So here's the situation. My sister has a Galaxy S2 which is rooted and has CM11 Carbon rom on it. She's been using it for months now without problems. One day she comes to me and says that her songs are gone so I open up the storage to see whats up. Apparently, the storage wasn't showing up in the settings and it only had an option to format internal storage. I checked with a file manager and it also turned out to be just like an empty folder. Tried to connect it to the pc but it also just shows the external SD card and not even recovery works, returns the can't mount message. I figured the storage is not dead but rather not being mounted as the system and app storage, and the phone itself, are working fine, since those should also be taken from internal memory? So my question is, what's going on? How can I recover the files from it?
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for some reason when my phone boots up i get a "blank internal storage" message and when i click on it it says "Format internal storage, erasing all files stored there? Action cannon be reversed!"
It started coming up after i installed the 211 ota manually through recovery. I'm afraid to hit the format option because idk if it will erase something that will screw the phone up. I don't have anything saved on the internal memory since i got into a fastboot failure last night and got everything totally wiped aside from the external SD card. I tried doing a factory reset and cleaning cache but the message still appears. If i go into "my files" and click on internal storage it says "Internal phone storage is Unmounted. Mount Internal phone storage to read files."
How could it be unmounted and how can i re-mount it? If i remember correctly, it has that option in safestrap but i only have the stock recovery right now and it cant do that. So do i need to install safestrap and give it a shot?
edit: i just decided to take the chance and format internal storage and now its working as well as my gallery no longer says its in mass storage mode when its not plugged in haha. I guess they were tied together.
At some point in the recent past, I started seeing only the SD card whenever I connected my phone for USB mass storage.
I thought it was just a fluke or messed up PC drivers or something, but now it looks like my internal srtorage is straight up gone.
I've re-flashed CM10 and have even rolled back to an older build, but it's still gone. All my music was on it, and the music is nowhere to be found.
It's gone even when I mount USB storage from within CWM recovery.
Apparently there is "internal storage" field in the Storage section of Settings (other than the one for apps), but it just says 10.69GB free of 10.69GB.
I went into Root Explorer to look for the /mnt/emmc directory; it's just gone. No trace.
How did I manage to screw this up?
EDIT: Apparently a nandroid backup still successfully wrote to the internal storage. It just doesn't seem to want to mount in the OS or when connected as mass storage...
Hello,
I recently rooted/flashed cwm onto my galaxy tab 10.1. I have also loaded the most recent CM 10.1. Everything is running fine, but i am having issues accessing some of the files on my internal storage. When i plug into the computer via USB and mount it as MTP it only shows internal storage folder. When i go into that it displays a new interal storage, with empty files. The problem is, it shows that half of my storage is being used up, although when i go into the files, it is nearly empty.
I believe when i flashed this new rom, it created a new partition. I know these files are still on the device it self, i can boot into clockwork mod and if i select "install from zip" it brings me to all of my previous files i had on the internal storage. From that area, i can go into the 0/folder and the contents of that file is what i see when trying to access my internal storage. Since i am in recovery, theres not much i can do with the files other than verify that they still are hiding on my SD card. I have tried multiple file browsers and connecting to several PCs, but none can get me into the parent folder of the 0/folder.
Any help is appreciated. I would really love to be able to access my full internal storage, as i have pictures and videos i can remove to free up space.
Hello world!
A very strange issue have just happen with my Lenovo phone. The SD card suddenly became unrecognized, only by some of the apps. the card itself is OK (PC tested, and the problems occurs with any card), listed properly under "storage" menu, and accessible by files explorer. But, when i open the camera or photo gallery - i recieve the message that "no SD storage". The strangest fact is, thar on the background of this message in the gallery, it shows up thumbs of images stored in the card...
Phone's internal memory has been repartitioned with METEOS app, to disable internal SD and increase internal memory, but everything was fine a long time until now.
I tried to recover the initial state of the phone. Did full format by Flash-Tool, the loaded on it an official chinese stock-rom, in order to recover its initial internal memory partitioning.
Then I upgraded it to CWM recovery and my previous custom ROM (Lambda) and everithing was OK, even the SD was detected. But then, when I tried to make repartition with METEOS app (after which i had to modify the actual code lines in Void.fstab, as instructed after METEOS using), BOOM! again the is'nt recognized only by camera and galley!
What could have happen? everithing worked fine more than a year
Update:
I have found that, though the SD is mounted in vold.fstab to "Storage", in the mnt folder it is still listed under Storage2.
How could that be?
So a while ago I noticed that when I do a factory reset on my phone, the apps that I HAVE INSTALLED remain installed. Even if I delete them I don't have access to the rest of the memory, I have about 2,4GB free of 4GB. (Note: The phone has and 8GB internal storage, and before I encountered this problem I had access to the 4GB)
Now for the other part. When I connect my phone to my PC, it should show 2 drives well mine doesn't show the second one anymore (which is the internal storage) just the SD one. If I remove the SD and plug my phone back into my PC, it shows the Partition of the internal memory, called G:, but I get this error message, G:/ Is not accessible. Incorrect function. .
I've tried to format it but it doesn't work. Any other ideas would be appreciated.