from what I understand we need stock recovery to format data, but why can't TWRP format data partition like it does on other phones? I get tired of flashing recoveries and needing my computer to flash different ROM's. I miss my Nexus 5... :crying:
mannas said:
from what I understand we need stock recovery to format data, but why can't TWRP format data partition like it does on other phones? I get tired of flashing recoveries and needing my computer to flash different ROM's. I miss my Nexus 5... :crying:
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Hi.
Can you please direct message me your bootloader unlock code, if you have it.
Thanks in advance
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Hi guys, i ran across a very annoying problem today.
I failed to flash the latest version of cm10 on my i9000 and soft- ricked my device.
I thought flashing a stock rom is a good idea, but after flashing successfully i get an error, because the partitions are no longer rfs format,
they are ext4.
What should i do now, i dont have any roms on my device to flash them via cwm.
I was wondering if there is any way of changing the partitions back to rfs is possible via odin,
Or if i can flash a rom that supports ext4 via odin instead of cwm.
Thanks in advance.
Sorry for not being specific
I did not mention the type of error.
It shows me: cannot mount partition;
This error appears several times coloured in red.
At first i ignored it but get into a bootloop where the galaxy s boot animation starts over and over and over....
The boot sound its played only the first time if that helps you with something.
beldeabogdan said:
i dont have any roms on my device to flash them via cwm.
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In CWM, use usb mounts and storage to copy the ROM you initially used to convert your partition to ext 4, to get it back
beldeabogdan said:
I was wondering if there is any way of changing the partitions back to rfs is possible via odin .
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Not possible and you could lose your internal SD card
str8str said:
Think you should try this. Flash your stock recovery boot into it and hold power and volume up then release power still holding volume up till screen pops up. Use the options to wipe cache then factory reset wipe days. Reboot reinstall twrp wipe everything including your internal storage then flash Bliss and gapps. This is what fixed everything for me. Sometimes you need to do a factory wipe with the stock recovery to get the nv partition wiped. Custom Recovery's don't get that part and when flashing firmware like you have been, like us all updating and so on this can get corrupted. That was my issue.
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Someone posted this in another thread to try and help someone with WiFi issues. I've had those issues at times as well, and wondered if doing a factory reset with the stock recovery did more than TWRP, and would perhaps fix something internally that TWRP couldn't.
Is this possible?
Any devs or maybe Capt Throwback with knowledge of what stock recovery could do more than TWRP?
mcwups1 said:
Any devs or maybe Capt Throwback with knowledge of what stock recovery could do more than TWRP?
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I honestly don't know. Only way to know for sure is to try it.
@bigbiff at #twrp suggests the following:
fastboot boot the stock recovery
factory reset
fastboot twrp
see if it's erased i guess
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So, feel free to try it and let us know .
EDIT: Additionally, per @Dees_Troy:
A format data might have something to do with it since stock recovery formats the entire data partition
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LOL! How would I honestly know if it did anything different or useful?!
The whole point of this is to fix issues like, connectivity, BT, and perhaps my TWRP issues.
I am an amateur diving into this, so I'm willing to try, but I'm not sure if it will do any good.
I will try this soon though. His claim is from all the firmware flashing, a fresh wipe may be helpful.
Hi, Im having problems with my phone. In the 3 different roms I tried the same, The 3 nandroids I made I can't restore and give errors, Cant restore user apps from titanium backup apps alone or with data, optios for restore is unavailable and now this message at startup "uids on the system are inconsistent, you need to wipe your data partition or your device will be unstable"
I think this problems are related. Someone know what it can be? Bad partitions or something?
Quick question, are you doing a Wipe Data/Factory Reset when changing roms?. If not try going booting to recovery choose Wipe>Advance> choose everything except Internal Data and SD> wipe 3 times to be sure then install Rom and after it finishes Wipe Davik/Cache then boot up.
glm0025 said:
Quick question, are you doing a Wipe Data/Factory Reset when changing roms?. If not try going booting to recovery choose Wipe>Advance> choose everything except Internal Data and SD> wipe 3 times to be sure then install Rom and after it finishes Wipe Davik/Cache then boot up.
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Yes I follow the directions by the book in all roms
carlosgardel said:
Yes I follow the directions by the book in all roms
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Odin the base before clean flashing the new rom
xnknown said:
Odin the base before clean flashing the new rom
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Like I said I followed directions by the book and that includes odin the base of the same baseband and bootloader.
carlosgardel said:
Like I said I followed directions by the book and that includes odin the base of the same baseband and bootloader.
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Then it's likely your partitions been corrupted somehow, you should rma for a new device
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Then it's likely your partitions been corrupted somehow, you should rma for a new device
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Yes I think something like that but Its not possible to test it and be sure? I bought it used and I don't think I can send it back anyway apart from that phone works great.
Hello everyone, I am having a issue here after updating (dirty flash) from xtrasmooth_MRA58K to Nexus Pure.. I originally made it to the homescreen (almost), but kept getting errors etc. I tried to unbrick it in many different fashions including the use of the toolkit (wug) and eventually landed with the stuck on google boot screen. I followed: http://forum.xda-developers.com/nexus-6/general/guide-flash-factory-images-nexus-6shamu-t2954008
option 1 and 2 and still can't boot pass the google boot screen. Any help would be appreciated, as I have been trying for the past 4 hours much to no avail. I would be will to teamviewer etc as needed. Thanks!
You can't really ever dirty flash from one rom to another.
Clean flash the new rom you want to try.
4 hours with out just wiping everything in TRWP and re-installing? Your going to brick your device for real one of these times... Read through the stickies here, and do a lot more research.
there are no options 1 and 2 in that thread?
Method 1 and Method 2?
Using fastboot manually or with your little toolkit?
What was the error messages?
Thank you for the reply scryan, I have tried method 1 with it still getting stuck on the google boot screen (initial white google text) and then tried method 2 with the same results. Both times the stock rom flashed with no errors (sig errors on method 1, but not 2), and I did a "Wipe data/factory data reset" then reset which brings me to the google boot screen.
You did method 2 manually? With MRA58R downloaded straight from google?
Use fastboot to completely flash all partitions again, as method 2 shows rebooting the bootlader as needed then copy and paste directly from the command prompt all your commands and all the output.
Post it here using the [code][/code] tags.
scryan said:
You can't really ever dirty flash from one rom to another.
Clean flash the new rom you want to try.
4 hours with out just wiping everything in TRWP and re-installing? Your going to brick your device for real one of these times... Read through the stickies here, and do a lot more research.
there are no options 1 and 2 in that thread?
Method 1 and Method 2?
Using fastboot manually or with your little toolkit?
What was the error messages?
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Thank you for the reply scryan, I have tried method 1 with it still getting stuck on the google boot screen (initial white google text) and then tried method 2 with the same results. Both times the stock rom flashed with no errors (sig errors on method 1, but not 2), and I did a "Wipe data/factory data reset" then reset which brings me to the google boot screen.
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while im going to say that i always dirty flash, always, im going to agree with @scryan. first off, if you do plan on dirty flashing, ALWAYS make a backup in twrp recovery, for situations like this. i try dirty flashing from roms with similar bases, never bases that are different, or they will never boot. anyways, enought with the talk, what you need to do is download your rom, gapps, and supersu, then you want to wipe your system and data in twrp recovery, then flash your rom(gapps, and supersu as well).
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while im going to say that i always dirty flash, always, im going to agree with @scryan. first off, if you do plan on dirty flashing, ALWAYS make a backup in twrp recovery, for situations like this. i try dirty flashing from roms with similar bases, never bases that are different, or they will never boot. anyways, enought with the talk, what you need to do is download your rom, gapps, and supersu, then you want to wipe your system and data in twrp recovery, then flash your rom(gapps, and supersu as well).
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This is what I would have done from the beginning. Just wipe everything from TWRP and install rom straight out.
Going back to stock, then wiping and installing rom is extra work... But good reps and since it was ****ing up in the first place always good to figure out where it was going wrong instead of just giving up and doing something else.
It looks like I wasn't allowing enough time for the transfer to happen with method 1, I tried again it and now I am rolling. Thank you both very much for trying to help And I normally keep a good nandroid for everything, but 32gb is on the smaller end for me.
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It looks like I wasn't allowing enough time for the transfer to happen with method 1, I tried again it and now I am rolling. Thank you both very much for trying to help And I normally keep a good nandroid for everything, but 32gb is on the smaller end for me.
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im used to 16gb, so 32gb leaves me lots of space :angel:
Yeah I am getting somewhat better living on the cloud
im on shamu 7.1 kernal 2.19.40-g54336ba and my device says encrypted? how do i turn it off? someone said by flashing a kernal? for this phone xt1103 and rom which kernal is it? thanks
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im on shamu 7.1 kernal 2.19.40-g54336ba and my device says encrypted? how do i turn it off? someone said by flashing a kernal? for this phone xt1103 and rom which kernal is it? thanks
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So basically most custom kernels list forced encryption as disabled. Really what you need to do is flash a custom kernel and then format your userdata. The way I do it is using fastboot with the command "fastboot format userdata" do this AFTER flashing the custom kernel. 2 of my favorite kernels are either elite kernel or elementalx, but there are many many more! Let me know if you have more questions!
format user data means i have to reinstall apps again?
Yes, you will lose all of your apps and data including photos and videos. Make sure you backup before you wipe user data.
if i Titanium backup my apps will formatting user data wipe out my backups? and can i just wipe in TWRP?
leo5111 said:
if i Titanium backup my apps will formatting user data wipe out my backups? and can i just wipe in TWRP?
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No it needs to be formatted. Wiping won't do it. Do you have a PC? Backup your stuff to a PC and then format the userdata.
how do i backup to pc? i allways had phones with a sd card before so i would just do it there
DONE where it used to say encrypted it offers to Encrypt if i want
Why do you need to remove encryption? The benefits aren't that big... Slightly faster R/W and a few seconds faster booting time.
Didgeridoohan said:
Why do you need to remove encryption? The benefits aren't that big... Slightly faster R/W and a few seconds faster booting time.
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more then a few seconds boot time, there was like 3 or 4 articles all said same thing, it benchmarked ALOT better with it off, benchmarks arent everything i know, but they represent how snappy using/switching between apps the system will be :good:
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...... but they represent how snappy using/switching between apps the system will be :good:
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The OTA's can be a spoiler. OTA's install a boot.img with forced encryption.
Today I forgot to change the boot.img before booting........ encrypted again.[emoji37]
the difference to almost EVERYONE I know with this phone is so small, its not worth the hassle..