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[Q] AT&T HTC One X Bricked and need advice

Hi,
I have an AT&T HTC One X with no OS. I wiped it when I was trying to flash a custom ROM.
I only have access to bootloader and TWRP. Fastboot is working fine but TWRP is not. It does
mount properly, and adb sideload fails as well. I am using a Windows 7 PC and used a USB 2.0 port.
I installed some HTC Drivers from here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2217396
but it still says "device drivers failed to install" when I boot into recovery.
When I try to mount, it does not let me mount the sdcard. I see an E: drive on my
PC but it is inaccessible.
I have S-On, my bootloader is unlocked, and I have hboot version 2.14 if that info helps.
Does anybody have any suggestions as to what I can try next?

First thing you need to do is clear your post up a bit. You said you have access to TWRP but it isn't working, can you elaborate on that please?
You also said that it does mount, but then you said later it doesn't mount, which is it?
Have you performed a factory reset from the bootloader at any point?
Exactly which ROM(s) did you try to install? I need the exact filename(s) please.
Did you remember to flash the boot.img with fastboot after flashing the ROM?
Do you have a TWRP backup on your phone?
Please answer all questions with as much relevant detail as possible, that'll aid me to help you properly.
Sent from my Evita

I helped him over teamviewer so I can clarify the situation. He can't mount in TWRP, it must of been a typo. It seems he cleared everything when he was trying to wipe to flash a rom. I believe it was ViperXL. He has no backup and sideload does not work as well. Hopefully that will clear things up a little bit more. I installed some newer HTC Drivers since the ones he had were old. The only thing that works seems to be fastboot at this point.
Sent from my HTC One X using Tapatalk

timmaaa said:
First thing you need to do is clear your post up a bit. You said you have access to TWRP but it isn't working, can you elaborate on that please?
You also said that it does mount, but then you said later it doesn't mount, which is it?
Have you performed a factory reset from the bootloader at any point?
Exactly which ROM(s) did you try to install? I need the exact filename(s) please.
Did you remember to flash the boot.img with fastboot after flashing the ROM?
Do you have a TWRP backup on your phone?
Please answer all questions with as much relevant detail as possible, that'll aid me to help you properly.
Sent from my Evita
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Sorry it was a Typo, I was not able to mount at all. The error said "unable to mount /sdcard"
Yes I have tried performing a factory reset from bootloader but the phone restarts and comes back to TWRP and then same thing.
I tried installing the ViperXL ROM but was not successful.
I was not able to flash the ROM and I tried to fix that but meanwhile looks like I wiped all what I had on my Phone, so no but I did try to flash a new boot.img after and it didnt work.
I dont think I have any TWRP backup on my phone, even though I tried flashing new TWRP but all failed.

Ok first thing, don't ever perform a factory reset from the bootloader because it corrupts your sd card. That's why you're experiencing problems now. You need to wipe the sd card/internal storage using TWRP 2.6 to make it usable again. If you don't currently have TWRP 2.6 installed you'll need to do that. Download it from here. Put the file in your fastboot folder. Connect phone in fastboot mode, open command prompt from within fastboot folder, issue the following commands:
Code:
fastboot flash recovery "filename.img"
(the exact filename, minus the talking marks)
Code:
fastboot erase cache
Code:
fastboot reboot-bootloader
Now you should be able to mount your sd card using TWRP and copy a ROM across to flash.
Sent from my Evita

timmaaa said:
Ok first thing, don't ever perform a factory reset from the bootloader because it corrupts your sd card. That's why you're experiencing problems now. You need to wipe the sd card/internal storage using TWRP 2.6 to make it usable again. If you don't currently have TWRP 2.6 installed you'll need to do that. Download it from . Put the file in your fastboot folder. Connect phone in fastboot mode, open command prompt from within fastboot folder, issue the following commands:
Code:
fastboot flash recovery "filename.img"
(the exact filename, minus the talking marks)
Code:
fastboot erase cache
Code:
fastboot reboot-bootloader
Now you should be able to mount your sd card using TWRP and copy a ROM across to flash.
Sent from my Evita
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So I followed all the above steps as noted; I had TWRP 2.6.3.0 earlier, I flashed the new TWRP 2.6.0.0 from the link you provided.All
successfully done.
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C:\Fastboot>fastboot devices
HT29WW300913 fastboot
C:\Fastboot>fastboot flash recovery "openrecovery-twrp-2.6
.0.0-evita.img"
sending 'recovery' (8000 KB)... OKAY [ 1.530s]
writing 'recovery'... OKAY [ 1.900s]
finished. total time: 3.430s
C:\Fastboot>fastboot erase cache
erasing 'cache'... OKAY [ 0.120s]
finished. total time: 0.120s
C:\Fastboot>fastboot reboot-bootloader
rebooting into bootloader... OKAY [ 0.070s]
finished. total time: 0.070s
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I rebooted into recovery, still came up as TWRP 2.6.3.0, then I went to TWRP reboot and chose Recovery, phone rebooted into TWRP 2.6.0.0
Tried mounting (could not select /sd card and /cache(expected as we erased it)) and ADB sideload, got the same errors as before. Unable to mount /sdcard.
Rebooted again and it displayed TWRP 2.6.3.0

Did you wipe the sd card/internal storage like I said before trying to mount it?
Sent from my Evita

timmaaa said:
Did you wipe the sd card/internal storage like I said before trying to mount it?
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Yes I did

And which recovery is currently installed?
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timmaaa said:
And which recovery is currently installed?
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Its 2.6.3.0, but in recovery when I go into option TWRP reboot and chose Recovery button, phone reboots into TWRP 2.6.0.0 and when I reboot it again, its 2.6.3.0

That's really screwy. I think you should try installing recovery again. What happens when you boot the phone normally?
Sent from my Evita

timmaaa said:
That's really screwy. I think you should try installing recovery again. What happens when you boot the phone normally?
Sent from my Evita
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Ok good news, something happened, I tried all the steps again carefully and now I see TWRP 2.6.0.0 on boot and I am able to mount the sdcard and my computer now recognises the phone and I can manually copy files on to it.
Now in order to not mess it up anymore, should I just copy ViperXL ROM or should I use ADB sideload?

tapukakababa said:
Ok good news, something happened, I tried all the steps again carefully and now I see TWRP 2.6.0.0 on boot and I am able to mount the sdcard and my computer now recognises the phone and I can manually copy files on to it.
Now in order to not mess it up anymore, should I just copy ViperXL ROM or should I use ADB sideload?
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Either one should be fine. If you have S-ON and the phone gets stuck on the HTC screen, you have to flash the boot.img. here's how to do it.
1. On your PC in the ViperXL.zip, take out the boot.img and put it in the directory where you have the adb and fastboot files.
2. Boot into fastboot.
3.Open cmd. Change the directory to the folder where you have those files.
4.type "fastboot flash boot boot.img"
5. Reboot the phone.
The phone should boot.
Sent from my One Xl using Tapatalk

Definitely install through TWRP. You shouldn't need to flash a boot.img because Viper uses an aroma installer which does that for you. But, if for some reason it doesn't work just flash the boot.img via fastboot.
Sent from my Evita

timmaaa said:
Definitely install through TWRP. You shouldn't need to flash a boot.img because Viper uses an aroma installer which does that for you. But, if for some reason it doesn't work just flash the boot.img via fastboot.
Sent from my Evita
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So I flashed the boot image, then copied ViperXL and installed it through TWRP, it failed.

Exactly which error is it giving you? Did you check the md5 of the downloaded file? Are you still on TWRP 2.6?
Sent from my Evita

timmaaa said:
Exactly which error is it giving you? Did you check the md5 of the downloaded file? Are you still on TWRP 2.6?
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No I did not check the MD5, yes I'm on TWRP 2.6.0.0 and the errors it gives are as follows:
unable to mount '/cache'
unable to open zip
Error flashing zip

Always check the md5. It's possibly corrupt.
Sent from my Evita

timmaaa said:
Always check the md5. It's possibly corrupt.
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Yup redownloaded the file, checked/compared MD5, copied it back to the phone, removed the previous bad copy, flashed ROM successfully..., as per the message but system reboots to recovery.. is that expected?
And I still see both the TWRP's 2.6.3.0 and 2.6.0.0 the phone needs couple reboots in order to get to TWRP 2.6.0.0 but automatic reboot is in TWRP 2.6.3.0 whats the deal here?

I have no idea why your recovery is acting like that. Hopefully someone else can chime in on that.
Sent from my Evita

[Q] TWRP issue: E:Unable to mount storage.

Help. I have the this error when I start TWRP
Code:
E:Unable to mount storage.
This stop me from doing backup in TWRP..
I have tried to re-flash TWRP. I have also tried flash the recovery.img from Google, and then flash TWRP. The problem still there.
I even try to nearly did a factory the full factory image by doing
Code:
fastboot flash bootloader bootloader-hammerhead-HHZ11d.img
fastboot reboot-bootloader
ping -n 5 127.0.0.1 >nul
fastboot flash radio radio-hammerhead-m8974a-1.0.25.0.23.img
fastboot reboot-bootloader
ping -n 5 127.0.0.1 >nul
fastboot flash system system.img
fastboot flash boot boot.img
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
fastboot erase cache
fastboot flash cache cache.img
and then restart phone,. booth into phone, and reboot to recovery and flash TWRP...
Are there anything else that I can do? Please help...

Are you using twrp 2.6.3.4? Go into wipe and then format data. Backup first

jd1639 said:
Are you using twrp 2.6.3.4? Go into wipe and then format data. Backup first
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He's not able to backup. That's the point of his problem. Still trying wiping dalvik and cache first. Then try data. If that don't work trying flashing cwm or Philz's touch recovery.

I tried to wiping dalvik and cache... the problem remains.
I then tried to wipe data but preserve /data/media, which is the default action. The problem remains...
I really don't want to reset my phone to factory state with internal memory completely wiped... any help, please?

leoncheong said:
I tried to wiping dalvik and cache... the problem remains.
I then tried to wipe data but preserve /data/media, which is the default action. The problem remains...
I really don't want to reset my phone to factory state with internal memory completely wiped... any help, please?
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Don't think you have a choice if you want the phone to work. You're going to have to format the data.

Sound like you missed a reboot before installing custom recovery after unlocking boot.
WR
Sent from my Nexus 5

I solve it flashing to stock rom and re installing the recovery.. It is the only way.. I had the same problem
Inviato dal mio Nexus 7 utilizzando Tapatalk

Thanks for all your suggestions! I took the pain to wipe the phone.

jd1639 said:
Don't think you have a choice if you want the phone to work. You're going to have to format the data.
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I wanna format my N5, leave it really clean, coz it has the same problem about not mounting storage. But i wanna do it by commands. Can u tell me how can I do that? By adb or fastboot?

tinaag said:
I wanna format my N5, leave it really clean, coz it has the same problem about not mounting storage. But i wanna do it by commands. Can u tell me how can I do that? By adb or fastboot?
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I'm not sure but you could try adb shell wipe data. Any reason you don't want to do it through twrp?
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Can't get past Google Screen

I just restored from the official google 4.4.2 images and my phone cant get past the Google screen. Please help!

bobyum said:
I just restored from the official google 4.4.2 images and my phone cant get past the Google screen. Please help!
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You flashed the factory images?

bobyum said:
I just restored from the official google 4.4.2 images and my phone cant get past the Google screen. Please help!
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Do a data factory reset and wipe the cache both in recovery and reboot bro.

gee2012 said:
Do a data factory reset and wipe the cache both in recovery and reboot bro.
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Thinking the same thing. But.. I can admit getting in a hurry and flashing the wrong image! :laugh:

I made sure that I was using the right image and it still wont go past the Google screen. Any other ideas?
edit: okay the phone can't even write the recovery to the phone through fastboot! Any other thoughts?

bobyum said:
I made sure that I was using the right image and it still wont go past the Google screen. Any other ideas?
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Long press the power button force it to reboot. As soon as the screen goes black hold down the volume down button. That will boot you into the bootloader, from there you can get to recovery. Factory reset, wipe cache.
You flashed stock recovery?
If you have stock recovery go to the bootloader like I said earlier. Choose recovery. Then you will see android laying down. Press volume up and power button at the same time. Do a factory reset.

bobyum said:
I made sure that I was using the right image and it still wont go past the Google screen. Any other ideas?
edit: okay the phone can't even write the recovery to the phone through fastboot! Any other thoughts?
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If you flashed the whole image inclusing userdata.img it should boot usualy, never xperienced it did not personaly. So besides a wipe have no idea bro, you might try to reflash the rom again. Are you using a Toolkit?

gee2012 said:
If you flashed the whole image inclusing userdata.img it should boot usualy, never xperienced it did not personaly. So besides a wipe have no idea bro, you might try to reflash the rom again. Are you using a Toolkit?
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I did this with the flashh-all.bat provided by the official image. I can't even do that anymore because it just gets stuck when writing the bootloader. Totally out of ideas right now. Is there any way I can reformat the partition through fastboot? Would that help?

bobyum said:
I did this with the flashh-all.bat provided by the official image. I can't even do that anymore because it just gets stuck when writing the bootloader. Totally out of ideas right now. Is there any way I can reformat the partition through fastboot? Would that help?
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Try this:
fastboot erase boot
fastboot erase cache
fastboot erase recovery
fastboot erase system
fastboot erase userdata
After that flash the rom again with flash.all.batt

maybe flash each part individually (not using flashall)
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gee2012 said:
Try this:
fastboot erase boot
fastboot erase cache
fastboot erase recovery
fastboot erase system
fastboot erase userdata
After that flash the rom again with flash.all.batt
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Unfortunately, it didnt help Still stuck at writing bootloader...

beaver2233 said:
maybe flash each part individually (not using flashall)
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Yup, that might work better maybe

hmm so in which order should i flash them in?
edit: I honestly think the flash storage failed. Ill just apply for RMA then. Do you guys know if I bought my phone in early December, will I still be eligible?

bobyum said:
hmm so in which order should i flash them in?
edit: I honestly think the flash storage failed. Ill just apply for RMA then. Do you guys know if I bought my phone in early December, will I still be eligible?
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How to flash a factory image. Erasing everything in fastboot should have done the trick. Erase everything then do method 2. You have to reboot the bootloader after flashing the bootloader and again after flashing the radio. One year to RMA. .
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These are the commands I would use. The name of the images for the bootloader and radio are for 4.4.2.
fastboot flash bootloader bootloader-hammerhead-hhz11k.img
fastboot reboot-bootloader
fastboot flash radio radio-hammerhead-m8974a-1.0.25.0.23.img
fastboot reboot-bootloader
fastboot flash system system.img
fastboot flash boot boot.img
fastboot format cache
fastboot reboot

Thanks all for the help! Will try it tomorrow. Hopefully it works

wantabe said:
How to flash a factory image. Erasing everything in fastboot should have done the trick. Erase everything then do method 2. You have to reboot the bootloader after flashing the bootloader and again after flashing the radio. One year to RMA. .
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These are the commands I would use. The name of the images for the bootloader and radio are for 4.4.2.
fastboot flash bootloader bootloader-hammerhead-hhz11k.img
fastboot reboot-bootloader
fastboot flash radio radio-hammerhead-m8974a-1.0.25.0.23.img
fastboot reboot-bootloader
fastboot flash system system.img
fastboot flash boot boot.img
fastboot format cache
fastboot reboot
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I'd go one better and look to do a COMPLETE reflash - userdata and all! I'd also rename bootloader-hammerhead-hhz11k.img to bootloader.img and radio-hammerhead-m8974a-1.0.25.0.23.img to radio.img as it means there's less to get wrong! SO, to recap:
fastboot flash bootloader bootloader.img
fastboot reboot-bootloader
fastboot flash radio radio.img
fastboot reboot-bootloader
fastboot flash system system.img
fastboot reboot-bootloader
fastboot flash userdata userdata.img
fastboot reboot-bootloader
fastboot flash boot boot.img
fastboot reboot-bootloader
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
fastboot reboot-bootloader
fastboot format cache
I'd then boot into the stock recovery and perform a factory reset to make sure everything is in order and then reboot. I've done this exact method a number of times on my Nexus 5 and it works every time

EddyOS said:
I'd go one better and rename bootloader-hammerhead-hhz11k.img and radio-hammerhead-m8974a-1.0.25.0.23.img to just bootloader.img and radio.img to make it easier - less to type out and get wrong!
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I usually do the same thing too but I left the names as a hint to verify that he had the correct images.
I almost never flash userdata and recovery unless I'm selling a device. I've also never rebooted the bootloader between every image Except after the bootloader and radio images but I agree that your method is covering all the bases!

wantabe said:
I usually do the same thing too but I left the names as a hint to verify that he had the correct images.
I almost never flash userdata and recovery unless I'm selling a device. I've also never rebooted the bootloader between every image Except after the bootloader and radio images but I agree that your method is covering all the bases!
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As I hardly have any data to backup bar some custom ring tones I always reflash the userdata partition to be thorough. As for the reboots, I've just done it from habit, again just to be thorough. If it still doesn't work after that then it's goosed!

Try using the backup bootloader. Press and hold both volume buttons with the power button. That will take you into the backup bootloader.

Thanks to everyone for helping but I could not even get past writing the bootloader to the phone. I honestly think the flash storage and failed so will be RMAing. Hopefully they will accept it...

[Q] recovery/bootloader issues

after i got my tf700 tablet i unlocked the bootloader and put cwm and cm11 on it, without any problems.
then i tried the same thing on my brothers tf300 i accidentally bricked it, after we bought another one i used the nvflash bricksafe setup on my tf700 so the same thing would not happen to me. then i changed from cwm to philz. later i tried to change the wallpaper in philz and my device froze, so i rebooted and found myself bricked. so i used apx to recover. i got android functionality back but now i have some issues.
1. i cant access recovery, selecting the rck command results in an error: unrecoverable bootloader error (0x00000000)
2. i cant make fastboot flash commands work to reflash a recovery, because the tablet freezes after i hit enter
i have used the "fastboot erase recovery" command too, which seemed to work...
recovery mode usability needs to be restored and possibly a fresh install of the bootloader too.
any help putting it back together either through apx recovery or the android system would be much appriciated!

Did you try to flash the stock blob? Sounds to me like a case for buster99's method:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2179759&page=2

berndblb said:
Did you try to flash the stock blob? Sounds to me like a case for buster99's method:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2179759&page=2
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Buster99 said:
Reset your device with a paperclip/needle (about 2 cm down of your sdcard slot) and hold vol-down to enter fastboot
(the folowing i did at least 10 times already but didn't erase misc)
fastboot erase system
fastboot erase recovery
fastboot erase userdata
fastboot erase boot
fastboot erase misc
fastboot erase cache
fastboot -i 0x0B05 flash system c:\adb\TF300t\blob (this is my path - your's may vary depending where you stored your blob) ((also this was the first time i saw the loading bar while flashing)*
fastboot -i 0x0B05 reboot
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thanks for the instructions but i think i will leave this as a last resort as i would rather not have to redo everything i have already done to my device, i hate starting over

A nandroid would have done the trick
Sometimes you have to learn the hard way...
I'm talking about myself: made a nandroid of my CROMi-X installation before flashing CROMBi-KK and then formatted data - without copying the nandroid to microSD - DOH!
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berndblb said:
A nandroid would have done the trick
Sometimes you have to learn the hard way...
I'm talking about myself: made a nandroid of my CROMi-X installation before flashing CROMBi-KK and then formatted data - without copying the nandroid to microSD - DOH!
Sent from my K00C using Tapatalk
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i have a nandroid, on an external source too,
but if you cant get into recovery there is no way to use (or at lease not one that i know)

kirbyonwarpstar said:
i have a nandroid, on an external source too,
but if you cant get into recovery there is no way to use (or at lease not one that i know)
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In that case, it's easy:
Flash system blob
Flash custom recovery
Restore nandroid
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[Q] Partition Problem on my Nexus 5 (32GB before, 16GB after)

Hello sorry for my bad English I speak Spanish.
I have a Nexus 5 32 GB but now it is 16GB ...
Last month I updated my smartphone to Android 5.1.0 (manually) from bootloader:
fastboot flash bootloader bootloader-hammerhead-hhz12f.img
fastboot reboot-bootloader
fastboot flash radio radio-hammerhead-m8974a-2.0.50.2.25.img
fastboot reboot-bootloader
fastboot flash system system.img
fastboot reboot-bootloader
fastboot flash userdata userdata.img
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
fastboot flash boot boot.img
fastboot erase cache
fastboot flash cache cache.img
fastboot reboot
When I tried to copy my music I received the "Insufficient memory storage" message :crying:. I checked the Storage menu and it says that my smartphone has only 16GB now . I don't understand what happened because I always update my smartphone from bootloader.

Do a factory reset in the stock recovery and clear cache. This is a common problem. Back up first
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jd1639 said:
Do a factory reset in the stock recovery and clear cache. This is a common problem. Back up first
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I forgot tell you but I tried flashing Android 4.4 and other official ROMs but I still have the same problem.

hectorkrrillo said:
I forgot tell you but I tried flashing Android 4.4 and other official ROMs but I still have the same problem.
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That is why you have to do a factery reset in stock recovery.

Problem
I have some problem :/

pipo406 said:
I have some problem :/
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Do a factory reset in stock recovery

If factory reset does not work (didn't for me for some reason), install TWRP recovery, go to Wipe and choose Format Data. This worked for me. Of course all your data will be lost, but if you backed up, no harm done.

eross said:
If factory reset does not work (didn't for me for some reason), install TWRP recovery, go to Wipe and choose Format Data. This worked for me. Of course all your data will be lost, but if you backed up, no harm done.
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Ohhh!! Thanks! My phone has 32GB again! :good::good::good:.... I had root on my Nexus 5 and TWRP recovery, I did just "Format Data" from TWRP and wala! 32GB is back... I didn't try to apply factory reset from ROM because I have root.

hectorkrrillo said:
Ohhh!! Thanks! My phone has 32GB again! :good::good::good:.... I had root on my Nexus 5 and TWRP recovery, I did just "Format Data" from TWRP and wala! 32GB is back... I didn't try to apply factory reset from ROM because I have root.
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Glad to hear that :good: