Hello there,
I was in the middle of installing recovery, root and a custom ROM on my SM-T210 (Galaxy Tab 3 7"), when the title happened. I don't think the issue is device related though, so that's why I'm posting here.
I have StockRom Kitkat Version 1.7 (not the stock rom, that's just what it's called) installed at the moment, but I didn't like it so I wanted to go for Supernova (2.1) and flash that. This would've worked if TWRP didn't suddenly stop being able to see my files in internal storage...
My device isn't encrypted so that's not the issue. Does anyone have any idea what is going on?
Hello,
Make sure you are mounting system and data
Make sure zip files type is selected and not IMG files
Try moving to SD card and try to see if it's there if you have one
Reflash twrp -make sure it's the latest twrp-
Then boot into it, flash rom
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Hello,
Make sure you are mounting system and data
Make sure zip files type is selected and not IMG files
Try moving to SD card and try to see if it's there if you have one
Reflash twrp -make sure it's the latest twrp-
Then boot into it, flash rom
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Thank you very much sir, using an SD card did it for me! TWRP was already the newest one I could use so that wasn't an option, the other 2 tips I also already tried.
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I was trying to reinstall my rom, so I format everything excepting the sd-card
but I did a mistake in the last part, I clicked format sd-card wrongly.
Now, I have no os or rom, and i cant run my android to put my files back to it from my laptop.
What should I do now?? I tried to install the rom (zip file) in the fastboot mode,
but it said i hv no system.img, recovery.img..so on..
p.s. my clockwork is still here, but just have no backup for the restortion.
Thank you very much to read this..
I really suck now..
bonki said:
I was trying to reinstall my rom, so I format everything excepting the sd-card
but I did a mistake in the last part, I clicked format sd-card wrongly.
Now, I have no os or rom, and i cant run my android to put my files back to it from my laptop.
What should I do now?? I tried to install the rom (zip file) in the fastboot mode,
but it said i hv no system.img, recovery.img..so on..
p.s. my clockwork is still here, but just have no backup for the restortion.
Thank you very much to read this..
I really suck now..
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You're able to get into Clockwork by booting to recovery from fastboot if I understand your post correctly. (If you're not, you should be able to get there by flashing clockwork from fastboot.)
Once you have clockwork up and running, you might be able to plug the phone into your computer's USB port and access it via adb. If you have adb access you're cool. I think you can mount the sdcard from the clockwork mount options, then push the rom files you want to flash to the sdcard, then you can flash them from within clockwork.
If you need full images (I'm not sure all ROMs are full images, there's some fresh clean images in the Development section people are using for restores).
Where does rom manager look for backup and restore info. I have my " external " folder that is my true micro sd card. My backups show up when I reboot into recovery but wont show in rom manager.
Ive also notice a new folder named "ext_sdcard" there is nothing in this folder and im not sure where it came from. Is this from the latest rom manager update?
sgtagem said:
Where does rom manager look for backup and restore info. I have my " external " folder that is my true micro sd card. My backups show up when I reboot into recovery but wont show in rom manager.
Ive also notice a new folder named "ext_sdcard" there is nothing in this folder and im not sure where it came from. Is this from the latest rom manager update?
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What version of ClockworkMod Recovery have you updated to? Is it solarnz's 3.2.0.0 (from development section) or did you update through Rom Manager, and get a version 4.0.0.X ? I posted a warning about that 2nd one, but it disappeared from the current page. Anyway, if you have that one installed, it doesn't read your external sdcard at all, and not only creates your nandroid on the internal SD, but it also makes it impossible to flash any zips from your sdcard through CWR. I had to use adb and fastboot to reinstall a good recovery, namely solarnz's 3.2.0.0.
okantomi said:
What version of ClockworkMod Recovery have you updated to? Is it solarnz's 3.2.0.0 (from development section) or did you update through Rom Manager, and get a version 4.0.0.X ? I posted a warning about that 2nd one, but it disappeared from the current page. Anyway, if you have that one installed, it doesn't read your external sdcard at all, and not only creates your nandroid on the internal SD, but it also makes it impossible to flash any zips from your sdcard through CWR. I had to use adb and fastboot to reinstall a good recovery, namely solarnz's 3.2.0.0.
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I can flash zips I just have to put them in the root of the internal sd. its kinda pointless to backup to the same drive. Ill be re flashing I guess. thanks for the info
So ive been at this for 2 days. I finally got the micro sd card with both files to install rom but in clockworkmod recovery i cant mount sd card nor format or anything. I can mount and unmount in the normal settings of the device and see it in root explorer but thats it. Its formatted to fat32. also on rom manager where it says to install from sdcard it only takes u to the internal sdcard which makes no sense because i was told u cant install a rom from the internal sdcard.
PS. This is my first Android Device!!!!
yeah
I am in the exact same situation. I am rooted on 4.0.3 and I wanted to install 4.0.4 or one of the custom ROM's. This is not my first android device but I am at a loss. I can not enter fastboot, can't load anything from the SD card in CWM recovery (get the message E:Can't mount /sdcard/), can not connect via ADB on my PC.
I feel that I have enough skill to do all of this because I have done it in the past. My ADB works fine with my Galaxy Nexus (just updated that and installed new kernel) so I don't know what is causing the problem. I have tried different SD cards(3) as well and nothing.
The biggest problem is I can not get into fastboot and SBF if I wanted to. I have been having issues with drivers even though I have installed motohelper like 6 million times.
I have tried factory resets and wipes and everything. I tried to do the factory update that is being pushed to me and I get an error. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Sorry if this is stealing your thread but I think we are having the same problems.
check out my thread at xoomforums:
I PM'd it to u cus it dont let me put it here
Read all 3 pages. I think it will help u. posted same question there and a guy suggested to install the rogue cwm 1.5 recory via adb fastboot or whatever. he says that will read your sdcards. if i were u id try and fastboot on a different pc cus it looks like thats what we both have to do unfortunately. it looks like a pain!!! u have a xoom?
anyone figured out how to sort this?? really frustrating it just sayin E:can't mount sd card.. any help will be appreciated!!
platt said:
anyone figured out how to sort this?? really frustrating it just sayin E:can't mount sd card.. any help will be appreciated!!
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If you are using CWM recovery from Rom Manager (not recommended for Xoom) it does only read your internal flash memory (called sdcard) but not your external microsd card (called external1???). So you need to flash a different custom recovery using adb/fastboot to flash a recovery.image file or, if you can flash through cwm (from internal sdcard) a recovery.zip file (either EOS or Rogue, depending on the ROM you will flash afterwards), Actually, any custom recovery is supposed to work for any rom, but in reality Eos works best for Eos and Rogue works best for the CM9 Kang.
Please, just remember, never flash a .zip file through fastboot, only an .image file!
+1 i agree with the above, fixed this last night. I download a couple recovery images, which were blank for some reason, so i downloaded the zips and extracted the recovery image folder. Then opened the command window from the folder with the recovery image and flashed it with fastboot. Now it works perfect.
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Fastboot
I had to use fastboot to flash an entire stock config when I got stuck in this loop.
TheAv8tor said:
I had to use fastboot to flash an entire stock config when I got stuck in this loop.
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Atleast you got it out, mines been acting up since i flashed cm9. I think i might have to do that
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okantomi said:
If you are using CWM recovery from Rom Manager (not recommended for Xoom) it does only read your internal flash memory (called sdcard) but not your external microsd card (called external1???). So you need to flash a different custom recovery using adb/fastboot to flash a recovery.image file or, if you can flash through cwm (from internal sdcard) a recovery.zip file (either EOS or Rogue, depending on the ROM you will flash afterwards), Actually, any custom recovery is supposed to work for any rom, but in reality Eos works best for Eos and Rogue works best for the CM9 Kang.
Please, just remember, never flash a .zip file through fastboot, only an .image file!
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Thanks for saving the last half of my hair which I hadn't pulled out yet.
Got the backup on SD ONLY after flashing the EOS recovery 1.5.0 (i tried the latest to begin with, did not work, made it worse flashing recovery from ROM Mgr)
http://www.xoomforums.com/forum/mot...ing-flashing-unrooting-under-one-roof-59.html has this particular recovery listed.
I still cannot boot in recovery using power+volUP...i have to get at least adb running. Any suggestion would be golden.
error mounting /internal_sdcard!
error mounting /internal_sdcard! pls help me it got stuck in boot loop tried to wipe cache and user data bt cwm says error mounting /internal_sdcard!
Ipse_Tase said:
Thanks for saving the last half of my hair which I hadn't pulled out yet.
Got the backup on SD ONLY after flashing the EOS recovery 1.5.0 (i tried the latest to begin with, did not work, made it worse flashing recovery from ROM Mgr)
http://www.xoomforums.com/forum/mot...ing-flashing-unrooting-under-one-roof-59.html has this particular recovery listed.
I still cannot boot in recovery using power+volUP...i have to get at least adb running. Any suggestion would be golden.
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Delete any zip files or IMG files from sdcard and reboot it this helped me ............ Hit thanks if helped
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This is my first attempt at unlocking and rooting. So far I did manage to get unlocked. Now I am stuck at: Can't mount/sdcard . . . . .
I have been following the thread: [HOW] Rookie Rooting, Flashing And UnRooting Under One Roof
It seems to be layed out quite well and well, I'd never have gotten this far if it weren't for following those directions. I'm not discouraged because I know this is just a stumbling block. I can't wait to kill the bloatware and see if I can O/C this beast just a little.
Good luck to the folks who posted above me. I will post my results here.
Mike P.
I think the solution is much more simple...
The recovery uses normally e: an external sd card , you just trying by d: internal sd card , so take another sd card and dun let it be internal sd card...
And the recovery back on working with you
Hi ,I am using Note 3 N9005 . I have rooted phone with lean kernel and Philz CWM based recovery.I was trying to clear some space on internal SD and deleted the storage folder fro the device. After deletindg this folder ,all the other folders in the same hirarchy also got deleted. Now I am able to boot into recovery restore backup using CWM bbut cannot flash any custom ROM .Is there any solution for this . After restoring the backup I tried factory reset ut still I cant flash ROM though I can flash another kernel and TWRP and other CWM based recoveries. I am stuck on to the rom that I dont want.
During flashing ROM I get an error cannot read update package /sdcard/media/0/rom.zip.
Please help if anybody came across such situation and was able to sole the problem
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Hi ,I am using Note 3 N9005 . I have rooted phone with lean kernel and Philz CWM based recovery.I was trying to clear some space on internal SD and deleted the storage folder fro the device. After deletindg this folder ,all the other folders in the same hirarchy also got deleted. Now I am able to boot into recovery restore backup using CWM bbut cannot flash any custom ROM .Is there any solution for this . After restoring the backup I tried factory reset ut still I cant flash ROM though I can flash another kernel and TWRP and other CWM based recoveries. I am stuck on to the rom that I dont want.
During flashing ROM I get an error cannot read update package /sdcard/media/0/rom.zip.
Please help if anybody came across such situation and was able to sole the problem
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My 2 cents, at least you could try to reflash with Odin a standard samsung rom for your note 3 in order to bring back all necessary files, then go further with a custom rom again.
Good luck
baudbox said:
My 2 cents, at least you could try to reflash with Odin a standard samsung rom for your note 3 in order to bring back all necessary files, then go further with a custom rom again.
Good luck
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Tried that too. Some how the folder structure has changed which is not allowing me to flash a new rom. Moreover I am not able to copy zip file to phone memory though I am able to copy the complete folder containing the zip file.This has been a new problem .
anshulsingh said:
Tried that too. Some how the folder structure has changed which is not allowing me to flash a new rom. Moreover I am not able to copy zip file to phone memory though I am able to copy the complete folder containing the zip file.This has been a new problem .
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Repair your filesystem via recovery or try flashing a ROM in a micro SD card.
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EverDawn4 said:
Repair your filesystem via recovery or try flashing a ROM in a micro SD card.
Sent from my Nexus 7
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How do I do that .Do I need to format all the partitions ie data, system..... There is no option to repair file system.
anshulsingh said:
How do I do that .Do I need to format all the partitions ie data, system..... There is no option to repair file system.
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Try reparing all your partitions.
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anshulsingh said:
How do I do that .Do I need to format all the partitions ie data, system..... There is no option to repair file system.
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Repair file system in my custom recovery is found inside Advanced Wipe
Hello,
I was going to flash CM 12.1 into my Xperia L, but stupidly I forgot to copy the ROM into internal storage, it was on SD card, so I believe Cyno Recovery could not detect the necessary system files to flash from SD. Is there any way to move ROM (i.e. make the pc recognize &read the storage partitions) into internal storage without flashing the stock rom?
Also, if I would flash the stock from from SD, will the same problem happen again? So am I stuck?
Thanks in advance.
aoenen said:
Hello,
I was going to flash CM 12.1 into my Xperia L, but stupidly I forgot to copy the ROM into internal storage, it was on SD card, so I believe Cyno Recovery could not detect the necessary system files to flash from SD. Is there any way to move ROM (i.e. make the pc recognize &read the storage partitions) into internal storage without flashing the stock rom?
Also, if I would flash the stock from from SD, will the same problem happen again? So am I stuck?
Thanks in advance.
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Flash TWRP/Philz touch and boot into it, mount your device and the PC will detect it, also, It shouldn't be a problem if its in the Ext SD card. You can get Philz Touch by flashing Thunderzap through fastboot
aoenen said:
Hello,
I was going to flash CM 12.1 into my Xperia L, but stupidly I forgot to copy the ROM into internal storage, it was on SD card, so I believe Cyno Recovery could not detect the necessary system files to flash from SD. Is there any way to move ROM (i.e. make the pc recognize &read the storage partitions) into internal storage without flashing the stock rom?
Also, if I would flash the stock from from SD, will the same problem happen again? So am I stuck?
Thanks in advance.
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As @priyank.g mentioned, you can flash any boot image having a custom recovery. Pretty much all custom recoveries at this point support flashing from sdcard. If you can boot into any recovery at all, it should allow you to adb push it to your device. Just get an old thunderzap zip, extract the boot image and flash it through fastboot. Get into recovery using the volume keys and flash your rom.
Thank you both,
I have also tried Philz and TWRP, luckily TWRP had somewhat forced the flash into the phone after some tries while Philz and CWM had insisted on fail.
I can declare case is officially closed. :good: