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[Q] SGS Flash ROM with no USB

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.

Theonew said:
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.

Stuck in recovery cant mount storage

Im currently stuck in recovery without a rom to reboot too, because i forgot to put the zip in before. I'm trying to mount to storage using 4EXT Recovery touch, just cant seem to open my sd folder. I tried mounting sdcard and mounting system through the mounts/storage, no luck. Any help?

ptrle said:
Im currently stuck in recovery without a rom to reboot too, because i forgot to put the zip in before. I'm trying to mount to storage using 4EXT Recovery touch, just cant seem to open my sd folder. I tried mounting sdcard and mounting system through the mounts/storage, no luck. Any help?
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Select toggle USB storage and access from computer. Put a Rom on and then eject from computer then select install from sd card.
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[SOLVED] super wiped -> cannot mount/access sdcard -> bricked?

hi, help would higly be appreciated because i think i bricked my beloved tf101g ;(
while testing some roms i used the Super Wipe Full from mike1986 (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1245892). this script failed - i don`t know why but (sh)it happend.
So my tf (b80, ww-epad-9.2.2.6-20120525) is wiped,
- no rom to start (last bevor wipe was CM10B2 - i think)
- cwm v5.8.1.8 touch starts but
- tells me: e:can`t mount /sdcard/
i spended hours on reading hundrets of "cannot mount" threads here but found no solution to my special situation. already tried several unbrick guides, did a hundred factory resets/formats in cwm, tried to mount data via cwm (error mounting /data), tried another microSD /btw: sdcard does not mean external sd but internal or am i wrong?), .... i cannot access the sdcard, so no way to flash another rom. adb is responding (0123456789ABCDEF recovery).
so, is there any way to use nvflash (b80!) oder adb (in recovery) to
a) get the sdcard back or
b) flash any rom / another recovery to get my tf back to life?
THANKS for any help!!!
*desperate* moscat

moscat said:
hi, help would higly be appreciated because i think i bricked my beloved tf101g ;(
while testing some roms i used the Super Wipe Full from mike1986 (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1245892). this script failed - i don`t know why but (sh)it happend.
So my tf (b80, ww-epad-9.2.2.6-20120525) is wiped,
- no rom to start (last bevor wipe was CM10B2 - i think)
- cwm v5.8.1.8 touch starts but
- tells me: e:can`t mount /sdcard/
i spended hours on reading hundrets of "cannot mount" threads here but found no solution to my special situation. already tried several unbrick guides, did a hundred factory resets/formats in cwm, tried to mount data via cwm (error mounting /data), tried another microSD /btw: sdcard does not mean external sd but internal or am i wrong?), .... i cannot access the sdcard, so no way to flash another rom. adb is responding (0123456789ABCDEF recovery).
so, is there any way to use nvflash (b80!) oder adb (in recovery) to
a) get the sdcard back or
b) flash any rom / another recovery to get my tf back to life?
THANKS for any help!!!
*desperate* moscat
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look for easyflasher by whitekidney, it might help, it returns u back to stock, then u can root again and install recovery.

Thanks catfishbilly, unfortunalty whitekidney says:
Does NOT work for: TF101G (TF101 3G)
already tried peri 0.4 - which also didn`t helped me out.
not shure wether i did something wrong or tf101g is really not supported.
any other ideas? Thanks in advance!

found this solution: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=24007127&postcount=276
Code:
mounted the external sd as /data
mount /dev/block/mmcblk1p1 /data
adb push recovery.zip /data/media/recovery.zip
then go to 5.5.0.4 recovery , install , choose , and boom : recovery.zip ¡¡¡
recovery flashed , and rom flashed
I cant believe how easy it was to end , 5.5.0.4 is finally able to read external sd with this cheat.
AND: SUCCEEDED - Rogue on my tf101g, access to external!
problem with /data/ still exists, hope to find another thread with a solution....
Thanks to this great forum,

Hi
I'm having some problems before super wipe:
I used Super Wipe Full to erase everything because I was facing some problems on it.
I used a lot of rooms before.
Now I can just access CWM and when I try to install the room, it says: "no files found". I think is isnt reading the external sd.
I tried to send the from via cable, but my computer don't install the driver for it. I also tried to install the driver via asus page.
Any solution?
Thank you...

[Q] Possibly bricked - what are my options?

Have a Telstra One XL 1.89 - after hours of reading/researching I finally rooted the phone and flashed TWRP (ver 2.2.2.0) recovery with a custom ROM.
Everything was working fine until I tried to install a different ROM - I made a backup via TWRP, installed the new ROM but it wouldn't boot ... no worries I had the backup ... I accidentally selected FACTORY RESET from the bootloader instead of RECOVERY which seemed to have wiped all my data on the internal SD card - so my backup has been wiped.
I'm still able to access TWRP so I thought I could simply mount my SD card to my computer and copy my old ROM to flash - however I can't mount the SD card from TWRP - TWRP's console is throwing up "E:failed to mount /sdcard (Invalid argument)" and "E:Unable to mount /sdcard when trying to read settings file." errors - hence in the Mount menu, I can't check the "Mount SDCard" checkbox! (WTF?) - I Google'd this and someone advised that you will need to partition the SD card from within TWRP before it will allow you to mount it - I tried partitioning it but still throwing up those errors
I can also access the device from command prompt via adb - so I tried to flash a rom directly via fastboot but it throws up a "FAILED (remote: not allowed)" when it tries to flash it.
What are my options here? Am I completely screwed? I'm currently in the process of downloading the Telstra RUU - will this even work in my case?? Any help would be GREATLY appreciated - pulling my hair out here ... 2 week old phone

The RUU will make it all better
just lock your bootloader again before you run it

Look who's still floating
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So you could post here when you didn't have a hox but I can't? Oooookayyyy.

In my heart I always had a hox......now I hate this p.o.s yet I'm still here, smh
My fastboot oem unlock tabby will be here Tuesday tho
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slavlazar said:
Have a Telstra One XL 1.89 - after hours of reading/researching I finally rooted the phone and flashed TWRP (ver 2.2.2.0) recovery with a custom ROM.
Everything was working fine until I tried to install a different ROM - I made a backup via TWRP, installed the new ROM but it wouldn't boot ... no worries I had the backup ... I accidentally selected FACTORY RESET from the bootloader instead of RECOVERY which seemed to have wiped all my data on the internal SD card - so my backup has been wiped.
I'm still able to access TWRP so I thought I could simply mount my SD card to my computer and copy my old ROM to flash - however I can't mount the SD card from TWRP - TWRP's console is throwing up "E:failed to mount /sdcard (Invalid argument)" and "E:Unable to mount /sdcard when trying to read settings file." errors - hence in the Mount menu, I can't check the "Mount SDCard" checkbox! (WTF?) - I Google'd this and someone advised that you will need to partition the SD card from within TWRP before it will allow you to mount it - I tried partitioning it but still throwing up those errors
I can also access the device from command prompt via adb - so I tried to flash a rom directly via fastboot but it throws up a "FAILED (remote: not allowed)" when it tries to flash it.
What are my options here? Am I completely screwed? I'm currently in the process of downloading the Telstra RUU - will this even work in my case?? Any help would be GREATLY appreciated - pulling my hair out here ... 2 week old phone
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Hey mate,
RUU will work but before you do just try mounting it through twrp then plugging it into your pc.
When you're in the mount menu in twrp make sure you hit mount usb storage for Windows to recognise it.
When I did this I got a prompt in Windows that said it needed to format the drive so I formatted it then just copied over the rom I wanted to flash then unmounted and flashed the rom.
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[Q] Help! TWRP Won't Mount /sdcard for flashing!

I ran a recovery in TWRP to get my phone back to the phones original rom after being on AOKP JB Build 4 on my AT&T One X, but now it stays on the HTC boot screen with the red legal warning on it and TWRP can't mount /sdcard to flash back to another rom. I really hope that this isn't a brick but can someone shine some light on this issue and a possible fix? Help would be greatly appreciated!
Update: Was able to get AOKP flashed back by mounting /data as /sdcard, phone boots into it and I can use it, but the internal storage (/sdcard) is nonexistent and won't mount.

format sdcard in your computers os. make sure not to factory reset or clear storage in bootloader or it will corrupt sdcard.

DvineLord said:
format sdcard in your computers os. make sure not to factory reset or clear storage in bootloader or it will corrupt sdcard.
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I can't get the phone to mount as a removable drive because of the problem with /sdcard, so I can't format it from my computer.

c_h0use said:
I can't get the phone to mount as a removable drive because of the problem with /sdcard, so I can't format it from my computer.
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Don't worry about the red text. We all have that. And it is not bricked.
Can you turn the phone on with the stock ROM you flashed? If so, can you mount the SD card while it is on, booted up in phone mode? If, mount it there, then move your new rom to your phone.

Hello,
I have a similar issue, i can get into TWRP recovery, but i am not able to mount sdcard. My mistake was that i did fastboot flash boot boot.img but i neglected to actually flash the room and i didn't put the rom in the sdcard, so now i need to mount the sdcard to load the rom to flash it, but that is where i am stuck, is there a way to copy files into the sdcard via adb or any other way?
Any help will be greatly appreciated it.
Thank you.

XRACER said:
Hello,
I have a similar issue, i can get into TWRP recovery, but i am not able to mount sdcard. My mistake was that i did fastboot flash boot boot.img but i neglected to actually flash the room and i didn't put the rom in the sdcard, so now i need to mount the sdcard to load the rom to flash it, but that is where i am stuck, is there a way to copy files into the sdcard via adb or any other way?
Any help will be greatly appreciated it.
Thank you.
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I think what you need to do then is flash the ROM from your bootloader. I found this guide with directions explaining how to flash from the bootloader by googling How To Flash Rom from Bootloader in the XDA Wiki. Here are the steps
ROM Flashing
Obtain a ROM of your choice, and note the location on your computer.
reboot your device into fastboot mode via one of the following options.
adb reboot bootloader (requires USB debugging to be turned on).
power off the device then back on with 'vol up' + power button.
Wipe your device.
fastboot -w
Update your ROM.
fastboot update </path/to/your/RomFile.zip>
Your phone will update and automatically reboot into the new ROM.
ROM update without SDcard
If you don't have an sd card, or your slot is broken you can try this trick, but you will need a custom recovery like Clockwork.
Boot up your phone to recovery. And move your rom file to the adb directory, and start a command line ( cmd )
adb shell
mount data
adb push D:\custom_rom.zip /data/
Wait until the push finised, and restart your device to recovery again with "adb reboot-bootloader"
mount data
mount /data /sdcard ( mount the data folder into your sdcard folder, so your recovery will think that you have an sdcard installed )
Locate the ROM .Zip file you wish to flash.
Confirm the flash by following the on-screen instructions (ie: pressing the trackball, pressing the call button, etc.)
If no errors arise during the flashing process then the ROM flash was successful, Reboot the device.
With some root file explorer, remove the rom file if you don't need it anymore, to free up space.
Or use adb to remove the custom recovery
adb shell rm data/custom_rom.zip

thanks for the reply but the procedure is not working,
when in fastboot through cmd i get
fatsboot -w
erasing 'userdata'...
FAILED (remote: not allowed)
finished. total time: 0.003s
I made sure i am in fastboot USB

elphiz
XRACER said:
thanks for the reply but the procedure is not working,
when in fastboot through cmd i get
fatsboot -w
erasing 'userdata'...
FAILED (remote: not allowed)
finished. total time: 0.003s
I made sure i am in fastboot USB
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Lol this just happen toe last night what u need to do is boot into bootloader then plug it USB cable to ur phone and format your sdcard it make sure u download a Rom to your computer before this it can be any tom you like after you format you can put the Rom on ur sdcard and flash and u will be golden

loading into bootloader doesn't allow the computer to read/access the sdcard keep in mind this is the HOX so the sdcard is the internal memory, i could get into the recovery and then try to mount it that way and format from there but for some reason i can't select the option mount sdcard.

This works:
How to Fix corrupt/unmountable internal storage on the HTC One X/XL
http://forums.team-nocturnal.com/sh...storage-on-the-HTC-One-X-XL?p=13552#post13552

perfect thanks that did the job. now time to install the ROM!!!!
thanks a lot
hmmmm.... one more question would i need to flash the boot image as well before installing the ROM???
EDIT: i went ahead and just flashed the ROM, and everything is working fine.
Thank you to everyone

XRACER said:
perfect thanks that did the job. now time to install the ROM!!!!
thanks a lot
hmmmm.... one more question would i need to flash the boot image as well before installing the ROM???
EDIT: i went ahead and just flashed the ROM, and everything is working fine.
Thank you to everyone
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If you're not on Hboot 1.14 then you don't have to flashboot flash boot.img. just flash the .zip from your sd card
Sent from my HTC One XL cellular device over clocked to 1.9Ghz

thank you sir!
king200 said:
This works:
How to Fix corrupt/unmountable internal storage on the HTC One X/XL
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ok this did work and i appreciate the link. ive bookmarked it for future use. what sux is i assumed i bricked and have already had a new phone shipped. oh well guess i got a back up

will this work because my microsims card unable to mount /sdcard which i assume is the internal one will it work even if its blank/empty via computer because i have no working os on my phone i have incredible 4g so i hope you can help me

XRACER said:
loading into bootloader doesn't allow the computer to read/access the sdcard keep in mind this is the HOX so the sdcard is the internal memory, i could get into the recovery and then try to mount it that way and format from there but for some reason i can't select the option mount sdcard.
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I did it. Apparently you can install a zip ROM from SD card once you repartition it from the recovery. There is an option to partition the SD card in the Recovery.
After that, restart the phone, go into recovery again, connect to the PC using a USB cable, and use the USB mount option if you want to copy the ROM without removing the microSD card from the phone. Copy the zip ROM to the sdcard and try installing the ROM again. It worked for me !
I was installing the Pico ROM from this tutorial:
www (dot) rootlord.com/2013/08/revert-htc-explorer-back-to-stock-rom (dot) html
I

TWRP Mounting SD card
DvineLord said:
format sdcard in your computers os. make sure not to factory reset or clear storage in bootloader or it will corrupt sdcard.
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So I think I may have currupted my sdcard. I'm running CM-12 4/21/15 nightly. I'm a nubie at this stuff and have read everywhere I can think of on the forums. When I try to reboot to bootloader from TWRP recovery if goes immediately to the do no remove USB connection FIRMWARE Update. I am worried that this will un-root me with AT&T being jerks and fixing the bumped bootloader. So, I have always just pulled the battery, plus it never has any progress on the %downloaded bar.
To try to fix the issue I may have just made it worse and created too many partitions or corrupted the SD by doing exactly what you said not to do above. Before I did a TWRP wipe (not the advanced version) the SD card was mounted, but some apps like google play music kept saying external storage removed. I did the wipe and saw the factory reset screen and said ok. I had to download all my apps again and then switched to Google Now launcher I orginally rooted and bootloader unlocked with bump on a different smaller external SD card. I wasn't sure if that had anything to do with it.
I'm almost unsure what to ask you or other more experienced users what to do.

eee. how about on my samsung galaxy j5 sm j500h? i wanted to mount my phone to pc but i cant. was planning to fix my phone cause im stucked on bootlogo due to flashing xposed-v72-sdk22-arm.zip. Hoping that you guys can help me out.