[HOW-TO] Fix soft brick & error mounting sdcard

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EDIT: I solved my own problem. Scroll down to post #8 for the solution.

My problem was that my phone (T-Mobile USA HTC One S) would not boot into ICS anymore, but I was still able to get into recovery (CWM), yet I had no access to the sdcard ("unable to mount /sdcard").

Post #8 below tells you how you can restore access to the sdcard in CWM so that you can push a ROM zip file to the sdcard via adb.

-J

Have you made any nandroids? If you have maybe you can restore. Also check in the download file in cwm that is possible place where that file may be.

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Originally Posted by archie53

Have you made any nandroids? If you have maybe you can restore. Also check in the download file in cwm that is possible place where that file may be.

Sent from my myTouch 4G Slide using xda premium

Unfortunately I didn't have the foresight to make a nandroid backup. My previous phone was a Samsung Galaxy S 4G, which, like most Android phones, has a removable SD-Card that stuff can be copied onto (and then flashed). Not so here obviously.

Is it even possible to push files to the sdcard using the method I tried when in CWM?

When you push the file via ADB, have you tried placing it into a folder that you know is on the /sdcard?

Originally Posted by joshnichols189

When you push the file via ADB, have you tried placing it into a folder that you know is on the /sdcard?

It just got worse. I got the idea to format all partitions (data, system, cache, sdcard) through CWM, and now CWM can't even mount /sdcard/ anymore...

I had to do the same thing:
adb push "NameOfFile.zip /sdcard

then go to install from zip.
Look on sd card and it will be there.
I always rename the zip files to there can be less errors.

you can also do
adb shell pull "nameOfFile.zip /sdcard

make sure the zip file is where your adb and fastboot is

My problem is CWM can't mount the /sdcard directory, so I can't flash the new OS. Is there anybody that knows how to recover from that problem?

Originally Posted by LuckyMethod

My problem is CWM can't mount the /sdcard directory, so I can't flash the new OS. Is there anybody that knows how to recover from that problem?

Yes, I just fixed my problem yesterday after some serious trial-and-error.

1) Use the All-in-One-Kit and flash your recovery back to stock

2) Boot into the bootloader and choose to "clear storage" and afterwards to reset to factory defaults.

3) Go back to the all-in-one-kit and flash a CWM recovery version again.

4) Reboot into recovery (CWM). Your /sdcard should now be mounted and visible.

5) Now, try the UTB rom (it worked for me), rename the zip file to something short (i.e. utb.zip), and push it to the sdcard using adb as follows:

adb push utb.zip /sdcard

6) While still in CWM, flash the zip.

The trick here is that only the stock recovery is capable of restoring access to the sdcard by it's proprietary "clear storage" option.

Good luck!

-J

If that doesn't work an easy fix is boot into bootloader, goto fastboot and use "fastboot flash boot boot.img" and so fouth. In the dev section I seen a stock tmobile naindroid. Download it and you'll have your data.img and boot.img. You should be able to flash them without needing to push to /sdcard. letme know how it works

I know you fixed this already just thought this still might help

Originally Posted by cannondale0815

Yes, I just fixed my problem yesterday after some serious trial-and-error.

1) Use the All-in-One-Kit and flash your recovery back to stock

...cut...

-J

It worked like a charm, thank you very much. You saved my life, I was in a time crunch.