Strange issue here. I flashed CWM & CM7 + Gapps to my phone, however after that my phone would not read my sd card, so my friend put his sd card in my phone & bam it read it. I said okay maybe I need to reformat my sd card, which I did. Put it back in my phone nada. So we put his back in & sure enough it reads it. He placed CM7 + Gapps on his sd card, thinking we could just reflash. However when I go into recovery mode the sd card is not recognized. but it does recognize it when running the CM7 gui.
I noticed that when going into recovery mode I get numerous errors to name a few:
missing bitmap icon_clockwork
failed to open /etc/recovery.fstab
unknown volume for path /cache/recovery/command
I can still use my phone, download from the market, but cannot get my phone to recognize the sd card in recovery nor can I mount the device as usb.
Please help.
No one? I have read thru the various threads, but would like to prevent myself from having to unroot via Odin. Hoping there is an easier alternative.
Again I can get into the CM7 GUI, download from the Market & my sd card is recognized & mounted, but once I go into recovery, the sd card will not be read.
I've wiped cache, data, fixed permissions etc. etc. & still nothing.
P.S. If Odin is the only alternative then so be it. But just thought I'd get some feedback first
Update: Odin'd phone back to stock, rerooted using the 1Click method, installed the MIUI Rom, but could not get gapps to install, no biggie, as I really wasn't feeling the MIUI GUI anyhow.
Redownloaded the CM7 alpha4 rom from this site as well as the accompanying gapps.zip & decided to give this rom another go. The rom installed fine & loaded perfectly, however when going back into recovery to reflash gapps, my recovery menu was giving the same bs errors as noted in my first post. So something is a miss with the rom itself or I'm missing some step that allows the sd card to be recognized while in recovery. Do I need to do a sd card partition?
I did notice however, that after the 1Click root method the CWM menu was green (not to sure of the build #), then after installing the CM7 rom the CWM menu was orange with a different build #.
So as of now I Odin'd once again & I'm back at stock, until I can figure out which rom would suit me best.
Out of all the android phones I've had (all HTC btw), this Samsung Epic seems to be, IMHO, the most difficult one to get a decent rom working. On the plus side it's also the easiest to recover from a soft brick, which is reassuring.
As for the issue with the memory card, I can offer no help. I have had numerous problems getting ROMs to operate properly. Viper's Synergy ROM with the Genocide 1.0kernel works perfectly for me, however...maybe you should try that one. There are a "proprietary" apps that come with it (Viper's app launcher is probably the best I've ever seen) and they take great care to communicate well from what I can see.
Again, sorry I didn't directly address your problem, but I thought I would say something anyway.
Thanks jdtuttle & any help is much appreciated. I'll give that rom a try.
I'm having the exact same problem. No one seems to know anything about it so far. I had the same change in menu colors for cwm recovery screen same errors. Won't let me flash google apps or any back ups on my sd card. When the phone is running outside of recovery the sd card is fine will read write do everything it normally would
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I've decided to try a new rom today, Iceandfire v1.6. I was previously using sense ginger and just thought I'd try something new since I was bored and curious. I downloaded the rom and gapps and booted into recovery. I wiped data/format and cache aswell as dalvik. I installed from SD card the iceandfire and gapps and reboot the phone. Upon the first boot I got an error saying "Damaged SD card" and suggested I format. So I clicked yes to format but that did nothing at all and just gave me another Damaged SD Card error.
So I said, "OK then, my phone doesn't get along with this ROM, I'll just go back to sense ginger." Rebooted into recovery, started a full wipe again, only this time it gave the error "unable to mount /sdcard/ .android_secure!" and said failed to wipe. So I thought "HMMM!!!" and reboot the phone back into iceandfire rom and wanted to try mounting my card to PC to try formatting that way. I clicked mount and it has been loading since I started writing this post up until about 5 seconds ago and just went back to the previous "Turn on USB storage" screen.
Now I'm out of ideas....If I can't format or mount the SD card, what can I do??
EDIT: As it turns out, the iceandfire rom I flashed turned out to be for the Milestone. I found it in the G2 forum and thought it was for the G2! I thought milestone was part of the ROM name...So I flashed a rom that wasn't made for my phone and now I can't mount SD card. Any solution?
EDIT 2: Was able to wipe the sd card completely, to be honest, I'm not entirely sure how. I put my SD card in another android phone, got the same damaged sd card error, put the card back into my phone, wiped data, successful wipe, went to flash a previous rom, said no files found. mounted the sd card to PC, NO files at all on sd card. Downloading new rom now and will try to flash. Perhaps this thread could help somebody else who might have similar problem. Will edit again once I've tried flashing.
EDIT 3: Unsuccessful. I downloaded MIUI and flashed. It happened to be the only file on SD card after transferring. When I installed it, it just instantly installed, so...it didn't install. So I reboot and now it's gone back to the previous rom, even after wiping data. So perhaps I'm missing some core files? I have NO idea. Should I only need a rom like MIUI for it to work? I honestly don't know. Now that I've rebooted into recovery, there are two new folders on the SD card, lost.dir and Android. I'm formatting again and going to try to flash MIUI again. - It gives the error "Can't open MIUI.zip (bad)". Trying to download "Stock Gingerbread" rom. Will update.
EDIT 4: Once again, unsuccessful. Perhaps I'm overlooking something? Tried two different roms, neither will flash. Atleast I'm able to access my SD card. Does the root apply to internal memory or SD card? I could put a specific rom on my brothers SD card and flash it through there? Perhaps that'll replace the necessary files I might be missing (if that's the case). Please somebody help me. I know this is a lengthy thread, it's just I've tried to provide the most details I could.
EDIT 5: All is well. I used sd card from another phone to install a new rom. Everything is working now.
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I installed the latest CWM from [ACS][KERNEL] ClockworkMod Recovery v 5.0.2.6 // Latest Compiled Version, but when I boot into it, it says that it cannot mount the SD card. It can however, mount eMMC, which is where my downloads folder is. So I can install ROMs, but not back them up. Anyone know what went wrong?
Do you have an external SD card installed? If not, you need one to do CWM backups on that version. I'm guessing that's your issue anyways. I've seen it all over these forums lately.
Yup, have an SD
Oh yeah, I have an SD card. I watch these forums every day and am not the only one having this issue. I'm just fairly new to these forums, and can't post to the Dev thread yet.
I would also suggest trying a new/different SD card. I was having a similar issue. Would read normally once phone was booted, but could never mount it in cwm . Bought nice new class 6(class 4 is fine) card from a reputable supplier and its all good now. Mounts fine.
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I feel like such a nubcake. The SD card wasn't seated correctly. It's working fine now.
Still on the subject of CWM, I'm having the issue where it will hang on the initial "Android next to an install icon" screen. If I power off the phone and turn it back on it will go into recovery just fine. That's a pretty ugly workaround though, and I understand that a few others have the same problem. Any news on that one?
I am new here and I am scared I messed up my S3. I installed the CM 10.1 nightly build 12.18.12 yesterday and my file system is messed up. The original files that I had on my phone are hidden, I can't see them. I don't even get the option to look in the 0/ folder while browsing the internal memory, I don't see anything. In addition, I'm using a FAT32 formatted microSD but the phone won't store anything on it. When I plug the phone into my computer in MTP mode with the SD card installed, I can see the internal memory if I click on the SD card and nothing if I try to click on the internal memory. Without the card installed, nothing comes up. Most importantly, I have two clockworkmod recovery files on my internal memory that I can't access when I go into recovery, it says that it can't find them. I can see the folder, only with the micro SD installed even though everything in on the internal memory, if I go to install from zip and look for them. I don't know how to get clockworkmod recovery to see, access, and install the recovery to get my phone back to the way it was. PLEASE HELP!!!
Is it possible to just unroot and have my phone go back to "day 1" when I got the phone out of the box?
Same issues for me
FIESTY2 said:
I am new here and I am scared I messed up my S3. I installed the CM 10.1 nightly build 12.18.12 yesterday and my file system is messed up. The original files that I had on my phone are hidden, I can't see them. I don't even get the option to look in the 0/ folder while browsing the internal memory, I don't see anything. In addition, I'm using a FAT32 formatted microSD but the phone won't store anything on it. When I plug the phone into my computer in MTP mode with the SD card installed, I can see the internal memory if I click on the SD card and nothing if I try to click on the internal memory. Without the card installed, nothing comes up. Most importantly, I have two clockworkmod recovery files on my internal memory that I can't access when I go into recovery, it says that it can't find them. I can see the folder, only with the micro SD installed even though everything in on the internal memory, if I go to install from zip and look for them. I don't know how to get clockworkmod recovery to see, access, and install the recovery to get my phone back to the way it was. PLEASE HELP!!!
Is it possible to just unroot and have my phone go back to "day 1" when I got the phone out of the box?
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I am having the same issues. I have tried to move files with the phone connected via USB to my computer and also though the file explorer on the phone and I can't. Not sure why CM 10.1 was set up to mess with the file formatting, etc, but it screwed stuff up. I have tried going back to CM 10 (which is awesome and very stable) but I don't have the right gapps and can't get the right ones installed...
Anyone have any ideas on how to return the files to the original locations?
There isn't a way for you to go back to day one unless you download the original ROM and flash it. Good luck get that installed at this point though...
FIESTY2 said:
I am new here and I am scared I messed up my S3. I installed the CM 10.1 nightly build 12.18.12 yesterday and my file system is messed up. The original files that I had on my phone are hidden, I can't see them. I don't even get the option to look in the 0/ folder while browsing the internal memory, I don't see anything. In addition, I'm using a FAT32 formatted microSD but the phone won't store anything on it. When I plug the phone into my computer in MTP mode with the SD card installed, I can see the internal memory if I click on the SD card and nothing if I try to click on the internal memory. Without the card installed, nothing comes up. Most importantly, I have two clockworkmod recovery files on my internal memory that I can't access when I go into recovery, it says that it can't find them. I can see the folder, only with the micro SD installed even though everything in on the internal memory, if I go to install from zip and look for them. I don't know how to get clockworkmod recovery to see, access, and install the recovery to get my phone back to the way it was. PLEASE HELP!!!
Is it possible to just unroot and have my phone go back to "day 1" when I got the phone out of the box?
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To get back to day 1 just flash a stock rom from the stock rom thread in OG development using Odin. That will bring you back to either out of the box ics or newest jellybean update, depending on which one you choose.
Hello all, I recently purchased a new GS4 tmobile variant and have rooted it via Odin. SU shows up in the app section and TWRP installed successfully. My problem is when I attempt to flash a new rom i.e. GE 4.3, I almost immediately get a FAILED message and cant get it installed. I created a backup and have been able to restore so its not been an issue however I really cant figure out where im going wrong. The zip file is on my SD card but no luck... I'm just looking for some direction,
Thanks Andrew
th3h0ff said:
Hello all, I recently purchased a new GS4 tmobile variant and have rooted it via Odin. SU shows up in the app section and TWRP installed successfully. My problem is when I attempt to flash a new rom i.e. GE 4.3, I almost immediately get a FAILED message and cant get it installed. I created a backup and have been able to restore so its not been an issue however I really cant figure out where im going wrong. The zip file is on my SD card but no luck... I'm just looking for some direction,
Thanks Andrew
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if you installed the rom correctly to the sd card, using twrp, you should be able to do your wipe data factory reset, wipe cash and dalvik, then press install from sd card, choose zip from sd card and install. make sure the rom is on the root of the sd card. when i first started flashing i was having a issue because my device was mounted incorrectly and the rom was not going to the root of my sd card. i started using a card reader that i can mount as a disk drive and send the rom to that. that solved my issues. also i seemed to be having issues with twrp on my device so i started using it and installed clockwork mod touch recovery and things started working then.Also be sure you are trying to install the correct rom for your device variant.i hope this helps some. good luck
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if you installed the rom correctly to the sd card, using twrp, you should be able to do your wipe data factory reset, wipe cash and dalvik, then press install from sd card, choose zip from sd card and install. make sure the rom is on the root of the sd card. when i first started flashing i was having a issue because my device was mounted incorrectly and the rom was not going to the root of my sd card. i started using a card reader that i can mount as a disk drive and send the rom to that. that solved my issues. also i seemed to be having issues with twrp on my device so i started using it and installed clockwork mod touch recovery and things started working then.Also be sure you are trying to install the correct rom for your device variant.i hope this helps some. good luck
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The .zip file is in a folder called ROMS i created on the root of the internal memory. Right now im stuck without anything as my backup seems to have failed now as well. I've flashed many roms before and have never run into this so im stumped! I've tried using both CWM and TWRP but both through a "failed" error. I downloaded both the rom package from the Tmo variant GS4 forum so i think they should be right...
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The .zip file is in a folder called ROMS i created on the root of the internal memory. Right now im stuck without anything as my backup seems to have failed now as well. I've flashed many roms before and have never run into this so im stumped! I've tried using both CWM and TWRP but both through a "failed" error. I downloaded both the rom package from the Tmo variant GS4 forum so i think they should be right...
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I think ive found your issue. You said you placed the roms in a folder, try this, put the rom DIRECTLY on the root of your sd card, NOT in a folder. Give this a try and let me know. I know when flashing with my last device, the rom could not be placed into a folder, it had to be placed directly onto the root of the sd card. So try going back to the computer and mount as disk drive and directly place the rom onto the sd card, then just scroll down to find the rom while in recovery and this SHOULD work. I had a issue mounting as a disk drive so I just used a micro sd card reader and placed my sd card into the card reader, this automatically is recognized as a external disk drive and I'm able to place rom directly to root of sd card this way. When I tried hooking up my device directly to the computer it mounted as a media device and would not allow the rom to be placed correctly on the root. So that's how I got around that. So keeping these issues in mind, try again and place the rom directly to the sd and NOT in a folder and see if your able to successfully flash after that. After I did these things I was able to flash without any problems. Luke I said when I first flashed these were some issues I encountered that was prohibiting me from flashing correctly. Now I don't have any problems flashing. Please let me know if this works out and enables you to successfully flash. Hope this helps
Hi all,
Hope this hasn't been asked/answered (haven't found it yet in the galaxy nexus section).
I'm rooted, have been using a commotio 4.3 rom lately that's worked fine. I thought I'd try something new so I downloaded it, put the .zip file onto the phone (via my Mac in a root folder called "roms"). Went to factory reset the phone and I got all sorts of error messages during the process. When I go to load the rom, in clockwork recovery it says the "sd card can't be mounted." Of note, my phone is encrypted...
I'm having trouble understanding how to do this rooting stuff without an SD card (my last phone had one) - I don't really understand how with the internal storage you can wipe/factory reset and have the ROM you just downloaded and placed in the phone not disappear.
Any thoughts on how I can get my SD card to mount?
Thanks!
1) you cant mount /sdcard in recovery as there is no SDCARD. this has been addressed since the phone came out
2) im pretty sure recovery doesnt understand your phone's partitions since its encrypted.
3) use search.