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[Q] Enrcyption Support for ClockWorkMod Recovery

Hello,
i have just installed the official stock ICS 4.0.3 Rom to my Nexus S and everything was really fine... until i tried to root it. As someone who tries to take security seriously, i immediately encrypted the device using the tools provided by ics (works ok).
but unfortunatly it's now not possible anymore to mount /sdcard while in recovery, which makes rooting and installing updates impossible (or is there any other way? eg. fastboot?).
therefore my question: will clockworkmod recovery support ics encrypted devices in the (near) future? i know its gonna be a p.i.a. to type a password with only the volume buttons, but hey
i like the encryption and would like to keep it, but not beeing able to use recovery like before is a big drawback...
greetings
Georg

Same for me.
Hope to see encryption support in clockworkmod soon.
I bought Rom manager premium even if I never flash from rm just to support the developers... hope they will be able to get it sorted out

Op -- I'm interested in this for when my phone (EVO 3D) finally gets ICS. Will you post an update to this thread if you hear anything?
BTW, with TWRP getting touchscreen support, it can't be too much longer before CWM gets touchscreen since I think the guys in TWRP were going to start contributing to CWM, from what I've heard anyway. So that would solve the password typing problem.

Georg, thanks for asking this question as I've been wondering the same exact thing. Hopefully we'll get a good answer soon.

Alternatives for ClockworkMod Recovery
I encrypted my device (the Exchange account I added required it) n... now I cant do anything in recovery ... it wont mount the drive ... any suggestions for a replacement ...
thanks ...

mrosensweig said:
I encrypted my device (the Exchange account I added required it) n... now I cant do anything in recovery ... it wont mount the drive ... any suggestions for a replacement ...
thanks ...
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Its because the way encryption works you have to boot and enter code, that's the whole point, no recovery can do it atm
Sent from my ice cream powered Nexus S

small update:
nothing new on the subject, but i didnt check out the new touch recovery (anyone tried it yet?).
in the mean time i went back to an unencrypted CM9...

I didn't read anything about encryption so did not upgraded to the touch recovery yet

you should lock the bootloader if someone is nagging you

jomir said:
small update:
nothing new on the subject, but i didnt check out the new touch recovery (anyone tried it yet?).
in the mean time i went back to an unencrypted CM9...
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Jomir, what was the procedure you used to get back to CM9? Is it possible to repartition, erasing the encrypted partitions so a new rom can be flashed? How?
Thx,
rmsilva

rmsilva123 said:
Jomir, what was the procedure you used to get back to CM9? Is it possible to repartition, erasing the encrypted partitions so a new rom can be flashed? How?
Thx,
rmsilva
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Restore a backup or do a clean install(format boot, system, cache and data)
Sent from my ice cream powered Nexus S

DarkhShadow said:
Restore a backup or do a clean install(format boot, system, cache and data)
Sent from my ice cream powered Nexus S
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Thanks for the reply, DarkhShadow. The problem is that CWM can't wipe or format these partitions, since it can't mount /sdcard (which is encrypted). If I could only access the external sdcard from within CWM, I could just wipe everything and then install a new rom. But since it can't mount /sdcard, I can't access sd-ext. nvflash is not an option, since my TF101 is B90. Is there a way to either restore the stock recovery (overwrite CWM) or boot from the external SD so I can run a script such as "super wipe full" (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1245892)? Maybe there's a way to run the wipe script through adb? If I can just format the partitions (which is what the script does), then CWM would be able to mount /sdcard and, consequently, the external SD and I can flash a new rom (such as revolution HD 3.0.1).
Thanks,
rmsilva

Honestly idk then, try a factory reset on phone(ie booted up) and then maybe it will be unencrypted?
Sent from my ice cream powered Nexus S

The funny thing is that stock recovery on an encrypted phone can write to the disk, but only from a warm reboot (perhaps the kernel stays resident?).
When I say write to disk I say apply the leaked OTA update, 4.0.4 for the VZ Gnex. And correct me if I am wrong, it's writing and mounting the disk, no?
Anyhow, this is done from stock recovery which is open source. So you ask yourself, why can't Koush support mounting the disk from a warm recovery state reboot? Maybe he doesn't know this?
DarkhShadow said:
Its because the way encryption works you have to boot and enter code, that's the whole point, no recovery can do it atm
Sent from my ice cream powered Nexus S
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rmsilva123 said:
Jomir, what was the procedure you used to get back to CM9? Is it possible to repartition, erasing the encrypted partitions so a new rom can be flashed? How?
Thx,
rmsilva
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i did a factory reset (from the settings menu), installed recovery per adb/fastboot and installed cm9 from sdcard in recovery.

Use tmpfs to install a new ROM in crypted system
Hello Everyone
To flash a new ROM you can do as follows:
boot in Recovery
format cache partition
from your PC use adb to mount /sdcard as tmpfs:
adb shell mount -t tmpfs none /sdcard​
put your ROM on the (fake) sdcard
adb push <your rom> /sdcard​
use the recovery to flesh the ROM as usual
This worked form me.
Sorry to be late...

What about a nandroid backup or restore? How big is /cache?
orcruin said:
Hello Everyone
To flash a new ROM you can do as follows:
boot in Recovery
format cache partition
from your PC use adb to mount /sdcard as tmpfs:
adb shell mount -t tmpfs none /sdcard​
put your ROM on the (fake) sdcard
adb push <your rom> /sdcard​
use the recovery to flesh the ROM as usual
This worked form me.
Sorry to be late...
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Sorry I didn't try with a nandroid backup but I think it is too big to fit the device memory...
You can backup data inside the sd partiton (phone up and running, just to don't lose data...), boot into recovery, format sdcard partition, mount it, put the backup in the sdcard and after install the nandroid backup...
I think that it could work but I am not sure. If after formatting the sdcard you can mount it, the task is done. You can put the backup on it using adb push and flash using recovery.
If you try please give me some news.
Regards

orcruin said:
Hello Everyone
To flash a new ROM you can do as follows:
boot in Recovery
format cache partition
from your PC use adb to mount /sdcard as tmpfs:
adb shell mount -t tmpfs none /sdcard​
put your ROM on the (fake) sdcard
adb push <your rom> /sdcard​
use the recovery to flesh the ROM as usual
This worked form me.
Sorry to be late...
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I'm kind of a noob when it comes to adb. What is that process doing exactly? How big is the fake sdcard? I want to make sure I understand all the implications before I dive in. Of course I need HTC to release a ICS ROM first. ;-)

thx1200 said:
I'm kind of a noob when it comes to adb. What is that process doing exactly? How big is the fake sdcard? I want to make sure I understand all the implications before I dive in. Of course I need HTC to release a ICS ROM first. ;-)
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First it formats the cache partition. Then mount the /sdcard so that you can access it from your pc. After you mount the /sdcard, you can put your rom zip into it. After the zip has been transferred into /sdcard, you can flash the zip as usual.
Since nexus s doesn't have sdcard slot, it mounts the internal storage as '/sdcard' to treat it like a sdcard, thus 'fake' sdcard. The 'fake' sdcard is around 13GB.

[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
Sent from my HTC One X using xda premium

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
Sent from my HTC One X using xda premium

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.
Sent from my HTC One XL using xda premium

[Q] HELP! unable to mount external Storage TWRP

I recently rooted my HTC one X (rogers)
I had AOKP Jelly Bean 1.4 installed with the gapps.
However I was have issues with my phone randomly restarting.
So I went ahead and made a Titanium backup of my phone, re-downloaded the latest AOKP build with Gapps.
booted back into TWRP 2.3.0.0 and Wiped the following
Cache
Dalvik Cache
System
Then I did the idiotic thing and wiped External Storage and System. However both failed.
When I tried to do a factory reset, it would fail stating :
E: unable to mount /sdcard
E: unable to mount storage
Im trying to install the AOKP rom and gapps but cant because I get the error
E: unable to mount /sdcard
E: unable to mount storage
I'm freaking out.
I don't know what to do.
any help would be greatly appreciated.
Im very new to android root. newb. sorry
buhbuh

buhbuh said:
I recently rooted my HTC one X (rogers)
I had AOKP Jelly Bean 1.4 installed with the gapps.
However I was have issues with my phone randomly restarting.
So I went ahead and made a Titanium backup of my phone, re-downloaded the latest AOKP build with Gapps.
booted back into TWRP 2.3.0.0 and Wiped the following
Cache
Dalvik Cache
System
Then I did the idiotic thing and wiped External Storage and System. However both failed.
When I tried to do a factory reset, it would fail stating :
E: unable to mount /sdcard
E: unable to mount storage
Im trying to install the AOKP rom and gapps but cant because I get the error
E: unable to mount /sdcard
E: unable to mount storage
I'm freaking out.
I don't know what to do.
any help would be greatly appreciated.
Im very new to android root. newb. sorry
buhbuh
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Try to adb into it and push the rom zip to your sdcard

stnguyen09 said:
Try to adb into it and push the rom zip to your sdcard
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I can adb into the phone and pushed the rom zip and gapps zip to the sd card.
I can see the files when I go to install rom zip and gapps zip.
I queue the files up and install and get the following error
E: Unable to mount ' /sdcard'
E: Unable to recreate amdrpod secure folder
Updating partition details...
E: Unable to mount storage
E: Unable to mount /sdcard during GUI startup
Finished running boot script
E: Unable to mount /sdcard when trying to read settings files
E: Unable to mount ' /sdcard'
updating partition details
E: Unable to mount ' /sdcard'
E: Unable to mount storage
E: Unable to mount ' /sdcard'
E: Unable to mount ' /sdcard'
E: Unable to mount ' /sdcard'
E: Unable to mount ' /sdcard'
E: Unable to mount ' /sdcard'
E: Unable to mount ' /sdcard'
error flashing zip '/sdcard/aokp_evita_jb_build-4.zip'
updating partition details
E: Unable to mount ' /sdcard'
E: Unable to mount storage
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new twrp released today openrecovery-twrp-2.3.1.0-evita.img try that one and rewipe everything then copy rom and gapps back to storage. i always like to run "fastboot erase cache" when i flash anything in fastboot.
hope that helps

I have a recovery log. however i cant seem to link it as i need to do atleast 10 post.

buhbuh said:
I recently rooted my HTC one X (rogers)
I had AOKP Jelly Bean 1.4 installed with the gapps.
However I was have issues with my phone randomly restarting.
So I went ahead and made a Titanium backup of my phone, re-downloaded the latest AOKP build with Gapps.
booted back into TWRP 2.3.0.0 and Wiped the following
Cache
Dalvik Cache
System
Then I did the idiotic thing and wiped External Storage and System. However both failed.
When I tried to do a factory reset, it would fail stating :
E: unable to mount /sdcard
E: unable to mount storage
Im trying to install the AOKP rom and gapps but cant because I get the error
E: unable to mount /sdcard
E: unable to mount storage
I'm freaking out.
I don't know what to do.
any help would be greatly appreciated.
Im very new to android root. newb. sorry
buhbuh
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Did you figure this out? I am running in to the same problem

[How to] Fix corrupt/unmountable internal storage on the HTC One X/XL
Don't Factory Reset In BOOTLOADER

DvineLord said:
[How to] Fix corrupt/unmountable internal storage on the HTC One X/XL
Don't Factory Reset In BOOTLOADER
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Yeah I've done that a few times by accident - if I had anything important on my phone I'd be screwed... haha

I'm getting the same error as the OP. What's the fix?

Message xsmagical and he will help...he's the man
Sent from my HTC One X using xda premium

This guide here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1942519 will fix the internal storage. Just backup and pictures, ect before using.

XsMagical said:
This guide here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1942519 will fix the internal storage. Just backup and pictures, ect before using.
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This tool really saved my ass. Thanks!

theresaanna said:
This tool really saved my ass. Thanks!
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Glad I could help
Sent from my Nocturnal'd ONE X

HTC One S
XsMagical said:
Glad I could help
Sent from my Nocturnal'd ONE X
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Hi XsMagical... I saw in the nocturnal pages that you had helped someone out with the same problem with an HTC One S. I've managed to do the same thing and corrupted my storage. Is there any help you could offer?
Thanks for your time,
UPDATE:
I got it sorted... managed to flash the stock recovery, clear partition, and then factory reset... then it was business back to normal..
thanks though!
_Dave

Messydesk said:
Hi XsMagical... I saw in the nocturnal pages that you had helped someone out with the same problem with an HTC One S. I've managed to do the same thing and corrupted my storage. Is there any help you could offer?
Thanks for your time,
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Why not just click the same link posted?........
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exad said:
Why not just click the same link posted?........
Sent from my One X using xda app-developers app
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The Link is for the One X... I've got the same problem but with a One S. Apparently if you use the One X fix on the One s it will brick the phone.
From the Nocturnal Forums re: using the same files
"Nooo send me a ruu and I'll make the guide. If you use these recovery files you will brick your phone"

Sorry I was unable to extract that ruu, email me and I'll get it made for you this weekend. [email protected]
Stroked from my Dirty Nocturnal'd Nexus 4

Messydesk said:
The Link is for the One X... I've got the same problem but with a One S. Apparently if you use the One X fix on the One s it will brick the phone.
From the Nocturnal Forums re: using the same files
"Nooo send me a ruu and I'll make the guide. If you use these recovery files you will brick your phone"
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Oh I misunderstood since you're posting in onexl forums, I assumed you had a onexl.
Sent from my One X using xda app-developers app

indedx cele
pjcanales said:
Message xsmagical and he will help...he's the man
Sent from my HTC One X using xda premium
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hey guys I'm having the exact same problem with my samsung galaxy s2 T Mobile TWRP will not mount internal or / SD card please help!!! I just woke up one morningmy camera nor my gallery works it keeps saying and no external SD when there is one in there I even switched sdcards from my tablet and nothing registers please help

Whizzzkidd$tl said:
hey guys I'm having the exact same problem with my samsung galaxy s2 T Mobile TWRP will not mount internal or / SD card please help!!! I just woke up one morningmy camera nor my gallery works it keeps saying and no external SD when there is one in there I even switched sdcards from my tablet and nothing registers please help
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Wrong forum.

[Q] Flashed wrong kernel.. Derp

So, I just got this phone and decided to root flash yadda yadda. I didn't realize how many different version of this phone there were and flashed a kernel for the international version. Shortly after TWRP said I had no os installed and when I use adb to push a rom to both /system and /sdcard it won't show up.
Any ideas?
Edit: I've been able to push it to /data and when I try to flash it It says "updating partition" then immediately fails..

Just mount usb storage in TWRP, copy a ROM from your pc to your phone sd card, and install normally from TWRP install menu.
Sent from my Evita

timmaaa said:
Just mount usb storage in TWRP, copy a ROM from your pc to your phone sd card, and install normally from TWRP install menu.
Sent from my Evita
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I forgot to mention this: windows doesn't recognize the file system and wants to format it when I mount it..

In that case you've probably corrupted your sd card, and you will need to format it using Windows before you can do anything. My guess is that you did a factory reset from bootloader didn't you.
Sent from my Evita

timmaaa said:
In that case you've probably corrupted your sd card, and you will need to format it using Windows before you can do anything. My guess is that you did a factory reset from bootloader didn't you.
Sent from my Evita
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Yes I did but it said it was formatted before I did that.
I just got it to work. I pushed the rom to /data then copied it from /data to /sdcard and it installed just fine. I was a little worried!! I need to pay more attention next time x.x

[Q] SD Card no longer detected when downgrading from 12.1

I am facing a really weird problem.
Initially, my HTC Desire S was running CM10.1 ROM, with sdcard 32GB FAT32 formatted. Recovery was CWM 5.0.2.0. I saw CM 12.1 Lollipop ROM for HTC saga, and decided to try it out. Recovery was updated to TWRP-saga-2.8.5.2-unofficial, and installed successfully CM12.1 The phone was lagging, and decided to revert back to CM10.1.
The sdcard was not detected in CM10.1, neither when recovery was reverted back to CWM 5.0.2.0. I also tried recovery-clockwork-touch-5.8.1.5-saga and recovery-twrp-2.6.3.0-saga, none could mount the sdcard. I tried other sdcards (16GB and 8GB), formatting them using SDFormatter, checking using MiniTool Partition to make sure it's not set to logical. None could be detected.
But when I put back TWRP-saga-2.8.5.2-unofficial, all sdcards could be detected in recovery. I reinstalled CM12.1, it could also detect and use the sdcard.
It seems that installing recovery TWRP-saga-2.8.5.2-unofficial and/or upgrading to 12.1. had caused sdcard to be undetectable by earlier version of recovery and OS.
How can I fix this, and have my phone running CM10.1 again, with sdcard detected?

Try flashing 4ext recovery see if thats able to mount anything.
Theres a thread by me in Desire S General and its 4ext recovery as PG88IMG. Just extract the zip file and flash recovery.img via fastboot. (or just use the PG88IMG haha)

jmcclue said:
Try flashing 4ext recovery see if thats able to mount anything.
Theres a thread by me in Desire S General and its 4ext recovery as PG88IMG. Just extract the zip file and flash recovery.img via fastboot. (or just use the PG88IMG haha)
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Nope, 4ext can't mount sdcard. It seems only TWRP-saga-2.8.5.2-unofficial recovery and CM12.1 can detect the sdcard.

tjhiwa said:
Nope, 4ext can't mount sdcard. It seems only TWRP-saga-2.8.5.2-unofficial recovery and CM12.1 can detect the sdcard.
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Strange. U should ask the dev of twrp and or the rom dev to see if they know anything bout it.
Check ur sdcard for any recovery folder (twrp) and delete it then try flashing 4ext. There might be something in the folder f****** things up haha.

jmcclue said:
Check ur sdcard for any recovery folder (twrp) and delete it then try flashing 4ext. There might be something in the folder f****** things up haha.
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It happens also to newly formatted sdcards.

How do u format the sdcard? Coz if u format it using recovery then it doesnt delete the recovery folder. Anyway im out of ideas so best contact the dev see if they know why.