Corrupted Data Parition - Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II

Hi Everyone,
My data partition got corrupted. I can no longer boot into any rom. When I try to factory reset, format data, or wipe internal; I get this error:
E:error opening '/data/media/0/Android/data/com.
E:error: I/O error
I tried manually deleteing the data folder, but I get the same error. Is there a way I can just completely format my internal storage and remove the data. Trying to do it inside TWRP v2.6.0.1 only gives me the above error.
Does anyone have any thoughts, ideas or suggestions?
Thanks

When you tried to format data in TWRP, what did you try?
If I'm not mistaken, mounting system and then formating system should wipe everything on your internal storage.

altimuh said:
When you tried to format data in TWRP, what did you try?
If I'm not mistaken, mounting system and then formating system should wipe everything on your internal storage.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I wish I knew earlier that System had to be mounted in order for everything to get wiped lol.
I'm back up and running, but it went through a long, arduous and slightly weird process to get there.
After several failed attempts at wiping my internal storage, I tried doing an Odin flash back to stock along with the sprint pit file for re-partitioning. After that, I could get past the initial boot "Galaxy Note 2" screen, I was able to get into the stock rom boot animation, but my phone would just endlessly reboot into the Sprint/Samsung boot animations. I then Odin'ed back the TWRP recovery. I tried to factory reset once again and surprisingly, I no longer received the I/O errors I was getting before. I decided to reflash Paranoid Android and everything booted up just fine.
The weird thing about all this though is that when I booted into the Rom, Literally everything was intact. I still had all my apps installed, my themes and launcher up, and all of my settings intact.
So after everything happened, nothing got deleted at all apparently. I was thinking of still going back and trying to truly format my internal storage to completely wipe it, but I am concerned that more issues would pop up.
Do you think it would be better for me just to wipe everything and start fresh?

mugenga said:
I wish I knew earlier that System had to be mounted in order for everything to get wiped lol.
I'm back up and running, but it went through a long, arduous and slightly weird process to get there.
After several failed attempts at wiping my internal storage, I tried doing an Odin flash back to stock along with the sprint pit file for re-partitioning. After that, I could get past the initial boot "Galaxy Note 2" screen, I was able to get into the stock rom boot animation, but my phone would just endlessly reboot into the Sprint/Samsung boot animations. I then Odin'ed back the TWRP recovery. I tried to factory reset once again and surprisingly, I no longer received the I/O errors I was getting before. I decided to reflash Paranoid Android and everything booted up just fine.
The weird thing about all this though is that when I booted into the Rom, Literally everything was intact. I still had all my apps installed, my themes and launcher up, and all of my settings intact.
So after everything happened, nothing got deleted at all apparently. I was thinking of still going back and trying to truly format my internal storage to completely wipe it, but I am concerned that more issues would pop up.
Do you think it would be better for me just to wipe everything and start fresh?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Back up your internal storage to your computer and then wipe it clean and start over. I always feel that best results come from a clean start.

Related

E:unknown volume for path [sd-ext] help?

every time i go to wipe the dalvik cache this error comes up. its still able to wipe tho. i had aokp flashed and was dling a game when i decided to cancel the download and my phone stopped working. so i restarted it and it bootlooped. so i pulled the battery restarted it and saw this error for the first time. finally got back to my phone, rebooted, still saw it and my phone was acting slow so i restored it using cwm. then i decided to just wipe the phone clean and reflash everything from stock. i still see this error tho. what does it mean?
i would love to know this also, happens to me every time i wipe dalvik.
posted this on reddit and got this answer:
"It's nothing worth getting worried over, and no, you can't fix it. It's a carry-over from older devices (G1 and such) which had insufficient space on /data, so part of their sdcard was formatted using EXT. That space was then mounted as /sd-ext and apps could be installed there, though it was incredibly unstable and not recommended. Newer devices don't need this because they have large /data partitions, and can install apps onto the SD card with Android 2.2 and higher, natively. The /sd-ext wiping is just old code from those days that still exists in ClockworkMod Recovery and its derivatives.
tl;dr, don't worry about it, you can't do anything, it's just old crap from old phones."
so i think its ok, still worried about my phone freezing tho. oh well everythings working fine now if a little slow. but that may be all in my worried, first time flashing head.

Help - phone won't boot, stuck on carrier logo

Running MIUI, AmonRa. Phone was totally stable, today I was charging it and it refused to turn on. Pulled battery and when I turn on, its stuck on white htc Evo screen.
I can boot to recovery and see my old nandroid's and make a new one. I can S-OFF in recovery. Restoring the nandroid doesn't seem to help, its still stuck on white boot screen.
A few things to try:
1)Reboot to bootloader and select fastboot and reboot... have had this work before...
or
2)In recovery wipe everything then restore your nandroid.
or
3)Have a copy of the MIUI version you were on? In recovery, wipe system, then flash the ROM
LG optimus LTE WON"T BOOT
My Phone won't boot after try to install CWM. The touch buttons flash couples sec after press power but phone won't turn on. When i plugged in the computer, the computer recognize it but can't do restore. HELP PLEASE!!!
Ok I managed to debug this a little bit more.
Can get to recovery, but trying to restore nandroid's failed. I did this after wiping everything, doing a factory reset, and it still fails. When I tried to mount each partition individually, it failed to mount sd-ext with the error "can't mount /dev/block/mmcblk0p2 (File exists)".
I think this was the key, as I was using dta2sd on all my roms. Luckily I had another rom which was not using sd-ext, and I was able to restore that.
Is my sd-ext partition now lost? I can't check its status using the rom I have since it doesn't support sd-ext. Obviously all my apps were installed on it and I'd like to back them up.
The sd card itself seems fine, I can see everything on it.
I was actually going to post about this, thanks for doing it for me man.
Even with sense roms just restarting the phone will get me stuck at the htc evo 4g white screen and I have to wipe all data and factor reset just to get it to boot up again but i loose all my stuff and it really sucks. My phone only has recently started doing this, any ideas on what I can do to fix it?
I tried what imhereoldman said, but that just fixes it till the next time where it does the same thing after restarting the phone and im really getting tired of it :/
---------- Post added at 03:30 AM ---------- Previous post was at 03:17 AM ----------
ECrispy said:
Ok I managed to debug this a little bit more.
Can get to recovery, but trying to restore nandroid's failed. I did this after wiping everything, doing a factory reset, and it still fails. When I tried to mount each partition individually, it failed to mount sd-ext with the error "can't mount /dev/block/mmcblk0p2 (File exists)".
I think this was the key, as I was using dta2sd on all my roms. Luckily I had another rom which was not using sd-ext, and I was able to restore that.
Is my sd-ext partition now lost? I can't check its status using the rom I have since it doesn't support sd-ext. Obviously all my apps were installed on it and I'd like to back them up.
The sd card itself seems fine, I can see everything on it.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I just found this and it sounds like it will be a pain but should solve the issue trying it out now and il let you know how the unroot reroot goes...
You don't have to unroot. Just run the RUU for your phone.
Also, try to do a backup of your SD Card, reformat it (Sorry if you don't have a TB backup), repartition, then restore the backup and reflash the ROM after a thorough and complete wipe.
Thanks hipkat, I should have done more research on it, I did the un-root to. But I did run the RUU file and switched to AMON this time and it seems everything is cleared up and its running fine! thanks

[Q] How to resize the Cache partition

OK, so I have been running DoomKernel on my R800x for ages now and tonight I decided to try out the TurboKernel:
See post # 1234 through 1241
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1817548&page=124
I flashed it and had some issues with GB, so I formatted Cache/data/system partitions as mentioned in CosmicDans FAQ. I then booted from recoveryPLAY.img wiped all three again then ftfd back to a stock VZ ftf. Then wiped all three again via recoveryPLAY, then reflashed DK. Only to find that I despite all the wiping, ftfing, and flashing that I can only restore system & data of my nandroid backup. If I restore cache I get an error of "not enough storage". This being despite the fact that I ftfd and had it clear/erase everything. I have even repaired my sd card via my pc...... still I get the same.
Can anyone offer any ideas/suggestions how to fix this cache partition error? I believe that Turbokernel resizes the cache partition.. but even doing all the above to restore it back its still the same.... any ideas? I hav espent 3 hours trying to repair this to no avail... and I am out of ideas.... thank you in advance.
One thing I forgot to mention is that when I attempt to restore my apps as half are missing from the system drawer TB loads but during restore process it just hangs... anyone have any ideas?
I just FTFd again and tried to restore my cache but it spit back as "error: cache/log/ not enough storage...
ozzmanj1 said:
One thing I forgot to mention is that when I attempt to restore my apps as half are missing from the system drawer TB loads but during restore process it just hangs... anyone have any ideas?
I just FTFd again and tried to restore my cache but it spit back as "error: cache/log/ not enough storage...
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Anyone?!?!
OK< somehow I got it to restore the cache without any lack of storage issues, however now my sdcard wont mount when the phone is booted up. Any ideas how to get the card to mount on bootup?
nevermind...
Forgot to mention that yes I did go to the storage menu under settings, everything is greyed out excpet the safe unmount when battery cover is removed.

Two repeating problems and factory reset doesn't solved

Hey,
I was using WanamLite 4.3 ROM with Android 4.3 and MJ5 bootloader. No backups.
And after a friend of mine broke my SD slot (long story), my phone started to reboot and unmount the SD card, then it broke up completely and I can't use a SD card anymore. So, I kept using my phone without it, until one day it rebooted and when it came back I lost all Deezer syncronized musics, Evernote notes, SMS and things like that. The other day, it reboot again and now it was like a factory reset, I lost all configs and just the installed apps and pictures wasn't lost.
But my phone was crazy, home button not working, no notifications, status bar not working and lots of other things, then I opened the Downloads app and I received an error and then everything came back to normal, really strange, but I started to receive two annoying errors:
The process com.google.process.gapps has stopped.
The process android.process.media has stopped
And anything related to Google or media was useable, and they kept appearing while I pressed ok.
So, I did a mega wipe (script found here, can't post links) and installed a 4.4 Rom (PhoeniX ROM), but, guess what, received a "UIDs on the system are inconsistent, you need to wipe your data partition or your device will be unstable.", hit "I'm feeling lucky" button and my two friends started to annoy me to hell again.
What can I do? I thought on doing a Kies factory reset but I'm scared of bricking my phone (it tells me to use Kies 3, btw), my phone is unuseable. :crying:
(Edit: Just noticed you said you mega wiped...)
So how about flashing kitkat through odin? Sammobile.com
EmptyArea said:
(Edit: Just noticed you said you mega wiped...)
So how about flashing kitkat through odin? Sammobile.com
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Yeah, I'll try that, but I don't have much hope, is there a way to do a "deeper" wipe, that totally deletes any ROM, then I install that from nothing.
You'll lose all data but you should wipe
/system, /data (factory reset), /cache and dalvik cache. I have also once found an internal storage (/sdcard) necessary.
What I would do to fix all the problems,
Using TWRP recovery, I format disk and wipe everything can be wiped. (Ofc you'll lose ALL the data on the phone, which might be the problem as you don't have an SD card, unless after wipe you know how to transfer files from PC while in recovery) This is the best wipe you would get IMO. Then install a very stable rom like ARHD or omega rom . Or DN3
Sent from my GT-N7100
Mohammed779 said:
What I would do to fix all the problems,
Using TWRP recovery, I format disk and wipe everything can be wiped. (Ofc you'll lose ALL the data on the phone, which might be the problem as you don't have an SD card, unless after wipe you know how to transfer files from PC while in recovery) This is the best wipe you would get IMO. Then install a very stable rom like ARHD or omega rom . Or DN3
Sent from my GT-N7100
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
THANK YOU!!!!!
It worked, I never used TWRP, really awesome. I was getting errors when trying to format system, so I went to config and select the option to use rm -f instead of formatting, and after that work, I formatted everything and installed DN3. Thanks a lot, really!

Phone stuck in bootloop. Tried tons of things.

So, I have an N7100. I have rooted my phone a few times. The last time was over a year ago and it worked fine. Yesterday, suddenly (I haven't attempted to flash anything) it restarted on its own and won't boot. I tried to go into the TWRP recovery I had installed over a year ago, but TWRP will only load for a second and then disappear and the phone would restart again and go into the bootloop. As a result, I can't wipe cache partition.
I can confirm that I can connect successfully to ODIN and flash a different version of TWRP. I have failed to flash CWM so far... maybe I couldn't find a correct version since my phone has knox???
I tried flashing a different kernel, but that didn't work either. Do I need a specific kernel?
The only thing I need to do is recover my files, whether it is through recovering the phone, or accessing the internal storage.
Can someone please help me? I don't want to do a complete wipe.
And in case this is relevant, my ROM is the custom OMEGA rom, I'm not sure which version though. Either 31, or 26, which is either for android 4.3 or 4.4.2.
Thanks
Hey,
I have the same problem, the phone just restarted on it's own yesterday, restarted again and is now stuck at the bootlogo.
Wiping Cache and Dalvik on it's own doesn't suffice, Wiping the system partition too (TWRP) gets the phone to boot, but it will restart again after a couple of minutes, again stuck at the boot logo.
I'm using the limbean ROM.
shadnixx, wiping the system partition does not mean that you're going to loose your data - you should try that, after the factory reset the phone is usable for a couple of minutes, I will now try to flash a newer ROM and gapps, maybe the problem will go away with that.
quickhash said:
Hey,
I have the same problem, the phone just restarted on it's own yesterday, restarted again and is now stuck at the bootlogo.
Wiping Cache and Dalvik on it's own doesn't suffice, Wiping the system partition too (TWRP) gets the phone to boot, but it will restart again after a couple of minutes, again stuck at the boot logo.
I'm using the limbean ROM.
shadnixx, wiping the system partition does not mean that you're going to loose your data - you should try that, after the factory reset the phone is usable for a couple of minutes, I will now try to flash a newer ROM and gapps, maybe the problem will go away with that.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Thanks for replying. I can't wipe the partition. That requires that I get into recovery, right? I can't even get into recovery. TWRP loads for just 1 second and then the phone reboots.
shadnixx said:
Thanks for replying. I can't wipe the partition. That requires that I get into recovery, right? I can't even get into recovery. TWRP loads for just 1 second and then the phone reboots.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
have you tried to reinstall TWRP recovery? Maybe yours is corrupted, try to flash the latest version again. If that help you boot in recovery, things will be easier to haddle after.
https://dl.twrp.me/t03g/twrp-3.0.2-0-t03g.img.tar.html
also see this if it can help you
http://techbeasts.com/install-latest-twrp-recovery-on-samsung-galaxy-note-2-all-variants/
logosA said:
have you tried to reinstall TWRP recovery? Maybe yours is corrupted, try to flash the latest version again. If that help you boot in recovery, things will be easier to haddle after.
also see this if it can help you
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Yeah I already tried that. Thanks though
@shadnixx Well use every possible way to flash and enter custom recovery. Try Philz, TWRP, CWM, everything...
If everything fails you'lll have to reflash Stock ROM using Odin. I've heard is wipes data but not internal storage but I'm not sure and don't balme me if it happens. Search xda a little.
See these threads: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2583588
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1121817
If that fails then the phone has hardware damage I think. Needs to go to service.
Option58 said:
@shadnixx Well use every possible way to flash and enter custom recovery. Try Philz, TWRP, CWM, everything...
If everything fails you'lll have to reflash Stock ROM using Odin. I've heard is wipes data but not internal storage but I'm not sure and don't balme me if it happens. Search xda a little.
See these threads: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2583588
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1121817
If that fails then the phone has hardware damage I think. Needs to go to service.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Thanks for your reply. That's what I'm trying to do. One question... do I have to have a specific CWM version that is compatible with my ROM?
Progress
OK, while flashing TWRP failed to help, flashing Philz Touch enabled me to get into recovery. I was able to mount the external SD card and browse the files, but the real problem is with the internal storage, since the SD card is removable. I couldn't manage to mount it. Can someone help with that?
Wiping the cache partition didn't help either.
You tried different tar versions of twrp?
What is the error message in Odin when trying to flash twrp?
Tried flashing twrp with different USB cables and USB ports?
audit13 said:
You tried different tar versions of twrp?
What is the error message in Odin when trying to flash twrp?
Tried flashing twrp with different USB cables and USB ports?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I'm sad to report, after I wiped the cache and restarted my phone, Philz would behave like TWRP did, which is to load for 1 second then reboot. Yes, I tried 4 different versions of TWRP, same result. Odin doesn't give any errors. It says that flashing was successful. Tried different cables and ports too, yes.
Possible power button or battery problem?
audit13 said:
Possible power button or battery problem?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Don't think so. I just replaced the battery... still same problem. And when I enter Odin "Download" mode, it doesn't keep restarting, so I don't think it's the power button.
I got a small update though...
Flashed another version of philz, which works every time I boot to recovery. A few problems though...
1. I can wipe cache partition, no problem. But When I try to wipe Dalvik, the phone reboots as soon as I try.
2. Aroma file explorer doesn't show any files.
3. I can mount external SD, but I can't mount internal storage
4. When using ADB, it could finally initiate pulling files from the internal storage (or that's what it appears to be doing), but only while on recovery mode. A few seconds after it says "listing files" or something, the phone reboots and the ADB operation aborts. It doesn't behave like this when I access other sections of philz recovery.
Any thoughts?
Another small update...
While using philz, I clicked the "install zip from sdcard" and it showed my folders. I think my files are intact, but I guess I can't be certain.
Small update again...
I flashed Aroma File Explorer from Philz, I managed to enter my internal storage browse around for a bit, but then the phone rebooted again. I tried to repeat so I could copy my internal storage, but now my internal storage says symlink error.
shadnixx said:
OK, while flashing TWRP failed to help, flashing Philz Touch enabled me to get into recovery. I was able to mount the external SD card and browse the files, but the real problem is with the internal storage, since the SD card is removable. I couldn't manage to mount it. Can someone help with that?
Wiping the cache partition didn't help either.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Listen up - Transfer any ROM to your external SD card, touchwiz based to avoid any complications if you can.
When you get into recovery (at least on TWRP 3 on my Galaxy Note 2 LTE this works) you can connect your phone to PC and transfer all the files, it just gets recognised.
If that fails then wipe /data and /cache partition and see if it boots. If that fails/succeeds then try to flash new ROM and wipe /data and see if it will boot. Data is not the same as internalSD. Data is your apps and settings, you can reinstall that later. InternalSD is your pictures and all. You want your pictures, not your apps, right? It is different.
But who knows what happened here. Malware? Corrupt partition? Hardware failure of some kind? Don't blame me if flashing a new ROM breakes everything even more.
Option58 said:
Listen up - Transfer any ROM to your external SD card, touchwiz based to avoid any complications if you can.
When you get into recovery (at least on TWRP 3 on my Galaxy Note 2 LTE this works) you can connect your phone to PC and transfer all the files, it just gets recognised.
If that fails then wipe /data and /cache partition and see if it boots. If that fails/succeeds then try to flash new ROM and wipe /data and see if it will boot. Data is not the same as internalSD. Data is your apps and settings, you can reinstall that later. InternalSD is your pictures and all. You want your pictures, not your apps, right? It is different.
But who knows what happened here. Malware? Corrupt partition? Hardware failure of some kind? Don't blame me if flashing a new ROM breakes everything even more.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I'll try that, thanks.

Categories

Resources