I just rooted my phone and tried installing cm 13 but accidentally downloaded the recovery file and not the rom file. Not knowing about twrp 3 I went to flash cm and it asked what partition to flash on and I selected the boot partition and when I booted it went straight to cm recovery. I fixed that issue by restoring my backup through twrp but now when I go into the file manager on the phone it shows 0 of 0 bytes available on my internal storage. When in twrp however it still shows all of my files. I've tried downloading anything but since it's showing 0 of 0 bytes everything I download fails. Never had this happen before and need some help. Thanks in advance
Never mind I've fixed my issue by hard resetting through twrp
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I am not sure why but when I backup using TWRP Recovery it completes successfully but there is nothing written to the Data partitions. If I try to backup just the data I get a 25 MB file. It should be nearer to 6 GB. Whats more weird is the backup did work a while back and if I restore to that one I can make one more backup with Data included. After that one it stops backing up the Data partition again. Has anyone had an issue where Data is not actually being backed up even though it is selected and shows successful? Any thoughts?
I have a stock rooted Sprint Galaxy S4 on NAE. I have not taken the update.
Update: I tried updating from TWRP 2.6.3.1 to 2.8.0.1. That did seem to resolve the problem but left a new issue. After the backup is complete I always go to the file explorer in TWRP and make sure its there, which is was. But with 2.8.0.1 after I reboot the backup is gone. So I backed up again, and again checked the file explorer and it was there, powered the phone off and put the sd card in my pc and I can see the backup is there. Put the card back in my phone and turn it on, and the backup is gone. ???????
So I tried a different version of TWRP recovery. I installed 2.7.1.0 this time and now I'm back to the original issue. The backup is made, and I can see it again after the phone reboots but there is no data partitions being backed up even though during the process it says it is.
I have attached the TWRP log for assistance. The log shows it wrote quite a bit to data.ext4.win000 but this is 0 bytes in the backup directory. At the top of the log it says "Total size of all data: 7438MB" which I believe is accurate since my last good backup with data was 6.5GB. At the end of the log it says "Data backup size is 5052MB" but the directory properties show the backup size is really 2.2GB. This is because nothing is written to the data archive.
Could someone please help?
Anyone?
I noticed this same thing of 0 byte with data.ext4.win000 file in my TWRP backup 2.7
Viper41086 said:
Update: I tried updating from TWRP 2.6.3.1 to 2.8.0.1. That did seem to resolve the problem but left a new issue. After the backup is complete I always go to the file explorer in TWRP and make sure its there, which is was. But with 2.8.0.1 after I reboot the backup is gone. So I backed up again, and again checked the file explorer and it was there, powered the phone off and put the sd card in my pc and I can see the backup is there. Put the card back in my phone and turn it on, and the backup is gone. ???????
So I tried a different version of TWRP recovery. I installed 2.7.1.0 this time and now I'm back to the original issue. The backup is made, and I can see it again after the phone reboots but there is no data partitions being backed up even though during the process it says it is.
I have attached the TWRP log for assistance. The log shows it wrote quite a bit to data.ext4.win000 but this is 0 bytes in the backup directory. At the top of the log it says "Total size of all data: 7438MB" which I believe is accurate since my last good backup with data was 6.5GB. At the end of the log it says "Data backup size is 5052MB" but the directory properties show the backup size is really 2.2GB. This is because nothing is written to the data archive.
Could someone please help?
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I noticed this same thing of 0 byte with data.ext4.win000 file and similar other conditions in my TWRP backup 2.7 on N7100 DN3 5.5. I am worried there's some corruption with data partitions. I have then redone the TWRP backup without compression and now the file is of reasonable size. Earlier my phone had gone into sudden bootloops for no apparent reason. Only after I changed the battery (which I had thought was the lamest thing to try) did it come back to normal. My phone however seems very slow and wonky. Now I am going back to dealing with those more serious issues.
I had problems with TWRP also not backing up correctly. I'm not sure why that is the problem, but I use Clockworkmod due to this issue. TWRP was not backing up Touchwiz roms correctly so my restores never worked. It seemed to work fine for ASOP roms though. At any rate, I never found TWRP reliable and I recommend anyone I know to use old school CWM instead.
I had a problem with TWRP a long time ago. Can't remember exactly what it was. I just like TWRP because it's touch but I went with Philz recovery and it never fails and is also touch or you can use the volume keys to navigate along with customize the look. It's the best recovery in my opinion. You should flash Philz recovery.
Here's the link for the Sprint Galaxy S4
https://goo.im/devs/philz_touch/CWM_Advanced_Edition/jfltespr/
I was rooted on 6.0 and wanted to keep my user data, so I downloaded the 6.0.1 factory image and individually flashed the different pieces with Fast boot.
I also updated to the latest TWRP.
My phone now boots to 6.0.1 and works normally, but when I go into recovery TWRP can't access the internal SD card and just shows 0 bytes, so I can't reflash SuperSU.
Anyone know what I can do to fix this?
Thanks so much for any help!
Isn't that because you have updated everything so therefore everything gets wiped. It's showing nothing because there is nothing there. Just redownload it.
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I was rooted on 6.0 and wanted to keep my user data, so I downloaded the 6.0.1 factory image and individually flashed the different pieces with Fast boot.
I also updated to the latest TWRP.
My phone now boots to 6.0.1 and works normally, but when I go into recovery TWRP can't access the internal SD card and just shows 0 bytes, so I can't reflash SuperSU.
Anyone know what I can do to fix this?
Thanks so much for any help!
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Did you flash/format userdata?
I'm having the same issue. If I look at my SD memory when the phone is on all of my files are present. As soon as I boot to twrp my SD shows as "0"....ugh. Also what's up with twrp asking for a password when it first start up?
I just clean flashed the new N Developer preview (version 3) on my 6P and that went well, I then fashed the twrp 2.8.7.0 so I could install SU and have root, but after installing the twrp it shows that I have 0 MB left on my internal storage and can't locate the SU zip that I copied to my interal storage.
I might have missed something, but does anyone have any ideas?
Thanks
Think I got it taken care of with fastboot format userdata
Yesterday I tried to install Imperium LL ROM (latest). It kept giving me errors about being unable to mount /system while installing (with Aroma). In the rom's thread I saw that someone had similar issues and he fixed it by deleting /dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.2. I tried renaming it, but it just kept coming back. I the deleted it, rebooted to recovery and tried to install it again. The installer got stuck on formating /system (for about 5 minutes). I rebooted and tried to restore a nandroid backup. It also got stuck on formating /system. In TRWP log I saw 'Failed to mount /system (invalid argument). I went to Wipe->Advanced-> selected system-> Repair or change File System. It shows : Present: Yes; Removable: No; Size: 0MB; Used: 0MB; Free: 0MB; Backup Size: 0MB.
I have full access to recovery and download mode. Is there anything I can do to fix it, or do I have to send it for repair to the shop I bough it in (I have an insurance that covers any damage, even if I caused it)?
I would suggest trying to flash a stock firmware with Odin. Maybe flash it together with a PIT file too.
I flashed Stock, latest Lollipop firmware (without flashing PIT). It seemed to work fine. It did the usual "Optimizing apps" thing, then it rebooted. Right now it seems to be bootlooping. I'm going to try and flash TWRP and see what I can do from there.
EDIT: I flashed recovery and did a factory reset. When rebooting it asked if I want to root and I chose to do so. After about 10 minutes it booted up into the welcome screen (the one where you choose language, wifi etc.). I need to flash the latest modem and bootloader, and then install a ROM.
Thanks @Pwnycorn for help.
If you flash the phone with the latest stock firmware, the phone will be running the latest modem and bootloader.
I did the exact same method as mentioned in this [site](https://samarv-121.github.io/twrp-3.2.3-RMX1801/), but TWRP isn't reading the microSD slot. It gives 0 MB as the size of microSD and I can't select it. Also, it seems to me that TWRP starts from the beginning every time I boot to recovery as I'm getting the 'Allow modifications to system partition' in every boot. I tried wiping the data twice, which removed the internal storage data encryption, but when I booted back to TWRP, it showed it as 0 MB. I've also flashed TWRP several times, but to no avail. One thing that I noticed was that when I flashed TWRP the first time, it showed success, but when booting to recovery, it had stock recovery. I flashed TWRP again and that issue was fixed.
My microSD is FAT32 format, and its contents aren't encrypted. I'm able to read the contents of it on PC and in my phone, but not in recovery. However, when in TWRP, it shows that my SD card is vfat format. I can't wipe it, repair it or change the filetype, as its showing an error.
Can someone please help me out? I'll provide whatever resources are needed. But please tell a detailed way on how to get them. Thank you in advance!