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[Q] Is there anyway to wipe internal SD Card and install a Rom?

After many program installations and various rom setups, I want to free up space on my Internal SD Card by doing a full wipe. Is there a way to do this and be able to load a rom?

sfetaz said:
After many program installations and various rom setups, I want to free up space on my Internal SD Card by doing a full wipe. Is there a way to do this and be able to load a rom?
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Stock recovery wipes everything but TWRP preserves the "virtual" sdcard. There might (or might not) be some advanced option in TWRP to wipe the virtual sdcard, never looked.

Twrp has the wipe option, I knew that already. I wanted to find a way to use it and still be able to flash a rom. In any case I figured out how to transfer a file to the device with the ADB push command after getting adb to recognize the nexus. Will attempt all this in a couple of days.

sfetaz said:
Twrp has the wipe option, I knew that already. I wanted to find a way to use it and still be able to flash a rom. In any case I figured out how to transfer a file to the device with the ADB push command after getting adb to recognize the nexus. Will attempt all this in a couple of days.
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I guess I don't understand what you mean then as by default twrp doesn't reset your virtual sdcard for a wipe, so whichever ROM update.zip files you had on the virtual sdcard would survive a wipe in twrp, so there would be no reason to copy them back over.
I guess maybe your question had nothing to do with wipe, and you were really asking how to transfer a custom ROM install file to the tablet so twrp can install it. You can do that using adb or mtp or just download the file using the browser on the tablet.

In advanced wipe there is a box for internal storage... and TWRP supports OTG so you can connect a flash drive formated to FAT32 that contains the Zip you wan't to flash and flash it like any other file.

iamezio said:
In advanced wipe there is a box for internal storage... and TWRP supports OTG so you can connect a flash drive formated to FAT32 that contains the Zip you wan't to flash and flash it like any other file.
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This is what I mean. My virtual SD Card (data/media) is bloated with files I want to get rid of. So I wanted to wipe internal storage to clear all files and reinstall a rom. Using ADB or USB-OTG as iamezio says, I can transfer a rom zip back to the internal storage after wiping it to be able to install a rom. When I first made this post I wasn't sure how to do this.

sfetaz said:
This is what I mean. My virtual SD Card (data/media) is bloated with files I want to get rid of. So I wanted to wipe internal storage to clear all files and reinstall a rom.
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Well, when you do a wipe from twrp, it is just removing all the files using a delete operation, which you can also do yourself.
The part of your question that seemed pertinent to me is you wanted TWRP to see your ROM file, which is the same question one would have if they asked how do I install a ROM.

sfetaz said:
This is what I mean. My virtual SD Card (data/media) is bloated with files I want to get rid of. So I wanted to wipe internal storage to clear all files and reinstall a rom. Using ADB or USB-OTG as iamezio says, I can transfer a rom zip back to the internal storage after wiping it to be able to install a rom. When I first made this post I wasn't sure how to do this.
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twrp will wipe you internal storage with that option you saw in advanced settings. i actually did that one day by mistake and had to sideload the files to get back up and running. if that's what you are ready for, then go for it, it'll do it...

[Q] Bricked Ascend P6-U06

Hello there,
I made the mistake of wiping the internal storage using TWRP.
I am unable to enter recovery mode with the button hold options (tried all variations). The only way I was able to get into TWRP was adb reboot recovery. adb connection is now gone and the phone is stuck at the boot screen.
I can get a fastboot connection and the bootloader is unlocked. So I flashed the boot partition with a stock boot.img and the recovery partition with a stock recovery.img (even though I can't enter the recovery partition).
the phone never gets past the boot logo. Is there a way to directly flash a system.img vie fastboot, so that the device can be used? I am kind of stuck here.. read several threads for the past 2-3 hours, tried to reinstall TWRP as recovery but cant boot into it, etc.
I downloaded the B510.zip and was wondering if there is a way to burn an .img out of that and flash the system partition. But maybe that doesn't make sense at all.
Any help is greatly appreciated

update
Alright then, I managed to boot into TWRP!! a previous version worked.
it shows: Custom storage (498MB), Internal Storage (0MB), External Storage (0MB)
i am now proceding to install the zipped 510 rom from huawei. unfortunately i must have lost my microSD so i am lefti with sideload and otg.
sideload doesn't work because i can't find my device with adb. only fastboot seems to work, i dont know the reason but i understand its normal for my situation.
i only have an unpowered otg cable. from what i read that won't work, but I'm giving it a try and currently load the zip on a usb flashdrive.
do i understand correctly that the overall storage just appears to be 498MB? my partition table must be fairly messed up if that is the case. are there other partitions not shown by TWRP?
what do you recommend besides/instead of getting a microsd?
kind regards

update #2
I managed to mount the internal storage as mtp and copied the zip into the pictures folder, because i had no writing permission for the parent dir.
i tried to install, but the first time i got an error that cache could not be mounted. i cleared the dalvik cache and retried.
this time i had another error message as you can see in the screenshot.
adb still does not work, so sideload is not an option. i can also mount the custom partition but it is just under 500mb while the rom zip is 7xx mb
any help would be greatly appreciated

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I managed to solve it. Installed the paranoid android rom from the pictures dir. it was under 500mb and worked fine.

eyevector said:
I managed to mount the internal storage as mtp and copied the zip into the pictures folder, because i had no writing permission for the parent dir.
i tried to install, but the first time i got an error that cache could not be mounted. i cleared the dalvik cache and retried.
this time i had another error message as you can see in the screenshot.
adb still does not work, so sideload is not an option. i can also mount the custom partition but it is just under 500mb while the rom zip is 7xx mb
any help would be greatly appreciated
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You cant install Huawei Firmware with TWRP! Only Repacked / Custom Roms.

thank you
RabbidZ said:
You cant install Huawei Firmware with TWRP! Only Repacked / Custom Roms.
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so that is the reason why the paranoidandroid worked in the end.
cheers

Wiped T310, no OS, unable to mount internal SD

Prior to today, I had not installed TWRP or rooted my T310 device. I believed I followed the instructions to root my device correctly (found here). Going through TWRP, I rebooted the system to install the Superuser package. I then rebooted the system, loaded up TWRP, and began to do a system wipe (followed instructions found here) to prep the flash of the rom and gapps.
I selected the following partitions to wipe: Dalvik cache, system, data and data. The instructions werent clear, so I checked both 'data' boxes.
After the wipe executed, I went to flash the rom and GAPPS I loaded to the internal sd card aaaaand... there were no .zip files. Crap. I went to reboot TWRP and it alerted me that my device does not appear to be rooted. Double crap. Not panicking, I went to mount and tried to see if I could mount the internet SD card to my device. Nothing. Windows now shows a 'Samsung_Android' device but it is listed under 'unspecified'. Reloading the drivers have done no good.
I'm guessing SuperUSer was never installed correctly *or* I did something during the reset.
I, of course, did not perform a backup prior to all of these. I have rooted my devices multiple times and it was always a breeze so why backup now? Weell...
So now I'm sitting here with a nonSU device, with no OS, no backup, and I'm unable to connect my device to Windows. Outside of loading a rom from an external SD Card, what options do I have?

jaredmac11 said:
Prior to today, I had not installed TWRP or rooted my T310 device. I believed I followed the instructions to root my device correctly (found here). Going through TWRP, I rebooted the system to install the Superuser package. I then rebooted the system, loaded up TWRP, and began to do a system wipe (followed instructions found here) to prep the flash of the rom and gapps.
I selected the following partitions to wipe: Dalvik cache, system, data and data. The instructions werent clear, so I checked both 'data' boxes.
After the wipe executed, I went to flash the rom and GAPPS I loaded to the internal sd card aaaaand... there were no .zip files. Crap. I went to reboot TWRP and it alerted me that my device does not appear to be rooted. Double crap. Not panicking, I went to mount and tried to see if I could mount the internet SD card to my device. Nothing. Windows now shows a 'Samsung_Android' device but it is listed under 'unspecified'. Reloading the drivers have done no good.
I'm guessing SuperUSer was never installed correctly *or* I did something during the reset.
I, of course, did not perform a backup prior to all of these. I have rooted my devices multiple times and it was always a breeze so why backup now? Weell...
So now I'm sitting here with a nonSU device, with no OS, no backup, and I'm unable to connect my device to Windows. Outside of loading a rom from an external SD Card, what options do I have?
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You can either download the whole firmware and use Odin to flash or get adb setup and push a rom zip to the internal card using adb.
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hi,
you will need a microsd card 32gb and properly formatted that comes with a card reader for your pc.
download your rom and get it onto the card, insert the card into your device
boot to twrp, and flash,
now, if twrp still spits the no os message at you, which is an issue with twrp,
you next need to go to your wipe options, select advanced and do a full data format/wipe,
NOT SYSTEM, DATA. meaning /data and /data/media. when that completes you should be sorted
but expect your initial boot of the new rom to take a little longer.
never wipe system with twrp. the rom's updater-script will manage that function.
m

Thank you both. I lost my SD cards and card reader in a move so while that orders, I will attempt to utilize ADB. I'm pretty green but I'm certain there are guides out there..

moonbutt74 said:
hi,
you will need a microsd card 32gb and properly formatted that comes with a card reader for your pc.
download your rom and get it onto the card, insert the card into your device
boot to twrp, and flash,
now, if twrp still spits the no os message at you, which is an issue with twrp,
you next need to go to your wipe options, select advanced and do a full data format/wipe,
NOT SYSTEM, DATA. meaning /data and /data/media. when that completes you should be sorted
but expect your initial boot of the new rom to take a little longer.
never wipe system with twrp. the rom's updater-script will manage that function.
m
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I'm having a hell of a time getting the rom to install from the SD card. I believe I am not formatting the card correctly. Is there a guide on how to do so? I have a primary partition in SD in FAT32 and the other partition as EXT4 but no luck. Any help is appreciated.

jaredmac11 said:
I'm having a hell of a time getting the rom to install from the SD card. I believe I am not formatting the card correctly. Is there a guide on how to do so? I have a primary partition in SD in FAT32 and the other partition as EXT4 but no luck. Any help is appreciated.
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hi,
your external sdcard should be formatted as single partition fat32 unaligned,
if you running windows, use bootice, look it up
On linux , gparted may give you issues, if so, on debian at least there is another better utility
though the name escapes me at the moment, disk manager i think.
m

moonbutt74 said:
hi,
your external sdcard should be formatted as single partition fat32 unaligned,
if you running windows, use bootice, look it up
On linux , gparted may give you issues, if so, on debian at least there is another better utility
though the name escapes me at the moment, disk manager i think.
m
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Well I was able to find a good stock firmware download, flashed that via Odin and I'm back to square 1. I am going to forego the external SD route. Perhaps too technical for me or some other hang up is abound but I am leaving that method alone for now. Thank you for your help : )

can transfer files from Android phone to OP3 in twrp rovery?

My OP3 unlocked and TWRP flashed , internal storage formated to f2fs, when I tried to connect with PC not connected, adb devices - no response. Unable to connect with computer. No files in internal storage, Any other way to transfer files to internal memory?
OTG also not working.

You should be able to transfer files to the device with TWRP booted. It's how I clean flash my device. I booted into TWRP, wipe everything, reboot the device back into TWRP, then transfer the fresh files and flash.
I'm also pretty sure internal storage isn't one of the partitions you should format to f2fs. Last time I heard it's only data and cache you should do it for.

drmuruga said:
My OP3 unlocked and TWRP flashed , internal storage formated to f2fs, when I tried to connect with PC not connected, adb devices - no response. Unable to connect with computer. No files in internal storage, Any other way to transfer files to internal memory?
OTG also not working.
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Try connecting the phone in bootloader mode.
If your phone is identified, you can flash recovery once again and proceed further.
Another option if phone is connected in fastboot would be to flash the image files with fastboot flash *** commands
As the previous poster said, internal storage would not be in f2fs. This is just a wild guess, but may be this is the reason it is not showing in windows? if you do not have anything stored, perhaps you can change the file system back to ext4 and check ?
Updating the drivers might also help....

pvramk said:
Try connecting the phone in bootloader mode.
If your phone is identified, you can flash recovery once again and proceed further.
Another option if phone is connected in fastboot would be to flash the image files with fastboot flash *** commands
As the previous poster said, internal storage would not be in f2fs. This is just a wild guess, but may be this is the reason it is not showing in windows? if you do not have anything stored, perhaps you can change the file system back to ext4 and check ?
Updating the drivers might also help....
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Thank you so much. I will do as your post.

drmuruga said:
My OP3 unlocked and TWRP flashed , internal storage formated to f2fs, when I tried to connect with PC not connected, adb devices - no response. Unable to connect with computer. No files in internal storage, Any other way to transfer files to internal memory?
OTG also not working.
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Also did you mount the partition and enable mtp within TWRP?

drmuruga said:
My OP3 unlocked and TWRP flashed , internal storage formated to f2fs, when I tried to connect with PC not connected, adb devices - no response. Unable to connect with computer. No files in internal storage, Any other way to transfer files to internal memory?
OTG also not working.
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Are the Adb drivers properly installed on your pc. If not than just search the threads for one plus drivers and then try to connect through ADB.
Do you have USB OTG cable.. You can connect that to device and transfer the files using TWRP file manager in Advanced options.

I just connected my op3 via USB cable and then adapter and to my Nexus 6 then I transferred files from there. No computer needed.

Bootloop After Automatic MIUI Update

Hello all,
My problem is with a ginkgo device. I have unlocked the bootloader, have installed TWRP 3.3.1.0, and have rooted with Magisk a couple months ago. I was using MIUI.
Until now, monthly security patches would be downloaded automatically and installed whenever I rebooted, without any problem. It is different this time, however: An update (May security patch, I guess) was downloaded (automatically) a couple weeks ago. I haven't rebooted the device, ignoring the notification telling me to reboot.
When I finally rebooted today, the device booted into TWRP recovery. I tried exiting by holding the power button, or rebooting into fastboot or rebooting system etc. from the menu. No matter how I exited TWRP, it always booted to TWRP again.
I found the downloaded update ROM in a folder named downloaded_rom in my "home directory" (directory that shows when USB is connected). I thought of flashing it using TWRP though I refrained from doing so, thinking that it may be corrupted.
So, what should I do now? Why do you think this happened suddenly? Is there a method of recovery without losing data, if there is any?
Any help is greatly appreciated!

ktezoren said:
So, what should I do now? Why do you think this happened suddenly? Is there a method of recovery without losing data, if there is any?
Any help is greatly appreciated!
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First boot to twrp
copy your internal storage to PC or SD card...
then in twrp > wipe > format data (don't go to advanced) > type yes (it'll format your internal storage so take backup as recommended)..reboot system.

the_weird_aquarian said:
First boot to twrp
copy your internal storage to PC or SD card...
then in twrp > wipe > format data (don't go to advanced) > type yes (it'll format your internal storage so take backup as recommended)..reboot system.
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Thank you for your help! I later decided just to do a full wipe and installed another rom altogether.