Hi everyone,
I have a issue with my device I wiped system cache and vendor dalvik cache but skipped data as I always do but for some reason I am unable to decrypt data after clean install of Lineage OS. Actually I wanted to remove Magisk so I just wiped those and installed same version of Lineage that was on my device. Even TWRP is unable to decrypt now. Any help is appreciated.
kundancool said:
Hi everyone,
I have a issue with my device I wiped system cache and vendor dalvik cache but skipped data as I always do but for some reason I am unable to decrypt data after clean install of Lineage OS. Actually I wanted to remove Magisk so I just wiped those and installed same version of Lineage that was on my device. Even TWRP is unable to decrypt now. Any help is appreciated.
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I have same issues as well. Did you manage to find a solution?
I tried to flash whatever LineageOS ROM was available but I was unable to decrypt as after a time I got message that the encrypted block might have been corrupted since my password was correct it can not decrypt full data and partial decryption was not possible.
I had to WIPE ALL and start afresh again. But I would suggest you to try different versions (different build dates) of Stock LineageOS ROM to try to decrypt data before you give up.
Last resort if WIPE ALL and start afresh as there is no way that I know of for partial decryption or external backup and decryption.
kundancool said:
I tried to flash whatever LineageOS ROM was available but I was unable to decrypt as after a time I got message that the encrypted block might have been corrupted since my password was correct it can not decrypt full data and partial decryption was not possible.
I had to WIPE ALL and start afresh again. But I would suggest you to try different versions (different build dates) of Stock LineageOS ROM to try to decrypt data before you give up.
Last resort if WIPE ALL and start afresh as there is no way that I know of for partial decryption or external backup and decryption.
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would you mine explain some more about WIPE ALL? Like in formatting? Because format is no used for me and I did make sure there is no password.
Wipe All means: Wiping Data + Cache + Internal Storage
(complete fresh start of ROM without anything on phone, similar to formatting all data on device or factory reset on stock decies)
Well you should only do Format data only as last resort to make phone usable since decryption is no more possible.
kundancool said:
Wipe All means: Wiping Data + Cache + Internal Storage
(complete fresh start of ROM without anything on phone, similar to formatting all data on device or factory reset on stock decies)
Well you should only do Format data only as last resort to make phone usable since decryption is no more possible.
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Well I tried everything you mentioned and nothing work. All i got is a while bunch of "error opening" "permission denied" with my internal storage. And bootloop if i install anything not Lineage based
Well installing other ROMs other than official LineageOS ROMs will not work. It seems either your storage has been corrupted like mine was.
If that is the case then formatting data and storage could be the only solution to make your phone work again, but that will mean you are starting from fresh on your phone without any data. (YOU WILL LOSE ALL ENCRYPTED DATA.)
In LineageOS you have to completely wipe data to remove encryption. There's no other way.
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I know this is might be common issue to people who flashed any Oreo ROM and is happening to my Mi5 as well.There is a bug where the Oreo ROM automatically encrypts the TWRP.The password is your current PIN.However,I want to try another ROM and when I get pass the loading logo(lets say Lineage logo) it asks for my PIN.I entered my PIN correctly,the previous PIN I used on my Oreo ROM,but it didnt work.I tried removing the file where the PIN is contained via ADB and its still locked.I wiped everything on my internal storage and now the dreaded PIN is gone.How do I fix this issue? Should I remove my PIN before I flash another ROM? I mostly use my internal storage as my main storage.
RebornCheiko said:
I know this is might be common issue to people who flashed any Oreo ROM and is happening to my Mi5 as well.There is a bug where the Oreo ROM automatically encrypts the TWRP.The password is your current PIN.However,I want to try another ROM and when I get pass the loading logo(lets say Lineage logo) it asks for my PIN.I entered my PIN correctly,the previous PIN I used on my Oreo ROM,but it didnt work.I tried removing the file where the PIN is contained via ADB and its still locked.I wiped everything on my internal storage and now the dreaded PIN is gone.How do I fix this issue? Should I remove my PIN before I flash another ROM? I mostly use my internal storage as my main storage.
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Have you formatted your data once before flashing any oreo rom? Happened with me too, but only thing you need to do is just format the data once. And it doesn't matter if you keep or remove the pin on your device, since it it wiped when you wipe the system and data. The only thing you need to remember is to format the data once everytime you switch between android versions. (Ie one format when switching from 7.1.2 to 8.0 or 8.1 and one format when switching from 8.1 or 8.0 to 7.1.2)
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Have you formatted your data once before flashing any oreo rom? Happened with me too, but only thing you need to do is just format the data once. And it doesn't matter if you keep or remove the pin on your device, since it it wiped when you wipe the system and data. The only thing you need to remember is to format the data once everytime you switch between android versions. (Ie one format when switching from 7.1.2 to 8.0 or 8.1 and one format when switching from 8.1 or 8.0 to 7.1.2)
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I did the wipe cache and data.But not the internal storage since the ROM was placed on there.
RebornCheiko said:
I did the wipe cache and data.But not the internal storage since the ROM was placed on there.
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Yes this is one thing which bugs everyone, but formating data is important, you can either get an sd card, or after formating you can transfer the file from pc to device
MyNameIsRage said:
Yes this is one thing which bugs everyone, but formating data is important, you can either get an sd card, or after formating you can transfer the file from pc to device
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Already fixed the issue.Flashed TWRP 3.2 instead of the older 3.2......it clearly states on twrp website that they added Oreo support on 3.2 and fixed some critical bugs.
Hey,
recently many are facing the problem to suddenly receive the above error and aren't able to solve it by formatting data (well, it cannot be mounted).
Here are the steps that I suggest in case you find yourself in that situation (obviously all data including internal storage content will be gone afterwards, so make external backups of important stuff if you can before continuing)
- (re-)flash lastest twrp (currently 3.2.1.1) via fastboot
- boot to recovery
- wipe dalvik, cache, vendor, system, data
- format data (the one where you need to type "yes")
- reboot to recovery before flashing anything
- now flash your stuff
This helped a few people already, but please comment if it also does (or doesn't) for you!
Cheers and greetings,
Phil the Thrill
I had this problem, but not always just formatting helps. First time when I install LOS 15.1 I didn't format internal storage then LOS crypt my storage and TWRP couldn't mount it and I can't just format it, I have error when I try to format it in ext4 by default. Then I try to format it to another file system and select ext2. TWRP succesful format data and then I select again to format it to ext4 and install other rom. I don't know why first time TWRP couldn't format data.
I use google translate. Sorry if I have misspellings
aleksandar9999a said:
I had this problem, but not always just formatting helps. First time when I install LOS 15.1 I didn't format internal storage then LOS crypt my storage and TWRP couldn't mount it and I can't just format it, I have error when I try to format it in ext4 by default. Then I try to format it to another file system and select ext2. TWRP succesful format data and then I select again to format it to ext4 and install other rom. I don't know why first time TWRP couldn't format data.
I use google translate. Sorry if I have misspellings
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I didn't just suggest to format anything...
The important thing is to reflash twrp via fastboot.
The point is that after doing this you might even be able at all again to format data...
If you follow the further steps I think you're good to go and don't need to change any file system.
Phil_Smith said:
Hey,
recently many are facing the problem to suddenly receive the above error and aren't able to solve it by formatting data (well, it cannot be mounted).
Here are the steps that I suggest in case you find yourself in that situation (obviously all data including internal storage content will be gone afterwards, so make external backups of important stuff if you can before continuing)
- (re-)flash lastest twrp (currently 3.2.1.1) via fastboot
- boot to recovery
- wipe dalvik, cache, vendor, system, data
- format data (the one where you need to type "yes")
- reboot to recovery before flashing anything
- now flash your stuff
This helped a few people already, but please comment if it also does (or doesn't) for you!
Cheers and greetings,
Phil the Thrill
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Thats because maybe on a backup you select another storage that nota the internal storage....maybe you select otg storage ir something....put the selection on Internal storage....and it resolves
I've same problem in my redmi note 4 (mido). I tried the same but it not works.
After update of resurrection remix oreo (30-05-2018), I unable to install any zip through twrp.It shows "unable to mount /vendor". I also search for vendor partition in mount menu but I cant found any options for it.
If you found any solution plz tell me......... thanks
Stonner_99 said:
I've same problem in my redmi note 4 (mido). I tried the same but it not works.
After update of resurrection remix oreo (30-05-2018), I unable to install any zip through twrp.It shows "unable to mount /vendor". I also search for vendor partition in mount menu but I cant found any options for it.
If you found any solution plz tell me......... thanks
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me either, my problem. RRD. pls anyhelp?
Hutabarat said:
me either, my problem. RRD. pls anyhelp?
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Hi, I had the same problem. (Redmi Note 4, Mido)
But after installing RedWolf (Build 27)
with adb/fastboot and everything works fine - without formating everything.
This maybe can help,
first i enter wipe menu on twrp and advanced wipe, mark data partition then repair or change file system, after that change file system, change to what ever except ext4 (i use ext2 one) then change again to ext 4. Done you get data partition back
*this method will wipe your data on that partition
solution about unable to mount data on s7 edge
Hi,
Make sure to do a backup of your data, all data will be erased
after many attempts to find the solution
i tried to go to recovery latest twrp:
go to wipe
select data
for me i choosed ext3 and make repair
than i select Fat and again ext3
you can choose another file system
Thank you
Thanks this worked for me
This is the best answer to solve the problem:
CHoozen said:
This maybe can help,
first i enter wipe menu on twrp and advanced wipe, mark data partition then repair or change file system, after that change file system, change to what ever except ext4 (i use ext2 one) then change again to ext 4. Done you get data partition back
*this method will wipe your data on that partition
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This worked for me.
- (re-)flash lastest twrp (currently 3.2.1.1) via fastboot
- boot to recovery
- wipe dalvik, cache, vendor, system, data
- format data (the one where you need to type "yes")
- reboot to recovery before flashing anything
- now flash your stuff
I was in Xiaomi.EU 9.3.28 in a "encrypted storage" situation
After messing it up I endend in a situation where I can not mount the data partition.
Follow your steps and now I'm setting up xiaomi.eu 9.5.9 without a problem.
Thank you very much.
Wachuwey said:
This worked for me.
- (re-)flash lastest twrp (currently 3.2.1.1) via fastboot
- boot to recovery
- wipe dalvik, cache, vendor, system, data
- format data (the one where you need to type "yes")
- reboot to recovery before flashing anything
- now flash your stuff
I was in Xiaomi.EU 9.3.28 in a "encrypted storage" situation
After messing it up I endend in a situation where I can not mount the data partition.
Follow your steps and now I'm setting up xiaomi.eu 9.5.9 without a problem.
Thank you very much.
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Thanks to you I was able to recover my wife's Redmi 5. Cheers :good:
could not mount data and unable to find crypto error
Good morning guys im using Xiaomi Redmi note 4x(mido) i installed LineageOS 15.1 then the gapps, but the google photos and other google apps keep crashing and recommended me to uninstall and install again. so i wen to twrp and installed the gapps again, then it keeps crashing again. so what i did is to wipe in twrp then installed linneage and the gapps but when rebooting it asked my password then after than i can't no longer boot it keep sayingf could not mount/data and unable to find crypto. i tried all the steps and fix i found here and in other sites but it does not work when i try changing it to other file system it says mke2fs -t ext3 -b 4096 /dev/block/mmcblk0p49, and error 64. Please help thank you
Still not able to mount storage.
Phil_Smith said:
Hey,
recently many are facing the problem to suddenly receive the above error and aren't able to solve it by formatting data (well, it cannot be mounted).
Here are the steps that I suggest in case you find yourself in that situation (obviously all data including internal storage content will be gone afterwards, so make external backups of important stuff if you can before continuing)
- (re-)flash lastest twrp (currently 3.2.1.1) via fastboot
- boot to recovery
- wipe dalvik, cache, vendor, system, data
- format data (the one where you need to type "yes")
- reboot to recovery before flashing anything
- now flash your stuff
This helped a few people already, but please comment if it also does (or doesn't) for you!
Cheers and greetings,
Phil the Thrill
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I tried everything that is:
-changing file system also gives "unable to mount storage " in every format like fat, ext2, ext3, ext4.
-factory reset also gives same error "unable to mount storage"
-I also tried different recovery.
Please someone help me!!!
Wachuwey said:
This worked for me.
- (re-)flash lastest twrp (currently 3.2.1.1) via fastboot
- boot to recovery
- wipe dalvik, cache, vendor, system, data
- format data (the one where you need to type "yes")
- reboot to recovery before flashing anything
- now flash your stuff
I was in Xiaomi.EU 9.3.28 in a "encrypted storage" situation
After messing it up I endend in a situation where I can not mount the data partition.
Follow your steps and now I'm setting up xiaomi.eu 9.5.9 without a problem.
Thank you very much.
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Format data solved everything. But before format data, you better backup all your files. Because all of it will be erased like new.
Thank you.
CHoozen said:
This maybe can help,
first i enter wipe menu on twrp and advanced wipe, mark data partition then repair or change file system, after that change file system, change to what ever except ext4 (i use ext2 one) then change again to ext 4. Done you get data partition back
*this method will wipe your data on that partition
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I LOVE YOU!!! U saved me when nothing worked. Ty so much !!
Hey King,
I do not use a Redmi Note 8, yet I had the same problem with my Moto G5 Plus.
Until I read your post and now my phone works.
Thank you!
Hi, i have TWRP 3.6.0 installed on my mi 11 lite (courbet), and then it shows "unable to mount /data". I know, formatting helps, but what to do if i don't want to format it, only i want to update the rom?
Hi, I'm fairly new to XDA, flashing custom roms and rooting, but I'm really desperate right now.
I know many people probably already have had the same issue, but after searching all over the internet i didn't find my exact problem.
I used Nitrogen OS on my Pocofone F1, but after 1 Month of usage I wanted to try MIUI again, an important thing I remember is that i flashed a new kernel,
but I don't know if that makes any difference.
I made a backup of MIUI without any data on it (i made a hard reset before, so nothing would go wrong) and then installed Nitrogen OS the correct way (i wiped dalvik, data, ...) and everything, even installed the decrypter and everything worked fine.
Now I deleted dalvik, data, cache, ... and loaded the Backup of MIUI and as soon as I booted I suddenly got a bootup password, even though i should get nothing at all because it's basically a clean install.
I tried the normal password that i used all the time, but it didn't work, so i decided to get back to twrp.
Now i got a decryption password, that i don't know and the internal memory is 0 bytes large.
I loaded the nitrogen os backup that i also made, but it didn't work.
I read on other forums, that i should format my internal memory and try to flash the disable-force-encryption again, but i don't really know what to do exactly. i know how to format the memory, it's on the bottom when you want to delete data, dalvik, cache,... but still... .
Even if my phone is briked now, can anyone help me? I really don't know what to do
xueru said:
Hi, I'm fairly new to XDA, flashing custom roms and rooting, but I'm really desperate right now.
I know many people probably already have had the same issue, but after searching all over the internet i didn't find my exact problem.
I used Nitrogen OS on my Pocofone F1, but after 1 Month of usage I wanted to try MIUI again, an important thing I remember is that i flashed a new kernel,
but I don't know if that makes any difference.
I made a backup of MIUI without any data on it (i made a hard reset before, so nothing would go wrong) and then installed Nitrogen OS the correct way (i wiped dalvik, data, ...) and everything, even installed the decrypter and everything worked fine.
Now I deleted dalvik, data, cache, ... and loaded the Backup of MIUI and as soon as I booted I suddenly got a bootup password, even though i should get nothing at all because it's basically a clean install.
I tried the normal password that i used all the time, but it didn't work, so i decided to get back to twrp.
Now i got a decryption password, that i don't know and the internal memory is 0 bytes large.
I loaded the nitrogen os backup that i also made, but it didn't work.
I read on other forums, that i should format my internal memory and try to flash the disable-force-encryption again, but i don't really know what to do exactly. i know how to format the memory, it's on the bottom when you want to delete data, dalvik, cache,... but still... .
Even if my phone is briked now, can anyone help me? I really don't know what to do
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First of all your phone isn't bricked. It's going to be ok.
The bad thing is that you will lose your internal storage.
The procedure to format data is :
(While in twrp) "mount"-> check "data"-> "repair change file system" -> format your data partition.
After that, no password will be asked. Now wipe system davlik cache and data and reboot into recovery again.
If you have sd card installed start flashing. If you don't, you need to plug into a pc and copy what you need inside your internal storage.
sotosgolf said:
First of all your phone isn't bricked. It's going to be ok.
The bad thing is that you will lose your internal storage.
The procedure to format data is :
(While in twrp) "mount"-> check "data"-> "repair change file system" -> format your data partition.
After that, no password will be asked. Now wipe system davlik cache and data and reboot into recovery again.
If you have sd card installed start flashing. If you don't, you need to plug into a pc and copy what you need inside your internal storage.
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when i go to mount, i can't check data, because it doesn't appear, the List:
Cache
System
Vendor
Firmware
Cust
Persist
USB-OTG
Micro SD card
I use twrp on the version 3.3.0-0
when i go to "wipe" -> "format Data" it says that it will also remove the encryption should i do that?
xueru said:
when i go to mount, i can't check data, because it doesn't appear, the List:
Cache
System
Vendor
Firmware
Cust
Persist
USB-OTG
Micro SD card
I use twrp on the version 3.3.0-0
when i go to "wipe" -> "format Data" it says that it will also remove the encryption should i do that?
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Yes. That's the solution. After that your device will get encrypted again on reboot, unless you flash encryption disabler. I would suggest keeping the encryption and not flashing anything more
sotosgolf said:
Yes. That's the solution. After that your device will get encrypted again on reboot, unless you flash encryption disabler. I would suggest keeping the encryption and not flashing anything more
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all of the empty memory shows up and the encryption is gone, thanks for helping me, i was really desperate
xueru said:
all of the empty memory shows up and the encryption is gone, thanks for helping me, i was really desperate
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i still got a little problem tough, if i try to flash a rom (i tried nitrogen os and lineage os), i get error 7, what can i do about it? my phone always boots into fastboot now, but i am still able to enter twrp
thanks for helping me
xueru said:
i still got a little problem tough, if i try to flash a rom (i tried nitrogen os and lineage os), i get error 7, what can i do about it? my phone always boots into fastboot now, but i am still able to enter twrp
thanks for helping me
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i also still have the backup of nitrogenos on my sd card
xueru said:
i also still have the backup of nitrogenos on my sd card
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i loaded the backup and it worked ty 4 everything
xueru said:
i loaded the backup and it worked ty 4 everything
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The error 7 occurs due to outdated vendor/firmware. Download latest firmware and flash it before the rom you want (for example if you want to clean flash a rom: wipe system, davlik, cache, data.. flash firmware.. flash rom [you won't get error 7].. flash gapps.. reboot)
sotosgolf said:
The error 7 occurs due to outdated vendor/firmware. Download latest firmware and flash it before the rom you want (for example if you want to clean flash a rom: wipe system, davlik, cache, data.. flash firmware.. flash rom [you won't get error 7].. flash gapps.. reboot)
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i'll try that next to get back to miui, i think i'll be able to do the everything else on my own thanks for everything
hello,
As I face some issues with my rom thought to do a fresh start by resetting the data partition via orange fox recovery which bases on twrp and try to flash another rom. but once I wiped the data partition recovery could not decrypt the internal storage data on the next boot. honestly, this issue happens to me several times, and thus thought to start a thread for some helping hands for this issue. if anybody faces this please let me know the solution. thanks
somehow I got the data partition decrypted by re-flashing the same rom
fayis002 said:
somehow I got the data partition decrypted by re-flashing the same rom
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You didn't get it decrypted. It's still encrypted but since you flashed the same rom that was there, the encrypted data partition is readable again. If you try to install a different rom you must FORMAT data partition to decrypt it. Wiping is different from formatting.
Sent from my curtana using XDA Labs
Well Me too faced this with "Curtana"
I forced to use SD card to copy the rom to phone and install it.
( I will test today Pixel experience Recovery to make sure )
Recovery tested:
-Pitch black recovery project
-twrp by mauronofrio
You could have sideloaded the ROM from your computer. No need to use separate SD card for ROM installation and it's also faster.
kalehrl said:
You could have sideloaded the ROM from your computer. No need to use separate SD card for ROM installation and it's also faster.
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my adb sideload is not working. it's goes on then say failed. what to do?
Hi, Orangefox can't wipe data, it gives me this error: unable to mount storage. I think the problem is that the data partition is somehow encrypted, but i haven't encrypted it so now I can't decrypt it because I don't have the password. I've already tried with the unlock password but it fails. I know the easy solution would be to format all data including internal storage but I would like to avoid that possibility. Do you know what can I do?
(The CrDroid rom I was installing before this problem occurred is in bootloop, so I can't access it).
Have you tried other recovery? TWRP, PE, Miui.
TWRP tells me the same thing: Unable to mount storage
I think the only solution is to format data. Is there a way to recover the files? I have no backup.
Data return is possible. Formatting must not be done and you must load the ROM from which the data came. That is, the last working ROM. After running it, then back up the data and only then try a new ROM where the data will be formatted.
StaryMuz said:
Data return is possible. Formatting must not be done and you must load the ROM from which the data came. That is, the last working ROM. After running it, then back up the data and only then try a new ROM where the data will be formatted.
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How do i load the rom? I can't install it with TWRP, it says:
Devices on super may not mount until rebooting
recovery.
To flash additional zips, please reboot recovery to
switch to the updated slot.
I've tried also with OrangeFox, same error
OK, the problem was relative to the A/B slots: by switching to the other slot I managed to install and access to the rom. Now I can recover the files, so I can format data without problems. Thank you!