i9195 Bricked recovery/root

[rsepierre]

Hi,

The story (if you care)

I updated successfully the CM13 Rom (actually just wanted to update CM12, but what ever)
I found myself in a situation where i have CM13 but no gapps. So i changed CWM to TWRP to flash open Gapps aroma.
It worked but i found the system unstable so i decided to flash CM12.1 back and appropriate Gapps back.

But every trial I did there was a conflict with gapps etc etc. It worked, but Rom was always unstable.
During the flashings etc, I noticed that "factory reset" acutally left many files and apps in the phone. I figure "i juste do like on any PC, I completely Wipe the Data, and install clean OS".

So I wen't to TWRP and decided to wipe everything I could except microSD Card (wipe > advanced > checked all boxes : dalvik, system, cache, preload, data, internal storage ). The SD card had latest CM12.1 release and gapps aroma for 5.1, ready to flash

I found myself in a situation where neither TWRP nor CWM would flash a .zip file : and TWRP showing

E:Mount: Unable to find partition for path '/sdcard'

After multiple TWRP / CWM flash and reflash and trying to press any button suggesting that it would fix something, I managed to remove the

E:Mount: Unable to find partition for path '/sdcard'

message on TWRP.

Though TWRP would still not flash .ZIP files, so I tried to flash the CyanogenMod recovery .img into the boot partition and from there I was able to install the ROM (.zip)

The actual situation :

So now I have a CM 12.1 running without GAPPS only able to flash .ZIP files. (Cyanogen recovery is gone now because installed the ROM over it).

So I wish there was a post/walkthrough that would explain how to install/reinstall a clean recovery, maybe even a clean ROM, clean kernel (not that I know what it is). This walkthough wouldn't expect you to have a working recovery nor a ROM installed.

 

[perry_verheij]

Hi,

The story (if you care)

I updated successfully the CM13 Rom (actually just wanted to update CM12, but what ever)
I found myself in a situation where I have CM13 but no gapps. So I changed CWM to TWRP to flash open Gapps aroma.
It worked but I found the system unstable so I decided to flash CM12.1 back and appropriate Gapps back.

But every trial I did there was a conflict with gapps etc etc. It worked, but Rom was always unstable.
During the flashings etc, I noticed that "factory reset" actually left many files and apps in the phone. I figure "i just do like on any PC, I completely Wipe the Data, and install clean OS".

So I wen't to TWRP and decided to wipe everything I could except microSD Card (wipe > advanced > checked all boxes : dalvik, system, cache, preload, data, internal storage ). The SD card had latest CM12.1 release and gapps aroma for 5.1, ready to flash

I found myself in a situation where neither TWRP nor CWM would flash a .zip file : and TWRP showing

E:Mount: Unable to find partition for path '/sdcard'

After multiple TWRP / CWM flashes and reflash and trying to press any button suggesting that it would fix something, I managed to remove the

E:Mount: Unable to find partition for path '/sdcard'

message on TWRP.

Though TWRP would still not flash .ZIP files, so I tried to flash the CyanogenMod recovery .img into the boot partition and from there I was able to install the ROM (.zip)

The actual situation:

So now I have a CM 12.1 running without GAPPS only able to flash .ZIP files. (Cyanogen recovery is gone now because installed the ROM over it).

So I wish there was a post/walkthrough that would explain how to install/reinstall a clean recovery, maybe even a clean ROM, clean kernel (not that I know what it is). This walkthough wouldn't expect you to have a working recovery nor a ROM installed.

Hi rsepierre,

I've got a few questions.

First of all, am I correct if I say that you're able to boot Android and use your phone normally (without GApps)?

Secondly, are you still unable to boot into recovery and use it?

If that's the case, I think you should try flashing a new CWM/TWRP recovery through Odin again.

Don't forget to boot into recovery immediately after it's flashed!
You might want to untick the option of rebooting automatically ("Auto reboot" or something similar) in Odin. In that way you can reboot into recovery manually.

If that's all done and you're in recovery, I'd use adb sideload (or an SD card) to flash the Open GApps zip.

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