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My phone was working fine until I upgraded two apps (I can't recall which ones) and my phone rebooted on its own; weird. I am running CM7 BTW.
I figured "No problem, I'll just flash my backup through Clockworkmod; not so. I keep getting "error formatting /data" regardless of any wipe, format I do.
I am not sure what to do from here. Please help. Searching revealed some RUU advice, but those were in other phone forums and I want to make sure I don't screw this up.
evil_elf said:
My phone was working fine until I upgraded two apps (I can't recall which ones) and my phone rebooted on its own; weird. I am running CM7 BTW.
I figured "No problem, I'll just flash my backup through Clockworkmod; not so. I keep getting "error formatting /data" regardless of any wipe, format I do.
I am not sure what to do from here. Please help. Searching revealed some RUU advice, but those were in other phone forums and I want to make sure I don't screw this up.
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What version of cwm are you using?
Sent From My Optimized HTC Incredibly Dinc
It was the orange, but I upgraded it to see if it would work. uh, oh, as I write this, I fear worse...
Upgrading changed cwm to blue, but still same problems. It is almost as if the data directory has no write permissions.
I got impatient and used the ruu.exe from pvillecomp and now it gets stuck at the red eye droid screen and is on a reboot loop.
I can't get into recovery now, I get the phone icon with the red ! triangle. I figure cwm is gone now, so what, use unrevoked again? This would flash a new recovery, correct? Otherwise, how would I get the zip file onto the sd card now to flash via hboot? Even with a cwm, I imagine I will have the same formatting issues, unless the rom upate utility corrected those.
evil_elf said:
My phone was working fine until I upgraded two apps (I can't recall which ones) and my phone rebooted on its own; weird. I am running CM7 BTW.
I figured "No problem, I'll just flash my backup through Clockworkmod; not so. I keep getting "error formatting /data" regardless of any wipe, format I do.
I am not sure what to do from here. Please help. Searching revealed some RUU advice, but those were in other phone forums and I want to make sure I don't screw this up.
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Try manually mounting /data before wiping it.
EDIT: Nevermind just read your other post about loosing cw recovery. Are you still s-off?
yeah, I tried every combination of mounting and formatting and it always failed with the same message. I am still S-off, so I imagine from here I can use unrevoked to flash cwm back onto it then I can try to restore from a saved ROM I have on my card. Should I do that?
I could copy the file to flash cwm file to my card instead I guess, but my card would have to be FAT32 I assume.
Well I flashed ClockworkMod 5.0.2.0 using HBOOT and now I am back to my original problem: Error while formatting /data! I can mount /data, but not format it, even through the mount menu option. Any ideas?
I don't know much about the file structure but does this not seem like a permissions issue to you guys? Fix permissions in CWM and factory resets don't help either.
evil_elf said:
Well I flashed ClockworkMod 5.0.2.0 using HBOOT and now I am back to my original problem: Error while formatting /data! I can mount /data, but not format it, even through the mount menu option. Any ideas?
I don't know much about the file structure but does this not seem like a permissions issue to you guys? Fix permissions in CWM and factory resets don't help either.
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Do you have a ext2/3/4 partition on your sdcard?
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Do you have a ext2/3/4 partition on your sdcard?
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By partition, do mean directories? I formatted the card to FAT32 but did not partition it in any way. I don't believe I had separate partitions on it before, but I could be wrong. Wouldn't the partitions have shown up in my Windows OS when I plugged the card in to the reader?
evil_elf said:
Well I flashed ClockworkMod 5.0.2.0 using HBOOT and now I am back to my original problem: Error while formatting /data! I can mount /data, but not format it, even through the mount menu option. Any ideas?
I don't know much about the file structure but does this not seem like a permissions issue to you guys? Fix permissions in CWM and factory resets don't help either.
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factory reset in hboot is different. It will probably wipe programming so you'll have to *228 1 and *228 2 to yet reprogram your phone. It'll probably wipe sdcard and emmc too. I've not tried so this is at your own risk. see if there are better options first.
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tiny4579 said:
factory reset in hboot is different. It will probably wipe programming so you'll have to *228 1 and *228 2 to yet reprogram your phone. It'll probably wipe sdcard and emmc too. I've not tried so this is at your own risk. see if there are better options first.
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I've already tried it before. It did not touch my card but did reset my phone's programming.
The restore function in CWM only touches the internal memory, correct?
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By partition, do mean directories? If so, yes. I formatted the card to FAT32 but did not partition it in any way. I don't believe I had separate partitions on it before, but I could be wrong. Wouldn't the partitions have shown up in my Windows OS when I plugged the card in to the reader?
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No windows would not see it if its there you would need to use a program called "gparted" on your pc to get rid of it or reformat it. Also when you tried the factory reset from hboot were you on a stock recovery then or cwm?
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No windows would not see it if its there you would need to use a program called "gparted" on your pc to get rid of it or reformat it. Also when you tried the factory reset from hboot were you on a stock recovery then or cwm?
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I tried the Factory Reset from HBOOT and also the Wipe Data/Factory Reset from CWM. Occasionally I am getting the 5 vibrations and a black screen when trying to turn off and on; battery pull allows me to boot up into ROM or HBOOT.
CM7 is working now, but the hard button bindings are screwed up along with a bunch of other stuff. CWM is able to restore the system, but fails on data so it makes sense. I can't receive calls either. I was so hoping the ruu would have fixed this...
The card should have no bearing on flashing a ROM? Or am I not understanding this?
Oh, I also tried to restore and format data manually without the card in to no avail. The Wipe Data/Factory Reset formats the data folder without errors but not the manually method of formatting or the restore method.
Could this help? http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=18287267
Just tried this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1006556
Still same error.
To return my phone under warranty to a Verizon store, do I need to make sure that the stock ROM is flashed and the phone is unrooted with S-ON again? I am starting to think this is the route I am heading down and I only have a week left on my warranty.
Very short answer.........YES!!!
A kind soul helping me at http://forum.cyanogenmod.com/topic/32272-error-formatting-data-when-restoring/
*Possible Solution* If still an issue
If it is still an issue I had the same problem with my incredible.
I was playing a racing game on my phone and it just restarted on its own. When I turned it back on the phone had reset itself. Every time I would restart the phone from then on it would delete every thing I had saved like it was doing a factory reset. So I tried to do a wipe and restore and no luck. I kept getting the same errors you were getting in clockwork. I also tried the e2fsck commands from the link in the prior post and no luck.
1. I got a working HTC Incredible and booted into recovery and mounted all partitions.(/system, /data, etc.)
2. Then I used adb to pull the filesystem from the working phone with this command.
c:\android\adb pull / filesystem
This puts all the files from the phones root folder into a folder named filesystem in the same directory as the adb files.
3. After that finished I hooked the phone with the messed up partitions to the computer, booted into recovery, and mounted all partitions.
4. Then I used adb to push the filesystem from the working Incredible to the Incredible with the messed up partitions with this command.
c:\android\adb push c:\android\filesystem /
5. When it finished I rebooted the phone. It booted up and I got a few force close errors but nothing major, so I restarted and booted into recovery. When I tried to format /data it formatted like it should have.
6. Finally I downloaded the stock+ rooted rom and flashed it with clockwork and the phone booted up fine with no force closes and doesn't reset after reboot.
This worked for me and should work for anyone else that has this filesystem problem.
Can i get those files?
i dont have a working incredible. can you post a link to the working filesystem.
Thanks.
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If it is still an issue I had the same problem with my incredible.
I was playing a racing game on my phone and it just restarted on its own. When I turned it back on the phone had reset itself. Every time I would restart the phone from then on it would delete every thing I had saved like it was doing a factory reset. So I tried to do a wipe and restore and no luck. I kept getting the same errors you were getting in clockwork. I also tried the e2fsck commands from the link in the prior post and no luck.
1. I got a working HTC Incredible and booted into recovery and mounted all partitions.(/system, /data, etc.)
2. Then I used adb to pull the filesystem from the working phone with this command.
c:\android\adb pull / filesystem
This puts all the files from the phones root folder into a folder named filesystem in the same directory as the adb files.
3. After that finished I hooked the phone with the messed up partitions to the computer, booted into recovery, and mounted all partitions.
4. Then I used adb to push the filesystem from the working Incredible to the Incredible with the messed up partitions with this command.
c:\android\adb push c:\android\filesystem /
5. When it finished I rebooted the phone. It booted up and I got a few force close errors but nothing major, so I restarted and booted into recovery. When I tried to format /data it formatted like it should have.
6. Finally I downloaded the stock+ rooted rom and flashed it with clockwork and the phone booted up fine with no force closes and doesn't reset after reboot.
This worked for me and should work for anyone else that has this filesystem problem.
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Here try this one http://dinc.does-it.net/Touch_of_Blue/filesystem.zip, im interested to see if this works for you too. It seems quite a few people have been having issues with /data latley.
I get error
Code:
push: filesystem/sys/devices/platform/android_pmem.0/power/wakeup -> /sys/devices/platform/android_pmem.0/power/wakeup
failed to copy 'filesystem/sys/devices/platform/android_pmem.0/power/wakeup' to '/sys/devices/platform/android_pmem.0/power/wakeup': Operation not permitted
i get this error trying to push the filesystem. any workaround?
hi,
i have a desire with amoled screen, s-off, cm7r2.
yesterday some google programs started to give error and fc. then i restart my phone but it didnt open. then i try to delete dalvik cache and try to reboot but same. after that i try to restore backup, however it freezes at some place while restore.i tried also install new rom, but it freezes at some place again. how can i handle the problem? do you have any suggestion?
polatkanfatih said:
hi,
i have a desire with amoled screen, s-off, cm7r2.
yesterday some google programs started to give error and fc. then i restart my phone but it didnt open. then i try to delete dalvik cache and try to reboot but same. after that i try to restore backup, however it freezes at some place while restore.i tried also install new rom, but it freezes at some place again. how can i handle the problem? do you have any suggestion?
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May be a motherboard fault, or a broken ext partition. Do you use an ext partition?
yes, i have ext3 1gb... i try to partition sd card again via clockworkmod, it says done but nothing change. data inside it exist still. and problem continues.
polatkanfatih said:
yes, i have ext3 1gb... i try to partition sd card again via clockworkmod, it says done but nothing change. data inside it exist still. and problem continues.
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Partition it again using the guide in my sig.
Clockworkmod recovery cant partition very well so that could be ur problem like abaaaabbbb63 says, change ur recovery to 4ext recovery and then partition ur sdcard with abaaaabbbb63 guide.
thanks for all, i tried format my sd card in linux with gparted but it always gave error. in windows, i can see the files inside it but cannot copy or open them. i tried to format in windows but it says "windows unable to format the card". evetually, i bought new card, format it and it worked. now, my broken card is 32 gb class 10 samsung, i dont want to throw it. how can i fix it? any suggestions?
Odp: my desire doesnt open
polatkanfatih said:
thanks for all, i tried format my sd card in linux with gparted but it always gave error. in windows, i can see the files inside it but cannot copy or open them. i tried to format in windows but it says "windows unable to format the card". evetually, i bought new card, format it and it worked. now, my broken card is 32 gb class 10 samsung, i dont want to throw it. how can i fix it? any suggestions?
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Try to repartition it using 4ext recovery.
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Ok, here is the problem, i woke up today, my phone battery was empty, i connected the phone battery was loading, but i couldn't get to the system, after kernel load it stops, like there was no system installed. Everything worked fine day before,my configuration was: Doomkernel and Existenz_2.0.5 ROM.
So, i got to recovery (recovery works,CWM), and there i saw "can't mount cache" error. I got into shell with adb (this works too), and there is no way i can mount any system partition (/system, /cache, /data), what's more important /sdcard does not mount either. So, i'm in recovery, can't install or restore from sdcard,cause /sdcard does not mount.
I'v tried sideload, no go.
I've tried fastboot flash new kernel, and here's interesing thing, fastboot reported that flashing was ok, but i still have Doomkernel (i was trying to flash 6.0-TUX-Core-HD kernel. So seems like fastboot did not write anything at all.
I've tried flashtool with stock tft. It breaks with "final verification error", when i turn "final verification off" it goes all the way, says everything is installed, but when i restarted, still only Doomkernel.
Any ideas ? I take any advice.
Maybe you have already tried it, but format your phone's data, THEN the cache, and finally the internal storage (SD card). In XS's CWM, there's a bug, which causes sometimes an unformatable and unusable cache parition. But this method can be help on this. Maybe this problem causes those unformatable partitions.
Szatyor said:
Maybe you have already tried it, but format your phone's data, THEN the cache, and finally the internal storage (SD card). In XS's CWM, there's a bug, which causes sometimes an unformatable and unusable cache parition. But this method can be help on this. Maybe this problem causes those unformatable partitions.
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Thank you for your reply. Haven't tried that but i have now and, unfortunately, no go. With /data and /cache seems like format was success but it didn't ( still can't Mount) and with /sdcard format fails (error mounting /sdcard).
Maybe my sdcard really died ?
qrto said:
Thank you for your reply. Haven't tried that but i have now and, unfortunately, no go. With /data and /cache seems like format was success but it didn't ( still can't Mount) and with /sdcard format fails (error mounting /sdcard).
Maybe my sdcard really died ?
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Well, I don't think so. The "SD Card" is a part of the memory chip, which includes the system, the data and the cache partitions too. Because you cannot copy anything now to the internal storage, try to install a ROM from ADB Sideload if you can. Once it done, your phone can be boot maybe again. If it happens, try to format the internal storage by the Android. If it fails, connect the phone to your computer, and try to format with Windows or (it can be better) Linux to fat32 filesystem.
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Well, I don't think so. The "SD Card" is a part of the memory chip, which includes the system, the data and the cache partitions too. Because you cannot copy anything now to the internal storage, try to install a ROM from ADB Sideload if you can. Once it done, your phone can be boot maybe again. If it happens, try to format the internal storage by the Android. If it fails, connect the phone to your computer, and try to format with Windows or (it can be better) Linux to fat32 filesystem.
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Thank you for your ideas. Thing is, all i can start is cwm recovery. As i wrote, i can't install anything with sideload. And no partition is working. When i start parted /dev/block/mmcblk and try to list partitions, i get unrecognized disk label error, when i try to manually set disk label to msdos, there's I/O Error.
And i can't format sdcard, because when in recovery, phone is not detected by Linux nor Windows. But i tried formatting partitions internally, with mke2fs, and with fastboot command. No go.
I know that /sdcard is just a partition, but what i meant was that probably my phone memory chip died, like hardware died. but i'm still looking for new ideas i want to try everything before giving up.
qrto said:
Thank you for your ideas. Thing is, Alp i can start iż cwm recovery. As i wrote, i can't install anything with sideload. And no partition is working. When i start parted /dev/block/mmcblk and try to list partitions, i get unrecognized disk label error, when i try to manually set disk label to msdos, there's I/O Error.
And i can't format sdcard, because when in recovery, phone is not detected by Linux nor Windows. But i tried formatting partitions internally, with mke2fs, and with fastboot command. No go.
I know that /sdcard is just a partition, but what i meant was that probably my phone memory chip died, like hardware died. but i'm still looking for new ideas i want to try everything before giving up.
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Then maybe it's a HW error really. But maybe just the partition table is corrupted. At this point, I don't know. I have only one suggestion left: Take the phone to the nearest SONY Center or GSM shop/service to investigation. But I think they will say you'll need to replace the phone's motherboard. Anyway, it's an too expensive solution I think, because this phone is a "retired" modell without any update, but with a "blacksheep (Snapdragon S3) SoC.
Hello everyone,
i just got a 7105 from a friend to try and fix it, and i'm must say i'm amazed, internal storage/ data/ cache/ reads 0mb, it fails to mount everything, but i can access twrp recovery.
tried pit reformatting trough Odin, no success.
can i get some light on how to Reformat every partition something like forced formatting?
i'm willing to try everything, since the phone is as good as a brick now
Thanks
Is it the sudden death problem? mine Note 2 have this too it cant read anything and cannot install roms. Only boot to recovery and bootloader
fsreigner said:
Hello everyone,
i just got a 7105 from a friend to try and fix it, and i'm must say i'm amazed, internal storage/ data/ cache/ reads 0mb, it fails to mount everything, but i can access twrp recovery.
tried pit reformatting trough Odin, no success.
can i get some light on how to Reformat every partition something like forced formatting?
i'm willing to try everything, since the phone is as good as a brick now
Thanks
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MinBCrafter said:
Is it the sudden death problem? mine Note 2 have this too it cant read anything and cannot install roms. Only boot to recovery and bootloader
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The same happened to me once. Just go to twrp recovery >wipe>advanced wipe>select internal storage>repair partition>change file system>ext4 .
Do the file change for every single partition there (not every partition will get file system changed)
And done .. Now flash a rom and you are good to go. (Also dont mess with ext sdcard)
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Gurkanwal Chauhan said:
The same happened to me once. Just go to twrp recovery >wipe>advanced wipe>select internal storage>repair partition>change file system>ext4 .
Do the file change for every single partition there (not every partition will get file system changed)
And done .. Now flash a rom and you are good to go. (Also dont mess with ext sdcard)
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I've tried it before, no success
Nope mine is confirmed dead by a technician and the people on XDA that my motherboard is broken so it reads 0mb and needs replacement, anyway i had moved on to Note 4 and huawei p9 plus now, fixing the note 2 is just not worth it.
Help me please.
My phone is in a bootloop and twrp cant mount /data. I tried formatting and changing file system but it all failed. I cant flash rom in MiFlash and it says "flash xbl error" or "FAILED (File is too large to download)"
What did you do before the phone went into bootloop? Also did you format on TWRP via Wipe -> Format Data?
just format data and install rom through micro sd if your internal storage not working in twrp
kek-mex said:
What did you do before the phone went into bootloop? Also did you format on TWRP via Wipe -> Format Data?
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first my phone went to edl then i paid someone to flash it with ufi and it failed while it is flashing user data (he refunded my money though) then my phone booted then i flashed twrp in fastboot. Yes I also did the formatting and failed
nneko904 said:
just format data and install rom through micro sd if your internal storage not working in twrp
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I've tried that already but it really doesn't work for me:crying:
re install twrp(3.3.1-10) ,and vbmeta.img and reboot to twrp again
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re install twrp(3.3.1-10) ,and vbmeta.img and reboot to twrp again
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sadly it didn't work for me
I forgot to attach these.
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first my phone went to edl then i paid someone to flash it with ufi and it failed while it is flashing user data (he refunded my money though) then my phone booted then i flashed twrp in fastboot. Yes I also did the formatting and failed
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Alright. Im not that experienced with edl. Can you send picture of Wipe -> Advanced Wipe that we can see all of the partitions? Maybe also if you can send pictures of every partitions details by ticking them and then going to "Repair or Change File System" and taking screenshots? Don't know if this is gonna help, but it's worth a try.
kek-mex said:
Alright. Im not that experienced with edl. Can you send picture of Wipe -> Advanced Wipe that we can see all of the partitions? Maybe also if you can send pictures of every partitions details by ticking them and then going to "Repair or Change File System" and taking screenshots? Don't know if this is gonna help, but it's worth a try.
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Thanks for responding..
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Thanks for responding..
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Try changing the filesystem of /data to ext4, and then back to f2fs, and then rebooting into TWRP. I've had this problem before, and that worked for me.
kek-mex said:
Try changing the filesystem of /data to ext4, and then back to f2fs, and then rebooting into TWRP. I've had this problem before, and that worked for me.
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It failed sadly.
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It failed sadly.
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That's pretty weird. Sadly I have no more ideas. Good luck with your problem!
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That's pretty weird. Sadly I have no more ideas. Good luck with your problem!
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Thanks for you help!:angel: