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I was using the Tard Rom and tried to switch over to miui prime 360. This put me into a boot loop. I tried playing around and fixing it. Nothing worked, so I kept searching my options, and like an idiot hit apply update.zip. Now I'm stuck at the vibrant screen. No loop just stuck. Any help would be much appreciated.
EDIT: Got into download mode. Is there anyway I can get software back but save my pictures? I have pics of my prego wife that I would prefer not to lose. Thanks for the help
Can you access download mode?
Just figured out how to get into it. Will I have to do a total reinstall to stock or is there a way to save my pictures that I have?
This is kind of trippy for me... Because i Odined back to stock yesterday and all of my files were perfectly intact. But i odined a 2nd time later that day and they all went away ... But if you can access recovery menu im sure you could save your files.
EDIT: In case you do decide on using odin and your pictures are gone try this: http://www.recovermyfiles.com/
I actually heard of a guy who used it to save his files from his android. I dont know if it will work for your case though.
I tried holding the volume buttons and the power button to get into recovery. Every time it just rebooted to the vibrant screen and would stick there forever! Any suggestions?
Sorry man this is about all i can help, im really not that good with this stuff.. i just joined a the scene little less than a month ago. The best i can say is to try that file recovery program i mentioned above, although im not sure if it works for FAT32 format disks like the vibrant storage.
I wish you the best of luck man. And if you do decide to odin, i just thought i'd mention this because i made this mistake ... TAKE YOUR SIM AND SD OUT BEFORE YOU ODIN!
EDIT: Oh wait this just hit me... did u take a backup of your phone through recovery menu before you changed your roms?
Yes I totally backed it up. I just can't access anything.
Im guessing you just kept your backup on your internal storage and didn't back it up to you memory card? That kinda defeates the purpose don't you think? Wow this is starting to feel pretty hopeless.
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Haha, yeah. Oh well. Thanks for the help!
Your pictures should be fine. flashing a new ROM does not wipe the sd card. as long as you can get into recovery you can flash a new rom ( maybe back to the one you were using) or download another one.( download one to your pc then through recover go to mounts and storage, mount usb, then you can copy the new rom to your phone and flash it. or just odin back to stock your gallery should remain uninfected. as long as you dont format sd you are fine
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Your pictures should be fine. flashing a new ROM does not wipe the sd card. as long as you can get into recovery you can flash a new rom ( maybe back to the one you were using) or download another one.( download one to your pc then through recover go to mounts and storage, mount usb, then you can copy the new rom to your phone and flash it. or just odin back to stock your gallery should remain uninfected. as long as you dont format sd you are fine
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He can't access recovery so there is no flashing a rom.
And the files are on his internal storage so they will be deleted like the rest of his internal storage in he restores stock. That's what's complicating things.
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kouderd said:
He can't access recovery so there is no flashing a rom.
And the files are on his internal storage so they will be deleted like the rest of his internal storage in he restores stock. That's what's complicating things.
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If his pics are on his internal storage then they should still be there after an Odin flash. I've flashed back to jfd with Odin dozens of times with repartion checked and never had Odin wipe my internal memory
jordonlm1 said:
Your pictures should be fine. flashing a new ROM does not wipe the sd card. as long as you can get into recovery you can flash a new rom ( maybe back to the one you were using) or download another one.( download one to your pc then through recover go to mounts and storage, mount usb, then you can copy the new rom to your phone and flash it. or just odin back to stock your gallery should remain uninfected. as long as you dont format sd you are fine
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Oh my bad for the false info up there... Confirmed your files will be safe. i just odined now and they were all intact.
Thank you to all. My phone is back up running great. time to move on to another rom!
I can't seem to get cwm to make a nandroid backup to the external SD with my att gs3. Other people seem to be able to do it but I can't figure it out, any suggestions?
+1, i cant seem to get my sg3 to mount extsd...i tried to install zip from extsd, and im getting an error, cant mount extsd...help...thanks in advanced...
Hello.
You need to make sure that the external sdcard is using FAT32 as it's file system, as CWM doesn't support exFAT or NTFS.
Thanks, now on to my next problem...my card was formatted to exFat...and when I'm trying to format it with my computer, it's only giving me the option to format it to exFat and NTFS...how do I format it to fat32? Thanks in advanced...
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You could probably do it with third party software or within CWM recovery consol. I am able to format my 64Gb card to FAT32, but according to Microsoft, 32Gb is the maximum volume size for FAT32 file system.
What is it listed as in cwm? I dont see extsdcard.
If I recall, there are two different versions of CWM 5.5.0.4. The first version of the that came out before the tool kit for US SGS3 was released and it didn't have the option to save a backup to the extsccard. I believe that the CWM in the tool kit has been modified to allow backing up to the extsdcard.
After reflashing the CWM recovery to my suprise the version number is still the same but now it the backup and restore options there is listed as follows. (I don't recall these additions to the earlier version of CWM 5.5.0.4)
The changes I noticed will be marked with asterics.
backup
restore
advanced restore
*backup to internal sdcard
*restore from internal sdcard
*advanced restore from internal sdcard
I don't recall seeing the options before to backup to internal sdcard. Did you install CWM from the Tool kit?
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FYI. I have been an iPhone user since the first iPhone simply because I didn't know about Android at the time. I was getting very sick of apple's control over the whole user experience so I decided to look at the Android system. The SGS3 is actually my first Android phone and while I'm not new to jail breaking the iphone, I am new Android jail breaking - if you will, and I find it far superior to iOS.
There is so much to learn things of wich that have been learned over the years, it's a little hard to figure out where to start.
I hope you have success as I did. Nandroid backups and restore to the extsdcard seem like a must.
Okay guys thanks for all the help...what I had to do was d/l a 3rd party app, and that did the trick...and now cwm recovery is able to mount my extsdcard...Thanks...remember to back up all of your data to your computer before re-formatting...
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Okay guys thanks for all the help...what I had to do was d/l a 3rd party app, and that did the trick...and now cwm recovery is able to mount my extsdcard...Thanks...remember to back up all of your data to your computer before re-formatting...
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what 3rd party app did you use
I seem to be having the same problem. I can't see it in cwm. However, I can go into partitions, mount it (still doesn't show), and format it. After I boot up it does show that it's formatted.
Ihave formatted using a3rd party app on my pc. I have formatted using fat32.
But sure what I am missing to get it to work in cwm. I did flash using the kit. Didn't know there was a different version....
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If I recall, there are two different versions of CWM 5.5.0.4. The first version of the that came out before the tool kit for US SGS3 was released and it didn't have the option to save a backup to the extsccard. I believe that the CWM in the tool kit has been modified to allow backing up to the extsdcard.
After reflashing the CWM recovery to my suprise the version number is still the same but now it the backup and restore options there is listed as follows. (I don't recall these additions to the earlier version of CWM 5.5.0.4)
The changes I noticed will be marked with asterics.
backup
restore
advanced restore
*backup to internal sdcard
*restore from internal sdcard
*advanced restore from internal sdcard
I don't recall seeing the options before to backup to internal sdcard. Did you install CWM from the Tool kit?
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Do you have the zip file you can give us or a link to the updated one.
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I got my cmw from this thread. It was the link in the op.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=27940320
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I got my cmw from this thread. It was the link in the op.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=27940320
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Is it the one refered in post #7? Which one did you use? There is one that is 7,000kb and one that is 556kb (this one says it is version 0.87 whereas the one I have says v3.0.7 on the zip file).
Thanks
It's the link in the first thread. The one to the rootsprint.zip file. In that zip contains the cmw for rooting the tmobile s3.
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It's the link in the first thread. The one to the rootsprint.zip file. In that zip contains the cmw for rooting the tmobile s3.
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Thanks but I need the Sprint. I know this says it is for the Sprint Siii but the root method I used said to use CWM v3.0.7. Not sure if this version will work. Don't want to risk it.
so, if you watch the video in that thread it says it is the same one for the sprint. Anyway, does anyone have a link to the "good" cmw that will see my sd card?
I don't think I can link to anything yet, but the CWM version I am using is from the US Toolkit for AT&T, which is hosted in this very website.
the backup and restore options will backup directly to the extsdcard, you'll know if you have the right version becuase you will have the option to back and restore to the internal sdcard too.
For those of you that are wondering what 3rd party app i used to format to Fat32, i used easeUs partition. i dont have the link but i know that google should give the results your looking for...hope this helps...
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I don't think I can link to anything yet, but the CWM version I am using is from the US Toolkit for AT&T, which is hosted in this very website.
the backup and restore options will backup directly to the extsdcard, you'll know if you have the right version becuase you will have the option to back and restore to the internal sdcard too.
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OK I wasn't sure of that. When I just try the "backup" option it says "can't mount backup path". I'm assuming its because my 64gig card is formatted to exFat instead of Fat32? Does the "format sdcard" option format the internal or external SD and if it is for the external will it format it to Fat32? Sorry for the noob questions.
thanks.
found cwm v4 now all is fine.
Tried to flash MeanRom to my EVO Lte after using CMX for a week or so with no problems.
Now I'm all turned around and I have no clue what's going on. My phone will still boot into recovery so I'm assuming all hope is not lost. However I can't access my internal sd, can't use the adb shell command (I get: "- exec '/system/bin/sh' failed: No such file or directory (2)"), I've tried to flash CMX back onto my phone but the files seem to have disappeared from it's internal memory. adb reboot recovery works, sends me to TWRP. But once in TWRP I get confused and frustrated because I can't seem to find a way to just flash a damn ROM onto my phone. None of my backups are listed in "restore" and I had three there this morning. WHAT GIVES?
I'm using a Mac and don't have access to Linux or Windows, I was going to try to unroot it and start from there but I can't seem to find a way to unroot the phone on a Mac. Unless I'm googling wrong.
tawnyoc said:
Tried to flash MeanRom to my EVO Lte after using CMX for a week or so with no problems.
Now I'm all turned around and I have no clue what's going on. My phone will still boot into recovery so I'm assuming all hope is not lost. However I can't access my internal sd, can't use the adb shell command (I get: "- exec '/system/bin/sh' failed: No such file or directory (2)"), I've tried to flash CMX back onto my phone but the files seem to have disappeared from it's internal memory. adb reboot recovery works, sends me to TWRP. But once in TWRP I get confused and frustrated because I can't seem to find a way to just flash a damn ROM onto my phone. None of my backups are listed in "restore" and I had three there this morning. WHAT GIVES?
I'm using a Mac and don't have access to Linux or Windows, I was going to try to unroot it and start from there but I can't seem to find a way to unroot the phone on a Mac. Unless I'm googling wrong.
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you did save your backups to external not internal right?
are you s-off? what boot loader?
if you can get into recovery you should be able to load a rom zip on sd card and flash from external card.
kaos420 said:
you did save your backups to external not internal right?
are you s-off? what boot loader?
if you can get into recovery you should be able to load a rom zip on sd card and flash from external card.
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I saved them to internal. I don't have an external yet.. Single mom, had to buy my kid shoes. Damned priorities...
I can get into recovery I just don't have an external sd that I can put a zip on. I thought I had an extra from my old HTC G2 but I've been unable to locate it.
Should I run out to Fry's and buy an external sd card or is there a way to fix it without the external?
Edit: Btw, I'm s-ON. I'm still fairly new ish to this stuff so I'm not 100% what bootloader I'm using. Is it the same as Hboot? Hboot is 1.19.0000
Internal is corrupt, mount it to pc through twrp
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Internal is corrupt, mount it to pc through twrp
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If I'm using Mac and not Windows will that be ok? I can mount it to my computer but where should I go from there? Erasing it? Restoring it? I'd be using disc utility, unless there's a different program that works better.
thats fine, go to twrp and select mount/mount as storage and connect to pc, format volume fat32
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thats fine, go to twrp and select mount/mount as storage and connect to pc, format volume fat32
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Now once I do that, just add the rom files to my phone's internal and try to flash a new rom, correct?
Have you tried to format storage through the boot loader?
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yes, once its formatted, add a rom, prefereably meanrom, its the only one I've tried that has reliably installed the kernel. Give it 5-10 minutes, the phone will hang on writing kernel and it will reboot 2-3 times and it will hang each time, just let it do its thing
barkermichaelj said:
Have you tried to format storage through the boot loader?
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No, that literally just occured to me as I refreshed the page. Off to try that now.
I don't have an HTC phone with me now to show the exact steps but usually when you get to the boot loader it will have an option for formatting storage. Then try to go into recovery and mount.
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One of my phones storage got corrupted and I tried this to no avail and ended up ruuing back to stock and then rerooting.
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Now my files that I transferred to the phone are not showing up in TWRP under Install OR File Manager. ARGH.
Maybe twrp isnt mounting the internal memory. I dont see that being a problem though
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Maybe twrp isnt mounting the internal memory. I dont see that being a problem though
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Well **** I'm going to run out and buy a microsd and try to flash the rom from external. Let you know how it goes.
Alright, so flashed CMX back to my phone from the external sd. Worked beautifully. I now have a rom running on my phone.
Still can't figure out the internal sd.... Is there anyone who can tell me step-by-step what to do to reformat it or fix it or whatever? I feel like this should be a relatively easy fix, am I right? Why can't I figure it out?? Ugh.
Reboot to recovery, select mount, select mount USB storage, plug it into pc, open disk utility and select sd, select erase and choose fat
When you're booted up an go in to Menu/Settings/Storage is nothing showing under Internal storage or Phone storage?
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Craaaaap, I just realized. This means that I probably lost the Titanium backups that I had, amirite? Urgh. What a pain in the.....
Yes, that's why its best to copy backs ups to pc
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Yes, that's why its best to copy backs ups to pc
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Duly noted. From now on I will make sure to copy my back ups! Haha. Thanks for all the help. Much appreciated.
So I have searched and searched and cannot get a definitive answer. I am currently using CWM as my recovery. I go to flash a new ROM and wipe like I used to. ONLY thing is that wiping doesn't actually wipe. What I mean is things in the down load folder or random folders not on my sd card are still there. This would all get wiped before but ive had this problem since getting the S4. Ive had some root problems before so I had to unroot and reroot so everything was wiped. Now I have been running smoothly without needed to odin back to stock.
What am I doing wrong or what could be the problem. I want to wipe the whole device except external sd card. In CWM I usually select the factory reset wipe, partition, and dalvik. Should I be doing something different?
TIA
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Xirix12 said:
So I have searched and searched and cannot get a definitive answer. I am currently using CWM as my recovery. I go to flash a new ROM and wipe like I used to. ONLY thing is that wiping doesn't actually wipe. What I mean is things in the down load folder or random folders not on my sd card are still there. This would all get wiped before but ive had this problem since getting the S4. Ive had some root problems before so I had to unroot and reroot so everything was wiped. Now I have been running smoothly without needed to odin back to stock.
What am I doing wrong or what could be the problem. I want to wipe the whole device except external sd card. In CWM I usually select the factory reset wipe, partition, and dalvik. Should I be doing something different?
TIA
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Probably need to hit the data partition as well. Never had a problem with cwm myself.
Hit thanks if I helped you out. Doing a little bit of reading goes a long way. Sent via tapatalk.
Your download folder shouldn't get wiped on a factory data reset.
What partition are you choosing? Sorry i didn't use cwm, and i lost custom recovery with a warranty replacement, but sounds like you are maybe not choosing your internal.
Also why do you need the sd card wiped? As long as your app data isn't carrying over you should be fine switching roms.
Also twrp worked for this so really you could just switch.
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Oh also i know some recoveries have called internal cards external for technicality, so maybe take it your sd card and wipe everything possible then replace it.
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kdo23 said:
Your download folder shouldn't get wiped on a factory data reset.
What partition are you choosing? Sorry i didn't use cwm, and i lost custom recovery with a warranty replacement, but sounds like you are maybe not choosing your internal.
Also why do you need the sd card wiped? As long as your app data isn't carrying over you should be fine switching roms.
Also twrp worked for this so really you could just switch.
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Oh also i know some recoveries have called internal cards external for technicality, so maybe take it your sd card and wipe everything possible then replace it.
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I had some very bad experiences with TWRP on this device. Never on any other device. I prefer TWRP. I should try the taking out the sd card and wiping everything. Thanks I just odin'd back to stock and rooted. I was getting memory notifocations and random stuff. I am going to try TWRP I know its been updated since I had the problems.
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Memory notifications are common in this device, many times inaccurate on touchwiz. They're more about the allocated space for apps and not internal total. Next time check your storage tab in settings, of you're not out of free space on the sd card but still get warnings then wiping that partition won't help.
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I was getting low. It had been a while since rooting so I had loads of unwanted folders (temp stuff) and stuff from other roms. I was down to 1.3GB.The notifications are fine except certain apps or games were starting to not work properly. I literally had to scroll through about 4 pages of folders in my sdcard0 folder. Now that ive rerooted I have about a page and a half. I now have 8.78GB free space.
Edit: after rerooting I wasnt able to get TWRP. In Goomanager I kept getting "no recoveries were found for your device". So I am still on CWM.
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Same thing happened to me on my old gnex loading kitkat, think goo.im was having problems. I ended up loading cwm too as it was flashable.
Understand what you mean some rom makers have locked folders. I never had much of a problem but I didn't switch off hyperdrive much.
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Same thing happened to me on my old gnex loading kitkat, think goo.im was having problems. I ended up loading cwm too as it was flashable.
Understand what you mean some rom makers have locked folders. I never had much of a problem but I didn't switch off hyperdrive much.
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Yeah I always get tempted with AOSP ROMs so I flash them and then can't use it for one thing or another (camera, network speeds, etc.) And revert to Hyperdrive.
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so i decided to make the jump and used chainfires root it all worked but when it booted up alot of my apps were missing im using nova launcher and now i get constant errors google play wont open lots of downloaded apps completely fail to open not sure how to fix please help
i tried a data wipe and now im stuck on the yellow sprint boot logo
You OTA up graded to Lollipop?
if so you need to fix the read sd card. I use TWRP app it will ask you to fix it when the start the app.
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If you don't have a nandroid backup try factory reset or Oden a Stock rom.
i dont have a sd card in my phone and i dont have a backup because i just installed twrp now not sure what to do
where can i get a stock rom?
Flash this using TWRP.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=3088490
Goto 1st post.
is there a way to get the file on my phone from my computer without a sd card?
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You OTA up graded to Lollipop?
if so you need to fix the read sd card. I use TWRP app it will ask you to fix it when the start the app.
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If you don't have a nandroid backup try factory reset or Oden a Stock rom.
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Flash this using TWRP.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=3088490
Goto 1st post.
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Dark_N1ghtmar3 said:
is there a way to get the file on my phone from my computer without a sd card?
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i found a sd card to put in my phone but i dont have a way to flash the stock firmware because i have no way of accessing the sd card from my computer twrp adb sideload dont seem to work
You can put the flashable zip form here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=3088490
On your phone's internal sd card.
And flash with TWRP.
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You can put the flashable zip form here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=3088490
On your phone's internal sd card.
And flash with TWRP.
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this isnt making any sense i keep trying but it wont find it i guess im confused on how to flash it since its not a zip file its a backup i tried the whole 7zip files but twrp didnt find it am i supposed to transfer it all into a zip folder and it should work because it says u gota put it in twrp folder then backups then theres a serial folder then u restore but my sd card is being retarded and it wont let me create that folder
finally got it thanks for the help