Hello
I bricked my Acer A200
What I did:
root and unlock with SimpleTool V2
installed CWM
Started in recovery, did full wipe
after this getting the information, that /data can not be found
restart => rien ne va plus....
after this trying with fastboot, ADB, tools like TWRP, CWM etc to get something work again
manuelly cleared and also removed files and folders with ADB
at last using Weapon ROM Installer and get flashed a ROM BUT
now my internal Card ist not fully useable - the storage information says 66MB
I can not install any apps and
the system always get aback to zero, when I do a restart
I think, I bricked the internal partition of the whole system..../data is still not usable....etc...
If you have any ideas what to do - I'll be very happy and grateful for help!
Best regards,
teacherhh
Did you make full backup? I think you have to flash mbr and replace vold.fstab (/system/etc/vold.fstab) with the original vold.fstab.
no backup
boTbl4 said:
Did you make full backup?
I think you have to flash mbr and replace vold.fstab (/system/etc/vold.fstab) with the original vold.fstab.
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I made a nandori backup at the start, but can't restore it.
how to flash mbr?
and what can I do without vold.fstab?
normseq are
mbr.img in the backup directory (512 bytes)
or raw MBR (~over 16 kb)
Sorry, but I do not know gpt and mount options of this device. You can try the following:
1. (google translate) "How to Completely reset the tablet to factory settings
1) Turn off the tablet;
2) set the screen lock lever to the left;
3) Hold down the addition of the volume (the portion of the volume rocker, which is closer to the levers lock) power key;
4) As soon as the tablet vibrates release the power button and set the lever lock the screen from right to left until you see these 2 lines
Erasing Userdata ...
Erasing Cache ...
It should continue to hold down the volume;
5) In the upper left corner of the line will begin formatting;
6) The tablet is pristine)))"
2. format all partitions with this CWM Recovery script (all data will be deleted) (can not post outside link, leave me a message to icq 230921979)
3. install firmware with CWM for bricked device, how-to is here (the same). Good luck!
boTbl4 said:
mbr.img in the backup directory (512 bytes)
or raw MBR (~over 16 kb)
in /cache/recovery are only log-files....
Sorry, but I do not know gpt and mount options of this device. You can try the following:
1. (google translate) "How to Completely reset the tablet to factory settings
1) Turn off the tablet;
2) set the screen lock lever to the left;
3) Hold down the addition of the volume (the portion of the volume rocker, which is closer to the levers lock) power key;
4) As soon as the tablet vibrates release the power button and set the lever lock the screen from right to left until you see these 2 lines
Erasing Userdata ...
Erasing Cache ...
This I allready try....don't work.....
It should continue to hold down the volume;
5) In the upper left corner of the line will begin formatting;
6) The tablet is pristine)))"
2. format all partitions with this CWM Recovery script (all data will be deleted) (can not post outside link, leave me a message to icq 230921979)
added you
3. install firmware with CWM for bricked device, how-to is here (the same). Good luck!
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hope this will work...
teacherhh said:
I made a nandori backup at the start, but can't restore it.
how to flash mbr?
and what can I do without vold.fstab?
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so...found vold.fstab two times: /etc and /system/etc
mbr.img....nowhere...
Hmmm...I am a little confused (maybe a translate issue?)
Are those the steps you did to try and fix the tab or the steps you took that broke it in the first place?
And am I correct in understanding that the tablet boots, but the problem is that your internal storage is reporting only 66mb? Is that your /system partition or simply storage, emmc?
If just emmc (which if the problem is installing apps, it sounds like it may be), at least you should be able to use symlinks to swap internal storage to an sdcard. You still lose some storage, but the tab will work.
also, I see that acer 200 supports fastboot. If you can get into fastboot you should be able to recover anything that you did. Can you get into the bootloader? Go find a factory image if so, and flash it through fastboot.
fastboot is there and can usually be a measure of last resort...
Good luck, teacher.
mateorod said:
Hmmm...I am a little confused (maybe a translate issue?)
Are those the steps you did to try and fix the tab or the steps you took that broke it in the first place?
And am I correct in understanding that the tablet boots, but the problem is that your internal storage is reporting only 66mb? Is that your /system partition or simply storage, emmc?
If just emmc (which if the problem is installing apps, it sounds like it may be), at least you should be able to use symlinks to swap internal storage to an sdcard. You still lose some storage, but the tab will work.
also, I see that acer 200 supports fastboot. If you can get into fastboot you should be able to recover anything that you did. Can you get into the bootloader? Go find a factory image if so, and flash it through fastboot.
fastboot is there and can usually be a measure of last resort...
Good luck, teacher.
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Thanks for the luck!
First 4 steps are the steps, that bricked the tablet.
After this I tried with the following steps to make it work again.
Yes fastboot is working and I think I nearly flashed every single image I found thru the net...
Yes, the table boots with weapon rom, then I look into "Settings"->"Storage" and finde 66MB of Storage all fully used....
SuperWipe
Just tried to make a wipe with AcerA200SuperWipe.zip
Erasing & formatting EXT4 *CACHE* and*SYSTEM* worked fine, but doing the same to *DATA* made the wipe stoped.. ((
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Okay I am super confused. I've successfully used FORMAT utility and also nvflash restore...but the tablet won't format!!! All my apps and settings are still there when I nvflash restore it!
I ran the nvflash_gtablet.bat from the Format utility..and it looked liked it worked: at the end of the process the tablet showed the red font with the kernel mismatch and bootloader not found, or something along those lines..
Just to be safe, I did it a second time. lol
Then I used nvflash restore to restore it back to original shipping.
I noticed right away something was wrong when as soon as it booted to the tap and tap home screen, the screen started to go dim after 15 seconds (that was the screen timeout time I'd set before formatting and all that).
But I thought maybe it was a fluke, so I checked the app drawer, and all my apps are there!!!! Not only that, it connected to my password protected wifi right away!!
Can someone please help me delete the f_ck out of this thing? I want there to be NOTHING left, so I can get a clean start.
The reason I wanted to format is because, I'm having a sound issue with my gtablet (whenever entering the volume control and adjusting the volume the processes always force closes...no matter what ROM I'm on). I wipe data, try to start fresh, but the problem always occurs after a few hours of use on any ROM (even the brand new TNT 5).
And I don't know if this matters or not, I'm on Windows 7, 64 bit...but I obviously have the USB drivers working because I'm using these utilities.
Please somebody? Today is my only day off work for a long long time.
I "THINK" I remember reading that you could flash CWM and from there wipe user data, then run nvflash to get back to stock recovery. Never tried it myself & I'm new here, so take the info for what it is worth.
Don't panic....
I don't think you have anything to worry about. If you read the post (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=974422), it states in rather large red letters at top :"This fully erases the ROM but this will NOT affect the internal SD card. You MUST be able to use nvflash to restore the stock firmware."
Since your apps are installed on the internal SD, that's why you see them when you reload the ROM.
Edit: If I were you, I'd run the Format and load stock, then reload Clockwork and format the internal SD. That should get you back to a rather vanilla slate.
You can also refer to the posting below as another source. If you go down to the Homebrew link found in the posting, it's is used to revert the gtab back to it's original TnT state.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=842000&highlight=stock
format and nvflash do not erase personnal data, a full reflash of difference firmware might format your personnal data, if you want to wipe out data, use the Factory wipe in the CW menu
Ronin916 said:
I don't think you have anything to worry about. If you read the post (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=974422), it states in rather large red letters at top :"This fully erases the ROM but this will NOT affect the internal SD card. You MUST be able to use nvflash to restore the stock firmware."
Since your apps are installed on the internal SD, that's why you see them when you reload the ROM.
Edit: If I were you, I'd run the Format and load stock, then reload Clockwork and format the internal SD. That should get you back to a rather vanilla slate.
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Thank you all for your replies. But I am a little confused still. AFAIK the apps aren't on the sd card...wouldn't I be able to see them when I mount the sd card on the computer?
ksc6000,
Storage devices on the G-Tablet are named as follows:
/sdcard -- main memory
/sdcard2 -- external mini-SD card
/usbdisk -- USB key
Rev
Everyone,
I've written this a bunch of times but and putting it in
it's own thread so folks can read and use it.
Memory and Storage:
/sdcard -- internal memory of the tablet
/sdcard2 -- microSD card in the external slot
/usbdisk -- USB key slot
Stock Recovery Info:
Main method: Put your recovery folder and update.zip on /sdcard, turn off the tablet, the press power and volume + to initiate standard recovery.
Second method: Put your recovery folder and update.zip on a microSD card. Edit the command file in the recovery folder with Notepad to change the location from /sdcard to /sdcard2 and save it with the name "command" (NO
.txt or other file extension). Then boot recovery with power/volume + and the OS will use the sdcard (assuming you don't have a live recovery/update.zip file in /sdcard).
Third method: If you can boot recovery to CWM but can't get your ROM to work, go in recovery to the mount menu and go down to the mount USB memory option and choose it. Then plug your connector cable from the miniUSB port to your PC. When you plug into your PC an Explorer window should open and you should have a drive letter representing the G-Tablet (it's G: on mine) on your menu. You now can select that letter and you have access to your tablet memory (/sdcard). I've even had a time or two when not a single file showed!!! I added update.zip and recovery and loaded
a ROM!
The tablet boot process apparently checks /SDCARD. If it doesn't find a recovery file there it does the same check if you have a miniSD external card installed. The large USB slot is not useable for booting or recovery so far as I have determined or read.
I hope this helps you.
Rev
EDIT: I didn't put one fact in here about recovery that everyone should know. When you run a recovery operation, the system deletes the command file so you can't accidentally do it again. If you have to run a recovery or
attempt to load something again, make sure you have a command file in the recovery folder with the correct command in it!!! Sorry I omitted this first time around.
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Hope everybody who needs this has seen it. I won't kick it up again.
Rev
Can you also add information about partitioning of /sdcard and why would one need it?
Is there another "hidden" flash memory available for firmware or all mods and custom ROMs go into /sdcard only?
Thanks so much, I thought I'm dead cuz I wiped out everything.
This may have been asked before, but how does one perform a full data wipe w/o using CWM? Thanks.
HackaMathecian said:
This may have been asked before, but how does one perform a full data wipe w/o using CWM? Thanks.
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You need to use nvflash (nvidia tegra SoC flashing utility). There are alot of posts about it. Do be carefull if you go this route, as even though you will not damage your tablet, it may be difficult to put it back to a bootable state if you don't do it properly.
thanks!
thanks great. simple and to the point. should help people that get confused. thanks again!
Vlad_z,
It has been my experience that when somebody gets boot loops, it often involves a
partition problem. Also, sometimes the G-Tablet does flaky things. I have one I
just shut down. Restarted it with boot looping and had to rebuild.
The three locations listed above are the three memory places you can store stuff
unless you find software that custom sets up something else.
Rev
Os Money:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=861950
This thread completely explains the NVFlash process.
Rev
That's kind of odd, my removable sd card ended up with the label ex-sd. Doesn't seem to be messing anything up though.
sixtofive,
I've never seen or heard of that with the stock ROM. Are you running a different ROM?
Some of them do change the directories.
Rev
So simply put, we should copy and backup the recovery folder and update.zip in /sdcard (or tablet storage) and when things get f'ed up, we move the recovery folder and update.zip back into the /sdcard?
Maybe it's just me, but I looked into the recovery that was already in the tablet and there's nothing in it; is that normal? If not, can anyone provide the back up recovery folder and update.zip just in case?
sam,
Recovery is simply a folder which holds a file named "command" in it. Command is a file
that has the command line in it with the command and parameters to "recover" or "load" files onto your G-Tablet.
Sometimes when your tablet gets messed up, you can still use recovery and are lucky. But sometimes the recovery partition gets damaged and then you have to look
for other ways to get in and fix things.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1010943
Many of us keep telling people there is a lot to learn here -- and Android doesn't have
all the stuff built into it Windows does. Nor is Android known for it's great documentation!
If everyone would read all the stickies at the start of the forums, it would provide
probably 80% of everything they need to know.
Rev
If OP also put links to stock ROMs, that would be great
interesting...even though I don't have a microSD card in mine /sdcard2 seems to be a valid directory within "root explorer"
what partition and memory structure should I be seeing on my brand new g-tablet? any suggestion on "mount" and "df" output?
Question, which is the best method or quicker to backup before attempting other rom installs?
Deleting CWM
How would one delete CWM so that the tablet can be returned?
Got my gtablet last evening. Seems there is a lot to learn.
thanks butchconner...
Thanks all the people who are contributing at xda. You are doing a wonderful job. In fact I bought this device because of you ( I think Viewsonic owes you guys a lot. At least they avoided a big loss because of you. )
Two questions:
1) Is it recommended to flash back to stock before changing roms?
2) Is there a link to the stock Rom files that I am missing?
Thanks
I have a very serious problem with my nexus S . I've installed an app on my nexus and after that... nothing works and when i say nothing i mean nothing!! when i try to open an app says ''unfortunately this app stopped '' always... i cant use my phone even to call or to send a sms. I tried to flash new rom but i cant save anything to my usb storage memory when i try to save something on the phone after the unplug from the usb disappear like never was there. Also its impossible to delete something from the phone if i delete something after one reboot itss back there (photos , music etc.). I tried to do factory reset but when makes reboot and try to open after a min. diplays a delta(warning) sing with an android and stays there and i need to pull out the battery. Also i locked and i tried again to unlock but on the cmd says fail to unlock... i really dont know what to do if anyone has any idea will help me sooooo much.
Thnax anyway
Have you tried to mount SD through recovery. In recovery, go to mounts and storage> mount SD. Transfer freshly downloaded rom from computer then unmount SD. While still in recovery perform a complete wipe.
Mounts and storage> wipe system> wipe data> wipe cache> wipe boot. Now try and flash rom and wipe dalvik cache. Hope this works for you.
Sent from my Nexus S using xda premium
d_phekt
nothing i tried many times through recovery but still nothing! when unplug the usb from my computer the rom dissapear ://
This happened to me once... I tried playing a movie and it froze and rebooted and everything force closed on my... even the launcher
I flashed a different rom to fix it.. and its also a good idea to change the kernel as well
Sent from my Nexus S using XDA
Oh right forgot about this. Unless you have a backup working rom, you can flash that first. If not try this first. go to CWM Recovery and fix permissions. Try that
If it is still not working, this is the solution if you dont need your data on your phone. First take out your mini sd card. Get a mini sd card reader from any tech shop (eg dicksmith, costco even has it, electronics store) use that to copy everything onto your SD Card. First make a copy of your current rom. (yes the one with nothing working. So if this stuffs up you can try another way)
Once you copied everything to your comp on your sd card. Plug your sd card back in. No go to recovery, and wipe ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING. Including sd card. Now just flash the rom and kernel (optional) and it should all work.
When i mean everything (via CWM Recovery). Wipe: cache partition, dalvik cache, battery stats, format: /sdcard /system /cache /data /boot. Also wipe SD card and SD ext.
qaz2453
the problem is i cant save anything and that mean i cannt flash any rom or kernel because when i plug it with my computer and try to save (through mounts and storage) new rom or kernel to phone when i make unmount or to press go back the rom disappears
TigaTiger
My friend unfortunately the nexus s doesnt have sd card or mini sd card The phone has 16 GB so its impossible to follow your instructions! also i tried to make backup but nothing its shows that make backup but after the files dissappears the same when i try to save new rom and flash it again
nexuszac said:
qaz2453
the problem is i cant save anything and that mean i cannt flash any rom or kernel because when i plug it with my computer and try to save (through mounts and storage) new rom or kernel to phone when i make unmount or to press go back the rom disappears
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If you got clockwork mod recovery.. than go into that and turn on mass storage from there
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qaz2453 said:
If you got clockwork mod recovery.. than go into that and turn on mass storage from there
Sent from my Nexus S using XDA
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You mean mounts and storage? and then mount USB storage?? yes i tried a 1000 times but nothing when i transfer the rom from my computer to phone when i press go back the rom dissappear i dont know why but its impossible to keep it ://
Can you see your device in fastboot devices? If yes download the Android 4.0.4 factory image from here https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/images
Unzip it in the tools folder of the Android SDK. Enter your device in booloader mode with volume up+power and insert the following order in the cmd window:
fastboot reboot-bootloader
fastboot flash bootloader bootloader-crespo-i902XXXX.img (check the proper name according to your phone)
fastboot reboot-bootloader
fastboot flash radio radio-crespo-i902XXXX.img (check the proper name according to your phone)
fastboot reboot-bootloader
fastboot -w update image-soju-imm76d.zip (check the proper name according to your phone)
Just make sure you download the correct version! This is important or you can end up with a bricked phone.
DeuXGod said:
Can you see your device in fastboot devices? If yes download the Android 4.0.4 factory image from here https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/images
Unzip it in the tools folder of the Android SDK. Enter your device in booloader mode with volume up+power and insert the following order in the cmd window:
fastboot reboot-bootloader
fastboot flash bootloader bootloader-crespo-i902XXXX.img (check the proper name according to your phone)
fastboot reboot-bootloader
fastboot flash radio radio-crespo-i902XXXX.img (check the proper name according to your phone)
fastboot reboot-bootloader
fastboot -w update image-soju-imm76d.zip (check the proper name according to your phone)
Just make sure you download the correct version! This is important or you can end up with a bricked phone.
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Mate i followed all your instructions but! the problem now is the phone is locked because i locked it and now when i try to unlock it ALWAYS (when i press yes to unlock ) says on cmd FAILED to erase.... so i cant do anything because when i type ''fastboot flash bootloader bootloader-crespo-i902XXXX.img'' says ''failed because is lock type fastboot oem unlock''
I'm afraid you're pretty much out of luck mate... every thread i searched with FAILED (remote: Erase Fail) nobody could solve it... and without unlocked bootloader we can't do much i'm afraid...
What happened to me? I testig new settings Buildprop file and I was stuck.
TF 700 not boot
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Wipping/factor reset
POWER off
VOL down
VOL up to recovery
Wipe/Factor reset
Boot
but
Not boot I cry almost :crying:
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I wonder.....
Download ASUS.com your Factor version Asus update
Open zip file Unzip first Zip file (WW_epad-user-9.4.5.22.zip)
Re name (WW_epad-user-9.4.5.22.zip) EP201_768_SDUPDATE.zip
And put zip file External Sdcard root
POWER off
VOL down
VOL up to recovery
Now auto starting full factory reset/update and TF700 :fingers-crossed: boot normal.
if anyone benefited from that I'm happy
Zeus :good:
I had the same problem and used (+described here) the same solution a few days ago, but thanks for this. Glad it worked for you too ]:>
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=28597763&postcount=17
To clear up possible ambivalence on file location: the firmware file should be placed in the root directory of the microSD card. When you get an error message saying that some directory couldn't be mounted or some file couldn't be found, check if it hasn't been put on the SD card's root accidentally. :highfive:
To answer what actually happened, a factory reset only touches the data partition. Since the build.prop is on the system partition, its not wiped and so whatever prevented it form booting before is still there. Until we get an unlocked bootloader AND a custom recovery, I'd stay away from build.prop changes and any other mod that could potentially prevent booting unless you know completely what you are doing.
Jotokun said:
To answer what actually happened, a factory reset only touches the data partition. Since the build.prop is on the system partition, its not wiped and so whatever prevented it form booting before is still there. Until we get an unlocked bootloader AND a custom recovery, I'd stay away from build.prop changes and any other mod that could potentially prevent booting unless you know completely what you are doing.
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Factor reset only return data partion default
if using sd card option Recovery return system partition. (But not touch data partition settings etc..)
I've restored the system partition twice.
Will this get rid of root? I am going to exchange my tf700 because the volume rocker is mushy and seems defective (I went to the store to check out the tf201's/etc asus tabs to compare) and I am sending back to amazon to exchange - so want it factory fresh.
It won't, apart from wiping data you need to remove su from /system/bin/ or xbin, wherever it is, and uninstall busybox (if installed)
You may reflash firmware as well, should do the trick.
Sent from my ASUS Transformer Pad TF700T using xda app-developers app
d14b0ll0s said:
It won't, apart from wiping data you need to remove su from /system/bin/ or xbin, wherever it is, and uninstall busybox (if installed)
You may reflash firmware as well, should do the trick.
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Thanks - found it there in xbin
How I unbricked "Decryption unsuccessful" The password is correct but... (Apps2SD)
Hello, I don't usually post in tech forums, I usually the guy that only reads,
but this is the time when i could not find the straight answer to my problem and had to google the solution out of similar posts, so I decided to glue everything together and write my solution to this particular situation,
so I might save a lot of time to someone who got in exact or similar situation.
Sorry for my crappy English, but here we go.
What this post trying to solve:
You stuck at boot loop: "Decryption unsuccessful" The password that you entered is correct but unfortunately your data is corrupt.
and how to make it work Apps2SD with Huawei P9 SD card with enabled password protection.
Basically my Huawei P9 (EVA L-19) with Android 7.0 Nougat got running out of internal space, and i am really a heavy user on apps. Kirin 955 handles just fine as long as it has at least 10Gb of internal free space.
I have SD card 64Gb, but huawei stopped support, native move apps to SD, long time ago. My device is rooted, so I was searching for a solution. There is few apps that can transfer your internal memory apps to SD by using root, but the one that actually worked for me is Apps2SD. The thing is, my SD card is password protected (Huawei native function) I want to keep this function in case of device getting stolen.
Problem is, many third party apps that move your apps to SD, does not know anything about Huaweis SD card password feature. In fact (as far as i tested) only Huawei phone allows you to enter password and show contents of SD card, no PC, or for example Samsung phone will recognize this SD card.
So i was messing with Apps2SD, partitioned my SD card in to 2 primary partitions, 1- exfat, 2- Ext3. It works kinda fine, but after reboot, there is delay, Huawei unlocks SD card after main boot part, and Apps2SD does not understand this and show that it failed to mount second partition.
In this case, Apps2SD starts giving you solutions, one of them is this ADVANCED mounting option. It does not tells u about any dangers, nothing really.
I chose that option to see if it will be able to see second partition contents faster, rebooted - boom bricked.
You see the message: "Decryption unsuccessful" and asks you for decryption password. It might be SD card password, not sure, it does not matter, because you can type ANYTHING and it always say:
"The password that you entered is correct but unfortunately your data is corrupt". And gives you only option: fully data factory reset. Now hold your horses, dont press that. I just knew that this is bull**** and no way
my personal data is corrupted, its just some hadshake issue. (I was right i fully recovered everything up n running)
Assuming you got in this mess, your device must be rooted and you probably have TWRP recovery, cause Apps2SD work only with rooted devices.
To recover from "Decryption unsuccessful" boot message and restore all data and settings:
Got to TWRP recovery by holding power button and volume UP (after phone vibrates, hold both buttons 2sec more and then release power button, and then after 2sec more release volume up, cause if
you do this too fast, u will end up in wifi recovery by Huawei, and it wont work anyway cause your device rooted).
Then go to advanced and file manager, locate sdcard folder (this will be internal memory, not external), you should be able to see all of your personal files! Copy them to flash drive by connecting with OTG.
What we gonna do now is: do a full nandroid backup: TWRP, backup, check: BOOT, SYSTEM, DATA. and do a backup to flash drive connected with OTG or hard drive if it works for u.
After backup is done, go to WIPE, select format data, select DATA partition and see what original file system it uses. Now format in any other system, then reformat again to your original file system.
DATA partition somehow lost its encryption handshake key and this caused the problem, reformatting fixes it.
Now do a full wipe as if you would install new rom, wipe: system, data, storage, cache, dalvic cache.
Restore your previous nandroid backup, reboot to system,now your phone should boot with all the apps and settings just as you left.
You might be missing some pictures and other media in main storage, just connect your P9 with usb cable to pc, and restore previously backed up media from flash drive manually in pc interface (copy paste, replace all),
some small minority files might wont copy, don't worry about it, Im not sure but they are mostly indexing files, all ur media will be back in place.
Now, how to make Apps2SD work with this configuration?
Don't use that advanced method to find SD cards second partition, use any of first 3, the 3rd one worked for me just fine, cause its SU library based one.
Don't move your apps fully to SD, or they will "disappear", move everything except APK, ODEX, DEX (Lib is optional, you usually can move this one just fine). SO basically app core will stay in main storage but cache and app data will be on second SD card. This way, after you reboot your phone, you will have to wait like 3mins and App2SD will link your files to apps itself just fine. It might will show some errors right after reboot, but after Huawei unlocks its card, files will be linked, and apps wont be "gone" cause app core still stays in main storage.
This way i managed to save a lot of space and move most of app storage to SD card, P9 became very responsive, even in 2018 this is a really fast smartphone.
Sorry for a messy post, I'm not a writer, but I hope this helps to someone!
Thanks a lot, you saved my phone-config! ) This step "...and see what original file system it uses. Now format in any other system, then reformat again to your original file system." was unclear to me, as TWRP didn't give me the option to choose a file system, but in the end it worked out fine without just as well.
dalektehgreat said:
Thanks a lot, you saved my phone-config! ) This step "...and see what original file system it uses. Now format in any other system, then reformat again to your original file system." was unclear to me, as TWRP didn't give me the option to choose a file system, but in the end it worked out fine without just as well.
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So glad this helped someone
dalektehgreat said:
Thanks a lot, you saved my phone-config! ) This step "...and see what original file system it uses. Now format in any other system, then reformat again to your original file system." was unclear to me, as TWRP didn't give me the option to choose a file system, but in the end it worked out fine without just as well.
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How did you run into this issue?
If it was due to updating Magisk to v19.x (on Huawei with Nougat / EMUI 5)?
In that case, there is an easier solution, just flash back Boot img with Magisk v18 1 and everything will continue to work as it did (without any need to reformat, factory reset, etc), see
https://forum.xda-developers.com/ap...v1-universal-systemless-t3432382/post79493919
zgfg said:
How did you run into this issue?
If it was due to updating Magisk to v19.x (on Huawei with Nougat / EMUI 5)?
In that case, there is an easier solution, just flash back Boot img with Magisk v18 1 and everything will continue to work as it did (without any need to reformat, factory reset, etc), see
https://forum.xda-developers.com/ap...v1-universal-systemless-t3432382/post79493919
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I'm not entirely sure what caused it, but I suspect Apps2SD just like in the original post (I installed/tried to use it shortly before the problem occured).