Anyone know a custom recovery that will allow me to do nandroid backup straight to a usb drive I have tried cwm, twpr,and philz and none seem to allow this.
yes i have mounted usb in the recovery but the only option to save is to sd card any help I know i am missing something stupid.
bregga said:
Anyone know a custom recovery that will allow me to do nandroid backup straight to a usb drive I have tried cwm, twpr,and philz and none seem to allow this.
yes i have mounted usb in the recovery but the only option to save is to sd card any help I know i am missing something stupid.
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I could be wrong but if use CWM with an OTG cable it should work fine. In CWM you need to mount your "external sd".
After the backup is done; boot up, open a file explorer, have the OTG cable plugged in and go to /sdcard/usbStorage/sda1 and you should be able to see your backup there.
Remove the MicroSD card before proceeding to do anything to avoid any issues with the OTG cable or Flash Drive.
I believe TWRP has an OTG mount mode as well.
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Yes i have tried in all of them to mount the usb drive but none have the option to save to the sda1 "usb" its weird i use twrp on my htc one and it does it on there i also used cwm, twrp on my droid x2 and they did it there i also have tried multiple usb sticks from 4 gig 16 gig 32 gig 64 gig and a 128 but no luck. I mean its not that big a deal i can copy it off to my computer but would be nice to be able to do it direct
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Somehow I ended up flashing TWRP. Now my phone can only get into this and not original android. My phone also won't connect to the computer, windows tries to install the drivers but they never install successfully. Any help is very very appreciated.
jjallday13 said:
Somehow I ended up flashing TWRP. Now my phone can only get into this and not original android. My phone also won't connect to the computer, windows tries to install the drivers but they never install successfully. Any help is very very appreciated.
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Try going to mount and storage and click something that goes around USB mount/usb storage. I think its mount usb AFAIK, this should start USB MASS STORAGE mode and youll be able to transfer files from your computer.
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Try going to mount and storage and click something that goes around USB mount/usb storage. I think its mount usb AFAIK, this should start USB MASS STORAGE mode and youll be able to transfer files from your computer.
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But if like me when you try this, TWRP fails to mount.
Only other work around I have found is USB OTG + Memory stick with ROM on it.
Plug in switch to "Use External Storage"
Find ROM
Flash.
I'm unable to mount in the latest version. But if you flash version 2.4.3.0 you should be able to mount again.
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I never managed to, clicking on it does absolutely nothing.
It's quite annoying because i cannot copy stuff to my tab from recovery, i have to use ADB command line instead..
Is it just me?
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Latest TWRP ofc, 2.6.3.1
Anyone? How do you copy stuff in recovery without ADB?
For accessing files on my USB I use Stickmount and can copy files with my File Manager. I can also flash Roms that are on the USB with TWRP..
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But you are talking about app , when you are booted in Android correct?
I'm talking about moving stuff to sdcard in Recovery. e.g. connecting it with my PC in recovery using USB cable wont show me any storage in "my computer", and mounting "USB-OTG" does nothing.
I have no problems copying stuff when i'm booted in Android, storage is properly detected/mounted.
But in recovery i have to use ADB to copy anything to my tab, is there solution for this?
k3lcior said:
But you are talking about app , when you are booted in Android correct?
I'm talking about moving stuff to sdcard in Recovery. e.g. connecting it with my PC in recovery using USB cable wont show me any storage in "my computer", and mounting "USB-OTG" does nothing.
I have no problems copying stuff when i'm booted in Android, storage is properly detected/mounted.
But in recovery i have to use ADB to copy anything to my tab, is there solution for this?
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You can't mount to your computer in TWRP. USB-OTG is something different.
Yes I do it all the time. I only have the 8GB so I use USB Flash Drives, or microsd cards through an adapter all the time. I have 3 cheap USB OTG adapters I got from eBay. And one Meenova SDCard adapter. But I use micro SD's with a USB adapter with the USB OTG cables as well.
I pretty much always do this when I backup in TWRP, or am Flashing a rom.
There is two ways to do it really.
One. Go to the advanced and select Mount. On that page I just unselected everything and select USB OTG. Then you don't have to do anything else. Its just like when u select the radiobox it is marked as being mounted, you can then access any files on it using whatever means depending on the circumstances, it will be located at the root of your device, at the bottom there is a dir named 'USB-OTG' select that and your files should be in there.
The second way, go to mount, but below all the options there is a box that says 'Storage 1xxxxx mb'. Etc. Just tap that box and it let's you select either USB-OTG or the devices storage. I use this option to make a band backup so it just defaults to a TWRP/Backups/ dir on the drive. Instead of having to fiddle with all that backing up to get to a custom dir.
It should work. There is no indication that it is mounted if that's what you mean, unless there is an led on your drive of coarse.
Just head to the root dir and USB OTG should be there and you be all good.
But yeah your computer is not a hard drive so you can't just mount it like one. You could technically if you took your hard drive out and connected it with adapters, but a Flash Drive is like $5 these days for one that can hold even the biggest of files you would ever need in recovery.
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k3lcior said:
I never managed to, clicking on it does absolutely nothing.
It's quite annoying because i cannot copy stuff to my tab from recovery, i have to use ADB command line instead..
Is it just me?
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Latest TWRP ofc, 2.6.3.1
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All you have to do is, Re-Format the MicroSD card in your computer (I use windows 7) using SDFormatter v4.0. Click the "Options" button and for "Format Type", Select "Quick" and for "Format Size Adjustment" Select "On". Thats it! And it will Surely be recognized in TWRP (i use v2.7). Hope that helps.
I have exactly the same problem. I have flashed a number of ROMs from a USB stick via an OTG adapter.
But now the tablet has stopped recognizing the USB OTG. As the tablet (a Nexus 7 Grouper) has no SD slot, there is no way of transferring the ROM files. So I'm stuck.
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Hello, Im facing the same issues now, trying to back up rom to usb with otg. Twrp won't mount usb, I've tried everything to get it to mount...
bluboy88 said:
Hello, Im facing the same issues now, trying to back up rom to usb with otg. Twrp won't mount usb, I've tried everything to get it to mount...
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I never got TWRP to see the OTG if I inserted it whilst the tablet was running. Only when I booted with OTG did it see it.
If you are using an adapter, say USB-A to USB-micro then some don't work well.
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Thanks for the reply
I just use a small otg adapter, usb c male on one side and regular usb female on other side.
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I never got TWRP to see the OTG if I inserted it whilst the tablet was running. Only when I booted with OTG did it see it.
If you are using an adapter, say USB-A to USB-micro then some don't work well.
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Well, i'm boooting with it pluged in and twrp still does not mount it. I have a tiny otg adapter, its just a male usb c on one side and a regular size female usb on the other...
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Thanks for the reply
I just use a small otg adapter, usb c male on one side and regular usb female on other side.
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Well, i'm boooting with it pluged in and twrp still does not mount it. I have a tiny otg adapter, its just a male usb c on one side and a regular size female usb on the other...
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I'm having this same damn problem. TWRP really sucks ass on mounting USB-OTG... sometimes it works and most of the time it doesn't... I don't know what to do either when I can't load any ROMS on there!!
I wanted to unroot and reinstall the factory rom. However, i wiped and formated everything in recovery first. I am now stuck with a paper weight. The tab is able to get into recovery and into the bootloader but that's it. I connect it to the computer and it does not detect it. I have tried with an otg cable, but nothing. The port works as it is charging, but it refuses to connect. As there is no way to get a rom into the tab or fastboot to recover it, i think i officially bricked my first android device. Normally, my devices have an external sd card slot and i can put the files on that but not this one.
Can you not use your otg the same as if it were an external SD? That's what I do all the time in twrp.
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Can you not use your otg the same as if it were an external SD? That's what I do all the time in twrp.
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the device doesn't recognize anything. I think the data port on the micro usb might have gotten fried. there is voltage getting to the device because it is charging, currently at 100%, but if i connect to the pc in either bootloader or twrp it isn't recognized. I also tried to do the otg but twrp still gives me nothing - states 0mb otg. if the board would have been cheaper i would have just bought another just in case it was that but the cost of the board is as much as a used tablet.
Make sure you're mounting the USB storage in TWRP after plugging it in: Mount > Check USB-OTG box (I've had to uncheck and check the box several times to get this working before).
Also, I'm not 100% sure on supported file systems in TWRP via usb-otg, but you may also need to make sure the USB storage you're mounting is in FAT32 format and not NTFS.
I'm a ****ing idiot. I was going to install a new ROM and I was wizzing through everything and accidentally clicked ext SD card on the wipe screen....
EVERYTHING was on there. My last ROM backup, my Titanium backups... even the rom I was flashing. I literally have nothing on my phone.
I know I can use adb to push the new rom through but I'm still losing ALL my data. ALL my pictures and songs and EVERYTHING will be gone forever.
Is there ANY way to recover from a wipe???
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I'm a ****ing idiot. I was going to install a new ROM and I was wizzing through everything and accidentally clicked ext SD card on the wipe screen....
EVERYTHING was on there. My last ROM backup, my Titanium backups... even the rom I was flashing. I literally have nothing on my phone.
I know I can use adb to push the new rom through but I'm still losing ALL my data. ALL my pictures and songs and EVERYTHING will be gone forever.
Is there ANY way to recover from a wipe???
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try to remove it, put it on a pc, and use a software like recuva, but i don't know if it works on flash memory
Undeleter!
Doesnt work everytime but definetly worth giving it a try.
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try to remove it, put it on a pc, and use a software like recuva, but i don't know if it works on flash memory
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My issue is I don't have an sd card reader on my computer and I can't select my G3 from Recuva using the TWRP mount.
Download said rom or any on flash drive and use otg cable or dollar stores got sd card to usb converters walmart any one but i use otg in the case
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My issue is I don't have an sd card reader on my computer and I can't select my G3 from Recuva using the TWRP mount.
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I take it you have a usb port just order a micro usb sim reader don't cost much and try recuva from there
or, if you don't care about data that was on INTERNAL sdcard, you could, remove your external sdcard from phone, restore phone, boot phone, insert sdcard, and then mount sdcard as mass storage (i never did it, but it should be some root app that enables it), then recuva
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My issue is I don't have an sd card reader on my computer and I can't select my G3 from Recuva using the TWRP mount.
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Use PhilZ Recovery (flashable ZIP):
https://onedrive.live.com/redir.asp...E!2560&authkey=!AEWRy1uDVQUYt5o&ithint=file%2
This recovery image allows you to mount your microSD card as a USB Mass Storage device - simply go to 'Mounts & Storage', then 'Mount USB Storage' (or similar).
Maybe Im not describing it right but no phone for over a month.. No matter what computer or version of windows 10 my phone is not recognized because I deleted all system and it comes up with error device descripor failed. I can get into fastboot and twrp recovery so thats good . but memory stick doesnt show on there no matter what format i use blah blah blah.. The unbrick tool doesnt recognize phone either probably because of the error and no usb debugging so Im willing to pay for someone to get this back up if nobody has any answer just leave whee to send and how much if no one knows of any way to get a rom on here:crying:..thanks
When you say memory stick doesn't show are you referring to OTG? If not try a USB C memory stick, or try a different one, maybe another USB C stick would work.
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When you say memory stick doesn't show are you referring to OTG? If not try a USB C memory stick, or try a different one, maybe another USB C stick would work.
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I have tried many usb stick memory with one of those converters...usb to c but not an actual c stick ..........good idea ..what format?
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I have tried many usb stick memory with one of those converters...usb to c but not an actual c stick ..........good idea ..what format?
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My USB A/C Sandisk is formatted as exFat and detected fine in codeworkx's latest TWRP. You deleting the System partition should not affect your device's ability to detect a USB. Just load OOS/your ROM onto your USB, press "Mount" on the TWRP main menu, press "Select Storage" then "USB Storage" then "OK".
Backup your /data partition to your USB using backup option in TWRP if you had important data there that isn't stored anywhere else.
You can now just try dirty flashing OOS/ROM in the install option, but I would probably just format the bloody thing first.
Good Luck
well tried exFat format on it doesnt recognize it in recovery twrp so is there a way to access it by going into fastboot cmd if there is such a thing in android world