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@ mods i realised my mistake in posting this in the wrong section and posted in the right one but people are replying to this one......so please dont delete this just yet
I in my infinite wisdom tried to mod a file on my phone. I did a titanium backup 1st but forgot to move it to my external SD Doh!
So that went wrong and now I'm stuck in a boot loop with only the stock recovery screen. Need to install stock rom and adb not recognized. (Im sure ill figure that) but my main question is, is there some way to recover data from the internal "sd" memory?
I really appreciate any advice anyone can give
I am not sure if I understood your question.. if you have CWM then just access recovery mode and you will have an option to mount the SD and you will be able to access all your files via USB from your PC
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I don't have cwm . Like I said I only have the stock recovery screens I.e factory reset and download mode.
Do a factory reset, it won't erase your data.
Not sure that would work. It says wipe user data and factory reset so surely it would wipe my data. Plus I don't think that'll work anyway as I changed a file which caused the boot loop so I don't think a factory reset will fix that file.
Androboyben said:
Not sure that would work. It says wipe user data and factory reset so surely it would wipe my data. Plus I don't think that'll work anyway as I changed a file which caused the boot loop so I don't think a factory reset will fix that file.
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what info are you trying to get off the device? the sms etc are stored on your data and will be wiped by a reinstall/factory reset
anything on the usb side for storage will not get touched
Factory reset wont clear anything on the internal_sd
thank you.....but
thanks for the replies peeps ill trust your knowledge (and have pressed the thanks button )
got a day off tomorrow so gonna try and get it up and running again,
Question though, being as i buggered up the stock rom wont flashing the new rom (when i figure out how) delete internal data either.
the reason im being carefull is i did some awesome illustrations (imo) for a childrens book im writing so hoping to save those.
Androboyben said:
thanks for the replies peeps ill trust your knowledge (and have pressed the thanks button )
got a day off tomorrow so gonna try and get it up and running again,
Question though, being as i buggered up the stock rom wont flashing the new rom (when i figure out how) delete internal data either.
the reason im being carefull is i did some awesome illustrations (imo) for a childrens book im writing so hoping to save those.
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it depends on if you use a wipe or non wipe rom, a non wipe wil lkeep qall the data stored on the android system intact but you might get bootloops if it doesnt replace the file you say you deleted
took the plunge......alls good
Richy99 said:
it depends on if you use a wipe or non wipe rom, a non wipe wil lkeep qall the data stored on the android system intact but you might get bootloops if it doesnt replace the file you say you deleted
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Thanks Richy99, i took the plunge and followed nasgilani's guide to installing stock rom, i was supprised when it completed that even my home screens etc were as they were before (appart from widgets being blank) and glad to see "as you all said" my data intact.
i shall be more cautious before i start messing with mods next time
basically internal usb storage of 11gb will never be touched when you factory reset nor wil lanything on an external sd card
the only thing that gets wiped is the 1gb internal space for the rom and data on that partition such as sms/email etc
I know this is an old topic but I noticed it wasn't exactly answered.. I'm trying to send mine back to the factory for warranty because the power button no longer functions. I have the stock rom and recovery and I'm stuck in boot loop because I can't execute factory wipe with the power button. I'd like to pull my data off of the internal SD but am unable to fix the bootloop without forcing the wipe.
I know metter is over now, it was just ur worrying, otherwise wiping cache,wiping data from recovery , flashing stock rom (wipe/non wipe) nothing.will erase data on internal memory.
Just for knowledge
aroma file manager is available, which works from recovery, it can work even you device stucked, unable to boot..
Edit ; sometime you feel ashamed, just come to know this is 6month old topic
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Ok, I looked in some of the threads already posted, but didn't really see the problem that I am having.
My A500 gets stuck in boot loop. I can access the recovery and wipe data, flash etc... however, none of that is working. After I have wiped EVERYTHING and reflashed the Thor ROM 14.2 I get stuck in boot loop again with the little blue android with the spinning gears... That's it. I'm spent, I have no idea what I should do next. I only paid $260 for this bad boy, so I'm not sending it to ACER to charge me money to fix it... Any ideas?
Have you tried to format your sd card and place a fresh download of the rom you wish to flash on the sd and tried again.. It sounds like there is something corrupt.
This would my first thing to try from what i understand about your Question . If you try the above and still have issues. post back all the details that caused you to end up in this situation. from rom version you were on at first and recovery your using as well as details on how you flashed.
Good Luck.
I'll try that, but skeptical about it. Since I last posted, I have tried a nandroid restore, flashing a different rom, a couple more complete data wipe/factory data resets, no luck on that. I am formatting the SD card now, in hopes I can get a good clean flash?
Edit: I just realized all the wipedata/factory rests I've been doing haven't worked as they never complete. They say 'error formatting...' and before I can read what all it says it cannot format, it disappears. I guess at first I just thought it was wiping really fast...
edit: formatting the sd card, did not work. im still stuck in bootloop.
Edit: I think I found my solution here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=23246074#post23246074
so far it seems to be working...
So that link got you up and running? I'm always afraid of the boot loop and like to prepare for the worst
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Do you get an error message when you try to wipe data factory reset? If you do then your data partition is corrupt, happened to me yesterday. the way you fix this is go into recovery>backup/restore> toggle backup and restore of internal storage (/data/media) so it says enabled>mounts and storage>format data. Then you should be good to go. This REALLY formats the data partition so EVERYTHING will be deleted on it.
first,sorry for my bad english. I've been able to light up my acer a500 but I got stuck in airplane mode on email section.any one can help me?
it fixed mine
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Do you get an error message when you try to wipe data factory reset? If you do then your data partition is corrupt, happened to me yesterday. the way you fix this is go into recovery>backup/restore> toggle backup and restore of internal storage (/data/media) so it says enabled>mounts and storage>format data. Then you should be good to go. This REALLY formats the data partition so EVERYTHING will be deleted on it.
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thanks for the input keegWag.... got my tablet going again.
I just bought a Nexus 4 last night and installed CM 10 on it. I have a question about this since it doesn't have an SD card. I came from flashing ROMs on my Doubleshot for a couple of years. Whenever I do the wipe drill in CWM, everything that is on the SD card is still there on the new ROM.
Yesterday, when I rooted the Nexus and installed CM, I guess I took for granted the same would happen. Normally, I don't care, but I had a sweet picture of my cat that I wanted to keep and forgot about it. I guess I learned my lesson, but assuming I go to flash another ROM in the future, do I need to make sure to back up this virtual SD card and will it always get wiped in the process? Or was this a byproduct of the rooting procedure. I knew I should have uploaded it to Facebook or something. I just wasn't thinking about it.
I guess that was because I unlocked the boot loader. Dang
Either you unlocked your bootloader then installed the ROM(unlocking wipes everything) or in recovery you wiped /data instead of doing a factory reset
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The storage is unified on this device so you have to be careful what you wipe. Best bet is to get dropbox and let it sync photos as you take them that way you will never lose them. Also invest in a good backup program, I prefer Koush's carbon backup, so that you can sync your data for your apps.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...SwxLDEwMiwiY29tLmtvdXNoaWtkdXR0YS5iYWNrdXAiXQ..
Hi, yes, i believe I did format /data as well as a factory reset. I cannot remember exactly how. I do know that on the Doubleshot, they made a point to suggest formatting /system, /data and /cache. Is all that not necessary for a clean wipe between different roms?
Also, that backup app that was linked looks nice, but I already use Titanium pro. Does this one have any advantage?
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iceolate said:
Hi, yes, i believe I did format /data as well as a factory reset. I cannot remember exactly how. I do know that on the Doubleshot, they made a point to suggest formatting /system, /data and /cache. Is all that not necessary for a clean wipe between different roms?
Also, that backup app that was linked looks nice, but I already use Titanium pro. Does this one have any advantage?
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Just use factory reset option and your SD card contents will be fine.
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Hi everyone, sorry to post but I'm at wits end.
I've searched and googled all over for the past week and have found problems similar to mine but none of the fixes have worked.
If this has already been asked I apologise and will remove but here goes:
I rooted my phone and using the latest cwm flashed the rc1 of cm10, this didnt flash properly so I tried again, no joy.
I read around and decided to try with a different recovery, twrp.
So I tried flashing with that, again no joy. so i used twrp to do factory reset and cache wipes. As I was unfamiliar with the layout of twrp I'm under the impression I've deleted or wiped the cache/system and data partitions.
I've since flashed a PIT file to restore the original partitions, gone back to stock tried reflashing new roms. Its been a nightmare.
The issue itself is no recovery can mount the ext-sd which is actually the internal memory and cannot access the cache/log etc.
The phone itself shuts down randomly and then will not boot up.
Adb can't write or push anything to the device either, the strange thing is when the phones working for brief periods of time I can read and write to device memory?so at this point I'm flat out of ideas.
Any help/ideas or advice would be gratefully received, once again thanks guys
kingbob134 said:
Hi everyone, sorry to post but I'm at wits end.
I've searched and googled all over for the past week and have found problems similar to mine but none of the fixes have worked.
If this has already been asked I apologise and will remove but here goes:
I rooted my phone and using the latest cwm flashed the rc1 of cm10, this didnt flash properly so I tried again, no joy.
I read around and decided to try with a different recovery, twrp.
So I tried flashing with that, again no joy. so i used twrp to do factory reset and cache wipes. As I was unfamiliar with the layout of twrp I'm under the impression I've deleted or wiped the cache/system and data partitions.
I've since flashed a PIT file to restore the original partitions, gone back to stock tried reflashing new roms. Its been a nightmare.
The issue itself is no recovery can mount the ext-sd which is actually the internal memory and cannot access the cache/log etc.
The phone itself shuts down randomly and then will not boot up.
Adb can't write or push anything to the device either, the strange thing is when the phones working for brief periods of time I can read and write to device memory?so at this point I'm flat out of ideas.
Any help/ideas or advice would be gratefully received, once again thanks guys
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Try and root your phone again with this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2219803
Thanks for the suggestion, this is the root file I've been flashing already
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The issue itself is no recovery can mount the ext-sd which is actually the internal memory and cannot access the cache/log etc.
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Ext sd is your sdcard.Internal memory is the system and data.
The pit file was not needed after you formatted the system.Its only for repartition.
My suggestion is to format system flash stock rom do a factory reset then reboot.
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Sorry thats my mistake, I can't mount ext-sd in recovery to format it and nothing can be acessed in cache or cache/logs, hence I thought it was an issue with the partitions. I've tried your suggestion but will try again.
Thankyou
kingbob134 said:
Sorry thats my mistake, I can't mount ext-sd in recovery to format it and nothing can be acessed in cache or cache/logs, hence I thought it was an issue with the partitions. I've tried your suggestion but will try again.
Thankyou
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Is your phone booting fine ? I didn't understand your actual problem.I just checked the recovery.Sd-ext is the second partion for the sdcard./external sd is the sdcard.
If cache can't be mounted just format it.
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Hi again. Cache can be mounted and formatted but recovery can't access cache/logs. My biggest issue is that the phone will randomly close when under stress and hit a bootloop that can only be cured by attaching the charger. The phone does boot I'm currently running pacman ROM. Tbh I'm fairly certain I wiped something important but flashing stock and even a pit file hasn't corrected it
kingbob134 said:
Hi again. Cache can be mounted and formatted but recovery can't access cache/logs. My biggest issue is that the phone will randomly close when under stress and hit a bootloop that can only be cured by attaching the charger. The phone does boot I'm currently running pacman ROM. Tbh I'm fairly certain I wiped something important but flashing stock and even a pit file hasn't corrected it
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Weired.Did you try other recoveries ? Unfortunately I don't have any idea of what else you can do.
I've tried cwm, twrp and am currently running philztouch recovery as this seems to be the most stable on my phone, I can mount every directory but sd-ext and it also cant format that directory.
I installed AParted app to it this afternoon during a shortlived moment of clarity, phone not me, and tried fixing partitions/blocks. the only viewable were /dev/block/mmcblk0 and /dev/block/mmcblk1
the former, blk1 had 4 pieces of varying sizes but no registered file system whilst the latter was fat32. Could it be that the unacessable sd-ext is in the wrong file format? I've read for cwm and philz it needs to be ext4 but I may be mistaken.
also the crashing seems to occur when an app or process attempts to write to our unaccesable area and leaves me in a bootloop stating the battery is dead. So weird...
beginning to lose hope of solving this and fixing my buggy phone
Anyone with any ideas/experience please help, I'm willing to try almost anything at this point
thanks again guys
ext-sd?
Have no idea about this, but who cares
Many TWRP and CWM first releases break /data and /cache when you format them in recovery
Only known fix for is to flash a full STOCK rom (sammobile tar.md5) using odin + PIT (the right one, memory wise)
All my last recovery releases fully support all format options on S4
By the way, internal storage = sdcard = /data
Thanks for your quick reply Phil. I've flashed back to stock multiple times using a pit file and the sammobile firmware for my device. No joy unfortunately. And your recovery brings back an error when trying to mount or format sd-ext. I don't know what the issue could be but its crashing my phone near constantly
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Thanks for your quick reply Phil. I've flashed back to stock multiple times using a pit file and the sammobile firmware for my device. No joy unfortunately. And your recovery brings back an error when trying to mount or format sd-ext. I don't know what the issue could be but its crashing my phone near constantly
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Hi,
try to fix it tru kies recovery.
Have you tried formating your Ext SD card in a PC? maybe its corrupt?
Also the boot loop you mentioned, only being fixed by attaching a charger sounds like a faulty battery. Is it swollen in the middle?
I would try new SD card and/or battery and see if that helps.
I've tried lies and no joy. The sd-ext is a partition in the internal memory not the external SD card, confusing I know. Battery appears fine. During my reading someone mentioned it may be inaccessible due to it being in the wrong format also that it could've corrupted blocks of memory and the crash occurs when the phone tries to access said block. Any thoughts?
kingbob134 said:
I've tried lies and no joy. The sd-ext is a partition in the internal memory not the external SD card, confusing I know. Battery appears fine. During my reading someone mentioned it may be inaccessible due to it being in the wrong format also that it could've corrupted blocks of memory and the crash occurs when the phone tries to access said block. Any thoughts?
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Hhhhmmm have you tried running a e2fsck on the sd-ext block?
Sd-ext is the second partition of the SD card while /external-sd is the primary.If you don't have a second partition that's normal if it can't get mounted.
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sd-ext is in external_sd
If that's only error you get, it is not an error, it is normal
Google for sd-ext
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Well that clears that issue but still leaves me with the crashes and bootloop.
When I try to flash a ROM via recovery it isn't 100percent successful and it then says it can't access cache and cache/recovery/log even though when the phone is running they are visible so I know they're there. This is driving me to despair now. Thanks for the input guys
kingbob134 said:
Well that clears that issue but still leaves me with the crashes and bootloop.
When I try to flash a ROM via recovery it isn't 100percent successful and it then says it can't access cache and cache/recovery/log even though when the phone is running they are visible so I know they're there. This is driving me to despair now. Thanks for the input guys
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Did you try a factory reset with philz recovery ? Technically that should format cache and data with a compatible filesystem
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Styrke said:
Did you try a factory reset with philz recovery ? Technically that should format cache and data with a compatible filesystem
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Yeah I tried that. Still nothing
Hi,
I updated to TWRP 2.8.2.0, in which developers changed the arrangement of Wipe buttons. I was busy, and pressed the buttons as i remember them and always do this (wipe system, cache and dalvic), without looking to phone screen.
Strangely, I found my free space 13 Gb !!!!!!!! .... Then realized that internal storage was wiped.
Everything on phone was lost.
I lost all my photos, 1 year worth.
Can anyone recommend a way to restore them ?
Thanks guys and really I appreciate it.
aymnahmd said:
Hi,
I updated to TWRP 2.8.2.0, in which developers changed the arrangement of Wipe buttons. I was busy, and pressed the buttons as i remember them and always do this (wipe system, cache and dalvic), without looking to phone screen.
Strangely, I found my free space 13 Gb !!!!!!!! .... Then realized that internal storage was wiped.
Everything on phone was lost.
I lost all my photos, 1 year worth.
Can anyone recommend a way to restore them ?
Thanks guys and really I appreciate it.
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I think it's all gone unfortunately, unless you were using something like Dropbox. I'd recommend that for the future, just sync DCIM with your PC and you're safe.
I did that once too, it's quite a lesson to learn! At least you can connect via adb, that sort of thing, to get a ROM onto the phone again. You can also copy internal storage to your PC with that method, too, so if you ever plan to do something extravagant, you can first back up the whole internal storage.
paul c said:
I think it's all gone unfortunately, unless you were using something like Dropbox. I'd recommend that for the future, just sync DCIM with your PC and you're safe.
I did that once too, it's quite a lesson to learn! At least you can connect via adb, that sort of thing, to get a ROM onto the phone again. You can also copy internal storage to your PC with that method, too, so if you ever plan to do something extravagant, you can first back up the whole internal storage.
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Sad
The ironic thing is that I copied all my phone to PC one day before, to install stock Lollipop which will wipe everything.
Unfortunately, I deleted the backup from PC once i restored it to phone.
Can't recover it from PC now.
I learnt my hard lesson.
Try recuva for the pc
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Happened to me last week.
I just switched from CWM to TWRP. When I tried to do a full wipe, I got a bit cocky and said to myself, "I don't need to carefully read the steenking warnings... I've been using CWM for a long time... how much trouble can I get with TWRP?"
After typing YES to the confirmation, I expected the wipe to be quick -- 5s -- but then it took a bit longer. It was only then that I realized that I wiped everything, including the SD.
Oh well... lessons learned.
BUT the good thing about losing my KitKat nandroid is that I got rid of old files and get a fresh start.