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Recently I had to have my evo replaced because the mic died. sure was nice to spend 35 bucks instead of 400. after a little work i got it rooted and flashed and made a fresh nandroid of the new rom. I noticed that titanium hadn't backed anythingup lately but I had made a nandroid before taking the phone in. After a little research i moved the old nandroid to the new nandroid folder (serial numbers and all that) and proceeded to wipe everything and restore nandroid. Now I have almost everything back... except most of my apps. seems they were on the sdcard and now don't want to play nice. I can go to manage applications and sdcard and they are there but greyed out and unchecked. if I tap on one, it will crash immediately. I tried fix_permissions which ran for a few mins but nothing changed, so i rebooted again. still nothing. is there another solution for this or should I just attempt to pry open the img file and extract my data there? If so, where would said app data be? not the apps, but their data for saves/bookmarks/etc. Any help would be appreciated, this has been very frustrating.
Use Root Explorer to check whether the data's there (in /data/data) and whether the APKs are missing (/data/app if they were stored on the phone, /mnt/asec if they'd been moved to the SD card). You probably just need to reinstall the app, though you should backup the data just in case.
seems that the info is there in data/data, but not in data/apps. mnt/asec is also empty, though I recall moving most of my things to sdcard at one point. how can I copy data/data to my pc? can't seem to mount it where the pc will see it, even through recovery.
I decided since I can't mount it for some reason (lack of knowledge comes to mind) that I would just unyaffs the files. how would I push the data/data files back to the phone?
I've found myself stuck trying to flash a ROM. I'm a newbie, this was my first attempt at something like this, I though I read enough about the process but I guess I screwed up something. I will try to be to the point.
Phone: Samsung Galaxy S3 AT&T i747
Rooted phone with Casual, installed ROM Toolbox and purchased the pro upgrade.
installed TWRP 2.5 and made a nandroid backup, the only place this backup existed was in internal storage.
used ROM toolbox to backup user apps and user data
selected cyanogenmod 10.1 RC5 from within ROM Toolbox and there was a requester for gapps and a checked the box for that also. When the DL was complete I installed the ROM queue with those two items and I checked the boxes Wipe Data & Cache and Wipe dalvic-cache.
Phone went to recovery mode (i guess) and appeared to clear the memory and load the new rom, the phone rebooted and I got the cyanogenmod boot screen but then it went to a requester saying:
Unfortunately , the process com.google.process.gapps has stopped.
When you hit ok you get:
Unfortunately, setup wizard has stopped.
this requester never goes away, just keeps popping up when you hit ok.
So I removed the battery and booted the phone in recovery mode and try to restore but the restore nandroid file in not shown. If I hit the center button in the restore window it says "updating partition details" but never returns.
Whenever you power it up normally now you end up in this gapps loop.
My searching suggested I may have tried to install the wrong version of google apps somehow. What are my options for trying to recover from this? Does my backup still exist somewhere?
If process.gapps is your only warning you can try to reflash the gapps zip from here. http://goo.im/gapps/gapps-jb-20130301-signed.zip If this does not fix your problem, you will have to head deeper into the rabbit hold
You can look for your back with a file explorer. Should be in sdcard/TWRP/BACKUPS/******** (random number). If you dont see them here, check your ext-sd in the same location. If you don't see them, they are gone. Do a Nandroid backup now just to be sure you have one. You should chose to back it up to external in TWRP. As for your FC problem, it would appear that you have not wiped fully. You will likely need to factory reset. the problem is this will remove everything. Titanium back up is a great product for situations like this. If you have used it, you can transfer your backup from the internal storage while connected to your pc. Also copy your DCIM folder as it will contain your photos. This is why you will need to do another Nandroid, because worst case scenario, you can just restore this one.
Thanks for the reply. I will try to reflash the gapps file from the external as soon I can download it, the site is having some trouble right now. I made another Nandroid of the phones current state and stored it to external. I did also have Titanium backup and had backups of the whole system with it. Unfortunately they are also only on the internal storage.
Re-installing the gapps zip file off the extSD from within TWRP did the trick. All the data and backups I created are also still there and are now backed up in several places.
Something that compounded the problem was the 64GB sd card I have for the phone. I was not able to mount it on either of my linux mint machines or an XP machine. Some oddness with the exFAT file system on it, I used a 4GB card I had laying around and it worked fine.
Thank you for the help, the phone is now running CM which is what I wanted and I learned a few things too.
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Re-installing the gapps zip file off the extSD from within TWRP did the trick. All the data and backups I created are also still there and are now backed up in several places.
Something that compounded the problem was the 64GB sd card I have for the phone. I was not able to mount it on either of my linux mint machines or an XP machine. Some oddness with the exFAT file system on it, I used a 4GB card I had laying around and it worked fine.
Thank you for the help, the phone is now running CM which is what I wanted and I learned a few things too.
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I just bought a 64GB card as well. You may be having troubles mounting it due to a partition that comes factory in the SD. If this is the case, you can look at post #57 on the following page http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1915385&page=6
It helped me tremendously.
Using TWRP 2.6.3.0, I'm unable to wipe data. Every time I try, I get
"wiping data without wiping /data/media
E: error opening '/data/lost+found'
done."
I excluded the nonessential bits, if anyone wants a full log (something something partition details), I can make one.
I using ES File Explorer with root explorer on, I checked out /data and found two lost+found folders, which I think is causing my issue. I've tried deleting just one, but a second one is automatically generated. If I delete them both, then they're automatically recreated as well. If I delete them both and then remake one immediately after, another one will be remade.
I also checked the rest of the /data folder, and I did not find any lost+found files, so I'm pretty sure it's just the folders messing things up
I checked this thread, but I didn't find anything useful
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=39497772
I ended up here after I accidentally wiped my internal storage with TWRP. I went from a 4.3 AOSP rom to 4.1.2 stock (HD RLS16). I wiped the 4.3 rom, but I think I accidentally wiped internal storage then as well, or maybe something was messed up with TWRP because the storage folder for 4.3 isn't in data/media (or at least not for the rom I was using). After that I used hyperdrive, which was super buggy with Gapps and didn't work at all. After adding an account, everything kept force closing, and things were extremely slow and took minutes to open, even after removing the account and wiping cache+dalvik.
I thought it had to do with the rom, so I went and wiped stuff, then went to CM 10.1.3 stable, but that didn't boot at all, so I tried wiping again and going to liquidsmooth 2.9, which is where my problems started again. I attempted to wipe again and go back to cm10.1.3. The wipe failed, but cm10.1.3 worked.
any ideas on how I can fix this? I was unable to find help on google.
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Using TWRP 2.6.3.0, I'm unable to wipe data. Every time I try, I get
"wiping data without wiping /data/media
E: error opening '/data/lost+found'
done."
I excluded the nonessential bits, if anyone wants a full log (something something partition details), I can make one.
I using ES File Explorer with root explorer on, I checked out /data and found two lost+found folders, which I think is causing my issue. I've tried deleting just one, but a second one is automatically generated. If I delete them both, then they're automatically recreated as well. If I delete them both and then remake one immediately after, another one will be remade.
I also checked the rest of the /data folder, and I did not find any lost+found files, so I'm pretty sure it's just the folders messing things up
I checked this thread, but I didn't find anything useful
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=39497772
I ended up here after I accidentally wiped my internal storage with TWRP. I went from a 4.3 AOSP rom to 4.1.2 stock (HD RLS16). I wiped the 4.3 rom, but I think I accidentally wiped internal storage then as well, or maybe something was messed up with TWRP because the storage folder for 4.3 isn't in data/media (or at least not for the rom I was using). After that I used hyperdrive, which was super buggy with Gapps and didn't work at all. After adding an account, everything kept force closing, and things were extremely slow and took minutes to open, even after removing the account and wiping cache+dalvik.
I thought it had to do with the rom, so I went and wiped stuff, then went to CM 10.1.3 stable, but that didn't boot at all, so I tried wiping again and going to liquidsmooth 2.9, which is where my problems started again. I attempted to wipe again and go back to cm10.1.3. The wipe failed, but cm10.1.3 worked.
any ideas on how I can fix this? I was unable to find help on google.
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I would flash back to stock in Odin and root again
xxkid123 said:
Using TWRP 2.6.3.0, I'm unable to wipe data. Every time I try, I get
"wiping data without wiping /data/media
E: error opening '/data/lost+found'
done."
I excluded the nonessential bits, if anyone wants a full log (something something partition details), I can make one.
I using ES File Explorer with root explorer on, I checked out /data and found two lost+found folders, which I think is causing my issue. I've tried deleting just one, but a second one is automatically generated. If I delete them both, then they're automatically recreated as well. If I delete them both and then remake one immediately after, another one will be remade.
I also checked the rest of the /data folder, and I did not find any lost+found files, so I'm pretty sure it's just the folders messing things up
I checked this thread, but I didn't find anything useful
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=39497772
I ended up here after I accidentally wiped my internal storage with TWRP. I went from a 4.3 AOSP rom to 4.1.2 stock (HD RLS16). I wiped the 4.3 rom, but I think I accidentally wiped internal storage then as well, or maybe something was messed up with TWRP because the storage folder for 4.3 isn't in data/media (or at least not for the rom I was using). After that I used hyperdrive, which was super buggy with Gapps and didn't work at all. After adding an account, everything kept force closing, and things were extremely slow and took minutes to open, even after removing the account and wiping cache+dalvik.
I thought it had to do with the rom, so I went and wiped stuff, then went to CM 10.1.3 stable, but that didn't boot at all, so I tried wiping again and going to liquidsmooth 2.9, which is where my problems started again. I attempted to wipe again and go back to cm10.1.3. The wipe failed, but cm10.1.3 worked.
any ideas on how I can fix this? I was unable to find help on google.
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Anytime you get that error format data (the one where you type yes) the folder gets corrupted and a format fixes it.
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Im getting the same E:Error opening '/data/lost+found' im my twrp 2.6.3.1 after flashing Official CM11 nightly dec 12.
So now my recovery is very messed up, i cant properly wipe or restore nandroid with ease anymore, did you by any chance find a solution to fixing this issue?
Mystikalrush said:
Im getting the same E:Error opening '/data/lost+found' im my twrp 2.6.3.1 after flashing Official CM11 nightly dec 12.
So now my recovery is very messed up, i cant properly wipe or restore nandroid with ease anymore, did you by any chance find a solution to fixing this issue?
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This has happened to me twice and the only solution i have found was to wipe internal storage. unfortunately i wasnt able to backup my internal storage before wiping so eveything i had on my phone was erased. Everything in your external is safe you dont have to worry but if you had important files or anything that you wouldnt erase on your internal storage then that is very unfortunate.
As for me, i now backup everything maybe like once a month or so, just in case something like this happens again.
Its happened to me also and I could not resolve it without the wipe, that was the only viable solution that worked for me.
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Although if you're using twrp I just found out you can still save some of your precious files.
How? Simple
You can go into recovery and into the file manager. I think it's in settings or advanced I'm not sure. But I know that is built into twrp. So then just go into your internal storage and select the files and move them to the external storage.
If it's your first time using the file manager then you'll have to get used to it because it's not 100% noob friendly
And remember the bigger the file the longer it'll take to move so just be patient.
Use AromaFM!
search bar will serve you..
KorGuy123 said:
Anytime you get that error format data (the one where you type yes) the folder gets corrupted and a format fixes it.
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Thank you very much, saved my life today!
Can i get some help please. I cant format data via TWRP, it says "E: unable to wipe data, unknow fle system, auto, unable to format to remove encryption". I did not put any encryption. What to do?
Have you tried using different versions of TWRP to wipe?
After several tries, I finally successfully installed Cyanogenmod 10.2 on my Rogers Samsung Galaxy S3 for the first time. Unfortunately, Titanium Backup can't find the files to restore app+data. I've gone to Preferences > Backup folder location to detect where the backup is...and it says it's empty.
The weird thing is, when I'm in Clockwork Recovery mode and browse through the folders, the folder structure is identical to before I installed the ROM. Like I see the folder I stored the .zip files in, my photo folders, and a lot of other folders. But when I browse through the File Manager on the phone or when it's plugged into the computer, that stuff doesn't exist.
I'm not really too knowledgeable in this sorta thing, but I've rooted/installed new ROMs on my old Galaxy S before and successfully restored apps+data using Titanium Backup. I'm not too sure what's happening here
Did wiping data during the installation delete the backup too? My photos are gone as well (this didn't happen on the Galaxy S...), I don't mind though since I already backed it all up on my computer, but it's still surprising.
Any help to restore my apps and data is much appreciated!!
[PS: During the setup, Google can also restore apps that it backed up for me...but I've tried this and it only restores the apps and not the data...so I'm really hoping Titanium Backup will do that for me]
If I recall, CM changes the sdcard locations. So say before CM you had sdcard (internal) then extsdcard (external). I believe CM creates an sdcard 0 and 1. Try looking in both places. Good luck.
pre4speed said:
If I recall, CM changes the sdcard locations. So say before CM you had sdcard (internal) then extsdcard (external). I believe CM creates an sdcard 0 and 1. Try looking in both places. Good luck.
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Ya I couldn't find the backup in sdcard0. I should also mention that I made the mistake of storing it in internal, rather than external (sdcard1). The folders within sdcard0 is what it would look like on a new phone...
Anyways, I'm determined to find out how to recover it because it's in the phone SOMEWHERE because the folder structure still exists when I'm in Clockwork Recovery.
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Ya I couldn't find the backup in sdcard0. I should also mention that I made the mistake of storing it in internal, rather than external (sdcard1). The folders within sdcard0 is what it would look like on a new phone...
Anyways, I determined to find out how to recover it because it's in the phone SOMEWHERE because the folder structure still exists when I'm in Clockwork Recovery.
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Menu, preferences, backup folder location, search whole device it will find then use current folder it will then restart and you're set
louvass said:
Menu, preferences, backup folder location, search whole device it will find then use current folder it will then restart and you're set
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I did that many times already. It says 'No backup location was found'...
poutineroutine said:
I did that many times already. It says 'No backup location was found'...
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I'm having the exact same problem. Has this problem been solved?
Some help desperately needed here! Thanks!
This could all depend on if you backed everything up on your device or SD card? If internal then I want to say the AOSP rom will not recognize anything from stock. However if you stored all those files on the external SD card and all lose your data, then there is an issue.
Suggestion: flash stock and see if it all comes back. If so then move all data to external SD card. Flash AOSP rom then it will all be there. Let me know how it works out
So here's what I am working with. A Rooted, S-OFF Verizon M7. The ROM I have been using up until now is here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2485319. I have been running v6.22.605.4 and everything has been working well. Well, sorta. There was something eating up the storage space. To the point I only had 1GB of storage left and had no music, pictures, downloads, or anything personal on the SD. Yet it was shown as full and no file manager could show me what was taking up space. I figured some app had gone off the reservation and since it had been a while since my last reset, a refresh would be good to do anyway. I backed everything up and used TWRP to do a factory reset. That's when the trouble began.
Once I was booted back into the system and accounts were all set up I noticed my files and folders were nowhere to be found. I used ES and the HTC file manager and both show used space on the SD partition but there were no files or folders visible. Odd. So I went back into TWRP and used the file explorer there. Lo and behold, everything was still there in the sdcard folder. Files, folders, everything. Weird. So I thought I would start over from a clean device. I wiped the cache, dalvik, and data partitions, including the SD. After that was complete and verified I pushed over the 6.22.605.6 ROM, did a firmware upgrade, and flashed the ROM. Completely started over, good to go.
Well, not quite. The problem is still there. TWRP shows the usual folders on the SD that must have been created when the ROM first set up. "Pictures", "Music", etc. But when booted into the system, nothing. Oh, and now I have the apps System UI, Package Access Manager, and a host of others crashing upon startup. I tried downgrading and flashing 6.22.605.4 like I had before and still have the same issues with storage and app crashes. Which leads me to believe there is something derped in the underlying system but I can't figure out what it is.
Any help I can get is greatly appreciated!
armorer243 said:
So here's what I am working with. A Rooted, S-OFF Verizon M7. The ROM I have been using up until now is here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2485319. I have been running v6.22.605.4 and everything has been working well. Well, sorta. There was something eating up the storage space. To the point I only had 1GB of storage left and had no music, pictures, downloads, or anything personal on the SD. Yet it was shown as full and no file manager could show me what was taking up space. I figured some app had gone off the reservation and since it had been a while since my last reset, a refresh would be good to do anyway. I backed everything up and used TWRP to do a factory reset. That's when the trouble began.
Once I was booted back into the system and accounts were all set up I noticed my files and folders were nowhere to be found. I used ES and the HTC file manager and both show used space on the SD partition but there were no files or folders visible. Odd. So I went back into TWRP and used the file explorer there. Lo and behold, everything was still there in the sdcard folder. Files, folders, everything. Weird. So I thought I would start over from a clean device. I wiped the cache, dalvik, and data partitions, including the SD. After that was complete and verified I pushed over the 6.22.605.6 ROM, did a firmware upgrade, and flashed the ROM. Completely started over, good to go.
Well, not quite. The problem is still there. TWRP shows the usual folders on the SD that must have been created when the ROM first set up. "Pictures", "Music", etc. But when booted into the system, nothing. Oh, and now I have the apps System UI, Package Access Manager, and a host of others crashing upon startup. I tried downgrading and flashing 6.22.605.4 like I had before and still have the same issues with storage and app crashes. Which leads me to believe there is something derped in the underlying system but I can't figure out what it is.
Any help I can get is greatly appreciated!
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Copy everything off while in twrp. Format SD (internal). Copy back files. Continue on.
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dottat said:
Copy everything off while in twrp. Format SD (internal). Copy back files. Continue on.
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Thanks for the reply. Unfortunately it didn't work. I did a total format and it didn't seem to help. I was able to get it back by using a RUU and then adding TWRP back in. Just finished about an hour ago and everything seems to be coming back as expected.
Thank you for the help!