I have been running 2.1.2 and decided to encrypt it. Now I want to decrypt it and went in cwm to factory restore but it can't mount sd. Am I stuck or can I restore with adb by following the brick/full stock restore directions? If it can't mount then will it able to restore back to original? Not sure what I can do. Any help will be appreciated.
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I thought I read somewhere that you have to flash back to stock. When you mount your SD from within the encrypted filesystem, are the files encrypted? In either case, I would back up your SD contents to a computer, then use fastboot or whatever base level stuff to get back to stock.
I wonder if "Factory data reset" inside of Android would do the trick...
They are decrypted when you turn on the phone. If only it was that easy with the factory restore option in settings. Lol. I guess I will just have to flash back to stock. Wasn't sure if I could restore to stock if the phone is encrypted. I'm not at my computer so I couldn't try. Thanks for the reply!
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If you have the connection/patients/dropbox space, you could use dropsync to sync your sd card up to your dropbox account. That's what I do for live backups...
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While i making back up i got this error: "Error while making backup image of /sd-ext"
how can i solve this problem? or i can restore, but my apps on ext wont work?
(i use cm 9 aplha3 , and link2sd)
are you using cwm6? i have same problem here and looking for a way to turn back to cwm5...(and you can manually back up your sd-ext..it is located in internal storage data/sdext copy it to sd card and after restoring copy again to same place))
If you're using Link2SD/Data2SD then you must be having a separate EXT2/3/4 partition on your SD card. You can simply backup the files in that partition & put them back after reflashing.
If you have a linux system, then connect USB will show up both partitions, then you can copy them to a folder on your PC as a backup.
Its actually a good thing when you don't want a full restore too. Some things like Swype's personal dictionary can't be backed up, so after a fresh install, just copy these files on the EXT partition!
valerosso said:
are you using cwm6? i have same problem here and looking for a way to turn back to cwm5...
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It's easy using CWM app. Run CWM, take the first option in the menu, confirm it's your device and it will reflash recovery 5.0.2.8. Before reflashing it already tells you that you've 5.0.2.8, but that's a mistake, if you reflash it downgrades your recovery and, at least in my device, the problem in sd-ext backup disappears.
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i got cwm 5.0.2.8 i flashed it in rommannagger 2 days ago but i still got this error.
but, if i back up my ext partition like u said:
valerosso said:
are you using cwm6? i have same problem here and looking for a way to turn back to cwm5...(and you can manually back up your sd-ext..it is located in internal storage data/sdext copy it to sd card and after restoring copy again to same place))
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can i restore the ROM with ext error? i mean the restoring still works, only the apps will "loose" ?
szuladam said:
i got cwm 5.0.2.8 i flashed it in rommannagger 2 days ago but i still got this error.
but, if i back up my ext partition like u said:
can i restore the ROM with ext error? i mean the restoring still works, only the apps will "loose" ?
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Yea restoring will work but some of the apps will not appear or will not work properly, those are stored in sdext..run link2sd and mount partition after you can copy your backed up sd ext folder... i also turned back to cwm 5 but it still has error with sdext i dont know why..
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It's easy using CWM app. Run CWM, take the first option in the menu, confirm it's your device and it will reflash recovery 5.0.2.8. Before reflashing it already tells you that you've 5.0.2.8, but that's a mistake, if you reflash it downgrades your recovery and, at least in my device, the problem in sd-ext backup disappears.
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I think you mean Rom Manager. It's a cwm app, but when you say cwm you're usually referring to the recovery app.
Edit : Try using titanium backup, I find it works better. I use cwm just to flash stuff.
Hi,
I just rooted my TMobile SGS2 T-989 and everything went fine. I got root.
Then I like to do a nandroid backup before I do anything further. I was able
to go into CWM 5.0.2.7 and selected 'backup', it went on for a while
until it gets to:
Backing up data...
Can't mount /data!
and stopped and put me back in the main menu.
What was the problem and how do I do it?
Thank you!
My SGS2 is running ICS 4.0.4 and I looked in /data and it's empty. It did create a folder with 3 files on my external SD card. Does it mean I'm ok?
Actually it's not empty. ES File Explorer showed a lot of files in /data...
I have the same issue that I said in an earlier thread, still couldn't find a solution
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oroberthickey said:
I have the same issue that I said in an earlier thread, still couldn't find a solution
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Did you turn on encryption? I did. I wonder if /data was encrypted that CWM couldn't do a backup? When I booted up in recovery, it did not ask me for the password to decrypt.
Solved:
I decrypted the internal storage (settings->security->decrypt) and did a nandroid backup again and now everything is fine. So it was the encryption that prevented the /data to be mounted.
It doesn't let me encrypt my sd card, I can't click anything, when I go to settings>security> encrypt sd card
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Hi,
I have a GS3 with a rooted stock ROM and decided to encrypt my phone. Upon rebooting, the phone asked for my password, but there's no keyboard on the screen! I think it might be because I only have SwiftKey installed, and that's on the encrypted /data partition, not the /system partition. Regardless, I now have an encrypted phone and no way to access it.
I have a nandroid backup of the phone taken right before the encrypting process, but it can't be restored as CWM can't mount /data, /emmc, or /sdcard. Additionally, I forgot to backup the internal SD card which is now encrypted, and can't just flash a new ROM with Odin as I'll lose all my data. :crying:
Is there some way I can flash a keyboard such as the one here onto the phone's /system partition? I know the system partition isn't encrypted because I can mount it in CWM. I was also thinking about manually editing my nandroid backup to replace an expendable app with a keyboard but wanted to ask the experts first.
Thanks in advance!
It lives!
For anybody who Googles this post in the future in need of help, I used CWM to flash the stock keyboard over to /system and all was good from there.
Thanks for returning to post an answer!
It occurs to me you could also likely plug in a USB keyboard. (You would probably need a micro USB to USB female adapter, but it *should* work...?)
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I'm using as custom room and got lots of crap on my "SD" card.
I want the device to run this custom rom (or any rom, it doesn't matter)
Clean, with Clean SD card. (But the leave the custom recovery)
How can I do that?
Settings > storage > Erase phone storage me thinks.
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Settings > storage > Erase phone storage me thinks.
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Yes, but will it leave nandroid and the recovery files?
It will not leave your nandroid backups. Recovery will stay installed.
Copy the clockworkmod folder onto your pc, wipe sd and then copy the folder back to your phone. Backups will be safe then.
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TToivanen said:
It will not leave your nandroid backups. Recovery will stay installed.
Copy the clockworkmod folder onto your pc, wipe sd and then copy the folder back to your phone. Backups will be safe then.
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Thanks!
Are you sure about the custom recovery?
Doesn't it need the files it created on the sd card?
I mean, where does it's files located?
Yes, I'm sure. Recovery is a partition like boot, it has nothing to do with sd card and it can not be wiped without using fastboot.
Your backups however are at /sdcard/clockworkmod/, so save them before wiping.
How are we going to backup via TiBu and Nova etc without losing data in a full wipe and flashing a new ROM?
Pictures and music as well. Will we have to backup to a PC every time? Or is there/will there be a way to partition a portion of internal storage?
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as far as I know when wiping data and system with TWRP, the internal storage (emulated sd card) is not touched. I could be wrong tho..
As far is I know, only user data is encrypted. Definitely our internal storage won't be wiped.
Thanks for the replies. This is my first device that doesn't have an SD card, so I didn't really know how it'd work.
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If you are worried about not being able to see encrypted files in twrp. You can backup use titanium move the zip or whatever over to pc and then load to new rom using adb sideload or move files and ou want to flash to the system partition i don't think that partition is encrypted either
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Still a bit confused here. I was willing to start fresh so its no big deal, but I saved my TiBu backups to my "SD Card" via Root Explorer and did a full wipe.
Of course that entire folder was wiped in the process. Got back up and running just fine via fastboot and moving the ROM to my phone via pc after the wipe.
What step am I missing in order to keep files stored in the SD Card folder? I've unlocked boatloader, have root and running vomer's CleanCore ROM (MDB08M)
Thanks for your help in advance.
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