I was playing with TWRP and tryign to re-flash my rom and instead of factory resetting, i accidentally formatted data, in which you have to type yes. For some dumb reason I thought that was factory reset, then i flashed my roms like no problem and now its loops at the screen. I then tried to factory reset and it says failed.
I did a search and i found out i have to adb push the rom to the directory but i already ahve the rom on my sd card, would this fix it to?
Are you fimiliar with Odin?
You might try this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2259513
You might have to re-root, I don't know. Read carefully.
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I cant make any changes to my phone. Every time I reboot it reverts back to the state it was this morning. I'm on CM7.
My phone was crashing today, so I decided to do a wipe, however on reboot everything reverts back to the state it was this morning.
I tried doing a nandroid restore using TWRP. Restore completed successfully, but everything reverts back to today's state on reboot.
I tried wiping everything in TWRP, but on reboot everything is reverted as if i had not done anything
Thinking TWRP was the problem i installed clockworkmod and did multiple wipes, but on reboot everything reverted
I have tried doing a Format system, data, etc and no matter what everything reverts back on reboot
I tried re-installing CM7, but again everything reverts back
I tried installing CM9 and it would not boot at all. I then re-installed CM7 and when i rebooted everything reverted to today's state.
Even if i uninstall an app, remove widgets, or anything, on reboot everything reverts back
When I try to wipe using system settings, I get the following error message "Invalid Path: null"
At this point I'm out of ideas. I want to do a full wipe and do a fresh rom flash. Any thoughts would be appreciated.
One more detail. I set the alarm on the phone for 7:00am last night, however the alarm went off at 6:30am which was the time I set it to the night before. I assume the phone rebooted on its own during the night and set the alarm back to what it was the day before. Thanks in advance if anyone has some insight.
No idea what the hell is going on with the phone.
Full wipe and flash the official factory images onto your phone with fastboot. They are here. https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/images
Guides on how to do it are on these forums....
albundy2010 said:
No idea what the hell is going on with the phone.
Full wipe and flash the official factory images onto your phone with fastboot. They are here. https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/images
Guides on how to do it are on these forums....
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I didn't try fastboot yet. I'll try that when I get home. Thanks
I just performed a wipe via fastboot and tried installing a rom via fastboot. I got successful messages, but open reboot everything reverted back. At this point I don't know what to do.
Installing a ROM via fastboot? What exactly did you do?
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Installing a ROM via fastboot? What exactly did you do?
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I actually just did the wipe via fast boot then installed the rom via clockwork. I performed the fastboot -w command.
I also just flashed Twrp again. Mounted the SD card, deleted all files on the SD card. SD card showed full capacity. I then unmounted and remounted and all files returned. I dont get any errors in clockwork or twrp yet they are unable to do anything and have it stick.
Within the rom i mounted The SD card and deleted all my files in windows. I took about 15 seconds and everything looked clear. I then unmounted and mounted again and all files appear. Its almost like i don't have write access to the phone, but there are zero error messages during deletes and wipes
Only thing left to try is stock screwing around with a ROM / cmw etc and flash factory images with fastboot.
Sounds like it may not work but try it. Was your device encrypted?
Can try a fastboot OEM lock and unlock and flash back all factory images. If that don't work you're Sol I suppose. Could try odin but if fastboot flash factory images dont work I don't see that working either.
It sounds like the sd card becomes read-only
This has been bugging me and I can't seem to find anything on here to explain it.
I have installed custom ROMs on my N7. Problem is most ROM instructions say to do a full wipe/factory reset. When I do that, the downloaded ROM that was sitting on the SDCard gets wiped out as well.
I then have to go back and search for info on how to reset/restore the N7 and start all over, because the recovery (both CWM and TeamWin) don't let me mount the SD card to copy the needed zip over.
How can I do the recommended data wipe without losing the sd card contents?
Failing that, what's easiest way to get the ROM zip back on the N7 when the recovery won't allow it?
Thanks
dont wipe data...
just do a 'factory reset' in custom recovery...then flash a rom
I use TWRP & don't wipe everything, just System & Factory (to delete installed apps).
This is after wiping Cache & Dalvik Cache.
Unless I'm missing something a data wipe will wipe everything except recovery.
I don't think we have the option to exempt the media folder like on other devices.
(you type faster than me PG)
I appreciate the suggestions, and I've done the factory wipe. It wiped out the /SDcard folder contents where the zips were.
How do I get zips back on the N7? tried ADB, tried sideload from TWRP, nothing works.
Having many more problems than the last time I did this.
jneg123 said:
I appreciate the suggestions, and I've done the factory wipe. It wiped out the /SDcard folder contents where the zips were.
How do I get zips back on the N7? tried ADB, tried sideload from TWRP, nothing works.
Having many more problems than the last time I did this.
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factory reset in TWRP doesnt touch /data/media
are you sure you are on the most recent version of recovery?
updated to latest recovery version, that seemed to be my issue. sd card now untouched.
Pirateghost said:
factory reset in TWRP doesnt touch /data/media
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Pirateghost speaks the truth.
The stock recovery however, wipes everything with it's "factory reset".
It's a little bit unfortunate that the identical terminology is used. No doubt new folks will occasionally get bit by assuming they are the same.
I haven't used cwm yet; not sure what it means by "factory reset" - or even if it uses that terminology.
I have a P550 tablet, using Odin i installed stock Rom but it did not format, it did not delete everything in it. Using stock recovery factory reset does not work either.
School It managers disabled entering settings, so i guess they did something to tablet not format inside but i flash Rom still cant format it. How can i fresh install stock Rom?
yken said:
I have a P550 tablet, using Odin i installed stock Rom but it did not format, it did not delete everything in it. Using stock recovery factory reset does not work either.
School It managers disabled entering settings, so i guess they did something to tablet not format inside but i flash Rom still cant format it. How can i fresh install stock Rom?
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Just factory reset in recovery. That's all you need to do to go back to factory fresh.
You dont need to do anything else, not sure what you're expecting other than that?
ashyx said:
Just factory reset in recovery. That's all you need to do to go back to factory fresh.
You dont need to do anything else, not sure what you're expecting other than that?
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I learned there is a security program, wmware watch in the tablet, it does not permit to factory reset. I can flash Rom but i dont know why flashing rom does not erase things.
yken said:
I learned there is a security program, wmware watch in the tablet, it does not permit to factory reset. I can flash Rom but i dont know why flashing rom does not erase things.
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I've never heard of such a thing and there's no reason for it to exist. Are you sure you have used factory reset in recovery?
Flashing a rom does not wipe the data partition.
You need to factory reset in recovery to do this.
ashyx said:
I've never heard of such a thing and there's no reason for it to exist. Are you sure you have used factory reset in recovery?
Flashing a rom does not wipe the data partition.
You need to factory reset in recovery to do this.
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Mdm does not allow factory reset. Google this.
Factory reset does not work. I can use odin all i need is if its possible to format using odin.
yken said:
Mdm does not allow factory reset. Google this.
Factory reset does not work. I can use odin all i need is if its possible to format using odin.
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Yes I'm aware of mdm, but have only ever come across this on demo devices.
But that's not what you posted.
Also it is only stock recovery that implements mdm.
If you install twrp then factory reset using twrp it will remove the restriction.
That is the only way I know how. However this may require OEM unlock enabled, of which it seems you can't do.
So I flashed the latest version of TWRP on my s7 edge SM-G935F
And I got the error "failed to mount data" I formatted my phone and I didn't see the error again, I rebooted my phone and everything was working fine then when I wanted to root my phone with Magisk, i went back to TWRP recovery and I got the error again, so I formatted my phone again and rooted it, then I rebooted my phone and I said that the data is corrupted that I should reset my phone to factory reset, I went back to TWRP recovery and still get the same error.
It's like the TWRP recovery is not stable and it also reset immediately you leave so that when you come back you must format your data or factory reset it before you can use the recovery.
Can Anyone help fix this problem, I don't want to wipe/factory reset my phone every time I go to recovery. What if I make a mistake and go to recovery? That means I must wipe/factory reset my phone before using.
Please help!
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So I flashed the latest version of TWRP on my s7 edge SM-G935F
And I got the error "failed to mount data" I formatted my phone and I didn't see the error again, I rebooted my phone and everything was working fine then when I wanted to root my phone with Magisk, i went back to TWRP recovery and I got the error again, so I formatted my phone again and rooted it, then I rebooted my phone and I said that the data is corrupted that I should reset my phone to factory reset, I went back to TWRP recovery and still get the same error.
It's like the TWRP recovery is not stable and it also reset immediately you leave so that when you come back you must format your data or factory reset it before you can use the recovery.
Can Anyone help fix this problem, I don't want to wipe/factory reset my phone every time I go to recovery. What if I make a mistake and go to recovery? That means I must wipe/factory reset my phone before using.
Please help!
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If it's telling you "failed to mount /data", go to wipe > format data and type yes. Factory reset, do your things and then reboot back and install what you want, you shouldn't get the error anymore.
But later if I want to flash another thing like a mod, I have to wipe data again
Visera said:
If it's telling you "failed to mount /data", go to wipe > format data and type yes. Factory reset, do your things and then reboot back and install what you want, you shouldn't get the error anymore.
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But later if I want to flash another thing like a mod, I have to wipe data again.
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But later if I want to flash another thing like a mod, I have to wipe data again.
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Nono. Wipe data once, factory reset in twrp, and you don't need to wipe data again after that. Only wipe it once after you format data.
Visera said:
Nono. Wipe data once, factory reset in twrp, and you don't need to wipe data again after that. Only wipe it once after you format data.
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Okay, thanks for the help
Hi,
My s7 got a little bit strange so there very heavy lags.
After this I decided to try a cache wipe.
Aftrerwards I thought i going on the over to the factory reset and this will fix everything.
BUT still it didn´t worked and the reset failed
The output looks like this:
E:format_volume: make ext4 failed on /devblpck/platform/155a0000ufs/by-name/US
Data wipe failed!
Afterwards I reinstalled the OS several times with ODIN.
Still stuck in a Bootloop and a factory reset brings up the same error.
Even a nand erase aswell as a repartition with the correct pit file leeds to the same error.
At the moment I guess the phone is dead and there is no more help.
Or am I wrong and there is a way to bring this back to live?
How did you wipe the phone? You can wipe with twrp and also with adb.
I wiped it with the standard recovery delivered from the Phone.
I tried to flash it a couple of times with odin but still ran in to this error..
Try wipe it with adb. Can you boot into stock recovery? If you cant wipe, make sure you are flashing the correct csc for your phone. So it has to be explicitly for your region and network operator.