[Q] "no external storage" Xperia L Issue With Kitkat ROMs - Sony Xperia L

Hey guys,
I've tried so many things now, but somehow the internal sdcard is not working on Xperia L with CM11.
Problem:
After clean flashing, when I open the camera app is crashes instantly. Other camera apps say they need an external storage. The gallery says "no external storage"
In the file browser I see a lost+found folder but can't open it or do anything (write/read) even with root access .
I tried pac_taoshan-nightly-20141214, and FXP-cm-11-20150301-UNOFFICIAL-taoshan. (all KitKat based)
I'm using TWRP 2.8.7.0.
Before, I was using the latest official cm12.1 nightly for xperia l. Lollipop was getting a bit heavy my phone so I decided to switch back. When on cm12.1 I had formatted the cache and data partitions to f2fs, sdcard0 was ext4. There no major issues.
Before flashing to Kitkat I wiped everything and formatted everything to ext4.
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My external sd card is working fine.
After all this i flashed the original xperial L firmware 4.2.2, and on it everything worked fine. the camera worked, the pictures saved and opened in the album app.
Re-rooting and flashing kitkat brought the problem back.
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Any help would be appreciated.
A solution would be better.

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Internal Storage Not working After Omnirom installation

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I recently installed the latest omnirom (v4.4 / Kitkat), which can be found in the post below.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2488986
After following all instructions and what seemed to be a successful installation, my phone seem to be unable to access it's internal storage. This leads to the camera, galary and other aps not working.
Note that I have tried the following:
1. Reformatted internal storage using gparted. I reformated it to fat32.
2. Installed supersu and tried using different aps to fix internal storage. I did not find any aps that actually helped.
3. Tried SlimKat rom instead of Omnirom. Same issue still prevails.
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[Q][Troubleshooting] Internal storage problem in CM11

Recently, I flashed the CM11 ROM. After that, I couldn't access the Internal storage (sdcard0) from Inbuilt file manager or from ES File Explorer.
I was running CM10.1 Alpha 9 before this. I flahsed DDLF2, then CF-ROOT and then went to recovery, used wipe data/factory reset and wipe dalvik cache. Then, I flashed CM11.
Did I make a mistake while flashing?
I can still install apps and access both sdcard0 and sdcard1 from the recovery.
How can I access sdcard0 from the ROM? If I can't access it, the Camera, the Gallery and Bluetooth receiving don't work.....
Will re-flashing solve the problem?
Any help would be appreciated.
Ok. So since I'm not a Samsung expert forgive if I make a few mistakes lol. But assuming this is the CM11 you got right?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2534312
drtweak said:
Ok. So since I'm not a Samsung expert forgive if I make a few mistakes lol. But assuming this is the CM11 you got right?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2534312
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This is weird......
An update was released just a day ago. I will download it, flash it and then see if the problem still persists.
Anyway, I am on this ROM, even though I am not on the latest build.
It seems there was a problem with the SD Card. Recently, it became unmountable. When I removed it, the storage was suddenly fine. No problems at all. Hence, I have found out that the problem was a faulty SD card.

[Q] "no external storage" on Xperia L Internal Storage Issue

Hey guys,
I've tried so many things now, but somehow the internal sdcard is not working on Xperia L with CM11.
Problem:
After clean flashing, when I open the camera app is crashes instantly. Other camera apps say they need an external storage. The gallery says "no external storage"
In the file browser I see a lost+found folder but can't open it or do anything (write/read) even with root access .
I tried pac_taoshan-nightly-20141214, and FXP-cm-11-20150301-UNOFFICIAL-taoshan. (all KitKat based)
I'm using TWRP 2.8.7.0.
Before, I was using the latest official cm12.1 nightly for xperia l. Lollipop was getting a bit heavy my phone so I decided to switch back. When on cm12.1 I had formatted the cache and data partitions to f2fs, sdcard0 was ext4. There no major issues.
Before flashing to Kitkat I wiped everything and formatted everything to ext4.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
My external sd card is working fine.
After all this i flashed the original xperial L firmware 4.2.2, and on it everything worked fine. the camera worked, the pictures saved and opened in the album app.
Re-rooting and flashing kitkat brought the problem back.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Any help would be appreciated.
A solution would be better.

CM13 with micro SD card GT-P311x

Hello,
I have managed to take my tablet from KitKat to Lollipop and then Marshmallow using cm-13.0-20160802. Everything was working fine up to a point when I was in Japan and then I started experiencing problems with Wi-Fi connections. Following the boot, I was getting a message stating that "Process system isn't responding...". Restarting the tablet was some sort of a solution to be able to use Wi-Fi.
Back to home, I was determined to obtain the most recent version of cm-13.0 hoping to solve the issue but I was not simple. First, let me say that I have a micro SD of 32 Gig, which was integrated as internal memory. My recovery program was TWRP 3.0.0-0. I have tried to follow the steps as explained on Android-Andi FAQ page. I might have made an error somewhere but anyhow, the end result was an empty tablet. Everything was gone including backups saved on the external SD.
To fix this, I have restored my tablet to 4.2.2, rerouted it, went to Lollipop with cm-12.1 and finally to Marshmallow cm-13.0-20161007. Again, my external SD card is now integrated and viewed as internal memory using the feature that comes with cm-13. I have just found out that 2 other releases of cm-13 have been made available since. TWRP is now 3.0.2-7 and was used to back up Lollipop as well as EFS.
I would like to proceed with the update but I would prefer to take an easy way, not the long one as I was forced to. Here is my question: considering that my external SD is viewed as being internal storage, what should I do in order to update my current version of cm-13 to a more recent version?
Regards
You have two options
a.) Doing a dirty flash. Install the rom then wipe cache and dalvik. Then reboot
b.) Clean flash. Wipe /system, /data, dalvik, and cache then install the rom. Then wipe cache and dalvik again and reboot.
Wiping Data (Internal storage not /data) is usually not needed unless you want to encrypt the device.
Don't forget to use the latest recovery.
Cheers
Thanks Lightracer for your reply.
By the time I received your reply, I had figured out my problem. I can now update my rom with my external sd card has being viewed as internal storage without loosing everything.
For your information, I do use the latest recovery tool. By the way, I prefer the clean approach.
Thanks again for your involvement.

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