I have a D855K (Telstra Australia). I recently upgrading to 10i, using the firmware: LG-D855 A6KG D85510i 00_6 16GB Hong Kong http://csmgdl.lgmobile.com/dn/downloader.dev?fileKey=FW436606432109876543213/D85510I_00.kdz
Before the upgrade, I backed up in LG PC Suite, then imaged with a full wipe, and then restored the backup via LG PC Suite again.
I now can't take photos or videos with the native camera app (haven't tried any third party apps yet). Photos just fail silently, and videos say "Failure to write". I've done some googling, and people having complained about 4.4.x breaking the ability to write to SD cards, but I don't have an SD card in my device. It's just internal storage. Also note that I haven't rooted the phone since the firmware update.
Has anyone else had this issue, or can provide any advice at all? I'm going to get a third-party camera app to see if that can at least let me take some pics if I need to in the meantime, but I would like a fix not a workaround.
Cheers.
I just installed Camera360 and it has the same issue. With photos, both apps save a thumbnail with nothing in it, then warn that the album has changed and you need to refresh the folder. When I do, the folder is empty.
Initially I was running 10d, then then 10b because of a boot loop issue. So it could be a range of things causing this
The Camera360 app works fine (ie can save pictures) if I change the folder to DCIM, instead of DCIM/Camera.
I have used Purpledrake to root my device, and installed a Terminal app. I can navigate into DCIM, but can not do anything at all with the Camera folder. I can't navigate into it, delete it, chmod or chown it. It appears to have all the same permissions as every other folder under the emulated sdcard, but refuses to do anything. I haven't tried it via adb but I doubt it would make any difference.
Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated.
I managed to run e2fsck, and it appears that my data partition has some corruption. But e2fsck can't fix it unless the partition is unmounted. I set up adb but couldn't get to a point where the partition (/dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/userdata) was not in use. I booted into recovery (adb reboot --bnr_recovery) and it still mounts the /data partition, and on top of that I don't seem to be able to elevate to root. I am only new to the Android ecosystem, so please forgive any ignorance. My google-fu doesn't appear be very helpful either. Any suggestions welcome.
Have you got the nandroid backup?? If so, How about restoring it back?... Have you tried it?? Hope it works...
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Have you got the nandroid backup?? If so, How about restoring it back?... Have you tried it?? Hope it works...
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I was under the impression I couldn't do a nandroid backup until I had a recovery rom installed, which isn't available for the D855 yet... since the partition appears to be corrupted, I suspect formatting the data partition would solve the problem. But I don't really want to lose the customisations I've done. I wouldn't be surprised if the LG PC Suite backup is like an image of the partition, which means it might restore the corruption if I used it.
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I was under the impression I couldn't do a nandroid backup until I had a recovery rom installed, which isn't available for the D855 yet... since the partition appears to be corrupted, I suspect formatting the data partition would solve the problem. But I don't really want to lose the customisations I've done. I wouldn't be surprised if the LG PC Suite backup is like an image of the partition, which means it might restore the corruption if I used it.
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Tethered twrp recovery could have you saved your nandroid backup which then you be go back to fully functional status of your phone... Sorry I am new to LG G3 myself coming from galaxy s4.
I looked into those recovery boots but it seemed a bit more complicated than I could be bothered with at the time. The thing is, my phone is still fully operational. The only thing is that the Camera folder appears to be corrupt. Even just changing the path that the default camera app saves to would fix the visible issue, however the corrupt filesystem means I could be in for a lot more pain if I can't sort that out. I'm hoping that someone can point me in the right direction to be able to use e2fsck on the data partition (I think all I need to be able to do is unmount the partition so it's not in use). Otherwise, formatting the data partition will likely be the solution, which I'm trying to avoid.
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I looked into those recovery boots but it seemed a bit more complicated than I could be bothered with at the time. The thing is, my phone is still fully operational. The only thing is that the Camera folder appears to be corrupt. Even just changing the path that the default camera app saves to would fix the visible issue, however the corrupt filesystem means I could be in for a lot more pain if I can't sort that out. I'm hoping that someone can point me in the right direction to be able to use e2fsck on the data partition (I think all I need to be able to do is unmount the partition so it's not in use). Otherwise, formatting the data partition will likely be the solution, which I'm trying to avoid.
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No expert here but have you tried restore upgrade errors with pc suite. Hopefully will fix your problems and it doesn't wipe your phone. So you will just have to reroot afterwards.
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No expert here but have you tried restore upgrade errors with pc suite. Hopefully will fix your problems and it doesn't wipe your phone. So you will just have to reroot afterwards.
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A good suggestion! I tried to use that feature a week or so ago when I have my phone in a reboot loop. Unfortunately it only said "You have the latest version of the software, go away". It was a little politer than that, of course, but my response was not polite at all. I will give it a go again tomorrow when I have access to the same computer I was doing it with before, and see how I go. I'm not hopeful that it will help, but worth a shot.
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A good suggestion! I tried to use that feature a week or so ago when I have my phone in a reboot loop. Unfortunately it only said "You have the latest version of the software, go away". It was a little politer than that, of course, but my response was not polite at all. I will give it a go again tomorrow when I have access to the same computer I was doing it with before, and see how I go. I'm not hopeful that it will help, but worth a shot.
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Was that using restore upgrade errors tho or software update? It worked for me when I was having continuous f/cs when I bootlooped I had to use the flashtool. Can't wait for a custom recovery
It was the Restore Upgrade Errors option. Part of the problem is that there have been no OTA updates for my phone. Checking that XML file at LG shows no firmware at all. I think that cripples the repair functionality a bit.
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It was the Restore Upgrade Errors option. Part of the problem is that there have been no OTA updates for my phone. Checking that XML file at LG shows no firmware at all. I think that cripples the repair functionality a bit.
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Ah ok, bummer. How about flashing the kdz again or a different one without wiping, that might do it, its sort of the same process.
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Ah ok, bummer. How about flashing the kdz again or a different one without wiping, that might do it, its sort of the same process.
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Unfortunately I don't think the OS partition is the problem. I don't have force quits or the like happening. It's the data partition that has some corruption. I can run e2fsck in no-change mode and it tells about a range of issues. But I can't fix them unless the partition is not in use. Doing anything that keeps the data partition intact, eg flashing the firmware, is not likely to resolve the problem.
Well, I'm flashing the firmware again. I changed the runtime from Davlik to ART after some reading, and the phone stuck at the LG boot logo. I will not restore the backup I did last week, in the hopes that it doesn't screw up the data partition again. At least I get to have some fun tweaking the OS again I guess...
And I can successfully take photos again!
I am still interested to hear if anyone knows of a non-destructive way to fix this kind of issue. e2fsck is on the device, but I can't seem to run it. I'm using Linux knowledge here, but is there a way to set a dirty flag on the partition so that the OS automatically runs e2fsck on next boot?
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And I can successfully take photos again!
I am still interested to hear if anyone knows of a non-destructive way to fix this kind of issue. e2fsck is on the device, but I can't seem to run it. I'm using Linux knowledge here, but is there a way to set a dirty flag on the partition so that the OS automatically runs e2fsck on next boot?
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May you tell us how did you fixed it?
As per my post directly before the one you quoted, I had to re-flash my phone to recover from changing the runtime from Davlik to ART (it got stuck at the boot logo). I chose not to restore my backup, which may have re-introduced the problem. A full wipe of a phone will fix a lot of problems... but as I said, it would be nice to know of a less destructive way to do it.
Fix!
Probably a bit late but adding this in case anyone else has the issue.
To fix it on a rooted device, enter TWRP recovery, go to Wipe > Advanced Wipe
Select Internal Storage. and swipe to wipe. (this will delete everything on the Internal "sdcard". That is not apps or settings, but it is saved files and some game files etc.
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I've made two backups on ClockworkMod, yet EVERY time I try to reinstall data, it restarts midway, and when I start my phone up the bootanimation becomes an flashing android logo, what am I doing wrong? Please help!
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I've made two backups on ClockworkMod, yet EVERY time I try to reinstall data, it restarts midway, and when I start my phone up the bootanimation becomes an flashing android logo, what am I doing wrong? Please help!
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Hmm..that's a strange problem.
Did you try to reinstall the CWM??
Edit: I pushed the Thanks Button unfortunately -.-
Every little helps
And I've tried, no such luck, so I'll try an older version and see what happens
EDIT: There's a thanks back!
Okay I've tried a different recovery, no luck
What have I done wrong? I seem unable to make any recovery.
I think the problem may have originated when I installed CWM 3.0.0.5, everything was fine before that
This is just a long shot, but have you tried checking your SD card for errors from your PC? The backup file could be corrupted, and that might fix it.
It would probably be a good idea to copy the /clockworkmod/backup folder from your SD card to your PC before you run the check. If it doesn't help or makes matters worse, you can copy it back.
Also, which version of CWM did you use to make the backup?
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This is just a long shot, but have you tried checking your SD card for errors from your PC? The backup file could be corrupted, and that might fix it.
It would probably be a good idea to copy the /clockworkmod/backup folder from your SD card to your PC before you run the check. If it doesn't help or makes matters worse, you can copy it back.
Also, which version of CWM did you use to make the backup?
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I used 2.5.1.3 in both cases, went down to 2.5.1.2 to see if it was linked to the recovery itself, it wasn't
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I used 2.5.1.3 in both cases, went down to 2.5.1.2 to see if it was linked to the recovery itself, it wasn't
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If you look in the /clockworkmod/backups folder on your card, in the folder for the relevant backups, what size is the data.img file? Have you got any earlier working backups you can compare it to? I'm wondering if the backup failed part way through.
I take it you're trying to restore data only using Advanced Restore?
I can't think what else could cause it apart from a damaged sd card or corrupt file, but I'm not a CWM expert.
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If you look in the /clockworkmod/backups folder on your card, in the folder for the relevant backups, what size is the data.img file? Have you got any earlier working backups you can compare it to? I'm wondering if the backup failed part way through.
I take it you're trying to restore data only using Advanced Restore?
I can't think what else could cause it apart from a damaged sd card or corrupt file, but I'm not a CWM expert.
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I have looked at the backup is around 1.11GB which is the expected file size, the data.img being around 730mb, it's done this twice, and I've always checked that I've had plenty of space before attempting nandroid, and nothing's ever happened to the sd, i've never moved it or anything
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I have looked at the backup is around 1.11GB which is the expected file size, the data.img being around 730mb, it's done this twice, and I've always checked that I've had plenty of space before attempting nandroid, and nothing's ever happened to the sd, i've never moved it or anything
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I'm not sure what else to suggest besides checking the sd card for errors. There have been some bugs with the HTC 1.72 stock ROM, which affect all custom ROMs based on it, that occasionally cause sd card errors. This is most likely to happen if you connect to your PC with a USB cable, mount the SD card as a drive in your PC, and disconnect the cable without using "eject" in Windows. It might happen at other times as well, I'm not certain.
This is usually fixed by checking the card for errors through your PC. Some people recommend defrag'ing the card, but I think a check for errors should be all that's needed. I'd copy all contents of the card to a folder on your PC first, just so you have a backup.
Otherwise I've run out of ideas, sorry. Hope you get it working.
What I'll do is transfer my backup to my brother's SD card, and then attempting a nandroid then, if that doesn't work then I don't know what will, but I'm 99% sure it's probably due to a problem on my SD card.
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Hope it works, let us know how you get on.
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Hope it works, let us know how you get on.
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Well it doesn't seem like option, brother's too stubborn, so I guess I'll have to stick with what I got for now until I can fix this problem, it's really bugging me
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Well it doesn't seem like option, brother's too stubborn, so I guess I'll have to stick with what I got for now until I can fix this problem, it's really bugging me
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You didn't say whether you tried checking the card for errors from your PC, did you try that yet?
CWM created an MD5 checksum for the backup, so it's not very probable r/w errors are the cause of the problem. If the data was corrupted CWM would notice before attempting to restore the data.
But if in doubt you can verify the checksums manually. In the backup directory there's a file called nandroid.md5 it's a text file that contains the hashes for each backup file. Compare those values to the actual checksums. If you need a tool use Hash My Files.
CWM 3 backups aren't backward compatible with CWM 2? Then you could try restoring with CWM 2 and see if that works. Then you'd at least know if it's you phone or a software problem.
This may sound silly but did you upgrade clockwork to 3.0.0.6?
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This may sound silly but did you upgrade clockwork to 3.0.0.6?
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I tried upgrading to see if it would solve the issue, it didn't.
And as for md5 checksums, it all checks out fine, everything starts to restore fine, and on two of the latest occasions it will not fully restore data, but will restart CWM between restoring. I really don't know what the cause is :/
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So I don't really mind if I have to hook it up to the computer or anything, I just want a really complete backup solution. It should backup pretty much everything I have on my SD Card.
I already have Titanium Backup Pro and upuntil now I thought it was complete, but after completely wiping my SD Card in an attempt to install the latest RUU (which didn't work btw, but that's off topic...) and copying my Titanium Backup-stuff from a computer backup I realized it's really really incomplete. To be honest I'm not at all sure what it even is backing up... maybe my Titanium is just set wrong?
So what happened is this... like I said my SD Card was wiped but I had previously backed up Titanium to my Dropbox and pushed the whole folder to my phone after the wipe. However none of my settings for Nova Launcher were saved. My Nova settings back up was not saved. Passwords for Google, Facebook, Dropbox etc were not saved. Data from Swiftkey was not saved. Kakao Talk and SMS messaging history was not saved.
Like I said, I'm not sure what actually was saved...
I don't really mind, maybe even prefer, if I could use my computer to store these backups instead of the SD since I don't always have a lot of space left on my device.
(I think I got the filesystem thing and updating to the latest RUU didn't work - that's what landed me in this situation to begin with by the way.)
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So I don't really mind if I have to hook it up to the computer or anything, I just want a really complete backup solution. It should backup pretty much everything I have on my SD Card.
I already have Titanium Backup Pro and upuntil now I thought it was complete, but after completely wiping my SD Card in an attempt to install the latest RUU (which didn't work btw, but that's off topic...) and copying my Titanium Backup-stuff from a computer backup I realized it's really really incomplete. To be honest I'm not at all sure what it even is backing up... maybe my Titanium is just set wrong?
So what happened is this... like I said my SD Card was wiped but I had previously backed up Titanium to my Dropbox and pushed the whole folder to my phone after the wipe. However none of my settings for Nova Launcher were saved. My Nova settings back up was not saved. Passwords for Google, Facebook, Dropbox etc were not saved. Data from Swiftkey was not saved. Kakao Talk and SMS messaging history was not saved.
Like I said, I'm not sure what actually was saved...
I don't really mind, maybe even prefer, if I could use my computer to store these backups instead of the SD since I don't always have a lot of space left on my device.
(I think I got the filesystem thing and updating to the latest RUU didn't work - that's what landed me in this situation to begin with by the way.)
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Even if you pushed the whole folder back to your phone...did you actually restore the app/data using Titanium afterwards? Pushing the back-up folder back to your phone just means Titanium can access it. It doesn't restore everything unless you actually do so using Titanium.
Otherwise, making a nandroid backup using CWM recovery takes a perfect snapshot of your phone at that moment. So your texts will all be in place, passwords, settings etc. will all be as they are now. Of course, you can't really flash your nandroid over a new ROM just to restore app data, but it allows you to revert your phone back to its original state before flashing (like in your above scenario where you had a failed RUU installation)
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Even if you pushed the whole folder back to your phone...did you actually restore the app/data using Titanium afterwards? Pushing the back-up folder back to your phone just means Titanium can access it. It doesn't restore everything unless you actually do so using Titanium.
Otherwise, making a nandroid backup using CWM recovery takes a perfect snapshot of your phone at that moment. So your texts will all be in place, passwords, settings etc. will all be as they are now. Of course, you can't really flash your nandroid over a new ROM just to restore app data, but it allows you to revert your phone back to its original state before flashing (like in your above scenario where you had a failed RUU installation)
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Hi, thanks for your reply.
Yes I did restore. When I backup I do the full backup thingie in batch operations and when I restore I do the restore apps and system data + restore app data.
Yeah, I was thinking of Nandroid too but doesn't that just do non-SD card? I'm very new to Android but isn't most of the stuff I actually care about (app data and such) on the SD?
titanium doesn't restore system bits by default and google/facebook/dropbox is integrated into the OS.
You CAN force it to I believe but it WILL break things if you change your ROM at all.
IN my mind a small issue doesn't take long to sign back into those services as long as all your apps and data is intact thats all good.
If you have the filesystem thing I STRONGLY SUGGEST you up to 1.29.xyz.11 before you do any more custom rom/CWM work. Even relock/RUU, OTA then unlock and go. I had very bad experiences with this bug.
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titanium doesn't restore system bits by default and google/facebook/dropbox is integrated into the OS.
You CAN force it to I believe but it WILL break things if you change your ROM at all.
IN my mind a small issue doesn't take long to sign back into those services as long as all your apps and data is intact thats all good.
If you have the filesystem thing I STRONGLY SUGGEST you up to 1.29.xyz.11 before you do any more custom rom/CWM work. Even relock/RUU, OTA then unlock and go. I had very bad experiences with this bug.
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Hi. Thanks for your reply.
I totally would upgrade to the RUU if HTC there wasn't this small issue of the RUU not working. I live and bought my phone in Sweden and my CID confirms it's a european phone - however when I run the RUU it formats the phone and transfers about half the ROM then setup says "nope, wrong ROM." and leaves me with a dysfunctional OS. I'm also on a Mac so I have to run Windows 7 in VM Ware Fusion and starting that stupid RUU-file and everything takes AGES. I've already spent the better part of a day and night trying to get it to work and if I'm opening that RUU one more time with VM Ware if it doesn't work I think I'm gonna hang myself. So very very very sick and tired of that bullcrap. So... for now I'm either waiting for access to a Windows computer so I can try all of the RUUs and see if my phone's transmutated into the wrong region OR I'm awaiting an S-OFF mod so I don't need to use RUU.
As for the logins and such, it's not only google/facebook/dropbox. It's also Twitter, Evernote, Swiftkey and well... pretty much everything. Chrome seems to be logged in. AnkiDroid didn't get to save it's data (which luckily is saved in the cloud... and backed up manually).
Google Music offline data would be nice to keep to since it's pretty slow to sync. Plus I have to look-up what I actually want everytime I reflash.
Also, if I'm only flashing an upgrade to my current ROM must I really enter all the passwords again anyway?
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Hi. Thanks for your reply.
I totally would upgrade to the RUU if HTC there wasn't this small issue of the RUU not working. I live and bought my phone in Sweden and my CID confirms it's a european phone - however when I run the RUU it formats the phone and transfers about half the ROM then setup says "nope, wrong ROM." and leaves me with a dysfunctional OS. I'm also on a Mac so I have to run Windows 7 in VM Ware Fusion and starting that stupid RUU-file and everything takes AGES. I've already spent the better part of a day and night trying to get it to work and if I'm opening that RUU one more time with VM Ware if it doesn't work I think I'm gonna hang myself. So very very very sick and tired of that bullcrap. So... for now I'm either waiting for access to a Windows computer so I can try all of the RUUs and see if my phone's transmutated into the wrong region OR I'm awaiting an S-OFF mod so I don't need to use RUU.
As for the logins and such, it's not only google/facebook/dropbox. It's also Twitter, Evernote, Swiftkey and well... pretty much everything. Chrome seems to be logged in. AnkiDroid didn't get to save it's data (which luckily is saved in the cloud... and backed up manually).
Google Music offline data would be nice to keep to since it's pretty slow to sync. Plus I have to look-up what I actually want everytime I reflash.
Also, if I'm only flashing an upgrade to my current ROM must I really enter all the passwords again anyway?
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Not sure if its not vmware thats breaking your RUU..... you can check your CID in fastboot and verify, if its supposed to work then its supposed to work, its vmware breaking it.
Hey at least you can flash a ROM right? 10 minutes entering passwords again is a lot less problems than a lot of people have encountered (including me, I got a corrupted super laggy file system IO after CWM and the disappearing SD card space bug hit at once).
As for nandroid, yes it doesn't touch your sd card but otherwise its 1:1 I've always gotten back from a nandroid with everything exactly as it was
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Not sure if its not vmware thats breaking your RUU..... you can check your CID in fastboot and verify, if its supposed to work then its supposed to work, its vmware breaking it.
Hey at least you can flash a ROM right? 10 minutes entering passwords again is a lot less problems than a lot of people have encountered (including me, I got a corrupted super laggy file system IO after CWM and the disappearing SD card space bug hit at once).
As for nandroid, yes it doesn't touch your sd card but otherwise its 1:1 I've always gotten back from a nandroid with everything exactly as it was
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Maybe. But it's very strange that VM Ware would be breaking a RUU isn't it?
Either way it means I need access to a Windows computer, either because VM Ware is breaking or because it's too darn slow. Indeed I have checked my CID in fastboot and it does say euro (well, I don't remember the CID itself but it correlated to euro).
Thanks for all your help. Greatly appreciated.
no probs good luck
edit: are you sure you are unbranded. If you are branded (Carrier handset) you need the carrier's RUU
its not that strange vmware breaks it, you are doing something that requires low level write access via USB.
Hello,
for some reason in TWRP I can't fix permissions. When I have it create a backup it fails at the point where it tries to create a folder. In the file manager I can't even rename a folder.
I'm running a CyanogenMod monthly from about 3-4 months ago, and have the latest TWRP version.
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Hello,
for some reason in TWRP I can't fix permissions. When I have it create a backup it fails at the point where it tries to create a folder. In the file manager I can't even rename a folder.
I'm running a CyanogenMod monthly from about 3-4 months ago, and have the latest TWRP version.
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Sounds strange, assuming everything else works fine. Not sure, but try updating the ROM?
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Sounds strange, assuming everything else works fine. Not sure, but try updating the ROM?
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Yeah, but I'd like to do a backup before I update the ROM.
I wonder if your /sdcard got write protection somehow...I thought I saw @osm0sis had a flashable zip for fixing that...apologies if I'm mistaken and sorry I'm not certain where to find this zip
Could be. But why would it only apply in TWRP? When the phone has booted everything works fine. Only in recovery do I run into problems (which makes me scared of flashing a newer ROM too...).
It should make a difference booted as well, so that's odd.
Easiest thing: Try my sdcard fix permissions zip. Might work anyway. http://v.ht/osm0
More annoying: adb pull everything (my adbsync sdcard Backup might make that easy for you), format data, push it all back then run my sdcard fix permissions zip.
do you use encryption?
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It should make a difference booted as well, so that's odd.
Easiest thing: Try my sdcard fix permissions zip. Might work anyway. http://v.ht/osm0
More annoying: adb pull everything (my adbsync sdcard Backup might make that easy for you), format data, push it all back then run my sdcard fix permissions zip.
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I couldn't flash the zip. It failed.
No encryption.
wow. My phone is trying to screw me. Again and again and again. I've tried wiping the sdcard, didn't work. Had to factory reset it. Now that part was ok. Used TitaniumBackup to restore my phone. Reboot... and it was stuck at the boot screen.
Had to factory reset again, this time only let TitaniumBackup install my apps and their settings. Have to set up the system itself again.
Since I am using a VPN I need to lock the screen with a PIN (I hate that, but oh well... Android forces me). After I have set up the VPN, everything was working fine, at some point my phone crashed. And after it started again, I could not enter the PIN code anymore. I was locked out of my phone. The phone still displayed that I pressed a number, but no number did appear. Aaaand factory reset, AGAIN!
Really? What the hell is wrong? I'm worried it might be a hardware problem. The USB port is not working properly anymore, most of the time, and I'm afraid the built in memory is gone. Oh how I hate that. My HTC had the SD card die, but replacing it fixed it. I have a LG with fixed built in storage, where the memory died. Since I was overseas for a couple of months, and LG refuses to fix phones outside of the country it was bought, I had a brick for a few months. And now it seems to have hit my Galaxy Nexus. Yay. Who thought fixed built in storage was a good idea?
My phone is currently totally F'd up and I'm planning to do an RUU but I want to get the pictures off of it first, is there any method of getting them off via TWRP or something? They are all on Internal storage so i can't just take them out and plug them into a computer. I've tried MTP transfer from it but it only allows me to do my SD card, is there some sort of ADB command or something to extract all of my internal storage or a certain folder to my computer? Anything at all? Even besides that?
Yes the internal storage is accessible, not messed up or encrypted or anything. Just don't know how to get the files off it without having a ROM (can't flash any until i RUU).
Don't use an RUU (yet)?
If you can get any ROM to boot, use that ROM to get your pictures. THEN run the RUU. If you can get to a working recovery, this should be doable.
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Don't use an RUU (yet)?
If you can get any ROM to boot, use that ROM to get your pictures. THEN run the RUU. If you can get to a working recovery, this should be doable.
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No ROM will boot, or install, adb will not function properly, TWRP reboots randomly, half of the functions in TWRP are causing it to reboot, MultiROM has a couple partitons I think never got removed, it's quite bad. At the moment I am totally stumped at what to do to even consider 'fixing' this besides an RUU. I'm not stupid when it comes to fixing my phone either, I normally have minimal issues when fixing things but this one is just above my level in actually fixing it rather than just doing the simple way out (RUU). Oh and I can't flash anything via TWRP.
Soo in short I just want to get the pictures...then RUU. I have backups on my SD card to restore and if I can get the pictures then I'll already have a full internal storage backup & sd backup to restore if needed. The pics are the only things not fully backed up, i.e why I need/want them. Probably best I do an RUU anyways, I can't uninstall MultiROM to get rid of the partitions so the RUU seems to be my best bet.
S1L3nTShaDoWz said:
No ROM will boot, or install, adb will not function properly, TWRP reboots randomly, half of the functions in TWRP are causing it to reboot, MultiROM has a couple partitons I think never got removed, it's quite bad. At the moment I am totally stumped at what to do to even consider 'fixing' this besides an RUU. I'm not stupid when it comes to fixing my phone either, I normally have minimal issues when fixing things but this one is just above my level in actually fixing it rather than just doing the simple way out (RUU). Oh and I can't flash anything via TWRP.
Soo in short I just want to get the pictures...then RUU. I have backups on my SD card to restore and if I can get the pictures then I'll already have a full internal storage backup & sd backup to restore if needed. The pics are the only things not fully backed up, i.e why I need/want them. Probably best I do an RUU anyways, I can't uninstall MultiROM to get rid of the partitions so the RUU seems to be my best bet.
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Ouch. Unfortunately, a screwed up partition map is probably only recoverable by fully wiping the internal storage. I inadvertently did something similar to my daughter's Nexus 7, and the only resolution was reloading a factory image from fast boot. (since Google doesn't seem to do RUUs)
Maybe one of the Multi-ROM devs has a better solution?
jshamlet said:
Ouch. Unfortunately, a screwed up partition map is probably only recoverable by fully wiping the internal storage. I inadvertently did something similar to my daughter's Nexus 7, and the only resolution was reloading a factory image from fast boot. (since Google doesn't seem to do RUUs)
Maybe one of the Multi-ROM devs has a better solution?
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It's more like I have 4 little partitions for the other ROM's that won't get removed unless I do the RUU anyways or at least get the phone functional enough to where I can remove them with MultiROM but as I said I just want the pictures and to rid of it. Once I get them or if I can/can't then i'll fully wipe it and probably do the RUU too. Just want to at least TRY to get them, if not it's whatever but worth a shot.
Oh and the 4 little partitions thing, thats only from what I know of how MultiROM works, I don't actually know 100% for sure if it really creates partitions. Quite sure it does though
Try
adb pull /data/media/0/
it should pull all files from internal storage
make sure you mount data in TWRP first before you run the command
or
you can try to flash TWRP as linked in my sig, it can mount your internal storage as MTP
or
search for qtADB ... it's a pc-android explorer... then browse to data/media/0/
you can copy whatever that you need with its copy function
(you need to mount data in TWRP first)
ckpv5 said:
Try
adb pull /data/media/0/
it should pull all files from internal storage
make sure you mount data in TWRP first before you run the command
or
you can try to flash TWRP as linked in my sig, it can mount your internal storage as MTP
or
search for qtADB ... it's a pc-android explorer... then browse to data/media/0/
you can copy whatever that you need with its copy function
(you need to mount data in TWRP first)
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Okay thank the spaghetti monster of doom that last one worked, got the pictures extracted safely. I tried getting my entire internal storage just in hopes I could 100% clone my old setup but it just keeps glitching and won't do it. Either way got what I wanted, attempting an RUU now . Thanks for the help!
Oh and just for informational purposes, I was already using his TWRP and that ADB command just did what every other thing I normally do in TWRP does, rebooted my phone after 2 seconds of it. It did manage to get 2 files but they weren't even what I wanted. Maybe if I did it more specifically it would've worked but oh well.
Updaaaate!: Got everything back as it should be via RUU, Nandroid Backup, & backed up Internal Storage from 8/11/14 along with the Pictures you helped me get!
Hello there I updated my international firmware to unlocked/developer and I got a message saying that my password is correct but I need to reset my phone because the data was corrupt.
This is the first time I saw this message so I tried fixing this by formatting the data partition to ext4. I was able to get back but it reset my phone but I have a twrp backup.
However everytime I restore this backup, it does not recognize my pin. I can get into the phone using my finger print but I run into the phone automatically erasing the data if I try to browse the internal data.
I'm already on a clean rom install using a Google backup. I lost some of my pictures because doing dirty installs reset my camera's save location. I wish to try to retrieve my pictures from the twrp if it is possible. Does anyone have ideas?
Did you have the SD Card set as adoptable storage, or external storage that was encrypted? That might help with someone answering your post.
I feel your pain, I learned of adoptable storage the hard way when I was installing a rom and ended up wiping data because of the install method I was testing not working out, which also took out everything on my sdcard including my backups, it sounds goofy now, but at the time I didn't see it coming lol.
I think you may want to check the last few pages of @Sneakyghost 's HTC 10 firmware thread for discussion of a problem like yours, and someone has posted a link to help another user that had a similar problem to yours, unless that was you. It's in the HTC 10 guides and news section I believe.
revoltech said:
Hello there I updated my international firmware to unlocked/developer and I got a message saying that my password is correct but I need to reset my phone because the data was corrupt.
This is the first time I saw this message so I tried fixing this by formatting the data partition to ext4. I was able to get back but it reset my phone but I have a twrp backup.
However everytime I restore this backup, it does not recognize my pin. I can get into the phone using my finger print but I run into the phone automatically erasing the data if I try to browse the internal data.
I'm already on a clean rom install using a Google backup. I lost some of my pictures because doing dirty installs reset my camera's save location. I wish to try to retrieve my pictures from the twrp if it is possible. Does anyone have ideas?
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After restoring your nandroid you have to reboot into recovery and delete the three lockscreen files in data/system. Then reboot and you will need to re setup your pin and fingerprints.
Sorry deleted I thought this was my thread when waking up in the middle of the night.
Still have no answer. Even though I was mentioned.