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Cant mount /data, seems corrupted

Okay, I've looked everywhere but I haven't found any solutions. I was running PA and everything was fine. Flashed purity, booted, and phone was FC. Went back to twrp (latest version) to restore backup. It requested a password. I have never set one. I hit cancel, clicked restore, and my entire sdcard partition is gone. Tried cwm, same thing. Error mounting /data. I'd really appreciate some help here. I'm an experienced ROM flasher. Been doing it a while. Is there anything I can do to fix it, short of flashing factory image?
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Try wipe cache first
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rootSU said:
Try wipe cache first
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I just kept trying to format data and it finally worked. Weird. I'm adb side loading PA right now so hopefully that'll work.
Edit: just finished sideloading. It booted, but on the setup screen, I have a reoccurring "unfortunately, phone has stopped" message. Recovery still says unable to mount storage when trying to wipe anything.
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Flash stock images and reroot to fix
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CRIME INC. said:
Flash stock images and reroot to fix
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Yeah I figured I'd have to do that. I just didn't want to. Haha
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CRIME INC. said:
Flash stock images and reroot to fix
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Completely unnecessary.
The ROM has a backup script that saves your Google apps as well as the dialer if you flashed that. That conflicts with a fresh install.
All you need to do is, factory reset, wipe system so that the script has nothing to backup, them flash ROM and gapps. That's it.
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Pirateghost said:
Completely unnecessary.
The ROM has a backup script that saves your Google apps as well as the dialer if you flashed that. That conflicts with a fresh install.
All you need to do is, factory reset, wipe system so that the script has nothing to backup, them flash ROM and gapps. That's it.
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Good to know.:thumbup:
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[Q] Factory reset question

Hi. I have a rooted Nexus 5 with stock ROM & kernel, Xposed installed and TWRP recovery. I'd like to do a factory reset, and by "factory reset" I mean I'd like to have it as if it was brand new. No apps, no media, etc. I think I can keep TWRP, but nothing else. I'd like to have it as it was the first time I powered it on. Can I do that from TWRP? Because I know that when you do a factory reset from recovery, usually, the /data/media directory isn't wiped.

You can not do it from twrp. I'd recommend flashing the factory image and then rerooting.
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jd1639 said:
You can not do it from twrp. I'd recommend flashing the factory image and then rerooting.
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Ok, thank you.

jd1639 said:
You can not do it from twrp. I'd recommend flashing the factory image and then rerooting.
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Maybe I can't read, but why won't factory reset + intsd wipe in TWRP do what he needs?

I'm looking at TWRP right now and I'm not sure which option you would use, there's format data on the main wipe screen, and when you go into advanced there's internal storage. I'm thinking you want to wipe internal storage, but someone else with knowledge of this should chime in first before you do it. I've never factory restored a phone through recovery so I'm not sure. Wouldn't locking and unlocking your bootloader with ADB accomplish the same thing?

There is literally a sticky in one of the Nexus forums that explains how to go back to bone stock. check it out, should be everything you need.

Pain-N-Panic said:
There is literally a sticky in one of the Nexus forums that explains how to go back to bone stock. check it out, should be everything you need.
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Right, but if you want to retain root and recovery like TWRP, can't you just format your storage through recovery?

Aerowinder said:
Maybe I can't read, but why won't factory reset + intsd wipe in TWRP do what he needs?
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OP was not explicit. Asked for it to be like first time powered on which I suspect was not with a custom rom or kernel. Think OP needs to elaborate on what is desired but no recovery can replace rom and kernel with the "factory reset" option
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rootSU said:
OP was not explicit. Asked for it to be like first time powered on which I suspect was not with a custom rom or kernel. Think OP needs to elaborate on what is desired but no recovery can replace rom and kernel with the "factory reset" option
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It seems he want's to go completely back to stock while keeping TWRP.

t1.8matt said:
It seems he want's to go completely back to stock while keeping TWRP.
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Yes. That's how it reads to me
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I urgently need your help with TWRP Recovery and CWM

I backed up just my data with TWRP, and then did a wipe, and now when I go to restore, there is nothing there?! Please help I had, ugh **** my life, a lot of important stuff, where could it be?

lopuandroid said:
I backed up just my data with TWRP, and then did a wipe, and now when I go to restore, there is nothing there?! Please help I had, ugh **** my life, a lot of important stuff, where could it be?
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Did you wipe the backup?

lopuandroid said:
I backed up just my data with TWRP, and then did a wipe, and now when I go to restore, there is nothing there?! Please help I had, ugh **** my life, a lot of important stuff, where could it be?
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If you wiped the sdcard all is gone, you have to push or sideload a rom in recovery to get the phone running again. Or flash a factory image in fastboot.

EnVyUs said:
Did you wipe the backup?
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I just did a factory restore after backing up my data, like in CWM

gee2012 said:
If you wiped the sdcard all is gone, you have to push or sideload a rom in recovery to get the phone running again. Or flash a factory image in fastboot.
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I can still boot the phone just into my rom, but there's obviously no data and stuff so it says to activate my google account and stuff, is the data gone still?

lopuandroid said:
I can still boot the phone just into my rom, but there's obviously no data and stuff so it says to activate my google account and stuff, is the data gone still?
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Well then bootup and look which data is still available, data factory resets don`t wipe the backed up recovery and TB backups.

gee2012 said:
Well then bootup and look which data is still available, data factory resets don`t wipe the backed up recovery and TB backups.
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When I click on restore it is just empty, I didn't do the advanced, wipe, just the normal one.

gee2012 said:
Well then bootup and look which data is still available, data factory resets don`t wipe the backed up recovery and TB backups.
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oh wow **** me, I clicked format data... ****.. me, ****ing hell

lopuandroid said:
When I click on restore it is just empty, I didn't do the advanced, wipe, just the normal one.
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You might try doing another backup in recovery, sometimes afer that all backed up recovery`s show up then.

lopuandroid said:
oh wow **** me, I clicked format data... ****.. me, ****ing hell
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Oops.

lopuandroid said:
oh wow **** me, I clicked format data... ****.. me, ****ing hell
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See post 3 to get the phone running again, good luck

EnVyUs said:
Oops.
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Where can I find the stock nexus 5 kernel?

lopuandroid said:
Where can I find the stock nexus 5 kernel?
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Download the factory image from here https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/images?hl=nl and extract it with 7-zip. Flash the boot.img in fastboot (fastboot flash boot boot.img). Do you even have a OS atm as you formated data?

gee2012 said:
Download the factory image from here https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/images?hl=nl and extract it with 7-zip. Flash the boot.img in fastboot (fastboot flash boot boot.img). Do you even have a OS atm as you formated data?
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yeah in fact it kept the Omni Rom, which I thought was pretty weird. but thanks a bunch, I lost a lot, god it's ****ing annoying

lopuandroid said:
oh wow **** me, I clicked format data... ****.. me, ****ing hell
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That is classed as... Massive Fail
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Ben36 said:
That is classed as... Massive Fail
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I can imagine somebody else must have done this, you click on wipe, and there are two buttons, and a bloody ad looking swipe thing, I just clicked format and it told me to type in yes, so **** it.

lopuandroid said:
I can imagine somebody else must have done this, you click on wipe, and there are two buttons, and a bloody ad looking swipe thing, I just clicked format and it told me to type in yes, so **** it.
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Twrp changed it ages ago and now it seems to automatically include wiping data. I almost did it when it first changed but noticed just in time. Always always use advanced wipe and just tick what you want
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Ben36 said:
Twrp changed it ages ago and now it seems to automatically include wiping data. I almost did it when it first changed but noticed just in time. Always always use advanced wipe and just tick what you want
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I will sure as hell remember this. so damn annoying

Read before wiping anything. I almost wiped everything but I read before I did anything and I caught it. I do backups every few days and I back up to my cloud as well. I had a hardware failure with my Evo 4g when it came out (I smashed it) and lost all my stuff. Ever since then I do nandroids and back them up too.
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Corrupted userdata partition

Basically, my userdata partition keeps getting corrupted every couple of flashes. I have to factory flash to get everything working again. It just started happening recently(A few hours ago). What is going on? Thanks!

While flashing the stock images make sure you have also Erased cache partition and formatted it using stock recovery.. I was exactly in the same spot as you were few weeks ago and a cache partition format solved it completely!

Koopa777 said:
Basically, my userdata partition keeps getting corrupted every couple of flashes. I have to factory flash to get everything working again. It just started happening recently(A few hours ago). What is going on? Thanks!
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I had the same problem as you. I used this guide and now it works great. Just follow the steps. Good luck.

prabs99 said:
I had the same problem as you. I used this guide and now it works great. Just follow the steps. Good luck.
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I can actually confirm that it is an issue with ParanoidAndroid. It always corrupts the data partition following boot. I repeated it with continued success.
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Koopa777 said:
I can actually confirm that it is an issue with ParanoidAndroid. It always corrupts the data partition following boot. I repeated it with continued success.
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You're the only one saying such things. If there was a problem with the ROM we would have heard it from others and the team would see the same issues.
The ROM ships with stock Google kernel. The ROM doesn't do anything in itself that could corrupt your userdata
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Pirateghost said:
You're the only one saying such things. If there was a problem with the ROM we would have heard it from others and the team would see the same issues.
The ROM ships with stock Google kernel. The ROM doesn't do anything in itself that could corrupt your userdata
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I've come to the conclusion, after 4(!) factory images, that the ROM DEFINITELY corrupts the recovery. I have a 100% success(failure?) rate when flashing PA. Clean md5, after first boot the ROM functions properly, but recovery fails to mount the userdata partition, every time. Flash a new recovery, or adb shell and attempt to repair don't work. I understand that it doesn't make sense, but it's obviously something that's happening with the ROM. After 4 factory images, the only other factors are the recovery(PhilZ, TWRP, AND CWM all fail) being borked from the start, or the ROM. It's obviously not the recovery(all 3 have clean md5s, are transferred with adb push, and function perfectly otherwise).....
Again, in the ROM I can r/w to the /data, so the partition is fine, but the ROM borks the recovery.

But there is nothing in the ROM that would cause that. Are you restoring anything from previous versions? Are you installing an app that does this?
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Pirateghost said:
But there is nothing in the ROM that would cause that. Are you restoring anything from previous versions? Are you installing an app that does this?
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No and no. I don't even install Gapps. The ROM alone still triggers it. I just boot into system then boot to recovery.
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Koopa777 said:
No and no. I don't even install Gapps. The ROM alone still triggers it. I just boot into system then boot to recovery.
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This sounds like you have a hardware issue. Did it do this on stock image with custom recovery?
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Pirateghost said:
This sounds like you have a hardware issue. Did it do this on stock image with custom recovery?
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No. I can flash different ROMs, kernels, etc. Just not PA. The only thing of note was that my stock backup bootlooped when restoring with TWRP, but other than that no.
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Nevermind, I just flashed liquidsmooth+Elementalx with PhilZ and it happened again. So what exactly is going on?

Are you not able to repair the corrupted partition as explained in the linked thread?
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Are you not able to repair the corrupted partition as explained in the linked thread?
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Nope. Adb shell in Philz says repair failed. I found this
http://forum.xda-developers.com/google-nexus-5/help/unable-to-mount-data-issue-t2723993
http://forum.xda-developers.com/google-nexus-5/help/recovery-mount-data-t2639945
But neither helps. Recovery still can not mount /data.

I would RMA it.
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I would try LG Flashtool it worked for me.

maxal said:
I would try LG Flashtool it worked for me.
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Seriously? I have the LGFT installed(G2 owner) too. Hm......So basically get the tot and dll, and flash? COM41 and all that jazz?

Koopa777 said:
Seriously? I have the LGFT installed(G2 owner) too. Hm......So basically get the tot and dll, and flash? COM41 and all that jazz?
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Yup, here is the link http://forum.xda-developers.com/goo...orial-how-to-flash-factory-images-lg-t2713833

I just called Google. RMA is inbound. It just kind of sucks, this phone was solid. No light bleed, no dead pixels, etc. Except for a loose power button.
Anyway I think it is definately a hardware issue, as my phone has been getting crazy hot lately. I know it's supposed to get hot, but this phone was scorching...Might have fried something.

[Rooted] Error updating android

I wanted to switch back to stock Rom, I flashed it with fastboot (I downloaded 4.4.4)
I installed Root and XPosed, but I uninstalled XPosed again, Android wanted to update to 4.4.2 (settings said i have 4.4), but I got an error, Installed twrp and tried it manully, i got an error (i think it was error excecuting binary...)

This guide should fix you up,
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2513701

Returning to stock isnt the Problem! I have the stock installed

dav20011 said:
Returning to stock isnt the Problem! I have the stock installed
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Yes it is. You returned to stock then modified it so it is no longer stock. You cannot update unless you're still stock, but you're not. So flash latest stock.
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I used CWM recovery to install it and then i got a more specific error (/system/framework/core.odex contains..., so it is xposed)Should I reflash the system.img, and does this wipe data?

dav20011 said:
I used CWM recovery to install it and then i got a more specific error (/system/framework/core.odex contains..., so it is xposed)Should I reflash the system.img, and does this wipe data?
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If you use the flash all method in the link above it will wipe your data. If you fastboot flash system.img only then nothing gets wiped
All guides and info threads are available in my signature
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OK thx i know how it works, I already flashed stock

If you knew how it works, why did you ask me how it works?
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I didnt ask how to install stock

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I didnt ask how to install stock
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OK whatever. You asked if it wiped data, which insinuates that you don't quite know enough.
Anyway, whatever, you know where the guides and info threads are now. Every question you've asked is covered there so please read them before posting threads
Thanks.
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I read many Website and I only read that flashing all images will wipe everything, I already thought that it will only wipe /system, but I wanted to be sure, losing data isnt funny

Nope. Its not funny. But at the same time, all covered I'm the sticky threads.
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