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cw recover says cant mount (snapshot) please help

my moms boyfriend has a rooted G2 using iceandfire 2.0 and earlier today he picked up his phone from the charger to find that it turned off by itself, he turned it back on and it stayed at
The htc screen, so I tried wiping the data to flash a new rom and it said can't mount such and such
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So the big question is, why did it do this, and what can I do to fix it? Help is much appreciated since he has no backup phone and he's a heavy user so he needs his phone back up and running asap
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Those errors are likely caused by a hardware error (bad internal memory chip): http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1039504

Hey rickyiswhite, I've experienced the same problem with my htc hd2. I am not hundred percent sure how and why this happened, but I managed to get my phone back to life. Here are two methods which I think might help you.
1. You might be missing 'initrid' and 'zImage' files in your sd card. You need these two files to flash new rom from your sd card otherwise the phone cant 'recognize' your sd card. You can find these two files from any rom you have downloaded, just copy and paste them into your sd card's root folder.
2. If this is not the case, I would recommend you to format your sd card (fat 32, i tried once to format my sd card to ntfs, and kind of destroyed it), and clear everything inside your phone using 'task29', which means you will lose everything stored inside your phone and sd card. Then you can uninstall and reinstall the HSPL (this might not be necessary, but I did that, just to make sure everything is cleared). Afterwards you just have to flash the radio and the magldr back. What's left now is to copy your rom into your sd card, remember to copy the 'initrd' and 'zImage' as well, and flash the rom, done!
However, I can't guarantee this would work because you know, different devices, so you have to take your own risk and responsibility to do this. FYI, you can also flash a new rom through computer, using the DFT.exe inside the rom. But currently most of the roms are flashed through magldr or clk, so it would take you some time to find the rom that can be flashed directly via computer.
Anyway, good luck to you, and hope these tips might help

[EASY][GUIDE] Install your own Custom Icons, Statusbar Symbols with Metamorph!

SO FIRST OF ALL, I DID NOT CREATE THIS APP , AM JUST SHOWING YOU HOW TO DO IT ,SO ALL CREDITS GOES TO STEPHEN (STERICSON) !!
As far as we know that, there various Methods for themeing your Phone but some of them take big expenditure, But not any more with this app. This is the most simplest way to theme your phone !
PLEASE MAKE A CWM BACKUP TO REVERT BACK IF ANYTHING GOES WRONG, I AM NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DAMAGES !!
Requirements:
A Rooted Phone with ICS
Latest Busybox (Just search for busybox installer in the market and install it!)
So lets get started
1) Download the app from this link http://www.mediafire.com/?esf9h3aevkjpjw5
Dont download it from the market because of some ICS compability Issues
2) Install it on your phone and open it. Click on start checks and then permit the SU permission.
3) That all with the phone, Now lets get to the Computer.
4) Go to http://droidpirate.com/category/metamorph-2/
for Icons and symbols
5) Download any icon, in my case ill be downloading a USB skin(just got bored with the orange guy)
6) Connect your phone to your PC, and open the mass storage
7) Now in the mass storage you will find a folder called AndroidThemes(if not create one,but make sure its written like AndroidThemes)
8) Now copy your downloaded zip file to the AndroidThemes folder
9) Disconnect your phone and open Metamorph
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10) Now click on Unzip/Extract new Theme
11) It Should show your zip file (If not, you havent placed it in AndroidThemes)
12) Click on your zip file and a message will be popped up, just close it,
13) Now click on Apply All and click continue
14) After it finished modding, it will ask you to reboot your device, just reboot it !
and you are done. In my case, my usb connection will be looking like this !
You can also use your own Icons by just repacing it in the zip file !
I hope you liked my Guide see ya
DONT FORGET TO HIT THE THANKS BUTTON !!

Should be a stickie
Awesome Job really easy to understand and well layed-out this should become a stickie!!

Install recovery without pc[only rooted device]

I have Tried this on my Xperia S LT26i Working
LOCKED Boatloader
Rooted
6.2.b.1.96 jb 4.1.2
[ download ]
CWM6-cDM_v2.2-DooMLoRD-Xperia_S-JB
DOWNLOAD ABOVE FILE AND AFTER DOWNLOAD EXTRACT IT WITH 7ZIP OR WINRAR
IN THAT FILE GO TO FILES FOLDER
THERE ARE SEVERAL FILES IN THAT BUT WE NEED ONLY chargemon , cwm-install.sh , recovery.tar
copy these 3 files (chargemon , cwm-install.sh , recovery.tar ) to SD CARD
and PASTE to
[for this you need to Root your Xperia S]
PASTE TO system/bin ------->> chargemon AND recovery.tar
COPY TO system/etc ------->> cwm-install.sh
and Power OFF
[ how to enter recovery? ]
once recovery is installed keep pressing VOLUME UP key when u see SONY logo!
Credit to @DooMLoRD
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IMP NOTES :
DON'T DELETE ANY FILES IN SYSTEM
KEEP BACKUP
ANYTHING HAPPEN WITH YOUR DEVICE I'M NOT RESPONSIBLE..

good tutorial for new commers
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Nice.

guys should i post screenshot of recovery u will Believe me

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xDroidZz said:
good tutorial for new commers
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ya well said its will easy for new commers

or just put chargemon, tar archive, .sh file and busybox in data/local/tmp (i dont know it is important where we place it, but this localization is in PC install script) and when we paste files - just run .sh file. thats all.

IMP thing of Recovery
Whenever you Format /system in recovery Dont Close Recovery(Reboot or TURN OFF)
INSTALL STOCK or CUSTOM ROMS AFTER THAT OR RETORE IT (WITH YOUR BACKUP)
BECAUSE AFTER FORMAT THERE IS NO OS IN YOU DEVICE YOUR MOBILE WILL STUCK ON SONY LOGO ..
IF YOU CAN CONNECT XPERIA S WITH PC ITS WILL EASLY TO YOU .. YOU CAN FLASH
BUT THOSE WHO CAN'T CONNECT TO PC [USB NOT RECONISED, UNKNOWN DEVICE] THEY HAVE TO GO TO REPAIR SO PLZ DON'T TO IT
SO BE ALERT ...!!!!!!!!!

[Q] Bricked phone - forgot what version of android I was running

Is there any way to tell what version of android i'm running from examining the files on the SDcard?
I have a virgin mobile galaxy s3, I kept getting software update prompts and ignoring them. I may have updated at one point, I don't remember.
All I can look at are the contents of the SD card, and i'm trying to unbrick a hard brick ( can't get into recovery , phone shows no signs of life. Flash seemed to work correctly, and then after phone reboot, phone shows no signs of life, and I am trying to use the SD card method to revive my phone but I don't know what version of android I was running.)

supershochuu said:
Is there any way to tell what version of android i'm running from examining the files on the SDcard?
I have a virgin mobile galaxy s3, I kept getting software update prompts and ignoring them. I may have updated at one point, I don't remember.
All I can look at are the contents of the SD card, and i'm trying to unbrick a hard brick ( can't get into recovery , phone shows no signs of life. Flash seemed to work correctly, and then after phone reboot, phone shows no signs of life, and I am trying to use the SD card method to revive my phone but I don't know what version of android I was running.)
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Of you can read the internal SD, take a look at your build.prop

I can get in to philz recovery manager with this method - but after i'm in philz, what do I do? How do I flash an image? My SD card is now tiny, If I try to use diskpart or minitool partition wizard to reformat while it's mounted from philz, it won't let me.
Is it okay to remove the SD card while i'm in philz recovery manager, and then put the card in my computer, restore the partitions, put the stock file on the drive, then reflash?

Should be
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My ROMs: Wicked X & Wicked S5 Xperience

If you can get into philz recovery i would suggest downloading a aosp rom from your computer transfer it to ur sd card then flash it.

[RECOVERY + ROOT] 2016 P8000 6.0 (Also known as European B-version) PhilZ v2 and root

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Be careful: this is for the new 2016 of the P8000, which I believe is only available in Europe. That version is known as "P8000 6.0"
I have been trying to port PhilZ v2 to the new version and although it still has a few bugs/problems, at this point it at least allows you to root your device.
Download (recovery + root):
https://mega.nz/#!kUFBmSDb!RW3sTDPA-imxcNQihCiTfnsXAw_e0Fy-9djliPbxavo
(If you need scatter file, it's attached to this post)
To root:
1. Put Beta-SuperSU.zip on your internal memory
2. Download SuperSU from the Play Store
3. Turn off phone and flash recovery
4. Immediately boot into recovery (don't go into Android first or the recovery will be gone)
5. Choose flash zip from sd card
6. Select the Beta-SuperSU.zip
7. Reboot phone to Android from the menu (if the recovery asks to install root, choose no!)
8. Rooted
The recovery is now probably gone from you phone, because it resets to stock every time you boot into Android. If you like to keep it, rename /system/recovery-from-boot.p to recovery-from-boot.p.bak using ES File Explorer in root mode or something. Then flash the recovery again in SP Flash Tools.
Known bugs for recovery:
- ADB (plugging in cable) crashes recovery
- No access to external SD card, that's why you have to flash root from internal memory
- Touch not working
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Use at own risk, I'm not responsible for anything.

Fix IMEI on P8000
Thanks to users @FrauHofrat and @ardrift
FrauHofrat said:
With a lot of thanks to user ardrift:
with *#*#6813#*#* entered on the stock dialer you can acess the "IMEI-Tool" which allows you to enter a new IMEI for both SIM cards. The new IMEI stay permanent even after reboot and this also works on 'old' P8000.
first I thought this is a joke but actually it worked - sometimes life can be so easy
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Emileh said:
Thanks to users @FrauHofrat and @ardrift
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Dont think it works on blueflame's CM. beliewe he tossed all the MTK stof :crying:

Ported TWRP 3.0.2 from several sources., but touch screen don't work. I've ported for other devices (MT6753,MT6580,MT6582) and never faced this issue. Need help (P8000 6.0)