hi guys,
i was coming back from CM10 to stock 4.1.1 on my nexus and when in CWM, i deleted all the content on sdcard by accident.
now there is no zip file on the sd card to install the rom,
I tried mounting sdcard and copy but it doesnt mount.when i press mount /sdcard, nothing happens>(doesnt show the partition on computer and doesnt go ot :unmount /sdcard.)
Im stuck in here and dont know what to do.
please help!
use search, or read a few pages back, you'll find your answer.
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A quick search yielded this useful thread.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1916108&highlight=recovery+mount+sdcard
i tried ODIN to stock but the ODIN software does not find the phone on any port when it is connected. i installed all drivers but still nothing.
cant i use ODIN for this ? thanks
adb push whateverromyouwant.zip /storage/sdcard0
Since nobody did explain why it can't mount, I will.
GALAXY NEXUS HAS NO SDCARD. It only has folder that is used as sdcard. CWM doesn't know that, thus making that mount feature useless on Galaxy Nexus
Like El Daddy said, connect your computer while your phone is in recovery mode, open cmd on the directory where you have fastboot.exe, then type "adb push ROMNAME.zip /sdcard/". You will also need to place your ROM file into the directory where you have fastboot.exe
Since that's done, please use search next time. There are too many threads talking about this exact problem.
Besides, using adb is more badass
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kyokeun1234 said:
You will also need to place your ROM file into the directory where you have fastboot.exe
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or adb.exe, depending on what are you trying to do. one could also add said folder to $PATH and have the commands system-wide to avoid the need of placing files to flash/push on the same folder that the binaries are.
note: if pushing to /sdcard/ doesnt work in recovery, push to /data/media.
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bk201doesntexist said:
or adb.exe, depending on what are you trying to do. one could also add said folder to $PATH and have the commands system-wide to avoid the need of placing files to flash/push on the same folder that the binaries are.
note: if pushing to /sdcard/ doesnt work in recovery, push to /data/media.
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Thanks for extra info
Just to add (and clarify) a bit to what was said:
1) if we are talking about mounting as in getting read/write access to /sdcard via ADB, it is already mounted by default in CWM. The /sdcard is just a symlink to /data/media, and /data is mounted by default when you boot CWM.
2) if we are talking about mounting as in USB Mass Storage, mounting /sdcard is not possible for the same reason in point #1: /sdcard is just a symlink to /data/media.
kyokeun1234 said:
Since nobody did explain why it can't mount, I will.
GALAXY NEXUS HAS NO SDCARD. It only has folder that is used as sdcard. CWM doesn't know that, thus making that mount feature useless on Galaxy Nexus
Like El Daddy said, connect your computer while your phone is in recovery mode, open cmd on the directory where you have fastboot.exe, then type "adb push ROMNAME.zip /sdcard/". You will also need to place your ROM file into the directory where you have fastboot.exe
Since that's done, please use search next time. There are too many threads talking about this exact problem.
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Thank you so much, really solve my big problem
so much easier
for those who will come to this thread with the same problem, there is the very simple solution. use any of the Toolkits from this forum ( N-Cry or Nexus 4 Toolkit 2.0 ) and from the recovery menu select install from Sideload, after that launching ( pushing ) the ROM via sideload from the Tookit. Works like a charm.
Mango Polo said:
for those who will come to this thread with the same problem, there is the very simple solution. use any of the Toolkits from this forum ( N-Cry or Nexus 4 Toolkit 2.0 ) and from the recovery menu select install from Sideload, after that launching ( pushing ) the ROM via sideload from the Tookit. Works like a charm.
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1) this is the galaxy nexus, not the nexus 4
2) just say no to toolkits
3) adb is not hard
4) fastboot is also, not hard.
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How the hell can i delete a folder that can't be seen via PC connection but i can see it using es file explorer?
I can't delete it using ES even with root enabled....
zerozoneice said:
How the hell can i delete a folder that can't be seen via PC connection but i can see it using es file explorer?
I can't delete it using ES even with root enabled....
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Depending on where it is you need to mount it first. Which folder are you trying to delete?
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I had a folder that became corrupted (repeatedly interrupted game data downloads, I think). I was unable to delete it (even as root) and received an Access Denied error. I was able to rename the folder (so it wouldn't conflict anymore) and delete the majority of its contents (still received the Access Denied error on a file or two). I eventually had to do a full wipe via fastboot -w to get rid of the corrupted files.
had the same problem. had to reflash su.zip and it worked. can't explain it though. just reaching at straws
matt30 said:
Depending on where it is you need to mount it first. Which folder are you trying to delete?
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it's the folder created by the Photaf application.
i uninstalled the app and the folder is still there...permissions are writable, not hidden...
i can rename it, but can't delete it....and the subfolder within it as well...
i remember it happened once before and the only way to get rid of it was to reinstall the ROM (AOKP). Once installed, i could delete the folder.....
Try reinstalling the game and using settings/application/name of game clear data
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bwcorvus said:
Try reinstalling the game and using settings/application/name of game clear data
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no effect, still can't be removed
LE: WTF, i just plugged in the phone into USB for charging and i saw the folder?! It deleted just fine?
Damn weird didn't do anything different than yesterday when i couldn't even see the folder via PC...
Thank you!
My Asus Transformer (TF101) hasn't been able to download anything to the Download folder for months now. Even Opera (which I installed just to try and fix this) could only download to a different folder. I did what you said, plugged it into the computer and first renamed the folder with ADB but couldn't create a new Download folder. "File already exists." Lies. Windows Explorer said it was still there as Download so I deleted it in Explorer and created a new folder named Download. The create failed but Android said it was there and Voila! I can download again. Very weird, but not ready yet to reformat in fastboot. Thanks guys!
If you're rooted you may be able to delete the files from /data/media, which is the true location, instead of the visual SD that you are seeing.
Could also be a file ownership issue.
Using a terminal emulator, use the following command to list ownership and permissions:
ls -l
(Lower case letter L, not i or 1)
Most of the files and folders should show up as media_rw, but the problematic ones may show up as numbers. To fix them, boot into CWM recovery, plug in the USB cable, go into adb shell. Also make sure that /data is mounted in the CWM mounts menu. Then:
cd /data/media
chown -R media_rw.media_rw *
So i've made a mistake. I forgot to download GAPPS but i've already done a factory reset and installed a new rom. I cant seem to mount the usb storage trough clockwork recovery. Is there a way to push the zip file to the device?? Or what should i do?
Thanx
xclusiv8 said:
So i've made a mistake. I forgot to download GAPPS but i've already done a factory reset and installed a new rom. I cant seem to mount the usb storage trough clockwork recovery. Is there a way to push the zip file to the device?? Or what should i do?
Thanx
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If you only forgot gapps you can restart, the ROM and the phone will work fine you just won't have Google apps. Once it's on you can just copy the file like usual and return to recovery and flash it
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Good question though. What IF he didnt flash the ROM, how do you get a file on the SDcard if you cant mount it in recovery?
adb push ./"filename.zip" /sdcard
Phone will boot just fine w/o GAPPS.
But you can just use adb push <FILE> <DIRECTORY>
for example:
Code:
adb push gapps.zip /sdcard/
Thanx for the help guys =)
This happens to me all the time. The Mounts section of CWM select "mount as USB" drive. Windows should see this drive and transfer away.
merge5 said:
This happens to me all the time. The Mounts section of CWM select "mount as USB" drive. Windows should see this drive and transfer away.
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GN internal storage can't be mounted as USB - not even in recovery.
The only way I've found to push/pull files in CWM on the GN is over ADB. If the files in /sdcard/ don't appear, go into mounts and storage, and mount /data. Then try again.
/sdcard/ is nothing more than a symlink to /data/media.
I transfer files over ADB with
'adb push update.zip /data/media/'
no need to mount /data before.
just reboot open up your computer and youll see the gnex just transfer the gapps to your sd card and then reboot in recovery to flash
cmstlist said:
GN internal storage can't be mounted as USB - not even in recovery.
The only way I've found to push/pull files in CWM on the GN is over ADB. If the files in /sdcard/ don't appear, go into mounts and storage, and mount /data. Then try again.
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Good point. I stand corrected. That was how I did it on my OG Droid. Sorry for the confusion.
bk201doesntexist said:
/sdcard/ is nothing more than a symlink to /data/media.
I transfer files over ADB with
'adb push update.zip /data/media/'
no need to mount /data before.
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I'm not sure why but CWM on my phone used to auto mount /data and now it doesn't anymore. So to see anything from adb in recovery, I now have to go to mounts first.
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cmstlist said:
I'm not sure why but CWM on my phone used to auto mount /data and now it doesn't anymore. So to see anything from adb in recovery, I now have to go to mounts first.
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What cwm version are you on, for instance?
Latest CWM touch as of today, and also tried it with latest CWM non-touch.
Incidentally I just bumped into a caveat of transferring files to the GN in recovery mode. The permissions are set strangely when you push files over ADB in recovery, and as a result when booted into the OS I was unable to rename any of the pushed files/folders or put new files in. Since the DCIM directory was one that I'd pushed over, new photos weren't saving. And I did not have permission to change permissions.
This is pretty much a brute force method - so I rebooted into recovery again, mounted /data, did adb shell, cd sdcard, and then:
chmod -R 777 *
And upon booting back into the OS, everything works properly again.
I know that messing with permissions is usually a dangerous thing. My logic was that anything stored in /sdcard is supposed to be a file that any app would be allowed to access as long as it has SD permissions - it's been that way in every version of the OS through to 4.0.
But anyway, if there's something I should do to decrease the "unsafeness" of this situation, please advise me. I guess in theory this would give a malicious app permission to execute code from /sdcard, which would make me more vulnerable?
EDIT: Okay more to report. To see the permissions properly when booted into the OS, you have to go into /data/media rather than /sdcard (same directory but permissions appear differently).
When I went in there and typed ls -n, I found that all the files I had pushed in recovery have UID & GID of 0. All files I had created afterwards had UID & GID of 1023. That explains everything. The owner is root for files that came from ADB in recovery, and media_rw for files created in the OS.
I can use chown, but it looks like the version of chown that comes with busybox does not have -R recursion implemented. Hrm. Aha! In CWM, chown does support -R. And we're off to the races. So from recovery I did:
cd /data/media
chown -R media_rw.media_rw *
cmstlist said:
Latest CWM touch as of today, and also tried it with latest CWM non-touch.
Incidentally I just bumped into a caveat of transferring files to the GN in recovery mode. The permissions are set strangely when you push files over ADB in recovery, and as a result when booted into the OS I was unable to rename any of the pushed files/folders or put new files in. Since the DCIM directory was one that I'd pushed over, new photos weren't saving. And I did not have permission to change permissions.
This is pretty much a brute force method - so I rebooted into recovery again, mounted /data, did adb shell, cd sdcard, and then:
chmod -R 777 *
And upon booting back into the OS, everything works properly again.
I know that messing with permissions is usually a dangerous thing. My logic was that anything stored in /sdcard is supposed to be a file that any app would be allowed to access as long as it has SD permissions - it's been that way in every version of the OS through to 4.0.
But anyway, if there's something I should do to decrease the "unsafeness" of this situation, please advise me. I guess in theory this would give a malicious app permission to execute code from /sdcard, which would make me more vulnerable?
EDIT: Okay more to report. To see the permissions properly when booted into the OS, you have to go into /data/media rather than /sdcard (same directory but permissions appear differently).
When I went in there and typed ls -n, I found that all the files I had pushed in recovery have UID & GID of 0. All files I had created afterwards had UID & GID of 1023. That explains everything. The owner is root for files that came from ADB in recovery, and media_rw for files created in the OS.
I can use chown, but it looks like the version of chown that comes with busybox does not have -R recursion implemented. Hrm. Aha! In CWM, chown does support -R. And we're off to the races. So from recovery I did:
cd /data/media
chown -R media_rw.media_rw *
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that would explain it: i always use /data/media, didn't find any permission issues yet. thanks.
Following the instructions in this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1769301 I'm trying to root my Galaxy Nexus. All has gone well up until the point where I'm trying to flash SuperSU.zip from within CWM. I have the .zip in my /sdcard/ directory, but I cannot mount /sdcard from CWM. It just says E: Can't mount /sdcard/
I don't really want to experiment too much in trying to figure it out for fear of screwing up my phone somehow. This is my first experience unlocking/rooting a Nexus device with command line tools, so I don't know if adb or fastboot would be of service. I'm not as familiar with them as I wish I were.
Advice?
EDIT: I just noticed that I inadvertently put this in General rather than Q&A. If a mod could move it (or delete it so I can remake it and not have the same thread floating around twice), that would be great. Sorry.
I tried to install a custom rom on my Gnex(codename android) and i'm stuck at some point. I enter in recovery mode,do a backup,wipe data and when i select install zip from sdcard i can't find the .zip file. What's the problem ?
Sorry for my bad english.
Just put the zip file in the "sdcard" without unziping it.
joooe said:
Just put the zip file in the "sdcard" without unziping it.
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As you probably now, gnex doesn't have a micro sd card slot. I just have "internal storage", i watched a tutorial and did exactly like that guy.
Search youtube for "How To Load a Custom ROM on the Samsung Galaxy Nexus" i'm not allowed to post url's
Adb works in recovery, if you used fastboot to unlock the bootloader of your device you should have adb:
Code:
adb push <rom_name.zip> /sdcard/
In a terminal/CMD on your computer with your device plugged in
R: Galaxy nexus custom rom problem
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1529058
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I think he is really new to the Android platform and gnex,
Exactly like he said dont unzip
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I'm not REALLY new..
I have my phone unlcoked and rooted. I tried with adb push but it doesn't work. Any other solutions ? I did not unzip it.
When you select install zip from sdcard, do you get a list of all your folders on your SD card? Do you know how to navigate to the location of your .zip? If it doesnt show up, then your either in the wrong location or its not a .zip file. Thats really the only two things it could be.
No
I don't have a list of all my folders. I'm pretty sure i'm not in the wrong location and yes,it is a zip file.
Xhexus said:
I don't have a list of all my folders. I'm pretty sure i'm not in the wrong location and yes,it is a zip file.
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Well something is wrong if you aren't getting a list of all your folders on your SD card. What exactly happens when you select "install from SD card"? Just a blank screen?
Sounds like he wiped /data instead of doing a factory reset
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Xhexus said:
I have my phone unlcoked and rooted. I tried with adb push but it doesn't work. Any other solutions ? I did not unzip it.
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What do you mean it "doesn't work"? What error comes up?
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I have a rooted 5x nougat with twrp recovery and stock rom. When I attempt to copy my TWRP backup to my computer via MTP file transfer, I cannot. Same with my titanium backup folder. I also tried to move my TWRP backup to my DCIM folder such that I could try PTP file transfer but that didn't work either.
Indeed, i cannot even transfer files within my own phone's file directory. I'm using root Explorer. I've toggled and made the file system read-write. I tried to change file folder permissions, and that failed.
Any advice Xda family? I have the proper drives installed.
Apologies in advance if my verbiage isn't accurate technically. I'm pretty good with android but by no means an expert.
Mario
File Transfers
I'm not really sure as to why you'd have problems moving files within your phones internal storage, however I do have a solution (work around, really) to your MTP problem, as long as you have ADB working.
I also never got MTP working so I just use a file manager to check the path to the folder I want from my phone to my computer, and then use the command:
Code:
adb pull /path/to/folder/on/phone /path/to/destination/on/computer
And if I want to put something from my computer on my phone, I do the opposite command:
Code:
adb push /path/to/file/on/computer /path/to/destination/on/phone
Additionally, if you really need to move files around on your phone, you can use:
Code:
adb shell
su
mv /path/to/file /path/to/destination
Hope that helps!
Thanks. It does help and I have adb. I'll try that method. I'm not sure why I'm having that issue either.