So i'm a noobie. I mean i have some experience (rooted and installed many ROMS like my Nexus One device, i know, ancient) but i got all that information and knowledge on here! So my mom is using this HTC ONE X that she just received and i want to be nice and root it and remove all the bloatware on it and what not. After so many struggles of unlocking the bootloader and all things that fall under rooting the device i was able to FINALLY gain root permission but for some reason i couldn't permanently delete the apps on there like i have in the past with other phones. So, i decided to try flashing a ROM. So i Google'd, YouTube'd and tried to come across the best one i could find. Found a Lollipop Rom somewhere (probably made a mistake on which phone it was for), followed the instructions but didn't backup anything (i know, i know, noob move #1) but it would get stuck on then HTC Quietly Briliant screen (oh and before that, i had a HUGE amount of trouble with the phone using ADB and it being recognized, flashing recoveries and booting into them, it was just a hassle!). I also flashed Clockworkmod at one poit to try and fix things but i was able to get back on TWRP V2.5.0 (tried a higher version but it did not work) so now my phone connects easily to my pc and i pretty much know how to use adb fastboot commands and get into recovery and sideload ROMs but, after many, many attempts at trying to install different ROMs, none work. It'll either stay on the HTC Quietly Briliant screen or won't install and i'll get a message in ADB Sideload:
Checking for MD5 file...
Skipping MD5 check: no MD5 file found
Warning: No file_contexts
could not detect filesystem for /dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/s
mount: failed to mount /dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/system at
unmountof system failed; no such volume
could not detect filesystem for /dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/s
mount: failed to mount /dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/system at
unmountof system failed; no such volume
could not detect filesystem for /dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/s
mount: failed to mount /dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/system at
unmountof system failed; no such volume
script succeeded: result was [0.200000]
Updating partitio details...
E:Unable to mount '/cache'
Formatting Cache using mke2fs...
Done .
Updating partition details...
Wiping Dalvik and Cache Directories....
--Dalvik Cache Directories Wipe Complete!
Also, came across this on a different site:
Here's the solution.
The problem was that I managed to screw up the partitions on my internal storage card, so basically nothing would work properly. I could still get into recovery, though. That's key.
Here's what you'll need:
1 Working recovery, basic knowledge of adb & the shell
2 Parted (download here)
3 stock PB31IMG.zip
Note also that I had run unrevoked forever (so my phone was S-OFF) ... I'm not sure if that's required or not.
So, grab parted from the link above. Now you need to extract the individual binaries from the .zip (the 6 files in the sdparted folder within the zip), ideally to your android-sdk\tools directory. Now push all 6 files (adb push [file] /sbin/). Next, we need to make them useable, so go into the shell (adb shell). Change to your /sbin/ directory, and run: chmod 0755 <file> on each of the 6 files.
Now, we need to fix the partitions. This is assuming that the partitions are there, just the wrong format (which is what happened to me .. I accidentally made them FAT32 instead of ext). So, run the following: parted /dev/block/mmcblk0 mkfs ext2. It will ask if you want to continue, hit yes. When it asks for the partition number, enter 1. Next, when it asks for the format, enter ext2. Let it do its thing. Now, once it's done, run parted again. This time, enter partition 2 (everything else is the same).
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So i thought this may be my problem but then as i get to the parted /dev/block/mmcblk0 mkfs ext2 part of the steps I get stuck because it says something like i can't overlap partitions?
So here i am, desperate for help, trying to fix my mothers phone. Sorry, if i'm not clear enough, i tried my best to recall everything i did (kind of hard after hours and hours of trying multiple things for multiple problems) and all that i've come across without being too specific on things that may not matter (hopefully?). So can anyone help? Please, guide me!
babymatrix said:
So i'm a noobie. I mean i have some experience (rooted and installed many ROMS like my Nexus One device, i know, ancient) but i got all that information and knowledge on here! So my mom is using this HTC ONE X that she just received and i want to be nice and root it and remove all the bloatware on it and what not. After so many struggles of unlocking the bootloader and all things that fall under rooting the device i was able to FINALLY gain root permission but for some reason i couldn't permanently delete the apps on there like i have in the past with other phones. So, i decided to try flashing a ROM. So i Google'd, YouTube'd and tried to come across the best one i could find. Found a Lollipop Rom somewhere (probably made a mistake on which phone it was for), followed the instructions but didn't backup anything (i know, i know, noob move #1) but it would get stuck on then HTC Quietly Briliant screen (oh and before that, i had a HUGE amount of trouble with the phone using ADB and it being recognized, flashing recoveries and booting into them, it was just a hassle!). I also flashed Clockworkmod at one poit to try and fix things but i was able to get back on TWRP V2.5.0 (tried a higher version but it did not work) so now my phone connects easily to my pc and i pretty much know how to use adb fastboot commands and get into recovery and sideload ROMs but, after many, many attempts at trying to install different ROMs, none work. It'll either stay on the HTC Quietly Briliant screen or won't install and i'll get a message in ADB Sideload:
Checking for MD5 file...
Skipping MD5 check: no MD5 file found
Warning: No file_contexts
could not detect filesystem for /dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/s
mount: failed to mount /dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/system at
unmountof system failed; no such volume
could not detect filesystem for /dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/s
mount: failed to mount /dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/system at
unmountof system failed; no such volume
could not detect filesystem for /dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/s
mount: failed to mount /dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/system at
unmountof system failed; no such volume
script succeeded: result was [0.200000]
Updating partitio details...
E:Unable to mount '/cache'
Formatting Cache using mke2fs...
Done .
Updating partition details...
Wiping Dalvik and Cache Directories....
--Dalvik Cache Directories Wipe Complete!
Also, came across this on a different site:
So i thought this may be my problem but then as i get to the parted /dev/block/mmcblk0 mkfs ext2 part of the steps I get stuck because it says something like i can't overlap partitions?
So here i am, desperate for help, trying to fix my mothers phone. Sorry, if i'm not clear enough, i tried my best to recall everything i did (kind of hard after hours and hours of trying multiple things for multiple problems) and all that i've come across without being too specific on things that may not matter (hopefully?). So can anyone help? Please, guide me!
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When you install some rom are you flash the boot.img with the command fastboot flash boot boot.img where the boot.img is taken from rom archive where you install and puted in your fastboot folder
Thant said:
When you install some rom are you flash the boot.img with the command fastboot flash boot boot.img where the boot.img is taken from rom archive where you install and puted in your fastboot folder
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Initially on the first rom i remember doing so (still didn't work), but after that i did fail to do it for the other roms.
babymatrix said:
So i'm a noobie. I mean i have some experience (rooted and installed many ROMS like my Nexus One device, i know, ancient) but i got all that information and knowledge on here! So my mom is using this HTC ONE X that she just received and i want to be nice and root it and remove all the bloatware on it and what not. After so many struggles of unlocking the bootloader and all things that fall under rooting the device i was able to FINALLY gain root permission but for some reason i couldn't permanently delete the apps on there like i have in the past with other phones. So, i decided to try flashing a ROM. So i Google'd, YouTube'd and tried to come across the best one i could find. Found a Lollipop Rom somewhere (probably made a mistake on which phone it was for), followed the instructions but didn't backup anything (i know, i know, noob move #1) but it would get stuck on then HTC Quietly Briliant screen (oh and before that, i had a HUGE amount of trouble with the phone using ADB and it being recognized, flashing recoveries and booting into them, it was just a hassle!). I also flashed Clockworkmod at one poit to try and fix things but i was able to get back on TWRP V2.5.0 (tried a higher version but it did not work) so now my phone connects easily to my pc and i pretty much know how to use adb fastboot commands and get into recovery and sideload ROMs but, after many, many attempts at trying to install different ROMs, none work. It'll either stay on the HTC Quietly Briliant screen or won't install and i'll get a message in ADB Sideload:
Checking for MD5 file...
Skipping MD5 check: no MD5 file found
Warning: No file_contexts
could not detect filesystem for /dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/s
mount: failed to mount /dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/system at
unmountof system failed; no such volume
could not detect filesystem for /dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/s
mount: failed to mount /dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/system at
unmountof system failed; no such volume
could not detect filesystem for /dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/s
mount: failed to mount /dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/system at
unmountof system failed; no such volume
script succeeded: result was [0.200000]
Updating partitio details...
E:Unable to mount '/cache'
Formatting Cache using mke2fs...
Done .
Updating partition details...
Wiping Dalvik and Cache Directories....
--Dalvik Cache Directories Wipe Complete!
Also, came across this on a different site:
So i thought this may be my problem but then as i get to the parted /dev/block/mmcblk0 mkfs ext2 part of the steps I get stuck because it says something like i can't overlap partitions?
So here i am, desperate for help, trying to fix my mothers phone. Sorry, if i'm not clear enough, i tried my best to recall everything i did (kind of hard after hours and hours of trying multiple things for multiple problems) and all that i've come across without being too specific on things that may not matter (hopefully?). So can anyone help? Please, guide me!
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hello babymatrix, i'm wondering if you were able to solve or find a solution to your issue. The reason i'm asking is because i'm on the same boat right now and looking for way to fix a similar issue as yours.
basically, i got a phone with a broken partition like yours. I can still go to recovery but you'll see this message and cannot mount system. I also cannot go into fastboot mode (it hangs when i do a power+vol down)
E: failed to mount block devices /dev/block/mmcblk1p1
E: remount block devices /dev/block/mmcblk1
E: failed to mount /sdcard (No such file or directory)
From searching the net, i figured there's something wrong with the partitioning of the phone. I managed to do adb shell and i could see there's a folder sdcard.
nway, if you've managed to find a solution for your issues, i hope if you could share. thanks.
I have a family member's phone (N7100) that was stuck on a bootloop. This phone was never rooted or had any custom recoveries or roms installed on it. When I go into recovery I see that I'm getting the common "e:failed to mount /efs(invalid argument)". When trying to google the problem I found that common fix for it:
Code:
adb shell
mke2fs /dev/block/mmcblk0p3
mount -w -t ext4 /dev/block/mmcblk0p3 /efs
So I go ahead and do this but I notice that even though the phone is out of a bootloop and goes into factory mode (I already know how to get out of it), it doesn't connect to the phone network. Going back to recovery I see that EFI is still not able to be mounted but the error is different "failed to mount /efs Operation not supported on transport endpoint".
I can tell that if I ADB into the phone and do "mount -w -t ext4 /dev/block/mmcblk0p3 /efs" it will mount just fine. Anybody knows what is happening? To make everything worse he doesn't have a EFI backup so at this point I'm thinking the phone is dead no matter what. Suggestions?
Thanks
Try flashing stock ROM.
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Try flashing stock ROM.
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I already did and it didn't help. Googling the problem doesn't seem to give me any results for that particular error line.
Bump! I hate to do this but I think this is my last chance to fix it. Google is not giving me any good leads for me to latch on.
Help! I flashed the Android Oreo Pixel 2 Mod over Android Oreo 8.1.0 with my apps and data on it, and then the phone wouldn’t boot. So I went back into the recovery (TWRP 3.2) and tried to wipe the phone. TWRP wiped everything except for /vendor, returning the error “Failed to mount /vendor (invalid argument),” and "Failed to mount /system (invalid argument)". In TWRP I also tried mounting /system and /vendor, but it wouldn't let me check the box. So tried installing the stock android from the google page, and while sending sparse file ‘system’, It says FAILED (data transfer failure(Unknown Error)). Please Help, I’m a pretty much a noob at this kind of stuff.
EDIT: SOLVED
After browsing online, I wiped the phone one more time, re-flashed TWRP, tried a few commands, I tried repairing the file system of /system, re-installed the vendor.img(probably this), then It worked!
I'm just thankful it works now.
When I boot my phone I get the message "Device storage corrupt" and it prompts me to reboot into recovery. However TWRP doesnt automatically fix the problem. In TWRP most operations terminate with the message "Unable to mount /data". I cannot wipe /data because it gives me that error.
Is it a problem with the partition table? Should I be trying to flash a PIT file using Heimdal? (I am new to Samsung sorry.) If it is a problem which can be sorted out by manually partitioning, I'm a pretty deft hand with the linux shell and maybe the adb shell isnt too different.
TIA
Oh no ! You have updated your phone to an locked bootloader ! You can't flash now something.
Word to the wise: I was able to fix this problem by reformatting the /data partition. For some reason twrp was not able to do this.
0. Reboot into twrp and if necessary disable MTP in the mount menu.
1. Then I found out the name of the partition block device which holds the /data partition. I found this out by trying to wipe the data partition using TWRP and noting the error message. For me that was mmcblk0p24.
2. Run adb shell mke2fs -T ext4 /dev/block/mmcblk0p24
Problem solved!
I bought a used OnePlus 7T Pro (256GB). I followed these instructions: https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/hotdog/install
Unlocking the bootloader worked without problems. To install a recovery, I had to replace "recovery" in the command with "boot_b", but then it worked fine. The copy partitions script also seems to have succeeded. But then I can't install LineageOS and many other recovery features do not work, either, both in the LineageOS recovery and in TWRP.
When I start TWRP (and set my usual vibration, brightness etc. settings), I get the log output from the attached image. I wanted to copy it, but writing the log to /data/media fails because of this issue, too, so here it is hand-transcribed, hopefully correctly:
Failed to mount '/system_root' (Block device required)
Failed to mount '/vendor' (Block device required)
E:Unable to open /system_root/system/apex
E:Unable to load apex images from /system_root/system/apex
Updating partition details...
Failed to mount '/system_root' (Block device required)
Failed to mount '/system_ext' (Block device required)
Failed to mount '/product' (Block device required)
Failed to mount '/vendor' (Block device required)
Failed to mount '/odm' (Block device required)
...done
Unable to mount storage
Failed to mount '/system_root' (Block device required)
E:Unable to open /system_root
Full SELinux support is present.
Unable to mount /data/media/TWRP/.twrps
Unable to mount /data/media/TWRP/.twrps
Failed to mount '/system_root' (Block device required)
Many things I try in both recoveries fail with similar mounting errors. I tried everything wipe related, but none of it helped, most didn't even work. I also cannot install LineageOS from TWRP (instead of ADB sideload), because no files are listed on the internal SD card, likely because of this mounting issue.
How can I fix this? Since the phone is new anyway, I would be willing to reset anything.
Fabian R�ling said:
I bought a used OnePlus 7T Pro (256GB). I followed these instructions: https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/hotdog/install
Unlocking the bootloader worked without problems. To install a recovery, I had to replace "recovery" in the command with "boot_b", but then it worked fine. The copy partitions script also seems to have succeeded. But then I can't install LineageOS and many other recovery features do not work, either, both in the LineageOS recovery and in TWRP.
When I start TWRP (and set my usual vibration, brightness etc. settings), I get the log output from the attached image. I wanted to copy it, but writing the log to /data/media fails because of this issue, too, so here it is hand-transcribed, hopefully correctly:
Failed to mount '/system_root' (Block device required)
Failed to mount '/vendor' (Block device required)
E:Unable to open /system_root/system/apex
E:Unable to load apex images from /system_root/system/apex
Updating partition details...
Failed to mount '/system_root' (Block device required)
Failed to mount '/system_ext' (Block device required)
Failed to mount '/product' (Block device required)
Failed to mount '/vendor' (Block device required)
Failed to mount '/odm' (Block device required)
...done
Unable to mount storage
Failed to mount '/system_root' (Block device required)
E:Unable to open /system_root
Full SELinux support is present.
Unable to mount /data/media/TWRP/.twrps
Unable to mount /data/media/TWRP/.twrps
Failed to mount '/system_root' (Block device required)
Many things I try in both recoveries fail with similar mounting errors. I tried everything wipe related, but none of it helped, most didn't even work. I also cannot install LineageOS from TWRP (instead of ADB sideload), because no files are listed on the internal SD card, likely because of this mounting issue.
How can I fix this? Since the phone is new anyway, I would be willing to reset anything.
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It seems to me that you have to flash the super partition, try first using TWRP and if it can't deal with then try through fast boot.
SubwayChamp said:
It seems to me that you have to flash the super partition, try first using TWRP and if it can't deal with then try through fast boot.
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I have never heard of a "super partition". How do I do that?
Fabian R�ling said:
I have never heard of a "super partition". How do I do that?
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Sometimes can be an error from TWRP itself, an older version that can't manage to mount those partitions, but sometimes it happens that the super partition is corrupted, you could find it from your stock ROM and then extracted and flash it either through TWRP or using fastboot.
SubwayChamp said:
Sometimes can be an error from TWRP itself, an older version that can't manage to mount those partitions, but sometimes it happens that the super partition is corrupted, you could find it from your stock ROM and then extracted and flash it either through TWRP or using fastboot.
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Do you have a link to a tutorial or so for that?
BTW, the preinstalled operating system boots just fine, so I would be surprised if any partitions were corrupted. I'm also using the latest version of TWRP, at least it's the one that I got on their website yesterday.
Fabian R�ling said:
Do you have a link to a tutorial or so for that?
BTW, the preinstalled operating system boots just fine, so I would be surprised if any partitions were corrupted. I'm also using the latest version of TWRP, at least it's the one that I got on their website yesterday.
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Super partition is where some logical partitions are grouped like system, vendor, odm, product, etc.; it depends on the device we're talking about.
As you got a used device, it seems that the last owner did some stuff with it, probably unlocked bootloader (then relocked it) and mess with some custom ROMs (maybe). You can totally fix it by flashing the stock ROM and starting from there, being sure first that you can log in without issues in Google Play (that your account is authorized).
To have this partition readable, you may read this https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/...-mount-system-rw-super-rw-read-write.4247311/ in case this doesn't solve flashing the super partition it is a part of the process to flash the stock ROM.
SubwayChamp said:
flashing the super partition it is a part of the process to flash the stock ROM
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You mean it's in some script in that zip file? Because what I found online just tells me to do the same "adb sideload" with the OxygenOS zip. And that doesn't work because of the same access issue. Or is there something else I should do first?
The link you gave says that it requires a rooted ROM, which I don't have yet.
Fabian R�ling said:
You mean it's in some script in that zip file? Because what I found online just tells me to do the same "adb sideload" with the OxygenOS zip. And that doesn't work because of the same access issue. Or is there something else I should do first?
The link you gave says that it requires a rooted ROM, which I don't have yet.
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You can update through the stock recovery in case your TWRP have actually some issues, flash the stock recovery through fastboot (get it from your stock ROM) and then do the sideload through stock recovery, it's probable that the stock recovery can mount super partition and made readable again the system files that´s within, or you can simply flash this or that partition using fastboot commands, for this you need an unlocked bootloader, nothing more.
BTW did you try formatting data?.
And this tool should work for you https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/...l-to-restore-your-device-to-oxygenos.4217855/
That tool says it only works for Windows. I have gotten rid of my last Windows system last year.
Not sure what you mean with getting the stock recovery from the stock ROM, since the zip only contains "payload.bin" (extension suggests binary file, no idea how to read that one), a small txt file and a small "META-INF", but here is a download at least: https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/oos-all-stock-boot-stock-recovery-oxygenos-11-0-0.4251221
There's even a Magisk version, which I'll try first, since I want that anyway. But for now, I'll sleep. I'll comment again once I've tried it.
BTW, can I stop this website from jumping to the category overview after a few seconds, while I'm trying to just read a post? It's really annoying.
Fabian R�ling said:
That tool says it only works for Windows. I have gotten rid of my last Windows system last year.
Not sure what you mean with getting the stock recovery from the stock ROM, since the zip only contains "payload.bin" (extension suggests binary file, no idea how to read that one), a small txt file and a small "META-INF", but here is a download at least: https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/oos-all-stock-boot-stock-recovery-oxygenos-11-0-0.4251221
There's even a Magisk version, which I'll try first, since I want that anyway. But for now, I'll sleep. I'll comment again once I've tried it.
BTW, can I stop this website from jumping to the category overview after a few seconds, while I'm trying to just read a post? It's really annoying.
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The ROM to be flashed through recovery contains a payload.bin file within others one, this file can be unpacked, not sure if it contains a recovery image though, but you should get it from the full ROM that in some variant comes in oplus format and can be decrypted too, this full ROM contains all the images, it's useful to unbrick a OP device.
Linux doesn't have a counterpart of the Windows applications for smartphones and vice versa in regard to Android development, this is one of the reasons why I have a dual boot machine.
As per the last part it could be an issue from your browser, I didn't have this kind of behaviors from the XDA site.
For "boot.img" and "recovery.img" in the "EU" and the "global" section I get "fastboot: error: boot partition is smaller than boot image". The Magisk version can be installed, but then I get a Qualcomm crash screen when I try to actually start it.
Apparently I have a "OnePlus 7 Pro", not a "OnePlus 7T Pro". I bought that accidentally, but the specs are fine. Actually following the instructions for the correct device worked, who would have thought…