Hello!
My GT-i9100T is my first android phone, I've been using for two months and I love it. This afternoon I decided to root my phone (I have never rooted or installed a custom ROM on this phone before) using this method, and I downloaded all the files and followed all instructions. When I selected 'apply update from external storage' it took a little while and gave me this error: 'E:unable to mount /sdcard (No such file or Directory)'.
I searched online but I couldn't find anything helpful but I did factory reset my phone and yet it still didn't work. Can anyone help me?
Kohaeb said:
Hello!
My GT-i9100T is my first android phone, I've been using for two months and I love it. This afternoon I decided to root my phone (I have never rooted or installed a custom ROM on this phone before) using this method, and I downloaded all the files and followed all instructions. When I selected 'apply update from external storage' it took a little while and gave me this error: 'E:unable to mount /sdcard (No such file or Directory)'.
I searched online but I couldn't find anything helpful but I did factory reset my phone and yet it still didn't work. Can anyone help me?
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i think u should have put the files in ur internal sdcard not external, please check by doing so and see
ps - alternatively u can put the file's in ur cache folder and select 2 install the same from cache in recovery and see
Thanks for the swift reply!
I don't have an external SD card and I've never used one.
EDIT: I can't do that because the cache folder is inaccessible.
Kohaeb said:
Thanks for the swift reply!
I don't have an external SD card and I've never used one.
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then try the alternative ie cache folder option and see, since the cwm .zip does require an extsd since thats the one giving u the error while updating if i am correct
Kohaeb said:
Hello!
My GT-i9100T is my first android phone, I've been using for two months and I love it. This afternoon I decided to root my phone (I have never rooted or installed a custom ROM on this phone before) using this method, and I downloaded all the files and followed all instructions. When I selected 'apply update from external storage' it took a little while and gave me this error: 'E:unable to mount /sdcard (No such file or Directory)'.
I searched online but I couldn't find anything helpful but I did factory reset my phone and yet it still didn't work. Can anyone help me?
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You need a physical external sdcard in order for this to work.
If you're in need of root just flash a CF-Root kernel..
victorator said:
You need a physical external sdcard in order for this to work.
If you're in need of root just flash a CF-Root kernel..
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It's official, I'm a moron. I understand now!
Kohaeb said:
It's official, I'm a moron. I understand now!
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@ xda there ar always people 2 help u if the issue is resolved
please put this on ur original post " ISSUE RESOLVED THANKS "
Sun90 said:
@ xda there ar always people 2 help u if the issue is resolved
please put this on ur original post " ISSUE RESOLVED THANKS "
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Why? And you didn't exactly help by giving him the wrong information. Quite the opposite in fact. On the plus side, you've been thanked not once, but twice for giving that wrong information. Excellent.
So, i have a huge problem. My tab's internal storage is being used by something unknown to me.
After looking around on the forums and the allmighty internet, I found the app called "DiskUsage" to help me narrow down the search for the mystical black hole in my storage.
What i find is nearly 15gb of space being eaten by "System Data". I attempted to look for files that could be using the space but failed to do so.
I then went on to format the entire tablet in CWM (system/sd-card etc) and again opened the DiskUsage app to see if anything changed. Links to the pictures are in the attatchment.
Does anyone have any idea on how I find and get rid of whats clugging my system?
Thanks in advance,
- Nicklas
I'm sorry for this shameless bump. But anyone have a single clue on how I can fix this?
And here's another one. I really can't find the answer anywhere. Anyone have a single clue?
Flash a stock rom with odin and perform a wipe from the stock recovery. You may have to use a pit file also.
Sent from my amazing 10.1 galaxy tab
I have eaten space too like you, i looked that when i installed CM 10 unofficial version it seems that doesnt erase at all when i did a wipe factory reset probablly you have the apps that you had In the last room, i dont know how to fix it..
Panos_dm said:
Flash a stock rom with odin and perform a wipe from the stock recovery. You may have to use a pit file also.
Sent from my amazing 10.1 galaxy tab
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Going to attempt this and see what happens. Hopefully it works out!
That did the trick! Thanks alot!!
In the future, check if you have a folder on sdcard labeled: LOST.DIR. I am not sure exactly what it is for, but I had one taking up almost 6gb on my phone a few months back, and after doing some research discovered that it basically contains "lost" files and is completely safe to delete. I backed it up to my computer just in case. On my Tab, I have the same folder, but it was only a few kb in size, so I haven't messed with it.
I am a noob and I am not a developer or even really great at programming or PC's in general.
I've managed to mess up my phone and have been looking all over the web for how to fix it and I am at a loss.
I decided to register and ask for help. Please be patient and understanding if I ask a lot of questions or don't understand things you accept as basic, understood or common. I looked through existing threads for help and couldn't find the answer I needed. Many thanks in advance for the help. Readers digest of the issue below.
Samsung Galaxy S 4G. T-Mobile. T959V5B5-Custom.
I tried the non-mandatory firmware update from T-mobile and it wrecked the functionality of my phone. I tried to go back with a couple new Rom versions and think I more or less ended up with three roms installed on my internal storage which has given me basically no space which was never an issue for me before. I have used a disk viewer to verify there is unmounted data that is taking up space but I can't figure out how to get to it through the phone or my pc to delete it. I assume if I do this that the empty space will be absorbed and fix the internal storage issue.
Again, thank you for taking the time to read and respond. I love my phone and just want it working right again.
JBMFT said:
I am a noob and I am not a developer or even really great at programming or PC's in general.
I've managed to mess up my phone and have been looking all over the web for how to fix it and I am at a loss.
I decided to register and ask for help. Please be patient and understanding if I ask a lot of questions or don't understand things you accept as basic, understood or common. I looked through existing threads for help and couldn't find the answer I needed. Many thanks in advance for the help. Readers digest of the issue below.
Samsung Galaxy S 4G. T-Mobile. T959V5B5-Custom.
I tried the non-mandatory firmware update from T-mobile and it wrecked the functionality of my phone. I tried to go back with a couple new Rom versions and think I more or less ended up with three roms installed on my internal storage which has given me basically no space which was never an issue for me before. I have used a disk viewer to verify there is unmounted data that is taking up space but I can't figure out how to get to it through the phone or my pc to delete it. I assume if I do this that the empty space will be absorbed and fix the internal storage issue.
Again, thank you for taking the time to read and respond. I love my phone and just want it working right again.
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The course of action I would recommend at this point is using a tool called Odin to re-flash the stock ROM to your phone. I would recommend taking a look at this guide for the step-by-step procedure on how to do this. Let me know if you still have questions .
shimp208 said:
The course of action I would recommend at this point is using a tool called Odin to re-flash the stock ROM to your phone. I would recommend taking a look at this guide for the step-by-step procedure on how to do this. Let me know if you still have questions .
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Hey! Big thanks for the reply. Here come the questions...
I used Odin to put the other OS versions on the phone so I am familiar with the software though its been several months. I also still have the ROM that I flashed to phone. I am curious though that if it didn't wipe the previous partitions last time, what would keep it from doing the same thing this time and really messing me up? Or did I click or not click something in Odin or use the wrong option and doing it differently this time would fix the problem?
I located the files on the phone and have verified they are not mounted and looked at their size using DiskInfo. They are located at "/dev/block". Do you know what this is or why they are there? I can delete them using ES File Explorer with SuperUser. Is it ok to delete these and would I get the benefit of increased storage by doing so? I played around with moving them to the SD card and didn't see an increase in my internal storage but was afraid that a reboot after doing to might be bad.
Can you tell I am a little gun shy?
Here are the names of the files, the set starting with t starts at 0 and goes to 12 and the other 1 to 12.
tsfr0-tfsr12
bml1-bml12
Thanks again!
JBMFT said:
Hey! Big thanks for the reply. Here come the questions...
I used Odin to put the other OS versions on the phone so I am familiar with the software though its been several months. I also still have the ROM that I flashed to phone. I am curious though that if it didn't wipe the previous partitions last time, what would keep it from doing the same thing this time and really messing me up? Or did I click or not click something in Odin or use the wrong option and doing it differently this time would fix the problem?
I located the files on the phone and have verified they are not mounted and looked at their size using DiskInfo. They are located at "/dev/block". Do you know what this is or why they are there? I can delete them using ES File Explorer with SuperUser. Is it ok to delete these and would I get the benefit of increased storage by doing so? I played around with moving them to the SD card and didn't see an increase in my internal storage but was afraid that a reboot after doing to might be bad.
Can you tell I am a little gun shy?
Here are the names of the files, the set starting with t starts at 0 and goes to 12 and the other 1 to 12.
tsfr0-tfsr12
bml1-bml12
Thanks again!
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Using Odin to re-flash the stock ROM will automatically setup the right configuration for. Do Not delete the files in /dev/block these are critical to the phones operation and part of the phones normal partitioning and operation as previously stated deleting these will cause a lot of problems if you delete them. If you really want to free up some internal storage space I would recommend deleting the carrier pre-installed bloatware, before you delete any bloatware makesure to backup the apps you deleted with Titanium Backup or a similar backup or flash Clockworkmod Recovery or Team Win Recovery Project and make a Nandroid Backup which is a complete backup of your phone. And don't worry about being gun shy we are all beginners at some point the only real way to become an expert if practice, practice, practice .
So I am working on the Heimdall One-Click.
Handshaking with loke, got no response. FML.
Help.
Edited: Apparently a low battery is not your friend...
after a little reading around on the net I tried a different one and BAM.
Back to stock. We'll see how this goes.
Being rooted with superuser had me spoiled...so much bloatware.
Hey, I just flashed my htc one phone using this tutorial http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2273376.
The problem is my phone starts up fine but I cant acess any of my internal storage through my pc. I also check in my storage are in my settions on my phone and it says unavaliable for my storage. I really need help solving this problem because ive tried everything and nothing seems to work. Im trying to flash using another rom but I cant access my files whatsoever so if anyone knows what is going on please help.
Thanks.
SOLVEDDDDD!
How did you solve it? I have the same issue and would like to avoid flashing another Rom just to move the data and then flashing back.
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How did you solve this? I have the same issue and its causing me many problems with critical apps that need access to storage like the camera and dropbox..
Resolution would be helpful if posted
I've just flashed to the Bulletproof kernel and am experiencing no access to my sdcard therefore several features of my phone will not work. I cannot save files to the sdcard either but can view folders from my Windows computer. In recovery I can however browse to the sdcard but cannot save files when in recovery to the phone.
I've attempted to fix permissions and have wiped my phone countless times but am still having the issue. Any help on how it was resolved would be very much appreciated.
Thanks!!
For anyone who had the same problem as me. Follow this link and it will help you get through it.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2317985
Works!
Awesome. Totally worked. Thanks!
ultrav33 said:
For anyone who had the same problem as me. Follow this link and it will help you get through it.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2317985
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Hello.
My s3 recently stopped working and it ill only go up to the samsung logo and stay there. (this issue happened right after the battery was completley drained using the led...)
I've tried countless times to reinstall the rom i had, update it to a newer version of the same rom and even go back to an old version i still had on my SD card. I used the Archidroid 2.5.2 at the time and with the setting f2fs (and agni kernel if im not mistaken)
since then, i tried to change the file format back to ext4, ofcourse with full wipes, and change any other possible configuration on the setup of the rom. After all of these tries failed, i assumed i could just go and use Odin to install some stock firmware (following some advices i found here on the forums), and everything seemed to worked perfectly. Odin recognizes the phone, and it finishes the flashing with a big green happy PASS!. However, the phone still sits there at the samsung logo and just chills...
Tried to flash different stock ROMs and even tried to flash the rescue firmware from this link (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=30087735&postcount=6) which again, seemed to work, but stayed in the samsung logo.
i kinda lost hope, although it seems the phone still can be saved (can access recovery and odin)...
i'd really appreciate the help!
also, i am kinda noobie in this and might need simpler words to understand.
Thanks alot!
Yair
YairMS said:
Hello.
My s3 recently stopped working and it ill only go up to the samsung logo and stay there. (this issue happened right after the battery was completley drained using the led...)
I've tried countless times to reinstall the rom i had, update it to a newer version of the same rom and even go back to an old version i still had on my SD card. I used the Archidroid 2.5.2 at the time and with the setting f2fs (and agni kernel if im not mistaken)
since then, i tried to change the file format back to ext4, ofcourse with full wipes, and change any other possible configuration on the setup of the rom. After all of these tries failed, i assumed i could just go and use Odin to install some stock firmware (following some advices i found here on the forums), and everything seemed to worked perfectly. Odin recognizes the phone, and it finishes the flashing with a big green happy PASS!. However, the phone still sits there at the samsung logo and just chills...
Tried to flash different stock ROMs and even tried to flash the rescue firmware from this link (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=30087735&postcount=6) which again, seemed to work, but stayed in the samsung logo.
i kinda lost hope, although it seems the phone still can be saved (can access recovery and odin)...
i'd really appreciate the help!
also, i am kinda noobie in this and might need simpler words to understand.
Thanks alot!
Yair
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Do any error messages appear when you boot your phone into stock recovery?
ArkThompson said:
Do any error messages appear when you boot your phone into stock recovery?
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thanks for the quick reply!
when i go to recovery mode it says:
failed to mount /efs (invalid argument)
failed to mount /efs (invalid argument)
(yea, twice)
any idea?
YairMS said:
thanks for the quick reply!
when i go to recovery mode it says:
failed to mount /efs (invalid argument)
failed to mount /efs (invalid argument)
(yea, twice)
any idea?
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Do you have an efs backup? (AGNi makes them when you flash it but since you formatted /data/media multiple times I assume they are gone).
ArkThompson said:
Do you have an efs backup? (AGNi makes them when you flash it but since you formatted /data/media multiple times I assume they are gone).
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i have no idea how to check whether or not i have...
Go read the efs sticky thread in general forum, your phone will not boot without it being restored.
YairMS said:
i have no idea how to check whether or not i have...
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Have you ever flashed boeffla kernel with an external SD card inserted?
ArkThompson said:
Have you ever flashed boeffla kernel with an external SD card inserted?
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yes, i suppose... i dont really remember what exactly happend with the phone, through all stages of its life, but the name sure rings a bell (from before this horrible incident).
do you think it is possible to do something with the SD card?
about the efs sticky, looking for it, but so far not finding it... (might be to dumb for this )
YairMS said:
yes, i suppose... i dont really remember what exactly happend with the phone, through all stages of its life, but the name sure rings a bell (from before this horrible incident).
do you think it is possible to do something with the SD card?
about the efs sticky, looking for it, but so far not finding it... (might be to dumb for this )
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Do you have any way to mount the external SD? (E.g. an adapter, or by flashing a custom recovery and mounting it that way). It's possible that you have an efs backup on it.
ArkThompson said:
Do you have any way to mount the external SD? (E.g. an adapter, or by flashing a custom recovery and mounting it that way). It's possible that you have an efs backup on it.
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Well, im not exactly 100% sure what do you mean by mounting... but if i go to the recovery i have, cwm if im not mistaken, i can go to mount and storage and then press mount external_sd and it seems to work (changes to unmount and doesnt say any error occured).
also, i can connect the card itself to my pc using a micro sd to mini sd adaptor...
is it of any help?
YairMS said:
Well, im not exactly 100% sure what do you mean by mounting... but if i go to the recovery i have, cwm if im not mistaken, i can go to mount and storage and then press mount external_sd and it seems to work (changes to unmount and doesnt say any error occured).
also, i can connect the card itself to my pc using a micro sd to mini sd adaptor...
is it of any help?
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Yes, by mount I mean get it to display its contents on your computer. Is there anything with efs in its name on the card?
ArkThompson said:
Yes, by mount I mean get it to display its contents on your computer. Is there anything with efs in its name on the card?
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Did a search over my sd card for "efs" and "*efs*" and found nothing :/
i have at home another s3... is it possible to backup efs there and restore to this one?
YairMS said:
Did a search over my sd card for "efs" and "*efs*" and found nothing :/
i have at home another s3... is it possible to backup efs there and restore to this one?
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Not practically. The efs folder is kind of like the social security number of your phone so every folder is unique.
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Not practically. The efs folder is kind of like the social security number of your phone so every folder is unique.
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Anything else left to do? or should i hand it over to repair service?
YairMS said:
Anything else left to do? or should i hand it over to repair service?
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Hmm, so it didn't boot even when it was 100% stock? You said that you got those error messages in stock recovery but then a few minutes later you said that you had CWM. If so, then you might need to. I found some guides but I can't really vouch for them since I've never had to restore /efs like that, so following them would be at your own risk.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s3/general/ref-imei-efs-stuff-i9300-including-t2393289
http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s3/general/how-to-fix-efailed-to-mount-efs-invalid-t2858056
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Hmm, so it didn't boot even when it was 100% stock? You said that you got those error messages in stock recovery but then a few minutes later you said that you had CWM. If so, then you might need to. I found some guides but I can't really vouch for them since I've never had to restore /efs like that, so following them would be at your own risk.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s3/general/ref-imei-efs-stuff-i9300-including-t2393289
http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s3/general/how-to-fix-efailed-to-mount-efs-invalid-t2858056
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Thanks alot for your time and help, ill look into those guides and see what can be done.
about the recovery... while we were chatting here i was trying a lil guide about that efs issue (didnt know there was an issue with it till you pointed it out, so never looked for it). on that guide i found, it said to install custom recovery, so i installed one i had already on my computer...
about the guides you found, im on it already trying to install that adb stuff and see if something works
anyway, THANKS for your time! although it is still stuck, you helped me alot!!
yair
YairMS said:
Thanks alot for your time and help, ill look into those guides and see what can be done.
about the recovery... while we were chatting here i was trying a lil guide about that efs issue (didnt know there was an issue with it till you pointed it out, so never looked for it). on that guide i found, it said to install custom recovery, so i installed one i had already on my computer...
about the guides you found, im on it already trying to install that adb stuff and see if something works
anyway, THANKS for your time! although it is still stuck, you helped me alot!!
yair
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Ok cool, np. Good luck! Hopefully you can fix it.
Is it possible that it is the gs3 sudden death syndrome? My Samsung galaxy s3 had that during june