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Sd-Ext Backup Error

Hello,
I am using TWRP 2.5.0.0 but I'm not able to make any nandroid backups of SD-EXT partition made by TWRP itself.
Sd-Ext mounts successfully but whenever i try to do a nandroid ,it successfully backups all partitions except Sd-Ext.
And it dosen't fix permissions also.I have attached the recovery log if it helps in solving the problem.
With TWRP 2.5.0.0 it shows Backup Completed in '0' seconds.
With TWRP 2.4.4.0 it shows backup failed,the same case is with TWRP 2.6

sushant18596 said:
Hello,
I am using TWRP 2.5.0.0 but I'm not able to make any nandroid backups of SD-EXT partition made by TWRP itself.
Sd-Ext mounts successfully but whenever i try to do a nandroid ,it successfully backups all partitions except Sd-Ext.
And it dosen't fix permissions also.I have attached the recovery log if it helps in solving the problem.
With TWRP 2.5.0.0 it shows Backup Completed in '0' seconds.
With TWRP 2.4.4.0 it shows backup failed,the same case is with TWRP 2.6
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Change the reovery I have heard this problem of twrp not bcking up sd ext.. In some device it works..
Change the recovery..

same faced....
shubhojit89 said:
Change the reovery I have heard this problem of twrp not bcking up sd ext.. In some device it works..
Change the recovery..
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i faced the same problem...in twrp while doing restore...from that i'm using cwm

Yeah ,switching to CWM worked.
Thanks.

Twrp Error
The problem was with the auto backup name,whenever I changed the name it gave me the error, just not giving a manual name worked fine for me.

[Q] Save files before flashing

In windows, I'd use a partition; in android, are there any folders (like /boot?) that are not deleted after I flash factory images (wiping data obviously)?
I'd like to know this because I have a lot of music, and don't want to have to re-copy it to my phone every time I flash it. (unfortunately N5 does not support sd cards)
My intention was to copy the music to /smth, will it get wiped?

sfs15 said:
In windows, I'd use a partition; in android, are there any folders (like /boot?) that are not deleted after I flash factory images (wiping data obviously)?
I'd like to know this because I have a lot of music, and don't want to have to re-copy it to my phone every time I flash it. (unfortunately N5 does not support sd cards)
My intention was to copy the music to /smth, will it get wiped?
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There are only 1 partition which has a filesystem and does not get wiped after the factory reset. But it is only a 16 mb partition with a free space of 10 mb. It is mounted as /persist

bitdomo said:
There are only 1 partition which has a filesystem and does not get wiped after the factory reset. But it is only a 16 mb partition with a free space of 10 mb. It is mounted as /persist
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No way to chance its size? I really need to backup my music somewhere in the phone and not have to copy it back every time!

sfs15 said:
No way to chance its size? I really need to backup my music somewhere in the phone and not have to copy it back every time!
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There is, but complicated. Because of its location on the emmc you have to edit 6-8 partitions or more. And if there is something which uses the emmc in raw mode and not by the partitions then you could have problems. You will also lose the ability to flash stock rom.
The whole thing is unecessary if you are using twrp recovery and not cwm, because twrp will not fotmat the /data partition. It will just remove every folder and file except the /data/media/0 folder which contains all the files you have on the internal storage.

bitdomo said:
There is, but complicated. Because of its location on the emmc you have to edit 6-8 partitions or more. And if there is something which uses the emmc in raw mode and not by the partitions then you could have problems. You will also lose the ability to flash stock rom.
The whole thing is unecessary if you are using twrp recovery and not cwm, because twrp will not fotmat the /data partition. It will just remove every folder and file except the /data/media/0 folder which contains all the files you have on the internal storage.
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You mean that if I install twrp recovery and then flash a stock factory image ( or for instance cyanogenmod 12) I won't lose /data/media/0 folder anymore?

sfs15 said:
You mean that if I install twrp recovery and then flash a stock factory image ( or for instance cyanogenmod 12) I won't lose /data/media/0 folder anymore?
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No.
If you do factory reset in twrp then it will not delete that folder. It will not protrect you if you flash stock rom with fastboot with wipe.

bitdomo said:
No.
If you do factory reset in twrp then it will not delete that folder. It will not protrect you if you flash stock rom with fastboot with wipe.
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Flashing without wipe will keep my applications and everything, so it's usually just useless ( not worth ); and flashing with wipe will delete any folders. Are you saying there's no way :/

sfs15 said:
Flashing without wipe will keep my applications and everything, so it's usually just useless ( not worth ); and flashing with wipe will delete any folders. Are you saying there's no way :/
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Listen. If you use TWRP and do WIPE in TWRP it will not delete /data/media/0 folder. So with twrp you can flash roms with wipes without worrying to lose your music and pictures.
If you flash stock rom with fastoot you lose everything.
If you flash rom with wipe in cwm you lose everything.

bitdomo said:
Listen. If you use TWRP and do WIPE in TWRP it will not delete /data/media/0 folder. So with twrp you can flash roms with wipes without worrying to lose your music and pictures.
If you flash stock rom with fastoot you lose everything.
If you flash rom with wipe in cwm you lose everything.
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Nice! This is very useful, I didn't know it was possible to flash factory images through a recovery; so I'll just have to move my music there and it'll stay forever. Just asking now, what will happen to the recovery (which should be stored in /recovery?) if I flash with fastboot, will it get wiped aswell? Thank you so much for your answers

sfs15 said:
Nice! This is very useful, I didn't know it was possible to flash factory images through a recovery; so I'll just have to move my music there and it'll stay forever. Just asking now, what will happen to the recovery (which should be stored in /recovery?) if I flash with fastboot, will it get wiped aswell? Thank you so much for your answers
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That /data/media/0 folder is the folder of the internal storage. So your music is already there. To flash stock rom in twrp recovery you will need a flashable zip version of the stock rom. These does not contains recovery image so twrp will persist.
You cant flash stock rom from google's site in twrp.

bitdomo said:
That /data/media/0 folder is the folder of the internal storage. So your music is already there. To flash stock rom in twrp recovery you will need a flashable zip version of the stock rom. These does not contains recovery image so twrp will persist.
You cant flash stock rom from google's site in twrp.
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Ah well it's not a solution then.. The /recovery folder gets wiped with fastboot -w?

sfs15 said:
Ah well it's not a solution then.. The /recovery folder gets wiped with fastboot -w?
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Its complicated. That recovery folder if it exists, on stock roms there arent any folder called recovery, is a temporary folder. It is extracted from the kernel's ramdisk. As the its name says it is a ramdisk so if you turn off your phone it is gone and all its content.
Get a stock rom in a flashable zip. Do a wipe in twrp and flash the stock rom.

bitdomo said:
Its complicated. That recovery folder if it exists, on stock roms there arent any folder called recovery, is a temporary folder. It is extracted from the kernel's ramdisk. As the its name says it is a ramdisk so if you turn off your phone it is gone and all its content.
Get a stock rom in a flashable zip. Do a wipe in twrp and flash the stock rom.
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Yeah, I think I'll do so, thanks a lot

Error trying to wipe Internal Storage (TWRP)

Hi, I tried to do a full wipe from TWRP, but I was unable to wipe Interal Storage, next message appeared:
E:mount -o bind '/data/media/0' '/sdcard' process ended with ERROR=255
Anyways, the message of succesfull wipe appeared (and internal storage was in fact wiped). I don't know if I should worry (everything works fine after installing CM.12.1 nightly 08/06). The previous firmware installed was OxygenOs (I had a remote session thinking they would accept a RMA but they instead installed Oxygen with the latest drivers ). Every time I try to wipe that partition again I get the same message (but it gets wiped).
Thanks for your help and sorry for my english!

trionic said:
Hi, I tried to do a full wipe from TWRP, but I was unable to wipe Interal Storage, next message appeared:
E:mount -o bind '/data/media/0' '/sdcard' process ended with ERROR=255
Anyways, the message of succesfull wipe appeared (and internal storage was in fact wiped). I don't know if I should worry (everything works fine after installing CM.12.1 nightly 08/06). The previous firmware installed was OxygenOs (I had a remote session thinking they would accept a RMA but they instead installed Oxygen with the latest drivers ). Every time I try to wipe that partition again I get the same message (but it gets wiped).
Thanks for your help and sorry for my english!
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hey and welcome ,
you should always install the newest Twrp. Just download it via playstore
an other method. Download multirom and install twrp from there.
For the next time. Wipe partitions. Try to repair theme and flash it back to ext4.
Now everything should be clean.
If your system runs without any problemes or issues its just a cosmetic issue not more.
regards

Are you using latest 2.8.6.0/2.8.6.1?

davebugyi said:
Are you using latest 2.8.6.0/2.8.6.1?
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real_pac said:
hey and welcome ,
you should always install the newest Twrp. Just download it via playstore
an other method. Download multirom and install twrp from there.
For the next time. Wipe partitions. Try to repair theme and flash it back to ext4.
Now everything should be clean.
If your system runs without any problemes or issues its just a cosmetic issue not more.
regards
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I am using 2.8.6.1 (latest version). Unfortunately twrp doesn't allow me to repair / format that partition.
Thanks you both for your response

trionic said:
I am using 2.8.6.1 (last version). Unfortunately twrp doesn't allow me to repair / format that partition.
Thanks you both for your response
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You're welcome but please don't a new thread write in the specific thread..
please reinstall twrp via playstore flashable zip or just flash the recovery img via adb or any oneplus one toolkit regards

real_pac said:
You're welcome but please don't a new thread write in the specific thread..
please reinstall twrp via playstore flashable zip or just flash the recovery img via adb or any oneplus one toolkit regards
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I installed again with TWRP Manager and everything works perfectly now (no error message). Thanks again

trionic said:
Hi, I tried to do a full wipe from TWRP, but I was unable to wipe Interal Storage, next message appeared:
E:mount -o bind '/data/media/0' '/sdcard' process ended with ERROR=255
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I faced this error once on twrp 2.8.6.1 a week ago. I wanted to restore my nandroid and the error repeatedly happened while restoring data-partition. I then booted the system and deleted some files from internal storage (which was about half full at the time the error occurred). Afterwards I rebooted to twrp and could successfully restore my complete nandroid. It's a bit shocking if you face this error when restoring a nandroid, because the restore process wipes the data partition first and then begins the restore.

real_pac said:
hey and welcome ,
you should always install the newest Twrp. Just download it via playstore
an other method. Download multirom and install twrp from there.
For the next time. Wipe partitions. Try to repair theme and flash it back to ext4.
Now everything should be clean.
If your system runs without any problemes or issues its just a cosmetic issue not more.
regards
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That tip worked for me (i9192), I just install the last TWRP (I think this is not needed) and wipe /Data with ext4, wipe again to F2FS and restore, thank you.

[A510] Can't mount /data on any recovery

Hi,
I wanted to reset my 510 to a fresh 4.4.4 install. So I decided to "restore to factory settings" within the android system settings menu.
kitkat CM12 4.4.4 by shreps was working fine before, I just wanted to get rid of the data in order to give the tablet away.
now I'm stuck with a soft bricked device, it seems:
- when starting the tablet, the CM screen shows, but freezes after a while
- flashing any CM version in CWM 6..0.5 by shreps shows a "error: can't mount /data"
- wipe cache / data shows the same error
- wipe dalvik cache doesn't seem to respond in any way
- I reflashed CWM 6.0.5 using fastboot flash recovery, but to no success..
what options do I have now? can I format and remount the /data partition via ADB? do I need to go to stock?if, so, how?
Thanks for your ideas!

ok, via
fastboot -w -v
i could reformat the data partition somehow.
I still got an
E:unknown volume for path [/sd-ext]
error, but it continued and works for now.

huedrant said:
ok, via
fastboot -w -v
i could reformat the data partition somehow.
I still got an
E:unknown volume for path [/sd-ext]
error, but it continued and works for now.
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Glad you dot it going.
I just pulled my 701 out of retirement (broke my Sony z2 screen trying to change my battery) so taking a look in here.
The data format has always been a bit twitchy, but I run the latest version of TWRP for KK. I remember bricking my original Data partition wiping it because some bozo used the wrong partition info making the original recovery for JB. Exchanged the tab.
I recall the bootloader version had to match what version of the ROM you installed (JB, KK, etc), and maybe the recovery also (can't remember). Latest TWRP for KK seems to work for me as I installed Pac Rom before I retired it. TWRP Ver 2.7.1.0
As with the "Path to ext SD", that's always been there if I recall. Just means you have to install a ROM from internal memory. Although my TWRP seems to mount it fine.
But I will say, feels like I've entered the dark ages again.

Internal storage won't decrypt

So guys yesterday I flashed miui fastboot rom through TWRP recovery. It went successfully but the problem is now I can't decrypt my internal storage. I wiped it several times but after reboot it gets encrypted again. Idk what to do now! I'm stuck with encrypted internal storage.

TWRP->Wipe->Format Data->Type "yes"->done

ohwarumbloss said:
TWRP->Wipe->Format Data->Type "yes"->done
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I've done that several times already. After reboot it gets encrypted again. When I reboot into Twrp recovery it ask for a password to decrypt data.

live4speed said:
I've done that several times already. After reboot it gets encrypted again. When I reboot into Twrp recovery it ask for a password to decrypt data.
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When you're asked for Password press "Cancel"
Are you sure you've read right, not just wipe Partitions but Format it (the right Button)
It may be that MIUI encrypts Data again while reboot, do you have a MIUI Account activated on your Device? Maybe you first need to deactivate this.
Also, when asked for Password and cancelled that, are you able to mount i.e. System and/or install something like Magisk?
Format Data before flashing custom ROM always works, I never tried that in the other Direction.

ohwarumbloss said:
When you're asked for Password press "Cancel"
Are you sure you've read right, not just wipe Partitions but Format it (the right Button)
It may be that MIUI encrypts Data again while reboot, do you have a MIUI Account activated on your Device? Maybe you first need to deactivate this.
Also, when asked for Password and cancelled that, are you able to mount i.e. System and/or install something like Magisk?
Format Data before flashing custom ROM always works, I never tried that in the other Direction.
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Yes I'm sure I've format data by typing "yes". It shows the internal storage RIGHT AFTER formatting data but after a reboot it doesn't show internal storage.
Miui account is activated in my device.
It shows internal storage as 0MB & I can't access it.
I can't take a backup but I did manage to flash Aroma bloatware removal zip.
I never flashed Custom Rom. I flashed the official MIUI fastboot rom.

live4speed said:
Yes I'm sure I've format data by typing "yes". It shows the internal storage RIGHT AFTER formatting data but after a reboot it doesn't show internal storage.
Miui account is activated in my device.
It shows internal storage as 0MB & I can't access it.
I can't take a backup but I did manage to flash Aroma bloatware removal zip.
I never flashed Custom Rom. I flashed the official MIUI fastboot rom.
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Okay, just booted mine into Recovery and internal Storage is there. I'm using latest Xiaomi.eu weekly with no Mi Account set up (don't need it right now)
I'm using the TWRP from this Thread https://forum.xda-developers.com/re...guide-how-to-root-install-twrp-redmi-t3867146
Sorry, that's all I can tell you :/

Can you restore only DATA from TWRP backup after Decrypting internal storage? Or it'll decrypt storage again?
Sent from my Redmi Note 6 Pro using Tapatalk

live4speed said:
Can you restore only DATA from TWRP backup after Decrypting internal storage? Or it'll decrypt storage again?
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I know this, have the same problem.
The only help for me was changing TWRP from ...mr-r00t to Pitchblack (via fastboot), then i installed Stable Rom 10.2...:Now everyting is fine.

limuc said:
I know this, have the same problem.
The only help for me was changing TWRP from ...mr-r00t to Pitchblack (via fastboot), then i installed Stable Rom 10.2...:Now everyting is fine.
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Can you share step by step procedure?
I'm already on stable rom 10.2 with pitch-black recovery.

Sorry, I have started so many attempts that I do not remember what was successful. Now I have at least 'PitchBlack' and StableRom 10.2 ... on the run, backups via PitchBlack are also possible, so I can describe the internal memory, in the recovery mode, the internal memory is not displayed 0

limuc said:
Sorry, I have started so many attempts that I do not remember what was successful. Now I have at least 'PitchBlack' and StableRom 10.2 ... on the run, backups via PitchBlack are also possible, so I can describe the internal memory, in the recovery mode, the internal memory is not displayed 0
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Did you restore the data or start from the scratch again?

limuc said:
I know this, have the same problem.
The only help for me was changing TWRP from ...mr-r00t to Pitchblack (via fastboot), then i installed Stable Rom 10.2...:Now everyting is fine.
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Are you running 10.2 decrypted or encrypted? Also is there any way to avoid decypting the device to use PBRP or any custom recovery at all?

live4speed said:
Did you restore the data or start from the scratch again?
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No, I started as a new device.
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lalibm said:
Are you running 10.2 decrypted or encrypted? Also is there any way to avoid decypting the device to use PBRP or any custom recovery at all?
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Ok, I'm trying to describe my path again:
- By fastboot I install the PitchBlack recovery
- I wipe data, cache and dalvik
- I format the data partition
- I restart in the recovery status
- in the PitchBlack recovery I flash the stable Rome 10.2 ...
- I wipe data, cache and dalvik
- I flash Magisk 18
I start the device, and do not restore, but a new device.
I hope it will help.

limuc said:
No, I started as a new device.
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Ok, I'm trying to describe my path again:
- By fastboot I install the PitchBlack recovery
- I wipe data, cache and dalvik
- I format the data partition
- I restart in the recovery status
- in the PitchBlack recovery I flash the stable Rome 10.2 ...
- I wipe data, cache and dalvik
- I flash Magisk 18
I start the device, and do not restore, but a new device.
I hope it will help.
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Thanks man that worked for me finally I got it working.

live4speed said:
So guys yesterday I flashed miui fastboot rom through TWRP recovery. It went successfully but the problem is now I can't decrypt my internal storage. I wiped it several times but after reboot it gets encrypted again. Idk what to do now! I'm stuck with encrypted internal storage.
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format data in recovery and you are done but you'll lose all your data