I'm running stock/unrooted with my bootloader unlocked.
I wanted to try out the PA beta with the PIE navigation so I used adb fastboot to boot into TWRP 2.3.3.3 (not flashed, booted the image directly. I have no custom recovery flashed) to make a nandroid backup. This is the second one I've made with this method but this one went tits up. It reported success and I rebooted. All of my apps are in place and everything seems to be in order other than that my /sdcard folder was completely wiped. All my of pictures and everything. The only folders it contains are the ones the OS and apps are creating as they need them. I also have the /TWRP folder but it only contains .twrps and .version.
I get the same results from ES File Explorer. I went back in TWRP to use the built-in root file explorer to see if it was a permissions issue but it is not. The recovery file explorer shows the same results. The only folders under /sdcard are newly created by Android or by my apps.
Anyone have any idea what happened here and how I can prevent it from happening again?
EDIT: Oddly enough I just noticed if I go back into the TWRP backup screen it's reporting about 2GB less free space (approx backup size) than it did when I made the backup that apparently broke everything. I can't seem to find any backup actually stored though. The Restore option doesn't list any backups available to restore.
EDIT2: I found the backup. It is in /data/media/TWRP. /data/media/0 has the contents of the newly created /sdcard folder but none of my old data is anywhere to be found. Did TWRP writing this folder break my /sdcard folder somehow?
Was on rooted 4.3 with PA3.99, backed up all apps and data using Titanium. Not sure which folder, but when I copied the /sdcard folder to my computer the backup folder was in /storage/emulated/legacy and it was full of .properties files. Now I'm rooted (using SuperSU) on 4.4.2 (stock ROM) and have put the folder in /sdcard but Titanium won't recognise it. I've tried changing the backup location to /storage/emulated/legacy, 'Force system BusyBox', fixing permissions in TWRP, and lots of other stuff I've found online that fixed it for others, but nothing works. If I create a new backup of an app, it recognises that fine, but if I change the name of the 4.3 backup file to the new one, it shows up as a valid file but restoring doesn't seem to do anything.
Hi there. Today ive restored my device using twrp. After the restore i am unable to copy, paste, move, delete files in the internal storage using es file explorer. When attepmting this, i get a message 'access denied' . Strangely, the stock file manager works just fine. I tried to wipe cache, done the fix permissions option in twrp and still, nothing helped. Im running a stock rooted 4.4.2 rom.
I flashed my i9500 with TWRP 2.8.1.0 using Odin and it wrote an undeletable backup onto my internal memory. To get rid of that, I backed up the "BACKUPS" folder and formatted the internal storage only for it now to cause the entire internal storage to be write protected to my android apps. I can copy and delete stuff to it through PC but my apps wont work, those that require to download pics and videos or make backups to the internal storage, web browsers can't download anything to the internal storage yet I now have over 7GB free space.
It's clear TWRP is write protecting the internal storage selectively (first it wrote protected the storage to both the phone and pc, now to the phone only). How should I sort this problem out?
I have also just tried using root explorer to change permissions to the internal storage but it doesn't work. It's failing. Titanium backup shows its own backup folder is unwrittable. It cannot be changed by Root explorer
I just tried fixing permissions in twrp but to no avail. I uninstalled Clean master only to try and re-install it and it won't install now, it gives a failed install error. Kingsoft office continually shows "stopped working" and fails to work completely. All this started with flashing Twrp. I can't view pics in whats app or send them, neither can I edit documents. Any help to rid of this issue will be gladly appreciated.
People please please avoid twrp at all costs!, i have now lost all my data and apps are all failing. I deerly deerly regret why i ever flashed twrp recover in the first place!
I seem to have solved the issue after a very grueling experience.
TWRP has its flaws and it is quite notable here. Here is how I have gotten around the issue:-
Immediately after I installed TWRP I made a system backup of the entire phone as of its state at the time.
I copied it to my pc and tried to delete the backup that TWRP had made. It was completely write protected, nothing could delete it.
I then decided to use TWRP to format my internal storage after backing it up. Then restore the data back which I did successfully.
Little did I know what had happened. TWRP had assigned the internal storage attributes that even Root explorer (paid) could not undo.
The internal storage had become unusable to the system and user apps.
Slowly my apps began to collapse one after the other failing. From frustration I tried to salvage the data the apps held at the time so that I can factory reset and restore but Titanium backup could not access its own folder. That's where all the frustration begun.
I later flashed CWM and accidentally formatted all my data instead of the data partition.. this was now hell.
One last try which was about 5 hours later I returned TWRP recovery, wiped the data partition and got hold of my prior backup with TWRP, restored it and am 9 hrs back from total loss of data. So the internal storage now has its initial attributes prior to the predicament.
Am actually back exactly to where all this mayhem began when I decided to delete the "BACKUPS" folder and there was absolutely nothing else that was wrong, which now I will attempt to delete hoping that I won't experience deja vu.
This is a problem worth reporting to TWRP developers and I don't know how
TWRP recovery Fix Permissions
I couldn't delete back ups from the internal storage at all. I couldn't even copy saved back ups from my pc to my Note 3. I went into TWRP recovery, under Advanced select Fix Permissions
Now I can delete folders in the TWRP main folder with a ES file explorer or on my PC via usb cable.
Never had any problems like this with TWRP on my S4+. For me the backups taken and its folders can be handled just fine, copied, deleted, moved etc. Must be som compatibility issue with your setup.
Hey all,
Did a Nandroid backup yesterday of stock 4.4 Touchwiz. Installed CM13, didn't like it, restored back to my backup from the day prior. It boots fine, all my apps are there, but if I open eStrongs File Explorer it opens to /storage/emulated/0 and it's completely empty. I also can't write to that location. This is causing issues for any app that needs to access the internal memory.
I know all my data is still there because if I plug the phone into my PC via USB I can navigate all my folders etc.
Anybody know what's gone wrong?
Side note - but I did the backup with TWRP v 2.7 or 2.8, then upgraded it to v3 at some point prior to the restore.