Internal SD Is Now Broken after Going to Lollipop. Need Advice. - Huawei Ascend Mate 2

I was able to install lollipop on my phone. But I couldn't get root. I lost some information. So I went back to my backup 4.3 within TWRP and that's when it all went to ****. HWuserdata can't be mounted and sometimes internal_sd can't be mounted either.
What I can do:
-Install new roms
-Install backups [restore them]
-Access to adb
-Can push out img through through adb/fastboot
What I can't do:
-with all of the above, the internal sd doesn't mount in ANY of the roms [both 4.3 and 5.1]
-Can't remove /hwuserdata in TWRP
-Can't remove /internal_sd in TWRP [Error message: E: Unable to mount '/internal_sd']
More Error Messages:
E: Block device not present, cannot wipe internal storage.
E: Unknown MTP message type: 1
E: Unable to wipe 'internal_sd'
Updating partition details...
E: Update to mount 'internal_sd'
Available Partitions as in the Wape menu within TWRP 2.8.7.1
-Dalvik Cache
-Cache
-data
-Internal Storage 11975MB
-System
-Custom Storage
-Internal Storage 0MB [There is actually two of these partition.]
-External Storage
-USB OTG
My best guess is delete the internal sd some how. And/or remove /hwuserdata as well. Or completely return it to stock. Then install 4.3, install TWRP 2.8.7.1, install 5.1, and finally install root. I can't find the img file to push out through adb in "Fastboot&Rescue Mode".
Can someone point me to stock img? This didn't fix my issue within TWRP. I tried installing "MT2L03_B148_Stock_ROM.zip" within TWRP.
All advice would greatly be appreciated.
Thanks!
UPDATE 7/2:
sdcard0 / internal_sd is still broken after applying the downgrade and the b309 rom. Does anyone have the stock rom in an img file format?

Download the public preview of B309 from the blog.
Install it as instructed in the blog post. (You will lose your data, so backup.)
To root and get TWRP, do the below.
Credit to Foltz61.
1. Boot to bootloader.
2. Fastboot boot TWRP-L.img
3. Install supersu-2.49.zip (even though I didn't lose root)
4. Reboot back to system.
5. Reboot back to bootloader.
6. fastboot flash recovery TWRP-L.img.
7. fastboot reboot.
8. Boot to recovery and had TWRP

Thanks for the reply. But I am still stuck with a broken sdcard0 / internal_sd partition. Does anyone have a stock rom in an img file format? Applying the B309.zip and downgrading to 4.3 provided by Huawei still hasn't fixed my problem.

Oh my God...... Which version of TWRP did you use when you restored using your 4.3 backup???
Please, tell me you did not use TWRP 2.8.7.1-L or 2.8.7.0-L for that matter???

in current state, maybe you can try use parted to print your current partition table, and paste here
adb within twrp, it has parted builtin, under OS, you need install the binary.
parted /dev/blk/mmcblk0
unit b
print

I'm posting here for public view.
DO NOT USE TWRP-L IF YOU ARE ON JELLYBEAN 4.3. IT IS MEANT ONLY FOR LOLLIPOP.

SHM said:
I'm posting here for public view.
DO NOT USE TWRP-L IF YOU ARE ON JELLYBEAN 4.3. IT IS MEANT ONLY FOR LOLLIPOP.
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I installed 4.3 with the huawei files and went over to 5.1. I am not sure if I am in the clear yet. I have a "emulated 0" partition for my sdcard0/internal_sd. When I open ES file browser, it says "no sdcard can be found". But I can write to this "emulated 0" partition. I am guessing this is still broken? I am on TWRP 2.8.7.0 with 5.1.

lowao said:
I installed 4.3 with the huawei files and went over to 5.1. I am not sure if I am in the clear yet. I have a "emulated 0" partition for my sdcard0/internal_sd. When I open ES file browser, it says "no sdcard can be found". But I can write to this "emulated 0" partition. I am guessing this is still broken? I am on TWRP 2.8.7.0 with 5.1.
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Open terminal, type and enter, su, then type and enter, mount. Share with me what mount says.

That's the same as mine
lowao said:
I installed 4.3 with the huawei files and went over to 5.1. I am not sure if I am in the clear yet. I have a "emulated 0" partition for my sdcard0/internal_sd. When I open ES file browser, it says "no sdcard can be found". But I can write to this "emulated 0" partition. I am guessing this is still broken? I am on TWRP 2.8.7.0 with 5.1.
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The emulated 0 partition is the same as I have. That should be your internal memory.

robertbarber said:
The emulated 0 partition is the same as I have. That should be your internal memory.
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Still, to be sure he didn't screw something up since he did use TWRP-L while on 4.3 JellyBean, I still want to see what, mount, displays for him on his terminal.

Emulated partition
I'm using X-plore file manager and I'm not seeing internal_sd but rather getting the internal SD drive showing up under Root/Storage/Emulated/0
I've tried reverting back to 4.3 and associated TWRP, but X-plore still doesn't show internal_sd properly. I'm pretty sure it used to show it properly...or am I imagining it

CromDubh said:
I'm using X-plore file manager and I'm not seeing internal_sd but rather getting the internal SD drive showing up under Root/Storage/Emulated/0
I've tried reverting back to 4.3 and associated TWRP, but X-plore still doesn't show internal_sd properly. I'm pretty sure it used to show it properly...or am I imagining it
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On 4.3 yes, on 5.1 yes, but on 5.1 it's main location is /data/media/0
You can check by opening terminal and typing then entering, mount.

so as long as it accessible by going to /data/media/0 then its all okay, even though it doesn't show up as an actual drive under X-Plore?
Thanks for your time and help.

Terminal Emulator output
SHM said:
Open terminal, type and enter, su, then type and enter, mount. Share with me what mount says.
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Mine is also screwed up after the upgrade and I cannot get back to stock, nor can I get TWRP back. Yes, I've reflashed supersu etc. Here's my dump.
[email protected]:/ $ su
[email protected]:/ # mount
rootfs / rootfs ro,relatime 0 0
tmpfs /dev tmpfs rw,seclabel,nosuid,relatime,mode=755 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts rw,seclabel,relatime,mode=600 0 0
none /dev/frz cgroup rw,relatime,freezer 0 0
none /dev/cpuctl cgroup rw,relatime,cpu 0 0
proc /proc proc rw,relatime 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs rw,seclabel,relatime 0 0
selinuxfs /sys/fs/selinux selinuxfs rw,relatime 0 0
none /sys/fs/cgroup tmpfs rw,seclabel,relatime,mode=750,gid=1000 0 0
none /acct cgroup rw,relatime,cpuacct 0 0
tmpfs /mnt/asec tmpfs rw,seclabel,relatime,mode=755,gid=1000 0 0
tmpfs /mnt/obb tmpfs rw,seclabel,relatime,mode=755,gid=1000 0 0
/dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/system /system ext4 ro,seclabel,relatime,data=ordered 0 0
/dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/userdata /data ext4 rw,seclabel,nosuid,nodev,relatime,noauto_da_alloc,data=ordered 0 0
/dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/cache /cache ext4 rw,seclabel,nosuid,nodev,relatime,data=ordered 0 0
/dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/persist /persist ext4 rw,seclabel,nosuid,nodev,relatime,data=ordered 0 0
/dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/cust /cust ext4 ro,seclabel,relatime,data=ordered 0 0
/dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/modem /firmware vfat ro,context=ubject_r:firmware_file:s0,relatime,uid=1000,gid=1000,fmask=0337,dmask=0227,codepage=cp437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=lower,errors=remount-ro 0 0
/data/media /mnt/shell/emulated sdcardfs rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,uid=1023,gid=1023 0 0
tmpfs /storage/emulated tmpfs rw,seclabel,nosuid,nodev,relatime,mode=050,gid=1028 0 0
/dev/block/vold/179:65 /mnt/media_rw/sdcard1 vfat rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,uid=1023,gid=1023,fmask=0007,dmask=0007,allow_utime=0020,codepage=cp437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=mixed,utf8,errors=remount-ro 0 0
/dev/block/vold/179:65 /mnt/secure/asec vfat rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,uid=1023,gid=1023,fmask=0007,dmask=0007,allow_utime=0020,codepage=cp437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=mixed,utf8,errors=remount-ro 0 0
/dev/fuse /storage/sdcard1 fuse rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,user_id=1023,group_id=1023,default_permissions,allow_other 0 0
/data/media /storage/emulated/0 sdcardfs rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,uid=1023,gid=1023 0 0
/data/media /storage/emulated/0/Android/obb sdcardfs rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,uid=1023,gid=1023 0 0
/data/media /storage/emulated/0 sdcardfs rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,uid=1023,gid=1023 0 0
/data/media /storage/emulated/0/Android/obb sdcardfs rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,uid=1023,gid=1023 0 0
[email protected]:/ #

tomlogan1 said:
Mine is also screwed up after the upgrade and I cannot get back to stock, nor can I get TWRP back. Yes, I've reflashed supersu etc. Here's my dump.
[email protected]:/ $ su
[email protected]:/ # mount
rootfs / rootfs ro,relatime 0 0
tmpfs /dev tmpfs rw,seclabel,nosuid,relatime,mode=755 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts rw,seclabel,relatime,mode=600 0 0
none /dev/frz cgroup rw,relatime,freezer 0 0
none /dev/cpuctl cgroup rw,relatime,cpu 0 0
proc /proc proc rw,relatime 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs rw,seclabel,relatime 0 0
selinuxfs /sys/fs/selinux selinuxfs rw,relatime 0 0
none /sys/fs/cgroup tmpfs rw,seclabel,relatime,mode=750,gid=1000 0 0
none /acct cgroup rw,relatime,cpuacct 0 0
tmpfs /mnt/asec tmpfs rw,seclabel,relatime,mode=755,gid=1000 0 0
tmpfs /mnt/obb tmpfs rw,seclabel,relatime,mode=755,gid=1000 0 0
/dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/system /system ext4 ro,seclabel,relatime,data=ordered 0 0
/dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/userdata /data ext4 rw,seclabel,nosuid,nodev,relatime,noauto_da_alloc,data=ordered 0 0
/dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/cache /cache ext4 rw,seclabel,nosuid,nodev,relatime,data=ordered 0 0
/dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/persist /persist ext4 rw,seclabel,nosuid,nodev,relatime,data=ordered 0 0
/dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/cust /cust ext4 ro,seclabel,relatime,data=ordered 0 0
/dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/modem /firmware vfat ro,context=ubject_r:firmware_file:s0,relatime,uid=1000,gid=1000,fmask=0337,dmask=0227,codepage=cp437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=lower,errors=remount-ro 0 0
/data/media /mnt/shell/emulated sdcardfs rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,uid=1023,gid=1023 0 0
tmpfs /storage/emulated tmpfs rw,seclabel,nosuid,nodev,relatime,mode=050,gid=1028 0 0
/dev/block/vold/179:65 /mnt/media_rw/sdcard1 vfat rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,uid=1023,gid=1023,fmask=0007,dmask=0007,allow_utime=0020,codepage=cp437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=mixed,utf8,errors=remount-ro 0 0
/dev/block/vold/179:65 /mnt/secure/asec vfat rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,uid=1023,gid=1023,fmask=0007,dmask=0007,allow_utime=0020,codepage=cp437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=mixed,utf8,errors=remount-ro 0 0
/dev/fuse /storage/sdcard1 fuse rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,user_id=1023,group_id=1023,default_permissions,allow_other 0 0
/data/media /storage/emulated/0 sdcardfs rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,uid=1023,gid=1023 0 0
/data/media /storage/emulated/0/Android/obb sdcardfs rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,uid=1023,gid=1023 0 0
/data/media /storage/emulated/0 sdcardfs rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,uid=1023,gid=1023 0 0
/data/media /storage/emulated/0/Android/obb sdcardfs rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,uid=1023,gid=1023 0 0
[email protected]:/ #
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Define screwed up? Everything looks normal for your mount points.

Screwed up
SHM said:
Define screwed up? Everything looks normal for your mount points.
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Updated to 5.1 (was a beta tester). After the upgrade, root, but no TWRP. Tried numerous times to reflash TWRP-L but still the stock EMUI 3 persists. Have verified I can fastboot TWRP to restore previous backups and create new backups but cannot make TWRP permanent.
Have tried the reinstall of SuperSI 2.4x and all the steps multiple times with no success. Tried the Huawei downgrade to B148 and that fails as well.

Regarding trying to install TWRP, that is because of the 5.1 Rom. It checks to see if the recovery is stock. If it isn't then it will overwrite the custom recovery. TWRP has to be booted and system has to be mounted as read/write, not read only, in order for it to patch the Rom so TWRP will stick.
I can't help regarding the beta test Rom though. I was not a tester. So I cannot say specifically what changes there were between the beta Rom and official released Rom. Maybe @xordos, @kimtyson, @Iguanadon, @ScoobSTi or someone else can assist regarding your current dilemma.

tomlogan1 said:
Updated to 5.1 (was a beta tester). After the upgrade, root, but no TWRP. Tried numerous times to reflash TWRP-L but still the stock EMUI 3 persists. Have verified I can fastboot TWRP to restore previous backups and create new backups but cannot make TWRP permanent.
Have tried the reinstall of SuperSI 2.4x and all the steps multiple times with no success. Tried the Huawei downgrade to B148 and that fails as well.
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Try removing anything related to twrp on internal and/or external sd. Backup if needed. Then fastboot boot twrp. You should get the prompt about read/write.
Edit: remember to use 2.8.0 L
Sent from my MT2L03 using XDA Free mobile app

I am also new to the 5.1 fused internal storage. following is what I noticed.
/sdcard is soft link to /storage/emulated/legacy, which in turn is link to /storage/emulated/0, which again is link to /mnt/shell/emulated/0, which is the internal storage fused to /data: /data/media/0.
But some how ES file explorer can not handle it. In ESFileExplorer in my B309, it show /sdcard as a *file* with a tiny link icon, instead of others normal one (like /vendor) which showed as a *folder* with a tiny link. And every time, when I open ESFileExplorer, it also report error, "/sdcard can not find" something like that. I have to go to its settings page, Directory Settings, and set "Home Directory" to "/storage/emulated/0", then the error is gone. For me, I changed it to /storage/sdcard1, which is my external sdcard.
Another side notes, if sometime your app (that requires root) complains can not write to storage, goto SuperSU settings, and disable "Mount namespace separation", this may help resolve lots of problem.
These is more info from the command line, I can not tell the different between /sdcard and /vendor, but ESFileExplorer can not open /sdcard
(when run these "ls" as non-root user, the result is same)
Code:
[email protected]:/ # ls -l sdcard
ls -l sdcard
lrwxrwxrwx root root 1970-01-01 00:20 sdcard -> /storage/emulated/legacy
[email protected]:/ # ls -l vendor
ls -l vendor
lrwxrwxrwx root root 1970-01-01 00:20 vendor -> /system/vendor
[email protected]:/ # ls -l sdcard/
ls -l sdcard/
drwxrwx--- root sdcard_r 2008-12-31 18:48 Alarms
drwxrwx--x root sdcard_r 2015-07-03 03:36 Android
...
[email protected]:/ # ls -l vendor/
ls -l vendor/
drwxr-xr-x root shell 2015-06-24 13:09 etc
drwxr-xr-x root shell 2015-06-24 13:09 firmware
...
PS, Just realized in the phone setting-storage, I can set default storage to "External", then after that /sdcard become normal as it is not link to fused FS anymore:
Code:
[email protected]:/ # ls -l /sdcard
ls -l /sdcard
lrwxrwxrwx root root 1970-01-01 04:15 sdcard -> /storage/sdcard1
[email protected]:/ # ls -l /storage
ls -l /storage
dr-xr-xr-x root root 1970-01-01 04:15 emulated
lrwxrwxrwx root root 1970-01-01 04:15 sdcard0 -> /storage/emulated/0
drwxrwxr-x root sdcard_rw 2015-07-03 12:50 sdcard1
drwx------ root root 1970-01-01 04:15 uicc0
drwx------ root root 1970-01-01 04:15 usbotg

Why did I not have any problems booting into fastboot, flashing TWRP-L through fastboot, booting directly into TWRP, enabling the read/write dialog option, then flashing SuperSu? TWRP survives, root worked, etc
Couldn't have been a more standard way of going about it.
Also, I had a problem with my external SD card being read only after lollipop update, but I think I fixed it by going to settings and changing default storage to external sd card and rebooting. Now both internal and external can be written to.

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Stuck in a loop...

I'm running 2.03 and my browser started crashing so I did a reboot. Now I keep looping between the ViewSonic screen and gtablet screen. I've tried several restores through ClockWorkMod and it still doesn't work. I thought I could try to do the upgrade.zip off of a sd card but how do I get the system to recongize it and not the internal memory?
Stupid question : Have you done a user data wipe/system data wipe from CW?
If cw is not seeing the internal sd and the updates located on the internal sd are not working with full users data wipe, then a nvflash push from pc will have to be done to vanilla tnt, then do an update to get clockwork back, then tnt lite 2.0 with clockwork?
You might need to do a re-partition of your SD card (or rather, of the internal SD card memory) from clockwork mod. That has gotten other people out of a boot loop. This most likely has something to do with partitions getting corrupted, which seems to occasionally happen when you are flashing ROMs. You might want to search the forum for SD card partition and boot loop, I know several people have had the same issue.
There is also the APX mode as a backup mechanism if that fails. Search forum for that one too - it's basically a backup to the normal CW or other recovery that lets you flash a fresh ROM even if all else has failed. But I don't think you need to go there if your recovery is still working fine.
arrow21 said:
Stupid question : Have you done a user data wipe/system data wipe from CW?
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Yes, tried nearly everything I can in Clock and nothing changes the loop. I thought in the worst case you could always find a way to get the system back to it's original state but no luck so far.
another option is this
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=9439414&postcount=7
I have never done the partiton of my sdcard... so I guess that might work also.
arrow21 said:
another option is this
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=9439414&postcount=7
I have never done the partition of my sdcard... so I guess that might work also.
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HELP!!! I think my data partition just go hosed, all I tried to do was restore a backup since I was getting a lot of FC, all trying to access my data folder according to logcat....what do I do, will redoing the partition of my sdcard fix the errors below. How do I repartition and what settings do I use? I was trying to do the restore since I too got stuck in reboot loop. I have the logcat ouput if any dev is interested in seeing it.
Trying to restore backup in clockworkmod I get this:
ClockworkMod Recovery v2.5.1.1-bekit-0.8
Checking MD5 sums...
Erasing boot before restore
Restoring system...
Restoring data...
E:Can't mount /dev/block/mmcblk3p2
(Invalid argument)
Error mounting /data/!
Skipping format...
E:Can't mount /dev/block/mmcblk3p2
(Invalid argument)
Can't mount /data/!
rcgabriel said:
You might need to do a re-partition of your SD card (or rather, of the internal SD card memory) from clockwork mod. That has gotten other people out of a boot loop. This most likely has something to do with partitions getting corrupted, which seems to occasionally happen when you are flashing ROMs. You might want to search the forum for SD card partition and boot loop, I know several people have had the same issue.
There is also the APX mode as a backup mechanism if that fails. Search forum for that one too - it's basically a backup to the normal CW or other recovery that lets you flash a fresh ROM even if all else has failed. But I don't think you need to go there if your recovery is still working fine.
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rc, thanks for the help. Honestly partitioning is something I've never fully understood so I wasn't even sure how to do that. I went into CW and then advanced settings and chose to partition the sd card. The only problem is I didn't know what settings to use so I just used the first ones to pop up. After doing that I did a reboot and things worked fine.
I was going to go back and try a CW restore and see if I could get everything back but now it can't find the restore file. I assume that happened when I tried to reformat the card.
scmobileman said:
I was going to go back and try a CW restore and see if I could get everything back but now it can't find the restore file. I assume that happened when I tried to reformat the card.
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The restore files were are stored on the internal sdcard, so when you formatted, you wiped them out...is my guess. You could have used adb to save them off before hand and then put them back after format.
For the benefit of others, here is how I fixed this:
-Boot into clockworkmod
-Used adb to copy off all sdcard files (including backup files to use in restore)
-Use CW to partition the sdcard (2048mb ext, 256mb swap)
-Tried to copy backup files back...see issues below
-Restore backup files
-Back to working tab
Two issues I had, one is that for the life of me, I could not get the backup files back onto the sdcard. adb must not like windows because it had issues copying the files back unless you copy them to the root of the device. Even then I tried to shell into the device and move the files to the sdcard, but then CW would not see the files, when I reboot the device and try again, the files were gone. I tried to just copy the update.zip file, again CW didn't see the file, and reboot caused it to disappear as well. I managed to mount the tab in USB mode and copy the files to the sdcard using windows. Afterwards CW didn't see the files either.
I figured the system image was good, rebooted to start from scratch, and the setup program ran. I tried to tap the screen bu nothing would happen. Issue two from the log, is that it the setup wizard ignores touch evens if there is no phone interface...reboot again, back into CW, and this time it saw my backup files, restore, then good to go.
My next step would have been to delete the setupwizard apk, wipe data, boot into android, copy backup files, reboot, restore, but not needed finally.
Have other people run into the above issue where you copy files to the sdcard uin adb while within CW, and the files don't stick. How do you get around this?
raydog.. thank you thank you thank you
thanks
raydog, your post helped greatly. thank you.
Life in LA said:
raydog, your post helped greatly. thank you.
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Thanks, sad to say I am back in a reboot loop, so I have to do this all over again...uggg
I have shut my tablet off by holding down the power button and bypassing the shutdown screen, wonder if this corrupted the data partition.
I had the reboot problem when trying to load 2.0.0
My fix: Loaded original vanilla via sdcard (took two load tries) then retried 2.0.0 via sdcard and it worked.
please help to make my data read write
raydog153 said:
Have other people run into the above issue where you copy files to the sdcard uin adb while within CW, and the files don't stick. How do you get around this?
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1|[email protected]:/sbin # su
[email protected]:/sbin # is
sh: is: not found
127|[email protected]:/sbin # cat /proc/mounts
rootfs / rootfs ro,relatime 0 0
tmpfs /dev tmpfs rw,seclabel,nosuid,relatime,mode=755 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts rw,seclabel,relatime,mode=600 0 0
proc /proc proc rw,relatime 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs rw,seclabel,relatime 0 0
selinuxfs /sys/fs/selinux selinuxfs rw,relatime 0 0
none /acct cgroup rw,relatime,cpuacct 0 0
none /sys/fs/cgroup tmpfs rw,seclabel,relatime,mode=750,gid=1000 0 0
tmpfs /mnt/asec tmpfs rw,seclabel,relatime,mode=755,gid=1000 0 0
tmpfs /mnt/obb tmpfs rw,seclabel,relatime,mode=755,gid=1000 0 0
none /dev/cpuctl cgroup rw,relatime,cpu 0 0
/dev/block/platform/omap/omap_hsmmc.1/by-name/FACTORYFS /system ext4 ro,seclabel,relatime,user_xattr,barrier=1,data=ordered 0 0
/dev/block/platform/omap/omap_hsmmc.1/by-name/EFS /efs ext4 rw,seclabel,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_xattr,barrier=1,data=ordered 0 0
/dev/block/platform/omap/omap_hsmmc.1/by-name/DATAFS /data ext4 ro,seclabel,nosuid,nodev,noatime,user_xattr,barrier=1,journal_async_commit,data=ordered,noauto_da_alloc,discard 0 0
/dev/block/platform/omap/omap_hsmmc.1/by-name/CACHE /cache ext4 rw,seclabel,nosuid,nodev,noatime,user_xattr,barrier=1,journal_async_commit,data=ordered,noauto_da_alloc,discard 0 0
/sys/kernel/debug /sys/kernel/debug debugfs rw,relatime 0 0
/dev/fuse /mnt/shell/emulated fuse rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,user_id=1023,group_id=1023,default_permissions,allow_other 0 0
[email protected]:/sbin # mount
rootfs / rootfs ro,relatime 0 0
tmpfs /dev tmpfs rw,seclabel,nosuid,relatime,mode=755 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts rw,seclabel,relatime,mode=600 0 0
proc /proc proc rw,relatime 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs rw,seclabel,relatime 0 0
selinuxfs /sys/fs/selinux selinuxfs rw,relatime 0 0
none /acct cgroup rw,relatime,cpuacct 0 0
none /sys/fs/cgroup tmpfs rw,seclabel,relatime,mode=750,gid=1000 0 0
tmpfs /mnt/asec tmpfs rw,seclabel,relatime,mode=755,gid=1000 0 0
tmpfs /mnt/obb tmpfs rw,seclabel,relatime,mode=755,gid=1000 0 0
none /dev/cpuctl cgroup rw,relatime,cpu 0 0
/dev/block/platform/omap/omap_hsmmc.1/by-name/FACTORYFS /system ext4 ro,seclabel,relatime,user_xattr,barrier=1,data=ordered 0 0
/dev/block/platform/omap/omap_hsmmc.1/by-name/EFS /efs ext4 rw,seclabel,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_xattr,barrier=1,data=ordered 0 0
/dev/block/platform/omap/omap_hsmmc.1/by-name/DATAFS /data ext4 ro,seclabel,nosuid,nodev,noatime,user_xattr,barrier=1,journal_async_commit,data=ordered,noauto_da_alloc,discard 0 0
/dev/block/platform/omap/omap_hsmmc.1/by-name/CACHE /cache ext4 rw,seclabel,nosuid,nodev,noatime,user_xattr,barrier=1,journal_async_commit,data=ordered,noauto_da_alloc,discard 0 0
/sys/kernel/debug /sys/kernel/debug debugfs rw,relatime 0 0
/dev/fuse /mnt/shell/emulated fuse rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,user_id=1023,group_id=1023,default_permissions,allow_other 0 0
[email protected]:/sbin # fs
sh: fs: not found
127|[email protected]:/sbin # df
Filesystem Size Used Free Blksize
/dev 407.7M 32.0K 407.6M 4096
/sys/fs/cgroup 407.7M 12.0K 407.7M 4096
/mnt/asec 407.7M 0.0K 407.7M 4096
/mnt/obb 407.7M 0.0K 407.7M 4096
/system 1.3G 443.6M 934.3M 4096
/efs 19.7M 8.1M 11.5M 4096
/data 11.9G 5.5G 6.3G 4096
/cache 689.0M 129.8M 559.1M 4096
/mnt/shell/emulated 11.9G 5.5G 6.3G 4096
[email protected]:/sbin # cat /proc/partitions
major minor #blocks name
179 0 15388672 mmcblk0
179 1 20480 mmcblk0p1
179 2 2048 mmcblk0p2
179 3 2048 mmcblk0p3
179 4 8192 mmcblk0p4
179 5 8192 mmcblk0p5
179 6 8192 mmcblk0p6
179 7 716800 mmcblk0p7
259 0 20480 mmcblk0p8
259 1 1433600 mmcblk0p9
259 2 12640239 mmcblk0p10
259 3 524288 mmcblk0p11
179 16 2048 mmcblk0boot1
179 8 2048 mmcblk0boot0
[email protected]:/sbin # format 259
sh: format: not found
127|[email protected]:/sbin # del
sh: del: not found
127|[email protected]:/sbin # mount /efs rw
Usage: mount [-r] [-w] [-o options] [-t type] device directory
1|[email protected]:/sbin # mount -o rw,remount /efs
[email protected]:/sbin # mount -o rw,remount /dev
[email protected]:/sbin # mount -o rw,remount /sys/fs/cgroup
[email protected]:/sbin # mount -o rw,remount /mnt/asec
[email protected]:/sbin # mount -o rw,remount /mnt/obb
[email protected]:/sbin # mount -o rw,remount /system
[email protected]:/sbin # mount -o rw,remount /syste
Usage: mount [-r] [-w] [-o options] [-t type] device directory
1|[email protected]:/sbin # mount -o rw,remount /efs
[email protected]:/sbin # mount -o rw,remount /data
mount: Read-only file system
255|[email protected]:/sbin # mount -o rw,remount /data
mount: Read-only file system
255|[email protected]:/sbin # mount -o rw,remount /cache
[email protected]:/sbin # mount -o rw,remount /mnt/shell/emulated
[email protected]:/sbin # mount -o rw,remount /data
mount: Read-only file system
255|[email protected]:/sbin # mount -o rw,remount /data
mount: Read-only file system
255|[email protected]:/sbin # mount -o rw
Usage: mount [-r] [-w] [-o options] [-t type] device directory
1|[email protected]:/sbin # mount -o rw, del /data
Usage: mount [-r] [-w] [-o options] [-t type] device directory
1|[email protected]:/sbin # mount -o rw,del /data
Usage: mount [-r] [-w] [-o options] [-t type] device directory
1|[email protected]:/sbin # help
sh: help: not found
127|[email protected]:/sbin # Read-only file system
sh: Read-only: not found
127|[email protected]:/sbin # rw
sh: rw: not found
127|[email protected]:/sbin # mount -o rw,remount /data
mount: Read-only file system
255|[email protected]:/sbin # mount -o rw,remount /data
mount: Read-only file system
255|[email protected]:/sbin #
this is my partition table and errors for p3100.
please help me how to make it read write.
please mailm e the steps.
[email protected]
thanks in advance

[Q] android tablet sdcard extsd permission problem

Hello,
I have a problem with my tablet. It's Coby Kyros 9740.
I cannot write anything to /mnt/sdcard nor /mnt/extsd.
I suspect this is a permission problem but I am not sure how to permanently fix it.
ls -l /mnt
drwxr-xr-x root system 2009-12-31 19:40 asec
d---rwxr-x system media_rw 1969-12-31 19:00 extsd
drwxr-xr-x root system 2009-12-31 19:40 obb
drwxrwxrwx root root 1969-12-31 19:00 private
d---rwxr-x system sdcard_rw 1969-12-31 19:00 sdcard
drwx------ root root 2009-12-31 19:40 secure
d--------- system system 2009-12-31 19:40 usbhost1
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usually, I see extsd or sdcard with rwxrwxr-x permission I think.
Here's what mount function gives me.
mount
rootfs / rootfs ro,relatime 0 0
tmpfs /dev tmpfs rw,nosuid,relatime,mode=755 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts rw,relatime,mode=600,ptmxmode=000 0 0
proc /proc proc rw,relatime 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs rw,relatime 0 0
tmpfs /mnt/asec tmpfs rw,relatime,mode=755,gid=1000 0 0
tmpfs /mnt/obb tmpfs rw,relatime,mode=755,gid=1000 0 0
/dev/block/nandd /system ext4 ro,relatime,user_xattr,barrier=0,data=ordered 0 0
/dev/block/nande /data ext4 rw,nosuid,nodev,noatime,user_xattr,barrier=0,journal
_checksum,data=ordered,noauto_da_alloc 0 0
/dev/block/nandh /cache ext4 rw,nosuid,nodev,noatime,user_xattr,barrier=0,journa
l_checksum,data=ordered,noauto_da_alloc 0 0
/dev/block/nandi /mnt/private vfat ro,relatime,fmask=0000,dmask=0000,allow_utime
=0022,codepage=cp437,iocharset=ascii,shortname=mixed,errors=remount-ro 0 0
/dev/block/vold/179:1 /mnt/extsd vfat rw,dirsync,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,ui
d=1000,gid=1023,fmask=0702,dmask=0702,allow_utime=0020,codepage=cp437,iocharset=
ascii,shortname=mixed,utf8,errors=remount-ro 0 0
/dev/block/vold/93:80 /mnt/sdcard vfat ro,dirsync,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,u
id=1000,gid=1015,fmask=0702,dmask=0702,allow_utime=0020,codepage=cp437,iocharset
=ascii,shortname=mixed,utf8,errors=remount-ro 0 0
/dev/block/vold/93:80 /mnt/secure/asec vfat ro,dirsync,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relat
ime,uid=1000,gid=1015,fmask=0702,dmask=0702,allow_utime=0020,codepage=cp437,ioch
arset=ascii,shortname=mixed,utf8,errors=remount-ro 0 0
tmpfs /mnt/sdcard/.android_secure tmpfs ro,relatime,size=0k,mode=000 0 0
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Is there a way to fix this permanently?
Thank you!
the5threvolution said:
Hello,
I have a problem with my tablet. It's Coby Kyros 9740.
I cannot write anything to /mnt/sdcard nor /mnt/extsd.
I suspect this is a permission problem but I am not sure how to permanently fix it.
usually, I see extsd or sdcard with rwxrwxr-x permission I think.
Here's what mount function gives me.
Code:
/dev/block/vold/93:80 /mnt/sdcard vfat [COLOR="Red"]ro[/COLOR],dirsync,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,u
Is there a way to fix this permanently?
Thank you!
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The card is mounted read-only. This may be due to errors in the file system. Run a chkdsk or reformat the card, and it may solve the problem.
kuisma said:
The card is mounted read-only. This may be due to errors in the file system. Run a chkdsk or reformat the card, and it may solve the problem.
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Hello,
Thank you very much for your help.
I've done chkdsk from windows and it didn't help.
I'm afraid to format it because it's the internal drive of the tablet and I don't know what's going to happpen.
But another thing is that extsd which is the external microsd card is also not accessible as seen from the permissions list.
But, from the recovery mode, it is mounted as read/write and I can read/write if I'm in recovery mode.
Is there a script that runs when android starts which could cause this?
Thank you very much for your help and time.
the5threvolution said:
But another thing is that extsd which is the external microsd card is also not accessible as seen from the permissions list.
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The permissions are just fine. I.e. r/w only by the group media_rw, this is how it's supposed to be. You must be either root or a user in this group to write to the sdcard, that is, have the WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE privilege if you are an app.
You can try running fsck on the device in i shell, but first you'll have to force vold to unmount it (killing vold?) and find out its real device id under /dev/block/something first. You may find this in the output of the "dmesg" command. Still, I'm not sure it'll help. It may be mounted r/o by some other reason unknown to me.
# fsck -y /dev/block/something
Was messin around with an old phone and saw that it had an ad card I forgot about that had the file. .android_secure. 12/31/69. On it. I remember it some sort of spy+ but just curious wtf it was?

Storage Swap under 4.2.2

After 1000 forum pages later I setup a small script under init.d for the storage swap under 4.2.2 which works more or less:
sleep 3
mount -o remount,rw /
mount -t vfat -o umask=0000 /dev/block/vold/179:97 /mnt/shell/emulated
mount -o bind /data/media/0 /storage/sdcard1
chown system /data/media/0
chgrp sdcard_rw /data/media/0
chmod 0075 /data/media/0
mount -o remount, ro /
But now I do not know how to progress further,it looks good under x-plorer and Root explorer (storage swapped), but under the normal menue the primary storage is shown as the internal one. (However, programme files are installed on the ext. SD card correctly) Anyone having a good idea?
For those who are interested in giving it a try (this is at your own risk!), until it is completely fixed and there is a more comprehensive description, it is more for people with some background, at least:
DO A BACKUP FIRST! (e.g. with TWRP, if you end up in a boot loop, you can at least go back to the latest running system)
1) create a script, e.g. with SMmanager ads under /etc/init.d and copy text from above into it and save
2) activate boot, su and executable for the script
3) save file/script
4) reboot, swap (of the mounts) will be done
5) do a manual transfer, of the files and folders from one storage to the other.
That means that you should transfer at least the files under /data/media/0 to mnt/shell/emulated/0 (I used root explorer), same for legacy and obb.
Note that under 4.2.2 the obb folder under android has been moved due to the multiuser capability under the same level as the user folders (0, 10, 11 e.g. if you have three users), so if you have (after the transfer from /data/media/0) files under mnt/shell/emulated/0/android/obb transfer the files to avoid a redownload and waste of storage to mnt/shell/emulated/obb e.g. using roor explorer.
After that you will see the external SDcard folder mnt/shell/emulated/0 as internal storage (using an explorer, works also if you connected to windows via USB, but, again, not in the internal menue)
and /data/media/0 as external storage.
TWRP folder can/should be found under mnt/shell/emulated.
6) Keep a copy of the script on your ext. sdcard, after an update the file will be lost and you can copy it back to init.d (e.g. using root explorer)
7) In case you want to revert to normal mount delete script from init.d and reboot (and copy back files manually)
That is in principle all and again it works, but not flawless (indication under menue, rights of files from internal sd under multiuser), so I would appreciate some constructive comments to improve it. Again, I am at the end of my (limited) knowledge...
As it works, it seems to be primary an indication issue...
Mount is delivering the following (pre swap):
[email protected]:/ $ mount
rootfs / rootfs ro,relatime 0 0
tmpfs /dev tmpfs rw,nosuid,relatime,mode=755 0 0 devpts /dev/pts devpts rw,relatime,mode=600 0 0 none /dev/cpuctl cgroup rw,relatime,cpu 0 0 proc /proc proc rw,relatime 0 0 sysfs /sys sysfs rw,relatime 0 0 debugfs /sys/kernel/debug debugfs rw,relatime 0 0 none /acct cgroup rw,relatime,cpuacct 0 0 tmpfs /mnt/secure tmpfs rw,relatime,mode=700 0 0 tmpfs /mnt/asec tmpfs rw,relatime,mode=755,gid=1000 0 0
/dev/block/dm-0 /mnt/asec/com.DefiantDev.SkiSafari-1 ext4 ro,dirsync,nosuid,nodev,noatime,user_xattr,acl,bar rier=1 0 0 tmpfs /mnt/obb tmpfs rw,relatime,mode=755,gid=1000 0 0 tmpfs /mnt/fuse tmpfs rw,relatime,mode=775,gid=1000 0 0
/dev/block/mmcblk0p24 /tombstones ext4 rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_xattr,acl,barrier=1, data=ordered 0 0
/dev/block/mmcblk0p1 /firmware vfat ro,relatime,fmask=0000,dmask=0022,codepage=cp437,i ocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=lower,errors=remount-ro 0 0
/dev/block/mmcblk0p20 /system ext4 ro,relatime,user_xattr,acl,barrier=1,data=ordered 0 0
/dev/block/mmcblk0p22 /cache ext4 rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_xattr,acl,barrier=1, data=ordered 0 0
/dev/block/mmcblk0p23 /tmpdata ext4 rw,nosuid,nodev,noatime,user_xattr,acl,barrier=1,d ata=ordered,noauto_da_alloc 0 0
/dev/block/mmcblk0p21 /persist ext4 rw,nosuid,nodev,noatime,user_xattr,acl,barrier=1,d ata=ordered 0 0
/dev/block/mmcblk0p27 /data ext4 rw,nosuid,nodev,noatime,user_xattr,acl,barrier=1,d ata=ordered,noauto_da_alloc 0 0
/dev/fuse /mnt/shell/emulated fuse rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=1023,group_id=102 3,default_permissions,allow_other 0 0
tmpfs /storage/emulated tmpfs rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,mode=050,gid=1028 0 0
/dev/block/vold/179:97 /storage/sdcard1 vfat rw,dirsync,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,uid=1000,g id=1015,fmask=0702,dmask=0702,allow_utime=0020,cod epage=cp437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=mixed,utf8,errors=remount-ro 0 0
/dev/fuse /storage/emulated/0 fuse rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=1023,group_id=102 3,default_permissions,allow_other 0 0
/dev/fuse /storage/emulated/0/Android/obb fuse rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=1023,group_id=102 3,default_permissions,allow_other 0 0
/dev/fuse /storage/emulated/legacy fuse rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=1023,group_id=102 3,default_permissions,allow_other 0 0
/dev/fuse /storage/emulated/legacy/Android/obb fuse rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=1023,group_id=102 3,default_permissions,allow_other 0 0
[email protected]:/ $
Mount post-swap delivers in principle (after the last changes in the script some right(s) should be different):
[email protected]:/ $ mount
rootfs / rootfs ro,relatime 0 0
tmpfs /dev tmpfs rw,nosuid,relatime,mode=755 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts rw,relatime,mode=600 0 0
none /dev/cpuctl cgroup rw,relatime,cpu 0 0
proc /proc proc rw,relatime 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs rw,relatime 0 0
debugfs /sys/kernel/debug debugfs rw,relatime 0 0
none /acct cgroup rw,relatime,cpuacct 0 0
tmpfs /mnt/secure tmpfs rw,relatime,mode=700 0 0
tmpfs /mnt/asec tmpfs rw,relatime,mode=755,gid=1000 0 0
/dev/block/dm-0 /mnt/asec/com.keramidas.TitaniumBackupPro-1 ext4 ro,dirsync,nosuid,nodev,noatime,user_xattr,acl,barrier=1 0 0
/dev/block/dm-1 /mnt/asec/com.zeptolab.ctrexperiments.google.paid-1 ext4 ro,dirsync,nosuid,nodev,noatime,user_xattr,acl,barrier=1 0 0
/dev/block/dm-2 /mnt/asec/com.twodboy.worldofgoofull-1 ext4 ro,dirsync,nosuid,nodev,noatime,user_xattr,acl,barrier=1 0 0
tmpfs /mnt/obb tmpfs rw,relatime,mode=755,gid=1000 0 0
tmpfs /mnt/fuse tmpfs rw,relatime,mode=775,gid=1000 0 0
/dev/block/mmcblk0p24 /tombstones ext4 rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_xattr,acl,barrier=1,data=ordered 0 0
/dev/block/mmcblk0p1 /firmware vfat ro,relatime,fmask=0000,dmask=0022,codepage=cp437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=lower,errors=remount-ro 0 0
/dev/block/mmcblk0p20 /system ext4 ro,relatime,user_xattr,acl,barrier=1,data=ordered 0 0
/dev/block/mmcblk0p22 /cache ext4 rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_xattr,acl,barrier=1,data=ordered 0 0
/dev/block/mmcblk0p23 /tmpdata ext4 rw,nosuid,nodev,noatime,user_xattr,acl,barrier=1,data=ordered,noauto_da_alloc 0 0
/dev/block/mmcblk0p21 /persist ext4 rw,nosuid,nodev,noatime,user_xattr,acl,barrier=1,data=ordered 0 0
/dev/block/mmcblk0p27 /data ext4 rw,nosuid,nodev,noatime,user_xattr,acl,barrier=1,data=ordered,noauto_da_alloc 0 0
/dev/fuse /mnt/shell/emulated fuse rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=1023,group_id=1023,default_permissions,allow_other 0 0
/dev/block/vold/179:97 /mnt/shell/emulated vfat rw,relatime,fmask=0000,dmask=0000,allow_utime=0022,codepage=cp437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=mixed,errors=remount-ro 0 0
tmpfs /storage/emulated tmpfs rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,mode=050,gid=1028 0 0
/dev/block/mmcblk0p27 /storage/sdcard1 ext4 rw,nosuid,nodev,noatime,user_xattr,acl,barrier=1,data=ordered,noauto_da_alloc 0 0
/dev/block/vold/179:97 /storage/emulated/0 vfat rw,relatime,fmask=0000,dmask=0000,allow_utime=0022,codepage=cp437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=mixed,errors=remount-ro 0 0
/dev/block/vold/179:97 /storage/emulated/0/Android/obb vfat rw,relatime,fmask=0000,dmask=0000,allow_utime=0022,codepage=cp437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=mixed,errors=remount-ro 0 0
/dev/block/vold/179:97 /storage/emulated/legacy vfat rw,relatime,fmask=0000,dmask=0000,allow_utime=0022,codepage=cp437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=mixed,errors=remount-ro 0 0
/dev/block/vold/179:97 /storage/emulated/legacy/Android/obb vfat rw,relatime,fmask=0000,dmask=0000,allow_utime=0022,codepage=cp437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=mixed,errors=remount-ro 0 0
[email protected]:/ $
Update 13.04
What does the script do?
-mounts your user data to the external SDcard
-ext. SDcard will be used as your internal storage
-internal storage will show up as external storage (sdcard1) can be used, too
What does not work?
-storage swap is not correctly displayed under the system menue, -this seems to be merely an indication issue
What you need before you can start?
-Root
-TWRP (or equivalent)
-Root explorer (or equivalent)
-SMmanager ads (or equivalent
How to do it?
1) DO A BACKUP OF THE SYSTEM FIRST! (e.g. with TWRP, if you end up in a boot loop, you can at least go back to the latest running system)
2) copy folder "emulated" from /mnt/shell to your ext. SDcard, /storage/sdcard1 (use root explorer),- you will delete the redundant data from your internal storage later after the reboot
3) create a script, e.g. with SMmanager ads under /etc/init.d and copy text from above into it and save:
sleep 5
mount -o remount,rw /
mkdir /data/newext_sd
mkdir /data/newext_sd/myfolder
mount -t vfat -o umask=0000 /dev/block/vold/179:97 /mnt/shell
mount -o bind /data/newext_sd /storage/sdcard1
chmod 0075 /data/newext_sd
chown system /data/newext_sd
chgrp sdcard_rw /data/newext_sd
chmod 0777 /data/newext_sd/myfolder
chown root /data/newext_sd/myfolder
chgrp root /data/newext_sd/myfolder
mount -o remount,ro /
4) activate boot, su and executable for the script
5) save script, again
6) reboot, swap (of the mounts) will be done
7) if you get a message that system process do not run properly, press wait and it should not reappear (you may also delete the caches, again, with TWRP)
8) delete redundant data, all folders under /data/media, use root explorer
9) keep a copy of the script on your ext. sdcard, after a rom update the file will be lost and you can copy it back to init.d (e.g. using root explorer) (and reboot)
10) in case you want to revert to normal mount delete script from /etc/init.d and reboot (and copy back files manually)
11) in case you want to reintegrate already existing data from your ext. SDcard to your new user folder structure go with the root launcher to /mnt/shell to access the root of your card and copy any content under your user folder /mnt/shell/emulated/0.
Enjoy...
AS BEFORE, YOU TINKER AT YOUR OWN RISK
Sorry... but storage swapping works in the latest JB's.
Greets Gunnar
No reason to be sorry ,guess where the script came from?
But sharing was the intention.
PS: a few more thanks would have been nice, anyway...
OK, just misunderstood it.
If this is the methodm, which was used in the ROMs of after_silence and zyr3x... it works very well!
Greets Gunnar
Just so I understand:
- please confirm this is already part of the ROM and there is no need to use the scripts...if so, where is the option menu?
- this swaps the internal and external memory so that the internal memory is mapped to the sd card that is removable and the external memory is mapped to the built-in memory which is not removable?
- For the Tmobile Springboard, the built-in memory would be 16GB and for the Mediapad 8GB, I believe. Is that correct?
Advantages and disadvantages, as I see them or understand them.
Advantage:
- I believe this means that the device would see 32GB or 64GB if that was the size of the sd card. Not sure if a 64GB card would work. Why is this an advantage?
Disadvantage:
- That would also mean that you could never remove the sd card. That seems like a disadvantage, but I don't think most people would remove their sd card anyway.
- Sd cards are slower than built-in memory. Is this true?
If anyone wants to add their opinion or comments, please do. If there are any other things to consider, please add them.
Also, don't know how this compares to other methods like Link2SD or those kind of apps.
Thanks all.
mastrv said:
Just so I understand:
- please confirm this is already part of the ROM and there is no need to use the scripts...if so, where is the option menu?
- this swaps the internal and external memory so that the internal memory is mapped to the sd card that is removable and the external memory is mapped to the built-in memory which is not removable?
- For the Tmobile Springboard, the built-in memory would be 16GB and for the Mediapad 8GB, I believe. Is that correct?
Advantages and disadvantages, as I see them or understand them.
Advantage:
- I believe this means that the device would see 32GB or 64GB if that was the size of the sd card. Not sure if a 64GB card would work. Why is this an advantage?
Disadvantage:
- That would also mean that you could never remove the sd card. That seems like a disadvantage, but I don't think most people would remove their sd card anyway.
- Sd cards are slower than built-in memory. Is this true?
If anyone wants to add their opinion or comments, please do. If there are any other things to consider, please add them.
Also, don't know how this compares to other methods like Link2SD or those kind of apps.
Thanks all.
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Thanks to zyr3x and after_silence the first script is integrated in the last AOPK JB and CM10.1, -so no need for mediapad users with those Roms to pick up the script and we can considered this thread closed 
Nevertheless, I do not want to delete it for the time being, as it may be of use for information also for other 4.2.2 Roms, however with different mounting points and adaptation to be made.
Other methods like Link2SD do not work on 4.2.2, unless there is a new development?
As you say, advantage is that you have additional space for games, nav, etc.
Disadvantage is indeed a performance loss and you need the sd card, -at least for certain apps.
@Maja
Please don't delete this Thread!
Before reading this, I thought this possibility for JB comes from the other developers.
But the thank for this point of development goes to you...
And this could be very helpful for other developers, trying to port JB (4.2.x).
I try to answer directly to the questions...
mastrv said:
Just so I understand:
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- please confirm this is already part of the ROM and there is no need to use the scripts...if so, where is the option menu?
-> Settings > extended (or such) -> Swap internal und external storages
- this swaps the internal and external memory so that the internal memory is mapped to the sd card that is removable and the external memory is mapped to the built-in memory which is not removable?
-> Thats not this simple... for example: the "sdcard" shows to the card as before, so apps don't use internal memory for storing huge data
- For the Tmobile Springboard, the built-in memory would be 16GB and for the Mediapad 8GB, I believe. Is that correct?
-> don't know the Springboard, but yes, MediaPads internal memory is 8GB, 6GB for data
Advantage:
- I believe this means that the device would see 32GB or 64GB if that was the size of the sd card. Not sure if a 64GB card would work. Why is this an advantage?
-> as described before... not that simple at all - and yes, 64GB Fat32 formatted "MobilUltra" from SanDisk works like a charm!
Disadvantage:
- That would also mean that you could never remove the sd card. That seems like a disadvantage, but I don't think most people would remove their sd card anyway.
-> some apps may not work, the system will boot and work normally. This comes from the fact, that "/data" ist still mapped to the internal memory
(this means, that all App-APKs,-Libs,-Data and the Dalvik-Cache stays in internal memory)
- Sd cards are slower than built-in memory. Is this true?
-> not always, but mostly Just put in a fast card and you'll feel no difference
Also, don't know how this compares to other methods like Link2SD or those kind of apps.
-> forget about such things with JB 4.2.x
Hope this helps.
Greets Gunnar
P.S.: mainly it works like it does with ICS... as far as it could
Sounds good. I'll have to get a 64gb card then. FYI, FAT and FAT32 are still the best bets for interoperability. There are utilties that will format drives in FAT32 even though they are larger than 32GB. The 32GB limit was imposed by Microsoft.
FYI, the Tmobile Springboard is a variant of the Mediapad. It does come with 16GB of memory.
Thanks!
In case you have problems with the
[CM10.1][16.08.2013] CM10.1 for Huawei Mediapad 7" [S7-30Xx] [not for Lite or 10 HD]
version of after_silence, means swap does not work, you can revise the script "02extsd" under /etc/init.d to the following by removing the "if-term" as a temporary fix:
#!/system/bin/sh
sleep 3
mount -o remount,rw /
mount -t vfat -o umask=0000 /dev/block/vold/179:97 /mnt/shell/emulated
mount -o bind /data/media/0 /storage/sdcard1
chown system /data/media/0
chgrp sdcard_rw /data/media/0
chmod 0075 /data/media/0
mount -o remount, ro /
Regardless of the "tick" in the system menue, the swap is performed, anyway. (or you wait for an update...)
I assume there is a problem of the used variable of the "if-term", which should not be too difficult to be changed in the code by zyr3x.

[Q] Unable to mount system to RW

Hi,
No matter what I do, I can't remount "/system" and "/" to RW. :crying:
Does anyone know how to resolve this issue?
I am running on KK 4.4.2 version 14.3.A.0.757.
My Current File System Status
[email protected]:/ # mount
rootfs / rootfs ro,relatime 0 0
tmpfs /dev tmpfs rw,seclabel,nosuid,relatime,mode=755 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts rw,seclabel,relatime,mode=600 0 0
none /dev/cpuctl cgroup rw,relatime,cpu 0 0
proc /proc proc rw,relatime 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs rw,seclabel,relatime 0 0
selinuxfs /sys/fs/selinux selinuxfs rw,relatime 0 0
debugfs /sys/kernel/debug debugfs rw,relatime 0 0
none /sys/fs/cgroup tmpfs rw,seclabel,relatime,mode=750,gid=1000 0 0
securityfs /sys/kernel/security securityfs rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime 0 0
none /acct cgroup rw,relatime,cpuacct 0 0
tmpfs /mnt/asec tmpfs rw,seclabel,relatime,mode=755,gid=1000 0 0
tmpfs /mnt/obb tmpfs rw,seclabel,relatime,mode=755,gid=1000 0 0
tmpfs /tmp tmpfs rw,seclabel,nosuid,relatime,mode=755 0 0
/dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/system /system ext4 ro,seclabel,relatime,discard,data=ordered 0 0
/dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/userdata /data ext4 rw,seclabel,nosuid,nodev,relatime,discard,noauto_da_alloc,data=ordered 0 0
/dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/cache /cache ext4 rw,seclabel,nosuid,nodev,relatime,data=ordered 0 0
/dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/apps_log /mnt/idd ext4 rw,seclabel,nosuid,nodev,noexec,noatime,discard,nobarrier,data=ordered 0 0
tmpfs /storage/remote tmpfs rw,seclabel,relatime,size=1024k,nr_inodes=256,mode=750,gid=1028 0 0
/dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/LTALabel /lta-label ext4 ro,seclabel,nosuid,nodev,noexec,noatime,nobarrier,data=ordered 0 0
/dev/fuse /mnt/shell/emulated fuse rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,user_id=1023,group_id=1023,default_permissions,allow_other,allow_utime_grp 0 0
/dev/fuse /storage/sdcard1 fuse rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,user_id=1023,group_id=1023,default_permissions,allow_other,allow_utime_grp 0 0
tmpfs /storage/emulated tmpfs rw,seclabel,nosuid,nodev,relatime,mode=050,gid=1028 0 0
/dev/block/vold/179:65 /mnt/media_rw/sdcard1 vfat rw,dirsync,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,uid=1023,gid=1023,fmask=0007,dmask=0007,allow_utime=0020,codepage=cp437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=mixed,utf8,errors=remount-ro 0 0
/dev/fuse /storage/emulated/0 fuse rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,user_id=1023,group_id=1023,default_permissions,allow_other,allow_utime_grp 0 0
/dev/fuse /storage/emulated/0/Android/obb fuse rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,user_id=1023,group_id=1023,default_permissions,allow_other,allow_utime_grp 0 0
/dev/fuse /storage/emulated/legacy fuse rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,user_id=1023,group_id=1023,default_permissions,allow_other,allow_utime_grp 0 0
/dev/fuse /storage/emulated/legacy/Android/obb fuse rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,user_id=1023,group_id=1023,default_permissions,allow_other,allow_utime_grp 0 0
[email protected]:/ #
You obviously do not have the permission to do that, so the question is, are you rooted, and if so root again and be sure to have the latest SuperSU installed with updated binaries.
Sent from my Z Ultra
LordManhattan said:
You obviously do not have the permission to do that, so the question is, are you rooted, and if so root again and be sure to have the latest SuperSU installed with updated binaries.
Sent from my Z Ultra
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Yes, I am able to gain root access but unable to boot into recovery
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[email protected] said:
Yes, I am able to gain root access but unable to boot into recovery
Sent from my C6833 using XDA Premium 4 mobile app
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What kernel are you on?
How did you get root?
Bootloader unlocked?
blueether said:
What kernel are you on?
How did you get root?
Bootloader unlocked?
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My kernel version is 3.40-perf [email protected] #1 and bootloader is unlocked.
I gained root by downgrading my firmware to .532 version and install rooting using a program called Root_with_Restore_by_Bin4ry_v33. After rooting is successful, install dualrecovery and upgrade my firmware to .757 version by flashing a specific zip file via recovery followed by flash FTF with Flashtool.
Am I doing it correctly? Is there a better way to do it?
[email protected] said:
My kernel version is 3.40-perf [email protected] #1 and bootloader is unlocked.
I gained root by downgrading my firmware to .532 version and install rooting using a program called Root_with_Restore_by_Bin4ry_v33. After rooting is successful, install dualrecovery and upgrade my firmware to .757 version by flashing a specific zip file via recovery followed by flash FTF with Flashtool.
Am I doing it correctly? Is there a better way to do it?
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I would try to reflash supersu and see if that fixes it
I'm not sure. I'm having the same issue, sort of. I can mount /system to read write easily but can't mount back to read only. Getting "resource busy" message. Running a 4.4.2 LG G2 ROM. Could it have anything to do with how /system is formatted within TWRP recovery? Idk.. Luckily not being able to mount as read only isn't exactly an issue but more of a nuisance.
Edit:: Found a solution minutes after posting.
Code:
su
mount -o remount,rw /system # works fine
mount -o remount,ro /system # resource busy error
mount -o remount ro /system # works fine without comma
With this knowledge I can go through and fix a few scripts that have the comma between remount and ro. Not sure why this is as it's always worked fine ever since my OG DROID.
Any updates ??
EvilMember said:
Any updates ??
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Strange I'm using this rom: http://forum.xda-developers.com/xpe...14-4-0-118-t2859660/post56113642#post56113642
And I can't mount system to RW, had same issue before on stock but Super SU reflash fixed it...now no way to moint system to RW
MidnightHarvester said:
I'm not sure. I'm having the same issue, sort of. I can mount /system to read write easily but can't mount back to read only. Getting "resource busy" message. Running a 4.4.2 LG G2 ROM. Could it have anything to do with how /system is formatted within TWRP recovery? Idk.. Luckily not being able to mount as read only isn't exactly an issue but more of a nuisance.
Edit:: Found a solution minutes after posting.
Code:
su
mount -o remount,rw /system # works fine
mount -o remount,ro /system # resource busy error
mount -o remount ro /system # works fine without comma
With this knowledge I can go through and fix a few scripts that have the comma between remount and ro. Not sure why this is as it's always worked fine ever since my OG DROID.
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FAIL:
this doing nothing.
mount -o remount ro /system
[email protected]:/ # mount | grep /system
mount | grep /system
/dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/system on /system type ext4 (rw,noatime,nodiratime,noauto_da_alloc,data=ordered)
dmesg
<6>EXT4-fs (mmcblk0p30): re-mounted. Opts: (null)
kernel ignoring your command. problem is with some service open file for writing in /system and not letting go.
find the service! kill it, mount as RO.

cannot mount internal storage after downgrade to 4.3

I tried to downgrade to 148 to get the cm install to work. Lost access to internal storage. I was using twrp 2.8.7.0 or 2.8.0, flashed the rooted stock ROM from another post here and lost access. I've tried the su command "restorecon -v -R /data/media" and now I can see the internal storage from the settings menu but not change the location from there.
Here is my terminal command "mount" result
[email protected]:/ $ mount
rootfs / rootfs ro,relatime 0 0
tmpfs /dev tmpfs rw,seclabel,nosuid,relatime,mode=755 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts rw,seclabel,relatime,mode=600 0 0
proc /proc proc rw,relatime 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs rw,seclabel,relatime 0 0
selinuxfs /sys/fs/selinux selinuxfs rw,relatime 0 0
none /acct cgroup rw,relatime,cpuacct 0 0
none /dev/frz cgroup rw,relatime,freezer 0 0
tmpfs /mnt/secure tmpfs rw,seclabel,relatime,mode=700 0 0
tmpfs /mnt/asec tmpfs rw,seclabel,relatime,mode=755,gid=1000 0 0
tmpfs /mnt/obb tmpfs rw,seclabel,relatime,mode=755,gid=1000 0 0
none /dev/cpuctl cgroup rw,relatime,cpu 0 0
/dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/log /log ext4 rw,seclabel,nosuid,nodev,relatime,data=ordered 0 0
/dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/system /system ext4 ro,seclabel,nosuid,nodev,relatime,data=ordered 0 0
/dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/userdata /data ext4 rw,seclabel,nosuid,nodev,relatime,noauto_da_alloc,data=ordered 0 0
/dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/cache /cache ext4 rw,seclabel,nosuid,nodev,relatime,data=ordered 0 0
/dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/persist /persist ext4 rw,seclabel,nosuid,nodev,relatime,data=ordered 0 0
/dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/modem /firmware vfat ro,relatime,uid=1000,gid=1000,fmask=0337,dmask=0227,codepage=cp437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=lower,errors=remount-ro 0 0
/dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/cust /cust ext4 ro,seclabel,relatime,data=ordered 0 0
/dev/block/vold/179:65 /storage/sdcard1 vfat rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,uid=1000,gid=1015,fmask=0002,dmask=0002,allow_utime=0020,codepage=cp437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=mixed,utf8,errors=remount-ro 0 0
/dev/block/vold/179:65 /mnt/secure/asec vfat rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,uid=1000,gid=1015,fmask=0002,dmask=0002,allow_utime=0020,codepage=cp437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=mixed,utf8,errors=remount-ro 0 0
tmpfs /storage/sdcard1/.android_secure tmpfs ro,seclabel,relatime,size=0k,mode=000 0 0
[email protected]:/ $
What do I do now? I want to install the cm preview
Thanks for your time
CM12 and all other ROMs require you update your phone to Lollipop, B3xx.
xordos said:
CM12 and all other ROMs require you update your phone to Lollipop, B3xx.
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And I'm ready to do that but I'm stuck in 4.3 with no access to the internal storage when I try to flash a new ROM. I'm thinking about going back to the recovery and get the ota update again and trying the cm install from there. Opinions?
Update* I got back to stock 309 with no ability to ota upgrade or install cm via twrp. Twrp still reports "unable to mount internal SD" but I have been able to browse, read, and write to it through the preloaded file explorer, after the "returncon -v -R data/media/" command through terminal in twrp 2.8.7.0.
once you are in 309, follow the cm install thread, and no need to worry about internal storage, at least for now.
copy rom and gapp to sdcard, which is called external storage, and flash it in twrp.
Getting stuck still at install in twrp. Cannot post a link to a screenshot so I'm gonna try to type it out. "this package supports bootloaders ... This device has boot loader unknown." And "e: error executing binary inside of zip..." I've tried all three of the custom ROM zips, cm, carbon, and PAC ROM with the same results.
What now?
notshure said:
Getting stuck still at install in twrp. Cannot post a link to a screenshot so I'm gonna try to type it out. "this package supports bootloaders ... This device has boot loader unknown." And "e: error executing binary inside of zip..." I've tried all three of the custom ROM zips, cm, carbon, and PAC ROM with the same results.
What now?
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Unmount in lollipop and format it. Or re run b309.
Also that unknown bootloader error, one reason is you didn't flash the twrp recovery from that CM preview thread 1st post. You have to flash that recovery image even you already have working twrp.
xordos said:
Also that unknown bootloader error, one reason is you didn't flash the twrp recovery from that CM preview thread 1st post. You have to flash that recovery image even you already have working twrp.
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then there was cyanogen and much rejoicing. Thanks :good:

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