I'm not sure what happened exactly. I woke up one morning and my internal storage is gone. Apps can't access it. Mounting from recovery mode does not help either. I don't recall changing any settings before this happened. I have no idea what caused it. Anyone know of a fix?
Have you tried formatting? Did you perform a factory reset from the bootloader at any point?
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timmaaa said:
Have you tried formatting? Did you perform a factory reset from the bootloader at any point?
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I have not yet tried formatting. I was thinking about that last night but I just didn't get around to it. I've been holding off on a factory reset just so I could see if there was a way to get the storage recognized without losing anything. I'll try it as soon as I can.
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I have not yet tried formatting. I was thinking about that last night but I just didn't get around to it. I've been holding off on a factory reset just so I could see if there was a way to get the storage recognized without losing anything. I'll try it as soon as I can.
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Wait, I didn't say to perform a factory reset from the bootloader, I asked if you had. Performing a factory reset from the bootloader causes the sd card to become corrupt.
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Wait, I didn't say to perform a factory reset from the bootloader, I asked if you had. Performing a factory reset from the bootloader causes the sd card to become corrupt.
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Don't worry, I didn't do a factory reset and now I don't plan to. Haha. I will try formatting when I get home.
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Wait, I didn't say to perform a factory reset from the bootloader, I asked if you had. Performing a factory reset from the bootloader causes the sd card to become corrupt.
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I'm having trouble figuring out how to format. Could you help me out with this? My computer doesn't even recognize my phone.
Format in recovery. Under Wipe, advanced, select internal storage
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exad said:
Format in recovery. Under Wipe, advanced, select internal storage
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Seems simple enough.
Thanks for your help guys, I appreciate it.
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I decided to try rooting my phone, and initially had succeeded using ROM Manager. Flashed ClockworkMod Recovery and successfully flashed a custom ROM (CM7).
However I decided to revert, so I did a restore of the nandroid backup I made using ROM Manager before flashing the custom ROM.
In the process my bootloader got locked, so I tried unlocking it using Fastboot. it worked, but once I unlocked it I lost everything - including my nandroid backup. it looks like my SD Card got wiped.
Is this normal, that doing a fastboot oem unlock would wipe everything, including the sd card? or am I missing something and is there some way to restore?
edit: curiously, it's still using my previous wallpaper in the launcher. that and the superuser app seem to be the only things that did not get wiped.
Yes its normal. Every time u unlock the boot loader it will wipe everything on your phone including your SD card. It says it right when it ask u the yes or no thing. I think. But its normal. Sorry to hear u lost all your data
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It's normal
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Fastboot unlock wipes like others have stated.
What makes no sense is how the bootloader get relocked. Simple put you can not relock the bootloader period on the device it self. Nandroid restore cant do that. You either relocked manually or used a one click root unroot thing from a computer.
Of course unlock boot loader will wipe everything including SD card. But I wonder how you get relocked boot loader when you restore nandroid backup.
thanks for the replies. I don't know if it says it on the screen where it asks yes or no, but I assumed it was ok since the first time round it didn't wipe my sd card.
I didn't use a one-click unroot; although I did hit "Unroot" by accident once in SuperOneClick, but that was before I actually rooted my phone.
Fortunately I didn't lose any important data, since I had most of it backed up before I rooted the first time (I was super cautious that time, got a little cocky the second time round since the SD card was ok after the first time).
Is there a way to recover it?
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Yes its normal. Every time u unlock the boot loader it will wipe everything on your phone including your SD card. It says it right when it ask u the yes or no thing. I think. But its normal. Sorry to hear u lost all your data
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Guy, do you know a way to recover it. I made the process without pay attention in this thing. I already tried 2 differents recover software, but didn't work. Do you know a way?
I don't know the reason of software, because its scan the blocks even if the initial blocks has been erased.
Thanks a lot!
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Guy, do you know a way to recover it. I made the process without pay attention in this thing. I already tried 2 differents recover software, but didn't work. Do you know a way?
I don't know the reason of software, because its scan the blocks even if the initial blocks has been erased.
Thanks a lot!
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I don't recall ever seeing anyone post a way to recover the data, but I felt compelled to hit your thanks button since it appears you used the search button unlike so many other newer users here!
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Please Help Me Out Here
I Can't get authorize the backup on your phone to come up on my phone
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I Can't get authorize the backup on your phone to come up on my phone
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huh
CheesyNutz said:
huh
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when it said authorize the backup nothing pop up from my phone
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I Can't get authorize the backup on your phone to come up on my phone
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Do you have Exchange email set up? That can interfere with the process. You'll need to kill that.
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Do you have Exchange email set up? That can interfere with the process. You'll need to kill that.
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no i dont have exchange set up i factory restore my phone
I am having the same problem. I confirmed my HTC drivers are installed and functioning correctly with adb. No exchange account. I get no backup confirmation on the screen of the device. How long does the backup restore process take?
Same here, the question to restore a backup doesn't come up on my phone either. Tried a factory reset and everything, someone please figure this out and help!
stran0014 said:
Same here, the question to restore a backup doesn't come up on my phone either. Tried a factory reset and everything, someone please figure this out and help!
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A factory reset from bootloader resolved it for me. After that, the prompt appeared on my phone and root was fairly straightforward after that.
I wouldn't factory reset from bootloader, it can corrupt your sd card.
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timmaaa said:
I wouldn't factory reset from bootloader, it can corrupt your sd card.
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How would I know if it is corrupted? I saw someone recommend doing it this way and it seemed to work fine for me. After rooting I flashed a few roms before settling on ViperXL. Both you and the one recommending a reset from bootloader are much smarter than me at this so any info is much appreciated.
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How would I know if it is corrupted? I saw someone recommend doing it this way and it seemed to work fine for me. After rooting I flashed a few roms before settling on ViperXL. Both you and the one recommending a reset from bootloader are much smarter than me at this so any info is much appreciated.
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I guess your device wouldn't recognise the SD card. I've seen on a few threads people resetting in bootloader and this happening. If your sd card is fine I suppose you got lucky.
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How would I know if it is corrupted? I saw someone recommend doing it this way and it seemed to work fine for me. After rooting I flashed a few roms before settling on ViperXL. Both you and the one recommending a reset from bootloader are much smarter than me at this so any info is much appreciated.
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if TWRP cries and yells at you saying "E: cannot mount sdcard" or something to that extent, then it is corrupted. You got lucky, or maybe everyone else was unlucky.
Just don't factory reset from the bootloader next time. Better safe than sorry.
Hey guys, need full CWM backup or TWRP backup. Phone always shows 77% battery state, flash original and custom roms does not resolve my problem. Thanks a lot.
Have you tried RUUing?
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Download an original, imo UrDroid, for an easier installation. Same thing happened to me, or try to hard reboot your phone, hold power and down volume, let it shut off and repeat until you are in bootloader -> factory reset then reboot
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Wesley. said:
Download an original, imo UrDroid, for an easier installation. Same thing happened to me, or try to hard reboot your phone, hold power and down volume, let it shut off and repeat until you are in bootloader -> factory reset then reboot
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No! Never factory reset in bootloader on a modified phone! It corrupts the sd card. You need to learn more before you start giving advice, giving advice when you don't know what you're doing is dangerous, you'll damage someone's phone. Plus, he already stated that changing ROMs didn't work. He needs to run an RUU.
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No! Never factory reset in bootloader on a modified phone! It corrupts the sd card. You need to learn more before you start giving advice, giving advice when you don't know what you're doing is dangerous, you'll damage someone's phone. Plus, he already stated that changing ROMs didn't work. He needs to run an RUU.
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factory resetting from bootloader will load his recovery, and, I've tried RUU as well, and I don't think they will work unless you can access your phone, which I don't know if he can, I think I got mixed up with another thread.
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Wesley. said:
factory resetting from bootloader will load his recovery, and, I've tried RUU as well, and I don't think they will work unless you can access your phone, which I don't know if he can, I think I got mixed up with another thread.
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You're completely mixed up. Factory resetting from bootloader will corrupt his sd card. You only ever factory reset in recovery. Never, ever factory reset in bootloader. He never said he had problems accessing recovery, he said he needs a backup to restore via recovery. RUU will work perfectly fine, his only problem is that the battery icon is always showing 77%
@element100500
NEVER FACTORY RESET IN BOOTLOADER, DO NOT LISTEN TO THIS OTHER PERSON'S ADVICE. What you need to do is run an RUU, make sure you have s-off first though.
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You're completely mixed up. Factory resetting from bootloader will corrupt his sd card. You only ever factory reset in recovery. Never, ever factory reset in bootloader. He never said he had problems accessing recovery, he said he needs a backup to restore via recovery. RUU will work perfectly fine, his only problem is that the battery icon is always showing 77%
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I was confused with the thread from the guy who installed a wrong OTA Update, any who, Bootloader factory reset was always a fast way for me to do it, and didn't have any errors. Thanks, though.
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Wesley. said:
I was confused with the thread from the guy who installed a wrong OTA Update, any who, Bootloader factory reset was always a fast way for me to do it, and didn't have any errors. Thanks, though.
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Do you have this phone? Factory reset in bootloader on an unlocked One XL results in a corrupt sd card.
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Yes, HTC One X Evita AT&T
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Ok, well like I said before, do some more learning before giving out advice. I'm not trying to be mean, but giving advice when you don't know enough could have catastrophic results. For example: if this guy had followed your advice to factory reset in bootloader he would have lost all of the data on his sd card. I doubt you want to be responsible for that.
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i flashed RUU_EVITA_UL_JB_45_S_Cingular_US_3.18.502.6_Radio_0.24p.32.09.06_10.130.32.34_release_signed_With_Partial rom, MIUI rom, tried factory reset using recovery, but had no luck.
this phone comes to me with deat boot (qhsusb_dload), i erase all flash memory and resurrect bootloader, imei, recovery, etc after.
now phone fully worked, but shows only 77%, shows charging with usb connect, but really did not charge, and wan't startup when battery low. think battery calibration losed after erase.
so if you can make backup on working phone - please give me.
sorry for bad english, my native language is russian
I'd love to, but I only have a small data allowance so I can't upload a file that big. I hope someone else sees this and can help you out though.
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factory resetting from bootloader will load his recovery, and, I've tried RUU as well, and I don't think they will work unless you can access your phone, which I don't know if he can, I think I got mixed up with another thread.
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I think you are mixed up about a great many things, and should not be dispensing advice.
What on earth does doing a factory reset in hboot have to do with getting into recovery? All it will do is bork up the SD.
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I went into stock recovery yesterday, after purchasing the phone to wipe cache.
I like to do this with all my new phones first.
When I pressed on wipe cache, it brought me to a menu that asked Mr what package to install, and was showing me my SD card.
I then tried to data factory reset, which from my experience with other phones acted as though it was wiping cache??
It seems the recovery has 1 to many install from SD card options, and is throwing the menu off.
Can anyone else confirm this?
From what I can see only an update would fix this.
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Can confirm that selecting "wipe cache partition" shows SD content. Don't want to try the factory reset though.
Reflashed stock recovery twice, it seems broken by design
This issue has to be reported to Motorola.
I just sent them a link to this thread via Twitter & FB.
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Got a response, guys
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I just sent them a link to this thread via Twitter & FB.
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Got a response, guys
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Thanks for sending that. Makes you wonder how they missed that??!
Also if they bother testing the phones
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markdexter said:
Thanks for sending that. Makes you wonder how they missed that??!
Also if they bother testing the phones
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Hm, I don't think the recovery image is part of the QA process - it is simply not meant for end users =/
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Hm, I don't think the recovery image is part of the QA process - it is simply not meant for end users =/
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True......... but....I bought my phone out right, I want it to work!!
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recovery bugged
same here , the listing in recovery just isnt acurate to the job it performs ! - crazy slip up from Moto on this one i think .
My People! I have come for you!
Yes it is buggy, however totally operable!
"What? What did you say Ehsan? What knowledge do you have to bestow upon us, oh learned man of the great metropolis?"
Simple really. Whatever you want to select, just select the option above. Wipe cache is Wipe Data/Factory Reset, and Wipe Data/Factory Reset is Apply update via ADB.
So while I sit here and bask in the rays of my awesomeness, you should go and spread the word.
Excuse my overtly conceited bragging. I only got there coz of you lot anyway :angel:
up one ..
So each option is just the line above ... seems okay. but what a mistake from MOTO'
time to test now
thanks
==PEACE==
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seems okay. but what a mistake from MOTO'
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They're humans.
Think about the bug when Google forgot december in its first 4.2 update...
Questions should go in Q&A section .. please have a look at the 'FORUM RULES' ..
THREAD REPORTED ! .
thank you,
Mr.Gm.
I solved it like this
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I went into stock recovery yesterday, after purchasing the phone to wipe cache.
I like to do this with all my new phones first.
When I pressed on wipe cache, it brought me to a menu that asked Mr what package to install, and was showing me my SD card.
I then tried to data factory reset, which from my experience with other phones acted as though it was wiping cache??
It seems the recovery has 1 to many install from SD card options, and is throwing the menu off.
Can anyone else confirm this?
From what I can see only an update would fix this.
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try putting the option apply update from ADB, will show you the option data factory reset
jpangulo said:
Wow, my girlfriend phone has the same issue.
If I update to KK the issue is fixed?
Thanks
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Yes - it's fixed in the KK stock recovery.
HELP
Yesterday i got 4.4.4 ota and downloaded it. but since i was on twrp, i tried moto tool to flash stock recovery.. but now when i open recovery it shows an android with warning sign.. whats wrong?? where can i get the stock recovery?
try flash your fone using fastboot and not a twrp recovery
I asked this on Reddit a while ago and for some reason I didn't think to ask here on XDA...soooo
I have two N5s. A white I bought on day one and a red one I'm typing this on. I finally completed my data transfer to my red one and figured I'd factory reset my white one to tamper with it. Lo and Behold I realize I didn't save my downloads folder.
Can this be recovered? or at least some data.
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AbsoluteDesignz said:
I asked this on Reddit a while ago and for some reason I didn't think to ask here on XDA...soooo
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wait factory reset from android or recovery? If it's recovery it shouldn't touch your /data partitions. Meaning all your data should still be there. If it's the reset from android itself or you restored it back to stock then probably not. You can try those data recovery apps but I doubt it'll help.
Nah not recovery unfortunately
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No... Now its impossible to recover ur data
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