I have an issue where when Im in e3 or clockwork recovery where when I am trying to do a data wipe and clean flash. I get an error at the end- "error restoring /data!" after It goes through and verbosely lists all the caches and files its restoring. When I actually get into the recovered rom, I have a bunch of most of the old apps listed as on the SD card 0.00B, I can't move them to phone, or erase the data as there is nothing there, I have to uninstall them each time. Sometimes I get a ton of force closes when I reboot the phone. I fix permissions in CWM at least ten minutes after a flash to let the phone cache.
I wasn't getting this problem until I tried to flash Alien 5.5 with a corrupted file in the zip which aborted the flash. Does anyone know why this has affected all of my backups? I can't get a good recovery because of the /data issue.
On another topic, Does anyone with alien 5.5 have a non-working home button as well as no market app? I wanted to post or pm romracer about the homebutton issue because I cannot find a fix for it anywhere.
You have corrupted ur internal sd card that's y this thing happens!!!!!! You need to do is follow this steps here!!!!!! IF you already tried that than go back to stock and start over!!!!!!
HamDeli1 said:
I have an issue where when Im in e3 or clockwork recovery where when I am trying to do a data wipe and clean flash. I get an error at the end- "error restoring /data!" after It goes through and verbosely lists all the caches and files its restoring. When I actually get into the recovered rom, I have a bunch of most of the old apps listed as on the SD card 0.00B, I can't move them to phone, or erase the data as there is nothing there, I have to uninstall them each time. Sometimes I get a ton of force closes when I reboot the phone. I fix permissions in CWM at least ten minutes after a flash to let the phone cache.
I wasn't getting this problem until I tried to flash Alien 5.5 with a corrupted file in the zip which aborted the flash. Does anyone know why this has affected all of my backups? I can't get a good recovery because of the /data issue.
On another topic, Does anyone with alien 5.5 have a non-working home button as well as no market app? I wanted to post or pm romracer about the homebutton issue because I cannot find a fix for it anywhere.
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I used Flashify to isntall twrp like i did dozen of times before but this time something went wrong, and my phone only boots in twrp. I do not want to flash the a stock rom because I need my music and my photos on my phone!
Cobacar said:
I used Flashify to isntall twrp like i did dozen of times before but this time something went wrong, and my phone only boots in twrp. I do not want to flash the a stock rom because I need my music and my photos on my phone!
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1)if you've made a backup that can be restored in twrp ,do it.
2)download a Custom ROM and flash It through twrp .only data ,cache and dalvik need to be cleared .you won't lose stuffs in internal storage including photos ,music.
3) if you cant find any custom roms then connect your phone to pc then,in twrp ->mount ->enable mtp.now you can access your storage, backup your files on PC ,then flash stock ROM and later restore .
Hope this helped.
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1)if you've made a backup that can be restored in twrp ,do it.
2)download a Custom ROM and flash It through twrp .only data ,cache and dalvik need to be cleared .you won't lose stuffs in internal storage including photos ,music.
3) if you cant find any custom then connect your phone to pc then,in twrp ->mount ->enable mtp.now you can access your storage, backup your files on PC ,then flash stock ROM and later restore .
Hope this helped.
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I didn't format data like i should have for twrp to work properly, it says i have 0 mb of storage and i can't make backups. When I access my phones storage (,in twrp ->mount ->enable mtp) it says i have 0 files on my phone.
Thanks for your reply!
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1)if you've made a backup that can be restored in twrp ,do it.
2)download a Custom ROM and flash It through twrp .only data ,cache and dalvik need to be cleared .you won't lose stuffs in internal storage including photos ,music.
3) if you cant find any custom roms then connect your phone to pc then,in twrp ->mount ->enable mtp.now you can access your storage, backup your files on PC ,then flash stock ROM and later restore .
Hope this helped.
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https://www.google.com/url?q=http:/...ds-cse&usg=AFQjCNGf-ywVNCeQi-6AY9ZtmxF2p9Ph3A
By flashing that rom with odin, do I loose everything?
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https://www.google.com/url?q=http:/...ds-cse&usg=AFQjCNGf-ywVNCeQi-6AY9ZtmxF2p9Ph3A
By flashing that rom with odin, do I loose everything?
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Download that and a gapps for android 6 and also a supersu.zip. enable mtp like earlier and put them on your phone storage .now do a normal wipe in twrp wiping only data ,cache and dalvik(which is a normal factory reset)
And then install the ROM followed by gapps and supersu.
If you didnt wiped your internal storage you won't lose your files.
After booting up in file manager delete the folder called "0"(make sure none of your files that are personal are in there first) and your phone storage should be normal.
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Download that and a gapps for android 6 and also a supersu.zip. enable mtp like earlier and put them on your phone storage .now do a normal wipe in twrp wiping only data ,cache and dalvik(which is a normal factory reset)
And then install the ROM followed by gapps and supersu.
If you didnt wiped your internal storage you won't lose your files.
After booting up in file manager delete the folder called "0"(make sure none of your files that are personal are in there first) and your phone storage should be normal.
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I shall do that, and in the process ill be praying to god it works!
Thanks a lot and ill be informing you of the result! I love you
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Download that and a gapps for android 6 and also a supersu.zip. enable mtp like earlier and put them on your phone storage .now do a normal wipe in twrp wiping only data ,cache and dalvik(which is a normal factory reset)
And then install the ROM followed by gapps and supersu.
If you didnt wiped your internal storage you won't lose your files.
After booting up in file manager delete the folder called "0"(make sure none of your files that are personal are in there first) and your phone storage should be normal.
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When i try to put files to my phone from pc it says"the device has either stopped responding or has been disconnected"
Factory reset doesn't work, it fails every time with a lot of red messages saying "failed to mount '/data' (invalid argument)" and "unable to mount storage"
Cobacar said:
When i try to put files to my phone from pc it says"the device has either stopped responding or has been disconnected"
Factory reset doesn't work, it fails every time with a lot of red messages saying "failed to mount '/data' (invalid argument)" and "unable to mount storage"
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Looks like flashing that twrp messed up your default storage.
Just so you know you're the 8th person I ran into who had trouble with flashify. Looks like the only way is flashing stock ROM .but don't do it yet we'll look together for a less destructive option.
Can you try to flashing through Odin to see if it works.
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Looks like flashing that twrp messed up your default storage.
Just so you know you're the 8th person I ran into who had trouble with flashify. Looks like the only way is flashing stock ROM .but don't do it yet we'll look together for a less destructive option.
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There is nothing for me to do except to cry and be mad hahahahahah :crying: :crying: :laugh:
Do you think there is a solution or should i just accept the fate?
I would just bite the bullet, enter download mode and Odin the stock firmware. Get it over with and start fresh.
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There is nothing for me to do except to cry and be mad hahahahahah :crying: :crying: :laugh:
Do you think there is a solution or should i just accept the fate?
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You can either flash your stock ROM and be done with it or try and wait for a solution but since your device won't boot and you can't even copy your ROM files to phone I don't think there is much you can do(I did try some searching). Normally when this happens there a new folder called "0" (that behaves as a storage)from where you can transfer your rom file to flash but you say you can't do that here. And since after flashing twrp your phone didn't boot your system and directly booted recovery one would think your whole memory partition including system and internal storage got effed up.
So what you're trying to save may already be gone.you should be mad at your self for putting your trust in an app that has resulted in bricks for many users and flash the stock ROM IMO.
Sorry.
You should always make a backup when doing something that has anything to do with root /customization etc..
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I would just bite the bullet, enter download mode and Odin the stock firmware. Get it over with and start fresh.
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It's pretty hard form me to do because i would lose 2000 songs and over 6 thousand images. And i can't afford to lose them
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It's pretty hard form me to do because i would lose 2000 songs and over 6 thousand images. And i can't afford to lose them
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Are you sure you don't have your music and images backed up somewhere in the cloud or to your PC? Maybe backed up with Samsung Kies?
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Are you 100% familiar with what you can attempt to do with TWRP and your device connected to your PC? When you select "MOUNT" in TWRP what boxes are checked?
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fast69mopar said:
Are you sure you don't have your music and images backed up somewhere in the cloud or to your PC? Maybe backed up with Samsung Kies?
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Are you 100% familiar with what you can attempt to do with TWRP and your device connected to your PC? When you select "MOUNT" in TWRP what boxes are checked?
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Yeah, I have only small bits backed up.
The problem i have with twrp is that it needs to format my device for it to work, the same as the last time i did it. I used my other phone as a security measure but my brother managed to format that one 20 minutes before I screwed this one up, and he did that without my knowledge. So the situation is pretty bad here
Thanks
When you have TWRP open on your device and you are connected to your PC, does your PC recognize the device? If so, what does the device manager say it recognizes the device as? Also, do you have a USB-OTG? If so, you can try to mount OTG in TWRP, select OTG as your storage and perform a backup to your USB-OTG. If it works it.can save your butt.
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When you have TWRP open on your device and you are connected to your PC, does your PC recognize the device? If so, what does the device manager say it recognizes the device as? Also, do you have a USB-OTG? If so, you can try to mount OTG in TWRP, select OTG as your storage and perform a backup to your USB-OTG. If it works it.can save your butt.
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It recognizes it as portable device, samsung galaxy s7 edge, as it should i think. I can't find a storage device right now to connect it to my phone
See if you can round up a USB-OTG device. That may be the obly thing that saves you for any type of backup. Hope it works
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Hello everyone,
I need your help. Sorry for the long post.
I have a OnePlus One. It was running on CM 13.0 (Android 6.0.1). I had TWRP and MultiROM installed.
I have had an issue where whenever I flash a zip file in TWRP, the phone will show an error after installing the zip: "Unable to mount storage". This appeared in red color on the screen right after showing the progress of the zip installation. The phone worked fine and all the flashed zips worked great as well. However, the error that appeared every single time when I flash a zip file bothered me. So I tried to fix it. (I know, if it's not broken don't fix it, but sadly I tired).
I followed this video to get rid of the error => (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7yDPszoQ5s). However, instead of getting rid of the error, I ended up with a huge problem. My phone couldn't recognize the data in the internal storage. It showed that the internal storage was empty. When I tired to reboot in TWRP, It said: "No OS installed are you sure you wish to reboot". I realized that the video I followed was for a different problem and that I ended up with the same issue the video was trying to fix! I tried every single option the video suggested to fix the problem and nothing helped.
I connected my phone to my laptop and downloaded the latest CyanogenMod zip for my phone and I flashed it. when I rebooted my phone I got a screen that asked for my password. I typed a random password (I discovered later that the phone will accept any password and say it's correct). I got the following error: "Decryption Unsuccessful... The password you entered is correct, but unfortunately your data is corrupt... To resume using your phone, you need to perform a factory reset. When you set up your phone after the reset, you'll have an opportunity to restore any data that was backed up to your google account...Then the only thing I can select is "reset phone." ". I pressed the reset button on the screen, the phone rebooted and showed the same error. Then I tired flashing PAC ROM and I got the same error again. Then I flashed OmniROM and the phone worked! It didn't show the error.
I have a Titanium backup for all my apps and I also have a nandroid backup for my previous ROM (in my memory stick using an OTG cable). However, I don't have any backups for my internal storage (photos, videos, documents... etc). I am guessing that these files are still in my internal storage. I didn't copy any new files to my phone because I think if I do, then the phone will keep replacing my old files (that I can't see) with the new ones.
My question is: Is there a way to get back these old photos and videos from the internal storage? Note that I didn't delete these files, but the phone can't read them. Also, I checked the nandroid backup that I have and the file system type of the previous ROM was EXT4. My current file system type is the same, EXT4.
Thank you for the help!
Good morning to everybody,
I have a s7 flat sm-g930 with room stock and I have installed TWRP herolte 3.2.3.0 just to be able to do nandroid backups. After installing TWRP the internal memory appears at 0mb, I also have an error when mounting data partition when trying to make backups. I solve this problem by formatting data or formatting wipes of the EXT2 and EXT4. After installing the file "no verity opt encrypt 6.0" and after restart factory data is restored but the TWRP again have the same problem. The internal memory again shows 0mb in TWRP. This process only helps me to install magisk 17.1 but my idea is to make backups from TWRP but it is not possible because TWRP is protected in the next reboot. I have tried to install other files "no verity opt encrypt" that I found in youtube tutorials and even 2 more files "RMM-State_Bypass and Samsung Anti Root Removal 2.4" but with all of them I have the same problem after the reboot. I have also tried to install with odin a previous samsung stock room but the problem is not solved. I would greatly appreciate if someone found the solution and can help me since I have been trying for weeks. I would like to do everything with the official room of samsung, I read some option to install another KERNEL but I do not know if my privacy could be affected. Thanks everyone for your help. a greeting
You need modded TWRP by Tkkg1994. Find it in TWRP thread on August 10th. Read his post carefully and thank the guy.
Pat750 said:
You need modded TWRP by Tkkg1994. Find it in TWRP thread on August 10th. Read his post carefully and thank the guy.
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Thank you
Shabbir
kitopopo said:
Good morning to everybody,
I have a s7 flat sm-g930 with room stock and I have installed TWRP herolte 3.2.3.0 just to be able to do nandroid backups. After installing TWRP the internal memory appears at 0mb, I also have an error when mounting data partition when trying to make backups. I solve this problem by formatting data or formatting wipes of the EXT2 and EXT4. After installing the file "no verity opt encrypt 6.0" and after restart factory data is restored but the TWRP again have the same problem. The internal memory again shows 0mb in TWRP. This process only helps me to install magisk 17.1 but my idea is to make backups from TWRP but it is not possible because TWRP is protected in the next reboot. I have tried to install other files "no verity opt encrypt" that I found in youtube tutorials and even 2 more files "RMM-State_Bypass and Samsung Anti Root Removal 2.4" but with all of them I have the same problem after the reboot. I have also tried to install with odin a previous samsung stock room but the problem is not solved. I would greatly appreciate if someone found the solution and can help me since I have been trying for weeks. I would like to do everything with the official room of samsung, I read some option to install another KERNEL but I do not know if my privacy could be affected. Thanks everyone for your help. a greeting
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I had also same problem and i have tried everything what u have done but problem was there than i tried to color my recoverySAMSUNG GALAXY S7 THEMES, APPS, AND MODS just flas and your problem will be goner
I dear friend,
My problem was that i try to install a wrong twrp file. All work all correctly with the wrong twrp file, but the partition error appears. Please install the correct twrp file .md5 for you mobile using odin. Please is important that the file have the .md5 file extension. I after install the correct twrp i made wipes and format data and after any error appears and i could make bacups perfectly. I have you questions you can ask me.
Good luck
My phone running on RRos 8.6.0 and I forgot the Pattern so from twrp I deleted the
"locksetting.db"
(My device didn't have any files named as the key for to deleted)
and from users I deleted
"setting_fingerprint.xml"
"setting_face.xml"
and booted to system
and now my it is stuck on "phone is starting"
Touch is working fine and I am able to access notification panel and turn on and off the tiles and go into settings.
I even added a new Pattern so that the deleted file gets created but then when I went to add fingerprint the sensor is not working as in its not reading.
also in apps(from settings) there is no option for "open". There's only clear cache and clear storage.
also I tried wiping dalvik art cache.
also device wont show on pc for transferring data while in twrp or even when phone is booted and I choose File transfer from notification.
What shall I do ?
Thankyou
Happened to me the same way, then I install stock rom and everything works fine.
Hi,
Same problems and same exact cause. Installing stock rom did not solve it.
Any other ideas?
Thanks!
Indru said:
Hi,
Same problems and same exact cause. Installing stock rom did not solve it.
Any other ideas?
Thanks!
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Did you find any solutions?
The only solution was to format Data partition (including storage) and lose everything in the process, sadly.
If I remember correctly I was able to copy stuff from data partition to external USB via Recovery mode. But this was long ago, don't remember all the details... Just that I had to delete the data partition.