Hi all,
I'm here because I need your help...
Days ago I installed on my TF101G the recovery CWM 5.8.1.8...
now I can just go into recovery mode and if I try to mount /data I receive the message "no location found"...
how can I push a Rom on my TF to try to install it?
thanks in advance for your help
how to flash a ROM
The ROM to be flashed must be cwm flashable, you cannot flash official firmware unless it is repacked to be cwm flashable.
Your ROM must be a zip file, do not unzip it.
Copy (or adb push) the ROM to /sdcard/
Reboot tab into recovery.
Follow cwm flash instructions. There are many such a manual available on-line, one of them is:
http://www.addictivetips.com/mobile...-and-how-to-use-it-on-android-complete-guide/
You can just jump to section "apply update from sdcard", which tells you how to use cwm recovery to flash a ROM
One thing you should pay attention is:
if the ROM to be flashed is only a update to your current ROM, do not do any wipe work.
If it is a new ROM, you must do the wipe.
You can also try this....
hi Fenice82,
read this forum
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1213723
and read message 1 and 313 for mounting and the adb commands for sending cmw flash file to your internal card of your TF.
Make sure you have the cwm flashable rom file on you computer in the adb dir.
good luck.
I'm hege again...
thk nlheiz for your post...
I push the rom in my TF... I tried different location...
data/media
or
data
or
system
or
sdcard
or
sdcard/rom
if I go in adb shell and I use command mkdir to make a new folder like system,data,sdcard I see the the file already exist...
but my tf "can't mount /sdcard/" and at the same time if i try to mount /data from recovery I see the message
"Error mounting /data!"
what can I do now?
edit... maybe this can help you...
via ADB shell
mount data
mount: mounting /dev/block/mmcblk0p7 on /data failed: Invalid argument
How about restore stock recovery and ROM? Here is a recent guide for root/unroot/downgrading:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1622628
I don't have experience with cwm 5.8.1.8, I stayed on 3.2.0.1 because it is possible to flash from external sdcards.
cold you try this:
put our tablet into cwm (volume - plus power and when asked volume +) and connect it to usb on pc.
then on your pc:
adb devices
this should give you a serial number back.....
then try this:
to mount the internal sdcard so that you can push a new rom- use
adb shell
mount /dev/block/mmcblk0p7 /data/
ls /sdcard/
exit
then from your pc, type:
adb push /path/to/your/rom.zip /data/media
I found this here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=23256536 in post 3......
let me know if this works
e154037 said:
How about restore stock recovery and ROM? Here is a recent guide for root/unroot/downgrading:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1622628
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thk man... with method 3 I installed new recovery and with it I installed the official update, from external storage, that recovery my tablet...pdate
before official update I tried to install other custom rom but I incurred in encryption problem... with official after the fist boot it automatically resolved the problem
I'm very happy
thk again
So here's my situation.
I was trying to move a file from my internal storage to my microsd using the twrp file manager, it was successful but file remained in the internal storage at the sametime the file was in my microsd. So i thought it might be a glitch so I rebooted and entered to twrp again, but suddenly the splash screen flashed and froze. So i rebooted it again and tried again, the samething happened. It just flashed and then frozed at the twrp splash screen. I tried to drain my tablet and then turned it on and tried to go to the twrp, but the samething happened. I tried booting to android but it wont boot, i'm using grimlock 4.0 and I'm on data2sd. It's stuck at the pre.init screen. I can use fastboot, i tried to reflash twrp with the lastest one, i erased the previous one and flashed the latest one using fastboot, it worked but it cannot mount any partitions except my microsd card and whenever you reboot it and go back to recovery the twrp screen flashes and freezes. I need help i think i may have doomed my tablet.
P.s i erased the boot, system, partitions in hopes that i can reset everything but apparently it doesn't work.
supernova0 said:
So here's my situation.
I was trying to move a file from my internal storage to my microsd using the twrp file manager, it was successful but file remained in the internal storage at the sametime the file was in my microsd. So i thought it might be a glitch so I rebooted and entered to twrp again, but suddenly the splash screen flashed and froze. So i rebooted it again and tried again, the samething happened. It just flashed and then frozed at the twrp splash screen. I tried to drain my tablet and then turned it on and tried to go to the twrp, but the samething happened. I tried booting to android but it wont boot, i'm using grimlock 4.0 and I'm on data2sd. It's stuck at the pre.init screen. I can use fastboot, i tried to reflash twrp with the lastest one, i erased the previous one and flashed the latest one using fastboot, it worked but it cannot mount any partitions except my microsd card and whenever you reboot it and go back to recovery the twrp screen flashes and freezes. I need help i think i may have doomed my tablet.
P.s i erased the boot, system, partitions in hopes that i can reset everything but apparently it doesn't work.
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As long as you can fastboot, you have not 'doomed' your tablet.
Flash newest stock ROM from ASUS site and you will be set:
1. Unzip stock ROM zip file twice and you will get a file 'blob'
2. Put blob file into fastboot folder.
3. Fastboot ROM using:
Code:
fastboot -i 0x0b05 flash staging blob [enter]
fastboot -i 0x0b05 reboot [enter]
4. Let blue progressbar finish (will need a long, long time) and tab will reboot itself.
5. Now you should be on working stock ROM and can flash custom TWRP (2.8.x.x).
Good luck!
das chaos said:
As long as you can fastboot, you have not 'doomed' your tablet.
Flash newest stock ROM from ASUS site and you will be set:
1. Unzip stock ROM zip file twice and you will get a file 'blob'
2. Put blob file into fastboot folder.
3. Fastboot ROM using:
Code:
fastboot -i 0x0b05 flash staging blob [enter]
fastboot -i 0x0b05 reboot [enter]
4. Let blue progressbar finish (will need a long, long time) and tab will reboot itself.
5. Now you should be on working stock ROM and can flash custom TWRP (2.8.x.x).
Good luck!
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I was able to that, but the filesystem that I was using was f2fs so when I booted to the stockrom it said" encryption unsuccessful" so i had to format my data partition to a compatible format. so i flash twrp recovery, but I had the same problem, the screen flashes and then it stays at the twrp splash screen. then I thought it might be a problem with my data partition, so I erased my whole data partition using fastboot, with the command
fastboot format userdata
it worked and the recovery is working also, but my filesystem is on ext3 and I know ext 4 is better than ext 3, so using the twrp recovery I formatted my data partition to ext4 but suddenly the recovery hangs and doesn't finish the format. it there a way that this could be fixed? I really want to use a better file system.
supernova0 said:
..... I formatted my data partition to ext4 but suddenly the recovery hangs and doesn't finish the format. it there a way that this could be fixed? I really want to use a better file system.
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Probably it didn't hang but you didn't have the patience! Formatting a /data partition to ext4 can last a long, long time. People reportet as much as 90 min. In my case it was 30 min. So, be patient!
das chaos said:
Probably it didn't hang but you didn't have the patience! Formatting a /data partition to ext4 can last a long, long time. People reportet as much as 90 min. In my case it was 30 min. So, be patient!
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Thanks it worked!!! thank you very much
The file system is now on ext4 but whenever I try to flash it to f2fs it gives me:
Unknown mtp message type 1
And then its unable to format to f2fs.
supernova0 said:
Thanks it worked!!! thank you very much
The file system is now on ext4 but whenever I try to flash it to f2fs it gives me:
Unknown mtp message type 1
And then its unable to format to f2fs.
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1. You reasonably can only format /data with f2fs
2. Reliable formatting f2fs is possible with newest TWRP 2.8.5.0; Goto tab 'Wipe'=> check only /data=>Change File System=>check f2fs
3. Depending on what ROM you are actually, there might be a command 'mkfs.f2fs' in /system/bin; you can format manually by opening Terminal Emulator typing:
Code:
su [enter]
mkfs.f2fs /dev/block/mmcblk0p8 [enter]
be carefully, what you type! Mistyping can render your tab bricked.
das chaos said:
1. You reasonably can only format /data with f2fs
2. Reliable formatting f2fs is possible with newest TWRP 2.8.5.0; Goto tab 'Wipe'=> check only /data=>Change File System=>check f2fs
3. Depending on what ROM you are actually, there might be a command 'mkfs.f2fs' in /system/bin; you can format manually by opening Terminal Emulator typing:
Code:
su [enter]
mkfs.f2fs /dev/block/mmcblk0p8 [enter]
be carefully, what you type! Mistyping can render your tab bricked.
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Ok, I found myself here as well. I recovered and have KatKiss 5.0.2 #18 installed and running. I do have TWRP 2.8.5 and it will not convert my /data to f2fs with the same error above. It worked once but then I got hungup on a Google restore and it corrupted everything forcing me to Asus restore. This ROM doesn't have mkfs.f2fs.
How else can I convert to f2fs? Is there another way to do this via ADB or getting the mkfs.f2fs command to drop in /system/bin/?
Thanks--
bretzke said:
Ok, I found myself here as well. I recovered and have KatKiss 5.0.2 #18 installed and running. I do have TWRP 2.8.5 and it will not convert my /data to f2fs with the same error above. It worked once but then I got hungup on a Google restore and it corrupted everything forcing me to Asus restore. This ROM doesn't have mkfs.f2fs.
How else can I convert to f2fs? Is there another way to do this via ADB or getting the mkfs.f2fs command to drop in /system/bin/?
Thanks--
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Try that mkfs.f2fs command from recovery in a shell from a PC
Or after it fails pull a recovery log .....
Code:
adb pull /tmp/recovery.log
paste it on pastebin or upload it to xda .....
Thx Josh
lj50036 said:
Try that mkfs.f2fs command from recovery in a shell from a PC
Or after it fails pull a recovery log .....
Code:
adb pull /tmp/recovery.log
paste it on pastebin or upload it to xda .....
Thx Josh
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Thanks for helping...here's the log: http://pastebin.com/Fr5q88PH
Here is the error:
Formatting Data using mkfs.f2fs...
mkfs.f2fs: invalid option -- r
I:mkfs.f2fs -t 1 -r 16384 /dev/block/mmcblk0p8 process ended with ERROR=1
bretzke said:
Thanks for helping...here's the log: http://pastebin.com/Fr5q88PH
Here is the error:
Formatting Data using mkfs.f2fs...
mkfs.f2fs: invalid option -- r
I:mkfs.f2fs -t 1 -r 16384 /dev/block/mmcblk0p8 process ended with ERROR=1
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Thanks for your assistance Josh. It turns out 2.8.5 has a bug for f2fs conversion on many/most devices. Loaded 2.8.4 and it worked perfectly.
bretzke said:
Thanks for your assistance Josh. It turns out 2.8.5 has a bug for f2fs conversion on many/most devices. Loaded 2.8.4 and it worked perfectly.
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See you found your own answer and I like that ..... :good:
Thx Josh
I previously ran LolliGPE but was long overdue for an update. I downloaded the latest version and copied the image to my phone and flashed the ROM. I decided to go try a dirty install first to see if I could keep everything I had, since I had already been running a previous version and after reviewing the changelog did not see anything recommending to wipe clean. After installing successfully, Android asked me to enter my password to decrypt my data (I don't recall ever encrypting my data?), and so I did. It then told me that my password was right, but the data was corrupt, and presented me a button to reset my phone. The button redirected me to recovery and automatically attempted to wipe /data and then re-mount it, but the wipe failed. I rebooted again with the same issue, same failed attempt to wipe. I went to install the zip again, and this time do a full wipe, but it was unable to mount my phone's storage nor my SD card. I am not able to mount either at all now.
What's the best course of action? I'd like to retain as much as I can and avoid wiping all of the internal storage clean. Is there a simpler fix to this or am I doomed?
HBOOT: 3.19.0.0000
RADIO: 1.09.20.0926
OS: 3.28.605.4
EDIT: For anyone else having a problem like this that at least wants to get their data back, here's what you should do (I assume you know how to work with Linux!):
Make sure you have the latest version of TWRP and ADB.
Boot the phone into recovery mode and connect the phone to your computer via USB
Run "ls -al /dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name" and check the output. Make a note of the partition marked "userdata" - for me, it was /dev/block/mmcblk0p48.
Either: simply use adb pull to copy this file to your computer (this will require about 26 gigs of space), or attempt to mount the file. To use adb pull, execute "adb pull /dev/block/<ID> ./data" (ID being what you marked down). Your data partition will be copied to /data. To mount, use "mount -t ext4 /dev/block/<ID> /userdata". Whatever's left of your data will be on your phone's new /userdata folder.
Use ADB to pull what files you want from /userdata. If you pulled the partition, skip this step.
If you copied the files you wanted over, you're done. If you pulled the entire partition, you're going to want to try and mount it. On Windows, there are various tools to mount Linux partitions, a quick Google will find some good ones. However, if the data is corrupt, it will not work. I recommend attempting to repair the partition on linux, with the command "e2fsck -f -y /path/to/data", replacing the path to your data file as necessary. Once done, run "mount -t ext4 /path/to/data /mnt/data", replacing the paths as necessary.
Once mounted, you can access your data wherever it was mounted. If e2fsck appeared to fix many errors, chances are most of your data will be in the lost+found folder, and you'll need to sort through this yourself. If you're lucky, then your data will be intact and readily usable. Internal SD card data is located at ./media/0.
To fix the partitions and get Android back up and running, you need to install the latest firmware, format your data in TWRP, factory reset, and then flash a ROM again. Here's what I did to do that, without an SD card. If you have an SD card, simply copy your ROM zip to the SD card and skip the final steps:
Make sure you have the latest version of TWRP and ADB, and download the latest copy of the firmware (check the development forum here).
Boot the phone (doesn't matter to what) and run adb reboot bootloader. When your phone reboots, double-check by running fastboot reboot-bootloader.
Put your phone in RUU mode with fastboot oem rebootRUU. The phone will restart and the HTC logo will come up.
Wait a couple seconds, then run fastboot flash zip firmware.zip, where firmware.zip is the firmware you want to flash.
The first time you do this, it will fail saying something like "FAILED (remote: 90 hboot pre-update! please flush image again immediately)". Ignore this, run the last command again: fastboot flash zip firmware.zip
The progress bar will appear and begin filling. Wait until fastboot is finished flashig it (the progress bar may not fill completely), wait an extra 5 seconds or so, and then do fastboot reboot.
The phone will reboot. Android will still be messed up, but you can verify the partitions are in working order by checking adb shell cat /proc/emmc.
Once you know the partitions are working, get back into TWRP/recovery: adb reboot recovery
Format /data and wipe /cache, /data, dalvik/art cache, etc (factory reset). You will lose the contents of your internal storage and everything else.
If you don't have the ROM zip on an sd card, make sure the zip is in the same directory as adb and run adb push rom.zip /sdcard/rom.zip, where rom.zip is the ROM. You can also copy it to the external sd by swapping /sdcard/rom.zip with /external_storage/rom.zip.
Once copied, reboot into recovery and flash the zip. Back to normal!
Update:
It's a firmware problem. Apparently there was a new firmware update that the ROM uses that I don't have. mmcblk0p42 was changed to "vzw_logger" (which I don't have), making mmcblk0p49 userdata instead of previously mmcblk0p48. The data partition it expects to be /data is /cache. Got this information by comparing 'cat /proc/emmc' with information of the latest version I found here.
Is there a way to fix this that allows me to preserve the contents of my internal storage (/sdcard)? Can I just flash an older version of the ROM to backup my data?
Klayderpus said:
Update:
It's a firmware problem. Apparently there was a new firmware update that the ROM uses that I don't have. mmcblk0p42 was changed to "vzw_logger" (which I don't have), making mmcblk0p49 userdata instead of previously mmcblk0p48. The data partition it expects to be /data is /cache. Got this information by comparing 'cat /proc/emmc' with information of the latest version I found here.
Is there a way to fix this that allows me to preserve the contents of my internal storage (/sdcard)? Can I just flash an older version of the ROM to backup my data?
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I posted a warning about this change in the general section early on. For you to have the partition changes means you are on the newer firmware which doesn't match what you posted above for os. You very likely at this point have nothing left to salvage. Are you on the latest twrp?
dottat said:
I posted a warning about this change in the general section early on. For you to have the partition changes means you are on the newer firmware which doesn't match what you posted above for os. You very likely at this point have nothing left to salvage. Are you on the latest twrp?
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I am on the latest TWRP, yes. Since this post, I've actually been making good progress in getting the data partition back, or so I think. I've been using dd to copy /dev/block/mntblk0p48 to an image file, but got stuck when I reached the FAT32 limit, so I re-formatted my SD card, except now it's read-only.
Klayderpus said:
I am on the latest TWRP, yes. Since this post, I've actually been making good progress in getting the data partition back, or so I think. I've been using dd to copy /dev/block/mntblk0p48 to an image file, but got stuck when I reached the FAT32 limit, so I re-formatted my SD card, except now it's read-only.
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If you Dd the entire data partition it's gonna be almost 25 gigs. If you can't mount data in twrp and find anything usable when browsing via adb in twrp there's probably not anything usable in there.
dottat said:
If you Dd the entire data partition it's gonna be almost 25 gigs. If you can't mount data in twrp and find anything usable when browsing via adb in twrp there's probably not anything usable in there.
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I did a DD before while in ADB and it only got to about 1.3 gigs, but after running the image through e2fsck I actually found some images and downloads. I think there's usable stuff in there and I'd like to at least try to get it. There's family pictures and stuff on there that have some value to me. My SD card is 32 gigs so I could probably do it if anything for the hell of it.
Do you happen to know how I can get the SD card mounted? mount -o rw,remount /dev/block/mmcblk1p1 [some dir] is what I've been trying, but I've been getting either Read only filesystem or Invalid argument.
I might be a little crazy
Klayderpus said:
I did a DD before while in ADB and it only got to about 1.3 gigs, but after running the image through e2fsck I actually found some images and downloads. I think there's usable stuff in there and I'd like to at least try to get it. There's family pictures and stuff on there that have some value to me. My SD card is 32 gigs so I could probably do it if anything for the hell of it.
Do you happen to know how I can get the SD card mounted? mount -o rw,remount /dev/block/mmcblk1p1 [some dir] is what I've been trying, but I've been getting either Read only filesystem or Invalid argument.
I might be a little crazy
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Its already mounted.. Just boot into TWRP while connected to your PC. Open cmd prompt in your adb directory.
adb shell
cd sdcard
ls
See if your internal SD card contents are listed.
dottat said:
Its already mounted.. Just boot into TWRP while connected to your PC. Open cmd prompt in your adb directory.
adb shell
cd sdcard
ls
See if your internal SD card contents are listed.
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TWRP lists the internal SD card as being size 0 under Mount -> Select Storage and /sdcard is empty. I re-formatted my external SD card to make a full size image but that's what wasn't mounting.
Klayderpus said:
TWRP lists the internal SD card as being size 0 under Mount -> Select Storage and /sdcard is empty. I re-formatted my external SD card to make a full size image but that's what wasn't mounting.
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Did you try the repair option for /data listed under wipe in TWRP?
dottat said:
Did you try the repair option for /data listed under wipe in TWRP?
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Doesn't work. There's a couple of messages about not being able to mount /data and then:
Code:
Repairing Data using e2fsck...
E:Unable to repair '/data'.
E:Error repairing file system.
Klayderpus said:
Doesn't work. There's a couple of messages about not being able to mount /data and then:
Code:
Repairing Data using e2fsck...
E:Unable to repair '/data'.
E:Error repairing file system.
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try this
adb shell
mount -t ext4 /dev/block/mmcblk0p49 /userdata
df
show me the output of df...
and if to be sure of which firmware you are on.. reboot recovery... and do the following....
adb shell
mount -t ext4 /dev/block/mmcblk0p48 /userdata
df
and show me that DF
I got all of my data back successfully. I'm updating the OP with the steps I did to get it back.
What's the next step? Change firmware? I have a local copy of what I needed from the phone, so anything's game now.
edit: /dev/block/mmcblk0p48 for me is userdata, 49 does not exist. Both mounts fail.
Code:
df
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
tmpfs 933044 24 933020 0% /dev
tmpfs 933044 20 933024 0% /tmp
/dev/block/mmcblk0p47 1030828 16464 1014364 2% /cache
/dev/block/mmcblk1p1 30647232 12 29090436 0% /external_sd
/dev/block/mmcblk1p1 30647232 12 29090436 0% /and-sec
Klayderpus said:
I got all of my data back successfully. I'm updating the OP with the steps I did to get it back.
What's the next step? Change firmware? I have a local copy of what I needed from the phone, so anything's game now.
edit: /dev/block/mmcblk0p48 for me is userdata, 49 does not exist. Both mounts fail.
Code:
df
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
tmpfs 933044 24 933020 0% /dev
tmpfs 933044 20 933024 0% /tmp
/dev/block/mmcblk0p47 1030828 16464 1014364 2% /cache
/dev/block/mmcblk1p1 30647232 12 29090436 0% /external_sd
/dev/block/mmcblk1p1 30647232 12 29090436 0% /and-sec
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I would say update firmware. Since you confirmed blk48 as user data I know you don't have lollipop firmware.
I posted a firmware zip that contains the newest twrp which is compatible with lollipop in tigerstowns firmware thread. You can use that to update.
Then wipe and reinstall whatever Rom you want to use.
I fixed it this morning by updating firmware and will update the OP with the rest of the steps for the Googlers. Thanks again.
Klayderpus said:
EDIT: For anyone else having a problem like this that at least wants to get their data back, here's what you should do (I assume you know how to work with Linux!):
Make sure you have the latest version of TWRP and ADB.
Boot the phone into recovery mode and connect the phone to your computer via USB
Run "ls -al /dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name" and check the output. Make a note of the partition marked "userdata" - for me, it was /dev/block/mmcblk0p48.
Either: simply use adb pull to copy this file to your computer (this will require about 26 gigs of space), or attempt to mount the file. To use adb pull, execute "adb pull /dev/block/<ID> ./data" (ID being what you marked down). Your data partition will be copied to /data. To mount, use "mount -t ext4 /dev/block/<ID> /userdata". Whatever's left of your data will be on your phone's new /userdata folder.
Use ADB to pull what files you want from /userdata. If you pulled the partition, skip this step.
If you copied the files you wanted over, you're done. If you pulled the entire partition, you're going to want to try and mount it. On Windows, there are various tools to mount Linux partitions, a quick Google will find some good ones. However, if the data is corrupt, it will not work. I recommend attempting to repair the partition on linux, with the command "e2fsck -f -y /path/to/data", replacing the path to your data file as necessary. Once done, run "mount -t ext4 /path/to/data /mnt/data", replacing the paths as necessary.
Once mounted, you can access your data wherever it was mounted. If e2fsck appeared to fix many errors, chances are most of your data will be in the lost+found folder, and you'll need to sort through this yourself. If you're lucky, then your data will be intact and readily usable. Internal SD card data is located at ./media/0.
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I have a laptop running Ubuntu: where do I run the "ls -al /dev/block..." command? As in what folder do I need to be in? The phone only appears in an mtp capacity...
EDIT: I figured that out but now I am stuck at "adb pull /dev/block/<ID> ./data". My ID was mmcblk0p28 but the command returns "Bash: mmcblk0p28: no such file or directory exists"
EDIT 2: Got that command to work but the file is too large to write (My disk is FAT32 ). So I then tried the mount command but again got "no such file or directory exists".
Same Issue "Decryption Unsuccessful"
I was trying to apply the OTA update for 5.1 on my M8 converted to GPE 5.01, but had to update to the stock recovery, and found myself in the same situation with the "Decryption Unsuccessful" message.
Following Klayderpus' steps to recover, but I'm running into a few issues:
1) Windows not Ubuntu so some (many) of the commands do not apply.
2) The device is not responding to adb, although it was prior to the "upgrade". Fastboot is working.
3) TWRP was not on the device, in fact I never could get to the recovery after trying to install the stock recovery when I converted to GPE 5.01 many months ago
I have a fresh nandroid backup, so I am just trying to get the device running. Being without the phone is causing me great pain....
I upgraded the firmware to 4.16 and did the factory reset from the stock 4.16 recovery. The phone boots back to the "Decryption Unsuccessful" message.
I am not sure, but I think the next step for me to try is to install the GPE ROM from graffixnyc from the microSD card (need to find/buy that little SD adaptor)
Any help would be greatly appreciated!!
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Update;
Recovery does not see the SD card , so I won't be able to install from there.
I'll try flashing TWRP recover to see if that will show the contents of the external card
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Update 2:
TWRP does see the external card, but the install failed as it is unable to mount /data and /storage.
I'm out of ideas....HELP!!
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Update 3
I noticed the "factory reset" in HBOOT and thought I'd try that instead of the "Wipe" in TWRP, but only made things worse.
Now the phone comes up to the "Decryption Unsuccessful" where I can then take the reset to get it into TWRP recover
TWRP comes up directly into a screen where it's "Running OpenRecovery Script" and then reboots.
I'm going to quit now, as I am only making matters worse.....
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Update 4
I got TWRP to quit whatever it was doing.
Now, In TWRP > Wipe > Advanced Wipe, I cannot wipe or repair the Data partition. I see a message "Could not mount /data unable to find crypto footer". Trying to wipe the Davlik Cache fails, "Unable to mount /data, " Unable to mount storage".
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version-bootloader: 3.19.0.0000
version-baseband: 1.25.214500021.06G
version-main: 4.16.401.10
modelid: 0P6B12000
cidnum: 11111111
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I've bricked the phone and it looks permanent.
I found another thread where everyone was solving this issue running this command "mke2fs -T ext4 /dev/block/mmcblk0p8" in TWRP. I failed to notice that it was not an M8 device thread. The phone won't boot at all, and windows sees it as a usb drive.
Haste makes waste
Do you still have fastboot?
Check out the RUU collection here and grab what apllies to your device:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/ver...zw-m8-master-ruu-firmware-collection-t2946473
Make sure you use the HTC fastboot.exe from post 3
highplains914drifter said:
I was trying to apply the OTA update for 5.1 on my M8 converted to GPE 5.01, but had to update to the stock recovery, and found myself in the same situation with the "Decryption Unsuccessful" message.
Following Klayderpus' steps to recover, but I'm running into a few issues:
1) Windows not Ubuntu so some (many) of the commands do not apply.
2) The device is not responding to adb, although it was prior to the "upgrade". Fastboot is working.
3) TWRP was not on the device, in fact I never could get to the recovery after trying to install the stock recovery when I converted to GPE 5.01 many months ago
I have a fresh nandroid backup, so I am just trying to get the device running. Being without the phone is causing me great pain....
I upgraded the firmware to 4.16 and did the factory reset from the stock 4.16 recovery. The phone boots back to the "Decryption Unsuccessful" message.
I am not sure, but I think the next step for me to try is to install the GPE ROM from graffixnyc from the microSD card (need to find/buy that little SD adaptor)
Any help would be greatly appreciated!!
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Update;
Recovery does not see the SD card , so I won't be able to install from there.
I'll try flashing TWRP recover to see if that will show the contents of the external card
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Update 2:
TWRP does see the external card, but the install failed as it is unable to mount /data and /storage.
I'm out of ideas....HELP!!
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Update 3
I noticed the "factory reset" in HBOOT and thought I'd try that instead of the "Wipe" in TWRP, but only made things worse.
Now the phone comes up to the "Decryption Unsuccessful" where I can then take the reset to get it into TWRP recover
TWRP comes up directly into a screen where it's "Running OpenRecovery Script" and then reboots.
I'm going to quit now, as I am only making matters worse.....
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Update 4
I got TWRP to quit whatever it was doing.
Now, In TWRP > Wipe > Advanced Wipe, I cannot wipe or repair the Data partition. I see a message "Could not mount /data unable to find crypto footer". Trying to wipe the Davlik Cache fails, "Unable to mount /data, " Unable to mount storage".
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version-bootloader: 3.19.0.0000
version-baseband: 1.25.214500021.06G
version-main: 4.16.401.10
modelid: 0P6B12000
cidnum: 11111111
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I've bricked the phone and it looks permanent.
I found another thread where everyone was solving this issue running this command "mke2fs -T ext4 /dev/block/mmcblk0p8" in TWRP. I failed to notice that it was not an M8 device thread. The phone won't boot at all, and windows sees it as a usb drive.
Haste makes waste
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If you have fastboot do the following commands
Fastboot oem task 28
Fastboot oem task 29
Then try to flash your rom or ruu.
dottat said:
If you have fastboot do the following commands
Fastboot oem task 28
Fastboot oem task 29
Then try to flash your rom or ruu.
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No Fastboot, nothing. Device was charged, but now acts as if the battery is dead. the Power button does nothing even after a long press.
Bad day...
Klayderpus said:
I previously ran LolliGPE but was long overdue for an update. I downloaded the latest version and copied the image to my phone and flashed the ROM. I decided to go try a dirty install first to see if I could keep everything I had, since I had already been running a previous version and after reviewing the changelog did not see anything recommending to wipe clean. After installing successfully, Android asked me to enter my password to decrypt my data (I don't recall ever encrypting my data?), and so I did. It then told me that my password was right, but the data was corrupt, and presented me a button to reset my phone. The button redirected me to recovery and automatically attempted to wipe /data and then re-mount it, but the wipe failed. I rebooted again with the same issue, same failed attempt to wipe. I went to install the zip again, and this time do a full wipe, but it was unable to mount my phone's storage nor my SD card. I am not able to mount either at all now.
What's the best course of action? I'd like to retain as much as I can and avoid wiping all of the internal storage clean. Is there a simpler fix to this or am I doomed?
HBOOT: 3.19.0.0000
RADIO: 1.09.20.0926
OS: 3.28.605.4
EDIT: For anyone else having a problem like this that at least wants to get their data back, here's what you should do (I assume you know how to work with Linux!):
Make sure you have the latest version of TWRP and ADB.
Boot the phone into recovery mode and connect the phone to your computer via USB
Run "ls -al /dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name" and check the output. Make a note of the partition marked "userdata" - for me, it was /dev/block/mmcblk0p48.
Either: simply use adb pull to copy this file to your computer (this will require about 26 gigs of space), or attempt to mount the file. To use adb pull, execute "adb pull /dev/block/<ID> ./data" (ID being what you marked down). Your data partition will be copied to /data. To mount, use "mount -t ext4 /dev/block/<ID> /userdata". Whatever's left of your data will be on your phone's new /userdata folder.
Use ADB to pull what files you want from /userdata. If you pulled the partition, skip this step.
If you copied the files you wanted over, you're done. If you pulled the entire partition, you're going to want to try and mount it. On Windows, there are various tools to mount Linux partitions, a quick Google will find some good ones. However, if the data is corrupt, it will not work. I recommend attempting to repair the partition on linux, with the command "e2fsck -f -y /path/to/data", replacing the path to your data file as necessary. Once done, run "mount -t ext4 /path/to/data /mnt/data", replacing the paths as necessary.
Once mounted, you can access your data wherever it was mounted. If e2fsck appeared to fix many errors, chances are most of your data will be in the lost+found folder, and you'll need to sort through this yourself. If you're lucky, then your data will be intact and readily usable. Internal SD card data is located at ./media/0.
To fix the partitions and get Android back up and running, you need to install the latest firmware, format your data in TWRP, factory reset, and then flash a ROM again. Here's what I did to do that, without an SD card. If you have an SD card, simply copy your ROM zip to the SD card and skip the final steps:
Make sure you have the latest version of TWRP and ADB, and download the latest copy of the firmware (check the development forum here).
Boot the phone (doesn't matter to what) and run adb reboot bootloader. When your phone reboots, double-check by running fastboot reboot-bootloader.
Put your phone in RUU mode with fastboot oem rebootRUU. The phone will restart and the HTC logo will come up.
Wait a couple seconds, then run fastboot flash zip firmware.zip, where firmware.zip is the firmware you want to flash.
The first time you do this, it will fail saying something like "FAILED (remote: 90 hboot pre-update! please flush image again immediately)". Ignore this, run the last command again: fastboot flash zip firmware.zip
The progress bar will appear and begin filling. Wait until fastboot is finished flashig it (the progress bar may not fill completely), wait an extra 5 seconds or so, and then do fastboot reboot.
The phone will reboot. Android will still be messed up, but you can verify the partitions are in working order by checking adb shell cat /proc/emmc.
Once you know the partitions are working, get back into TWRP/recovery: adb reboot recovery
Format /data and wipe /cache, /data, dalvik/art cache, etc (factory reset). You will lose the contents of your internal storage and everything else.
If you don't have the ROM zip on an sd card, make sure the zip is in the same directory as adb and run adb push rom.zip /sdcard/rom.zip, where rom.zip is the ROM. You can also copy it to the external sd by swapping /sdcard/rom.zip with /external_storage/rom.zip.
Once copied, reboot into recovery and flash the zip. Back to normal!
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Hey
I have a HTC one m7 verizon & same problem storage decryption failed. See my case here in below post. And please tell me if anything possible. Please......
http://forum.xda-developers.com/verizon-htc-one/help/storage-encryped-htc-one-m7-vzw-s-t3279869