the T and this happens...
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I just now restored to CM9 a4 using touch recovery. I go back and forth between this and Sky ICS. Not sure what your issue could be.
I have no idea what to do next. I've tried everything.
Here's one thing...
when I navigate through ROOT Browser the sdcard is showing in the initial folder AS WELL as in mnt/sdcard
so the same card is at:
/sdcard AND mnt/sdcard
is this weird?
have you resolved this?? it just happened to me, can't mount internal sd
Isn't the internal sd mounted at /emmc on cm9?
Edit that's what I get for only reading the last 2 posts... NM, I guess.
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I've already flashed a custom recovery image of ClockworkMod Recovery 5.8.3.1 and have rebooted into recovery, which works fine.
I have Downloaded the latest version of CyanogenMod and gapps-ics and placed on the root of the sd card in my xoom. I have also tried this by placing this in the root on the internal storage but I am having the same issue here.
I can wipe data/factory reset fine, as well as wipe cache no issues, but then when I go into install zip from SD card, then choose zip from sd card I get the line E:Can't mount /sd/card/ so can't install the zips cm-9.0.0-rc1-wingray or gapps-ics
Any thoughts on what might be the issue here, and why I cant get to the zips. As I said I have tried this both ways, having the zips on the internal storage and on the actual SD card.
HELP! So so fed up with v3.2 I need CM9 on this!
I don't know if the message is caused by the launcher. I would disable the signature check and try again.
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I don't know if the message is caused by the launcher. I would disable the signature check and try again.
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I had the same problem, did a few google searches which indicated there was a problem with that version of ClockworkModRecovery, i ended up reflashing with ClockworkMod 3.2.0.0 (R4c) and all was fine after that.
Hope that helps,
K
Thanks will give that a go and post back later for if it helps others.
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Like the title says. I tried to search by the xda app makes it difficult to find exactly what I'm looking for. Anybody have a solution? It goes through the backup and is unable to mount /sdcard, then gives the error "Unable to find an appropriate backup handler." I back out and go to mounts and storage, and I clock on mount /sdcard. It simply refuses to mount. I'm at a loss.
Does the device boot up?
Aye. Device boots fine, works same as the day it came in the mail. I'm stuck running stock root66 because I can't do a backup (and you know, I like having backups before I flash a ROM). I've reflashed recovery via EZ-Recovery and ROM Manager, still nothing. I'm using Touch, if it matters.
Try cwm 6.0.1 non touch
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Try cwm 6.0.1 non touch
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Ok, I'll report back in a few.
EDIT: Here's what both CWM versions display.
ClockworkMod Recovery v6.0.1.2
SD Card space free: 47601MB
Backing up boot image...
Backing up recovery image...
Backing up system...
Freeing space...
Done freeing space.
Backing up data...
Backing up .android_secure...
Unable to find mounted volume: /sdcard
Error finding an appropriate backup handler.
Then it proceeds to cancel the backup.
Is this the first time you've had trouble accessing the SD card via recovery?
sullivan1985 said:
Is this the first time you've had trouble accessing the SD card via recovery?
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Yes, the old kexec recovery worked just fine for me.
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Vorfidus said:
Yes, the old kexec recovery worked just fine for me.
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i had the same problem when switching from synergy to cm10. i unlocked the phone using the ez unlock app, rebooted, went to make a backup before the cm10 leap.....insert being frustrated as hell here.
ended up just trying twrm instead of cwm and it backed up fine. been using it since.
Sounds as if you have a corrupted internal sd. Might want to move everything over to ext sd and wipe data/ factory reset from stock recovery.
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Ok, I'll report back in a few.
EDIT: Here's what both CWM versions display.
ClockworkMod Recovery v6.0.1.2
SD Card space free: 47601MB
Backing up boot image...
Backing up recovery image...
Backing up system...
Freeing space...
Done freeing space.
Backing up data...
Backing up .android_secure...
Unable to find mounted volume: /sdcard
Error finding an appropriate backup handler.
Then it proceeds to cancel the backup.
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i had the same problem, i tried backing up and it makes a backup folder and with everything but the md5 file. even though it says it cant mount /sdcard. it dose the same thing even when i try to backup to the extsd. i click report error, then before for rebooting it asked if i wanted to flash stock recovery i said yes. i went in to the market and got ez recovery and flashed the cwm that is in that program and did a back up with that and it worked. hoped i helped
Is it working for you?
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thats the same cwm i recomended in my initial post...cwm 6.0.1.1 from ez- recovery.
Flashed instigator kernel onto chimera mod without explicitly checking to see if it would work (i know)
phone soft bricked
fixed using CWM, restored back up, but could not flash anything afterwards
error looks something like this
E:Can't open /sdcard/ROM/vincom/[rom name].zip
(bad)
Installation aborted
Restored to stock using odin, reinstalled CWM but same error. Installed TWRP but same error
everything works perfectly fine but can't flash anything, same error for any flash
never seen this problem before, don't think its in this forum anywhere
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks.
Tried formatting your SD card yet?
T.J. Bender said:
Tried formatting your SD card yet?
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I'm on TWRP 2.2.0 right not, can't get back to CWM because of no flashing thing.
as far as i can see no format sd option on TWRP
is wipe SD the same as format on here?
Turn your phone off, then remove the SD card and plug it into your PC with an adapter. Format it from there. I've had better results that way.
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Tried formatting your SD card yet?
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yeah both internal and external no change
Brownsugar064 said:
Flashed instigator kernel onto chimera mod without explicitly checking to see if it would work (i know)
phone soft bricked
fixed using CWM, restored back up, but could not flash anything afterwards
error looks something like this
E:Can't open /sdcard/ROM/vincom/[rom name].zip
(bad)
Installation aborted
Restored to stock using odin, reinstalled CWM but same error. Installed TWRP but same error
everything works perfectly fine but can't flash anything, same error for any flash
never seen this problem before, don't think its in this forum anywhere
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks.
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Check the md5 for the rom? What's with the E: prompt?
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Out of curiosity, what are/were you trying to flash?
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Ya its like you are trying to flash the path to the rom instead of the rom itself. Is that error message showing up in the cwm ui or in the odin window on your pc?
If it's in odin.. You can't flash a zip file. You'll need to unzip the zip (7zip?) and flash the tar file inside if it is a odin type file. Otherwise flash the rom with cwm or better yet TWRP.
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Ya its like you are trying to flash the path to the rom instead of the rom itself. Is that error message showing up in the cwm ui or in the odin window on your pc?
If it's in odin.. You can't flash a zip file. You'll need to unzip the zip (7zip?) and flash the tar file inside if it is a odin type file. Otherwise flash the rom with cwm or better yet TWRP.
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I'm not trying to flash a zip file in odin.
That appeared in CWMT 6.0.1.4, similar message appeared in TWRP.
In each case it has trouble opening the zip file containing whatever rom i'm trying to flash, doesn't matter the path, rom, sdcard, whatever.
pretty sure there's nothing wrong with any of the files or the sd cards, the phone just can't open a zip package from anywhere.
However, CWM worked, once, going from CWM 5 to CWM 6, only time it's done anything in a recovery.
I have attempted to flash multiple roms including cm9, cm10, superlite, and chimera, in CWM 5, CWM 6 sk8terwitskil's version, and TWRP 2.2.0
EDIT:
i had some luck with flashing a zip that just contained google now.
I noticed today that the sd card worked without my normal files on it (the zip was in the downloads folder) and the major difference that I see is before I restored the sd card files android.secure wasn't on the sd card.
I have android.secure on both the internal and external sd cards, (since restoring my original ext sdcard files) not sure if that's normal or not.
Should i just remove android.secure and see if it works? Can the phone do without it if that's not the problem?
is android secure supposed to be on both cards? My gut says no.
What the **** is android.secure anyway?
are zips that contain just apps or services like google now (non-wipe) fundamentally different from ROMs in some way that would let them flash but not the ROM zips?
Thanks to everyone who has responded and helped so far.
If anyone has answers to these questions I would appreciate it.
So Im starting my gamut of backups before i begin unlocking/rooting this thing and Ive run in to a little roadblock. Im currently trying to backup my IMEI/EFS per this thread (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1852255). Step one check. Step two no check: While trying to run the synergy zip, I am unable to mount the sdcard in stock recovery to "install the package". Apply update from external storage>E:failed to mount /sdcard (invalid argument). I have a 64GB scandisc mini that I have watched some movies off of ect. I didnt format it just used it out of the box. Any thoughts? Ill post if i figure out my user error...
Coming from droid charge mostly at rootzwiki, I would have posted this question to the thread linked above but XDA sayz I noob no can post developer thread X/
You have to be rooted to run the zip and on a custom recovery.
Edit: I'm not sure if you must be unlocked but I know you need to be rooted to run the Synergy zip. Also, custom recoveries only see your external sd card if its formatted to Fat32.
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yea thats what i ended up doing, but it sounded like it could be done on a fully stock rom...
SlimSnoopOS said:
You have to be rooted to run the zip and on a custom recovery.
Edit: I'm not sure if you must be unlocked but I know you need to be rooted to run the Synergy zip. Also, custom recoveries only see your external sd card if its formatted to Fat32.
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