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I stupidly wiped my rom and SD card through Amon Ra Recovery now. Card is empty! Help

So i stupidly clicked on wipe sd card when i was trying to wipe sd ext in amon ra recovery. This is right after i wiped system, user data and such. Now i dont have a flashable rom on the sd card because its empty and now the rom i have on the phone is gone too. Please, how can i upload a rom from the computer to the sd card through recovery? or is there another method? Any advice will be appreciate and please feel free to call me stupid.

Jason Black said:
So i stupidly clicked on wipe sd card when i was trying to wipe sd ext in amon ra recovery. This is right after i wiped system, user data and such. Now i dont have a flashable rom on the sd card because its empty and now the rom i have on the phone is gone too. Please, how can i upload a rom from the computer to the sd card through recovery? or is there another method? Any advice will be appreciate and please feel free to call me stupid.
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In the main menu, there's an option called USB-MS Toggle. Plug your phone into your computer and turn that on, and your SD card will show up as storage on your computer.

thanks !

Stupid!!!
Hehe, just kidding! I've done that before too... and I'm sure there are quite a few others on here that have made that mistake!!
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its 5:30 in the morning here, and i just barely found this.. i been searching forever.. tonight..
my sdcard errored out. and my phone wont read it.. so.. i went and bought a new sdcard.. and trying to get my zips on the phone now.. thanks god.. hope i can flash my roms now..

I did this the other morning, I used a few programs and it brought my files back..I would have lost around 600 pictures.
I tried the following.
Card Recovery-http://www.cardrecovery.com/
Remo Recovery-http://www.remosoftware.com/
These will only work if you have not over written the files. I believe the card recovery is the one that brought my files back.

Ahhh ill remember this in case i do it again lol
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Recuva has worked great for me in situations like these, I was able to recover all my files when the SD was somehow wiped a while back...

miguelfp1 said:
Recuva has worked great for me in situations like these, I was able to recover all my files when the SD was somehow wiped a while back...
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Thanks for posting this. I could use this program for my PC.

The best recovery tool that I've found to date is called recuva.
http://www.piriform.com/recuva

Oops! Didn't see the other responses!

[Q] Memory issue

I am having an issue with my epic 4g touch. The phone is confusing the internal memory and the external sd card. So when I download something it ends up going into the internal from music to apps. In the settings/storage it says I have things on my sd card but if I go to it in root explorer, it shows nothing. My problem is that when I flash a new rom and do a nandroid backup, the backup disappears on me. I will put the backup on the sd card but when I go back to it, it's gone. It doesn't show up on the internal either. The last time I flashed a rom I got stuck with no backup. Needless to say I am a little scared to try again. It has done this with two separate sd cards. Please help? I am confused. Does anyone else have this problem?

I have had some similar issues. For me it doesn't acknowledge my external sd card alot of times lately.
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You guys would get alot more help if you made it easy for people to help.
What ROM are you on....have you modded anything, etc

Snazarian said:
You guys would get alot more help if you made it easy for people to help.
What ROM are you on....have you modded anything, etc
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I am stock just rooted.

OcXcPunk said:
I am stock just rooted.
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Have you tried removing and formatting the MicroSD card through Windows?
(Or mount as USB in FI03 and format that way)

help with SD/internal mem!!

So I don't know what I did but I went to my recovery (TWRP) and accidently did something I do not know what, but now I can not view my pics, files, music from both SD/internal..but when I reboot my phone and check on the computer I see everything there and my storage says it's full. I just can't see it on the phone

re: out of space
G1-evolve said:
So I don't know what I did but I went to my recovery (TWRP) and accidently did something I do not know what, but now I can not view my pics, files, music from both SD/internal..but when I reboot my phone and check on the computer I see everything there and my storage says it's full. I just can't see it on the phone
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I think it would be very useful if you can provide a lot more details and specifics about your situation like
which rom are you using, did it ever work properly if so what was the last thing you have done with the
phone before you started having this issue.
If I were you since you can see your internal and external sdcards on your computer I would first create
two new folders on the computer's desktop, one for internal sd and the other external sd.
Then copy all the files and folders from your internal/external sdcard to the appropriate folders on your desktop.
After doing that check how much space is being used in each of your two new folders on your computer's desktop.
See if there are any really large files which look suspicious to you.
After doing that and if the sdcards are either really full or not really full you will have a better idea of what to do to
trouble shoot the issue you are having with the phone.
It's always a good idea in any case to have a backup of both internal and external sdcards on your computer.
Good luck!

It isn't an ROM issue, but I was on PAC Rom. My problem is I did something in the recovery by mistake and pressed something maybe that formatted my memory?? :crying:
edit: Issue seems to be fixed..

re: sdcards
G1-evolve said:
It isn't an ROM issue, but I was on PAC Rom. My problem is I did something in the recovery by mistake and pressed something maybe that formatted my memory?? :crying:
edit: Issue seems to be fixed..
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That's one of the reasons I was suggesting that you copy everything from both internal and external
cards to folders on your computers desktop.
So you could see what you really have. If you get a message saying sdcard full or anything like that
it normally would mean that the sdcard has not been formatted, if it was it would be empty and it would
not give an error message saying that it's full.

Sometimes the PC will see the files after its been wiped by the phone. Copy everything to desktop, hope it actually copies everything, format sd card using Android OS, copy everything back, get a Dropbox account.
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Find a root file manager.
Go to
Data/media.
That's your internal sd card. Some roms create a virtual sd card (sdcard0 or emulated sdcard0), which is android making a a fake one. All your pictures are still on your phone.
Just copy data/media into the virtual sd card an reboot. Your stuff shall appear again. If you have issues just pm me.
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TWRP wont recognize ext sd card after factory reset and wipe HELP PLEASE!

OK- I am not new here.... been away for awhile but. I recently rooted both of my lg optimus g pro e980 from ATT. I followed the directions on a few threads regarding this procedure. I installed twrp 2.6.3.0 and ran the updates that I could. I installed freegee pro as well. After I did this I also installed CWM recovery and made sure I updated it as well. I made a backup as I always have before I factory reset and I saved it to my external sd card.
I downloaded several roms to flash and gapps and a few other things i found that I liked and saved these to my ext sd card. I used astro file manager and root explorer to verify that the files were on the external sd card.
After the backup using cmw recovery I went into twrp. I did a factory reset per the instructions and after the reset I can't see my external SD card. I have tried EVERYTHING. I dug into every folder I could. I tried rebooting and seeing if I can see the external card from my pc. I cannot see it anywhere.
Can someone PLEASE help me out.

da9b16 said:
OK- I am not new here.... been away for awhile but. I recently rooted both of my lg optimus g pro e980 from ATT. I followed the directions on a few threads regarding this procedure. I installed twrp 2.6.3.0 and ran the updates that I could. I installed freegee pro as well. After I did this I also installed CWM recovery and made sure I updated it as well. I made a backup as I always have before I factory reset and I saved it to my external sd card.
I downloaded several roms to flash and gapps and a few other things i found that I liked and saved these to my ext sd card. I used astro file manager and root explorer to verify that the files were on the external sd card.
After the backup using cmw recovery I went into twrp. I did a factory reset per the instructions and after the reset I can't see my external SD card. I have tried EVERYTHING. I dug into every folder I could. I tried rebooting and seeing if I can see the external card from my pc. I cannot see it anywhere.
Can someone PLEASE help me out.
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I don't understand why you do your backups with CWM, and then you go into TWRP, what recovery do you have currently installed? You can only have one.
Erik

ricco333 said:
I don't understand why you do your backups with CWM, and then you go into TWRP, what recovery do you have currently installed? You can only have one.
Erik
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I have never used twrp until this phone. I have been out of the loop for about 14 months... changed jobs and started my own company. been too busy. I followed instructions... and it talks about them BOTH being available for use.
The bottom line is I still dont see how the external SD card is not being seen... my backup and my roms are on the external... makes no sense. I can pull the card out and see the roms on my other lg optimus g pro just fine.

da9b16 said:
OK- I am not new here.... been away for awhile but. I recently rooted both of my lg optimus g pro e980 from ATT. I followed the directions on a few threads regarding this procedure. I installed twrp 2.6.3.0 and ran the updates that I could. I installed freegee pro as well. After I did this I also installed CWM recovery and made sure I updated it as well. I made a backup as I always have before I factory reset and I saved it to my external sd card.
I downloaded several roms to flash and gapps and a few other things i found that I liked and saved these to my ext sd card. I used astro file manager and root explorer to verify that the files were on the external sd card.
After the backup using cmw recovery I went into twrp. I did a factory reset per the instructions and after the reset I can't see my external SD card. I have tried EVERYTHING. I dug into every folder I could. I tried rebooting and seeing if I can see the external card from my pc. I cannot see it anywhere.
Can someone PLEASE help me out.
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I have the same problem.
I used FReeGee to unlock my bootloader and flashed cwm to have my files visible. But still it messes up with my internal SD that it is always set to SDCARD/0. It is so useless and wastes more memories.
IS there something what we need to avoid or fix that issue with the SD`?

fosunite said:
I have the same problem.
I used FReeGee to unlock my bootloader and flashed cwm to have my files visible. But still it messes up with my internal SD that it is always set to SDCARD/0. It is so useless and wastes more memories.
IS there something what we need to avoid or fix that issue with the SD`?
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Your problem is not related to CWM or FreeGee, the reason why you see SDcard/0 after you flash cm 10.2 or later is because with Jelly Bean 4.2 Android implemented the multi user feature that wasn't present in JB 4.1 that came with the G pro. That is easily solved, just do a search for Aroma File Manager and you can move your files from your SD to the folder /0 and recover your SD card lost space.
Erik
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da9b16 said:
I have never used twrp until this phone. I have been out of the loop for about 14 months... changed jobs and started my own company. been too busy. I followed instructions... and it talks about them BOTH being available for use.
The bottom line is I still dont see how the external SD card is not being seen... my backup and my roms are on the external... makes no sense. I can pull the card out and see the roms on my other lg optimus g pro just fine.
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If I were you, I would flash the stock .tot file from att using LGflash tools and start over, when using FreeGee you don't have to install both recoveries, just choose one, I use CWM, there is only one recovery partition therefore only one recovery can be installed.
Erik

I can see this is dated, but maybe this is of some help. Twrp will not recognize any sd card if is exFAT. It has to be FAT32 if I'm not mistaken. It may just be FAT, but I'm pretty sure it's FAT32.
I have been having this issue, and did a good bit of research. I'm gonna reformat my memory card at some point to check, but it will take a while for me to get my files moved around.
Just thought I'd give you the heads up.
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As far as TWRP goes, Madmack's Hacked TWRP is the only one that I've gotten to read my external sd. Both ExFAT and FAT32.
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Lg g pro at&t
I m also facing same problem , itried to instal recovery with various tools like rom mannager, flashifuy, freege etc...
but i was unable to instal recovery and at the end i found that i have lost my sd card excess. its not mounting now, neither i cud excess otg support. rest of the phone is working fine.
please help

momixp said:
I m also facing same problem , itried to instal recovery with various tools like rom mannager, flashifuy, freege etc...
but i was unable to instal recovery and at the end i found that i have lost my sd card excess. its not mounting now, neither i cud excess otg support. rest of the phone is working fine.
please help
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i just ran into this problem and can't seem to find a solution! --- Did you ever get this resolved? If so would you please share!! Thank yoU!

Fat32 twrp
playerjunglejosh said:
I can see this is dated, but maybe this is of some help. Twrp will not recognize any sd card if is exFAT. It has to be FAT32 if I'm not mistaken. It may just be FAT, but I'm pretty sure it's FAT32.
I have been having this issue, and did a good bit of research. I'm gonna reformat my memory card at some point to check, but it will take a while for me to get my files moved around.
Just thought I'd give you the heads up.
Sent from my LG-E980 using xda app-developers app
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This is a godsend. I was having issues with TWRP recognizing my SDCard and my Windows machine didn't have a problem. I formatted as a FAT32 and worked like a champ. I'm now able to backup my personal data before moving on the better ROMs... Thanks!

Flashing roms via TWRP

I know this should be directed to the twrp forums but I wanted to get feedback from owners of the sprint lg g3 preferably using the CM12.1 android version 5.1.
I have always had this issue where I am unable to flash roms on my external sd card via twrp. Everytime I try (just tried again tonight), after over and hour of restoring, it was only at 10%. When I flash the same rom on the internal sd (memory) it only takes about 10 minutes to accomplish the entire restore, its the same way for backups too. I don't understand why I am unable to do backups and restores from my external sd. It is very inconvienant to keep moving the backups from external to internal and vice versa. Plus, I can never put more than 1 backup on my internal because they take up so much space (roughly 8gb). It doesn't matter what backup rom I flash it does the same thing. Has anyone else been able to flash roms from their external sd card and if so, what did you have to do to get it to work? I have sent my concerns to the twrp team with no replies back. I am just curious if others are having the same problem or if their has been a fix for this.
I am currently on version 2.8.5 of twrp.

Does anyone have any suggestions or feedback on this issue? Thanks

Hey mate,
You could try installing the TWRP version for the G3 from their app, rather than just the generic version for any phone. If that doesn't work, then it sounds like your SD Card could be corrupted. I backup my whole phone to my external SD Card before I flash any updates or anything else, and can install the ROM updates from my SD Card with no problems whatsoever.
All I can really think of is either a new SD Card, or the official TWRP for the G3 from their app.

iDefalt said:
Hey mate,
You could try installing the TWRP version for the G3 from their app, rather than just the generic version for any phone. If that doesn't work, then it sounds like your SD Card could be corrupted. I backup my whole phone to my external SD Card before I flash any updates or anything else, and can install the ROM updates from my SD Card with no problems whatsoever.
All I can really think of is either a new SD Card, or the official TWRP for the G3 from their app.
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Thanks for the response. Do you have a G3 also? I have installed the official bumped version of twrp for my sprint phone and am still having issues. Just by curiousity, when you are in twrp, are you able to backup and restore directly to/from the sd card. I do not have any issues with my card other than this, I can transfer and move files, etc. I have noticed though on my 64 gb scandisk card that when it first boots up, it will say not able to retrieve location. I put a different card in the phone and that message stopped which makes me believe it has something to do with the card. That location message just started about a month or two ago.

iDefalt said:
Hey mate,
You could try installing the TWRP version for the G3 from their app, rather than just the generic version for any phone. If that doesn't work, then it sounds like your SD Card could be corrupted. I backup my whole phone to my external SD Card before I flash any updates or anything else, and can install the ROM updates from my SD Card with no problems whatsoever.
All I can really think of is either a new SD Card, or the official TWRP for the G3 from their app.
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It turns out that it was something to do with the external SD card. I replaced it with a brand new card and i am able to backup and restore to/from the external card with twrp.

jreink01 said:
It turns out that it was something to do with the external SD card. I replaced it with a brand new card and i am able to backup and restore to/from the external card with twrp.
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Nice, good to see it got worked out!