Hi,
I have a bad situation with my device, which has gone low on battery and turned off and doesn't want to switch on again.
The situation is that the device can't neither mount nor format nor delete the "userdata" partition via ClockWorkMod Recovery, AmonRA recovery, fastboot, etc.
Now booted the device into HBoot and issued "ClearStorage" command - it hangs on "Clear emmc..." line.
fastboot -w goes forever until the battery dies and then it displays "too many links" error.
I was able to mount the contents of the internal storage to PC (obviously, not the userdata partition).
In attempt to use the parted mkfs command, got the input/output error.
I need a suggestion as to is it possible that the internal storage is damaged physically? Or - how to format the internal storage completely and erase all partitions if it is possible.
Also - I got another Droid Incredible device from which I have the backup - it fails to install when restoring userdata.
Please, help, I'm really stuck
Ok, here is the problem, i woke up today, my phone battery was empty, i connected the phone battery was loading, but i couldn't get to the system, after kernel load it stops, like there was no system installed. Everything worked fine day before,my configuration was: Doomkernel and Existenz_2.0.5 ROM.
So, i got to recovery (recovery works,CWM), and there i saw "can't mount cache" error. I got into shell with adb (this works too), and there is no way i can mount any system partition (/system, /cache, /data), what's more important /sdcard does not mount either. So, i'm in recovery, can't install or restore from sdcard,cause /sdcard does not mount.
I'v tried sideload, no go.
I've tried fastboot flash new kernel, and here's interesing thing, fastboot reported that flashing was ok, but i still have Doomkernel (i was trying to flash 6.0-TUX-Core-HD kernel. So seems like fastboot did not write anything at all.
I've tried flashtool with stock tft. It breaks with "final verification error", when i turn "final verification off" it goes all the way, says everything is installed, but when i restarted, still only Doomkernel.
Any ideas ? I take any advice.
Maybe you have already tried it, but format your phone's data, THEN the cache, and finally the internal storage (SD card). In XS's CWM, there's a bug, which causes sometimes an unformatable and unusable cache parition. But this method can be help on this. Maybe this problem causes those unformatable partitions.
Szatyor said:
Maybe you have already tried it, but format your phone's data, THEN the cache, and finally the internal storage (SD card). In XS's CWM, there's a bug, which causes sometimes an unformatable and unusable cache parition. But this method can be help on this. Maybe this problem causes those unformatable partitions.
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Thank you for your reply. Haven't tried that but i have now and, unfortunately, no go. With /data and /cache seems like format was success but it didn't ( still can't Mount) and with /sdcard format fails (error mounting /sdcard).
Maybe my sdcard really died ?
qrto said:
Thank you for your reply. Haven't tried that but i have now and, unfortunately, no go. With /data and /cache seems like format was success but it didn't ( still can't Mount) and with /sdcard format fails (error mounting /sdcard).
Maybe my sdcard really died ?
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Well, I don't think so. The "SD Card" is a part of the memory chip, which includes the system, the data and the cache partitions too. Because you cannot copy anything now to the internal storage, try to install a ROM from ADB Sideload if you can. Once it done, your phone can be boot maybe again. If it happens, try to format the internal storage by the Android. If it fails, connect the phone to your computer, and try to format with Windows or (it can be better) Linux to fat32 filesystem.
Szatyor said:
Well, I don't think so. The "SD Card" is a part of the memory chip, which includes the system, the data and the cache partitions too. Because you cannot copy anything now to the internal storage, try to install a ROM from ADB Sideload if you can. Once it done, your phone can be boot maybe again. If it happens, try to format the internal storage by the Android. If it fails, connect the phone to your computer, and try to format with Windows or (it can be better) Linux to fat32 filesystem.
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Thank you for your ideas. Thing is, all i can start is cwm recovery. As i wrote, i can't install anything with sideload. And no partition is working. When i start parted /dev/block/mmcblk and try to list partitions, i get unrecognized disk label error, when i try to manually set disk label to msdos, there's I/O Error.
And i can't format sdcard, because when in recovery, phone is not detected by Linux nor Windows. But i tried formatting partitions internally, with mke2fs, and with fastboot command. No go.
I know that /sdcard is just a partition, but what i meant was that probably my phone memory chip died, like hardware died. but i'm still looking for new ideas i want to try everything before giving up.
qrto said:
Thank you for your ideas. Thing is, Alp i can start iż cwm recovery. As i wrote, i can't install anything with sideload. And no partition is working. When i start parted /dev/block/mmcblk and try to list partitions, i get unrecognized disk label error, when i try to manually set disk label to msdos, there's I/O Error.
And i can't format sdcard, because when in recovery, phone is not detected by Linux nor Windows. But i tried formatting partitions internally, with mke2fs, and with fastboot command. No go.
I know that /sdcard is just a partition, but what i meant was that probably my phone memory chip died, like hardware died. but i'm still looking for new ideas i want to try everything before giving up.
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Then maybe it's a HW error really. But maybe just the partition table is corrupted. At this point, I don't know. I have only one suggestion left: Take the phone to the nearest SONY Center or GSM shop/service to investigation. But I think they will say you'll need to replace the phone's motherboard. Anyway, it's an too expensive solution I think, because this phone is a "retired" modell without any update, but with a "blacksheep (Snapdragon S3) SoC.
I can't wipe data or anything all of a sudden inside TWRP 2.8.
I have no SD card in the device and was just using the onboard memory and I noticed that spotify would no longer load because it was looking for an external SD card which I have never had.
I did a fix permissions and that did not work. I then did a system wipe in TWRP and then now I am stuck at the samsung logo with being unable to mount data or storage anymore.
Any advice would be amazing.4
I just ran in to a similar situation yesterday. TWRP 2.8 kept saying that it couldn't mount /data and /cache. It also showed their sizes as 0 MB. I ended up doing a factory reset about 5 times before I got both partitions back.
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I just ran in to a similar situation yesterday. TWRP 2.8 kept saying that it couldn't mount /data and /cache. It also showed their sizes as 0 MB. I ended up doing a factory reset about 5 times before I got both partitions back.
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I have the same situation with unable to mount /data and unable to mount storage. Did Factory Reset several times. Still no luck. Im getting 0 MB on internal storage and data. Any suggestions?
SOLVED...I odined TWRP2.8.1 onto my Note then did WIPE/then FORMAT DATA.Got all my partitions back. Now to flash the OS back on.
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I have the same situation with unable to mount /data and unable to mount storage. Did Factory Reset several times. Still no luck. Im getting 0 MB on internal storage and data. Any suggestions?
SOLVED...I odined TWRP2.8.1 onto my Note then did WIPE/then FORMAT DATA.Got all my partitions back. Now to flash the OS back on.
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I think at one point I re-pushed TWRP to my tab through Odin, so that may have been step one of the fix. At any rate thanks Odin's Beard for Odin.
Hello Android Gurus!
I need help with the issue I'm currently facing. My Micromax AQ4501 recently got stuck in a boot loop. So I tried to hard reset the phone. But it was unsuccessful. Then when I restarted the phone it was stuck at the Micromax logo. When I went to the recovery (Android default), it said E:failed to mount /cache (Invalid argument). Wiping cache partition did not solve this. I used the Andriod One Tool to force start in TWRP recovery. There it showed that the internal memory is 0MB and /system /cache and /data partitions were grayed out (0MB) in the backup option as well. Few forums suggested that I flash it with stock ROM but I'm unable to unlock the OEM in fastboot command. Now, my phone only shows the Micromax logo. Can anyone suggest me how to restore and mount the internal memory? If any of are willing to help, you are free to use TeamViewer to help me out as I ain't bright when it comes to phones! Thankyou
Same problem
My phone also have the same problem .When i update to marshmellow it went off and it was on a bootloop then i tried to clear the cache but it shows cant load cache.
I have this error on my phone on twrp: Unable to mount storage when I tried to wipe dalvik and cache.
I tried something a few months ago and the same thing happened.
After I fixed it I had to flash my stock rom again and then install twrp again.
Is there any way to fix this without wiping my data/system?
Most forums online say to select data partition then either Repair file system or Change file system but do they remove all data on my phone?