Hi!
I accidently selected Format Data in twrp instead of Factory Reset (bad morning anyway). So everything is gone... or is it?
In sdcard folder I had twrp backup and also titanium backup made. Is there a way to restore either or bot of these or if possible whole sdcard folder any way.
TWRP is working and I get adb connection to phone. However I needed way to mount phone /data/media or /data folder in windows when in bootloader/recovery etc mode... is there a way?
Actually situation is not so bad at all!! I reboot my phone and ARHD 71.1 is up & running - however all my data is lot includin backups. So now situation is anyway easier because I can mount my phone in win 7. What should be best program for restoring /data/sdcard?
I would be very very pleased if someone could help me in this situation!!
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I have a Galaxy S GT i9000 and I managed to install CWM Recovery 2.5.1.0 on it after I accidentally selected backup (to internal sd)..
I want to get the data off the internal SD but miui won't boot. I have EXT4 filesystem.
if I try boot it never gets past samsung logo.
I havn't been able to use my phone for a month now because of this problem.
I didn't want to try fix it straight away when it broke incase I did something to lose all my data..
I was getting major FC's on everything i opened, it wasn't bad at first, but than FC's came more and more regularly, until I can't open any apps.
than the phone would boot loop after boot animation. now after trying to backup the internal SD, I accidentally backed up to internal SD. phone won't boot.
this happened at my god father's funeral "after meeting". I was using phone and suddenly it doesn't work.
I recorded very important video from god father's funeral i promised to make video for god fathers wife.
I really need my data and at least want to be able to mount ext4 from CWM recovery to copy data to windows. or somehow reinstall MIUI without wiping /data.
I thank you in advanced for your help.
I looked for a month and couldn't find anything.
There are 2 things I can think of,
1. Use ADB to pull from sd card, I'm not sure if you need to be in recovery or download mode, check it out.
2. When you format you phone you don't delete your sd card so it should all be saved. You will loose all you apps etc but not your data.
If you want to save the exact format you phone is in, try flash the rom again. If its through odin then you will factory reset. (Again you wont loose your internal sd card contents).
I've managed to get my data back now thank you for the suggestions
Guys i need urgent help here as my battery is slowly draining away...
I was updating my Rom from ARHD 10.x to 11.0, while doing so I noticed there was sort of a ghost directory with 0/
I like to keep things clean so I thought for the ARHD 11.0 I will format EVERYTHING and do a clean install.
I went into CWM 6.0.3.1 and went ahead to format cache, data, sdcard (data/media) system
now I have a problem... I am able to mount data and cashe but not sdcard and system.
when i try to mount sdcard my phone will restart, when i try to format sdcard or data my phone will restart.
when i try to push anything into the sdcard my phone will restart...
what to do?
When i check my sdcard via shell (mind you i don't know much of the commands)
i parted and print.. all i get is can't have overlapping partitions....
i haven't changed the partitions so i have no idea why this is coming up.. i suspect it is from the weird ghost directory...
0/ is not a weird ghost directory, but the way Android is handling the SDcard under 4.2.2 JB to accommodate multiple users.
What you need to do now I cannot say. Can you still boot into recovery? Then you can sideload a rom.zip...
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Hello.
My Samsung Galaxy S I9000, which runs on the GamerzRom (can't specify the version, sorry for that) doesn't want to turn on properly anymore - it just stays on the blinking "X" screen, so I guess it has problems with running the system. Normally, I'd just wipe data and cache and reinstall the whole system, but now I have some important files on my phone and I can't lose them. I'd like to backup my files and reinstall the system, but I don't know how to do the proper backup (it would be easier if I was able to do it when the phone loads system properly, but it doesn't).
How to backup these things? For example, notes are important and I need to have them when I reinstall my system.
I can only run the phone on the ClockWorkMod or Download mode.
You can make a backup with CWM and later pull out files from the backup with 7-zip.
If you don't know; you can mount USB mass storage with CWM (Mount and storage = > Mount USB storage).
I have a new LG Optimus L90 (D415) with stock 4.4 ROM, and TWRP 2.8.0.0 (and previously, Philz 6.58.7) for recovery. Obviously, the phone is rooted and now has an unlocked bootloader....
My problem is that neither recovery will back up (or even mount) "/data". Note that I put that in quotes because, without having "/storage/sdcard" or something in front of it, I presume that it's an internal folder and not something to do with the external SDcard.
My first guess would be a problem with encryption, because both the phone and the external SD are using it -- and I never get asked for the password. Either way, the actual error in TWRP says "E: Unable to mount 'data'", while Philz says it can't access /data/philz-touch for the .ini file.
I've made several Google expeditions to find the answer, and have come up empty-handed with all of them. I've seen all kinds of fixes, from claims that I have to run chkdsk against the SDcard, to backing up the entire /data partition with a tar file and reformatting it with command line nightmares.
I'll do what I have to in order to fix this, but I'd rather not embark on an experimental goose chase. Any ideas?
I have this same problem. But only for wiping and flashing.
I have no idea for fix if backup also not working !! (Noob)
1.TWRP click backup. Select all except SDcard.
Finish backup.
2.go to Wipe menu.>advanced wipe>select all except System and Sdcard.
Wipe.
(It will skip the error files)
3.Install menu. Select ROM to flash.
Was what I did.
fear2433 said:
I have this same problem. But only for wiping and flashing.
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I'm not flashing anything, yet. First I need to make a backup of the entire phone (not including the SDcard). That way, if something goes wrong, I can just restore my old, working configuration -- all at once -- and start over.
I can back up and restore apps individually, using Titanium Backup. But what I need here is a Nandroid-type backup... and that generally has to be done from the recovery partition. There is one other way to backup everything, using a laptop/PC and ADB. But I've never tried it, and it wouldn't protect against a ROM meltdown.
Solved, somewhat...
So I did some further experimentation concerning this error. I did a test run to install CyanogenMod, and I found that I couldn't even factory reset certain partitions because of these "Unable to mount /data/" type errors.
What was ultimately the problem? The encryption. Once I decrypted everything, TWRP was able to see, mount, and backup, those partitions.
But I was under the impression that TWRP handles encryption, e.g. asking for the password, or some such. I mean, how can you do a Nandroid-type backup on a phone, if no recovery can mount those kinds of partitions?
So, for the record: "E:Unable to mount" was definitely due to the encryption being turned on for my internal storage. Thus the solution (so far) is to decrypt storage. A wretched solution, but at least it works for the time being.
BTW, In furtherance of this research, I formatted my internal SDcard to NTFS, just to make sure it wasn't misaligned or whatever when it was just FAT32. And I discovered that NTFS takes forever to format (32GB on the order of a couple hours)., FWIW.
The plot thickens. It may not be sufficient just to undo encryption, there may be something wrong with the way that partition was created, or otherwise is constructed.
Even though I now am able to mount /data, I'm not able to format it.... in TWRP it says something like "unknown filesystem 'auto'".
But there is a thread here that describes using Philz recovery to unmount and then format this mess, and I'm about to try it, I just have to flash Philz in place of TWRP. Now let's hope this version works without issues, because I'd have little recourse if things go bad there.
hello to everyone
recently my phone made auto-update of my android phone that runs cfw vanire and after that the phone don't logs-in in android, only shows LG logo and after black screen... i have installed clockworkmod on my phone... i made back up of my system... but i am afraid of, that it don't saved my images and musics... is there any solution how to make back up of my data that is in my phone?
Thanks in advance.
chanturia said:
hello to everyone
recently my phone made auto-update of my android phone that runs cfw vanire and after that the phone don't logs-in in android, only shows LG logo and after black screen... i have installed clockworkmod on my phone... i made back up of my system... but i am afraid of, that it don't saved my images and musics... is there any solution how to make back up of my data that is in my phone?
Thanks in advance.
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Your images are saved in internal "sdcard" which is not effected from wiping /system /data /cache
I suggest you download another ROM e.g. cm11 and put it into your microSD, then boot into CWM, wipe ONLY : /data /system /cache and flash CM11.
This won't delete your pictures etc. but it will make your phone factory reset and boot.Your pictures and all other personal data will still be accessible
ottomanhero said:
Your images are saved in internal "sdcard" which is not effected from wiping /system /data /cache
I suggest you download another ROM e.g. cm11 and put it into your microSD, then boot into CWM, wipe ONLY : /data /system /cache and flash CM11.
This won't delete your pictures etc. but it will make your phone factory reset and boot.Your pictures and all other personal data will still be accessible
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thank you very much!!!! i will do so