fota partition details - Sony Xperia ZL

I've flashed my fota partition (dd) but don't fully understand what I did.... If I fastboot flash a new boot.img will the fota partition remain? Is fota partition part of the boot.img, or then how is the fota partition reset?

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i cannot format my data any way. i get unknown partition in fastboot and failed in twrp
what happens if you try to flash userdata.img from stock over with fastboot? same error? bad nand maybe.

Incorrect Storage Capacity (Stock/7.0) - Device Thinks It's 16GB, Not 32

Hello there,
I own a N5X with 32 GB of storage. After some failed flashing I reflashed stock, which works fine except that only 10.55 GB of storage are being shown in the settings.
I do not have any modifications at the moment other than TWRP and an unlocked bootloader.
I did some research and found that erasing and reflashing all these Android compenents should fix it (this example is for the N5):
Code:
fastboot erase boot
fastboot erase cache
fastboot erase recovery
fastboot erase system
fastboot erase userdata
fastboot flash bootloader bootloader.img
fastboot reboot-bootloader
fastboot flash radio radio.img
fastboot reboot-bootloader
fastboot flash system system.img
fastboot flash userdata userdata.img
fastboot flash cache cache.img
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
flash boot boot.img
...which it didn't.
Does anyone have a solution? Is there any way to extend the partitions, maybe without wiping everything?
Thank you in advance
Tuxcraft32 said:
Hello there,
I own a N5X with 32 GB of storage. After some failed flashing I reflashed stock, which works fine except that only 10.55 GB of storage are being shown in the settings.
I do not have any modifications at the moment other than TWRP and an unlocked bootloader.
I did some research and found that erasing and reflashing all these Android compenents should fix it (this example is for the N5):
Code:
fastboot erase boot
fastboot erase cache
fastboot erase recovery
fastboot erase system
fastboot erase userdata
fastboot flash bootloader bootloader.img
fastboot reboot-bootloader
fastboot flash radio radio.img
fastboot reboot-bootloader
fastboot flash system system.img
fastboot flash userdata userdata.img
fastboot flash cache cache.img
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
flash boot boot.img
...which it didn't.
Does anyone have a solution? Is there any way to extend the partitions, maybe without wiping everything?
Thank you in advance
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None of those would fix the GPT partition table.
Try flashing the beta Android N OTA. That has fixed the GPT table for people who use 32GB TOT file on 16GB so perhaps it'll do the same for your reverse situation.
try fastboot format userdata. This will wipe everything tho. That should get you back to 32gb
Im not sure if there is a way to do it without wiping. Maybe flash twrp recovery and use the advanced menu to extend partition.
This worked for me:
Boot into TWRP
Choose "Wipe" -> "Advanced Wipe"
Select your "data" partition and choose "Repair or Change File System"
Select "Resize File System" - it should automatically expand your storage to fill the empty space.
Tuxcraft32 said:
Code:
fastboot flash userdata userdata.img
...which it didn't.
Does anyone have a solution? Is there any way to extend the partitions, maybe without wiping everything?
Thank you in advance
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Your internal storage was downsized to 16 GB because of this command. The userdata.img formats the userdata partition to the base 5X storage size of 16 GB. Do not flash the userdata partition since you have a 32 GB phone.
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SlimSnoopOS said:
Your internal storage was downsized to 16 GB because of this command. The userdata.img formats the userdata partition to the base 5X storage size of 16 GB. Do not flash the userdata partition since you have a 32 GB phone.
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If that is what caused it (and the partition table is still fine), then he can probably do
fastboot erase userdata
fastboot format userdata
and it should be back to normal.
just do dalvik and cache reset from recovery
First, thank you for all of your replies <3.
TheBurgh said:
This worked for me:
Boot into TWRP
Choose "Wipe" -> "Advanced Wipe"
Select your "data" partition and choose "Repair or Change File System"
Select "Resize File System" - it should automatically expand your storage to fill the empty space.
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Worked for me as well! I now have 24.89GB free (which is normal, isn't it?). Thanks a lot.
To you:
SlimSnoopOS said:
Your internal storage was downsized to 16 GB because of this command. The userdata.img formats the userdata partition to the base 5X storage size of 16 GB. Do not flash the userdata partition since you have a 32 GB phone.
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and you:
beady_uk said:
try fastboot format userdata. This will wipe everything tho. That should get you back to 32gb
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as well as you:
sfhub said:
If that is what caused it (and the partition table is still fine), then he can probably do
fastboot erase userdata
fastboot format userdata
and it should be back to normal.
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– I think this is what I got wrong. The flash-all.sh reported an error and stopped after flashing the first couple of components so I flashed all the components manually, including the userdata.img. I will stay away from that next time.
sfhub said:
None of those would fix the GPT partition table.
Try flashing the beta Android N OTA. That has fixed the GPT table for people who use 32GB TOT file on 16GB so perhaps it'll do the same for your reverse situation.
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Thank you for the suggestion, luckily this was not necessary.
ikyeye said:
just do dalvik and cache reset from recovery
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I did that, with no effect.
TheBurgh said:
This worked for me:
Boot into TWRP
Choose "Wipe" -> "Advanced Wipe"
Select your "data" partition and choose "Repair or Change File System"
Select "Resize File System" - it should automatically expand your storage to fill the empty space.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
THANK YOU! I'm glad I didn't listen to the advice to factory reset, etc. This fixed the size without losing anything.

accidently deleted partition

yesterday I used parted to resize the partition on realme x, but I accidentally deleted the system partition and now can't boot into recovery mode or edl
Is there any way to recreate partition?
If you can boot to fastboot , flash recovery and rom again

How to flash a treble img without fastboot (/system wiped, twrp operational)?

I may be in a tricky spot here. I've a Palm phone which doesn't have fastboot. I flashed twrp and a replacement system image but the system image didn't boot as planned. I wiped it with the intention of replacing using dd which writes the data, but the partition is corrupt and can't be mounted.
How to recover? TWRP only has 'boot' and 'recovery' as options for the img flash, which I assume is because it's using fastboot and that isn't available.
snoopy20 said:
I may be in a tricky spot here. I've a Palm phone which doesn't have fastboot. I flashed twrp and a replacement system image but the system image didn't boot as planned. I wiped it with the intention of replacing using dd which writes the data, but the partition is corrupt and can't be mounted.
How to recover? TWRP only has 'boot' and 'recovery' as options for the img flash, which I assume is because it's using fastboot and that isn't available.
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Try manually formatting the system partition into whatever your device has as default, ext4 for example, or alternatively reinstall the stock Rom and continue from there, also, wrong thread

Question [URGENT] TWRP fails to decrypt /data partition using the correct passcode and can't mount /cust partition with error "Structure needs cleaning"

Long story short, read the previous thread: https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/...-product-vendor-odm-invalid-argument.4431903/
After succesfully installing the fastboot rom via Mi Flash, the phone is still in a bootloop. Tried flashing TWRP via fastboot command (fastboot boot twrp.img) but it can't decrypt the /data partition with the correct passcode anymore. after a reboot in recovery, the /cust partition also can't be mounted anymore, with error "Structure needs cleaning".
I do not have a backup of my system nor data partition, nor internal storage, so i absolutely need it to work again without wiping/formatting the data partition
EDIT: after flashing the fastboot rom again via mi flash and twrp via fastboot command, the cust error disappears but twrp still can't decrypt /data
EDIT: i decided to do a full wipe of my internal memory and the phone works again. this thread should be closed.

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