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TWRP Deleted backups and ROM's, Phone Bricked

I decided I wanted to try out some new ROM's on my phone, so I booted into TWRP and wiped /system, /cache, /data, and /dalvik cache. I went to /sdcard in order to pick the .zip i wanted to install from, and TWRP dumped my SD card! now I'm stuck in recovery with no ROM or Backups and no way to move files onto it cause the SD card isn't removable. Any suggestions?

Mount your device using TWRP and transfer the rom zip you want onto the SD card then flash the zip. I'm fairly sure that should work :laugh:.

connerbrooks said:
Mount your device using TWRP and transfer the rom zip you want onto the SD card then flash the zip. I'm fairly sure that should work :laugh:.
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Whenever I have it plugged in, it doesn't let me mount the SDcard, and when i try to mount for USB Storage, it gives me the format window in windows and forces me to format to FAT32. I do that, move a backup onto there, and its not recognized by TWRP.

cosmicmoonranger said:
Whenever I have it plugged in, it doesn't let me mount the SDcard, and when i try to mount for USB Storage, it gives me the format window in windows and forces me to format to FAT32. I do that, move a backup onto there, and its not recognized by TWRP.
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You cant format it to fat32 as that formats the card to be used like a usb stick on your computer. Wipe the card again, and attempt to mount. Don't format the sdcard with fat32, normally there is an option for this, if not then just cancel and check if you see the card under My Computer, open then copy paste the zip.

Every time I try to wipe the SDcard, it fails.

cosmicmoonranger said:
Every time I try to wipe the SDcard, it fails.
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Ok well in that case you need to use the ruu to re install the stock software. Do you have superCID?
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I ask about superCID because to run the RUU you need to relock the bootloader and if you don't have superCID you have to downgrade firmware version but just make sure you are reading everything before you attempt to run it.

i just downloaded superCID, but i don't really know much about it or how it can help me

cosmicmoonranger said:
i just downloaded superCID, but i don't really know much about it or how it can help me
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1678308
I used this guide early on to get rooted and unlocked this may help explain some things. And I would say try and read more before you continue to do anything to your device, at this stage you are not completely bricked since you can load your recovery and if you keep trying stuff desperately you may make things worse. How did you unlock your boot loader? You may have super cid without having done it your self that guide shows you how to check. If you have superCID then you can relock the bootloader and run the ruu found here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1671237 just make sure you pick the right one and read everything I cant stress how important that is, make sure to look through comments as well.

[Q]rooted 2.2, Installed CM10 on HOX, cant copy files!

Hey guys,
I have a question.
I'm successfully rooted and installed cm10 thanks to the help of this forum and got thought i got everything working. However, when I tried to copy music, it does not show up on the one x!
Not sure why, i decided to check the storage options in settings. If i go to settings, storage. I see a whopping 2.34 gigabytes of available space!!
not sure if this is because of the cm10 install or what? I had to reformat the disk at one points.
If i go to my computer and look at it, its 9.92 gig capacity, and im only using 1.57 GB. Its formatted in FAT32.
Does anyone know what my problem is?
Thank you!
UPDATE:
so i found this link
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=33301423
i tried going into MTP mode in USB computer connection (storage, settings, usb computer connection) it selects for a second, then defaults to mass storage.
Do you think it could be something witih me mounting the sd card wrong in TWRP?

2.34GB is the phone storage
9.93GB is the sdcard
try wiping sdcard inside settings

DvineLord said:
2.34GB is the phone storage
9.93GB is the sdcard
try wiping sdcard inside settings
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inside recovery? so twrp?
could you clarify please.
thank you.

donkeybat64 said:
inside recovery? so twrp?
could you clarify please.
thank you.
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You can wipe it from recovery or in the ROM of the phone. Either one should work. If you do it from TWRP, make sure to use FAT32

If I wipe my sd card.. Wouldn't I lose all my files?
Can someone explain it like I'm five? I'm still confused. Maybe a procedure?
Thanks for your patience.

donkeybat64 said:
If I wipe my sd card.. Wouldn't I lose all my files?
Can someone explain it like I'm five? I'm still confused. Maybe a procedure?
Thanks for your patience.
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If you can't mount your SD card in recovery or from within CM10, your internal* storage is possibly corrupted.
Plug your phone into your computer and try mounting the SD card as a disk drive and scan for errors

doing a factory reset in bootloader will cause your sdcard to corrupt.

http://forums.team-nocturnal.com/showthread.php/1050
great resource here... im doing this now. will report back.
EDIT: yep, works now. follow the instrucitons on the link.
its kinda confusing, but when you go into twrp, your SD is ALREADY mounted, so dont hit unmount...
WHen you are done copying music/games/pron or whatever, make sure you safely remove it before turning file transfer off on your phone. and you should b OK

donkeybat64 said:
If I wipe my sd card.. Wouldn't I lose all my files?
Can someone explain it like I'm five? I'm still confused. Maybe a procedure?
Thanks for your patience.
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duhhh
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donkeybat64 said:
http://forums.team-nocturnal.com/showthread.php/1050
great resource here... im doing this now. will report back.
EDIT: yep, works now. follow the instrucitons on the link.
its kinda confusing, but when you go into twrp, your SD is ALREADY mounted, so dont hit unmount...
WHen you are done copying music/games/pron or whatever, make sure you safely remove it before turning file transfer off on your phone. and you should b OK
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see , amazing what taking a deep breath, a little reading and some searching will do....you get to answer your own questions :highfive:

[Q] HTC ONE X - Recovery Help

Ok, I have a problem very similar to threads Ive found by with some minor differences. Hoping for some answers to this nightmare....
I have an AT&T One X - unlocked, rooted and flashed. I was running Viper XL and using TWRP recovery 2.3.10. Yesterday, I decided to flash a Liquidsmooth ROM using flash image gui......everything went fine with install until it hung on liquidsmooth boot screen, for an hour. Figuring there was an install error, I rebooted into twrp to do a recovery. Recovered back to Viper XL and was thrown into bootloop - HTC screen/Viper Boot...over and over again. Finally decided to stop before I destroyed anything.....so here's where I am now. The phone has been reset, sd card was wiped but I can still boot into TWRP without a problem. However, now there is no backup or ROM zip on this SD card.
So my guess is that first and foremost I need to get a ROM on that SD card, however (I'm on a Mac) when I plug the phone in, I get a "No Android Device Connected" in the dialog and when trying to mount SD card via TWRP, the "Mount SD Card" box wont tick.
If I view the log file in TWRP I see a lot of 'could not mount SD card' errors.....
I don't want to keep screwing with it and make things worse. Considering this has happened with both CM10 and LiquidSmooth, my guess is I should just stick with Viper for now, so any help getting this back on here would be hugely appreciated! I have no access to a PC, only a mac.....
Boot screen info:
TAMPERED - UNLOCKED
EVITA PVT SHIP S-ON RL
HBOOT-1.14.0002
RADIO-0,19as.32.09.11_2
OpenDSP-v29.1.0.45.0622
eMMC-boot

If you're on Hboot 1.14 and are S-On you need to manually "flashboot flash boot boot.img" in fastboot from the bootloader menu whenever you flash a new ROM. Go to the bootloader and click "fastboot" then plug in your USB connected to the computer and it should now say "fastboot usb" assuming your drivers are installed (it might install them after you plug your phone in). Now you can flash the boot.img from the rom zip manually via the fastboot command window.
EDIT: Sorry didn't realize you were on Mac. I would first figure out how to mount the SD card as removable storage and not an Android device. You may have to format it as a file system first. At least that's what I had to do when this happened to me when I first flashed but i'm on Windows. I should of read your post more thoroughly.

So this would be done from the terminal? I was able to boot onto fastboot, connected USB cable and now show fastbootusb. I downloaded the ViperXL rom again, so I should extract the boot.img and flash this via terminal?
Are the commands the same on a mac? And how do I then get the rom onto the SD card?
Am I correct in my assumption that this is the answer? http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1693372

originalseven said:
So this would be done from the terminal? I was able to boot onto fastboot, connected USB cable and now show fastbootusb. I downloaded the ViperXL rom again, so I should extract the boot.img and flash this via terminal?
Are the commands the same on a mac? And how do I then get the rom onto the SD card?
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I don't want to give you too much advice since I don't have a mac but I would assume they're the same except you need to have fastboot/adb on your computer but since the ones I have are .EXE files they're not going to work on OSX. However, If fastboot usb came up the computer is reading the phone so you may be able to open the SD card as removable storage on you computer thats how it is on Windows. So once you do that you can just move the ROM zip onto the card. But, like I said you're going to need to figure out a way to flash the boot.img separately or else you won't be able to boot into the ROM when it's installed (you'll just bootloop). You're going to have to do that with every new ROM you flash if you're still S-On.
Wish I can be more help but i'm not that versed in OSX.

you can use [APP] Flash Image GUI - Flash Kernels and Recoveries from normal Android mode! to flash boot.img fine before flashing the rom. it will search the rom zip for the boot.img and flash it. you can also flash recovery using the app also. some roms place boot.img in other locations other then the root of the zip in which case you might have trouble selecting the whole zip, but you can just extract the boot.img and flash it fine.

c0d_fish said:
I don't want to give you too much advice since I don't have a mac but I would assume they're the same except you need to have fastboot/adb on your computer but since the ones I have are .EXE files they're not going to work on OSX. However, If fastboot usb came up the computer is reading the phone so you may be able to open the SD card as removable storage on you computer thats how it is on Windows. So once you do that you can just move the ROM zip onto the card. But, like I said you're going to need to figure out a way to flash the boot.img separately or else you won't be able to boot into the ROM when it's installed (you'll just bootloop). You're going to have to do that with every new ROM you flash if you're still S-On.
Wish I can be more help but i'm not that versed in OSX.
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No problem - thanks for the help you can offer. It seems my bigger problem is getting a ROM onto the SD card - Ive read several similar threads and from what I can tell, doing a factory reset through TWRP means I need to reformat the SD card, which is why it wont mount. Does this sound reasonable?
And if so, is it as simply as "Wipe external storage - SD CARD" in TWRP?

originalseven said:
Am I correct in my assumption that this is the answer? http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1693372
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No, this is for the ONE S
you are on ONE X
Try this to get your SD Card working again:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1942519
now you can Mount the SD in TWRP
then put the ROM on the SD and install it with TWRP.
Then this for the boot.img:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2182207
SORRY, did't read you are on MAC, you can try this to get fastboot on the MAC
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1917237

Ghostrider said:
No, this is for the ONE S
you are on ONE X
Try this to get your SD Card working again:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1942519
now you can Mount the SD in TWRP
then put the ROM on the SD and install it with TWRP.
Then this for the boot.img:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2182207
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He has OSX so I don't believe the exact methods of these posts will work but it will point him in the right direction.
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originalseven said:
No problem - thanks for the help you can offer. It seems my bigger problem is getting a ROM onto the SD card - Ive read several similar threads and from what I can tell, doing a factory reset through TWRP means I need to reformat the SD card, which is why it wont mount. Does this sound reasonable?
And if so, is it as simply as "Wipe external storage - SD CARD" in TWRP?
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And yes you will have to reformat the SD card I don't know how to go about doing it OSX though. I'm sure a google search will help. The method should be the same for any type SD card plugged into OSX. But remember flashing the boot.img will be the other issue.

c0d_fish said:
I don't want to give you too much advice since I don't have a mac but I would assume they're the same except you need to have fastboot/adb on your computer but since the ones I have are .EXE files they're not going to work on OSX. However, If fastboot usb came up the computer is reading the phone so you may be able to open the SD card as removable storage on you computer thats how it is on Windows. So once you do that you can just move the ROM zip onto the card. But, like I said you're going to need to figure out a way to flash the boot.img separately or else you won't be able to boot into the ROM when it's installed (you'll just bootloop). You're going to have to do that with every new ROM you flash if you're still S-On.
Wish I can be more help but i'm not that versed in OSX.
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Ghostrider said:
No, this is for the ONE S
you are on ONE X
Try this to get your SD Card working again:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1942519
now you can Mount the SD in TWRP
then put the ROM on the SD and install it with TWRP.
Then this for the boot.img:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2182207
SORRY, did't read you are on MAC, you can try this to get fastboot on the MAC
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1917237
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Yeah those are .exe files. No go on this machine. Similar method for the mac anywhere?

yes i saw it at the Moment, and put something in that maybe work.
this here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1917237

doing a factory reset in hboot corrupts your sdcard.
once you get adb/fastboot working try running "fastboot erase cache" that clears out the part of cache where the settings for twrp reside, that is why when you format cache in twrp you always see 16MB when you fastboot erase cache it goes to 0MB but for recovery to store it's settings you need to rewipe cache and dalvik in twrp.

Ghostrider said:
yes i saw it at the Moment, and put something in that maybe work.
this here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1917237
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This is your answer this man saved you some headaches I think.

Yes, Ghostrider helped you alot give him Thanks, but also do my recommendation also each time you flash recovery.

Ghostrider said:
yes i saw it at the Moment, and put something in that maybe work.
this here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1917237
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I think my inner idiot is kicking in. I believe I already have fastboot installed - perhaps Im missing something. I went through this process before and have all of these same files still on my desktop. I'm able to boot my phone into the bootscreen (white screen) and TWRP without problems....the only issue I have right now is my SD card and getting a ROM pushed to it. I've gotten two conflicting bits of advice that im reluctant to try....one of them states I should just boot into TWRP and do a "Wipe external storage" and the other one says I should format it using disk utility in OSX. When I boot into TWRP and hit "mount", Im given four options, mount system, mount data unmount cache and mount sd card...the ONLY one I cant select is mount sd card.

DvineLord said:
doing a factory reset in hboot corrupts your sdcard
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oh yaa, this one i did once
and never again
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your SD Card is maybe not there when you have done an factory reset in hboot.
then you Need to Format it in stock recovery.
like in the first link from me

originalseven said:
I think my inner idiot is kicking in. I believe I already have fastboot installed - perhaps Im missing something. I went through this process before and have all of these same files still on my desktop. I'm able to boot my phone into the bootscreen (white screen) and TWRP without problems....the only issue I have right now is my SD card and getting a ROM pushed to it. I've gotten two conflicting bits of advice that im reluctant to try....one of them states I should just boot into TWRP and do a "Wipe external storage" and the other one says I should format it using disk utility in OSX. When I boot into TWRP and hit "mount", Im given four options, mount system, mount data unmount cache and mount sd card...the ONLY one I cant select is mount sd card.
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Not sure what you should do really this happened to me but I forgot what I did. I ended up just formatting the card with the disk utility in Windows but I don't remember if I had to re-flash the recovery or not afterwards.

So I should just use this method again, regardless of whether I may have done it before, correct? This will format in stock recovery?
In the APK folder, there are two fastboot files, one 'fastboot' and one 'fastboot-mac' - i want the -mac one obviously, right?

originalseven said:
So I should just use this method again, regardless of whether I may have done it before, correct? This will format in stock recovery?
In the APK folder, there are two fastboot files, one 'fastboot' and one 'fastboot-mac' - i want the -mac one obviously, right?
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That page is no longer found but yeah seems like that would be the one to use.

I can't give you much advices on a MAC, I don't use one.
but if you have working fastboot and ADB this could workout.

Ghostrider said:
yes i saw it at the Moment, and put something in that maybe work.
this here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1917237
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Ghostrider said:
I can't give you much advices on a MAC, I don't use one.
but if you have working fastboot and ADB this could workout.
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Ok - I believe that fastboot is working correctly. I get this output from terminal
Mac-Pro:android originalseven$ ./fastboot-mac devices
HT29SW306500 fastboot
Mac-Pro:android originalseven$
So it's showing a connection between phone and computer.......
The next logical step would be....format the SD card?
Thank you guys sooooo much for the help!!!

[SOLVED] TWRP not accessing MicroSD! Stuck with no OS

Got a slight issue.
Put the ZIP onto my MicroSD and then booted into TWRP and my MicroSD is not working.
It's being detected. But when I click nothing happens. I have to basically long press it to get it to click then nothing happens?
It's showing up fine in Windows and is FAT32
I've reformatted it via windows and still nothing!!!?
What can / should I do?
I've already wiped everything, is there a way to get the CROMI zip onto it via USB when in Recovery???
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Issue was Using MINITOOL to partition the MicroSD
Was solved with a new MicroSD card

KinetiClutch said:
Got a slight issue.
Put the ZIP onto my MicroSD and then booted into TWRP and my MicroSD is not working.
It's being detected. But when I click nothing happens. I have to basically long press it to get it to click then nothing happens?
It's showing up fine in Windows and is FAT32
I've reformatted it via windows and still nothing!!!?
What can / should I do?
I've already wiped everything, is there a way to get the CROMI zip onto it via USB when in Recovery???
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I had this too. Click it and then press the go back button. It should work now. If not go back out and try again. Then restart and try again.

usern ameisval idandnot said:
I had this too. Click it and then press the go back button. It should work now. If not go back out and try again. Then restart and try again.
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Tried both of those.
Pay have been because I used Minitool to partition the card before?
I'm doing a full 'slow' format via Windows now!

KinetiClutch said:
Tried both of those.
Pay have been because I used Minitool to partition the card before?
I'm doing a full 'slow' format via Windows now!
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MartyHulskemper said:
No, stay away from MiniTool -- if you could be arsed to read the [email protected] thread by Mistar Muffin, you would find out that lots of people (and I mean lots of people) were having severe issues with MiniTool-formatted microSD cards which resolved totally when a new card was formatted with Gparted. (Yes, in many if not most cases the microSD is declared dead, and a new card must be used. $$$ I was one of the few that were able to recover their card.)
EDIT: the mods will not intervene and edit the OP from Mistar Muffin, and he doesn't reply to any PM I've sent him so far. That thread is a genuine microSD killer.
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Could be -- I had the same issue with my Calendar not syncing. I solved by removing my Google account and re-adding it.
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Have you tried booting it without the card inserted?
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Im sorry matey but you are screwed. For more information follow the post I cited.
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Also read a couple of pages before that post.

:'(
Thank's I should of searched better!
My fault I guess. Guess all I can do is try to reformat via gParted and if not, new card :/
Reformatted via GParted and still TWRP recognises the MicroSD but wont let me access it.
This isn't anything to do with Data2SD which was part of a kernel I downloaded?

KinetiClutch said:
I've already wiped everything, is there a way to get the CROMI zip onto it via USB when in Recovery???
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Sure, via adb push.

_that said:
Sure, via adb push.
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How technical is this to do? And this is possible in recovery?

Can confirm that this was caused by MiniTool.
New MicroSD card is working fine. Can be [SOLVED]

[Q] Can't see whole internal SD card to clean up

Hi,
I hope the title makes sense
I have the HTC One, but I know the issue I have is not unique to this device. I have flashed a couple custom sense roms, and what I have found is that I seem to have 2 parts of my internal sd card for some reason. When I boot into recovery to flash something, it finds the old sd card, but when out of recovery, I only have access to one, which according to recovery, is in "0". Because the roms I'm on are only using "0", I'd like to delete the original, but I can't because I can only see it when in recovery.
Is there something I can do? I've did a bit of looking around with no luck.
thanks

Anyone?

Same issue
Has anyone heard of this?
I am having same problem....
I am sure it is something dumb I am just missing but I have his issue to a T....

Have you tried to format your sd card from pc ? Or maybe you can try to flash another custom recovery, i use Philz Touch and it has never given me any problems

running CWrecovery. That is the only place I can see the whole SD card (in recovery) but I have to go to SDCARD directory to see what I copied on the phone recently.
It is like I am prevented from going up a directory when the phone is booted up.
I would like to recover what is on my phone so I am trying not to format.
Thanks for the help BTW
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Cannot flash new recovery because of the problem I am having. I cannot get to the directory with the .img file from fastboot!!!

bongo264 said:
running CWrecovery. That is the only place I can see the whole SD card (in recovery) but I have to go to SDCARD directory to see what I copied on the phone recently.
It is like I am prevented from going up a directory when the phone is booted up.
I would like to recover what is on my phone so I am trying not to format.
Thanks for the help BTW
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Cannot flash new recovery because of the problem I am having. I cannot get to the directory with the .img file from fastboot!!!
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No problem I'm not an expert but I've had so many issues with new roms that maybe I can help a little
you could try:
-flash Philz Touch with Odin
-dismounting and mounting the SD card
-mount USB storage from recovery and see if from your pc you can at least copy your data
-though I think you'll need to format sd to solve the problem
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