Note4 Dev. -Currently running CM12.1 PAC-Rom.
I can't remember exactly what errors i was having, i think it was a problem with TWRP not displaying correctly so i couldn't flash anything with it. slider was broken. So i figured i would do a fresh wipe of the phone through ODIN (Now i know that i shouldn't mess with things that i don't understand) But i clicked the NAND Erase all, thinking it will just clear system, data, cache, dalvik, and those.
After i did that i flashed the stock firmware. I let it reboot, it got to the ugly BIG RED loading screen and i rebooted and flashed TWRP again. TWRP worked, But i was unable to do anything. it couldn't erase or write to data, system, internal or anything when i was flashing a new rom (however, in /sdcard/ it had TWRP, so it was able to write that folder at least). I had lots of red errors. "unable to mount /data" and things like that.
I tried manually formatting through TWRP, the only ones i could get to work were FAT and EXT2. but EXT3 and 4 wouldn't work. Finally installing and wiping and installing on EXT2 worked and i'm able to get into my phone and use it. Now i'm stuck with no 4G LTE. Even when i went back to stock, then near stock/root, then now I'm on PAC ROM CM12.1, all of them no longer give me LTE but i have good service for everything else, phone, text, 3G. But 3G is slow as sh*t.
Questions:
1. What is it I did in ODIN that broke things (unable to mount /and no LTE)?
2. How can I get my LTE Back?
3. If NAND Erase-all wiped the partition table to a degree, do i need to flash the PIT to get things back? what would that entail.
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my evo is rooted with simpleroot ota, and whenever i try to flash a rom it get stuck in the boot loader. i tryed flashing Fresh 1.0.1 and DC 3.2.3 and neither of them worked. these are the steps i take to flash a rom
1. backup all my stuff on phone
2. go into the recovery mode
3. wipe cache and dalvic cache
4. backup nand(just in case it doesn't work... like it never does)
5. flash the zip from sd
6. reboot and get stuck in the loop until i restore my nand from step 4
i was just wondering if there was anything else i had to do like wipe data and/or wipe sd: ext partition. also, can someone explain what this partition thing is cuz i have no idea. is it everything on my sd card... if so then how will i restore all my info to my phone
EDIT: also, how do i know if my nand is unlocked, i used simpleroot ota and followed all the steps, is that enough? i noticed that to install fresh 1.0.1 you need nand to be unlocked, but idk if mine is. can i re unlock my nand if it's already done(will anything bad happen
Firstly, you should clear data for sure. Use all 3 wipe options. Also, wipe ext only if you are using app2sd and have partitioned an ext section.
Secondly, you should make your nandroid before you wipe, otherwise you are basically backing up nothing.
Thirdly, If you successfully flashed your recovery to nand, then it is unlocked. You can also do a adb remount command to see if it will remount the system as rw
Fourthly... wait no that's it
I am having the same problem I did the SimpleOTA update, and with booth Fresh and DC just getting stuck in a boot loop, I have no idea what to do....
-Matt
Ok, I solved my problem, the problem was I wasn't reading the direction fully. In order to get rid of the bootloop I simply had to use every option in the AMOS Recovery Image in the wipe menu, I used every wipe option and it worked =)
-Matt
Running MIUI, AmonRa. Phone was totally stable, today I was charging it and it refused to turn on. Pulled battery and when I turn on, its stuck on white htc Evo screen.
I can boot to recovery and see my old nandroid's and make a new one. I can S-OFF in recovery. Restoring the nandroid doesn't seem to help, its still stuck on white boot screen.
A few things to try:
1)Reboot to bootloader and select fastboot and reboot... have had this work before...
or
2)In recovery wipe everything then restore your nandroid.
or
3)Have a copy of the MIUI version you were on? In recovery, wipe system, then flash the ROM
LG optimus LTE WON"T BOOT
My Phone won't boot after try to install CWM. The touch buttons flash couples sec after press power but phone won't turn on. When i plugged in the computer, the computer recognize it but can't do restore. HELP PLEASE!!!
Ok I managed to debug this a little bit more.
Can get to recovery, but trying to restore nandroid's failed. I did this after wiping everything, doing a factory reset, and it still fails. When I tried to mount each partition individually, it failed to mount sd-ext with the error "can't mount /dev/block/mmcblk0p2 (File exists)".
I think this was the key, as I was using dta2sd on all my roms. Luckily I had another rom which was not using sd-ext, and I was able to restore that.
Is my sd-ext partition now lost? I can't check its status using the rom I have since it doesn't support sd-ext. Obviously all my apps were installed on it and I'd like to back them up.
The sd card itself seems fine, I can see everything on it.
I was actually going to post about this, thanks for doing it for me man.
Even with sense roms just restarting the phone will get me stuck at the htc evo 4g white screen and I have to wipe all data and factor reset just to get it to boot up again but i loose all my stuff and it really sucks. My phone only has recently started doing this, any ideas on what I can do to fix it?
I tried what imhereoldman said, but that just fixes it till the next time where it does the same thing after restarting the phone and im really getting tired of it :/
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ECrispy said:
Ok I managed to debug this a little bit more.
Can get to recovery, but trying to restore nandroid's failed. I did this after wiping everything, doing a factory reset, and it still fails. When I tried to mount each partition individually, it failed to mount sd-ext with the error "can't mount /dev/block/mmcblk0p2 (File exists)".
I think this was the key, as I was using dta2sd on all my roms. Luckily I had another rom which was not using sd-ext, and I was able to restore that.
Is my sd-ext partition now lost? I can't check its status using the rom I have since it doesn't support sd-ext. Obviously all my apps were installed on it and I'd like to back them up.
The sd card itself seems fine, I can see everything on it.
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I just found this and it sounds like it will be a pain but should solve the issue trying it out now and il let you know how the unroot reroot goes...
You don't have to unroot. Just run the RUU for your phone.
Also, try to do a backup of your SD Card, reformat it (Sorry if you don't have a TB backup), repartition, then restore the backup and reflash the ROM after a thorough and complete wipe.
Thanks hipkat, I should have done more research on it, I did the un-root to. But I did run the RUU file and switched to AMON this time and it seems everything is cleared up and its running fine! thanks
Hi Everyone,
My data partition got corrupted. I can no longer boot into any rom. When I try to factory reset, format data, or wipe internal; I get this error:
E:error opening '/data/media/0/Android/data/com.
E:error: I/O error
I tried manually deleteing the data folder, but I get the same error. Is there a way I can just completely format my internal storage and remove the data. Trying to do it inside TWRP v2.6.0.1 only gives me the above error.
Does anyone have any thoughts, ideas or suggestions?
Thanks
When you tried to format data in TWRP, what did you try?
If I'm not mistaken, mounting system and then formating system should wipe everything on your internal storage.
altimuh said:
When you tried to format data in TWRP, what did you try?
If I'm not mistaken, mounting system and then formating system should wipe everything on your internal storage.
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I wish I knew earlier that System had to be mounted in order for everything to get wiped lol.
I'm back up and running, but it went through a long, arduous and slightly weird process to get there.
After several failed attempts at wiping my internal storage, I tried doing an Odin flash back to stock along with the sprint pit file for re-partitioning. After that, I could get past the initial boot "Galaxy Note 2" screen, I was able to get into the stock rom boot animation, but my phone would just endlessly reboot into the Sprint/Samsung boot animations. I then Odin'ed back the TWRP recovery. I tried to factory reset once again and surprisingly, I no longer received the I/O errors I was getting before. I decided to reflash Paranoid Android and everything booted up just fine.
The weird thing about all this though is that when I booted into the Rom, Literally everything was intact. I still had all my apps installed, my themes and launcher up, and all of my settings intact.
So after everything happened, nothing got deleted at all apparently. I was thinking of still going back and trying to truly format my internal storage to completely wipe it, but I am concerned that more issues would pop up.
Do you think it would be better for me just to wipe everything and start fresh?
mugenga said:
I wish I knew earlier that System had to be mounted in order for everything to get wiped lol.
I'm back up and running, but it went through a long, arduous and slightly weird process to get there.
After several failed attempts at wiping my internal storage, I tried doing an Odin flash back to stock along with the sprint pit file for re-partitioning. After that, I could get past the initial boot "Galaxy Note 2" screen, I was able to get into the stock rom boot animation, but my phone would just endlessly reboot into the Sprint/Samsung boot animations. I then Odin'ed back the TWRP recovery. I tried to factory reset once again and surprisingly, I no longer received the I/O errors I was getting before. I decided to reflash Paranoid Android and everything booted up just fine.
The weird thing about all this though is that when I booted into the Rom, Literally everything was intact. I still had all my apps installed, my themes and launcher up, and all of my settings intact.
So after everything happened, nothing got deleted at all apparently. I was thinking of still going back and trying to truly format my internal storage to completely wipe it, but I am concerned that more issues would pop up.
Do you think it would be better for me just to wipe everything and start fresh?
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Back up your internal storage to your computer and then wipe it clean and start over. I always feel that best results come from a clean start.
So tonight I decided to wipe my tab pro 10.1 wifi (SM-T520) and flash the same ROM I've been using for ages (GraveDs 3.0). I just boot into recovery (TWRP 2.7.0.1) like I always have, start wiping everything except extSD. It hangs during wipe and automatically reboots into a bootloop. I get a mild heartattack and now my tab is bricked. I can still get into recovery but can basically do nothing in it because it can't mount data. At first it couldnt mount cache only, but now it can mount cache but not data.
Is there any manners of ways I can unbrick this? I've never really had any issues before
I've read somewhere that you can use the TWRP Terminal to manually format your partitions, but I wouldn't even know where to begin to find the commands that work with my specific tablet. I've been Googleing all day and can't find anything relevant to SM-T520 I also have no nandroid backup because idiocy.
Any help, anything at all, is greatly appreciated.
Fixed it by flashing newest version of TWRP (v2.8.7.0) using Odin 3.07, then I used the new feature under wipe in TWRP to format my data partition into a different file format then back to the original file format and it was finally mountable and flashable again. Thank the lord for that!
Glad to hear you fixed it quickly
Can't wipe data, if you look at it in twrp in says 0 mb. Try to boot into Lineage and it says encryption error. How can I restore DATA to a working partition. I don't need to save anything the tablet is new to me.
I finally just restored everything to stock with odin, now I get to battle getting twrp back on it. Appears to be fine now, at least it boots. Can't seem to get twrp to stick