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Flash w/out sdcard?

May have been asked before, but I tried searching and didnt find much luck.
I think my SDCard slot finally gave up, it just will not be read (tried two different 8gb cards that both worked fine on the computer). On Cyan 4.2.9.1.
Anyway, is there a way to flash the phone without the sdcard? I was trying to think how that would be possible, but I think its not right?
Just looking for a quick def. answer so I can know if i need to go phone hunting . Or do something different , which would be much better.
Appreciate it .
Happy holidays btw

You should be able to using ADB, not sure the command lines for that. As well, you might want to try getting a can-o-air and blowing out the SD card slot on your phone.
Lastly, this is the wrong section, should of been posted in Q&A.

pjcforpres said:
You should be able to using ADB, not sure the command lines for that. As well, you might want to try getting a can-o-air and blowing out the SD card slot on your phone.
Lastly, this is the wrong section, should of been posted in Q&A.
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I didnt really think of adb, yeah that might work. Maybe someone knows them?
Maybe
adb shell recovery flash location/zip ?
Tried the canned air, didnt change. Good thinking though.
And lastly, I did debate which place, but I was thinking I saw a utility here or I am looking for the command lines and thought maybe alittle more technical than a general question? It will fall shortly anyway (hopefully after the commands ) or get moved/deleted.

If someone nandroided, they could just send you their system.img and you could fastboot it onto the phone. Provided you have the engineering/danger SPL.

persiansown said:
If someone nandroided, they could just send you their system.img and you could fastboot it onto the phone. Provided you have the engineering/danger SPL.
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Thats a pain, and I dont think there are many of those out there...
No adb commands? Ive been searching but it seems scarce
EDIT:
Ok I tried my idea anyway,
adb shell recovery flash update.zip
And it just hangs (no errors though)...probably missing something?

Are you able to warranty your phone for the bad SDCard Reader??
If so, I started this thread and came up with an answer, but it will bring you back to fully stock cupcake
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=560254

Search for a webpage , how to root/flash/hack g1. It's has everything you need.
You need to go into fastboot
Fastboot update update.zip. somthing like that or do like the website shows 1 at a time.
There might be an adb for it, but I've never used it. Fastboot only option I believe.

bildo said:
Search for a webpage , how to root/flash/hack g1. It's has everything you need.
You need to go into fastboot
Fastboot update update.zip. somthing like that or do like the website shows 1 at a time.
There might be an adb for it, but I've never used it. Fastboot only option I believe.
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That is the better answer, thanks for continuing. If you just left that first sentence I would have said re-read my problem, I cannot use my sdcard (the normal way rom is flashed).
As for the fastboot, I will look into that. I appreciate it, thanks.

Im getting
No android-info.txt
No android-product.txt
In the package when i try to do this command while in fastboot:
fastboot update update.zip
I found android-info in the update file from htc, but I cannot resign right now. Im also guessing it will still yell about the android-product.txt anyway, so any ideas where to get that file?

If all you're trying to do is flash a .img (system.img, userdata.img, recovery.img) and you have a developer, or hardspl, you can flash using fastboot.
Code:
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
fastboot flash system system.img
fastboot flash userdata userdata.img
flashing an update.zip is only possible through recovery mode, but can still be accomplished using the /cache partition
Code:
adb push update.zip /cache
and you should be able to do the update from cache.

haykuro said:
flashing an update.zip is only possible through recovery mode, but can still be accomplished using the /cache partition
Code:
adb push update.zip /cache
and you should be able to do the update from cache.
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Using you're SPL, is it still possible to place an update.zip into /cache with the partition table having been re-written??''
I'm assuming yes, since you jumped in and posted that method, I was just curious

jackslim said:
Using you're SPL, is it still possible to place an update.zip into /cache with the partition table having been re-written??''
I'm assuming yes, since you jumped in and posted that method, I was just curious
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Well you're cache partition should have 30720K (about 30MB)
the last cyanogen rom was 37 MB =[
my other recommendation for you is to push the updates to your sdcard through your phone. (just re-read your post and noticed the SD card is functional in your phone)
Code:
adb push update.zip /sdcard/update.zip
then just proceed as usual.

@theslam08
Your signature say's your using the "Danger SPL" Judging by that you could reflash your spl from fastboot to the hard spl
Code:
fastboot flash hboot spl.bin
Then use the method described above by Haykuro pushing updates to /cache with adb

Thanks for the responses guys .
As for pushing to sdcard while in phone, thats where the problem remains. The sd reader IN the phone is busted it would seem as it just says no sd card found (cannot mount) with 3 different cards I tried (all working on the computer).
Ok so if I flash back the spl will I have more than 40mb free on the cache partition? Because yeh, the most recent update from CM is ~40mb, so it wont fit currently.
ANd once pushed to /cache, how would I go about doing the actual update? You said "you should be able to do the update from the cache part.), not sure how, just give the location?
console: flash update /cache/update.zip ?
Thank you.

theslam08 said:
Thanks for the responses guys .
As for pushing to sdcard while in phone, thats where the problem remains. The sd reader IN the phone is busted it would seem as it just says no sd card found (cannot mount) with 3 different cards I tried (all working on the computer).
Ok so if I flash back the spl will I have more than 40mb free on the cache partition? Because yeh, the most recent update from CM is ~40mb, so it wont fit currently.
ANd once pushed to /cache, how would I go about doing the actual update? You said "you should be able to do the update from the cache part.), not sure how, just give the location?
console: flash update /cache/update.zip ?
Thank you.
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i forgot the exact command to force a boot-recovery and have it flash through cache (the traditional method)
but if your on cyanogen's recovery you can do
Code:
adb shell mount -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock4 /sdcard
this should mount cache into /sdcard, allowing you to flash.

haykuro said:
i forgot the exact command to force a boot-recovery and have it flash through cache (the traditional method)
but if your on cyanogen's recovery you can do
Code:
adb shell mount -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock4 /sdcard
this should mount cache into /sdcard, allowing you to flash.
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Excellent, that seemed to be the trick (after going back to HSPL because yeah, I didnt have enough room with haykuro's). Though some bugs with that.
I got it to copy once after making that partition mount, and I was able to see the update file. I updated, and everything went well (even though I wondered how in the middle of the update it says formatting cache, yet it still worked).
Now, I went to put on a theme file and it says out of room. I hit 'update from sdcard' in recovery and it says E: No zip files found or something like that, just no files. So if it gets 'wiped' how is there no space? Is there a manual format I should do?
And I dont think this has happened to anyone yet, so thanks for going through this , im sure others down the road will find it helpful.

Not to get off-topic or picky about anything, but having the phone without an SD card being able to be read seems kind of pointless.
After all, you won't be able to run A2SD, or move the cache. The phone's going to run as if it was "stock."

akapoor said:
Not to get off-topic or picky about anything, but having the phone without an SD card being able to be read seems kind of pointless.
After all, you won't be able to run A2SD, or move the cache. The phone's going to run as if it was "stock."
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Not being blunt but, thats the point. I have 'no' other choice right now, I cannot get a new phone for a while (and warranty is over, its a yr and 3 months since pur)
I obviously know I cannot use A2SD, so I need to get it to run 'stock', and thats proving to be a trick (stock but not). I almost have it, but cache doesnt seem to wipe on its own, which is the new problem. Once that is cleared, then I should be all set .

theslam08 said:
Not being blunt but, thats the point. I have 'no' other choice right now, I cannot get a new phone for a while (and warranty is over, its a yr and 3 months since pur)
I obviously know I cannot use A2SD, so I need to get it to run 'stock', and thats proving to be a trick (stock but not). I almost have it, but cache doesnt seem to wipe on its own, which is the new problem. Once that is cleared, then I should be all set .
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Ah, okay - now it makes sense. I didn't understand the purpose at first.

Problems galore: NAND backup/restore and now recovery...

Sorry guys, I have searched through, tried all possible things... but cannot get things working... here's my story (long, but gives the whole picture)
1. Was on CM 6.0 (stable) and Amon RA 1.7 recovery
2. Got a new SD card (8gb class 6)
3. Had Nand backups, so just removed the old card and inserted the new
4. Booted into recovery, partitioned SD card, copied CM 6.1.0 RC and gapps onto the SDCard
5. Performed Wipe Data/Factory reset, Wipe cache, Wipe Dalvik-cache and flashed CM 6.1.0 rc and gapps
6. Booted into the ROM, signed into my account, got all my apps from market
7. Everything was running fine
8. Booted into recovery, made a Nand backup and installed Steel my Elegance
9. Booted into the ROM and realized something was not correct, so decided to restore from the Nand backup
10. Booted into recovery and tried to restore - failure, asked me to run nand backup from adb
11. Did that but that did not resolve the situation
12. Performed step #5 (above) again and got it to the original state
13. Did not login into my account, as I wanted to get a backup of a fresh install
14. Booted into recovery made a Nand backup successfully
15. Just to be on the safer side, tried restoring... did not work. Same error - run SH from adb - tried that, but did not work
16. Read somewhere on the forums to wipe cache before backup and try, did that backed up and tried restoring - no go
17. Decided to flash ClockWork recovery - did that through terminal (ROM booting properly)
18. Booted into recovery - successfull
19. Tried creating Nand backup - failed at Cache - cannot image cache error message or something
20. Performed format SD card, cache, system and all other formats available from the recovery (ClockWork mod)
21. Tried performing nand backup - created some folders/files under the clockwork mod folder with junk characters
22. Performed a SD card format from computer (FAT32)
23. Booted into recovery and tried nand backup - no go
24. Decided to revert back to Amon RA 1.7 - flashed through terminal and rebooted into recovery - phone won't go to recovery
25. Though there might be some problem with the img file, so downloaded from multiple locations and tried it - still no go
26. Followed all sorts of instructions - mount/remount, flash_image - no go. When I do flash_image recovery <image name>, the command exits without any errors, but still can't boot into recovery
27. Installed ROM manager and flashed clockworkmod recovery from within, still no go.
28. Performed "Fix permissions" - ended with "Could not run some privileged commands"
29. I can still boot into the ROM and when I go to terminal can do SU - takes me to "#" from "$" - so I am guessing I still have root
It just doesn't add up... and I feel very lost, right now. I guess the only thing remaining to do is go back to 2.1 RUU, reroot and go from there. Is there any other way? Or did I do something wrong?
Can someone please help?
Edit: I had enough battery juice or wall power plugged into the phone while trying the backups and restores...

Do you still have the super user app? Check the permissions in the app, maybe one couldve gotten declined???

go to impalers cyanogen mod q&a, ask there, impaler is really knowlegable and helpful, you should get some concrete help.

I don't think this has anything to do with CM, else would have posted there.
Thanks anyways.

cordell12 said:
Do you still have the super user app? Check the permissions in the app, maybe one couldve gotten declined???
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Checked that, everything that needs access seems to have it.
Any other ideas? I am so close to going RUU route......

Maybe this can help? I dont know never had this happen?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=845069

Thanks everyone... I ended up going the RUU way. Got my recovery back, backup/restore and CM6.1.0 RC up & running. Loooonnnnggg night .

andythegreenguy said:
Thanks everyone... I ended up going the RUU way. Got my recovery back, backup/restore and CM6.1.0 RC up & running. Loooonnnnggg night .
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I hate that you had to go that route, but atleast all is well now. It couldve been worse and not even let you RUU Thats a Scary thought!

cordell12 said:
I hate that you had to go that route, but atleast all is well now. It couldve been worse and not even let you RUU Thats a Scary thought!
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No kidding... . It was so frustrating, just going through it all.
Originally, I had rooted my phone that had 2.31.651.7 on it. So, I applied that RUU and went through the root. It seemed to have rooted fine, but then it won't allow me to flash recovery - did the same steps as I had performed during my first rooting process, but didn't work. Then went through all possible ideas suggested on the forums... still no luck. So, finally put the 2.27.651.5 RUU, followed regaw_leinad's rooting method and everything worked out.
All-in-all a good learning experience .
BTW, for anyone that is reading, I think the issue was a corrupted SD card. I might have pulled it while the phone was running and then applied a corrupted recovery image.

[Q] Phone state won't change no matter what I do

Quick SUMMARY (see details below if you've got some minutes to read!)
-> I need HELP!!!
-> Phone is rooted stock GB with jb hboot unlocked bootloader and TWRP v2.2.0, also superCID.
-> Problem is phone apps keep force closing and won't retain any change I make after reboot
-> Last installed program was ROM Toolbox
-> Steps already taken include: Reboots, Fix permission, Wipe (ALL), ROM Update using Windows, RUU using SD card.
Details
I have a Vivid with Stock Gingerbread (Rooted, Bootloader Unlocked, Juopunutbear hboot, SuperCID S-OFF, TWRP Recovery v2.2.0)
I recently removed the SD card on my vivid to use on another phone (SGS III) and when I returned the SD card and started my vivid, I tried using the file manager (ES Explorer) and it force closed, following series of other apps force closing.
I restarted the phone and the force closing didn't stop. I tried uninstalling the most recently installed app (ROM Toolbox) thinking it might be the culprit and nothing changed. I rebooted the phone and noticed every time I rebooted, the phone goes back to the state (installed apps, settings and every other thing) it was before I removed the SD card.
I installed Titanium Backup to make a Backup and flash the phone, but it kept force closing and after several reboots and attempts, it installed but couldn't acquire root.
I restarted to recovery to fix permissions and cleared cache and dalvik cache then rebooted the phone. No luck!!!
I eventually decided to wipe the ROM and do a fresh RUU install. I wiped system and data using recovery but when I restarted the phone, it booted to the (pre-SD card removal) state and was still force closing.
I tried installing ICS using the RUU from att and I got an "Error 155" on the way. I also tried installing the RUU using PH39IMG method with the SD card, it goes through the normal install process and when the phone booted, it's still the same state it was that it takes me to changing nothing.
I've tried all I know and it seems the phone is "write-locked" as it won't retain any change after reboot, suggestions to what I can do to fix this weird problem please.

I am not so sure...
Did the sgs3 reformat your sdcard to a different file system?
Sent from my HTC Holiday using Tapatalk 2

rignfool said:
I am not so sure...
Did the sgs3 reformat your sdcard to a different file system?
Sent from my HTC Holiday using Tapatalk 2
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No it didn't. I only used the sdcard to copy some files to the sgs3 and I still could access the sdcard on my vivid through Root Browser in ROM Toolbox.

hardware maybe

Interesting... One thing you could do is enable USB debugging, and save a logcat showing your phone hitting some of these FCs so we can see what is causing them.
Once USB debugging is enabled, simply boot your phone, plug into your computer via USB, open a command prompt to where you have ADB tools installed, and type "adb logcat > log.txt
That will stream the log from your phone into a text file. After you get one or two FCs, on the command window hit CTRL + C to close the console, and save the log. Then post it as an attachment here.

ess.boyer said:
Interesting... One thing you could do is enable USB debugging, and save a logcat showing your phone hitting some of these FCs so we can see what is causing them.
Once USB debugging is enabled, simply boot your phone, plug into your computer via USB, open a command prompt to where you have ADB tools installed, and type "adb logcat > log.txt
That will stream the log from your phone into a text file. After you get one or two FCs, on the command window hit CTRL + C to close the console, and save the log. Then post it as an attachment here.
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Thanks ess.boyer. I've been busy over the past few weeks so just saw your reply now.
The phone is in a pretty bad shape right now, I managed to drop it and the screen is shattered so I can't touch the screen to use it.
But I put it on and did the log. Please find attached.
Thanks for wanting to help!!!

So I think the install is probably botched. I'd recommend wiping EVERYTHING and reinstalling from RUU (maybe try a different RUU even).
However, first, please try wiping your cache and dalvik cache. Most of the errors are from not being able to find symbols in dalvik.
Also, are you restoring apps using Titanium backup or some other such program? If so, that could also be an issue. If you have, and wiping cache & dalvik cache don't work, you may want to try wiping /data entirely, and NOT restoring apps before you can confirm that the FC issues you were seeing are still there.
Give the cache & delvik clean a try, and if that doesn't work, please attach a similar log so I can confirm you're seeing the same issues, then we can go from there.

ess.boyer said:
So I think the install is probably botched. I'd recommend wiping EVERYTHING and reinstalling from RUU (maybe try a different RUU even).
However, first, please try wiping your cache and dalvik cache. Most of the errors are from not being able to find symbols in dalvik.
Also, are you restoring apps using Titanium backup or some other such program? If so, that could also be an issue. If you have, and wiping cache & dalvik cache don't work, you may want to try wiping /data entirely, and NOT restoring apps before you can confirm that the FC issues you were seeing are still there.
Give the cache & delvik clean a try, and if that doesn't work, please attach a similar log so I can confirm you're seeing the same issues, then we can go from there.
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Please see my steps already taken.
I've wiped cache and dalvik, I've installed RUU thru windows, I've installed RUU from SD card. But whenever the Phone boots up, the phone state does not change at all (all apps are as they are, all settings are as they are).
I even tried to lock bootloader, remove superCID. Just a reboot and it all goes back to what it was.
Thanks

What happens if you reboot the phone without the SD card in it?

ess.boyer said:
What happens if you reboot the phone without the SD card in it?
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The phone boots up to homescreen normally and the apps installed on SD don't work, with reduced FC

[Q] HTC One - Stuck and need help please.

Hi,
My new HTC One's vibrate isn't very strong, so the vendor is sending me a new one. I'm rooted though, so thought I'd better start looking at ways to "undo" the root. When looking at options on the HTC One Toolkit, I "somehow" did something to my phone. All I "Thought" I was doing was getting the version information off it, so I could find the correct RUU, but when trying to reboot after that, it just kept going back to the bootloader with some error like "re-locked" and "security warning".
After extensive searches, I learnt I could flash the unlock.bin file again to unlock it. Done...but then it just sat at the "Slim" logo [ROM I was running]. I could still boot into Recovery (CWM) and tried clearing cache and dalvik - but still sat at the "Slim" logo. So I started digging in. I tried to mount the SDcard in CWM, but wouldn't mount. So flashed TWRP, but same thing there. When I try to mount anything, the only folder it will let me select is "System" - nothing else mounts and my "Storage" reads "0 bytes".
So I thought maybe I'd lost root, everything was Read Only and that's why I couldn't write to anything. So using the HTC One toolkit, flashed SuperSu. Still same thing.
I did manage to adb the slim ROM and the gapps to /sdcard, but when I tried to install, nothing would "mount" in order to install it...so all I got was errors saying install failed, and a bunch of directories that couldn't be "mounted". In summary I've done the following with Fastboot:
Flashed Unlock file
Flashed boot.img (from Slim Rom)
flashed Recovery (CWM first, but now TWRP)
Fastboot Clear cache
But after all that, when I boot into Recovery, nothing mounts and I can't get past this. Any help you could provide would be MOST welcome!
Thanks in advance.
-- Edit --
Disregard - got it finally. Using TWRP, I formatted the data directory, and it was writeable again. Not sure if it helped, but I then resubmitted everything I did in the list above, booted to Recovery, and was then able to adb the ROM and Gapps over and it installed fine. Phew.... Still need to figure out how to get it all back to stock though. That's my next task.

[Q] Help! HTC One M7 TWRP update problem, can't access storage??

Hi,
I have an HTC One m7 on T-Mobile, rooted and running Android Revolution 82.0.
I messed up, now I need help to dig myself out of this hole. I do not understand some of this, this could be partly due to my stupidity.
I backed up my system and boot in twrp before i had done any of this.
Last night I wanted to update TWRP. I downloaded "TWRP manager" through the play store, I opened the app and went down to "install twrp" - i installed TWRP 2.8.1.0 through the app, it said flashing successful. Everything was fine. I rebooted my phone into recovery to verify that it had worked. The correct twrp version was displayed at the top. I rebooted my phone into system. After the boot sequence it loaded into the first time run set up manager (by this i mean the thing that comes on when you turn on your phone for the very first time). This shocked me. I went through the procedure to "set up" my phone. All my apps were gone, all settings, everything. It looked as if it were brand new. Even the pre-loaded apps for android revolution were gone. I rebooted back into twrp recovery, went to the file manager and went to the main directory "/". I looked for the folder "/storage" but it wasnt there. I went to go restore my phone to the backups i had made before i tried updating twrp to see if that would help. Nothing changed. after this, I reinstalled the rom through TWRP without wiping anything. All my apps were still gone, all settings were gone, yet all my photos were still there. All of my files for the apps are all there, they are all in the internal storage, all the folders are still in /data , i do not understand what happened. I am also concerned that when I am in recovery and i am in the file manager i cannot see "/storage", as if it is hidden from the recovery file manager. Also, when i select "backup" and it gives me options to backup system, data, etc., under data it only shows 756 mb of data, i have at least 2000 mb, I am wondering if my phone is accessing the storage somewhere else? Please help me find out how to fix my errors. I wish to go back to where i was, or at least figure out what happened to increase my knowledge and NEVER do something like this again.
for some reason which i do not know, my sdcard files are saved in different places? i assume this is just how it's supposed to be. these loacations are : "/storage/emulated/0" - "/storage/emulated/legacy" - "/storage/sdcard0" - "/sdcard" (all of these folders have all of the same files etc.)
Thank you,
Evan

ImMrBS said:
Hi,
I have an HTC One m7 on T-Mobile, rooted and running Android Revolution 82.0.
I messed up, now I need help to dig myself out of this hole. I do not understand some of this, this could be partly due to my stupidity.
I backed up my system and boot in twrp before i had done any of this.
Last night I wanted to update TWRP. I downloaded "TWRP manager" through the play store, I opened the app and went down to "install twrp" - i installed TWRP 2.8.1.0 through the app, it said flashing successful. Everything was fine. I rebooted my phone into recovery to verify that it had worked. The correct twrp version was displayed at the top. I rebooted my phone into system. After the boot sequence it loaded into the first time run set up manager (by this i mean the thing that comes on when you turn on your phone for the very first time). This shocked me. I went through the procedure to "set up" my phone. All my apps were gone, all settings, everything. It looked as if it were brand new. Even the pre-loaded apps for android revolution were gone. I rebooted back into twrp recovery, went to the file manager and went to the main directory "/". I looked for the folder "/storage" but it wasnt there. I went to go restore my phone to the backups i had made before i tried updating twrp to see if that would help. Nothing changed. after this, I reinstalled the rom through TWRP without wiping anything. All my apps were still gone, all settings were gone, yet all my photos were still there. All of my files for the apps are all there, they are all in the internal storage, all the folders are still in /data , i do not understand what happened. I am also concerned that when I am in recovery and i am in the file manager i cannot see "/storage", as if it is hidden from the recovery file manager. Also, when i select "backup" and it gives me options to backup system, data, etc., under data it only shows 756 mb of data, i have at least 2000 mb, I am wondering if my phone is accessing the storage somewhere else? Please help me find out how to fix my errors. I wish to go back to where i was, or at least figure out what happened to increase my knowledge and NEVER do something like this again.
for some reason which i do not know, my sdcard files are saved in different places? i assume this is just how it's supposed to be. these loacations are : "/storage/emulated/0" - "/storage/emulated/legacy" - "/storage/sdcard0" - "/sdcard" (all of these folders have all of the same files etc.)
Thank you,
Evan
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The answer to your mysterious factory reset lies here in this link. For further information see the link in this link
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=55741117&postcount=83118
When in the TWRP file manger your /storage is a Folder called /sdcard.
And the multiple storage locations. Not all of these are actually physical locations you only have one memory chip with one set of files, the other locations are just emulated/virtual copies of your main storage
If you found my post helpful, no need to say thanks. There's a button for that

Danny201281 said:
The answer to your mysterious factory reset lies here in this link. For further information see the link in this link
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=55741117&postcount=83118
When in the TWRP file manger your /storage is a Folder called /sdcard.
And the multiple storage locations. Not all of these are actually physical locations you only have one memory chip with one set of files, the other locations are just emulated/virtual copies of your main storage
If you found my post helpful, no need to say thanks. There's a button for that
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So what I've gathered from this, is that all my apps are gone forever because I forgot to backup the data. And that is because "Then along comes the recent TWRP builds (2.7.1.2+) that read the bcb on boot. You flash it and boot into recovery, TWRP starts, reads the wipe_data command out of the bcb and proceeds to wipe the /data partition."? Also should I run the reset script in this post? http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=54370858&postcount=492
since I have a non-sprint htc one I'm not sure if this would do me harm or not. The reason I am asking all these questions is because I want to make sure I don't do something stupid again.

ImMrBS said:
So what I've gathered from this, is that all my apps are gone forever because I forgot to backup the data. And that is because "Then along comes the recent TWRP builds (2.7.1.2+) that read the bcb on boot. You flash it and boot into recovery, TWRP starts, reads the wipe_data command out of the bcb and proceeds to wipe the /data partition."? Also should I run the reset script in this post? http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=54370858&postcount=492
since I have a non-sprint htc one I'm not sure if this would do me harm or not. The reason I am asking all these questions is because I want to make sure I don't do something stupid again.
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Yep that's about right. Running the script shouldn't do any harm but since you already experienced the Factory reset. The command should no longer be in your bcb anyway. As far as I'm aware this only happens once after a new flash and shouldn't repeat every time you use recovery.
But using the zip to clear your bcb is not a bad idea for piece of mind.