[Q] [TL][H] Xperia T. Internal storage is dead.

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deywid12345

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Welcome guys, my internal storage is dead it happend after I accidentally cleaned it (wanted to format external sd card...). I can't copy anything from PC on to it. I have no access. I'm running cm-11-20140623-NIGHTLY-mint with ClockworkModRecovery 6.x
How can I fix it?
I tried so far again cleaning it from Android level and also formating partition via recovery mode.
 
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deywid12345 said:
Welcome guys, my internal storage is dead it happend after I accidentally cleaned it (wanted to format external sd card...). I can't copy anything from PC on to it. I have no access. I'm running cm-11-20140623-NIGHTLY-mint with ClockworkModRecovery 6.x
How can I fix it?
I tried so far again cleaning it from Android level and also formating partition via recovery mode.
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It's an old issue with formatting your internal memory with a custom ROM, and I think it's a permission issue. Can you access ADB through recovery?

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=52698386&postcount=95
 
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Antiga Prime said:
It's an old issue with formatting your internal memory with a custom ROM, and I think it's a permission issue. Can you access ADB through recovery?
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How can I check that? (I installed CM with tutorial step-by-step). I can use recovery mode, fastboot, my phone boot up just fine. I have read this but I don't know what I have to do. Can you tell me :(? I'm depressed.
 
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deywid12345 said:
How can I check that? (I installed CM with tutorial step-by-step). I can use recovery mode, fastboot, my phone boot up just fine. I have read this but I don't know what I have to do. Can you tell me :(? I'm depressed.
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If you install a Terminal Emulator on your phone, you might be able to avoid using ADB. Ideally you should learn how to set up ADB (google it), or read this and see if it helps you.

Let me know if you install a Terminal Emulator (and are rooted).
 
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Antiga Prime said:
If you install a Terminal Emulator on your phone, you might be able to avoid using ADB. Ideally you should learn how to set up ADB (google it), or read this and see if it helps you.

Let me know if you install a Terminal Emulator (and are rooted).
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I have Terminal Emulator installed and rooted yet.
What's the next step. You are my only hope to fix this man.
 
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deywid12345 said:
I have Terminal Emulator installed and rooted yet.
What's the next step. You are my only hope to fix this man.
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Then open Terminal Emulator and run the following commands (ignore what is in parenthesis):

Code: 
su (grant access)
cd /mnt/media_rw
ls -l

Let me know what that command shows you. It should show you something similar to what I have in the attached image.
 

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deywid12345

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Antiga Prime said:
Then open Terminal Emulator and run the following commands (ignore what is in parenthesis):

Code: 
su (grant access)
cd /mnt/media_rw
ls -l

Let me know what that command shows you. It should show you something similar to what I have in the attached image.
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yeah it do.

Code: 
drwxr -xr -x root root 1971-03-04 01:26 sdcard0
drwxrwx--- media_rw media_rw 1970-01-01 01:00 sdcard1
drwx------ media_rw media_rw 1971-03-04 01:25 usbdisk

That's what i got (can't provide you any screenshot because of not working internal mem.

(it looks like i dont have write permissions, but i have completly no clue how to fix it, just wrote that)
 
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deywid12345 said:
yeah it do.

Code: 
drwxr -xr -x root root 1971-03-04 01:26 sdcard0
drwxrwx--- media_rw media_rw 1970-01-01 01:00 sdcard1
drwx------ media_rw media_rw 1971-03-04 01:25 usbdisk

That's what i got (can't provide you any screenshot because of not working internal mem.

(it looks like i dont have write permissions, but i have completly no clue how to fix it, just wrote that)
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Well, then you should try the following. Open the terminal again, use "su" again to grant root access, and do the following:

Code: 
su
cd /mnt/media_rw
busybox chown -R 2800:2800 sdcard0
chmod 0770 sdcard0

Then either try to take a photo or create a file in your internal memory, or reboot and test your internal memory.

Edit: Just to be clear, the default user/owner for Sony internal memory is 2800, mine is set to 1023 (media_rw), as most phones should have, because I have modded the ramdisk in my kernel in order to use a certain program.
 
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Antiga Prime said:
Well, then you should try the following. Open the terminal again, use "su" again to grant root access, and do the following:

Code: 
su
cd /mnt/media_rw
busybox chown -R 2800:2800 sdcard0
chmod 0770 sdcard0

Then either try to take a photo or create a file in your internal memory, or reboot and test your internal memory.

Edit: Just to be clear, the default user/owner for Sony internal memory is 2800, mine is set to 1023 (media_rw), as most phones should have, because I have modded the ramdisk in my kernel in order to use a certain program.
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Man it works! I ****in owe you! Worked even without rebooting phone.
Love from Poland!
 
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Antiga Prime said:
Well, then you should try the following. Open the terminal again, use "su" again to grant root access, and do the following:

Code: 
su
cd /mnt/media_rw
busybox chown -R 2800:2800 sdcard0
chmod 0770 sdcard0

Then either try to take a photo or create a file in your internal memory, or reboot and test your internal memory.

Edit: Just to be clear, the default user/owner for Sony internal memory is 2800, mine is set to 1023 (media_rw), as most phones should have, because I have modded the ramdisk in my kernel in order to use a certain program.
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Working with Xperia V and just fixed my sd card. Thnx :good::good::good::good:
 
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deywid12345 said:
And I'm here again, anew I got same situation but I can't fix it by applying these command. Can you help me?
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Are you booted up in Android? Maybe Sdcard0 needs to be unmounted first (although I've never had to unmount it). Maybe you should try running the command from recovery when the internal memory isn't mounted (and if it is, unmount it first).
 
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Antiga Prime said:
No problem. In case you're interested in learning what that just did, you might want read this and this. ;)
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Antiga Prime said:
Are you booted up in Android? Maybe Sdcard0 needs to be unmounted first (although I've never had to unmount it). Maybe you should try running the command from recovery when the internal memory isn't mounted (and if it is, unmount it first).
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I'm running TWRP 2.8.4.1 (OmniROM 4.4) when I go to mount section and uncheck "sdcard" it doesnt get saved and on reboot it again unmounted. How do I unmount it in right way?
 
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deywid12345 said:
I'm running TWRP 2.8.4.1 (OmniROM 4.4) when I go to mount section and uncheck "sdcard" it doesnt get saved and on reboot it again unmounted. How do I unmount it in right way?
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I don't think I understand what you're trying to say, but you don't have to reboot in order to unmount the sdcard. All you have to do is uncheck the "sdcard" in the mount section, and then run the chown command.

Then again, how did that happen again? Did you format your sdcard0 (internal memory) again?

Run the "mount" command in Android and see if your "Sdcard0" is formatted as Vfat. If it is, you won't be able to change ownership to the partition unless you format it again in TWRP so that it changes to ext4.
 
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Antiga Prime said:
I don't think I understand what you're trying to say, but you don't have to reboot in order to unmount the sdcard. All you have to do is uncheck the "sdcard" in the mount section, and then run the chown command.

Then again, how did that happen again? Did you format your sdcard0 (internal memory) again?

Run the "mount" command in Android and see if your "Sdcard0" is formatted as Vfat. If it is, you won't be able to change ownership to the partition unless you format it again in TWRP so that it changes to ext4.
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Yep It happend again by formatting internal storage.
But it's working back again ;)! Thanks mate!
I formated it via TWRP to EXT4 then adb commands and poof, it works! God bless you.
 
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Didn't work for me, this is the output I got:

/system/bin/sh: <stdin>[2]: cd: /mnt/media_rw:
Permission denied

Sent from my Xperia T using XDA Free mobile app
 
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thijs84 said:
Didn't work for me, this is the output I got:

/system/bin/sh: <stdin>[2]: cd: /mnt/media_rw:
Permission denied

Sent from my Xperia T using XDA Free mobile app
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If you're having trouble to even change directories to /mnt/media_rw/, how do you know that directory exists?

Are you trying that from recovery?
 
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    Antiga Prime
    deywid12345 said:
    yeah it do.

    Code: 
    drwxr -xr -x root root 1971-03-04 01:26 sdcard0
drwxrwx--- media_rw media_rw 1970-01-01 01:00 sdcard1
drwx------ media_rw media_rw 1971-03-04 01:25 usbdisk

    That's what i got (can't provide you any screenshot because of not working internal mem.

    (it looks like i dont have write permissions, but i have completly no clue how to fix it, just wrote that)
    Click to expand...
    Click to collapse

    Well, then you should try the following. Open the terminal again, use "su" again to grant root access, and do the following:

    Code: 
    su
cd /mnt/media_rw
busybox chown -R 2800:2800 sdcard0
chmod 0770 sdcard0

    Then either try to take a photo or create a file in your internal memory, or reboot and test your internal memory.

    Edit: Just to be clear, the default user/owner for Sony internal memory is 2800, mine is set to 1023 (media_rw), as most phones should have, because I have modded the ramdisk in my kernel in order to use a certain program.
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    Antiga Prime
    deywid12345 said:
    I have Terminal Emulator installed and rooted yet.
    What's the next step. You are my only hope to fix this man.
    Click to expand...
    Click to collapse

    Then open Terminal Emulator and run the following commands (ignore what is in parenthesis):

    Code: 
    su (grant access)
cd /mnt/media_rw
ls -l

    Let me know what that command shows you. It should show you something similar to what I have in the attached image.
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    deywid12345
    Antiga Prime said:
    Then open Terminal Emulator and run the following commands (ignore what is in parenthesis):

    Code: 
    su (grant access)
cd /mnt/media_rw
ls -l

    Let me know what that command shows you. It should show you something similar to what I have in the attached image.
    Click to expand...
    Click to collapse

    yeah it do.

    Code: 
    drwxr -xr -x root root 1971-03-04 01:26 sdcard0
drwxrwx--- media_rw media_rw 1970-01-01 01:00 sdcard1
drwx------ media_rw media_rw 1971-03-04 01:25 usbdisk

    That's what i got (can't provide you any screenshot because of not working internal mem.

    (it looks like i dont have write permissions, but i have completly no clue how to fix it, just wrote that)
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    Antiga Prime
    deywid12345 said:
    Man it works! I ****in owe you! Worked even without rebooting phone.
    Love from Poland!
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    Click to collapse

    No problem. In case you're interested in learning what that just did, you might want read this and this. ;)
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    Antiga Prime
    deywid12345 said:
    I'm running TWRP 2.8.4.1 (OmniROM 4.4) when I go to mount section and uncheck "sdcard" it doesnt get saved and on reboot it again unmounted. How do I unmount it in right way?
    Click to expand...
    Click to collapse

    I don't think I understand what you're trying to say, but you don't have to reboot in order to unmount the sdcard. All you have to do is uncheck the "sdcard" in the mount section, and then run the chown command.

    Then again, how did that happen again? Did you format your sdcard0 (internal memory) again?

    Run the "mount" command in Android and see if your "Sdcard0" is formatted as Vfat. If it is, you won't be able to change ownership to the partition unless you format it again in TWRP so that it changes to ext4.
    View

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