The Situation:
I a currently stuck in ClockworkMod Recovery with no backups, no usable flashable ROMs, no ROM installed, a screwed up internal SD, and virtually no way to use the ADB or ODIN in Download, because my phone rarely, if ever, recognizes USB cords for anything but charging (This is a hardware, not software issue. It persists from ROM to ROM.)
Thoughts?
Additional Info
There's a lot, so I will be clear, as concise as possible, and will try to remember everything.
You might ask, "How did this happen?" or even "WTF?"
These are the steps I've taken:
Originally, I used OCLF for rooting + ext2 lag fix, followed by Team Whiskey's latest Bionix ROM. I hadn't removed the lag fix as I was told it should not matter. I was having a multitude of problems, so I wished to revert to Stock. When a standard nandroid restore didn't work, I searched and learned that flashing back to J12 should let my nandroid restore work. This did NOT work, however, and, once again, I was stuck in the boot sequence. I re-flashed the Bionix ROM to see if I could just live with it, and, no, I couldn't. I looked some more and found that, given I could flash a JFD or J16 (I believe) image, I could then perform a restore, then install a 2.1 kernel. I found the image and flashed it. THAT worked, but the nandroid was still refusing to cooperate.
Today, I flashed Team Whiskey's Obsidian V4.2 ULF Kernel ROM, succeeded, and found that my internal SD partition that hosts apps existed, but was 0.00KB. I thought about installing App2SD, but I decided I had too much room internally to want to deal with that. I tried to add a partition via CWM ROM Manager, but did not take into consideration the fact that it would need a ROM to flash once it had wiped and partitioned. I'm not sure how that partition creator is supposed to work, because it wipes the drive that the ROM is on. At that point, I somehow managed to get back in business by formatting w/ backup.
I tried flashing Obsidian V4.2 w/o the lag fixed kernel, thinking this was the issue with my internal partition system, but I never found out because install, post-wipe, failed at line 11. I could not turn the phone back on because it had no complete install, and nandroid was still not restoring, so I went through Recovery and factory reset, wiped cache, tried mounting and unmounting different file systems, including the sd-ext which refuses to mount, citing "E:INFO is WRONG Error mounting SDEXT:!".
I've installed Superuser, messed with the Lagfix and Tweak options, and reset default permissions in the ULF Kernel Menu. All to the effect of allowing the ROM flash to progress to line 85 before failing. I can't remember the errors it gave, and can't flash again, because, in my frenzy, I formatted the system, data, cache, and sdcard. I still have a nandroid available, but it has an md5 sum mismatch. There are three more viable ROMs on my external SD card, but I have no way of moving them to the internal, and the "install zip from sd card" menu won't access the CWM backup folder or the external because it says there aren't any there, which isn't true.
I am completely at a loss as to what to do. Is there any way to move files from external -> internal sd in recovery?
ANY help that isn't "You're screwed" would be appreciated.
Semi_Interested said:
The Situation:
I a currently stuck in ClockworkMod Recovery with no backups, no usable flashable ROMs, no ROM installed, a screwed up internal SD, and virtually no way to use the ADB or ODIN in Download, because my phone rarely, if ever, recognizes USB cords for anything but charging (This is a hardware, not software issue. It persists from ROM to ROM.)
Thoughts?
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Semi_Interested said:
There's a lot, so I will be clear, as concise as possible, and will try to remember everything.
You might ask, "How did this happen?" or even "WTF?"
These are the steps I've taken:
Originally, I used OCLF for rooting + ext2 lag fix, followed by Team Whiskey's latest Bionix ROM. I hadn't removed the lag fix as I was told it should not matter. I was having a multitude of problems, so I wished to revert to Stock. When a standard nandroid restore didn't work, I searched and learned that flashing back to J12 should let my nandroid restore work. This did NOT work, however, and, once again, I was stuck in the boot sequence. I re-flashed the Bionix ROM to see if I could just live with it, and, no, I couldn't. I looked some more and found that, given I could flash a JFD or J16 (I believe) image, I could then perform a restore, then install a 2.1 kernel. I found the image and flashed it. THAT worked, but the nandroid was still refusing to cooperate.
Today, I flashed Team Whiskey's Obsidian V4.2 ULF Kernel ROM, succeeded, and found that my internal SD partition that hosts apps existed, but was 0.00KB. I thought about installing App2SD, but I decided I had too much room internally to want to deal with that. I tried to add a partition via CWM ROM Manager, but did not take into consideration the fact that it would need a ROM to flash once it had wiped and partitioned. I'm not sure how that partition creator is supposed to work, because it wipes the drive that the ROM is on. At that point, I somehow managed to get back in business by formatting w/ backup.
I tried flashing Obsidian V4.2 w/o the lag fixed kernel, thinking this was the issue with my internal partition system, but I never found out because install, post-wipe, failed at line 11. I could not turn the phone back on because it had no complete install, and nandroid was still not restoring, so I went through Recovery and factory reset, wiped cache, tried mounting and unmounting different file systems, including the sd-ext which refuses to mount, citing "E:INFO is WRONG Error mounting SDEXT:!".
I've installed Superuser, messed with the Lagfix and Tweak options, and reset default permissions in the ULF Kernel Menu. All to the effect of allowing the ROM flash to progress to line 85 before failing. I can't remember the errors it gave, and can't flash again, because, in my frenzy, I formatted the system, data, cache, and sdcard. I still have a nandroid available, but it has an md5 sum mismatch. There are three more viable ROMs on my external SD card, but I have no way of moving them to the internal, and the "install zip from sd card" menu won't access the CWM backup folder or the external because it says there aren't any there, which isn't true.
I am completely at a loss as to what to do. Is there any way to move files from external -> internal sd in recovery?
ANY help that isn't "You're screwed" would be appreciated.
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Well, adb would be able to move files from external sd card to the internal one but if you don't know how to use it then Odin might be simpler. I'll pm you some instructions but if you cannot get your phone to be recognized in Odin because of USB issues then I'm not sure how to help.
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Hello guys,
I have a question. Lately I have been running into problems with Making/Recovering Nandroid backup's.
Right now, I wanted to make an Nandroid backup of my current stuff so I can move to CM10 again. I enter recovery, start a backup, it fails while doing /data. So I try again, but this time to Internal Storage. It took a very long while, then it failed. I rebooted, it seemed I was "low on storage". I checked that failed Nandroid backup on my Internal SDcard, I saw it was over 6GB's
So yeah, weird stuff. I'm running the last 5.xxx version of normal Recovery (so not the touch one or the 6.xxx) one. If really needed I will enter recovery so I can give the exact version.
edit: v5.8.4.5
One known recovery problem can be if you are using a different recovery version to the one backed up with .
jje
Tried it again to external sd card, ended up with a failure /data. Off course the backup was 4.7GB's and my SDcard got full.
Why is my phone going rage mode and making gigantic nandroid backup's?
Flashed latest recovery from ROM Manager (6.0.1.0) and it seems fine now.
Hi all, I built my sdcard per: http://iamafanof.wordpress.com/2012/...r-nook-tablet/ (built by"Succulent")
My kids have two NT's. With two 16GB Sdcards, one class4 the other class 10. I know class4 is recommended, but one poster in forums said he's taken images of CM built on class4's and applied this image to class 10's in several cases and has had no problems. So I thought what the heck, can't hurt to try, so that's what I did (using Winimage). It booted fine 5 or 6 times for me, and I installed several APK's of games from Humble Bundle . I turned over the Nook to my little girl and she brought it back to me later showing she gets errors on boot, after swiping the lock symbol to unlock it. One is "Unfortunately, Talk has stopped". If you click OK on this, you get ""Unfortunately, Trebuchet has stopped". Clicking OK on this does nothing, it keeps popping up indefinitely. I don't know if the sdcard is hot pluggable (can be removed with power to the tablet), but she did admit to doing this. So I'm wondering if some corruption occurred to the CM build on the sdcard. Has anyone seen these errors? I could reflash it from the image I made off the class 4, but want to understand what happened so we don't run into it again. The funny thing is, I don't recall the startup wizard off the 1st class4 card prompting me with several screens regarding Google crap like it did on the 2nd card which was flashed from the same image. That was even after telling it I had no Google acct hoping it would leave me alone.
can anyone explain the boot menu you get when you press the N button? (I'm not including the faded selections) I'm wondering especially about the recovery options. Here's my menu:
INT BOOT ( I assume will boot to B&N native OS?)
INT RECOVERY ?
SDC RECOVERY ?
SDC BOOT (Iassume, boot to CM10 off sdcard?)
SDC ALTBOOT ?
START FASTBOOT ?
baytee said:
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So my question is, can anyone explain the boot menu you get when you press the N button? (I'm not including the faded selections) I'm wondering especially about the recovery options. Here's my menu:
INT BOOT ( I assume will boot to B&N native OS?)
INT RECOVERY ?
SDC RECOVERY ?
SDC BOOT (Iassume, boot to CM10 off sdcard?)
SDC ALTBOOT ?
START FASTBOOT ?
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Yes,
internal boot - boots Rom in emmc
Internal recovery - recovery in emmc
Sdcard boot - boots your sdcard Rom.
Sdcard recovery - boots sd card recovery ( keep recovery.img in root of sdcard for it to load recovery)
Sdcard altboot - alternate recovery ( not necessary, unless you want both cwm and twrp at same time)
Fastboot - fastboot mode , fastboot commands to flash .img file etc with this method .
As for your problem, try entering recovery, wipe cache and dalvik cache partition (I've done this on emmc version, never tried sdcard version of any Rom) this may solve the issue. If not try factory reset.
And removing sdcard while device is switched on is called hot swapping , hot plug is a CPU governor. Not sure if sdcard roms are hot swappable, but I think not.
Sent from my ST27i
Thanks.
emmc=internal nook memory I assume?
Oh, and...just to clarify, I haven't modified (rooted) my tablet. (you mention factory reset). I should mention that with the sdcard out, it boots B&N OS just fine.
And the part you say about wiping the two caches, so I should go into SD Card Recovery to do that? Once you get into it, you have various choices like the ones you mention? (I'd read that this choice was to backup your NT to sdcard). And please, I want to be very, very careful not to wipe out the B&N stock OS, so please, any detailed instructions you can give so I don't make that mistake, I'd greatly appreciate it. (I see so many posts on these forums about people bricking their Nook tablets it worries me.)
baytee said:
Thanks.
emmc=internal nook memory I assume?
Oh, and...just to clarify, I haven't modified (rooted) my tablet. (you mention factory reset). I should mention that with the sdcard out, it boots B&N OS just fine.
And the part you say about wiping the two caches, so I should go into SD Card Recovery to do that? I'd read that this choice was to backup your NT to sdcard. But once you get into it, you have various choices like the ones you mention? And please, I want to be very, very careful not to wipe out the B&N stock OS, so please, any detailed instructions you can give so I don't make that mistake, I'd greatly appreciate it. (I see so many posts on these forums about people bricking their Nook tablets it worries me.)
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Um I don't know much about how it works for sdcard Rom. I've always only used emmc version. I guess if you were to enter recovery, it would access the stock cache partition by default , and we aren't trying to clear that.
Try this - use titanium backup (only talking about your sdcard Rom here, nothing to do with your stock) and in options, you may be able to wipe your cache or dalvik cache.
Or,
boot into your sdcard Rom, in settings > backup and restore > factory reset. This will delete all user data and return Rom to original Cm10 that you flashed on sdcard.
Or if it's only google talk and trebuchet launcher issue, install a new launcher (go launcher, adw etc) , then use titanium backup to uninstall trebuchet and talk.
Sent from my ST27i
From what I see, titanium backup is an android app. If I can't boot to Android (Trebuchet error loops as I said) I don't know how I can install this to do anything? Nor can I install another launcher or go into Settings as the error doesn't let you get any further.
I guess if there was a way to browse files/folders on the sdcard partitions on the sd to manually delete the cache files.....but if they're linux partitions (ext3 or4) you can't do that under windows...
baytee said:
From what I see, titanium backup is an android app. If I can't boot to Android (Trebuchet error loops as I said) I don't know how I can install this to do anything? Nor can I install another launcher or go into Settings as the error doesn't let you get any further.
I guess if there was a way to browse files/folders on the sdcard partitions on the sd to manually delete the cache files.....but if they're linux partitions (ext3 or4) you can't do that under windows...
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In cwm, enter mounts and backup, then (if) you see /sdcard /cache, mount that and format that ONLY.
Do not format anything else as some options can brick device (Rom, bootdata, factory etc)
Wiping cache is safe (99%)
Again, I have never used sdcard Rom so I don't know what will show up in your recovery. But if you see something like sdcard cache, it can be cleared. If it doesn't specify sdcard, let us assume it refers to stock emmc.
Sent from my ST27i
How do I get into CWM?
baytee said:
How do I get into CWM?
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Select SDC Recovery on the Cyanoboot boot menu -- see steps 7 & 8 of the post at http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2061536.
If you want to backup the BN stock ROM just in case, see step 9.
digixmax said:
Select SDC Recovery on the Cyanoboot boot menu -- see steps 7 & 8 of the post at http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2061536.
If you want to backup the BN stock ROM just in case, see step 9.
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I chose sd recovery, chose Backup & Restore, then Backup. It started running right away. It said:
SD Card space free: 228MB
Backing up boot image
Backup of boot image completed
Backing up recovery image
Backup of recovery image completed
Backing up system
Error while making a backup image of /system!
I plug sdcard into PC card reader and the FAT partition has 0 bytes free. So, appears it ran out of space. I saw your comment about 600MB space being needed. So I'm redoing the partitions now.
baytee said:
I chose sd recovery, chose Backup & Restore, then Backup. It started running right away. It said:
SD Card space free: 228MB
Backing up boot image
Backup of boot image completed
Backing up recovery image
Backup of recovery image completed
Backing up system
Error while making a backup image of /system!
I plug sdcard into PC card reader and the FAT partition has 0 bytes free. So, appears it ran out of space. I saw your comment about 600MB space being needed. So I'm redoing the partitions now.
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Why backing up now when it's not working? Fix your issue, then make a backup. So the next time there's a problem you can restore to working condition.
Sent from my ST27i
Well, backing up, I think, was a good suggestion by Digimax. So I'm glad I did it. and now i know how to do it for future. Just in case anything EVER goes wrong, I'll always have that image now on my pc. Bad thing was, apparently B&N nook OS apparently keeps lots of APKs around after installing them. I had to make my 1st fat32 partition over 2GB for the entire backup to process without running out of space. backup size=1.6gb
I ran into lost chains - convert to cluster msgs trying to delete the folder of the first failed backup, but it never would delete even after a chkdsk, so I formatted the card and put the original image back onto it, adjusted the partitions, and then ran into a new probem.....the Cyanomod spinning logo never stopping spinning so it won't boot up. So I give up. I don't know if it's that it's a class 10 card that all these problems are happening. barring any other suggestions, I guess I'll make sure the other NT we have runs stable for a few weeks and if so I'll order another class 4 like that one has.
baytee said:
Well, backing up, I think, was a good suggestion by Digimax. So I'm glad I did it. and now i know how to do it for future. Just in case anything EVER goes wrong, I'll always have that image now on my pc. Bad thing was, apparently B&N nook OS apparently keeps lots of APKs around after installing them. I had to make my 1st fat32 partition over 2GB for the entire backup to process without running out of space. backup size=1.6gb
I ran into lost chains - convert to cluster msgs trying to delete the folder of the first failed backup, but it never would delete even after a chkdsk, so I formatted the card and put the original image back onto it, adjusted the partitions, and then ran into a new probem.....the Cyanomod spinning logo never stopping spinning so it won't boot up. So I give up. I don't know if it's that it's a class 10 card that all these problems are happening. barring any other suggestions, I guess I'll make sure the other NT we have runs stable for a few weeks and if so I'll order another class 4 like that one has.
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I don't know about your bootloop issue, but I don't think it's a sdcard class issue.
Anyhow, now that you have stock backup, aren't you going to consider flashing cm10 internally? Do you actually use stock?
Sent from my ST27i
I'm a little leery of it, at least while it's under warranty. I don't know how reliable recovery is.? Besides, my daughter wasn't thrilled with it being down for several days with me fussing with it and asked if she could have her "B&N boot" back I admit It is a bit of a pain having to pull it out of it's case, lift the flap, pop-in or out the sdcard to switch between them. (& also to have to remember to always turn it off b4 removing/inserting)
I may do it in the future though. Thanks for the help
FWIW, you don't have to actually remove the card to boot into stock. Just reboot, hold "n" to get into Cyaonoboot menu and choos "int boot" or something like that, and it will boot to stock with the sd-card still inserted.
Great, thanks for that tip!
Card died
I think many of these symptoms could have been caused by a dying card. It did have a corruption error once, and then it finally completely died. Just for anyone else that runs into these.
baytee said:
Well, backing up, I think, was a good suggestion by Digimax. So I'm glad I did it. and now i know how to do it for future. Just in case anything EVER goes wrong, I'll always have that image now on my pc. Bad thing was, apparently B&N nook OS apparently keeps lots of APKs around after installing them. I had to make my 1st fat32 partition over 2GB for the entire backup to process without running out of space. backup size=1.6gb
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FWIW, /cache does not need to be backed up, which should help reduce the backup space requirement.
Hey guys,
My AT&T Galaxy SII has been working fine on UnNamed 2.2.1 for probably 9 months or more, but I just ran into a weird issue today. After sending a text to someone and hitting the on/off button to turn the screen off, the phone restarted, and now refuses to boot past the Samsung screen. It'll stay on it for 5-10 seconds, go black for a few seconds, and repeat.
I can get into recovery, tried wiping cache, dalvik cache, fix permissions, and it still does the same thing. Fix permissions took quite a while and didn't work the first time. Or I just got impatient. But it worked the second time and didn't fix anything.
Anyway, I mounted the SD to copy my data from the internal SD card. I haven't run a Titanium Backup in a while though. I know I can fix the phone with ODIN, but I was just hoping someone might have another idea to avoid this and avoid losing settings, text messages, etc.
Thanks!
iceman718 said:
Hey guys,
My AT&T Galaxy SII has been working fine on UnNamed 2.2.1 for probably 9 months or more, but I just ran into a weird issue today. After sending a text to someone and hitting the on/off button to turn the screen off, the phone restarted, and now refuses to boot past the Samsung screen. It'll stay on it for 5-10 seconds, go black for a few seconds, and repeat.
I can get into recovery, tried wiping cache, dalvik cache, fix permissions, and it still does the same thing. Fix permissions took quite a while and didn't work the first time. Or I just got impatient. But it worked the second time and didn't fix anything.
Anyway, I mounted the SD to copy my data from the internal SD card. I haven't run a Titanium Backup in a while though. I know I can fix the phone with ODIN, but I was just hoping someone might have another idea to avoid this and avoid losing settings, text messages, etc.
Thanks!
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If you can get into recovery, does that mean you can complete a nandroid backup? There's actually an option in Titanium Backup to extract apps from a nandroid backup and restore them in Titanium.
My other thought is a handy little app called Nandroid Manager, which you can find on the Play Store. With it you can restore SMS+MMS messages from a nandroid backup. It also has an option for restoring Apps+App Data, but it doesn't seem as stable as the Titanium option.
As for system settings, I'm afraid you're going to have to set those up again after you wipe and reflash your rom.
Speaking of wiping and flashing...have you considered trying a newer rom? Maybe a Jellybean one?
EDIT: By the way, you don't need to use Odin to flash. Just place the rom .zip on your SD card, and wipe and flash using CWM Recovery.
Nice!
That's one option I had never explored in CWM recovery. Duh. Thanks.
Backing up now.
I guess it is about time to update the ROM. Any suggestions for a current super stable one? Takes a while to read through the last 10 or so pages of all the ROM threads to find out what issues people are having or if it's good to go.
Update:
"Error while making a backup image of /data!"
What all will be lost if I don't have that? Boot image, recovery image, and system backed up correctly.
Edit: might have been due to low disk space - removing a bunch of non essential stuff and will retry.
iceman718 said:
Nice!
That's one option I had never explored in CWM recovery. Duh. Thanks.
Backing up now.
I guess it is about time to update the ROM. Any suggestions for a current super stable one? Takes a while to read through the last 10 or so pages of all the ROM threads to find out what issues people are having or if it's good to go.
Update:
"Error while making a backup image of /data!"
What all will be lost if I don't have that? Boot image, recovery image, and system backed up correctly.
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Are you backing up to internal storage or SD card? Make sure you have about 2GB free on the one you're using, and try it again. If that doesn't work, let me know.
As for a good rom, it depends on what you want. As far as Touchwiz Jellybean, I don't think there's much out there better than ShoStock3. I'm an AOSP man myself, so I prefer SlimBean personally. Task's AOKP is also excellent.
I had selected "backup" which I assume after reading your post is to internal storage, not internal SD card. There was 890MB free on it, and now after trying the backup, it's completely full.
When selecting backup to internal SD card, I get a "Can't mount backup path" error, regardless of if I have /sdcard mounted or unmounted.
After deleting some stuff, it now has plenty of space when I choose the regular backup option. We'll see if it works this time.
iceman718 said:
I had selected "backup" which I assume after reading your post is to internal storage, not internal SD card. There was 890MB free on it, and now after trying the backup, it's completely full.
When selecting backup to internal SD card, I get a "Can't mount backup path" error, regardless of if I have /sdcard mounted or unmounted.
After deleting some stuff, it now has plenty of space when I choose the regular backup option. We'll see if it works this time.
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I've never seen that error before. Hopefully it just works this time.
Even with almost 9 gigs free, it failed to backup /data.
Any other ideas?
iceman718 said:
Even with almost 9 gigs free, it failed to backup /data.
Any other ideas?
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Yeah, you can try a different kernel, with a newer version of CWM. I would try the latest AJK. As an ICS/Jellybean kernel, you won't be able to use it to boot up, but you'll still be able to boot into recovery and back up/wipe/flash.
Backing up using AJK now. Hopefully this works.
Thanks for your help so far.
Ok backup was successful. Sweet! So now I can just install a ROM of my choice and restore using TiBu or the other app you mentioned?
iceman718 said:
Backing up using AJK now. Hopefully this works.
Thanks for your help so far.
Ok backup was successful. Sweet! So now I can just install a ROM of my choice and restore using TiBu or the other app you mentioned?
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Yes. Just make sure you do a full wipe first. Wipe data/factory reset, clear dalvik cache, format /system. Then flash away!
Sent from my SGH-I777 using xda premium
I've read some other posts where this has caused a certain amount of controversy but no post seemed to actually answer the question..
Using the Wipe data\Factory reset in ClockWorkMod Recovery has started to wipe the ENTIRE device
(excluding the external SD card)
I have flashed dozens of custom ROMs in the past and what normally happens is my external SD card contents remains safe, this still happens, no problem there, and all my personal documents such as music, pictures, videos and all other files that are not part of the actual ROM itself remain safe too.
BUT
Yesterday, i flashed a certain ROM designed to resemble the S4 (with leaked 4.2.2). Its performance was shockingly bad and other reasons caused me to flash a new ROM which i had used in the past - but when i wiped data/factory reset through CWM - ALL MY INTERNAL SD CONTENTS WHERE GONE
Things i did notice with the 4.2.2 ROM before re-flashing were that:
-When i connected it to the computer (via USB) my device was seen as i9500 (the S4)
-Also, it had created a "0\" folderto store the system ROM.
-I also noticed, wehn re-flashing, it took longer to wipe data than usual..
NOTE: I DID NOT USE THE FACTORY RESET THROUGH ANDROID SETTINGS - THIS, I KNOW, WILL WIPE THE ENTIRE INTERNAL SD, PERSONAL FILES AND ALL. THIS WAS DONE THROUGH CWM.
Because obviously the 4.2.2 ROM wiped my entire Internal SD i had no ROM packages left on it to flash and because obviously i didnt know this until i wiped/reset it involved me having to use ODIN to reflash a STOCK ROM just to be able to boot up and transfer files (ROM packages) from PC to phone - which obviously then meant i had to reflash CWM aswell before i could install the new ROM.
Final Note:
The problem i have, is that i have to do the above EVERYTIME i want to flash a different ROM (i flashed 3 last night).
For some reason when i wipe through CWM my internal SD card is COMPLETELY WIPED!
The question is......Why???
Could the 4.2.2 ROM have re-partitioned my internal SD card and now CWM thinks the ENTIRE thing is data to wipe?
This is the only reasoning i could put to why it wont leave MY FILES alone...
If this IS the case, how do i get it back to normal??
I'm told, on numerous websites in BIG BOLD RED LETTERS that selecting 're-partition' in ODIN is bad and is just a ticket for a free paperwieght (the phone!).
Thank you to ANYONE who can help with this......
The clue may be in the 0 folder. Please read link in my signature to see if it helps
Sent from my GT-I9300 using Tapatalk 2
rootSU said:
The clue may be in the 0 folder. Please read link in my signature to see if it helps
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Thanks for your help, however the info you suggested does not solve my query..
The info you've provided assumes that the data is stored somewhere else, ie. 0\
Although my device did create a 0\ location when wiping the data, no personal data was in this location.
When i flashed back to stock using Odin, i could see that my phones internal storage was only 1.0-1.5GB used.
Before i started this i only had about 900mb left on my device!
So its not that my data is hiding somewhere.....its gone, and everything on my hones internal storgare is wiped everytime i "wipe data/factory reset" through CWM.
Okay so I think I've f***ed up pretty big somehow.
I wanted to install a custom ROM (neatrom) on my phone and followed every guide on how to do so.
I backed up my EFS folder made a titanium backup, Clockwork mod back up, did all my contacts and sms separately and made a copy of all these on my laptop.
I copied the new rom onto my interal sd card, then performed wipedata/factory reset, then wipe cache, wipe davlik cache, format system.
Went to install my new rom and came up with the message (while still in recovery mode) "error status 7, installation aborted"
I thought it best to abandon this therefore as i'm not majorly clued up on flashing ROMs and so went to restore my origional backed up ROM but i'm now getting the message 'no files found' when I select it.
I am now completely stuck and cannot get out of recovery mode even when I take out the battery.
Can someone please help and if you could dim down the really technical stuff it would be greatly appreciated.
Many thanks in advance!
jtaylor_94 said:
Okay so I think I've f***ed up pretty big somehow.
I wanted to install a custom ROM (neatrom) on my phone and followed every guide on how to do so.
I backed up my EFS folder made a titanium backup, Clockwork mod back up, did all my contacts and sms separately and made a copy of all these on my laptop.
I copied the new rom onto my interal sd card, then performed wipedata/factory reset, then wipe cache, wipe davlik cache, format system.
Went to install my new rom and came up with the message (while still in recovery mode) "error status 7, installation aborted"
I thought it best to abandon this therefore as i'm not majorly clued up on flashing ROMs and so went to restore my origional backed up ROM but i'm now getting the message 'no files found' when I select it.
I am now completely stuck and cannot get out of recovery mode even when I take out the battery.
Can someone please help and if you could dim down the really technical stuff it would be greatly appreciated.
Many thanks in advance!
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Hi there. Don't panic! I'm assuming you have either an S2 or S3 since you are trying to run NeatRom. As many details about your phone and what software was on it before you started is always very important. However, this should be easy enough. First thing, if you just need it up and running again ASAP then grab an external SD card, copy the backups from the computer to it and reboot recovery and restore from external.
Status 7 issues often are due to checks in the update script that checks the build.prop of your system to see if it is compatible. If you have wiped /system then it can not read the build.prop so just assumes that it isn't going to work for your safety. So, how to fix that? Follow this guide as a general rule of thumb: http://highonandroid.com/android-roms/how-to-fix-status-7-error-with-cwm-recovery-on-rooted-android/
If you do not have an external SD card, then you will have to get adb up and running so you can push files via adb to the phone. I won't bother explaining this unless it is needed.