Hi,
I have a rooted device and have reflashed a new stock Rom.
To access again my Ext Sd card, I had to modify the file «Platform.xml». I have done it and have restarted my device. Since then, I don't have access anymore to my Internal Storage, External Storage and many programs don't work anymore . I have still access to the file Platform.xml but I can't modify it because my keyboard doesn't work.
I have reflashed it again but it still doesn't work.
Any help please.
Thank you,
Daniel
Reflashed 3 times and factory reset and it works again
Hello everone,
i'm facing a really heavy problem with my Samsung Galaxy Ace 2. Since i wanted to change the internal with the external storage, i found out that there is the option to replace the original "vold.fstab". At this time i had root access of course. Everything worked fine at this moment, until i decided to do a factory reset, including delete USB storage (which was the fake internal storage now, because it switched). To make things even more difficult, i deinstalled the root access. The phone still works fine, but i completely lost access to my 32GB sd card and can't download anything anymore. My phone keeps saying "Couldn't download...".
I'm not the biggest smartphone genius, but i already tried a few things.
1. I've tried to use Odin, to flash the original firmware. But i was unable to get a connection in download mode.
2. I tried to replace the modded "vold.fstab" with the original one. But it's not possible withouth root access.
3. I tried Kango Root. Not working.
I appreciate any help i can get. Thanks in advance!
Hello all. I'm fairly new to phone modifications. Yesterday I rooted my phone successfully, installed TWRP successfully, installed and operated cyanogen mod 14 successfully. Upon discovering I had to install gapps I removed the micro sd card from my phone and placed it into my laptop via a sd to micro sd card converter. I placed the file for gapps onto my micro sd card and when I plugged my micro sd card into my phone and tried to load it up into recovery mode it would not work. When I pressed 'Install' on the twrp menu the menu froze. I repeated the process multiple times to see if it was some sort of bug but the same result appeared. Upon entering my micro sd card into my computer after to see the state of the installed files it mentioned corruption and that I could no longer access them. Currently I am left with a phone without an OS to operate on. Can I simply re-format my micro sd card, install cyanogen mod again and then re-install it? If not does anyone know of any way that I can revert settings? Unfortunately the backup I made for my phone prior to cyanogen mod flashing was lost in the micro sd card corruption. Wish I had made a backup to my computer now :/ appreciate any help <3
Yes you can reformat your SD and use it again. After formatting it (not as NTFS or Mac OS extended), move the CyanogenMod and Gapps zips to the SD, making sure to eject it. Then, with the phone powered off, put the SD card in the phone. Boot into TWRP, press install, find the CyanogenMod file, tap it, and hit "flash more files" or "add more zips" or whatever the button says (should be to the left of "install") then find the Gapps file, and tap it, then press install. Then wait for it to finish, and boot! Then you have CM and Gapps in one flash. I've never had an issue doing it this way. Cheers on joining the community, and good luck with your journey.
I have been searching high and low for hours and cannot find anything related to my situation.
I am replacing my V20. The SD card is encrypted. I attempted to decrypt it on the V20 but it would hang at 1%. Sat there for several hours. I read one post that said I needed to disable screen lock and reboot the phone. I disabled screen lock, did NOT reboot, tried to decrypt gain, sat over night, didn't go past 1%. Rebooted phone, now I no longer have the option to decrypt the SD Card. I reenabled lock screen with same password and still no option to decrypt. I tried using Cryptonite to decrypt it, I get to a point it asks for a password, but then gives me an error stating there was a problem with file permissions or the password. The V20 is not rooted. Hesitant to root it and risk losing all of the encryption keys. Closest thing to a solution I have been able to find is to copy the files to a PC, format the sd card, encrypt it, copy the files back, then decrypt. This seems quite hoakie to me.
PLEASE HELP!!!!
The long way of transferring data to and from computer seems to be the only option
Still_living714 said:
The long way of transferring data to and from computer seems to be the only option
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The problem is, the data is still encrypted and unreadable to the phone or computer. If I copy the encrypted files to the PC, format the SD card, encrypt it, then copy the files back, won't the phone double encrypt the files? Or will the phone recognize they are already encrypted and "unlock" them?
If I go this route as a test, will DD in Linux make a sufficient enough bit for bit copy of the SD card to restore it as if nothing happened? Is there a Windows alternative that would work just as well?
kb0olf said:
The problem is, the data is still encrypted and unreadable to the phone or computer. If I copy the encrypted files to the PC, format the SD card, encrypt it, then copy the files back, won't the phone double encrypt the files? Or will the phone recognize they are already encrypted and "unlock" them?
If I go this route as a test, will DD in Linux make a sufficient enough bit for bit copy of the SD card to restore it as if nothing happened? Is there a Windows alternative that would work just as well?
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I think what Still_living714 meant was that you have to use the V20 to access the SD card and copy the data to a computer using USB or a network connection through it.
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I think what Still_living714 meant was that you have to use the V20 to access the SD card and copy the data to a computer using USB or a network connection through it.
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I understand that. But the V20 isn't even able to read the files even though they were encrypted on that device. Most of the files are not readable. So copying an unreadable, encrypted file, from the device via USB, to a PC, will still result in an unreadable encrypted file on the PC. I then format the SD Card on the V20 and reencrypt it. I then copy the still unreadable and encrypted file back to the SD Card which is in the same V20. Now the V20 is going to encrypt that file again making it double encrypted, correct? Or will the V20 recognize that it is already encrypted and give me access to the file since the lock screen password was reset back to what it was before this fiasco started?
Maybe I'm just not explaining the situation correctly.
kb0olf said:
I understand that. But the V20 isn't even able to read the files even though they were encrypted on that device. Most of the files are not readable. So copying an unreadable, encrypted file, from the device via USB, to a PC, will still result in an unreadable encrypted file on the PC. I then format the SD Card on the V20 and reencrypt it. I then copy the still unreadable and encrypted file back to the SD Card which is in the same V20. Now the V20 is going to encrypt that file again making it double encrypted, correct? Or will the V20 recognize that it is already encrypted and give me access to the file since the lock screen password was reset back to what it was before this fiasco started?
Maybe I'm just not explaining the situation correctly.
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Umm, that's not how the encryption on an external SD card works on android.
If the OS fails to decrypt the card, the whole thing is inaccessible. Android encryption is not a "per file" encryption.
Forget all of the double encryption nonsense. No file is ever double encrypted you simply copied encrypted files from the SD Card to new device/pc, and copied them back to a formatted and re-encrypted SD Card in hopes you can decrypt them. Thus, is there a way to decrypt it (period)? That's the real question!!!!
So, can someone answer the real question. Especially, I'm having the same problem after upgrading to a S10+ from a S8+ that I traded in. So, now I can't read nor access 14.3 GBs out of 16 GB SD Card; which is unacceptable.
Using ADB, I successfully added a 32GB sc-card to the internal storage of my Galaxy Tab S5e tablet.
Then I realized that it is not big enough.
Unfortunately, I removed the sd-card without converting it back to an external memory card.
Then I put in a 64GB sd-card and did the procedure again with ADB.
But now neither the old nor the new card is recognized.
"No existing sd-card"
On the net I have already found posts that only a hardreset is possible to fix this.
I still hope that it also works with certain ADB commands.
With the command `mount` I unfortunately can't find the inserted sc-card either.
Does anyone know advice?
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Yes, a Factory Reset is recommended.
I did the reset. And after I made the basic settings I found out that the sd-card still isn't recognized.
Even a new formatting using the Win10 tool didn't help at all.
Then I switched to my Linux that I prefer for daily work and with using gParted I saw that there was a small partition in it in exfat plus an allocated one. I deleted the first one and then
I could use the sd-card with formatting it inside the tablet.
Although I can't find it out I asked myself if the formatting with a linux tool would have helped solving my issue before, without having to do a hardreset.
Anyway, it is working now, and I avoid using adb again for trying to make the card part of internal storage.