So I was following the instructions for the root, and am at the TWRP part where I select the zip file I placed onto the drive. When I go to install I see a ton of listed folders, but can't seem to figure out where the heck the zip file is I put on the device, I had dropped it into the root. Any help with this? I can not post in any other forum.
JuJu142 said:
So I was following the instructions for the root, and am at the TWRP part where I select the zip file I placed onto the drive. When I go to install I see a ton of listed folders, but can't seem to figure out where the heck the zip file is I put on the device, I had dropped it into the root. Any help with this? I can not post in any other forum.
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So you didn't put it into any of the folders? Scroll down the zip should be at the bottom. Otherwise reboot and recheck that the file downloaded.
evodon84 said:
So you didn't put it into any of the folders? Scroll down the zip should be at the bottom. Otherwise reboot and recheck that the file downloaded.
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Here's the thing, I can't find ANY of the folders that are listed when I open the internal stoage on my PC. At the top of TWRP it says "Internal Storage (0mb)" The folders I see are boot, cache, data, datadata, dedv, emmc, etc, external_sd, internal_sd, license, proc, recovery, res, root, sbin, sd-ext,, sdcard, supersu, sys, system, tmp, sys system, tmp, usb-otg . So confused.
Sigh and when at the bootloader or whatever it looks like I don't have access to the internal storage via my computer. Just shows up as "Android" on my PC.
I "Copied log to SD", it says it copied it to /data/media. When I go into the file manager. That location doesn't exist. Nothing inside that data folder....at all.
Wow
While browsing around I found this posted by another user:
"Originally Posted by Iktwo View Post
Hi, I just registered cause I had the same problem and I wanted to help, did you installed twrp? I did, and then supersu but I was stuck at boot, then I got internal storage says 0mb, so I tried wiping data, didn't work I got some problem wiping cache, then I tried format data, it succeed, then I tried wiping data again, succeeded also, then I rebooted and I can use it again! I hope that works for you too."
And it did. Booted the device back up and all of a sudden all of the files are there. Root complete.
i have same problem
Hi i have a same problem, storage and sd card seem 0 MB and i can't start install, i can see any folder.
JuJu142 said:
While browsing around I found this posted by another user:
"Originally Posted by Iktwo View Post
Hi, I just registered cause I had the same problem and I wanted to help, did you installed twrp? I did, and then supersu but I was stuck at boot, then I got internal storage says 0mb, so I tried wiping data, didn't work I got some problem wiping cache, then I tried format data, it succeed, then I tried wiping data again, succeeded also, then I rebooted and I can use it again! I hope that works for you too."
And it did. Booted the device back up and all of a sudden all of the files are there. Root complete.
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I didnt understand your problem really well. Try clicking in internal sd folder and you should see zip otherwise at the top of twrp where you select storage select again internal storage and it should popup if i understood correctly.
Hi,
I have the same problem, I tried the above steps with no luck. I still can't see the folders from internal storage. Please help.
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Ramm14 said:
Hi,
I have the same problem, I tried the above steps with no luck. I still can't see the folders from internal storage. Please help.
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There is a folder by the name "0" which you can find in TWRP and also from the File explorer. Place the SuperSU.zip inside the "0" folder using file explorer and they try to locate it from the TWRP. It should be visible then.
It worked for me, hope it does for you too.
Thanks
Ram
Ramm14 said:
Hi,
I have the same problem, I tried the above steps with no luck. I still can't see the folders from internal storage. Please help.
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I experienced a similar problem with my nexus 5x and ended up on this thread from google search. I got it working after entering the password at password prompt, when phone started to boot into recovery. This decrypted the storage and mounted it, before booting to recovery. If I didn't enter a password and skipped it(hit cancel and moved on), then in the recovery I see that storage and sdcard as 0.
Hope this helps someone.
ashmay88 said:
Got it working after entering the password at password prompt, when phone started to boot into recovery. This decrypted the storage and mounted it, before booting to recovery.
Hope this helps someone.
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It díd help someone, me
I was doing the same thing, cancelling this password prompt, I thought it was a encryption thing instead of a decryption thing (should read better).
Now I can access all files again on TWRP, thanks!
EDIT: I thought a bit more why this happend: it is of course because we activated the option 'ask pattern unlock before booting android', which is an option in the Nexus 5X welcome screens.
So I assume TWRP needs that pattern as well to access the Android folders once it's activated.
Also: I had to click the '3x3' option in the Password screen to make the pattern responsive, in case that's a hint someone looks for.
flekkie said:
It díd help someone, me
I was doing the same thing, cancelling this password prompt, I thought it was a encryption thing instead of a decryption thing (should read better).
Now I can access all files again on TWRP, thanks!
EDIT: I thought a bit more why this happend: it is of course because we activated the option 'ask pattern unlock before booting android', which is an option in the Nexus 5X welcome screens.
So I assume TWRP needs that pattern as well to access the Android folders once it's activated.
Also: I had to click the '3x3' option in the Password screen to make the pattern responsive, in case that's a hint someone looks for.
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Glad it helped.
Where did you see it asking for a password? I have booted into recovery and can't see any password prompt and the storage is still at 0mb. Help?
I had the problem.
I solved it by formating the data.
> fastboot format userdata
Do not forget to do a backup of your backup in your PC, then put it back and restore..!!
I have soft bricked my device, after reading your forums, I downloaded a stock ROM for my device... transferred it to my ext SD card but i couldnt find the RAR file in TWRP.(install) Even tried my luck with usb otg... i could see the rom (rar) file in file manager even copied it from ext SD to internal storage... i have double checked the location of the file... is on root it isny inside any folders. Pls help
Do what I said format the internal SD.
In your twrp format internal storage.
Then reboot and problem solved.
Help! Guys I cant locate my storage neither internal nor external sd card when i tried to install from recovery mode.How can I get access to internal external storage?
I have similliar problem twrp doesn`t see any files from my phone and it says that i have no os installed.
Sorry for my english.
ashmay88 said:
I experienced a similar problem with my nexus 5x and ended up on this thread from google search. I got it working after entering the password at password prompt, when phone started to boot into recovery. This decrypted the storage and mounted it, before booting to recovery. If I didn't enter a password and skipped it(hit cancel and moved on), then in the recovery I see that storage and sdcard as 0.
Hope this helps someone.
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Hi having the same problem as others .... and did not succed (wipe format and all). YOu say to put a password ... but which password?????
claudioita said:
Hi having the same problem as others .... and did not succed (wipe format and all). YOu say to put a password ... but which password?????
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Your password on your device probably
what password??
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My phone is currently not working at all so I would really appreciate some help. I was running MMuzzy's 4.2 JB ROM (Around the 12/16/12 Version) and I decided to update to the 1/11/13 ROM version. So I installed the files onto my phone and rebooted into recovery, wiped cache and dalvik cache, and installed the files form SD Card. After this, I chose reboot system and it just went straight back into recovery. New ROM wouldn't load. I was an idiot and did not do a backup of my previous rom because I thought it would be a flawless process since I was updating to a new version of the same ROM. So I have no backup to access right now. An odd thing I noticed is when I "chose ZIP from SD card" multiple options such as 0/ and obb came up instead of just showing the files in my SD card. Right now to access my files I have to choose ZIP from sd card, choose 0/, 0/ again, 0/again, and then I can see my ROM and gapps zip files. Since the New rom didnt work I did a factory reset and wiped everything and tried to install the Zips again. Still nothing. Also, the phone can't find any of my old backups. I suspect this has something to do with the odd formatting issue and 0/ and obb folders showing up but I have no idea. What should I do? At this point I don't care If I lose everything on my sd card I just want my phone working.
Thanks
in mounts and storage mount /data then
adb push ROM.zip /data/media
then unmount and it should be there on the root of your "sdcard"
Edit- but if you have 3 "0" folders then you will have to change it from data/media to data/media/0/0/0
k786 said:
in mounts and storage mount /data then
adb push ROM.zip /data/media
then unmount and it should be there on the root of your "sdcard"
Edit- but if you have 3 "0" folders then you will have to change it from data/media to data/media/0/0/0
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Not sure what this would do. Right now I am just stuck unable to run a rom. How do I install one and get it to boot?
schad89 said:
Not sure what this would do. Right now I am just stuck unable to run a rom. How do I install one and get it to boot?
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Follow the instructions given in the last response
EddyOS said:
Follow the instructions given in the last response
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Okay. Any way someone can give me a more detailed step by step on how to do these instructions? Sorry I'm pretty much a noob at this and I barely remember the ADP stuff I did on my mac when I first rooted my phone.
Thanks a lot
schad89 said:
Okay. Any way someone can give me a more detailed step by step on how to do these instructions? Sorry I'm pretty much a noob at this and I barely remember the ADP stuff I did on my mac when I first rooted my phone.
Thanks a lot
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If you're a n00b then flashing a new ROM without knowing how to fix an issue wasn't the best idea was it?
The best solution I can give is to flash back to 100% stock and then start again once you know what you're doing. Use this guide:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1626895
HTC EVO 4g Sprint cant figure out how to get it back. please help will pay. dont even care about the money just need it fixed asap. thanks
What did you do? Can you still boot to recovery? If yes you can flash a rom.
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jpisini said:
What did you do? Can you still boot to recovery? If yes you can flash a rom.
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I unlocked bootloader with windroid tool. Then I flashes twrp. Then this being my first time messing with an android in years I went and just grabbed the first rom I thought I could use, do to the fact that I had done no backup no nandroid anything so I flashed a rom and after it did it every time I tries to flash different rom because it said the rom I did first failed. So everytime I tries to do anything else with windroid it says there is a log file in the logs folder. Send this to windycity's forum so it can be tAken care of. But I couldn't find this file or where to submit the file so I thought if I just reset the phone back to factory I could restart. And after resetting it multiple times it still said, there is a log file in the logs folder send this to Windy City. So since I do still have the twrp tool that I can use I went in there and found that it has to rm -f delete everything Linux code so I did that. And since I've done that all I can do is get to bootloader and twrp. But the so is deleted. So basically nothing works. I can't figure out how to get the sd to mount or it won't mount for whAtever reason. And since the phone is wiped it won't enable USB debugging to connect to computer. I can get it to start to enable and connect for a second but not long enough for it to do anything. And I believe it's a htc evo 4g sprint. So that's the situation. The next thing I was gunn try was to go buy a mini sd card reader so I can mount it to computer and then put the rom in there. This **** is so confusing and ridiculous. I mean I can jailbreak an apple device no problem. But holy mother of God androids are the most insanely retarded phones to root. Drivers, adb, sdk...... Anyways if u can help let me know because there's a million roms and kernels out there and I don't know what build to use and how to set it up and the whole kernel process sounds confusing.
Do this. Go to the link below. Look at the second post. Go to the "Current Release" section and download either the stock rooted odex or deodex ROM, doesn't matter. Put the ROM zip on your external SD card. You can do this with the mount option in TWRP (select the mount option then select your external SD card from the menu. You should then be able to transfer the ROM zip from your computer directly to your phone), or just use a card reader to transfer the file from your computer to your SD card, then put the card back into your phone. Boot into TWRP and go to the wipe menu. Do a wipe of system, data, Dalvik & cache. Once you've done this, go to the install option, then locate the ROM zip you placed on your SD card. Flash the ROM. Once the install completes, reboot the phone. The first boot will take a few minutes so be patient. Afterwards the phone should boot to the OS.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1671395
Also, USB debugging is only useful when the phone is actually booted to the OS. It doesn't matter that it isn't enabled for your particular dilemma. If all else fails, shoot me a PM and I may have something else that can get you up and running.
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Do this. Go to the link below. Look at the second post. Go to the "Current Release" section and download either the stock rooted odex or deodex ROM, doesn't matter. Put the ROM zip on your external SD card. You can do this with the mount option in TWRP (select the mount option then select your external SD card from the menu. You should then be able to transfer the ROM zip from your computer directly to your phone), or just use a card reader to transfer the file from your computer to your SD card, then put the card back into your phone. Boot into TWRP and go to the wipe menu. Do a wipe of system, data, Dalvik & cache. Once you've done this, go to the install option, then locate the ROM zip you placed on your SD card. Flash the ROM. Once the install completes, reboot the phone. The first boot will take a few minutes so be patient. Afterwards the phone should boot to the OS.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1671395
Also, USB debugging is only useful when the phone is actually booted to the OS. It doesn't matter that it isn't enabled for your particular dilemma. If all else fails, shoot me a PM and I may have something else that can get you up and running.
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Hi all,
I have decided to perform whole "/data" backup of my rooted P8000 with TWRP recovery.
In order to save some space, I have deleted the "media" folder under "/data" from ADB, when phone was in recovery mode.
After finishing the backup, I have rebooted the phone.
Since then, I have no access to the internal storage.
I see, that phone has created the "media" folder during boot, but then, probably during mount phase, there
is some problem, and something goes wrong.
I can't get to "/storage/ emulated/" as I get an error.
If I go directly to "/data/media/" , I do have an access , but I can't get it to work as internal storage.
I already tried to play with permissions of "media" folder, but so far with no luck.
I am open to your suggestions and hope that someone will know to help me.
Thank you in advance!
Hey,
I'm new in this kind of stuff but need help as fast as possible. So I tried to root the phone but let me tell you something else. When I enter TWRT (boot into) and try to install the .zip file it shows weird folder names that I can't see on the computer. I have Win10 if this matters and Android 8.0 or 8.0.1. The folders are:
acct
boot
cache
config
cust
data
license
mnt
and it goes like that. The problem is that about 85 or 90% of these folders aren't visible on my computer when I plug in my phone... The System is mounted in TWRP and everything is mounted. I tried wiping all the data. I have unlocked bootloader. Also when I go to some of these folders I see REALLY strange folder names like: 671hnsuh1b%nqjus Or something like. I've found out that it's encrypted but I just want to root the phone and find the .zip file. Also can someone explain me these acct, boot, license, vendor, version and other folders that aren't visible on my PC? Please help. I'm so confused, not clue what's going on...
You need to use the format data option to decrypt the internal storage. Better use SD card or USB OTG to flash the root file. Anyway don't wipe the oeminfo or vendor partition in any case and take a backup of all partition beforehand.
kksnis said:
You need to use the format data option to decrypt the internal storage. Better use SD card or USB OTG to flash the root file. Anyway don't wipe the oeminfo or vendor partition in any case and take a backup of all partition beforehand.
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Well, I already used this option. The format data option and it's still the same. Maybe the version of my twrp helps: 3.1.1-1
Aspect13 said:
Well, I already used this option. The format data option and it's still the same. Maybe the version of my twrp helps: 3.1.1-1
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Strange. What is the android version?Did you had any lock screen set before formatting? Can you please share a screenshot or log during formatting, if you have any. Anyway you can use adb sideload to flash the .zip file.Cheers
kksnis said:
Strange. What is the android version?Did you had any lock screen set before formatting? Can you please share a screenshot or log during formatting, if you have any. Anyway you can use adb sideload to flash the .zip file.Cheers
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My android version is 8.0 so it's oreo. I've also noticed that the 3.1.1-1 version of twrp is the only one from what I tried that I can install the newer versions gave me an error. I had lock screen and it was code not a fingerprint but I wasn't prompt for a code after booting into twrp. Adb sideload seems to fail all the time so I can't do it :/.
The logs from wiping data are:
Updating partition details...
..done
Full SELinux support is present.
MTP Enabled
Starting ADB Sideload feature...
Starting ADB Sideload feature... (And it failed now wipe logs.):
Fomatting Data using mkfs.f2fs...
Done.
You may need to reboot recovery to be able to use /data again.
Updating partition details...
...done
So yea I'm so sad tbh with this... I'll try to install new twrp after the wipe if the wipe didn't help and will tell you if I get an error when I try to boot into NEW twrp.
EDIT: Ye still an error.
Maybe you have a link to the newest working twrp?
Nevermind got it. Downloaded the modded twrp by TEAM MT I guess from here: https://forum.xda-developers.com/honor-8-pro/development/wip-twrp-3-1-1-0-duk-t3625798 Works perfectly and SOLVED!
My phone storage is filled with 36 gb of system storage like title says. I know solution is formating phone but i dont have access to a PC. So can anyone help me with this problem. I am currently using 8.1 custom rom
Install es explorer or something similar with a "storage-scanner" feature and you will find the folder where this extra space is being used, then take the decision of formatting the phone or deleting that folder.
Most likely it is leftover files from some previous app or something you manually transferred to "Android/Data" folder to hide them *wink*.
Let us know the result of storage-scan.
I fear that the issue is unrelated to an actual file taking the space, 36 GB is ungodly for /system, after all.
The issue usually crops up due to an incorrect encryption, or something in the neighbourhood of that. The common fix to it is by reformatting /data through fastboot then TWRP/recovery, but fastboot requires access to a computer, something that OP states they cannot have for the time being.
Check if you have the folder /data/media/TWRP and either delete it or move it to /data/media/0/TWRP
@F4uzan You had the right answer i couldnt find any other solution . In the end i formatted everything from fastboot. Thanks anyways
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Do a backup of anything you need to keep in TWRP to an external drive (SD card, USB or PC) if you haven't got these you will have to backup, reboot, then transfer to cloud (Mega = 50gb free)
Then do a FULL wipe (everything), go back to wipe again but don't select any partitions just click the FORMAT DATA button, this will completely format your phone to factory again with no forced encryption etc etc, only the original 3 GB system image left, then you just need to re-flash your chosen ROM again and restore anything you need from your backups.
Hope this helps.