I'm sorry. I'm somewhat new at this but I'm pretty sure this isn't what's supposed to happen.
I was going to flash a new ROM to my Note 2. I backed everything up in my external SD card (Nandroid and Titanium). I did all the wipes in TWRP 2.4.3 -- Factory Reset and System-- but I also decided to "Format Data" (reformat my Internal SD) which I now regret because, when I go to install the ROM that is in my external sd card, I find that I can't mount it. When I go to reboot, it says there's no OS installed.
I still have access to TWRP. When I plug my phone to my computer though, it doesn't detect it.
Did I just brick my phone? What are my options? Can I load a ROM from my computer or something? I really need help.
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Resolved the problem. I was able to mount my external SD card eventually and recover everything. Thanks.
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i have the same problems. After backup by the rom manger, my mobile can't keep reboot. I have tried restore, but it seems can't read my sd card.I have reformat hte sd card and do a full wipe. After i put back the .zip into the sd card and to flash a rom back, it can't. It seems can't read from my sd card. Can anyone give me a big help? I want to boot up/flash a rom 1st.
Do not use Rom Manager for anything because it is useless and causes more problems than solves them. Have you tried to enable your SD card as a USB through the recovery so it'll boot up on your PC? If that doesn't work seems that the partitions have messed up and you'll need to format it or something. Also, if you do get it to work, don't restore the backup, just wipe the data and caches then install a custom rom.
It's probably a USB Brick... read about a fix here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=691187
how can i access the external sd card from cwm? ive noticed everything has been installed and downloaded into internal sd. i did a factory reset from phone and erased my internal sd card now my phone wont boot and i cant access my external sd card from cwm. i can get to cwm but no access to card and everythings been wiped from the internal memory. is there a way to access the external sd card? also seems to be a bigger problem than just this when i tried to install xda app before i did wipe it wouldnt allow me since xda is stored in sd cARD. its like it doesnt access the card. anyone????
ok so i did a factory data reset thru phone thinking this would solve some of my issues and instead created more because i went into continuous bootloop. then my internal memeory was wiped also and i couldnt flash anything and for some reason you cant access external sd thru cwm. so i actually thought about intentionally bricking my phone so i could take it back to sprint. lmao!! anyways so finally io went into cwm and went to mount and unmount then hit mount usb and text changed to unmount usb so i plugged my phone to my pc and bam it connected and this gave me the oppurtunity ti put a rom into sd once it synced then i was able to acces it and flash it and now im back lol. but when you do a factory reset it wipes everything from your internal memory all your roms and zips to flash are gone and you can no longer flash anything. i dont know if this was already spoken of or not vut i searched the forum and couldnt find anything to help my situation so maybe this will help the next guy at least until we get further into the development of this phone.
hope this helps someone!!!
Man I hope this works I just got my phone and i bricked it.... wow.
I noticed that you can't access external_sd from cwm *yet*. I was going to say you always have odin if you can get the phone into download mode, but looks like you figured that out.
Ok I have made the stupidest and idiotic attempt to upgrade from 4.0.4 to 4.1 jelly bean on GSM Galaxy Nexus.
Basically, my phone was already rooted and unlocked, so I made a nandroid copy and off I went into recovery mode, trying to install the yakju zip file to manually update the firmware.
After I installed it and rebooted, it seems like it wasn't installed on some sort of internal storage that was only 66mb and I have lost my SD card and no user settings can be saved onto it. I realised this because if I went into recovery mode again and reboot normally, I will have to go through the initial setup all over again!!! At this point, if I tried to go back to nandroid copy, I could have done so easily.
BUT I made the mistake of trying to wipe all user data again and now everything on my SD card has been wiped out, including my nandroid copy and the ability to restore my nandroid back up!!! So if i tried to flash clockwork recovery image and restore, there is nothing in there for me to restore.... and I don't have access to the 13gb SD storage from phone or computer!!
Someone please help??!! At least I just want my old ICS system back!
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Ok I have made the stupidest and idiotic attempt to upgrade from 4.0.4 to 4.1 jelly bean on GSM Galaxy Nexus.
Basically, my phone was already rooted and unlocked, so I made a nandroid copy and off I went into recovery mode, trying to install the yakju zip file to manually update the firmware.
After I installed it and rebooted, it seems like it wasn't installed on some sort of internal storage that was only 66mb and I have lost my SD card and no user settings can be saved onto it. I realised this because if I went into recovery mode again and reboot normally, I will have to go through the initial setup all over again!!! At this point, if I tried to go back to nandroid copy, I could have done so easily.
BUT I made the mistake of trying to wipe all user data again and now everything on my SD card has been wiped out, including my nandroid copy and the ability to restore my nandroid back up!!! So if i tried to flash clockwork recovery image and restore, there is nothing in there for me to restore.... and I don't have access to the 13gb SD storage from phone or computer!!
Someone please help??!! At least I just want my old ICS system back!
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I'm not sure if this will work but it's the first thing I'd try.
You seem to have wiped your internal SD card so I would try to use an undelete tool like "Recuva" from your PC. Reboot the phone and skip any setup options - you want to minimise the writing of anything onto your internal SD card so hopefully the nandroid backup file won't be overwritten.
Plug the phone into your PC and mount the internal SD card as a drive on your PC and then run Recuva on it.
Good luck.
gadgetgaz said:
I'm not sure if this will work but it's the first thing I'd try.
You seem to have wiped your internal SD card so I would try to use an undelete tool like "Recuva" from your PC. Reboot the phone and skip any setup options - you want to minimise the writing of anything onto your internal SD card so hopefully the nandroid backup file won't be overwritten.
Plug the phone into your PC and mount the internal SD card as a drive on your PC and then run Recuva on it.
Good luck.
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THanks for your reply, but my SD card is completely lost now, So if I tried to take a photo, it won't let me because it says that I don't have an external storage............
So my phone is in a bootloop. I made a dumb mistake, and restarted my phone to be met with a bootloop. My question is - is it possible for me to get my files off of the phone before reinstalling/doing a fresh install? I have access to both download mode and CWM Recovery - I just have some files on here that I really need, and unfortunately, they aren't replaceable. Is there anyway for me to get them off of my phone? I'm running WFTN.
I've tried starting up CWM and backing up to external-sd, but every time I do I get a "can't mount backup path" error. So I go to Mounts and Storage and try mounting my external sd, but I get a "Error Mounting /external_sd!" message. Can anyone help me out?
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Actually, I managed to get the files I needed. I needed some recordings off of the phone, and I was able to plug my phone into my computer via usb (in CWM) and it gave me access to the phone's internal SD card. So I suppose all that's left is actually re-flashing the ROM. I was running an older version of WFTN, I suppose i was due for an upgrade anyway.
However, I suppose my original question remains - is it possible to backup the files on the phone (without using the usb)? Is there a reason I was unable to mount my external sd card?
Just because you are flashing a rom doesnt mean your recordings or anhthing on your sd card is wiped when you flash a new rom. The exception being if you use odin to put a oneclick of a jellybean rom on. Then it wiped internal. And if you are worried about sd card just pull it out. Iirc I was always able to pull files from both internal and external while in recovery using el26 kernel. Not sure where the problem was. But glad to know you got your files.
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I'm a ****ing idiot. I was going to install a new ROM and I was wizzing through everything and accidentally clicked ext SD card on the wipe screen....
EVERYTHING was on there. My last ROM backup, my Titanium backups... even the rom I was flashing. I literally have nothing on my phone.
I know I can use adb to push the new rom through but I'm still losing ALL my data. ALL my pictures and songs and EVERYTHING will be gone forever.
Is there ANY way to recover from a wipe???
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I'm a ****ing idiot. I was going to install a new ROM and I was wizzing through everything and accidentally clicked ext SD card on the wipe screen....
EVERYTHING was on there. My last ROM backup, my Titanium backups... even the rom I was flashing. I literally have nothing on my phone.
I know I can use adb to push the new rom through but I'm still losing ALL my data. ALL my pictures and songs and EVERYTHING will be gone forever.
Is there ANY way to recover from a wipe???
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try to remove it, put it on a pc, and use a software like recuva, but i don't know if it works on flash memory
Undeleter!
Doesnt work everytime but definetly worth giving it a try.
Snoob25 said:
try to remove it, put it on a pc, and use a software like recuva, but i don't know if it works on flash memory
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My issue is I don't have an sd card reader on my computer and I can't select my G3 from Recuva using the TWRP mount.
Download said rom or any on flash drive and use otg cable or dollar stores got sd card to usb converters walmart any one but i use otg in the case
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My issue is I don't have an sd card reader on my computer and I can't select my G3 from Recuva using the TWRP mount.
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I take it you have a usb port just order a micro usb sim reader don't cost much and try recuva from there
or, if you don't care about data that was on INTERNAL sdcard, you could, remove your external sdcard from phone, restore phone, boot phone, insert sdcard, and then mount sdcard as mass storage (i never did it, but it should be some root app that enables it), then recuva
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My issue is I don't have an sd card reader on my computer and I can't select my G3 from Recuva using the TWRP mount.
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Use PhilZ Recovery (flashable ZIP):
https://onedrive.live.com/redir.asp...E!2560&authkey=!AEWRy1uDVQUYt5o&ithint=file%2
This recovery image allows you to mount your microSD card as a USB Mass Storage device - simply go to 'Mounts & Storage', then 'Mount USB Storage' (or similar).