I was planning on flashing my phone to the Charmeleon rom. I had TWRP installed and was ready to go. I wiped the system (rom) and when I went to install the new one (which I had an external sd card, it's not showing up. My phone will not start because I wiped the stock rom. I have no idea why my the file is not being detected. The sd card is showing up as ext-sd but nothing is showing up in the folder, but when I put it in my computer it is. I did not save a backup. Someone please help me figuring this out.
Sorry guys, I feel stupid. I've been within TWRP for 2 hours trying to figure out what happened and of course as soon as I post this I finally stumble on the problem. I had to go into something and actually select to use the sd card. Thanks to everyone who was going to offer help.
You can try a factory reset. I don't think wiping the system partition affects the ability to restore the installed ROM but it's entirely possible I'm wrong. Worth a shot.
With the file not showing on your sd card in TWRP, is it a .zip file? I think recoveries can only see .zip files and I might have read that there's an issue if a file is named xxxxzip.zip. might try renaming it on your computer and copying it back to your sd card.
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I am rooting my daughters Droid Eris. I used the app from the market and flashed Cyanogen 7. Everything went well until I tried to start restoring her apps and found that the phone is saying there is no sd card. When I go into setting to mount it it is greyed out and wont do anything. the gallery and rom manager also say there is no sd card. the card I am using is not partitioned. I tried taking a partitioned sd out of my old Cliq and putting it in and then it says it has a unsupported system or something like that but I did notice that the mount sd in settings was no longer greyed out. If I reboot into recovery it will recognize the card because it lists what is on it. I have searched everything I can find and cant find any answers. Oh, also, when I plug in the usb to the computer it does nothing then either. Any Ideas??
Go into recovery since her phone can read the card from there and reformat the card. You may also want to wipe data and dalvik and reflash the rom to be on the safe side.
Make sure that you backup anything currently on the SD card before formatting it, which you can do from the usb-ms toggle option in recovery. You will need to copy the rom file back to the phone after formatting the card which can be done from this option as well.
There should be an android.secured folder on the SD card. Delete that. You don't want it on there so make sure you don't copy it back to the card (it will come back after the first boot and it can then be left alone, I like to delete mine before each flash though to avoid possible problems.)
EDIT - DONT FORGET TO FLASH GAPPS RIGHT AFTER FLASH THE ROM! ALL CM7 ROMS REQUIRE THIS!
Let me know if you have any problems
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I cannot do anything to get my phone out of this bootloop that it is in. I am running senseless rom from scottsrom. I did a fix permissions in rom manager and now i cannot get it out of this loop. I pulled everything out and restarted it, no sd card, no sim card, back is off. Its still bootlooping. pleaseeee help.. any suggestions?
with the sd card out i can get past the bootloader screen and into amon ra recovery, but no sd card means its pointless. Still bootloops though. If i have it in its asking me to update, but i dont remember leaving anything on the root of the sd card. I dont know whats going on here.
If the only thing you need to do is remove a file from the SD card, then you can use an adapter and delete it using your computer, or just borrow a buddy's phone and insert the card and delete it there. Worst case, you buy yourself a new blank SD card and copy the folder (with full path) for your nandroid backups over to the new card and try restoring a backup.
If those recommendations at not helpful, you can do a lot from ADB. I recommend following some of the available processes in the development section to reinstall the appropriate kernel (boot.img).
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aye, thanks man. atm im at work and dont have access to another sd card or anyones phone that can get to the root of the sd card.
Okay, this is quite a long story, so I apologise in advance.
I decided to update my Galaxy S2 today to a newer ROM (SuperNexus 2) with the latest version of Android. I was coming from a CM9 build. I went through the usual process of backing up data and performing a full NANDROID backup via CWM Recovery, booted the phone again and transferred the backups to my PC via USB. These files transferred fine.
I then downloaded the zip files for the new ROM and proceeded to copy them to the internal storage of my phone. The copy dialog in Windows said that it was "discovering items" and stayed like this until I turned off USB transfer mode on the phone and removed it (ie. the files failed to copy) This happened a number of times and I didn't get anywhere. I have plenty of space free on the SD card, but just to make sure I started the phone in CWM again and formatted the SD card, and since I was going to do it anyway, the data and cache partitions too. When I booted the phone again, the files still wouldn't copy. I managed to copy a text file to the phone which was about 32kb but anything larger just seemed to fail.
I then went back into CWM and decided to partition the SD card, as I thought that it may have been corrupted somehow and needed to rebuild the filesystem. This however, caused even more problems as trying to format the SD card (In CWM) now just reported "Error, can not mount E:/sdcard".
Feeling fairly frustrated, I decided to download the Stock ICS ROM for the Galaxy S2 and install it via Odin, thinking that the problem was probably with CWM. The install went fine, but upon reboot the phone just stayed on the boot animation, no matter how long I left it. To make sure the install went smoothly I decided to try and reinstall the Stock ROM via Odin again, but now Odin didnt seem to get past the "Initializing.." stage.
So all in all, I now have a phone which wont boot into Android, cant copy anything to internal storage, and Odin wont seem to connect to.
I am convinced this is a software issue and therefore fixable. But maybe the internal storage was not working correctly in the first place. I have installed many ROMs before and never had such issues.
Anyone know anything about this or how I could potentially fix it? Thanks so much in advance!
Benji1992 said:
Okay, this is quite a long story, so I apologise in advance.
I decided to update my Galaxy S2 today to a newer ROM (SuperNexus 2) with the latest version of Android. I was coming from a CM9 build. I went through the usual process of backing up data and performing a full NANDROID backup via CWM Recovery, booted the phone again and transferred the backups to my PC via USB. These files transferred fine.
I then downloaded the zip files for the new ROM and proceeded to copy them to the internal storage of my phone. The copy dialog in Windows said that it was "discovering items" and stayed like this until I turned off USB transfer mode on the phone and removed it (ie. the files failed to copy) This happened a number of times and I didn't get anywhere. I have plenty of space free on the SD card, but just to make sure I started the phone in CWM again and formatted the SD card, and since I was going to do it anyway, the data and cache partitions too. When I booted the phone again, the files still wouldn't copy. I managed to copy a text file to the phone which was about 32kb but anything larger just seemed to fail.
I then went back into CWM and decided to partition the SD card, as I thought that it may have been corrupted somehow and needed to rebuild the filesystem. This however, caused even more problems as trying to format the SD card (In CWM) now just reported "Error, can not mount E:/sdcard".
Feeling fairly frustrated, I decided to download the Stock ICS ROM for the Galaxy S2 and install it via Odin, thinking that the problem was probably with CWM. The install went fine, but upon reboot the phone just stayed on the boot animation, no matter how long I left it. To make sure the install went smoothly I decided to try and reinstall the Stock ROM via Odin again, but now Odin didnt seem to get past the "Initializing.." stage.
So all in all, I now have a phone which wont boot into Android, cant copy anything to internal storage, and Odin wont seem to connect to.
I am convinced this is a software issue and therefore fixable. But maybe the internal storage was not working correctly in the first place. I have installed many ROMs before and never had such issues.
Anyone know anything about this or how I could potentially fix it? Thanks so much in advance!
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I9100?
Can get to DL mode?
Can get to recovery?
Get an older Odin version and flash siyah just to see if it can be flashed again.
If you can get to recovery, Nuke Script is the way to go.
It sounds to me that maybe your memory is corrupt...
Not just yet, smells like soft brick.
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I was running Jasmine 5.0 with the 5.0.1 update, had no issues, was running perfectly with no FC's, no bugs, and I knew there was about to be a 5.0.2 update.. So I decided to prep for the update and create a backup in TWRP and have it saved to the ext-sd. My phone was connected to the computer, charging, and I rebooted into recovery, created a backup and when it was almost finished it went to backup the boot image, it said it failed. So I wiped caches, and rebooted just fine. I then downloaded the 5.0.2 update, and when I went to move it from the computer to the ext-sd card, I noticed that it didn't recognize my external sd card anymore. Both the computer and multiple file explorer apps on my phone can't read my ext-sd card anymore. But the weird thing is, when I am in recovery, TWRP recognizes my external sd card and even let me restore a backup perfectly.. (so it's not corrupt) So I then tried to factory reset, format data and restore a backup from my external sd card, which worked and rebooted just fine. But both my phone and computer still don't recognize my external sd card.. I have tried flashing the sd card fix permissions file and still no luck.. If anyone has any pointers or help, please let me know. I have a 64gb sd card that has all my important and needed ROOT information for the slight chance that I bootloop or softbrick my phone.. All information needed is on it!
Thanks for the help, if you took the time to read this I greatly appreciate it.
pahlerc1 said:
I was running Jasmine 5.0 with the 5.0.1 update, had no issues, was running perfectly with no FC's, no bugs, and I knew there was about to be a 5.0.2 update.. So I decided to prep for the update and create a backup in TWRP and have it saved to the ext-sd. My phone was connected to the computer, charging, and I rebooted into recovery, created a backup and when it was almost finished it went to backup the boot image, it said it failed. So I wiped caches, and rebooted just fine. I then downloaded the 5.0.2 update, and when I went to move it from the computer to the ext-sd card, I noticed that it didn't recognize my external sd card anymore. Both the computer and multiple file explorer apps on my phone can't read my ext-sd card anymore. But the weird thing is, when I am in recovery, TWRP recognizes my external sd card and even let me restore a backup perfectly.. (so it's not corrupt) So I then tried to factory reset, format data and restore a backup from my external sd card, which worked and rebooted just fine. But both my phone and computer still don't recognize my external sd card.. I have tried flashing the sd card fix permissions file and still no luck.. If anyone has any pointers or help, please let me know. I have a 64gb sd card that has all my important and needed ROOT information for the slight chance that I bootloop or softbrick my phone.. All information needed is on it!
Thanks for the help, if you took the time to read this I greatly appreciate it.
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https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=nextapp.sdfix
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2777756
The ROM to my tablet (which is this exact model) is corrupted and will only boot into the recovery mode but I can't find a ROM for it anywhere. Any way I can get the system.tar, boot.img, and recovery.img that this person posted and make a working ROM out of it? Searches have come up pretty dry. I tried contacting him but no response. I already tried clearing out the cache and factory resetting it, it keeps going into recovery mode so I know it's a problem with the ROM.
Is that a no? I could really use some help here since my tablet is basically useless in its current form.
Todd_Blauer said:
Is that a no? I could really use some help here since my tablet is basically useless in its current form.
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are you on a custom recovery ex twrp/cwm. and does your tab have a external micro sd card slot
if you are, make a backup to your external micro sd.
pull out your sd put it into your computer copy the files you posted from the other guys thread into your external sd in the twrp/backup/####/corressponding folders to the files you posted. put your card back in. go to twrp restore that backup. then wipe cache/delvik cache/ and data then reboot.(do not use the recovery .img he posted)
No custom recovery, this is the standard Android recovery menu Would that change anything or can I still pretty much do it as you described? It has an external micro sd card slot of course.
Anyone who is able to help me? I honestly looked everywhere for a recovery ROM for this thing but the only people I've found who actually have the tablet are also having problems with it. I'm beginning to think RCA is garbage when it comes to tablets. It was going great until that firmware update screwed everything up.