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Accidentally formatted /sdcard, now phone won't boot.

I accidentally formatted /sdcard instead of /system because I derped while trying to flash Youngunn's AOKP. Now I'm stuck because my phone won't boot any ROM. I re-flashed CWM (because that was erased with /sdcard) and it won't boot with AOKP or CM10.1. My phone is in the process of restoring Echo's PA, which I made a backup of. Anytime it attempted to mount /data it gives an error. All help is appreciated!

Hey bud.
So formatting /sdcard will not delete your recovery. I'm not sure what is going wrong with your phone but a clean install of cwm with fastboot and then installing aokp again will make it all better.
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Youngunn2008 said:
Hey bud.
So formatting /sdcard will not delete your recovery. I'm not sure what is going wrong with your phone but a clean install of cwm with fastboot and then installing aokp again will make it all better.
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It wouldn't boot into recovery (even selecting it from the bootloader or whatever screen), it would just stick at the Motorola bootlogo. Also tried your AOKP and restoring the PA backup, it kept giving me an error (just "Error mounting /data!") whenever it tried to mount/access /data and would stick at the ROM's bootlogo.
And just a note, when I select "Wipe dalvik cache" it just comes back to the same screen, doesn't wipe it or send me to the "no, no, no, no, yes, no" screen.
AOKP has been attempting to boot for 15 minutes now.
I'm assuming the /data mount is the issue here. Not sure what happened or how to fix it or even how to troubleshoot. All I did was accidentally wipe /sdcard, flash AOKP, stuck on bootlogo so I rebooted to recovery, which didn't work, so I fastbooted CWM back on, and the /data mount issue began.

penser said:
It wouldn't boot into recovery (even selecting it from the bootloader or whatever screen), it would just stick at the Motorola bootlogo. Also tried your AOKP and restoring the PA backup, it kept giving me an error (just "Error mounting /data!") whenever it tried to mount/access /data and would stick at the ROM's bootlogo.
And just a note, when I select "Wipe dalvik cache" it just comes back to the same screen, doesn't wipe it or send me to the "no, no, no, no, yes, no" screen.
AOKP has been attempting to boot for 15 minutes now.
I'm assuming the /data mount is the issue here. Not sure what happened or how to fix it or even how to troubleshoot. All I did was accidentally wipe /sdcard, flash AOKP, stuck on bootlogo so I rebooted to recovery, which didn't work, so I fastbooted CWM back on, and the /data mount issue began.
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I'd say try the Myth tools and flash a stock image, I've erased my SDcard tons of times, I just did it last night, I wiped int and ext without issue through CWM,
I say use myth because it seems to work for everyone, it doesn't for me, I have to use RSD So I'd say pick your poison, both get you back to stock

Dude oh my god I had this same issue on a different device, I forgot what the fix was. If I come up with something I'll let you know.
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I think he has to get the motorola factory programming cable to fix it, since it acts like a os for you to load a new os to your phone. Sorry I don't know a link on where to buy.

penser said:
I accidentally formatted /sdcard instead of /system because I derped while trying to flash Youngunn's AOKP. Now I'm stuck because my phone won't boot any ROM. I re-flashed CWM (because that was erased with /sdcard) and it won't boot with AOKP or CM10.1. My phone is in the process of restoring Echo's PA, which I made a backup of. Anytime it attempted to mount /data it gives an error. All help is appreciated!
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i got this issue on my device a few days back. and i did format everything and manually flashed stock rom components via fastboot. please use this updated fastboot binary
1)download the required firmware from here i used last one (retail mexican) and recovery
2)extract the zip and place the recovery image and fastboot binaries in the extracted directory and open terminal in this directory.
3)type the following commands in order
fastboot flash modem NON-HLOS.bin
fastboot flash boot boot.img
fastboot flash devtree device_tree.bin
fastboot flash system system.img
fastboot -w
fastboot erase cache
fastboot reboot-bootloader
fastboot flash recovery cwmrecovery6028-xt925_20130219-epinter.img
fastboot reboot
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if everything is done right, your device is now ok.

Silentwidow said:
I'd say try the Myth tools and flash a stock image, I've erased my SDcard tons of times, I just did it last night, I wiped int and ext without issue through CWM,
I say use myth because it seems to work for everyone, it doesn't for me, I have to use RSD So I'd say pick your poison, both get you back to stock
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Flashed stock with Myth about 3 times, didn't work.
Aingaran said:
i got this issue on my device a few days back. and i did format everything and manually flashed stock rom components via fastboot. please use this updated fastboot binary
1)download the required firmware from here i used last one (retail mexican) and recovery
2)extract the zip and place the recovery image and fastboot binaries in the extracted directory and open terminal in this directory.
3)type the following commands in order
if everything is done right, your device is now ok.
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I'll try that. Thanks!
EDIT: It worked!

penser said:
Flashed stock with Myth about 3 times, didn't work.
I'll try that. Thanks!
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@Aingaran method is my recommendation as well. I'll just add to flash all the fast boot partitions... Might as well since you're already there

penser said:
Flashed stock with Myth about 3 times, didn't work.
I'll try that. Thanks!
EDIT: It worked!
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nice to hear it worked :highfive:

Aingaran said:
nice to hear it worked :highfive:
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I thanked ya cause he didn't

skeevydude said:
@Aingaran method is my recommendation as well. I'll just add to flash all the fast boot partitions... Might as well since you're already there
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I always flash all partitions. Its just good practice
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[Q] Help with boot loop

I own a Motorola Moto G 2014, XT1068. I got it a while ago, and wanted to try Lollipop as fast as I could, so i downgraded to XT1064 and flashed it using this method:
www .techbii . com/ how-to-manually-update-moto-g-2nd-gen-xt1068-to-lollipop/
Everything went down fine, and a couple of days later I rooted it using chainfire's auto root. It started boot looping a lot every time it would reboot/boot back onz but after about 10 boot loops it would eventually power up and be just fine. So far so good, but some time ago I was just playing around with some games and it crashed, turned off, and now it's stuck in a forever boot loop. I can't access ADB, only have access to fastboot and this Philz recovery that I used to flash the Lollipop OTA. I've already tried factory resetting it.
Please, I'm getting worried, could anybody help me?

SergioRBarros said:
I own a Motorola Moto G 2014, XT1068. I got it a while ago, and wanted to try Lollipop as fast as I could, so i downgraded to XT1064 and flashed it using this method:
www .techbii . com/ how-to-manually-update-moto-g-2nd-gen-xt1068-to-lollipop/
Everything went down fine, and a couple of days later I rooted it using chainfire's auto root. It started boot looping a lot every time it would reboot/boot back onz but after about 10 boot loops it would eventually power up and be just fine. So far so good, but some time ago I was just playing around with some games and it crashed, turned off, and now it's stuck in a forever boot loop. I can't access ADB, only have access to fastboot and this Philz recovery that I used to flash the Lollipop OTA. I've already tried factory resetting it.
Please, I'm getting worried, could anybody help me?
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If you can access the Recovery, then try wiping the dalvik and cache. If this doesnt work, download the lollipop backup from the General Thread and restore it
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=57299580&postcount=1

KrishnaSagar said:
If you can access the Recovery, then try wiping the dalvik and cache. If this doesnt work, download the lollipop backup from the General Thread and restore it
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=57299580&postcount=1
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I've already wiped it all, even factory reset.
I'm kind of a noob here, could you go a little bit into more detail about how I'd do that?

SergioRBarros said:
I've already wiped it all, even factory reset.
I'm kind of a noob here, could you go a little bit into more detail about how I'd do that?
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When in Bootloader, Flash the TWRP recovery for Moto G 2014, then download the TWRP Backup of Lollipop 5.0.1 from the link I posted before, copy it to SD card as mentioned in the guide. Reboot to recovery, Restore and select the backup! Done

KrishnaSagar said:
When in Bootloader, Flash the TWRP recovery for Moto G 2014, then download the TWRP Backup of Lollipop 5.0.1 from the link I posted before, copy it to SD card as mentioned in the guide. Reboot to recovery, Restore and select the backup! Done
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But how do I copy it to the internal storage? I tried using the ADB sideload feature on TWRP, but it shows
"Updating partition details...
Starting ADB sideload feature..."
And stays in this message forever. It won't start. I also tried mounting the USB storage, but my PC doesn't seem to recognize my phone anyway. Suggestions?

SergioRBarros said:
But how do I copy it to the internal storage? I tried using the ADB sideload feature on TWRP, but it shows
"Updating partition details...
Starting ADB sideload feature..."
And stays in this message forever. It won't start. I also tried mounting the USB storage, but my PC doesn't seem to recognize my phone anyway. Suggestions?
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You have an SD Card right? Put it in another phone or card reader and copy ROM backup as mentioned by creating the TWRP backup folder. Then reinsert into the device and restore using TWRP

KrishnaSagar said:
You have an SD Card right? Put it in another phone or card reader and copy ROM backup as mentioned by creating the TWRP backup folder. Then reinsert into the device and restore using TWRP
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I currently don't have and SD, but I can get one in about 2,3 days. Isn't there any other way?

Deleted my OS

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Ducky10100 said:
Hello guys. I've got a big problem. I rooted my Nexus 6 and installed TeamWin Recovery, but something wasn't installed correctly so I went to factory reset my phone from TeamWin recovery and completely deleted EVERYTHING, including my OS. Now I cannot do anything, my phone just stays at the Google logo. Just to clear things up:
My phone isn't rooted
Bootloader isn't unlocked
I have no OS.
I need help on how to flash android 5.0 back on my Nexus (Yes I've tried using Toolkit, but since my phone doesn't boot it's no use to me). Help would be much appreciated.
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I dont mean to sound rude, really, but so what? you can download and transfer a ROM to your twrp recovery via regular file transfer, adb sideload, or adb push. so download what you need, choose a method, then transfer it to your phone. you dont have other options, besides for flashing a factory image.

Why did you install a custom recovery if you haven't unlocked your phone?
It seems to me you should start by downloading the appropriate factory image from Google. And flash everything (with the exception of boot loader) from inside your boot loader. Press and hold the power button while it's on, this will set a reboot. While the screen is black, press and hold power and volume down. This will get into boot loader.
Let us know if you need assistance on how to flash the factory images.

brymaster5000 said:
Why did you install a custom recovery if you haven't unlocked your phone?
It seems to me you should start by downloading the appropriate factory image from Google. And flash everything (with the exception of boot loader) from inside your boot loader. Press and hold the power button while it's on, this will set a reboot. While the screen is black, press and hold power and volume down. This will get into boot loader.
Let us know if you need assistance on how to flash the factory images.
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I had my phone rooted and unlocked, but I reset everything and that's when it happened.
simms22 said:
I dont mean to sound rude, really, but so what? you can download and transfer a ROM to your twrp recovery via regular file transfer, adb sideload, or adb push. so download what you need, choose a method, then transfer it to your phone. you dont have other options, besides for flashing a factory image.
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Hey dude if you can point me to where I can download one and a tutorial I will, but I've tried almost everything and nothing seems to work.

Ducky10100 said:
Hey dude if you can point me to where I can download one and a tutorial I will, but I've tried almost everything and nothing seems to work.
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first off, look at your recovery, you should be able to find a mtp and a adb sideload option. mtp would be the regular file transfer. you can google adb sideload twrp, and youll find instructions on that. or you can try googling adb push, and you will find instructions. thats the one i normally would use(but its been a long time), ive deleted my os before as well :angel:
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here's something I just found about adb sideload http://www.droidviews.com/sideload-roms-mods-using-adb-sideload/

simms22 said:
first off, look at your recovery, you should be able to find a mtp and a adb sideload option. mtp would be the regular file transfer. you can google adb sideload twrp, and youll find instructions on that. or you can try googling adb push, and you will find instructions. thats the one i normally would use(but its been a long time), ive deleted my os before as well :angel:
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Okay thanks man.

reflashing stock via wugs nexus tool as bricked should help.
(this helped me, just read it didnt help you, did you try as bricked/softbricked? (sorry not sure what it is))

rhystagram said:
reflashing stock via wugs nexus tool as bricked should help.
(this helped me, just read it didnt help you, did you try as bricked/softbricked? (sorry not sure what it is))
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Overkill. You can just put a ROM zip on the sdcard and flash it via TWRP recovery

danarama said:
Overkill. You can just put a ROM zip on the sdcard and flash it via TWRP recovery
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sdcard with no sdcard slot & support? lol... you cant put anything on the phone with no internal storage either...

rhystagram said:
sdcard with no sdcard slot & support? lol... you cant put anything on the phone with no internal storage either...
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Internal storage is called sdcard. All you need to do is boot TWRP and connect to PC. You should see your internal storage on your PC then. Drag and drop your ROM from PC to internal storage. Flash ROM, profit.

rhystagram said:
sdcard with no sdcard slot & support? lol... you cant put anything on the phone with no internal storage either...
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/sdcard is a common directory mounted at /data/media/0. TWRP has MTP access so like android, you plug it into the computer and drag files across. You don't need to remove it to do that.
...and indeed you are right, if you delete the "internal storage"/as s it shows up as in MTP mode, you would have to flash stock (though we'd recommend using fastboot not toolkits) however that is not the case here. The user said he deleted " everything" via TWRP. Although there is an option to "wipe" internal storage, this only wipes the /sdcard data - NOT deletes "internal storage" as someone can do on a computer. So yeah, the quickest and best way to recover from "deleted OS" is to put a ROM.zip on the sdcard and flash it.

Will someone please refer me to a download for Android 5.0. I've tried some, but all the sites are block by my internet provider.

Ducky10100 said:
Will someone please refer me to a download for Android 5.0. I've tried some, but all the sites are block by my internet provider.
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There is only one legitimate site for Google factory images, and it's linked below. I don't understand why any provider would block it...
And why do you want 5.0? That is the original, release version for the Nexus 6? What version are you on, today? If you are on 5.1 or higher, and you decide to downgrade, do not downgrade your bootloader, as it could brick your device.
https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/images

cam30era said:
There is only one legitimate site for Google factory images, and it's linked below. I don't understand why any provider would block it...
And why do you want 5.0? That is the original, release version for the Nexus 6? What version are you on, today? If you are on 5.1 or higher, and you decide to downgrade, do not downgrade your bootloader, as it could brick your device.
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I've only had my Nexus for around 3 weeks and I've not updated from 5.0 yet.

Ducky10100 said:
I've only had my Nexus for around 3 weeks and I've not updated from 5.0 yet.
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Doesn't matter. You've got NO OS now, so just flash the latest. If you're wanting to keep TWRP and dead set against flashing a ROM.zip from recovery as I've suggested, just flash the system and boot image from the factory images.
Can we get it done already?

danarama said:
Doesn't matter. You've got NO OS now, so just flash the latest. If you're wanting to keep TWRP and dead set against flashing a ROM.zip from recovery as I've suggested, just flash the system and boot image from the factory images.
Can we get it done already?
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Yeah I've already done it now.

Ducky10100 said:
Yeah I've already done it now.
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Awesome

Thanks for everyone's help!

I need help. My 3T has no OS and won't mount data partition in twrp.

I guess I wasn't paying close enough attention and I tried installing the 7.0 update from this thread.
I can now only get to TWRP recovery and fastboot. When I'm in TWRP my internal storage says 0MB and it won't let me mount the data partition. Flashing anything fails.

Fastboot format userdata

flammenwurfer said:
I guess I wasn't paying close enough attention and I tried installing the 7.0 update from this thread.
I can now only get to TWRP recovery and fastboot. When I'm in TWRP my internal storage says 0MB and it won't let me mount the data partition. Flashing anything fails.
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Flash the stock recovery through fastboot. You can use the toolkit found here on xda forums.

Also you can format data in TWRP and then it should work, but you lose everything in internal storage, pics, music, all your own stuff.

Thanks guys. I got the stock recovery installed and it wiped everything, which was fine. I already backed up important stuff. It seems the update went through because I have Nougat now. But I'm having trouble installing any other roms. It wants to decrypt but it doesn't work. I read on the TWRP post that you can set a boot password and it would update the crypto key type or something and it should work after that. Well I did that, but twrp still won't accept my password and let me flash anything.

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Thanks guys. I got the stock recovery installed and it wiped everything, which was fine. I already backed up important stuff. It seems the update went through because I have Nougat now. But I'm having trouble installing any other roms. It wants to decrypt but it doesn't work. I read on the TWRP post that you can set a boot password and it would update the crypto key type or something and it should work after that. Well I did that, but twrp still won't accept my password and let me flash anything.
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I had the same problem. I used the 3T toolkit to force decrypt (Option 14). This worked for me.

kinfam said:
I had the same problem. I used the 3T toolkit to force decrypt (Option 14). This worked for me.
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I just did this and it worked in TWRP: I was able to create a backup (which is not possbible in password-bugged state) and then I noticed I still was not able to mount the USB partition and thought I had to boot in to OOS once, so I did it, set up the bare minimum and then checked back at TWRP and voilà: Locked again.
The OOS said "encrypted" as well after I booted it.
I was (am) running 7.0, TWRP, non rooted (because I freaking can't)
Anynone can help here?

Nobody121 said:
I just did this and it worked in TWRP: I was able to create a backup (which is not possbible in password-bugged state) and then I noticed I still was not able to mount the USB partition and thought I had to boot in to OOS once, so I did it, set up the bare minimum and then checked back at TWRP and voilà: Locked again.
The OOS said "encrypted" as well after I booted it.
I was (am) running 7.0, TWRP, non rooted (because I freaking can't)
Anynone can help here?
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Did you flash SuperSU before booting into OOS? Not sure what to tell you I did the Force Decrypt then went into TWRP and immediately flashed SuperSU.

kinfam said:
Did you flash SuperSU before booting into OOS? Not sure what to tell you I did the Force Decrypt then went into TWRP and immediately flashed SuperSU.
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I wanted to do so but was not able to because I was not able to mount the relevant partition, nvm though I think I`ll wait a day or two to see if TW releases a new build. Thanks anyways:good:

Nobody121 said:
I wanted to do so but was not able to because I was not able to mount the relevant partition, nvm though I think I`ll wait a day or two to see if TW releases a new build. Thanks anyways:good:
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,Using the toolkit take the option 14....To push decryption..,
DONT boot to your ROM...With the toolkit push the SuperSU and then flash it...
Now you can boot to your ROM....
If you boot without SuperSU will reenforse encryption.....

cultofluna said:
,Using the toolkit take the option 14....To push decryption..,
DONT boot to your ROM...With the toolkit push the SuperSU and then flash it...
Now you can boot to your ROM....
If you boot without SuperSU will reenforse encryption.....
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Push with adb sideload? Because I was not able to get that going for me. ADB is installed on my PC. Also is there a way to backup my apps and data without root? I just set everything up. Thanks for the help

Nobody121 said:
Push with adb sideload? Because I was not able to get that going for me. ADB is installed on my PC. Also is there a way to backup my apps and data without root? I just set everything up. Thanks for the help
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Options 1 and 2 on the toolkit is backup and restore apps and data..

cultofluna said:
Options 1 and 2 on the toolkit is backup and restore apps and data..
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Nice haha, Ill try it later. Thank you really much

So there is currently no way to root and use TWRP without completely disabling encryption?

I'm having the same issues as the OP here. Whenever I go to use the toolkit it says "the system cannot find the path specified." Any ideas? I've tried within Android and in TWRP..
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TWRP can't flash anything.

I recently dusted off my Nexus 6 to test a few projects on and wanted to update everything. But no matter what I try within TWRP, every zip/img fails. Any guidance on how to repair the filesystem would be helpful. The attached images is the error. For now it seems shamu has been beached:crying:
Running TWP 3.1.1.0
ROM: LineageOS, not sure which version
Android version: 7.1.1
Bootloader is unlocked

Update to the latest TWRP and see if that helps. You want version 3.2.1-0.
https://dl.twrp.me/shamu/

Thanks, I just tried that. I was able to flash the recovery img through adb, but any attempt to flash a zip through fails with the same errors

format data on twrp you will lose everything so do backup
belive ihave the same problen but when i formated data with twrp the problem is gone so got to twrp - wipe -format data Type yes

ctrl1122 said:
Thanks, I just tried that. I was able to flash the recovery img through adb, but any attempt to flash a zip through fails with the same errors
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Your safest bet would be going for a factory image, and then reflash twrp and then try again to see if everything is allright.
Or try formatting data from TWRP, like person above me mentioned. USB Drive+otg adapter might come in handy to keep stuff you want to flash there

VarDes said:
Your safest bet would be going for a factory image, and then reflash twrp and then try again to see if everything is allright.
Or try formatting data from TWRP, like person above me mentioned. USB Drive+otg adapter might come in handy to keep stuff you want to flash there
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I'll give this a shot, seems likely it will rebuild the corrupted bits.
MiroALG said:
format data on twrp you will lose everything so do backup
belive ihave the same problen but when i formated data with twrp the problem is gone so got to twrp - wipe -format data Type yes
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After doing this, data fails mount in TWRP. I will tryflashing a factory image. Thanks!

ctrl1122 said:
I'll give this a shot, seems likely it will rebuild the corrupted bits.
After doing this, data fails mount in TWRP. I will tryflashing a factory image. Thanks!
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no problem back to stock with NRT then root and flash twrp and try it will fix all your problem
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MiroALG said:
no problem back to stock with NRT then root and flash twrp and try it will fix all your problem
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but when you format your data you need to reboot to recovery again the copy your rom zip and gapps to your phone with pc or otg and flash

ctrl1122 said:
I'll give this a shot, seems likely it will rebuild the corrupted bits.
After doing this, data fails mount in TWRP. I will tryflashing a factory image. Thanks!
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Success! Running the latest build now. Thanks everyone, I appreciate your time.