Booted into recovery and made a nandroid. Then while still in twrp, flashed saberkernel.
Every time I boot my phone it says "safe to remove SD" or whatever. I've tried putting it in an adapter and plugging it into my computer but windows won't even recognize it. At least OSX says it's unable to recognize it and asks if I want to format it.
If I boot into recovery with the SD in the phone, it shows all the directories, but going into folders shows nothing. I had 3 nandroids in the twrp folder but if I browse to that in recovery, there's nothing there.
Is there a way to save my camera pictures and nandroids and everything else or am I basically going to have to reformat and lose everything?:crying:
E30Nova said:
Booted into recovery and made a nandroid. Then while still in twrp, flashed saberkernel.
Every time I boot my phone it says "safe to remove SD" or whatever. I've tried putting it in an adapter and plugging it into my computer but windows won't even recognize it. At least OSX says it's unable to recognize it and asks if I want to format it.
If I boot into recovery with the SD in the phone, it shows all the directories, but going into folders shows nothing. I had 3 nandroids in the twrp folder but if I browse to that in recovery, there's nothing there.
Is there a way to save my camera pictures and nandroids and everything else or am I basically going to have to reformat and lose everything?:crying:
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Same thing just happened to me. Lost a new 32gb SD card. Not good. :crying:
This happen to me last week. I was not rooted at the time so I called verizon and they sent me out a new phone
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So I'm using the USB mass storage to copy my files and such then I accidentally pulled out the USB cable without safety and pressing the 'turn off USB storage'. Then something weird happen. Some of my apps I just installed like 5-10 mins earlier missing. Then I thought I just download it back.
The next day I took a picture its like 20 of it and I watch them in gallery. Then my phone switch off and I turn it back on. All my apps and photos I just took 5 mins earlier is gone. Only the apps and photos I took before the accident happen were still there. Than I thought now I need to format my SD card to fix this.
So I cut all my stuff again to pc via USB storage. Then I go to cwm recovery and wipe all data. Then I try rebooting my phone but then all my apps and stuff are still there like normal its not supposed to be like that because I just formatted my SD card 1 min ago.
Then I try formatting my SC card again in the cmw recovery and I noticed after I choose wipe data factory reset it said failed, error or something like that and said SD card not mount. I've try formatting it in so many ways via PC, and in the settings>privacy but it just that my SD card can't be formatted.
Please help me, and I'm using Mik cm7 rom btw
your sdcard might be corrupted. are you using the sdcard that came with the phone?
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No I'm using a new 8gb memory card that I bought separately from the market
use amon ra recovery to format it, or try via adb (u can google for how to)
Any other way?
I'm trying to get files (my photos mostly) off the internal storage of my Vibrant. I don't care about getting the Vibrant working again, just getting my files off it. I can get into recovery mode, but mounting usb storage *does not work*, even tried unplugging and replugging the phone but no dice. I can install zips from the sd card (though it takes 5x longer than normal) but any ROM I install, stock, cyanogen, slim, etc. won't actually finish booting.
Because USB mounting doesn't work, I'd like to use CWM to copy all the files on the internal storage to the sd card. Then I can put the sd in another computer and get the files off. In CWM I can do a backup to sd, but that doesn't backup photos, just the rom. Is there a way to generally copy files from internal to the sd using CWM?
Also, the entire time I'm in recovery mode my PC makes the sound for a usb device being connected and then disconnected, assume that has something to do with the Vibrant being generally busted.
In summary:
Trying to recover files from vibrant phone storage
Can't boot any regular ROM
Can get into CWM recovery
USB mount in CWM recovery *does not work*
Can install zip from sd card
Can backup to sd card
Have a spare working vibrant for charging battery
Any ideas?
Okay I'll see if I can help any. First of all, can you successfully use Odin to return to stock firmware? Have you even attempted using Odin?
Can try using recuva or there is another one too but the XDA search is missing right now. Moped_Ryder usually recommends that one that I can't remember right now, but once the search button is back, I'll let you know what it is. Works like a charm. Droid recover or Droid Files, ahh I can't think of it but there is a solution on here somewhere.
Try a program called Android Commander.
Ive transferred files in CWM with it all the time.
Agreed with android commander. It has always worked for me. There are other solutions too with these new kernels these days. You can download Devil kernel or subzero via PC(They both include new file manager in recovery).Put it on your external card, flash, reboot back into recovery. Mount your internal and external cards from mounts and storage menu. Go to file manager and copy/paste away.
So I was in the bootloader to update the firmware when, quite literally, my finger slipped and initiated a factory reset. It never even asked for confirmation! So when the phone booted back up, the internal SD card contents were gone. Photos and all.
I've accidentally erased an sd card on a pc years ago and there was a program to recover all erased files. Is there a way I can do this with the phone?
Thx
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So I was in the bootloader to update the firmware when, quite literally, my finger slipped and initiated a factory reset. It never even asked for confirmation! So when the phone booted back up, the internal SD card contents were gone. Photos and all.
I've accidentally erased an sd card on a pc years ago and there was a program to recover all erased files. Is there a way I can do this with the phone?
Thx
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Tried Hexacomb, but it doesn't see sdcard0.
It appears that sdcard0 is not mounting. It doesn't show up when I do "busybox mount".
Anyone know how to make it work?
It would be sdcard_ext I think, or something similar. But if you wiped it from the bootloader, I'm pretty sure its done... I did something similar with recovery. I manually rebooted into the stock HTC recovery and it did a full wipe without me even realizing it :banghead:
Edit: Or sdcard2. Not entirely sure but since the internal storage is also read as an sdcard by a file manager it'll be listed as the main sd card.
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Would that make it not mount at all? Its just not even showing up anywhere. Everything else on the phone still works...
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Sorry man, but it's game over, you will have to start from scratch, don't forget to format your card
Okay, this is quite a long story, so I apologise in advance.
I decided to update my Galaxy S2 today to a newer ROM (SuperNexus 2) with the latest version of Android. I was coming from a CM9 build. I went through the usual process of backing up data and performing a full NANDROID backup via CWM Recovery, booted the phone again and transferred the backups to my PC via USB. These files transferred fine.
I then downloaded the zip files for the new ROM and proceeded to copy them to the internal storage of my phone. The copy dialog in Windows said that it was "discovering items" and stayed like this until I turned off USB transfer mode on the phone and removed it (ie. the files failed to copy) This happened a number of times and I didn't get anywhere. I have plenty of space free on the SD card, but just to make sure I started the phone in CWM again and formatted the SD card, and since I was going to do it anyway, the data and cache partitions too. When I booted the phone again, the files still wouldn't copy. I managed to copy a text file to the phone which was about 32kb but anything larger just seemed to fail.
I then went back into CWM and decided to partition the SD card, as I thought that it may have been corrupted somehow and needed to rebuild the filesystem. This however, caused even more problems as trying to format the SD card (In CWM) now just reported "Error, can not mount E:/sdcard".
Feeling fairly frustrated, I decided to download the Stock ICS ROM for the Galaxy S2 and install it via Odin, thinking that the problem was probably with CWM. The install went fine, but upon reboot the phone just stayed on the boot animation, no matter how long I left it. To make sure the install went smoothly I decided to try and reinstall the Stock ROM via Odin again, but now Odin didnt seem to get past the "Initializing.." stage.
So all in all, I now have a phone which wont boot into Android, cant copy anything to internal storage, and Odin wont seem to connect to.
I am convinced this is a software issue and therefore fixable. But maybe the internal storage was not working correctly in the first place. I have installed many ROMs before and never had such issues.
Anyone know anything about this or how I could potentially fix it? Thanks so much in advance!
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Okay, this is quite a long story, so I apologise in advance.
I decided to update my Galaxy S2 today to a newer ROM (SuperNexus 2) with the latest version of Android. I was coming from a CM9 build. I went through the usual process of backing up data and performing a full NANDROID backup via CWM Recovery, booted the phone again and transferred the backups to my PC via USB. These files transferred fine.
I then downloaded the zip files for the new ROM and proceeded to copy them to the internal storage of my phone. The copy dialog in Windows said that it was "discovering items" and stayed like this until I turned off USB transfer mode on the phone and removed it (ie. the files failed to copy) This happened a number of times and I didn't get anywhere. I have plenty of space free on the SD card, but just to make sure I started the phone in CWM again and formatted the SD card, and since I was going to do it anyway, the data and cache partitions too. When I booted the phone again, the files still wouldn't copy. I managed to copy a text file to the phone which was about 32kb but anything larger just seemed to fail.
I then went back into CWM and decided to partition the SD card, as I thought that it may have been corrupted somehow and needed to rebuild the filesystem. This however, caused even more problems as trying to format the SD card (In CWM) now just reported "Error, can not mount E:/sdcard".
Feeling fairly frustrated, I decided to download the Stock ICS ROM for the Galaxy S2 and install it via Odin, thinking that the problem was probably with CWM. The install went fine, but upon reboot the phone just stayed on the boot animation, no matter how long I left it. To make sure the install went smoothly I decided to try and reinstall the Stock ROM via Odin again, but now Odin didnt seem to get past the "Initializing.." stage.
So all in all, I now have a phone which wont boot into Android, cant copy anything to internal storage, and Odin wont seem to connect to.
I am convinced this is a software issue and therefore fixable. But maybe the internal storage was not working correctly in the first place. I have installed many ROMs before and never had such issues.
Anyone know anything about this or how I could potentially fix it? Thanks so much in advance!
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I9100?
Can get to DL mode?
Can get to recovery?
Get an older Odin version and flash siyah just to see if it can be flashed again.
If you can get to recovery, Nuke Script is the way to go.
It sounds to me that maybe your memory is corrupt...
Not just yet, smells like soft brick.
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Ok, without getting into the cascading series of screwiness along the way, I think I've managed to effectively brick my phone. I'm posting in hopes that the part of my brain screaming "No, you're missing something" is right.
e970, already rooted, running CyanogenMod 10.1 and TWRP 2.6.3.0. In pursuit of a "clean slate" to deal with remnants of sloppy uninstallations, I thought I'd clear everything with TWRP and just put CM back. So, I pulled out my SD card with my saved data, and had TWRP wipe everything, including the CM zip on the root of the built-in storage. I copied the newer CM and GAPPS to a spare SD card, plugged it in...
and I found the external SD card wasn't recognized by TWRP. There's only 1 storage location listed, which is the built-in area I just wiped.
I can't get the phone to be recognized by a desktop running Windows 8.1. I have freshly installed the drivers, downloaded the SDK, rebooted, etc. from that side. The phone is never recognized by either Windows or ADB. So, I dug out the laptop I originally installed CM from some time back (last year?). Same story - no Windows or ADB recognition.
Ok, fine - maybe the USB port is dying on me. I'll try formatting the SD card and see if that's the issue. FAT32, copy the files back, still no luck. Great. Maybe it's the card, so I copy my data and put the zips on the original card I had in the phone. Still no dice.
So, here I am. No OS installed, no image on the internal drive to recover from, TWRP won't recognize my external card(s), and I can't get anything to acknowledge the phone via USB to do a sideload.
Am I missing something, or did I completely hose myself?
I forgot to mention: I did try different cables and ports on both computers before arriving at the idea the e970 USB port may have having issues.
Have you tried a different SD card?
SD card have a finite lifespan, and I've seen them fail n the middle of normal use. The first thing I'd try would be a different SD.
If that doesn't work, you may have to just LGPNST back to bone stock.
(You may want to play with the "Partition SD Card" option under "Advanced" in TWRP. It'll wipe any data on the card so back up to your computer first, but this may kick the SD card into being recognized by the phone [though I dont know how windows would react to it])
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Have you tried a different SD card?
SD card have a finite lifespan, and I've seen them fail n the middle of normal use. The first thing I'd try would be a different SD.
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I did, in fact. I tried it on a spare first, so I didn't have to worry about erasing the data on the SD card I pulled out of the phone. When that failed, I tried copying the zips onto my original card, which was also not picked up. I've found other posts on here that suggest this particular version of TWRP had issues reading external cards, but I don't see any way to get a different one on the phone at this point.
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(You may want to play with the "Partition SD Card" option under "Advanced" in TWRP. It'll wipe any data on the card so back up to your computer first, but this may kick the SD card into being recognized by the phone [though I dont know how windows would react to it])
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I might be missing the mark here, but wouldn't this format the already-empty internal storage (since it's the one selected) rather than the external card?
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I did, in fact. I tried it on a spare first, so I didn't have to worry about erasing the data on the SD card I pulled out of the phone. When that failed, I tried copying the zips onto my original card, which was also not picked up. I've found other posts on here that suggest this particular version of TWRP had issues reading external cards, but I don't see any way to get a different one on the phone at this point.
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If you can boot the phone into fastboot (should be VOL UP + Power), you should be able to flash the recover that way with:
fastboot flash recovery <name of recovery>.img
You'll need to get the .img instead of a flashable zip obviously, but that can be done even by grabbing the "recovery.img" file from a flashable recovery zip.
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I might be missing the mark here, but wouldn't this format the already-empty internal storage (since it's the one selected) rather than the external card?
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I've honestly not messed with this option; I just know I've solved similar problems with flash drives in the past by formatting in different ways.
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If you can boot the phone into fastboot (should be VOL UP + Power), you should be able to flash the recover that way with:
fastboot flash recovery <name of recovery>.img
You'll need to get the .img instead of a flashable zip obviously, but that can be done even by grabbing the "recovery.img" file from a flashable recovery zip.
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How is he going to do that? He can't get a PC to recognize the phone.
Maybe try a Linux box? You could make an Ubuntu live USB stick with some extra storage space on it, and try running adb from there.
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How is he going to do that? He can't get a PC to recognize the phone.
Maybe try a Linux box? You could make an Ubuntu live USB stick with some extra storage space on it, and try running adb from there.
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There's a thought... I think I have a Knoppix disk around here that I could boot from. I don't have high hopes, since it's not being recognized by the laptop I did this on originally, but I'll give anything a shot at this point. I'll let you know how it goes.
No dice. ADB gives me the same response whether the phone is at the fastboot screen or the sideload inside TWRP.
[email protected]:~/Documents/android-sdk-linux/platform-tools$ ./adb start-server
[email protected]:~/Documents/android-sdk-linux/platform-tools$ ./adb devices
List of devices attached
[email protected]:~/Documents/android-sdk-linux/platform-tools$
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(You may want to play with the "Partition SD Card" option under "Advanced" in TWRP. It'll wipe any data on the card so back up to your computer first, but this may kick the SD card into being recognized by the phone [though I dont know how windows would react to it])
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I tried this but didn't have any luck. It looks like it is trying to hit the external card, but still isn't recognizing it.
E: Unknown File System: 'datamedia'
Updatition partition details...
Partitioning SD Card...
E: Unable to locate device to partition.
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Check ALL your cords
Another update. After presuming me e970 dead, going to Best Buy to shop for an AT&T Next upgrade, running the HTC One m8 for a couple days, I get a wild hair to try the HTC cord on the old phone. Oddly enough, it works and the phone was picked up immediately. I've already pushed CM over via adb, and and working on gapps now.
Apparently both of the cords I tried previously weren't up to spec for smartphone use. I'm going to have to come up with a labelling system on what's good for trickle charges and what's good for data.
I'm not sure what a return will do to my upgrade status, but I'd rather wait on a new phone. It even looks like I know what I'll get. Thanks for the ideas along the way.
Nice, glad you found a solution. Unless things have changed with the new plans, you should be OK to return the phone within 14 days and keep your upgrade.
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