My Note2 had seen file system related issues (sd card directories renamed to u..., etc.) and finally it stalled at the Samsung logo one night. Booted into recovery and seeing "failed to mount /efs", also /system, /cache, and /data.
Any suggestions? I tried Kies but no luck, I guess the Samsung tech in Bestbuy probably did the same thing. I've been reading through this forum and found this file Stock_Partitions_N7105_T889.zip. Could I just use this without reflash the OS? If so, how? Hopefully I could get back some of the files on the phone. I haven't tried Odin or twrp, or root the phone yet.
Thanks in advance.
Flash TWRP using Odin. Boot into TWRP and see if you can pull off your data. If TWRP mounts the data partiton and you cannot find any files, you may be out of luck.
If you decide to live without the phone's data, you could try to revive the phone by flashing a stock ROM from sammobile.com using Odin.
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Hi there,
I was about to flash a new rom on my Dinc, and right after I formatted /system, the sdcard became unable to mount and now I can't access the .zip for the new rom. I've tried flashing 3 versions of CWM as well as one of TWRP but none of them can access my SD card. I also reformatted it in my PC with no success. I currently don't have any operating system on it so all I can work with is hboot and recovery.
Can anyone help me fix this?
egunth said:
Hi there,
I was about to flash a new rom on my Dinc, and right after I formatted /system, the sdcard became unable to mount and now I can't access the .zip for the new rom. I've tried flashing 3 versions of CWM as well as one of TWRP but none of them can access my SD card. I also reformatted it in my PC with no success. I currently don't have any operating system on it so all I can work with is hboot and recovery.
Can anyone help me fix this?
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Did you format it fat32 with the pc? If the cards fine (can be used by pc and fat32) and recovery and hboot still cant find it, then id venture to say the sdcard slot is damaged or went out.
Using adb in recovery, you should be able to push a rom file to emmc and flash it from there.
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Did you format it fat32 with the pc? If the cards fine (can be used by pc and fat32) and recovery and hboot still cant find it, then id venture to say the sdcard slot is damaged or went out.
Using adb in recovery, you should be able to push a rom file to emmc and flash it from there.
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I did format it FAT32, and the SD card is definitely fine. I don't think that the slot is the problem either because other things won't mount either.
Actually the only thing I can mount in recovery is /system, everything else is inaccessible. It was having mounting problems before which is why I decided to flash it with a new rom (was running Jellybean very poorly). I also tried flashing the original recovery, doing "clear storage" that way, and reflashing with CWM but it had no effect. During the storage wipe it said that /datadata doesn't even exist. It also shows errors that it can't mount the files /dev/block/mmcblk01 and /dev/blk/mmcblk0p2
This is what the log shows when I did the CLEAR STORAGE using the stock recovery
Restore factory NV setting...
Formatting DATA:...
E: format_root_device: can't find mtd partition "datadata"
Formatting EMMC:...
Formatting CACHE:...
Wipe ALL failed.
E:Can't mount DATADATA:recovery/log
E:Can't mount /dev/block/mmcblk0p2 (or /dev/block/mmcblk1)
(No such file or directory)
The same thing happened to me long back. What I did was that I cleared data, cache, and dalvik cache... Worked for me... You can try but i wont take any responsibility
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Flashed the latest stable Carbon rom yesterday and decided it wasn't for me so this morning I rebooted to TWRP and tried to run restore. The restore failed and the only error i see in the console is
Code:
E: error opening '/data/lost+found'
I went ahead and did the standard wipe (which also gave the same error, though it did not say failed) and rebooted, assuming it would just throw me back into carbon, but it got stuck in sort of a slow boot loop. I finally got back into recovery and now I'm at a bit of a loss. I saw only 2 suggestions, one being wipe /data and the other to flash back to stock with Odin. I'm not against wiping /data if someone could could either confirm that it would work or tell me if it's possible to backup some stuff from /data to my external sdcard or pc.
any advice would be appreciated, thanks
also sorry if this is the wrong place to post, I didn't see where else it would fit, says I can't post in the GS3 troubleshooting area.
ATT Galaxy S3
TWRP v2.6.0.0
fixed
Ok, I'm up and running again. I ended up formatting /data through twrp after I found out i could copy files over to external sd through its file manager.
so in case someone else runs into this:
assumes you have a twrp backup on the external sd
1. move important files with twrp's file manager to sd card
2. format /data
3. reboot recovery
3. standard wipe
4. restore backup from external
5. reboot system and cross fingers
I've already looked through previous posts and there seems to be no avail.
From 4.1.2. stock build, UVDMD5, (I'm assuming, that's when I bought it)
I tried to flash 4.4 ROMS onto it, Both Gummy and Beanstalk with their respective Gapps.
It wouldn't work and I wiped and reset and odin'd in the original firmware UVDMD5, so it successfully led to the beginning phone setup ONCE.
Then, from stock, I figured why not root and flash the ROMS once more? and this time, the galaxy would not have it.
I odin'd myself after the roms failed once more, but now..
Now the phone is stuck at the SAMSUNG loading boot screen.
Everytime I odin in the UVDMD5 setup, it says it's successful but constantly stuck at the boot screen.
I can get myself into recovery but no options are available to me.
If I try to progress forward, the roms will not work and I realized what might've done me in.
Once the roms in the very first trials wouldn't work, I messed with the mounting to see if it would change anything(HUGE mistake I now realize)
I think I unmounted /data and /system and pretty much everything!!!
I'm in the stock recovery so I could pull .zips from the external SD and I've tried to put in Cyanogenmod Recovery so I could get to the mounting options,
but now everytime it says that signature verification failed.
Tl;dr: I'm an idiot and unmounted everything and now it's stuck at boot screen and odin doesn't work. PLS HELP!
ps: ignore the ageold signature
First flash the very latest Recovery with ODIN. You will need to put the phone in download mode to do that. Next, flash Root66 version of UVDMD5 via odin and then flash Rom of your choice via Recovery.
I've taken the root66 and finished odin'ing it in, but no success. It's still stuck on the SAMSUNG screen.
When I boot up to (stock) recovery, the first red messages that appear is
E:failed to mount /data
can't mount '/data' (invalid argument)
and when I go into >apply update from external storage and try to apply cyanogen latest recovery,
all it gives me is E:failed to verify whole-file storage.
There is no /data, what do I do?
Please flash CWM Recovery via Odin.
First of all, thanks for sticking with me for this long.
I successfully installed Clockwork with odin and I thought this would be the end, but
It successfully mounted /system and /external_sd but,
Error mounting /data!
Error mounting /sdcard!
I don't know what to do from here. Is there a simple fix?
Did you flash latest version of CWM ? If yes then try Factory Reset in the Recovery.
I did factory reset it:
. . wiping data . .
formatting /data . . .
Error mounting /data!
Skipping format . . .
Formatting /cache
Formatting /sd-ext
Formatting /sdcard/ .android_secure
Error mounting /sdcard/ .android_secure!
Skipping format . . .
Data Wipe Complete.
Is what shows up and still /data and /sdcard cannot be mounted. Anything else? I'm desperate.
Part 2: I tried moving past all that and tried to run the ROMS, but it goes on to tell me:
This package is for "d2tmo" devices; this is a "d2vzw"
what does that mean?
Can you manually mount SD Card in the Recovery ?
I'd not try any roms until this issue is resolved.
What do you mean by manually?
The external sd card can be mounted, I'm pretty sure it means that the internal sd can't be mounted.
How would I mount internal in recovery? the options says it can't mount /data and /sdcard
Try TWRP Recovery.
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
I have a Samsung Galaxy S3 (SGH-I747). It was running fine on CM13 nightlies. One night I needed the phone for calculator (odd enough lol) and noticed it was turned off. I turned it back on. It seemed like it was just gonna boot like it usually does but I got a bootup message claiming that the /data partition is corrupted and needs to be reset to continue using the phone.
I followed the phones instructions and did the reset (I've had to factory reset before I really didn't care). It booted to TWRP (3.0.2-0) and started the factory reset. The log for the recovery showed many errors. Heres the log if I just boot into TWRP without doing anything:
Code:
[COLOR="Red"]Failed to mount /data and unable to find crypto footer.
Failed to mount '/data' (No such file or directory)[/COLOR]
[COLOR="red"]Unable to recreate /data/media folder.[/COLOR]
Updating partition details...
[COLOR="red"]Unable to mount '/data' (No such file or directory)[/COLOR]
...done
[COLOR="red"]Unable to mount storage
Failed to mount '/data' (No such file or directory)[/COLOR]
Full SELinux support is present.
Running boot script...
Done.
[COLOR="red"]Unable to mount /data/media/TWRP/.twrps[/COLOR]
MTP Enabled
[COLOR="red"]Failed to mount '/data' (No such file or directory)[/COLOR]
The same errors pop up when wiping the device too.
Here's what i've tried:
The corrupt data reset (didn't work)
Reinstalling a new copy of CM13 (didn't help)
I also have tried flashing stock images (AT&T) firmware. Did not work, the AT&T system says the /data partition is corrupted too and cannot do anything about it.
NOTE: The /data partition info in TWRP shows the size as 0MB!
I've posted for help on the cyanogenmod forums but no avail so far. I do not what to do next and need some suggestions.
Thanks.
Have you tried Odin to flash the stock firmware?
StoneyJSG said:
Have you tried Odin to flash the stock firmware?
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That's what I used to get the stock firmware on it in the first place...
I'm still learning how to mod and customise android so I completely missed this.
The fix was as simple as changing the filesystem into a different format on TWRP..
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TechGuyAnthony said:
I'm still learning how to mod and customise android so I completely missed this.
The fix was as simple as changing the filesystem into a different format on TWRP..
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thanks for posting fix as i'm sure it will help others.
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