Rom install problem - Samsung Galaxy A50 Questions & Answers

I have some problem in gsi..when I flash gsi it show done then power off go to twrp ..mount.there is prob here show system not mount and when I go to resize it show nothing...what should I do?
I changed my firmware but still system not mount...

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Also stuck at kindleFire screen.

I really, REALLY have tried going through the threads and tried to figure this out on my own but I'm just stuck. A while back I got stuck in the boot loop (I guess). It was after a few factory resets. It had been rooted. Now, I can get into twrp but once there I can't seem to find any of the files that I need to flash to get it going again. When I launch the KFU it says the device is "online" and device manager reads "Android Composite ADB Interface". I'm sorry if this isn't enough info but can someone give me a push in the right direction? :silly:
Still vague bro but hey you have twrp do you have fff? If you have those things select mount in twrp transfer ROM zip and a gapps zip to your sdcard but don't place them inside a folder... leave them in the open this is considered the root of your sdcard then select unmount go to install see if you can navigate to the files you put on the kindle if so select wipe, wipe factory reset, wipe cache wipe dalvik, wipe system, select install tap on the ROM zip flash it when done use the back button upper right... flash gapps then select reboot and system if prompted let it boot.. I suggest this ROM or a cm7 flavored variety.. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1778010
fff is the kindle logo with the blue (fire) lettering, right? v1.4a in the upper right corner. Let's me go into normal, recovery and reset boot mode? The only option that let's me make any progress is the recovery option and that loads me into twrp. The "mount" option in twrp gives me 4 choices, mount system, mount data, unmount cache, and unmount sdCard. Mount system and mount data are unchecked. And if I click the "mount usb storage" button it takes me to a screen that says "USB Storage Mounted -- Be sure to safely remove your device from your computer before unmounting!" and there's an "unmount" button underneath. That's all I'm seeing. I'm not trying to be vague. I just don't know what specifically is the relevant info to give. But thanks for helping out those who can't help themselves
Ok plug to your computer select mount make sure there are no checks in the boxes of data and system then hit the big button this will mount your sdcard transfer zips select unmount follow my instructions above...
hey man, it worked!:victory: But I'm sure you knew it would. So, is it a bad idea or is it even possible at this point to revert to the factory reset? You know, have it be totally stock? And is it just tricky or dangerous to do factory resets a few times? I like using just the stock kindle version. The kindle app is just a little funky. Or it was the last time I used it. But obviously I love the google suite. I hadn't made a back-up the last time because it was just as easy to download a few of the things at a time from the cloud. So, making a back up would be a good habit and help in a situation like this? Do you know of any good threads re: backups? And superuser is something I don't know anything about but how does it work and where should I learn more about that? Mega MEGA thanks again dude! :highfive:
Yeah if you want the best of both worlds go with rooted stock all the wipes I suggested after backing up first then flash this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1439916 the standard version not the altrom thats for dualboot your miles from that
What's the process to get to rooted stock? I just made a back up
akaFoxMulder said:
What's the process to get to rooted stock? I just made a back up
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just put this on your sdcard wipe every thing but your external storage and flash it http://loadbalancing.modaco.com/dow...gned-MD5-569fe6550cfcfba68dabc3d088324a46.zip your external storage is your sd card you dont wanna wipe that
its nothing but rooted stock with playstore and it wont wipe out your recovery and fff in the process
when installing the modaco custom rom, what boxes do I want to have checked? Zip file sig is checked by default and Force MD5 check on all zips is unchecked. Good?
akaFoxMulder said:
when installing the modaco custom rom, what boxes do I want to have checked? Zip file sig is checked by default and Force MD5 check on all zips is unchecked. Good?
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Just leave them all unchecked
thanks again for all your help thePooch. I've tried installing the rom a couple of times and it either freezes or I've got the following message.
Writing Data - Writing System - Writing Boot then E:Error in /sdcard/Gr9.2-altrom-update-.....
(Status 0)
*Verifying filesystems...
*verifying partition sizes...
Error flashing zip ‘/sdcard/Gr9.2xxx
do I need to just stay with the cm10 rom at this point? what other kind of fun stuff can I do to get this working:fingers-crossed:
I believe Thepooch told you earlier NOT to download the altrom. Check your download and try again.
no doubt. Funny how this stuff works the way that it's supposed to
soupmagnet said:
I believe Thepooch told you earlier NOT to download the altrom. Check your download and try again.
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Thanks soupmagnet yes the altrom version will fail everytime because it needs extra partitions to work which do not and very likely will not ever exist on your device.... Intructions well it helps if they are read I gave very clear ones and I definatly said not to use the altrom........
ありがとうございました。 I think I'm done.
your welcome

unable to mount storage and /data

Hello,
tried to upgrade my 1.4 watch to 1.5 via update.zip. While pushing the update.zip he stopped copying.
From this time the watch always stuck at Google bootanimation.
So I tried to push the update.zip again, success, but not boot up.
Then I unlocked the bootloader, pushed twrp, pushed a whole system.img, success, but not boot up.
In TWRP is saw that he cant mount storage (0 MB) and /data.
So what can I do? Remeber a rapair option of filesystem in TWRP of my Samsung. But cannot find.
So is there a way to rebuild storage and /data using fastboot or ADB?
I have no TWRP Backup. But if somebody can give me... may restoring would go or fail because he cannot mount?
Whole sh*t because cant wait for OTA
Ok. No help. So I had to help myself :-/
Luckily found images of all partitions for persons who installed the preview of Wear 2.0 and want go back to 1.5
Flashed all of them using fastboot and voilà I'm back in business
ArnomaF said:
Hello,
tried to upgrade my 1.4 watch to 1.5 via update.zip. While pushing the update.zip he stopped copying.
From this time the watch always stuck at Google bootanimation.
So I tried to push the update.zip again, success, but not boot up.
Then I unlocked the bootloader, pushed twrp, pushed a whole system.img, success, but not boot up.
In TWRP is saw that he cant mount storage (0 MB) and /data.
So what can I do? Remeber a rapair option of filesystem in TWRP of my Samsung. But cannot find.
So is there a way to rebuild storage and /data using fastboot or ADB?
I have no TWRP Backup. But if somebody can give me... may restoring would go or fail because he cannot mount?
Whole sh*t because cant wait for OTA
Ok. No help. So I had to help myself :-/
Luckily found images of all partitions for persons who installed the preview of Wear 2.0 and want go back to 1.5
Flashed all of them using fastboot and voilà I'm back in business
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Hi, could you be so kind to share those partitions to me please?? My watch just turned into a brick...: ( Many thanks!
Stuck in twrp recovery
Here's my case
I have a huawei watch
i unlocked the bootloader successfully
I then flashed twrp recovery
then tried to flash a custom rom but failed.
I am stuck at twrp recovery and fastboot mode.
I cant boot into system
I tried to sideload adb from twrp but it said unable to mount storage and unable to mount data.
When i flash the stock recovery, it keeps rebooting itself.
PLease tell me if there is any hope for me.
Have you tried to format the partitions? or to repair it via "Wipe" > "File System Options" > "Data" > "->" > "Repair"? Or chance the filesystem? mine is f2fs (this only works for data and not for storage...

TWRP Can't Mount /System - OP3 Bricks When Trying to Flash New ROM??

I'm currently running my OP3 on Resurrection Remix 5.7.4 (MM 6.01), the phone has the latest version of TWRP and I've flashed other ROMs in the past without any issue
RR has proven to be quite unstable for me, the system UI keeps crashing, which renders the phone unusable until after a reboot so I wanted to flash Freedom OS as that worked quite well for me previously. When I tried to flash the ROM in TWRP the ROM seemed to flash successfully but when I rebooted, only the boot logo showed and then the screen went black and the phone refused to respond at all for about two hours, after that exactly the same thing happened. I managed to boot into recovery and tried flashing a different ROM but the result was the same every time, the only way to get the phone to work normally was to flash RR again/restore from a Nandroid backup, either way, the result is the same, I'm stuck on an unstable ROM and I don't know why, the last time I flashed these ROMs they worked fine, I followed all of the instructions for flashing said ROMs to the letter, I have the latest version of TWRP, etc.
Also it seems TWRP can't mount /system, in TWRP under "mount", system is unchecked, I checked it and tried again but found that whenever I rebooted the phone or attempted to flash a new ROM, it would always uncheck itself and flashing the ROM would fail, however strangely flashing the same version of RR was always successful. Is this why the flashing keeps failing and does anyone know what the problem could be?
Thanks!
bronderb said:
Go into your bootloader and format system, cache, and userdata (This will wipe EVERYTHING so be sure to backup). Then latest official flash stock rom and reboot. This should fix it. If this helped hit thanks!
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Bootloader? There is no option in the bootloader to delete everything as far as I can see, do you mean in recovery? And if I wipe everything off the phone, how do I get the stock ROM onto the phone to flash it? When you say wipe userdata do you mean wipe internal storage or am I misunderstanding and you're telling me to wipe the usual dalvik, cache and data as you would for a normal clean flash?
bronderb said:
No, go into fastboot and plug into pc. Open cmd and type "fastboot format userdata" "fastboot format cache" "fastboot format system"
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Okay, thanks, and then what? Do I flash TWRP then push the stock ROM to the phone and flash that? And exactly how do I do that?
bronderb said:
You just go into twrp (no need to reflash) then adb sideload oxygen os
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Thank you, I am now running OOS, hopefully everything else will go smoothly now, planning to go back to FOS again
I didn't even have to use the fastboot commands to format, just sideloading the OOS file wiped everything anyway
Turns out the issue isn't actually fixed, "system" still appears unchecked in TWRP. Could the fact that I didn't actually format everything first have made a difference, given everything was wiped in the process anyway?
Looks like I'm going to be living the sideloading life...
Edit: Sideloading freedom OS failed, ended up having to restore from my TWRP backup. I don't know what I'm going to do, my main reason for using custom ROMs is installing a black theme, and OOS doesn't support Layers or Substratum fully so I can't stay on that
Is the thing that says "mount system as read-only" enabled in the mounts menu? /System isn't ever mounted when TWRP starts, you have to manually mount it, but as long as the updater-script tells /system to mount, it will. However, if that option to make it read-only is enabled, then nothing will ever write to /system. Last resort is deleting the .twrps file from /sdcard/TWRP folder to remove current TWRP preferences and then when you boot into TWRP, that first screen has the swiper to allow modifications, and you'll swipe that
frickinjerms said:
Is the thing that says "mount system as read-only" enabled in the mounts menu? /System isn't ever mounted when TWRP starts, you have to manually mount it, but as long as the updater-script tells /system to mount, it will. However, if that option to make it read-only is enabled, then nothing will ever write to /system. Last resort is deleting the .twrps file from /sdcard/TWRP folder to remove current TWRP preferences and then when you boot into TWRP, that first screen has the swiper to allow modifications, and you'll swipe that
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It isn't set to read only, I have tried updating and resetting TWRP but nothing has helped, in fact it's got worse, I managed to sideload OOS but my attempted install of FOS failed so I tried to restore from a backup and that also failed, something which didn't happen back when I was on RR.
evilkitty69 said:
It isn't set to read only, I have tried updating and resetting TWRP but nothing has helped, in fact it's got worse, I managed to sideload OOS but my attempted install of FOS failed so I tried to restore from a backup and that also failed, something which didn't happen back when I was on RR.
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Which version of TWRP are you running? The official 3.1.0-0 is good for OOS and OOS based ROMs only. Try eng.stk's version.
Use the latest eng-stk twrp.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/devdb/project/?id=15934#downloads
In recovery go to Wipe > Format data (this will wipe ALL in youre phone).
It's youre Data in F2FS? If yes you must change it to ext4, in recovery Wipe > Change file system. Reboot recovery. Check if it's changed.
Reboot to Bootloader (Fastboot). From PC reflash recovery.
Now copy Oos rom to the phone memory. Flash rom. Reflash recovery (the rom will overwrite the recovery). Reboot to recovery to see if it works. If not do it again.
I sugest to NOT restore old data. This way you'll have all new in youre phone.
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Which version of TWRP are you running? The official 3.1.0-0 is good for OOS and OOS based ROMs only. Try eng.stk's version.
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I was running 3.0.2-2 when the issue started, I updated to 3.0.3 and 3.1.0-0 but nothing changed. Thanks for the suggestion, I will give it a try
null0seven said:
Use the latest eng-stk twrp.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/devdb/project/?id=15934#downloads
In recovery go to Wipe > Format data (this will wipe ALL in youre phone).
It's youre Data in F2FS? If yes you must change it to ext4, in recovery Wipe > Change file system. Reboot recovery. Check if it's changed.
Reboot to Bootloader (Fastboot). From PC reflash recovery.
Now copy Oos rom to the phone memory. Flash rom. Reflash recovery (the rom will overwrite the recovery). Reboot to recovery to see if it works. If not do it again.
I sugest to NOT restore old data. This way you'll have all new in youre phone.
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Help! I attempted to do this and the process failed, I didn't manage to wipe data because "/data could not be mounted as device or resource is busy"
Edit: Device now has nothing but TWRP and fastboot, no OS, no ADB, no data, no internal storage
If you can reflash twrp from PC. If not reflash recovery from twrp recovery : Instal > Image > Select Recovery (you must have TWRP.img in youre phone memory )
I managed to get hold of a few factory images and attempted to flash system.img through fastboot, resulting error was
"target reported max download size of 536,870,912 bytes" (system image is 3080 MB)
"invalid sparse file format at header magi"
null0seven said:
If you can reflash twrp from PC. If not reflash recovery from twrp recovery : Instal > Image > Select Recovery (you must have TWRP.img in youre phone memory )
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I reflashed the modified TWRP successfully. The second suggestion wouldn't have worked, given my phone has no internal storage
You can't see internal storage because of the recovery does not work write.
If you have a working recovery you can do all you want.
null0seven said:
You can't see internal storage because of the recovery does not work write.
If you have a working recovery you can do all you want.
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The recovery was working at this point, the issue turned out to be the data partition, system was formatted to ext4 but I didn't realise data was in f2fs which caused the problem in the first place. I formatted to ext4 and everything worked, I was able to install paranoid android and everything worked...
...until I flashed the wrong firmware and now I've hard bricked it! I'm going to try the hard brick toolkit
Edit: After 12 hours of being an unresponsive brick, the phone suddenly booted, system doesn't work but it has recovery. Unfortunately I seem to be back to square one, if I try to flash something it appears to succeed but then the phone doesn't boot up into system
So I am now back to the original issue of system not mounting, in terminal if I type "mount /system" I get following error:
"mounting /dev/block/sde20 on /system failed: Device or resource is busy"
Anyone know how to solve this?
I formatted everything, reflashed recovery and tried to flash OOS, got following error:
Code:
[FONT="Courier New"]"This package is for OnePlus3 devices, this is a oneplus3t" (it isn't)
"Updater process ended with ERROR: 7
Error installing zip file /sdcard/OOS3.2.6.zip" [/FONT]
Issue was "solved" by flashing PA, GApps and the correct firmware
Hopefully that's the end of all this drama, thanks to everyone for their suggestions
Hi, I'm pretty new at rooting and I seem to have a similar error. I'm getting the "can't mount /system" error in TWRP. I am able to boot into OOS 4.1.3 and run the nandroid backup but, I keep getting the same error and am unable to select "system" when choosing the mount option in TWRP.
Do I need to have all partitions in f2fs? My system partition is in ext4. Is this what solved your issue?
It seems my phone is functional even with the error active but, I've been trying to get systemless SuperSU and MagiskHide working and I think that's what is preventing me from doing so.

[SOLVED] TWRP doesn’t let browse /sdcard files

I am having a problem it happened after I finally got to flash latest CosmicOS and set up a new password on my OP3. So, here’s what basically happened;
Once I got it up and running I noticed that home button and fingerprint sensor was completely disabled, then I tried to set up a new password (completely same password I used to decrypt my storage in TWRP 3.0.2-0) and fingerprint just in case but it didn’t react to me calibrating the fingerprint so I was like, ”alright, gladly I got a backup in TWRP”.
Once I rebooted to recovery it asked for a password as usually, once I typed that exact same password as before it just said wrong password, I tried it twice in case if I made a typo but still invalid password. And then I was panicing and pressed cancel and just rebooted back to OS.
I then removed all passwords there and booted back to recovery again, TWRP doesn’t ask for a password anymore but there’s a slider which says allow modifications or something similar and also there’s read only mode. When I slided the modification thing it just doesn’t show any of my files in sdcard folder when I go to ’Install’ tab but (0mb) instead. I even was able to browse and add files from my pc while phone was plugged in and in recovery mode, not anymore though.
Can anyone give me advice or help to get my oneplus 3 back in use? I have all the important files moved to my pc so I don’t mind losing files I have left in internal storage that much. Not if it’s necessary or easier workaround. thanks for reading this long-ass text :fingers-crossed:
EDIT: Issue SOLVED thanks to @AkR2014. I switched data partition from EXT4 to F2FS and then one more time back to EXT4 in TWRP's Wipe tab. (I was using latest blue_spark's TWRP-3.2.1-x version) and I was able to wipe data, system and both caches afterwards. After that I managed to flash new rom via USB-C to A with mounted USB flash drive on the other end and you know rest of the story. Do note that it WILL clear your internal storage so back up all the necessary files you need. And if you want to stay on F2FS data partition be sure to flash a ROM which supports it
EDIT2: There might be another way to mount your storage in TWRP but this is probably fail-proof method and worked for me
Oh and I couldn’t flash the Gapps in recovery after flashing the CosmicOs and nor I can’t now because of this haha. I can use my email though and send files through it from my another email if that helps
Vaahtopahvi said:
Oh and I couldn’t flash the Gapps in recovery after flashing the CosmicOs and nor I can’t now because of this haha. I can use my email though and send files through it from my another email if that helps
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Try eng.stk's TWRP and clean flash ROM and Gapps.
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Try eng.stk's TWRP and clean flash ROM and Gapps.
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I couldnt find link for eng.stk TWRP, only people talking of it it. and what am I supposed to do with it once I get if you could explain? sorry for nooby questions
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Try eng.stk's TWRP and clean flash ROM and Gapps.
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Wait, I think I found it. But the question is can and do I need to update the latest eng.stk’s TWRP through fastboot? And if so, is there instructions topic somewhere?
So here's the latest update: I flashed twrp-3.1.1-2 via fastboot but once I go to recovery it still doesn't let me browse files in /sdcard and if I put new password in OS it doesn't match in TWRP. I have a OS where I can boot to but no Gapps installed.
People say formatting data in TWRP would work, I'm just scared if that doesn't work and won't let me boot to OS anymore (even though I have a TWRP back up which I made before wiping my OxygenOS system data and caches in my pc as well in my phone's storage atm) and I can't flash anything in recovery mode, is there anything I could do? I'm in desperate need of help right now.
In this CosmicOS i am using Android 8.1.0 and I'm afraid something isn't supporting it or so.
Vaahtopahvi said:
So here's the latest update: I flashed twrp-3.1.1-2 via fastboot but once I go to recovery it still doesn't let me browse files in /sdcard and if I put new password in OS it doesn't match in TWRP. I have a OS where I can boot to but no Gapps installed.
People say formatting data in TWRP would work, I'm just scared if that doesn't work and won't let me boot to OS anymore (even though I have a TWRP back up which I made before wiping my OxygenOS system data and caches in my pc as well in my phone's storage atm) and I can't flash anything in recovery mode, is there anything I could do? I'm in desperate need of help right now.
In this CosmicOS i am using Android 8.1.0 and I'm afraid something isn't supporting it or so.
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As I said, flash eng.stk's TWRP. Simply flash the image to Recovery partition using the TWRP you already have. After that, wipe everything and clean flash the ROM. If anything goes wrong, you can use the Mega Unbrick guide method 2.
Here's the link to TWRP: https://forum.xda-developers.com/devdb/project/?id=15934#downloads
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As I said, flash eng.stk's TWRP. Simply flash the image to Recovery partition using the TWRP you already have. After that, wipe everything and clean flash the ROM. If anything goes wrong, you can use the Mega Unbrick guide method 2.
Here's the link to TWRP: https://forum.xda-developers.com/devdb/project/?id=15934#downloads
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Thanks for the reply and link. I understood most of the parts except flashing the image to Recovery partition. Am I supposed to find the eng.stk’s TWRP from my Install tab in my current TWRP? Because it doesn’t show any files there. Also do I download the latest 3.2.1-x TWRP from the link you provided?
Vaahtopahvi said:
Thanks for the reply and link. I understood most of the parts except flashing the image to Recovery partition. Am I supposed to find the eng.stk’s TWRP from my Install tab in my current TWRP? Because it doesn’t show any files there. Also do I download the latest 3.2.1-x TWRP from the link you provided?
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You will find TWRP 3.2.1-x v8.61 in the link I provided. Download that to your phone and save it. Restart your phone in recovery mode and in the current TWRP that you have, click the 'Install' button. By default, you will be shown zip files,if any. TWRP comes as an img file. So click the 'show img files' button at bottom right in TWRP and navigate to where you saved it and select it. Slide the bottom bar to install, you will be asked where to install it to. Select 'Recovery' and again slide the bar. It will be installed. To confirm, restart in recovery mode and check the version number of TWRP.
eng.stk's TWRP is compatible with OOS and custom ROMS. The offficial one doesn't work with some custom ROMs.
tnsmani said:
You will find TWRP 3.2.1-x v8.61 in the link I provided. Download that to your phone and save it. Restart your phone in recovery mode and in the current TWRP that you have, click the 'Install' button. By default, you will be shown zip files,if any. TWRP comes as an img file. So click the 'show img files' button at bottom right in TWRP and navigate to where you saved it and select it. Slide the bottom bar to install, you will be asked where to install it to. Select 'Recovery' and again slide the bar. It will be installed. To confirm, restart in recovery mode and check the version number of TWRP.
eng.stk's TWRP is compatible with OOS and custom ROMS. The offficial one doesn't work with some custom ROMs.
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he is unable to mount storage via twrp , i have the sol but it will format your whole data / internal storage if your wiling to .
1 ) Go to twrp
2 ) wipe - > Advance wipe > change system file partation
3) if your on F2FS change to ext 4 or vice versa .
4 ) you will be able to mount sdcard
and dont flash this rom again , faceed same issue while flashing some oreo rom .
P.S : do it at your own risk .
AkR2014 said:
he is unable to mount storage via twrp , i have the sol but it will format your whole data / internal storage if your wiling to .
1 ) Go to twrp
2 ) wipe - > Advance wipe > change system file partation
3) if your on F2FS change to ext 4 or vice versa .
4 ) you will be able to mount sdcard
and dont flash this rom again , faceed same issue while flashing some oreo rom .
P.S : do it at your own risk .
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Thanks man :highfive: I have really nothing to lose anyways so I gotta try that lol. How can I know whether I am on F2FS or EXT 4 though? And once it’s done can I access to my phone storage while it’s in recovery mode and just paste new rom to internal storage? Or do I need to push the rom via adb while in fastboot mode? Thinking to try out Paranoid rom which is based on Nougat, right?
tnsmani said:
You will find TWRP 3.2.1-x v8.61 in the link I provided. Download that to your phone and save it. Restart your phone in recovery mode and in the current TWRP that you have, click the 'Install' button. By default, you will be shown zip files,if any. TWRP comes as an img file. So click the 'show img files' button at bottom right in TWRP and navigate to where you saved it and select it. Slide the bottom bar to install, you will be asked where to install it to. Select 'Recovery' and again slide the bar. It will be installed. To confirm, restart in recovery mode and check the version number of TWRP.
eng.stk's TWRP is compatible with OOS and custom ROMS. The offficial one doesn't work with some custom ROMs.
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Thanks for clarification tnsmani, appreciate the time you put into it. But as the person who replied to your text, I cannot mount the storage in TWRP which would prevent me of flashing pretty much anything on phone in TWRP.
Vaahtopahvi said:
Thanks man :highfive: I have really nothing to lose anyways so I gotta try that lol. How can I know whether I am on F2FS or EXT 4 though? And once it’s done can I access to my phone storage while it’s in recovery mode and just paste new rom to internal storage? Or do I need to push the rom via adb while in fastboot mode? Thinking to try out Paranoid rom which is based on Nougat, right?
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yap you will be able to access your internal storage as well flash any thing you want from internal storage , no need to push via adb , use deskinfo app from playstore to check
the format of your data partition. yah try Omni 8.1.0 really awsome rom i am currently using. :laugh:
Vaahtopahvi said:
Thanks for clarification tnsmani, appreciate the time you put into it. But as the person who replied to your text, I cannot mount the storage in TWRP which would prevent me of flashing pretty much anything on phone in TWRP.
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If you are able to boot into fastboot mode, you can install TWRP through ADB.
But you can not copy, paste in TWRP.
AkR2014 said:
yap you will be able to access your internal storage as well flash any thing you want from internal storage , no need to push via adb , use deskinfo app from playstore to check
the format of your data partition. yah try Omni 8.1.0 really awsome rom i am currently using. :laugh:
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Great to hear that. Though I don’t have Gapps installed. Accidentally tried to flash the wrong one before the mounting problem occurred and now you know rest of the story :laugh:
I’ll try to find another way to check it though. Oh and as well as the ROM

Root issues in Oreo

I'm installing twrp but whenever i try to boot into twrp all my data is wiped and twrp is unable to mount it
"Could not mount /data and unable to find crypto footer"
I need to manually change the filesystem and then again change to ext4 for twrp to mount data.
Main issue is i want to use snapchat and for that i need to boot into OS, login into snapchat and then root in twrp
but again as soon as i boot into twrp my data partition is not mountable. I have flashed no_encrypt_no_verity.dm_ashyx to disable dm-verity.
Flashed various twrp version from 3.0 to 3.2
Also did a clean OS flash from odin but still no luck.
Any suggestion and help will be appreciated.
jfk999 said:
I'm installing twrp but whenever i try to boot into twrp all my data is wiped and twrp is unable to mount it
"Could not mount /data and unable to find crypto footer"
I need to manually change the filesystem and then again change to ext4 for twrp to mount data.
Main issue is i want to use snapchat and for that i need to boot into OS, login into snapchat and then root in twrp
but again as soon as i boot into twrp my data partition is not mountable. I have flashed no_encrypt_no_verity.dm_ashyx to disable dm-verity.
Flashed various twrp version from 3.0 to 3.2
Also did a clean OS flash from odin but still no luck.
Any suggestion and help will be appreciated.
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https://forum.xda-developers.com/sa...w-to/guide-root-install-twrp-samsung-t3747535
Baseminge said:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/sa...w-to/guide-root-install-twrp-samsung-t3747535
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Tried that too , same issue still.
It seems that data partition gets corrupted whenever i boot into twrp everytime.
No way out
jfk999 said:
I'm installing twrp but whenever i try to boot into twrp all my data is wiped and twrp is unable to mount it
"Could not mount /data and unable to find crypto footer"
I need to manually change the filesystem and then again change to ext4 for twrp to mount data.
Main issue is i want to use snapchat and for that i need to boot into OS, login into snapchat and then root in twrp
but again as soon as i boot into twrp my data partition is not mountable. I have flashed no_encrypt_no_verity.dm_ashyx to disable dm-verity.
Flashed various twrp version from 3.0 to 3.2
Also did a clean OS flash from odin but still no luck.
Any suggestion and help will be appreciated.
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have you wiped data(TWRP/wipe data/type YES in the keyboard)?
and use superuser for root cause magisk can t mount data at the moment.
broky said:
have you wiped data(TWRP/wipe data/type YES in the keyboard)?
and use superuser for root cause magisk can t mount data at the moment.
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As soon as i boot in twrp, data is not mountable. So I then go to
wipe-->adv wipe-->(select data partition)repair or change partition-->change partition format-->fat
TWRP then wipes it to fat filesytem,then i change it to ext4 (which is readable by OS)
then only data partition is mounted.
Afterwards I flash no-verity-no-encryption_ashyx and RMM patch
Boots normal to OS
Again boot to twrp i get error unable to mount /data
I had this issue in nougat but it used to happen only once.After flashing patch i used to not get this error repeated
jfk999 said:
As soon as i boot in twrp, data is not mountable. So I then go to
wipe-->adv wipe-->(select data partition)repair or change partition-->change partition format-->fat
TWRP then wipes it to fat filesytem,then i change it to ext4 (which is readable by OS)
then only data partition is mounted.
Afterwards I flash no-verity-no-encryption_ashyx and RMM patch
Boots normal to OS
Again boot to twrp i get error unable to mount /data
I had this issue in nougat but it used to happen only once.After flashing patch i used to not get this error repeated
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Twrp/above factory reset on right side there is an option format data.
Press on this option and a keyboard rises.type YES and select format data.
After this check data partition,should be mounted.
After this flash SU zip and last Ashyx s patch.
Idonel this many times never had a problem even in Orsi.
Hope it works I can t think of something else.
broky said:
Twrp/above factory reset on right side there is an option format data.
Press on this option and a keyboard rises.type YES and select format data.
After this check data partition,should be mounted.
After this flash SU zip and last Ashyx s patch.
Idonel this many times never had a problem even in Orsi.
Hope it works I can t think of something else.
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Which twrp version are you using?
Try...
The universal "no verity opt encrypt".
Magisk for the above, or safetynet evasion.
Backing up snapchat in /data/data/ and /sdcard/Android/data/, and load the backup. By PC or external sdcard, or load the backup later.
jfk999 said:
Which twrp version are you using?
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look in 1:13
this is the step i mean:
format data/type:yes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOjnmGQ14fc&t=41s
broky said:
look in 1:13
this is the step i mean:
format data/type:yes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOjnmGQ14fc&t=41s
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Tried it but still same issue.
Bryan48765 said:
Try...
The universal "no verity opt encrypt".
Magisk for the above, or safetynet evasion.
Backing up snapchat in /data/data/ and /sdcard/Android/data/, and load the backup. By PC or external sdcard, or load the backup later.
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Tried the universal version for samsung and applied RMM patch, unfortunately same issue again.
I think that this has to do with SEpolicy. In nougat i used to get a small red warning at the edge of screen while booting to twrp. That time i did not face this
issue. Now I dont get any warning..boots into twrp with data partition corrupted.
I dont know, ive tried everything possible but no luck.
This is how I did and it works on my A320FL:
1. I installed Ashyx's version of TWRP via odin.
2. Boot into TWRP and "Format Data" from "Wipe" menu.
3. Flash SuperSu.
4. Flash Ashyx's patch.
5. Reboot phone(into recovery again).
6. Update TWRP with McFy's version.
jfk999 said:
Tried it but still same issue.[/QUO
I think I have the same issue.
May was your phone branded when you bought it?
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Baseminge said:
jfk999 said:
Tried it but still same issue.[/QUO
I think I have the same issue.
May was your phone branded when you bought it?
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I bought it from official store..Also i bought it jus few months after launch..
Which carrier are you using?
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jfk999 said:
Baseminge said:
I bought it from official store..Also i bought it jus few months after launch..
Which carrier are you using?
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So I think is something concerning the MM firmware that was not fixed with the N and O updates, 'cause I bought it very close to his launch too. I solved it by flashing a custom rom, so I think the problem was in official MM firmware or something went wrong in the OTA updates
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Baseminge said:
jfk999 said:
So I think is something concerning the MM firmware that was not fixed with the N and O updates, 'cause I bought it very close to his launch too. I solved it by flashing a custom rom, so I think the problem was in official MM firmware or something went wrong in the OTA updates
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Well ya..from MM to N, I did Odin update but from N to O i did ota update..since then im facing this issue..
But i still dont get it..i did a clean install and downloaded firmware from sammobile..yet this issue persist
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jfk999 said:
Baseminge said:
Well ya..from MM to N, I did Odin update but from N to O i did ota update..since then im facing this issue..
But i still dont get it..i did a clean install and downloaded firmware from sammobile..yet this issue persist
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At this point the only advice I can give you is to do a full wipe including "Internal Storage" (if you didn't) before flashing with Odin.
I really don't guess it will solve the problem on an official firmware, but there's no harm in trying
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Still no luck...
At this point i have lost hopes
jfk999 said:
Still no luck...
At this point i have lost hopes
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No matter what you try at this point you're data will always encrypt and will need to be formatted. TWRP will always reset.
This requires a whole different route and needs you to edit system files.
I'll get back to you with details.
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jfk999 said:
I'm installing twrp but whenever i try to boot into twrp all my data is wiped and twrp is unable to mount it
"Could not mount /data and unable to find crypto footer"
I need to manually change the filesystem and then again change to ext4 for twrp to mount data.
Main issue is i want to use snapchat and for that i need to boot into OS, login into snapchat and then root in twrp
but again as soon as i boot into twrp my data partition is not mountable. I have flashed no_encrypt_no_verity.dm_ashyx to disable dm-verity.
Flashed various twrp version from 3.0 to 3.2
Also did a clean OS flash from odin but still no luck.
Any suggestion and help will be appreciated.
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This method requires intermediate knowledge of Windows and CMD commands....I've tried to simplify it and hope it is easy enough to go through
The files that need editing are the ramdisk fstab files.
Basically you are going to unpack boot.img, edit the files and repack it.
Here's how you do it:
In windows...From the firmware, open the AP file with WinRAR. Extract boot.img.lz4 and save it to your desktop
Go here https://github.com/lz4/lz4/releases/download/v1.8.2/lz4_v1_8_2_win64.zip
Extract it then just place your boot.img.lz4 to directory of lz4
Next open up cmd as admin and cd to the location where lz4.exe is located
In cmd type lz4.exe boot.img.lz4
This will unpack the lz4 file.
Now download http://www.mediafire.com/file/93a3f4bikaxh6tj/MTK_Extractor_V2.6.3.zip
Just open exe go to boot tab select the unpacked boot.img
This will extract the files you need and it will create folder called "initrd" and it will contain the contents of boot.img.
Make sure you have Notepad++ installed to edit the files.
Go to the MTK folder where your files have been extracted
Right click Fatah.goldfish and select open with Notepad++
Next find the phrase ",encryptable=userdata"
Delete it
Close the tab in Notepad++ and click to save
Back to MTK folder and right click fstab.ranchu. Open with Notepad++
Find the phrase ",quota,forceencrypt=/dev/block/vdd"
Delete it
Find the phrase ",encryptable=userdata"
Delete it
Close the tab in Notepad++ and click to save
Back to MTK folder and right click fstab.samsungexynos7880. Open with Notepad++
Find the phrase ",verify"
Delete it
Find the phrase ",forceencrypt=footer,quota"
Delete it.
Close the tab in Notepad++ and click to save
Next, go back to the MTK program and press the repack button
This will create your new boot.img file
Go back to the MTK folder. You should see your old boot.img file saved as "boot-old.img" and your new file as "boot.img"
Install 7-zip
Back to MTK right click your new boot.img. select 7-zip then select "add to archive"
This will open up another window. Simply select "tar" from the dropdown menu for "Archive format"
Press OK
This will create a new file "boot.tar"
Flash this via Odin with phone in Download mode
The boot will now be patched and you can set up TWRP as you need.
This whole process will need repeating if a new AP is flashed

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