I took out my sdcard and did format data on the internal storage and now i can't mount my sdcard in twrp. Didn't think about the fact that removing the encryption on the internal storage would make it unable to recognize the encryption on the sdcard afterwards. Is there any way to fix this? Or did I just screw myself?
When I reinstalled the rom and tried to boot it still asks me for my password which still works even though I can't boot because it says that the data is corrupted. But the encryption key should still be stored somewhere apparently. There must be a way to use it to decrypt the sdcard.
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Hi,
I might have played with fire, and now I have lost access to the internal sdcard of my Galayx S2 (GT-I9100).
I run a CM9 nightly build (2012-08-06) and decided to encrypt my phone using the built-in Android encryption feature.
Everything went well.
But then I tried update my S2 with a new CM9 Nightly. I did a cache wipe and a data wipe and installed the CM9 Nightly 2012-08-19).
The installation went well, but now I do not have access to my internal sdcard anymore (which should be mounted on /mnt/sdcard or /sdcard).
I tried to mount /mnt/sdcard from the command line and the Recovery but it did not work. And many android apps do not work well or at all if the internal sdcard is not mounted.
Is there a way to remount my encrypted sdcard again, using the PIN or the password I used when I encrypted it ?
And if not, is there a way to destroy this encrypted internal sdcard and reformat it as it was before encryption (but empty of course) ?
Is it possible to clean this mess and restart from scratch with Odin (losing my data but at least the internal sdcard can be mounted again) ?
I would very much appreciate any help to dig me out of this hole
lolo-kun said:
Hi,
I might have played with fire, and now I have lost access to the internal sdcard of my Galayx S2 (GT-I9100).
I run a CM9 nightly build (2012-08-06) and decided to encrypt my phone using the built-in Android encryption feature.
Everything went well.
But then I tried update my S2 with a new CM9 Nightly. I did a cache wipe and a data wipe and installed the CM9 Nightly 2012-08-19).
The installation went well, but now I do not have access to my internal sdcard anymore (which should be mounted on /mnt/sdcard or /sdcard).
I tried to mount /mnt/sdcard from the command line and the Recovery but it did not work. And many android apps do not work well or at all if the internal sdcard is not mounted.
Is there a way to remount my encrypted sdcard again, using the PIN or the password I used when I encrypted it ?
And if not, is there a way to destroy this encrypted internal sdcard and reformat it as it was before encryption (but empty of course) ?
Is it possible to clean this mess and restart from scratch with Odin (losing my data but at least the internal sdcard can be mounted again) ?
I would very much appreciate any help to dig me out of this hole
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I think I'm in the same position as you. Did you ever get an answer?
NEVER EVER do wipe cache and factory reset if you're updating nightlies!
Now, if I were you, I would try to fix internal memory with Windows tools.
Well, lesson learned.
Unfortunately I had given up on recovering my data on the internal sdcard. Therefore I opted to a method to reformat it.
That did the trick and I got back my internal sdcard (many applications cannot work properly without it).
Maybe I can find the tutorial pages I used if someone is interested.
Anyway, thanks for your reply
I have the same problem as you...
I´ve installed CM10 Codeworx over my encrypted CM9 ROM on Galaxy SII I9100
Jelly Bean runs but i have no internal SD Card... in CWM Recovery i also can not mount internal SD.
Any Ideas???
lolo-kun said:
Well, lesson learned.
Unfortunately I had given up on recovering my data on the internal sdcard. Therefore I opted to a method to reformat it.
That did the trick and I got back my internal sdcard (many applications cannot work properly without it).
Maybe I can find the tutorial pages I used if someone is interested.
Anyway, thanks for your reply
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How did you do that?
I've the same problem
Grank
Hi, got myself into a problem - hope someone can save me here
I had my internal storage encrypted because of some app that required that, anyway I did a full wipe/factory settings and installed the ROM again (4.2.2 Omega).
Now my internal storage is inaccessible at all, I guess due to the encryption.
Is there a way to decrypt the partition and get the files from there?
And how do I make it accessible again?
Is there any way I can use the terminal inside twrp and copy all files from the internal memory onto the sd/ USB OTG?
My device is stuck in a bootloop and I need to wipe all data to get it working again
And I've forgotten to take a backup of all my personal data
My father had a softbrick of his Galaxy S2 without having done a backup in the last 6 month.
Now he need some data that are stored on the phone so I cannot do a wipe data factory reset and I was wondering if I install a custom recovery can I move all the datas on the Sdcard and then read them from a microsd card reader?
Will installing a new recovery change the data?
Thanks
EDIT:
I solved the problem.
First I installed the Philz CWM recovery, that I reboot the phone in recovery Mode and chosed to mount as USB drive so I could copy the content of Sdcard.
Then I did a backup of data and system Partition through the backup menu on an external Sd card, after that I did a wipe/factory reset and the Phone reboot regularly
To recover the information that you need from the Backup can you use TitaniumBackup
I'm quite sure that the /data partition will stay untouched, since the recovery image is installed in another partition.
BTW, on some recoveries I was able to connect the phone to the computer and to read internal storage. Are you sure it's the data partition you need? The only thing stored in this partition are apps and app data. Images etc are on the internal storage (sdcard0).
Hope this helps.
I thought that Data and Sdcard were the same partition, what I need is to recover contacts and Viber/whatsapp message and images.
If I install a Custom recovery can I do a backup of everything and could I use adb to do a complete copy of the sdcard?
Thanks
Hello,
I own a Xiaomi Redmi Note 10 Pro (sweet). Its bootloader is unlocked and I use TWRP 3.6.1 as recovery. The problem is that when I install a rom (EvolutionX), everything works until I reboot to TWRP. At that point, my recovery is unable to mount the phone's internal storage and it shows as 0 bytes. I have followed a few help topics already, which stated that the solution was to change the data partition format to Ext2, then back to Ext4. However, this makes my phone unable to restart to system. The problem is that when I format my data, the data partition is by default formated as f2fs. I'm guessing that any other data format makes it unable to boot.
So the problem is:
When data is formatted to Ext4, TWRP is able to mount my phone's internal storage and install roms. However, in that case, my phone won't boot to system.
In the other case, my data is formatted to f2fs, which makes my phone totally functional, but my recovery useless. Which means I can't root my phone or update it.
What could I do?
Thanks in advance.
are you mixing up file system type with encryption? if your android is 12, TWRP is not able to decrypt (yet). then just disable encryption and format userdata f2fs (unencrypted).
otherwise claim it to TWRP maintainer he forgot f2fs support.