Hi,
I just installed the Phantom Kernel on my Sony Xperia Go and noticed that I forgot to (stupid as I am) backup my data.
The only thing that is quite usefull on this phone is my huge pile of sms.
Is it possible to recover the mmsms.db file somehow?
I managed to recover a lot of files from /storage/sdcard with O&O Recovery on Windows (Ontrack Easy recovery does the trick also very well).
The main problem now is that I'm not able to mount /data on my pc to get the tool to recognise it as a drive.
Years ago I had a problem with a failed hard disk, created and mounted the image in windows and were able to recover files out of it.
Do you think it might be possible it this case? I know that there is a difference between a failed magnetic disk and a flash memory but I'm just asking
Right now I'm creating an image of /dev/block/mmcblk0p11 and hope to get something out of it....
Any ideas?
Edit: ok I forgot, the image I once created from a demaged disk was made with Acronis Disk Director wich was able to mount it afterwards. I can't find anything to mount the android ext4 image in windows 7.
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Last week something burnt out in my Streak, it wouldn't turn on, so I needed to send it to get repaired/replaced, as a little data insurance I took a dump of the internal SD card (just using dd in Ubuntu).
Now O2 are replacing my Streak, so I'll have a new one with a different IMEI, etc, and I don't want to open this one (I only opened the other one as it was an emergency). So I'm looking for help on restoring the backup I've taken without opening the phone, and once done, leaving it in a warranty-friendly state.
Obviously the first step is going to be rooting it, but what then? Is it simply a matter of copying all the files? Just thinking that might cause conflicts due to the new IMEI.
so i've got a similar (but reciprocal) problem... i had a malformed update.zip that pooched my internal microsd's system partition and the streak won't boot at all... I have a nandroid backup and i've pulled the internal microsd to find an empty ext filesystem that mounts just fine when I plug it into a linux laptop, but there's not a clear mapping from the system.img that I have and the contents of the accidentally wiped system partition...
SO, two things would fix this....
1. someone could send me a link to their raw 'dd' image of the system partition (~200mb)
2. or, I can keep figuring out how to use 'dd' with the system.img that I have to get the same results as the 'flash_image' tool...
would someone be so kind as to speed me along on this by giving me their system partition dump (1) or quickening my learning curve on (2) so that I can restore with the flash_image formatted nandroid dump of a working system partition???
Please, please....
Hi.
I've rooted my A70s with chulri's kernel and it seems to work ok.
My next goal is to get more app room ... so I guess I need to resize the app/data partition.
I've thought that having my internal storage formatted on ext4, it would be possible to ln the /data folder to /storage/data without problems, but then I should create a boot script for that. The question is... can I do this with my current root status? What would be the way to do it? I'm don't know enough of linux os to make it on my own.
If the system can't be fooled with a ln, then is there any way to resize the data partition, even if I have to backup/restore my current data?
I don't want to use Urukdroid, since all the versions I tried were very unstable on my machine.
Cheers!!
search the forum: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=14710945#post14710945
Follow chulri's method, or repartition your internal storage in Linux, mount it on the archos, and copy the data there. Then edit init.rc and change the data mount line. If it gets mounted in the kernel, you'll have to umount it first to remount it to the other partition.
SOLVED! See 2nd Post
Hi,
Galaxy S II 16GB 2.5 Years old.
I friend came to me with a problem : Waze can't start because it complains no access to sdcard (internal, no external present)
A bit fiddling and I see /storage/sdcard0 is mounted as RO!
I remount as RW, and I can now start waze, but as soon as I use the phone further, the mount reverts to RO.
I try to format it via recovery (philz) but it fails deleted odd named files in DCIM/Camera/cache.
So I try to delete the files myself but it fails.
Next up, I mount usb storage in recovery, and run windows Checkdisk, it finishes while fixing some stuff, the format still doesn't work.
Eventually using Minitool I am able to format it. BUT, now, when I boot android, it says the internal storage is damange, and attempt to format it via Android fails always.
Still, when I boot into philz, and mount usb storage, i can browse it via my W7 PC, copy and delete files freely. So I guess something is not mounted or formatted correctly. I decide to reinstall stock rom with Odin + repartition.
So I take pit file from a thread that aims to increase /data at the expense of internal storage, and I find the stock pit there and use it.
Rom flashes fully, but sdcard still not working.
What I want to do is :
Boot into Recovery and use Android commands to properly mount/map this so the phone recognizes it.
I have linux knowledge, I know how to get around a linux shell and use VI and permissions etc. I also messed sometimes with fstab on a pc to set up mount points, so I am not a complete stranger. I am rooted and need help
Any help would be appreciated.
So, I searched the net for quite a few hours, and found this post :
http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies.cfm?t=2147315&p=-1&#bottom
Which solved my problem
I registered on that forum to thank the dude!
This command solve my problem :
newfs_msdos /dev/block/vold/259:3
I knew it will work the moment I saw the 259:3 which I saw in logcat that android cannot format.
Good work finding a fix yourself Hopefully other people in the same situation will find it useful
Hello everyone
I am having trouble mounting second partition of my external sdcard. I’ve already done as much research as i could but i couldn’t find the answer.
I am using busybox to try to mount /dev/block/mmcbl1p2 to any folder (tried in /mnt; /storage; /mnt/media_rw; and many more) but my mount command says invalid argument.
To explain what i did, in short i have a raspberry pi, i used piped unzip to dd command to write the raspbian image on my sdcard. dd command was successful and raspberry pi can boot from it. What i am trying to is setup my raspberry headless by editing /etc/network/interfaces which is located in second (ext4) partition of my extSdCard.
I know android understands linux file systems but i also know it only mounts first vfat od sdcard. Is there any way to access the files from second partition of my extSdCard ?
I am not sure how to find the answer since everything on google is related to moving apps to sdcard
Thanks
Device: Huawei Y5II - CUN-L01
Stock rom
I managed to set it up headless by using UsbTethering and connect to ssh through that connection since dhcp is auto enabled on this image for raspberry, but i would still like to know how to mount this partition. Thank you
That.
I have an Xperia Arc S (LT18a) with a custom 4.0 ROM (Ultimate Xperia HD) and i just cant make Link2SD to recognize my 2nd partition. The classic mount: no such file or directory stuff. Which bugs me since i bought the Link2SD Pro version.
I have the normal fat32 and a ext4 partition, i've done a lot of things, created a new scrip in the .ind folder, made Link2SD a system app, rebooted, erased SD and re did partitions multiple times, it just doesnt want to work.
So i can recall couple of years ago i actually got my Moto E to work with linked folders and i never created or modified the partitions as far as i remember, so, question.
Can i link folders to install apps on sd without having to create a new partition? Because is a pain in the ass, is a slow trial and error process and im quite done after trying so much and so many different things.
Thanks
Edit. Solved. Dunno how to mark as solve it or closed so just ignore it
Solved, turned that every software **** was worthless, all i had to do was use the CWR partition tool at the recovery menu obviously and now i had correctly partitioned a ext4 partition and a fat32 one.