So while I was in TWRP I may have tapped mount twice which I believe screwed up my internal storage. Basically now when starting TWRP it says that it cannot mount /sdcard/. If I try to mount using internal storage on my computer it says it is unreadable and sends me to disk utility. I cannot seem to reinstall from my backup located on my external SD card because the internal storage is not readable. I am on hboot 1.15 and I tried the RUU with this and it seemingly was not working. I would love to take it to sprint but I fear they will turn on the phone and see that it says tampered even though it is s-on. Now if I try to boot up it goes through the boot screens and gets to the final "HTC Beats Audio" screen and then shuts itself down and powers up again. Any help would be appreciated. I have my data backed up so I am not worried about saving that. I just want my phone to work again. Any ideas?
Thanks in advance
TL;DR: Phone's internal storage seems corrupted and TWRP can't access it, neither can my computer. RUU doesn't seem to be working. What do I do?
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You can try to wipe the card from recovery, it should be a simple fix. Whether TWRP can read it or not, the card has a physical address that TWRP should be able to see
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You can try to wipe the card from recovery, it should be a simple fix. Whether TWRP can read it or not, the card has a physical address that TWRP should be able to see
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Well specifically under the TWRP dialog it says "E:failed to mount /sdcard (Invalid argument)" and "E: Unable to mount /sdcard when trying to read settings file" also "E:Can't mount /cache/recovery/command"
So when I try to wipe internal storage it says
E:tw_format_rmfr: unable to locate volume for device "/dev/block/mmcblk0
* Verifying filesystems...
* Verifying partition sizes
E: Unable to mount '/cache' (tw_mount)
E:failed to mount /sdcard (invalid argument)
E:failed to mount /sdcard (invalid argument)
E:failed to mount /sdcard (invalid argument)
Thoughts on that?
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Could you extrapolate on this please? Should I post this somewhere else?
Hey may have just posted in the wrong thread lol
Also ouch, the physical address for internal may be shot if TWRP doesn't recognize it. Try fastboot to wipe cache and then I guess you could try adb to wipe sd though its not something I've ever tried so it may not be possible.
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Hey may have just posted in the wrong thread lol
Also ouch, the physical address for internal may be shot
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So what does that mean?
om4 said:
Hey may have just posted in the wrong thread lol
Also ouch, the physical address for internal may be shot
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no this just happen to me bu ti just fixed it in a retarted way in twrp i mounted and then my computer said format then i put a zip file on the internal sd once it get s done formatting and i went to sd card and i was relieved
Why didn't I think of this earlier, if the physical address is bad you could repartition the phone it should wipe everything and rewrite any corrupt or damaged areas
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I love your enthusiasm to prove me wrong but just because windows recognized a corrupt card and was able to reformat does not mean its physical address isn't corrupt. I've had plenty of SD cards that windows could not read that Linux could and vice versa. Not saying I'm right and you're wrong, just stating no and then offering your solution makes me think you are coming off as hostile
slagle96 said:
no this just happen to me bu ti just fixed it in a retarted way in twrp i mounted and then my computer said format then i put a zip file on the internal sd once it get s done formatting and i went to sd card and i was relieved
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Sorry could you please explain this I'm a little lost... thanks
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Why didn't I think of this earlier, if the physical address is bad you could repartition the phone it should wipe everything and rewrite the any corrupt or damaged areas
So how should one go about doing this?
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They are saying to boot to twrp and mount SD card to pc
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They are saying to boot to twrp and mount SD card to pc
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Yea that doesn't work is what I was trying to say. If I mount internal from TWRP I get a prompt saying "You need to format the disk in drive H: before you can use it" with the only two options as "Format Disk" and "Cancel". Should I format it?
Oh, so you were being cautious and searching for other solutions! Finally a user I can admire lol. Make sure it is the right SD card, its OK to format, this is what you have to do when its been corrupted. I misunderstood and thought you said windows would not recognize it at all, I assumed that it was too far gone
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Oh, so you were being cautious and searching for other solutions! Finally a user I can admire lol. Make sure it is the right SD card, its OK to format, this is what you have to do when its been corrupted. I misunderstood and thought you said windows would not recognize it at all, I assumed that it was too far gone
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So should I just press format disk? Or is there something more specific?
thanks for being on top of this too
no just reformat, it will erase all data on the card, all data on the card including apps and any app data will get wiped, but you can easily restore any backed up apps, if you have any further problems with internal like apps fc'ing or the like you can go into recovery and select fix permissions
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no just reformat, it will erase all data on the card, all data on the card including apps and any app data will get wiped, but you can easily restore any backed up apps, if you have any further problems with internal like apps fc'ing or the like you can go into recovery and select fix permissions
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So I take it this gets formatted as FAT (MS-DOS)?
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So I take it this gets formatted as FAT (MS-DOS)?
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you really are cautious, yes reformat as fat32 (fat and fat16 have file size and file name limitations that fat 32 does not) I suggest a quick format just to get the card recognizable again and then reformat the long way, this ensures that anything lingering in the memory that could corrupt the card again is better hidden. I say hidden because each file is given a physical address on the card (hey its written to separate physical parts of the memory right? Are you sticking with me other guy?? Sorry just had to needlessly slam the other guy again) when a file is deleted the information remains but the physical address linking the file is deleted, the information stays on a sector of the memory card until it is overwritten by new data.
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Yea that doesn't work is what I was trying to say. If I mount internal from TWRP I get a prompt saying "You need to format the disk in drive H: before you can use it" with the only two options as "Format Disk" and "Cancel". Should I format it?
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yeah then put a zip file on it and then it should be working fine go to file explorer or install and then you should be able do what you need
slagle96 said:
yeah then put a zip file on it and then it should be working fine go to file explorer or install and then you should be able do what you need
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sorry for my rudeness dude, I'm slightly intoxicated as of 7:00pm and right now everyone seems to be verbally attacking me (which they aren't, I'm just a stand-offish drunk)
Edit: the gf made me apologize, but that is not to say I would not have done so myself as I sobered. Again dude I'm sorry. And yes I did wait for her to leave before posting the edit, when it comes to her I'm also a cowardly drunk
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Hi, I saw another thread about this, but it doesn't answer my question.
I have encrypted my SD Card and from what I've red, it will require a password to be entered in order for the phone to use the sd card. It seems that after encrypting the SD Card it also encrypts the internal storage too??? Because if I typed the wrong password, it will say "Read-Only" for the internal memory.
When I boot into Team Win Recovery, the error messages show that it failed to mount /sdcard (Invalid Argument), follwed at the end "Could not mount: /sdcard.
I'm thinking to myself that it has something to do with the fact that I have my sd-card (32gb) encrypted. Is there a way around this?
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Hi, I saw another thread about this, but it doesn't answer my question.
I have encrypted my SD Card and from what I've red, it will require a password to be entered in order for the phone to use the sd card. It seems that after encrypting the SD Card it also encrypts the internal storage too??? Because if I typed the wrong password, it will say "Read-Only" for the internal memory.
When I boot into Team Win Recovery, the error messages show that it failed to mount /sdcard (Invalid Argument), follwed at the end "Could not mount: /sdcard.
I'm thinking to myself that it has something to do with the fact that I have my sd-card (32gb) encrypted. Is there a way around this?
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whats an encrypted sdcard??
Couple of questions : How did you encrypt it? If you encrypted can't you decrypt it the same way... In reverse? If you encrypted within a ROM then go back in and unencrypt from the ROM or stock. Do you still have a ROM that runs or are you stuck in recovery?
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Couple of questions : How did you encrypt it? If you encrypted can't you decrypt it the same way... In reverse? If you encrypted within a ROM then go back in and unencrypt from the ROM or stock. Do you still have a ROM that runs or are you stuck in recovery?
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I encrypted the SDCard using the meanrom, but everytime I boot into recovery, I can't access it. So I guess I have to decrypt it
Ask the ROM devs, but it looks like having ur sdcard encrypted is not supported by Mean ROM. U will have to decrypt.
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groovdafied said:
I encrypted the SDCard using the meanrom, but everytime I boot into recovery, I can't access it. So I guess I have to decrypt it
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I have the same issue, and now i cannot boot back into meanROM. I pretty much bricked my phone.
I need to find a way to format it and remove the encryption. I cant even mount it. Please help.
I heard something about flashing the stock locked bootloader/recovery will allow you to format the encrypted internal storage???
PLEASE HELP
EDIT:
After messing around i figured out a solution.
In TWRP Recovery (Team Win Recovery Project) I went to mounts
from there i mounted the internal storage card and windows said i needed to format it before use.
It got formatted and thus became mountable in TWRP
Hi guys,
My phone started to reboot itself every 5-10 minutes today. I rebooted into recovery and loaded a backup from a week ago. Now it loads and I get Unfortunately, the process com.android.phone has stopped and it repeats. I never get service.
I've wiped, put on a different ROM, same thing. When I try to wipe internal storage I get an error.
I'm s-off 1.12 hboot
radio 1.02.11.0423_2
I don't know what to do.. Do I have to relock, ruu, then re-root? If so, which RUU?
Any easier fixes?
Thanks
Mount internal storage to pc using twrp, it should say the internal needs to be formatted. You can also try fix permissions and clearing app data for any apps that force close.
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Mount internal storage to pc using twrp, it should say the internal needs to be formatted. You can also try fix permissions and clearing app data for any apps that force close.
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thanks but no dice.. i did that and now when i try to wipe in recovery it fails and isnt installing any zips (downloaded 2 new ones).
i get this:
Install /sdcard/stock w goodies.zip
finding update package..
opening update package..
installing update.
e: error in /sdcard/stock with... zip
above that i see
Using rm -rf of 'dev/block/mmcblk1p1'
e:tw_format_rmfr: unable to locate volume for device "dev/block/mmcblk1
and
e:tw_format_rmfr: unable to locate volume for device "dev/block/mmcblk0
that seems bad
phone hosed? should i try to ruu? i dont want to lose root so im not sure which one to use or what process
No no, mount storage to pc. Go to mount select internal card and hit mount storage and plug it into pc, and it will read as a flash drive. It will recognize it as a corrupt card and tell you that it needs to be formatted. Twrp will not recognize corrupted cards.
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No no, mount storage to pc. Go to mount select internal card and hit mount storage and plug it into pc, and it will read as a flash drive and it will recognize it as a corrupt card and tell you that it needs to be formatted
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i did.. and formatted.. and it didnt work. it formatted but now still no dice.. i stupidly tried to flash a rom and it failed so now i don't even have that..
I thought you were saying you tried to wipe inside of twrp. Ok that is odd
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I thought you were saying you tried to wipe inside of twrp. Ok that is odd
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i am.. thats when it says it fails and the error i posted..
but i had tried formatting in windows as you said. when i do that they both show up, clean
You can try ruu, it should wipe the phone and install everything factory
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You can try ruu, it should wipe the phone and install everything factory
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I just formatted again on both. Then I added a zip from my PC and it flashed without failing. It booted so we are good. Not sure why didnt work first time around or what caused it in first place.
Think it could have caused the reboots every few mintues earlier today? I hope thats fixed.. otherwise i got a phone dying lol.
THanks again!
It may have just been something simple like a kernel problem. Sometimes everything flashes and you boot android but it doesn't agree with the kernel and it reboots. Sometimes it's because something has been corrupted. Make back ups, keep a copy on pc and it would be handy to keep a wipe script in case you ever have to start over. It's easier to just flash a wipe script and then flash a rom
You should try getting a new sd. I've seen this happen with sd's that are starting to fail. Not saying this is your issue but its something to look into.
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I'm embarrassed to ask such a stupid question, but I've been digging around for hours and couldn't find an answer. Using TWRP, I was attempting to flash MeanROM. I placed the ROM in my Dropbox and downloaded it to my phone using the default browser. Booted into recovery and began to follow the steps. I created a backup, did my wipes, etc. So when I was finally ready to flash, I went into Install and have no idea where the ROM was saved. I thought it would be easy enough to find so I didn't bother checking where it saved before hand. I also couldn't find where my Backup saved so I couldn't even restore from there.
Could you please help me find my ROM or backup?
Switch mount points, perhaps the Rom is on external and not internal
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Switch mount points, perhaps the Rom is on external and not internal
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I don't have an external SD card installed. I imagine that the ROM is in the default saving location for the browser, I just don't know how to navigate there. And I have no idea what the default saving location is for TWRP backups.
Downloads from the stock browser goes to my external sd card in the downloads folder. There's also a downloads folder on my internal card.
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Back ups are stored in TWRP/BACKUPS
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Downloads from the stock browser goes to my external sd card in the downloads folder. There's also a downloads folder on my internal card.
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So I did a system wipe and it looks like that's where I went wrong. The directions said to wipe everything but I guess I got carried away as it looks like it cleared everything off. The only thing under the sdcard folder is a TWRP folder. But when I press Install and then go into /sdcard/TWRP, there's nothing in there. Shouldn't the back up I created be in there?
Please tell me I didn't brick my phone my doing the system wipe.
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So I did a system wipe and it looks like that's where I went wrong. The directions said to wipe everything but I guess I got carried away as it looks like it cleared everything off. The only thing under the sdcard folder is a TWRP folder. But when I press Install and then go into /sdcard/TWRP, there's nothing in there. Shouldn't the back up I created be in there?
Please tell me I didn't brick my phone my doing the system wipe.
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You didnt brick, you just need to put a rom on the card and flash. If boot fails, you will need to flash kernel through fastboot
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Back ups are stored in TWRP/BACKUPS
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I don't have a BACKUPS folder under TWRP. Did the system wipe delete that too?
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You didnt brick, you just need to put a rom on the card and flash. If boot fails, you will need to flash kernel through fastboot
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When I tried mounting my phone to my computer from TWRP, it shows up as a drive on my computer, but when I try to click on it, I get the following message:
The Disk in drive F is not formatted.
Do you want to format now?
Is it safe to go ahead and format and will that erase all that's left on my phone?
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When I tried mounting my phone to my computer from TWRP, it shows up as a drive on my computer, but when I try to click on it, I get the following message:
The Disk in drive F is not formatted.
Do you want to format now?
Is it safe to go ahead and format and will that erase all that's left on my phone?
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card is corrupt, format as fat 32
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card is corrupt, format as fat 32
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Great, I'll give that a shot when I get home. One last question, which parts should I mount to format? System, data, or cahce?
you only need to select mount and then mount as storage, everything else can be wiped in recovery
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you only need to select mount and then mount as storage, everything else can be wiped in recovery
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Fat32 format of my phone, computer finally recognized it as a functioning drive, transferred the ROM over, and flashed it with no problem. Loving MeanROM. Thank you so much for all your help.
No problem
Ok, I have been searching for my exact issue for the greater part of today trying to solve my issue and I haven't come across anything so far.
I am on running gingerbread 2.3.4 with the UnOriginal 1.4.6 minimalist edition rom.
Basically, whenever I reboot my phone, it reverts back to its state on Sept. 27. For instance If I send a text, upload some music from my computer to the phone, and take a picture, all of that data will be missing when I reboot. All of the texts I sent, pictures I took, numbers I've added, etc. are gone. I can't put files on my phone anymore because as soon as I take it out of USB storage mode, the files are gone.
Things I have tried:
1. A factory reset / wipe data from the phone's settings menu and from CWM
2. formatting /system, /data, and /cache in the "mounts and storage" menu in CWM
3. formatting the phone from my computer
4. flashing a stock rom and PIT file from Odin
5. flashing a rom from CWM
No matter what I do, it always boots up the same as always with the same boot animation, the same text convos, same address book, pictures, etc.
I can't mount anything in CWM's "mount and storage" menu. It just gives an error: "unable to write to ums lunfile"
Does anybody have any ideas? I'm completely stumped at this point.
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Ok, I have been searching for my exact issue for the greater part of today trying to solve my issue and I haven't come across anything so far.
I am on running gingerbread 2.3.4 with the UnOriginal 1.4.6 minimalist edition rom.
Basically, whenever I reboot my phone, it reverts back to its state on Sept. 27. For instance If I send a text, upload some music from my computer to the phone, and take a picture, all of that data will be missing when I reboot. All of the texts I sent, pictures I took, numbers I've added, etc. are gone. I can't put files on my phone anymore because as soon as I take it out of USB storage mode, the files are gone.
Things I have tried:
1. A factory reset / wipe data from the phone's settings menu and from CWM
2. formatting /system, /data, and /cache in the "mounts and storage" menu in CWM
3. formatting the phone from my computer
4. flashing a stock rom and PIT file from Odin
5. flashing a rom from CWM
No matter what I do, it always boots up the same as always with the same boot animation, the same text convos, same address book, pictures, etc.
I can't mount anything in CWM's "mount and storage" menu. It just gives an error: "unable to write to ums lunfile"
Does anybody have any ideas? I'm completely stumped at this point.
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I would get into CWM mount storage and delete everything and upload a rom and try to flash it so it has nothing to fall back on
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122ninjas said:
I would get into CWM mount storage and delete everything and upload a rom and try to flash it so it has nothing to fall back on
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Thanks for the quick reply. should I format /emmc? I formatted system, data, and cache and when I rebooted, it still booted up to it's sept. 27th state. Should I format system, data, cache, and emmc and then try to get into download mode for odin? Could it be a faulty internal SD?
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Thanks for the quick reply. should I format /emmc? I formatted system, data, and cache and when I rebooted, it still booted up to it's sept. 27th state. Should I format system, data, cache, and emmc and then try to get into download mode for odin? Could it be a faulty internal SD?
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Mount storage to your pc and delete everything (make a backup if you want). And just put one rom in there and see if the problem persists after flash
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Mount storage to your pc and delete everything (make a backup if you want). And just put one rom in there and see if the problem persists after flash
Sent from my GS4 running CM11 Kandy Kane
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I mounted the phone to my computer via the in phone prompt instead of CWM and deleted everything off of the internal sd card. As soon as I disconnected the phone from usb storage mode, I used the file browser on the phone and all of the files were still there. Wiping and formatting everything and flashing a new rom in CWM yielded no results as well.
This is really strange behavior to me. Any other suggestions?
You're Making this waaaaaaay to complicated. Just flash another rom. Unless you used rom manager to get into recovery. In which case you didn't read enough. But if not yeah just flash a rom.
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You're Making this waaaaaaay to complicated. Just flash another rom. Unless you used rom manager to get into recovery. In which case you didn't read enough. But if not yeah just flash a rom.
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He did. I said go into CWM and mount there
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He did. I said go into CWM and mount there
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Alright so when I go into "mounts and storage" in CWM, I can mount/unmount everything except /sdcard and USB storage.
When I try to mount /sdcard it just says: "Error mounting /sdcard"
When I try to mount USB storage, it says: "E:Unable to write to ums lunfile (No such file or directory)"
What's up with that?
orson250 said:
Alright so when I go into "mounts and storage" in CWM, I can mount/unmount everything except /sdcard and USB storage.
When I try to mount /sdcard it just says: "Error mounting /sdcard"
When I try to mount USB storage, it says: "E:Unable to write to ums lunfile (No such file or directory)"
What's up with that?
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When it says mount USB storage it means external sd card. How do you have your sd card currently formatted? (fat32)?
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When it says mount USB storage it means external sd card. How do you have your sd card currently formatted? (fat32)?
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Ok, well that explains why I can't mount USB storage as I don't have an external sd card, only the internal one.
I tried to reformat the internal sd card from my computer to fat32 (it was already fat32), but it didn't actually wipe anything. I'l try unchecking "quick format".
I tried wiping and flashing a few more roms, but still nothing changes.
Thanks for all the help so far guys, but I still can't figure out what's going on and why I can't seem to modify data on the sdcard long-term.
Galaxy y Duos bricked phone!
My Galaxy y duos is bricked! It stays on Galaxy Logo, I have already tried to flash stock rom and kernel with odin, but it says "Status 7 Can´t mount system Intallation aborted (invalid argument)" so i flashed the kernel and now says " Status 0 intallation aborted (invalid argument)!! I can´t wipe data/factory or cache too when i do that it says "failed to wipe on......."
It started when i tried to intall a custom rom, them i tried to flash with Odin, but i got the wrong files! after that it got White screen, i flashed with odin again (with t:crying::crying:he correct files) then it stays on galaxy Y LOGO!!
I dont Know what to do anymore! Please HELP!! :crying:
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U posted in the wrong q & a.
This forum is for the sgh-i777.
this problem has been solved? or not yet? cause this my problem too. Cant wipe data. The rom and data are still there.
Why did you necro a 2 year old thread? It would be better to post a new thread stating your issues and information.
I do not remember this issue ever being solved. This may be the only person that has posted with an issue like this, as far as I can remember, until you posted.
What are your symptoms exactly; What firmware is on the phone; What can you do with the phone; What have you tried? Give as much information about your phone as you can think of.
For instance, have you tried flashing the full stock distribution with Odin?
How do you perform this step? mounting the device on your pc. I've tried to do this via terminal on the device itself but it can't get to mount the partitions i need to wipe.
So I just got back from a trip to Vegas, went to upgrade MeanROM from 6.3 to 6.5, and then my SD card would not mount and my internal storage is not showing. I've tried numerous things to try and fix this, by mounting SD and formatting it (Fat32, quick format off), unplugging and plugging in the SD Card, using a different one. No matter what I do, using TWRP 2.1.8 doesn't recognize the SD card and gives a repeated
E: failed to mount /sdcard (invalid argument).
E: Unable to mount /sdcard
Any tips?
Old Twrp ya got....use Goomanager and update...see if that might fix it
Can't even get GooManager to put anything in system cause it defaults to SD card
?? Goomanager install the recovery to the boot partition...you did click menu/ Install OpenRecoveryScript ???
Try flashing CWM recovery and seeing if that helps? My first guess would be to format your internal but since you've already done that I would default to blaming TWRP
tawnyoc said:
Try flashing CWM recovery and seeing if that helps? My first guess would be to format your internal but since you've already done that I would default to blaming TWRP
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CMW is known to damage misc partitions
I just had a similar problem and the only lasting solution was to relock the bootloader, RUU, and reroot. It's easy and the newest RUU isn't difficult to reroot.
I was able to reformat in the internal SD a few times using a PC (before I ran the RUU that is) but it only lasted a reboot or two before re-corrupting. I wish I had just RUU'd from the beginning and not wasted effort with all the reformatting.