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 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...
Hi to all,
i have a problem.
During the backup from cwm recovery 'recovery-clockwork-touch-5.8.3.1-endeavoru' my phone restart every time. So the process fail and i'm unable to finish the backup.
I'm using a custom rom "Revolution HD 5.0".
Any advice?
Thanks in advance,
Sartan
I have the same issue with revolution 5.1.1
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Hello,
same issue on my phone. Are there any solutions?
Guys, i fixed the problem.
You have to:
- Save all application with astro/titanium
- Save all the datas from sd card into your computer
- Format the 2 giga internal data partition from your phone
- Format the biggest partition (about 24 giga) from your phone.
- Reboot your phone
- install all your app
- restore data
- NANDROID
For me it worked
I had this problem as well.
The problem is (best guess) kernel oops when accessing certain files on the partition.
In my case, it was one of the files in /data/lost+found/... - whenever it was stat()ed or read the phone would reboot.
Let's hope we're not having a defective flash blocks but just a b0rked filesystem.
The worst part is, that without USB debug in recovery, it can't be repaired, because it can't be unmounted once booted. So there's no hope of ever recovering it without full wipe :/
And in this case, it can't be backed up because recovery doesn't allow selective backup of folders on a partition, and it doesn't just dump the partition image for some reason but tried to reas the files - which reboots the phone.
It probably could be solved by chefs in ROMs or by recovery developers by providing an option to run fsck on the filesystem before it is mounted.
zvieratko said:
I had this problem as well.
The problem is (best guess) kernel oops when accessing certain files on the partition.
In my case, it was one of the files in /data/lost+found/... - whenever it was stat()ed or read the phone would reboot.
Let's hope we're not having a defective flash blocks but just a b0rked filesystem.
The worst part is, that without USB debug in recovery, it can't be repaired, because it can't be unmounted once booted. So there's no hope of ever recovering it without full wipe :/
And in this case, it can't be backed up because recovery doesn't allow selective backup of folders on a partition, and it doesn't just dump the partition image for some reason but tried to reas the files - which reboots the phone.
It probably could be solved by chefs in ROMs or by recovery developers by providing an option to run fsck on the filesystem before it is mounted.
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So the problem can be solved only by wiping right?
For me it wasn't a problem, i wiped and then i backup the rom.
I have a Galaxy Nexus that won't boot. It goes through a boot loop. I've tried everything to try and get it working. I've wiped data/factory reset, I've formatted system and re-flashed ROMs that were already on my phone, I've tried restoring backups from several nandroid backups. It never gets past the initial Google splash screen with the unlock symbol.
I'm going to send it in for service, but I'm wondering if there's a way to try to access the flash memory to copy all the data to my computer? I've stupidly done tons of regular backups (Titanium, SMS, nandroid) to my flash memory on my phone, but never backed it up to my PC. I can see the directory structure through CWM 5.5.0.2, but I can't mount it as a USB storage device from CWM and I assume I actually have to be booted up to use ADB.
Any suggestions?
big_raji said:
I have a Galaxy Nexus that won't boot. It goes through a boot loop. I've tried everything to try and get it working. I've wiped data/factory reset, I've formatted system and re-flashed ROMs that were already on my phone, I've tried restoring backups from several nandroid backups. It never gets past the initial Google splash screen with the unlock symbol.
I'm going to send it in for service, but I'm wondering if there's a way to try to access the flash memory to copy all the data to my computer? I've stupidly done tons of regular backups (Titanium, SMS, nandroid) to my flash memory on my phone, but never backed it up to my PC. I can see the directory structure through CWM 5.5.0.2, but I can't mount it as a USB storage device from CWM and I assume I actually have to be booted up to use ADB.
Any suggestions?
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You should be able to do adb with the device in recovery mode. I'd recommend doing something like
Code:
> adb pull /data/media sdcard
This will copy the entire contents of the pretend SDcard on the phone (/data/media) onto a new folder on your computer called "sdcard".
I don't think there's a way to access the internal memory through CWM. For CWM to do that, is that to unmount that partition, and it cannot unmount data (where the sd-cad resides) as android wouldn't run without the /data partition, or so I've heard.
Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.
Theshawty said:
I don't think there's a way to access the internal memory through CWM. For CWM to do that, is that to unmount that partition, and it cannot unmount data (where the sd-cad resides) as android wouldn't run without the /data partition, or so I've heard.
Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.
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Recovery is not Android, it will run fine without the /data partition mounted (though there isn't a whole lot it would be able to do then, since that's where all your flashable goodies would reside). CWM accesses internal storage all day long when you're flashing ROMs and kernels and whatnot.
Thanks! I assumed ADB wouldn't work in recovery because I tried it quickly on a PC that didn't have the drivers installed. I plugged in it on my upstairs PC and I'm doing a very lengthy adb pull as I type this. Thanks!
Title says it all, I've on twrp recovery right now. I tried cwm before since i was having that problem. First time with Samsung any help would be appreciated.
Thanks
Edit: I believe one the phone is encrypted, the data can't be mounted to security purposes.
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Same problem
I have the same problem. My device's (Samsung GS III VZW) internal storage is encrypted as well. Does this seem like this could be what's causing this?
I want to make sure that my backups are good that I'm taking with nandroid in CWM 6.0.1.2. If I choose straight up Backup & Restore -> Backup from the menu then I get an error:
Can't mount backup path.
If I choose Backup & Restore -> Backup to external sdcard, then it chugs along for about 30 seconds, then gives this error:
Backing up data...
Can't mount /data!
However, my backups that are put on the External SD Card (extsdcard/clockworkmod/backup/<datedfolder>) only consist of 3 files, boot.img (10mb), recovery.img (10mb) and system.ext4.dup (317kb). This doesn't seem right..
Any thoughts? Does this seem like it could be caused by the device being encrypted ?
Thanks! I'm a real noob and really appreciate the help!
islandskater43 said:
I have the same problem. My device's (Samsung GS III VZW) internal storage is encrypted as well. Does this seem like this could be what's causing this?
I want to make sure that my backups are good that I'm taking with nandroid in CWM 6.0.1.2. If I choose straight up Backup & Restore -> Backup from the menu then I get an error:
Can't mount backup path.
If I choose Backup & Restore -> Backup to external sdcard, then it chugs along for about 30 seconds, then gives this error:
Backing up data...
Can't mount /data!
However, my backups that are put on the External SD Card (extsdcard/clockworkmod/backup/<datedfolder>) only consist of 3 files, boot.img (10mb), recovery.img (10mb) and system.ext4.dup (317kb). This doesn't seem right..
Any thoughts? Does this seem like it could be caused by the device being encrypted ?
Thanks! I'm a real noob and really appreciate the help!
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Ya I say definitely stay away from encryption if your gonna flash roms. I've been here before backup what you need and wipe data in recovery. If it doesn't work flash the stock jb rom thatll wipe it.(located here if needed http://www.mediafire.com/?c3cj6udkai1ljhk ). As far as the backups go I believe that's actually the right size. Cwm uses a weird format for its backups now. Granted if data can't be mounted I think those backups are worthless now anyway
Phone:
GN Toro (Verizon)
no OS currently installed!
TWRP 2.3.3 (I know, needs to be updated)
Skip to the bold text for the TLDR version.
So here's the story... I was going to flash the latest AOKP and decided that this time I would do things right! In the past I had almost always dirty flashed, but this time I was going to start clean and only restore data for a handful of apps. So I booted into TWRP and wiped cache, dalvik cache, system, and ..........internal storage! I went to flash the ROM I had downloaded and that's when I learned that I had made a huge mistake :crying:
So I've been doing a TON of reading; I think I've found a solution to my problem in this thread.
I know I can either use ADB push to reload the ROM or use ODIN mode to reflash (although I was unable to get ODIN to see my phone). My concern is that if I'm going to have any chance recovering my files, I need to avoid writing to /sdcard at all costs.
So here's my question, is there a way to get a binary dump of /sdcard aka /media/data without first installing android? I need to be able to do so from TWRP or fastboot. I have the GN toolkit but I don't see any way of doing this. I also have all the drivers installed and working (or so it seems) and ADB installed.
Sorry I misread. I'm not sure how you can recover from that.
I think you should be able to adb push a ROM to it. Flash it and it won't touch the contents of the SD card.
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Beezer80 said:
I think you should be able to adb push a ROM to it. Flash it and it won't touch the contents of the SD card.
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Actually, this is exactly what I did. The new ROM wrote a directory structure and various files to /sdcard, hopefully none of those writes overwrote the data I'm trying to recover...
16GB thumb drive and USB OTG cable. Boot into recovery and use dd to dump the user data partition to the thumb drive.
Probably too late for that, since you've already written files to the partition.
cschmitt said:
16GB thumb drive and USB OTG cable. Boot into recovery and use dd to dump the user data partition to the thumb drive.
Probably too late for that, since you've already written files to the partition.
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Ya know, I have a huge thumb drive and a USB-OTG adapter, I never even thought of this! Thanks, if I ever need to do this again I will try that.
I was able to recover most if not all of my pics (the only thing I cared about losing) using this guide I linked above.
Glad that method worked. It's kind of scary with GN having a single data partition and no ext sd. Coming from a device with separate /data and /sdcard partitions plus and ext sd, I miss being able to back things up onto the card.