Hey guys,
Just experienced what I think is a soft brick. I know that this has been talked about a dozen times, and I have searched. I just want a more experienced yes or no to be sure.
Basically, last night I tried flashing PAndroid on my skyrocket and I went through the format system, format data, factory reset, and wipe cache. Then when I went into flash a zip it said something to the effect of "E: Can't access SD Card". So then I tried to use my band road but that also gave me the error. I then tried to mount the SD card, but it gave me another error. So, guessing that it would just factory reset me, I rebooted.
Now, my phone will vibrate and flash the Samsung logo before going to a black screen (but the screen is on). It also had the symptom of sticky power button for a while with the few second interval buzzing, but I jammed the power button and it seemed to stop doing that and is now doing the aforementioned thing instead.
Should I go use Vincom's soft Brick guide? Also, does anyone have a link to a 7zip extractor that isn't riddled with viruses? (had a hell of a time getting rid of them the first time I rooted haha)
Again, I know this is probably a fairly obvious answer, but yall have just been so helpful in the past that it makes me want to come here before just winging it. And I'm really nervous with this being my first time haha.
Thanks a lot guys, yall are the best!
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Use vincoms guide and Odin back to stock. I just googled for 7-zip and didn't get any viruses. Don't have the original file or I'd put it up on dev host for you
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You wiped system. That's why nothing is happening. You should still be able to enter recovery. Now why your recovery was giving you that error is a different story. Go to recovery and copy the version down here.
hechoen said:
You wiped system. That's why nothing is happening. You should still be able to enter recovery. Now why your recovery was giving you that error is a different story. Go to recovery and copy the version down here.
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Okay, I managed to get into recovery, but I'm still getting the error about the SD card not being mounted. I was looking on Google and I found two different solutions. One was to re flash CWM with Odin, but would that mess up my phone because it already has CWM on it? The other was to reformat my SD card on the computer, but I have no honest idea how to do that haha.
EDIT: v6.0.1.4
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SlushySolid said:
Okay, I managed to get into recovery, but I'm still getting the error about the SD card not being mounted. I was looking on Google and I found two different solutions. One was to re flash CWM with Odin, but would that mess up my phone because it already has CWM on it? The other was to reformat my SD card on the computer, but I have no honest idea how to do that haha.
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Re-Flashing cwm won't mess anything up. Formatting the sd card will remove everything on it including the rom you're trying to flash.
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Fixed it! Luckily I saved a backup I made yesterday, so I'm back up and running. Thanks for all the help everybody!
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Nice :thumbup:
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I'm getting this error when using CWM 5.0.2.6 to wipe user data:
Error mounting /sdcard/.android-secure!
So the wipe fails.
I'm also unable to mount the internal SD card and do not have an external SD card to try.
I attached the error I get in ADB when trying to mount the internal /sdcard.
getting same error did you ever get it figure out? Thanks
I am also getting this error still no luck. I will post if I find a solution.
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Can you access both the internal/external mass storage on the computer? If so try to format the external SD. Fat32 I believe and don't do the quick format. Just a thought I suppose. If I'm wrong someone scold me.
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Just an educated guess, but if you can't mount either internal nor external cards, nothing will see them. I would highly recommend purchasing an external for this kind of work. You don't need an absurdly expensive 32G card. A very cheap 4 or 8G will do nicely. I picked up a 16G for $44 at Best Buy. Pass on the $80 version AT&T wants to sell you. You can find 4G cards on Amazon for around $5.
My computer see the phone and I can add any files to the phone can't install any roms or use cwm to install anything. Phone is rooted
I can see the sd card in Task Manager, under Storage. But in cwm if I try to wipe the dalvik cache or flash an update for a rom, it takes a few tries, but it works.
You need to odin the stock tar. Then boot into stock recovery and wipe data/cache. Then reboot. I have had this happen as well. Its a problem with recovery some how messing up partitions . If you just odin the stock tar it may boot loop. Thats why i say boot into stock recovery after and wipe. Actually several of us had this problem a while back. And there was no other way around it.
This happened to me when I flashed the SystemUi.apk file from my stock AT&T into boneSTOCKeteer. Did you do anything like that to get the ATT LTE icons?
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silver03wrx said:
You need to odin the stock tar. Then boot into stock recovery and wipe data/cache. Then reboot. I have had this happen as well. Its a problem with recovery some how messing up partitions . If you just odin the stock tar it may boot loop. Thats why i say boot into stock recovery after and wipe. Actually several of us had this problem a while back. And there was no other way around it.
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Will try this and see what happen Thanks
Error Mounting SD card
Hi Guys,
I rooted my HTC desire few days ago and I tried to install LeeDroid HD with A2SD ROM with couple of addons through ROM Manager. And then when it installed and the phone rebooted I am getting the white screen with HTC logo folled by black screen with Android written on it. And it just stuck there.
When I started the phone into clockwork recovery mod and started to backup and restore it gives me an error E:/ Cant' mount/sdcard. Now I am stuck and need your help.
Please tell me how do I get rid of this problem and install another ROM and save my phone. A step by step guide would be really appreciated as I am new to this.
Thanks!
This is the samsung galaxy s2 skyrocket forum you need to go here for the forum for your device http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=594
a.humdinger said:
Hi Guys,
I rooted my HTC desire few days ago and I tried to install LeeDroid HD with A2SD ROM with couple of addons through ROM Manager. And then when it installed and the phone rebooted I am getting the white screen with HTC logo folled by black screen with Android written on it. And it just stuck there.
When I started the phone into clockwork recovery mod and started to backup and restore it gives me an error E:/ Cant' mount/sdcard. Now I am stuck and need your help.
Please tell me how do I get rid of this problem and install another ROM and save my phone. A step by step guide would be really appreciated as I am new to this.
Thanks!
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You are in the Wrong Forum first. people with your phone will be more likely to have answers to your problems.
Try here, hope it gets resolved.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=689
Edit....Damn Silver Foilded AGAIN!!!!
Lol its all good bruh . Break time at work. Lol im on a construction site still get my xda fix
Will this also take care of the "E:Unable to write to ums lunfile" error when trying to mount USB storage from CWM?
I am also getting the android_secure error but seems to still take flashable zips no problem.
stock recovery.Stock rom having a recovery?!,cant you help my with this,i have problem on my galaxy 3,same situation ,same error massagess,i tray stock rom,but there is no recovery,how i cant get it?
GUYS HELP PLEASE I nullifed my device, left it on all night (unplugged) because I fell asleep. Now, I can't boot to CWM.. I've tried to install stock recovery, but once I turn it on it just stays on the plain, white LG logo. If I hold down volume down + power buttons the same thing happens. Can you guys help me please. I hope I didn't permanently brick my G2X.
U cant permanently brick it. Search the forums there's been a thread like this in the past week
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Use this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1590523
Next time read the little part which is in big bold letters about not turning off your phone with out flashing a ROM or restoring a nandroid immediately afterward.
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GUYS HELP PLEASE I nullifed my device, left it on all night (unplugged) because I fell asleep. Now, I can't boot to CWM.. I've tried to install stock recovery, but once I turn it on it just stays on the plain, white LG logo. If I hold down volume down + power buttons the same thing happens. Can you guys help me please. I hope I didn't permanently brick my G2X.
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Try this method, this will bring your phone back to life. Make sure you root your phone again and install CWM.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1248644
Good luck
thanks guys. I think I lost root access
MrFdhigsKp said:
thanks guys. I think I lost root access
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Just root your phone again and install CWM and you are good to go
ratza66 said:
Just root your phone again and install CWM and you are good to go
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No need to root, just nvflash cwm and flash a ROM.
buru898 said:
No need to root, just nvflash cwm and flash a ROM.
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really? but I when I installed TB it says I have no more root access =( and also my internal storage got wiped. LIFE'S HARD. I blame LG. lol
MrFdhigsKp said:
really? but I when I installed TB it says I have no more root access =( and also my internal storage got wiped. LIFE'S HARD. I blame LG. lol
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Flash a ROM which is rooted
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Hey guys, I rooted my friends G2x and everything went fine until I flashed the ROM. Like an idiot, I did not make a nandroid backup...I downloaded BionixReloaded and up it on the sd card. Rebooted to recovery and went through the usual steps. I did a factory reset and formatted the system. However, when I went to flash the ROM, I got the "E: Can't open /sdcard/zROM/*name of ROM*.zip (bad). Now the phone won't reboot which I'm assuming is from formatting the system. I can still get into recovery and download mode....will this method fix the problem? http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1248644#
Like I said, I'm not very familiar with the G2x, so any help be be appreciated!
I cannot remember for the life of me remember what that error means, but you can just re-download the rom you want and place it in the sdcard by mounting USB storage through mounts and system, and then flash.
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Hey guys, I rooted my friends G2x and everything went fine until I flashed the ROM. Like an idiot, I did not make a nandroid backup...I downloaded BionixReloaded and up it on the sd card. Rebooted to recovery and went through the usual steps. I did a factory reset and formatted the system. However, when I went to flash the ROM, I got the "E: Can't open /sdcard/zROM/*name of ROM*.zip (bad). Now the phone won't reboot which I'm assuming is from formatting the system. I can still get into recovery and download mode....will this method fix the problem? http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1248644#
Like I said, I'm not very familiar with the G2x, so any help be be appreciated!
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Make sure the Rom.zip isn't named Rom.zip.zip. if so rename correctly, also can check md5 of the zip to ensure its a good download prior to flashing.
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Thanks everyone for the quick responses. I'm guessing it boiled down to a bad download, but for some reason I could not connect via USB from recovery on my laptop, so I brought it to my friends house and was able to get it to connect so I redownloaded the ROM along with another incase I got the same error, but it worked flawlessly. Thanks again to all that offered help instead of sending me a useless link via LMGTFY!
That's what I get when accessing the "advanced" part of CWM Touch 5.8.1.3 on my skyrocket(to wipe dalvik cache). I also got something similar during a nandroid backup.
What does this mean and why am I getting this message?
Something to do with your external sd card. Might want to Odin cwm again.
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It's done this since I've had the phone.. part of me thinks it's because of all the weird partitioning i had to do when i was using this external card with my atrix and the lapdock.. trying to unlock the webtop and all that insanity. I've tried repartitioning but it doesn't do the job.. now what?
I don't think re-odining CWM will do it, I've been on 4 different CWMs since getting my skyrocket and they've all done this.
I'm also having trouble running sean's newest ICS rom(i went back to GB for a while, too many little bugs were driving me crazy) now. Phone won't boot with it installed. Could this be because the dalvik can't be wiped? where is the dalvik cache written to?
Have you tried using a different external SD card to see if it still gives you that error?
naw, i know i should. i will soon, i was just kind of looking to see if this was a common thing. just formatted the card and will try again. the issue never caused any problems until right now, i'm thinking it's part of the reason i can't boot the ROM. will try reflashing after formatting the external card, then if that doesn't work i'll try going back to the GB nandroid, if it still doesn't boot then i'll try the external card and get back.
You shouldn't need an external to boot the rom. Everything should be flashed from the internal. Just leave the external out, reflash everything, and boot up.
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yeah i figured it couldn't really be the external causing the boot failure. but would not being able to properly wipe the dalvik cause it? because it returns the error when i go to wipe the dalvik. sorry, i'm like a half-noob... got all the terms and procedures down, but the under the hood stuff is still coming slowly lol
edit: no dice. just won't boot at all. going to ODIN cwm again as suggested and try that.
now things are getting really weird. after ODINing CWM, when i go to install from the external SD it just keeps going to my internal. both "internal" and "external" sd card options go to the internal. there's a subfolder for the external_sd as it would be in root explorer, but that just loops back to the normal internal sd folder.. what the hell is going on?
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now things are getting really weird. after ODINing CWM, when i go to install from the external SD it just keeps going to my internal. both "internal" and "external" sd card options go to the internal. there's a subfolder for the external_sd as it would be in root explorer, but that just loops back to the normal internal sd folder.. what the hell is going on?
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Your on ATT so get the odin oneclick and properly start with the leaked ICS rom.
The onclick has bootloader updates thats CWM wont give you and it also installs the most recent radio and most recent ril's.
The odin "oneclick" will wipe the entire phone and set it up stock and should correct any wierd formatting errors.
Then use the Odin "program" to flash CWM tar
Then try flashing a rom again.
Oh take that card from your atrix and format it FAT32 with a pc and only put the rom and rom updates on it to start with. If you get this far, you should be good to go.
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That's what I get when accessing the "advanced" part of CWM Touch 5.8.1.3 on my skyrocket(to wipe dalvik cache). I also got something similar during a nandroid backup.
What does this mean and why am I getting this message?
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Well you are a noob for one but to answer your question its a file on you SD card used for the apps to SD feature the file will not exist nor will it be found if the feature is not used in the rom its not an error and its nothing to worry about your phone is fine and to all of you giving advice stop none of you know wtf your doing
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Well you are a noob for one but to answer your question its a file on you SD card used for the apps to SD feature the file will not exist nor will it be found if the feature is not used in the rom its not an error and its nothing to worry about your phone is fine and to all of you giving advice stop none of you know wtf your doing
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Hey don't be a ****, go take your disgruntled ass elsewhere. No need to be a douche when people are trying to help. This q and a. And he is having other problems too, guess you missed that part.
i727-ucle2-SkY IcS
Dirtburgler said:
Hey don't be a ****, go take your disgruntled ass elsewhere. No need to be a douche when people are trying to help. This q and a. And he is having other problems too, guess you missed that part.
i727-ucle2-SkY IcS
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Hey, the clueless noobs were giving incorrect answers, He answered his question with an informative answer. What more do you want.
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stevenavm said:
yeah i figured it couldn't really be the external causing the boot failure. but would not being able to properly wipe the dalvik cause it? because it returns the error when i go to wipe the dalvik. sorry, i'm like a half-noob... got all the terms and procedures down, but the under the hood stuff is still coming slowly lol
edit: no dice. just won't boot at all. going to ODIN cwm again as suggested and try that.
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Your second issue is likely a bad download
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Dirtburgler said:
Hey don't be a ****, go take your disgruntled ass elsewhere. No need to be a douche when people are trying to help. This q and a. And he is having other problems too, guess you missed that part.
i727-ucle2-SkY IcS
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While you are so called trying to help. Nrm actually did help. Take the attitude elsewhere.
Its not good to have a question when you all give wrong answers lol
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nrm5110 said:
Its not good to have a question when you all give wrong answers lol
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So your just a douche then? At least people tried to help without insulting others.
i727-ucle2-SkY IcS
Yes I am when your dealing with repeat questions but I did answer no less and correctly
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Dirtburgler said:
So your just a douche then? At least people tried to help without insulting others.
i727-ucle2-SkY IcS
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They are all wrong answers.
I was going to say, I get this all the time and never worry about it. Everything runs fine.
Dirtburgler said:
So your just a douche then? At least people tried to help without insulting others.
i727-ucle2-SkY IcS
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He didn't insult them personally. He gave constructive criticism for the noobs to build on. You are the only butt hurt noob insulting the one guy who gave correct information. If he didn't help the OP, he would have flashed his phone repeatedly with the same results. Quit trying to be a tough guy, and swallow your pride
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Running clean lite Rom. Went into recovery to flash the dim button mod and my sd card is wiped... Wasn't when I put it on the sd card two seconds before... I'm pissed. Backups and everything gone... Wtf???
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Are you using CWM by any chance? Also in one of Scott's threads, (I cant remember which one CleanROM DE 2.2 I think) someone used a data recovery program to get it back.
Hadcook said:
Are you using CWM by any chance? Also in one of Scott's threads, (I cant remember which one CleanROM DE 2.2 I think) someone used a data recovery program to get it back.
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Yes I'm using cwm... Is it the culprit??? I'm so mad... Everything is gone
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Are you using CWM by any chance? Also in one of Scott's threads, (I cant remember which one CleanROM DE 2.2 I think) someone used a data recovery program to get it back.
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So... CWM was a turd on the OG, and still is? I only gave it one chance to screw me, which it did, then I moved to Amon Ra, and was forever happy afterwards...
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Yup, a lot of people have been having that with cwm. It has been recommended by scott and some others that you use TWRP
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1677447
It still has bugs but no where near as bad as the data loss that seems to be happening on CWM
WOW!!!! i had no idea!!! well twrp is what i will be using from now on, thank you very much for letting me know, i had a couple beers and when this happend... well i was a little dumb founded.... lol gonna flash twrp. thanks a million guys!!
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So... CWM was a turd on the OG, and still is? I only gave it one chance to screw me, which it did, then I moved to Amon Ra, and was forever happy afterwards...
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Amon RA FTW. I loved that recovery. Now I'm in love with TWRP
too bad our twrp have issue with adb
the cwm have.that.fixed
so ifyou use twrp makesure you put.the.rom.onyour.sd.before wipe.system
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Funny I flashed cwm about six times today on six different phones without losing anything , hmmmm... Wow that's amazing
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robertmoore208 said:
Funny I flashed cwm about six times today on six different phones without losing anything , hmmmm... Wow that's amazing
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After re-reading your snark, it occurred to me that flashing the recovery wasn't the issue. Flashing the mod was. Weird that it took a few beers to make it clear...
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niceppl said:
too bad our twrp have issue with adb
the cwm have.that.fixed
so ifyou use twrp makesure you put.the.rom.onyour.sd.before wipe.system
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TWRP has adb now, the official is right from team win.
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Ive flashed a rom every day for the last week or so and havnt lost any sd card data. Guess Ill switch over to TWRP just in case until CWM is either fixed or confirmed thats its something else.
I had the same problem with TWRP, it was quite the shock :-(
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I had the same problem with TWRP, it was quite the shock :-(
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Same here.
I keep everything in the Android folder I found when it wipes this folder is untouched might want to give it a try..
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I've had this happen on cwm not the entire sdcard but random items or folders. But what I have noticed is that it's not happening after the flash its actually happening after I mount as disc drive then unmount went back and checked before flashing and things were missing.
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Anyway to get back the lost data?? I mounted as usb in recovery, put the file dim button mod. On my isb, unmount and my sd card was wiped, only two folders left on it...
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I doubt this is a CWM problem IMO, I am using TWRP and I have this problem too, for me this has happened 3 times so far, and always after mounting in ubuntu (I always umount and eject). 1st time it deleted few tibu files, later a major part of pics, zips and tibu. Latest yesterday. Lucky I use unison and sync my files...
Wondering what it is?
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Flashed maybe 5 times or so using CWM, various builds of CleanROM, and also rooted deodexed 1.85. Every time was fine, except the latest time where I lost a bunch of random folders and files. All my music was gone, but folder still there. CleanROM mods folder not there. Titanium Backup folder gone. Couple photos and videos were corrupted, but files still there. Lots of stuff ended up in the LOST.DIR folder (randomly renamed).
At some point had mounted to a Windows PC to sync music. Not sure if the corruption/missing files happened before or after that.
Luckily, I had backed up most stuff fairly recently to my PC. Mostly due to the fact that one user on the CleanROM thread had posted that his whole SD card wiped somehow while flashing. I only lost a couple photos, and not anything I was interested in trying to recover.
As the cause is not yet known (and seems to be on TWRP and CWM), I'd recommend backing up anything you don't want to lose, before flashing anything. Especially the Titanium folder, and anything not replaceable and of sentimental value (like photos).
I had this happen, and I too think it is more of an issue with transferring files over USB and then not properly unmounting the device before unplugging or something like that. At any rate, I used Piriform's Recuva software to recover my files. Found everything, all my pics and videos, and zip files, etc... And it is free.
Run the scan ASAP as transferring files over to the device could start to overwrite the "deleted" stuff.
ok i jsut rooted it,
using this walkthrough
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1340526
have cwm on it
it has super user also, so we are good there
when i try and load most roms i get an error on the "instal zip from sd card"
its a status 7 error
the only one that hasnt had that error is the
Slim-i727-3.1.0-OFICCIAL.zip
but this one gets stuck at the boot screen
i have cleared chach, bat stats, chache partition, factory reset, dalvik chace...
nothing seems to be working, anyone with some ideas?
FYI..i rooted my straightalk samsung galaxyu precedent..so not my first root XD
Try formatting internal memory? [Sd card] have a backup on your pc of whatever you want to keep as this will erase all data like pics and music.
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reformat, in CWM or through them comp?
i formated everyhtoing romatable in cwm..still gives me an error 7
First off that's a really old version of CWM. Either install sk8's CWM or the most recent twrp. I bet that's ur problem. If u still get errors google status 7 error, I can't remember exactly what it is but I think it involves a compatibility check issue or something.
ya status 7 is the compatability check..ok so the newest cwm should fix it...ok hopefully that helps
ok now they are jsut bootloading..they wont go past..but they do instal..any ideas?
Sparkplug90 said:
ok now they are jsut bootloading..they wont go past..but they do instal..any ideas?
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Read the stickies bro, you're clueless
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not clueless..jsut impatient...it got stuck on the toop then finaly went through..jsut a long instal i guess X D